skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, the clipper chip from the 1990s debate over again. They didn't get it then and the world is still ok (kinda, but encryption seems to be low on the list of pressing problems)

The only place they seem to have gotten their way is anti-counterfitting thats injected into scanner silicon.

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From the moment Diffie and Hellman published their findings in 1976, the National Security Agency's crypto monopoly was effectively terminated. In short order, three M.I.T. mathematicians -- Ronald L. Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard M. Adleman -- developed a system with which to put the Diffie and Hellman findings into practice. It was known by their initials, RSA. It seemed capable of creating codes that even the N.S.A. could not break. They formed a company to sell their new system; it was only a matter of time before thousands and then millions of people began using strong encryption.

That was the National Security Agency's greatest nightmare. Every company, every citizen now had routine access to the sorts of cryptographic technology.....

The genie was out of the bottle. Next question: Could the genie be made to wear a leash and collar? Enter the Clipper chip."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/12/magazine/battle-of-the-cl...
I know this isn’t written as a typical obituary but I can’t imagine a better way to say goodbye and thank you a true scientist. The entire blog post is beautiful- not just the presentation but also the content and sentiment.
Ok so the parent says that when small towns have a library, it's not because they are run in a more enlightened fashion than revenue guzzling big cities, but because these small towns are subsidized by the economic contributions of said big cities, either on a state or country level.

You then counter by saying that's wrong and actually small towns have a small library that has a crappy selection but they can get you any book you want if you can wait.

Pop quiz hotshot: Where do you think there is enough built up infrastructure, wealth, and surplus labor capacity to have a large centralized store of books and to organize and distribute said books?

Probably just another small town, am I right?
I think government officials would obviously want to have access to non-backdoor versions of software, so they can exchange their highly sophisticated and ultimately important state business discussions on WhatsApp secure.
The cultural barriers being that the phone case manufacturers and a presumably US staffed domestic factory wouldn't speak the same language, hang out in the same places, and have the innate fear of "the foreigner" to make them more reluctant to steal from their employer.

I was being slightly glib with the sweatshop comment, but the point was that if the only penalty is having to go to a different factory in the same town for a similar wage if you are caught, then that's not much of a deterrent.
I'm down to work on this. Do you want to team up and give it a shot?
Yeah I agree with this. If you are not in a high-up position you will just get too frustrated caring about the bigger picture because you have little power when it comes to actually making bigger-picture decisions. So all you can do is suggest things which 1) may not be well received, could be perceived as some low-level employee overstepping their bounds 2) probably won't be heeded since then the managers/pms/directors/etc. have to concede power
It is because it is SEO spam. TripleByte regularly posts these here in HackerNews to promote their hiring platform. People seem to like it nonetheless
That's hilarious, I wonder how much that ended up costing them?
hahah, my brother and I also sold gamed StumbleUpon front page, and digg, and early reddit, and delicious back in the day and sold it as a service. It was insane how easy it used to be...
There is a lazy binding optimization in ELF shared libraries on GNU/Linux. The first call to the "PLT stub" of a shared library routine will self-modify so that the next call will go directly to the destination without having to calculate it again from the global offset table.
Ocean Infinity also found the ARA San Juan[1] last November.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARA_San_Juan_(S-42)
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Please don't take HN threads on generic ideological tangents or further into ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I too share a fascination with biology. I think another common occurrence is unique or undiscovered genetic variants causing subtle dysfunction in ways that haven't been diagnosed across the population.
We are indeed getting impressively far. Four decades after being invented, machine learning went from useless to useful to enormous societal ramifications terrifyingly quickly.

However, we are not getting impressively close to AGI. That's why we need to stop the AGI alarmism and get our act together on the enormous societal ramifications that machine learning is already having.
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Isn't this conclusion only natural? It baffles me that so many people responsible for companies don't understand basic human needs and instead blindly follow trends. I just don't get business stuff.
Planning something over your vacation and expecting you to work on it is just your manager being a dick. If they can do it without you, they should. If they can't do it without you, guess it can wait 'till you get back. Not like you dropped it on them last minute.
OpenStreetMap contributors weren't happy about the quality of tags when the import started: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=63456

Facebook wasn't the only company adding low-quality data: https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=64430 (Previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18723138 )

This article's quotes of what appear to be OpenStreetMap representatives are generally positive, so maybe that means they fixed all the problems they caused.
Grazing animals are the best way to fight desertification. It doesn't have to be cattle (sheep, goats and other grazing animals help)... grazing rotation helps dramatically. Beyond this benefit, which should not be underestimated, I consider them factories from changing low density nutritional sources where I cannot practically get what I need into higher density nutritional sources.

I'm not saying it's a net positive or negative. But, for the most part, the cattle aren't raised as responsibly as possible, and beyond that, the benefits aren't accounted for. We can do better without vilifying meat.

I say this as I cannot handle legumes and am very diabetic. I just cannot handle protein sources that are higher in carbohydrate, or refined proteins from legumes (which is most vegetable protein). I do well on mostly eggs, meat and some cruciferous veg. And even eggs, I sometimes have issues with soy fed.
>Assuming the person gets caught,

You've never worked at a FedEx or UPS hub. Everything gets x-ray going in and out, you go through metal detector in and out, no open containers/phones/electronics/watches etc you can have a wedding band and only a wedding band. When stuff does go missing from a hub/sort facility, the carrier often finds the thief very quickly because everything is constantly being scanned and you know exactly where it last was and where it should have gone next and exactly what people are in that area so you can go right to the appropriate cameras with a known, relatively narrow, time frame.

Doing similar in a factory is trivial and there's going to be a lot less risk of the middle/upper management/security being corruptable. No offense to a random Chinese citizen but, the pay is garbage - a quick google query shows the average factory worker salary equates to $255 to $283. If you can walk out with a prototype of something, I bet you could have it sold within an hour for $1000 with minimal effort and if you were remotely organized could probably fetch several times that within a day. You may have just made several years salary to divide among 2-5 people.

In the United States, someone is going to have a hard time getting it in the hands of competition and at best they might get a grand or two from a less-than-reputable website/media company which isn't worth being fired for and/or facing criminal prosecution.
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Looks like Android Q has support for reading WiFi QR codes.

To scan a code, tap the button on the far right of the "Add network" line in the WiFi settings.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/03/13/android-q-lets-you-...
Can't algorithms for spam mail detection be useful for detecting fake users and bots ?
Did people move on to something else or is there anything else?
Why would a company ever insult their employees like that?
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Ask HN: My former employer is harassing me for meeting with competitors
I quit my job. I grabbed coffee with founders of competing startups in our space to explore job opportunities with them. The former employer's lawyers wrote letters to me, as well as to the competitors, threatening that I am violating my IP agreements.

Should I find a lawyer? Any recommendations for specific ones?

Also, the CEO and I negotiated my return to the company after I quit. He gave me a verbal agreement to bring me back under certain terms. On the day I was supposed to be onboarded back, he called me and told me they won't be brining me back, and denied that we ever reached any agreement to bring me back.

Fwiw, I created a critical part of their proprietary technology.
It's interesting that Apple is policing this. Wouldn't it make more sense for Apple to have some sort of "if you leak you are liable for $X" clause in their contract with the factories, so that the factories themselves have an incentive to prevent this?
The men who made it were in fact professional miners and engineers from what I understand.
Very cool that they are integrating it with HOT tasking manager and making it easy for anyone to use the editor with the ML-generated proposed objects in several countries. I think the ML has been there for a couple years but currently it's not easy to take advantage of it.

Hopefully they eventually release the ML pipeline itself as well.

Their RapiD editor has some similarities to a research project I was involved with: https://mapster.csail.mit.edu/maid.html

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-6nbuuX6NY vs https://tech.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/add_ML_road.g...)
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<3 to you, too! :) Your profile looks great, if I was looking for an Engineering Manager, I would want to get to know you!
> forced you to think outside of the narrow box you're used to thinking in.

That's quite insulting, as you don't know the first thing about me or my method of thinking.
You can't currently because we've not been able to grow sufficiently high quality crystals here on Earth with gravity. Basically anything that needs more than 30-60 seconds of microgravity can't be done anywhere on Earth no matter how much money you want to spend. NASA is already up there to learn about the effects on the human body (which again we can only really do holistically actually IN space) so trying to put the whole cost amortized over all the experiments isn't going to come up with a reasonable number.

But even beyond that this is precisely what governments are supposed to do, gather and distribute costs that would make little sense for individual companies or even massive conglomerates to do.
I guess what I’m saying is your problem seems to be a problem with the issuing of trivial patents. Calling a company abusive because they use their patents to protect their position is like calling a scorpion abusive because it stings.
What’s weird is that year three other submarines also sank with unknown causes. One was the USS Scorpion which was also found. Another was the Israeli submarine also found much later. Last one is the K-129 of Soviet Union.
I agree. Nothing in a typical CS degree would help with this. Maybe if your Masters was specifically in this obscure part of the field. On the other hand, I used to work in the video game industry where degrees (used to be) relatively rare and I probably knew 12 different guys who could optimize this kind of thing in their sleep.
Thanks! I hope so too. My current learning material is “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” which seems to involve some data structures.

On algorithms, I think being able to use the work of others is already very empowering. Perhaps one day I’ll get into it deep.
From this, the dropbox employees are either lying to their customers or they're incompetent as to how things work. Which is it?
The reaction here is more over the idea of "unknown unknowns". This poster doesn't demonstrate the self awareness to even suspect the average person might have something to teach them which, rather than super intelligence, belies a lack of emotional maturity.

Pointing to arbitrary metrics like phd reinforces this initial read. But at the end it's a numbers game; is a 6th sigma super intelligence on this board venting to the void with a throwaway, or is it an average/below average intelligence person who for one reason or another is emotionally stunted to the point of lacking both introspection or empathy.

I've, for one, seen far more people in the second camp (hell, there was a time when I struggled with identity where I was one, saved from eternal shame on the internet by the philosophy "lurk more"), than the first.
Given how much government incompetence led to the first one, I'm not sure how more government is going to prevent the next one.
Funny, I tried this once when I was on call and I still got called. And for a while after that, whenever someone couldn't reach me on my phone, they would call my wife. So really, it was a lose-lose.
But Electron is slow!

/s
Lnk src pls
Reproduced. The error page contains malware. Appears to be some sort of keylogger, but I didn't actually analyze it.

https://gist.github.com/eugenekolo/81c1e7ff1c699cfbb584fdd6b...
This looks fantastic! Since it runs as a self-hosted jar, is there any way to change the UI? Put it in a frame, style with CSS, call some JS for automation or report selection with parameters?
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Proof that while the speed of light averaged out, over long distances, might be contstant -- that the speed of light IS NOT CONSTANT at the milimeter/femtosecond and smaller scales... it is in fact, choppy...

This is related to the Discrete Vs. Continuous argument in Physics and Philosophy.

That is, things in nature which appear continuous and smooth at a larger scale, might very well be fragmented and choppy, when looked at on a smaller/faster scale...

Also, this video, specifically the last test, points to the possibility of the existence of a higher-dimensional, let's call it a "carrier" (for lack of a better term) wave -- for light.

That "carrier" wave... if it existed, would be the cause for the phenomena we call light in this lower dimension, and the cause for the choppiness at small/fast scales, and may also be responsible for the divergence of result phenomena in the double-slit experiment -- but all of that is theoretical at this point...
I noticed in the graphic comparing cube.js to the traditional systems, you have misspelt caching as cashing
You could just select a camp where ticks aren't a concern.
Another BI tool worth checking out is one called A Reporting Tool(ART)[0]. ART has been around for well over 10 years. Not the classiest looking piece of software but it is packed with features BI people will appreciate. For starters it integrates with JasperReports. This means you can design reports for printing using Jasper designer. It integrates quite a few Java libraries allowing you to create reports using Excel and PowerPoint. LDAP integration is built in and it has a nifty scheduler allowing you to publish reports to FTP locations. It really is a nifty tool. Like I said it doesn't compete with the modern tools in terms of looks but it packs a whole lot of features. You configure your own JDBC driver and there is a JDBC driver for most databases and data stores.

[0]http://art.sourceforge.net
Or if it has already played out many times in history as people operating on incomplete information have made bad decisions and then stuck with them even in the face of newly incoming conflicting data.

Really the worry here is that AIs will be just as bad at decision making as humans.

A semi-recent example is the shooting down of MH17, which was shot down by Russians or their allies because they mistook an airliner for a military aircraft, even when their flight profiles were totally different. The controllers were expecting a military aircraft to arrive around that time and didn't stop to consider the alternatives, even when the target didn't behave properly.
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The AF probably realized that in a contested environment, drones would be useless. If the Iranians can shoot down a $200M Global Hawk with homebrewed missiles, the Russians and Chinese will have no problem. And if you can't shoot them down, just jam GPS etc. That's how the Iranians captured an RQ-170.
That's honestly an amazing strategy. Adds a pretty big extra layer of thought about whether the decision to call you would be worth it.
That's always in the narrative to make you feel better. If the military gave a shit decisions about attack plans, we wouldn't have missiles.

With a plane-sized stealth drone, you can use inertia/gyro guidance to eliminate the GPS risk. Seems silly to build a stealth aircraft that has to transmit and receive instructions. Where do vehicles like this fit? You have long-range cruise missiles, cheap, long loitering drones with hellfire missiles, manned aircraft, and these unmanned fighter-jet class devices already.

A weapon like this wouldn't have super-long loitering time, but would be potentially more stealthy and more disposable than a manned aircraft. It's pretty obvious why it's secret... it's an air-defense buster, strike platform against a nation-state (vs. rabble), delivery truck for special bombs, etc or a nuclear weapon delivery truck.
> The idea that Chinese workers are unskilled trained drones needs to go away.

Some are, some aren’t. Assembly line workers are far from being technicians, but factories have/need technicians as well. It’s the lower skilled assembly line workers who are migrants from the countryside and who will often switch jobs after CNY; the technicians can job hop as well, but being from the cities they aren’t as fixated around the new year to do it.
Are nymph ticks even capable of breaking through human skin?
I'm pretty sure that the B-21 won't have the speed of the Bone... Wrong airframe design, fewer engines, need for stealth, etc etc.
We have one such person right now. He's contract rather than permanent, but we've done it.

We have fairly inexpensive hardware, and the hardware is not in flux, so we have been able to send him one unit and be done with it. (I think we maybe had to send him a replacement once, but no more than that.) If the hardware was changing rapidly, this could get really tedious.
You may want to change _celery_ to _Celery_.
Did you follow an elimination diet to find out what you were sensitive to, or was it obvious? I'm considering an elimination diet but everything I read about a diet plan are different.
Relevant

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49400362_Attention_...
The closer you get to retirement, the more obvious it becomes about how much to save to reach the goal. Until then, it's better to just try to eke out as much savings as possible than estimate your spending. Estimating lifelong spending is quite similar to modelling global economic activity over a long period of time.
At what point do I get to call myself a computer scientist? I dropped out of college halfway through.
I’ve done a decent amount of work with Isadora (node based VFX environment), and by the time I make anything actually complicated I end up wishing I could just write it in one of the many exiting tools we’ve built for describing data flow. (Programming languages)
I finished all the Missions in a few weeks, forget exactly the days. It could definitely be done faster but I spaced out one Mission every few days (I think there are 8 or 9 of them).
I’ve heard a lot of success stories of treating Lyme disease with PEMF technology. For those unfamiliar, it is a Tesla-coil emitting pulsed electric magnetic frequencies. Pretty interesting stuff.
No you're right, the Sun and Jupiter are a secondary effect to the elliptical orbit, I skimmed the Wikipedia page too quickly:

> due to its elliptical orbit with varying eccentricity, the instantaneous distance varies with monthly periodicity. Furthermore, the distance is perturbed by the gravitational effects of various astronomical bodies – most significantly the Sun and less so Jupiter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_distance_(astronomy)#Per...
In my situation I thought I learned to code at a young age. That's a great way to phrase it too. If one (cough, OP's article) is using phrases like "learned coding [in x months]" then they have the same misunderstanding that I did when I packed up and went off to college thinking I was hot shit at 16 with 4 years of BASIC and PHP web dev under my belt. In my case it took college to expose me to a whole universe of new ideas and really get the point across that "coding" isn't a thing you can "learn" in some number of months. Given that nerdy teenagers are notoriously both cocky and stupid, I suspect that this is a common experience.

Of course there are the Peter Deutsch wunderkinds and the people who get a really good secondary education and can jump into CLRS on their own without hand holding from college, but I don't think there are very many of them out there.

And adult learners are a whole different matter for whom the decision to go to college for CS is radically different.
Meanwhile, Apple’s suppliers are forbidden from referring to Apple by name or its project code names anywhere in buildings. Suppliers must reimburse Apple for investigations and often must pay penalties when leaks are traced back to them. - article
The article mentions that penalties are possible with smaller suppliers but Foxconn is untouchable as they are vital and Apple would not dare impose penalties against them.
The older I get the more this truism rings true: 'fake it till you make it' and 'perception is reality'.
Not at all lol
Ohio man is accused of trying to launder $19M of Bitcoin from the dark web
I remember that huge mistake from one of the Apple employees that had lost an iPhone 4 in a bar. He was testing on the field, cleverly disguised as an iPhone 3GS.
If that's not just on your end, hosting malware is a really big issue for a site that charges $400 USD/year for a subscription to be able to read their articles.