skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I ended up buying, but in a low cost of living area.

In spite of the high wages possible equity it still seems risky/unfeasible to enter Seattle's housing market right now. First I would have to get lucky that a 400k house/condo would appear on the market. Then I would have to come up with 40k for small down payment on the cheapest house/condo in the metro area. Assuming I wasn't outbid by a developer or someone with more money than myself, I'd then have a nearly 2k a month mortgage - in addition to any maintenance/repair costs we might(will) incur.

If I or my wife lost either of our jobs that would be a stretch, and we have pretty good jobs. Our family is all 2500 miles back east. Too much to lose.

Maybe someday.
It could get stolen from under your mattress. Bugs could eat it. It could catch on fire.

You would buy one of these negative bonds as a safer alternative to the risks above.

This product may not be for you, but someone would be willing to make this trade.
So, next thing like in "Big Short" in 22 months?
Please read my comment again, I explained. There is a solution to make everyone happy, just make IDs universal first, and then once that is done, require ID for voting. There is no compelling reason to skip the first step, and many compelling reasons not to.
Webmin 1.890 Exploit – What Happened?
Knowledgeable people can just add Steam to the set of applications that must be installed in its own isolated environment. How would the typical Steam user know to do that? Is there a prominent warning on the install screen informing users that Steam will be used to hack their machine and anything they have stored on it?
I saw a review of the XPS 13 9380 mention the problem.

Googling shows it has been a problem since at least the XPS 9530 (2013). I notice it intermittently on my 9570 depending on load/activity.

If they can't fix it after 5 or 6 generations, I wouldn't have much hope they will ever fix it. Apparently Dell test that the sound levels are below some limit, but that means can still hear the noise.
Incredible, thanks for sharing
It should be noted that "a lot of money" in this context means more than whatever limit your country has on deposit insurance. In the US, up to $250k is insured by the government against default, and it goes per account type and per bank, so you could easily store, say, $2M fully insured.

But of course, this does not insure you against systemic risks. When the financial system in Iceland broke down, depositor insurance meant nothing.

Another popular way of storing large amounts of money over long time, is to invest in real estate. Buy apartments in central Paris, London, New York. Very small risk that you lose anything, especially in real terms, if you can keep a cool head about when to sell. Downside is that these are not liquid assets.
From what I've read, the original bug involved malware already installed on the PC using the Steam client to run other code. While I'm not a security expert in any way, that doesn't seem to me like a huge exploit. If the attack requires installing malware on the victim's computer, why not just do the evil stuff directly with that malware? If that's the case and I'm not just remembering it wrong, then I could see why Valve wouldn't want to pay up and could see why this guy would go on a social media rant to slander Valve either hoping they'll pay up or just to get petty revenge.
Well, they did go with normal vulnerability disclosure, and were retaliated against. That's not okay.
Or for another point of reference, about what a fast-ish medium sized motorcycle of around 400lb/180kg produces.
Honestly I may have no good reason except maybe speed.

I just read that Go is not best for low-level optimizations, and memory size.
Dell Releases Latest Linux Developer Laptop with Comet Lake CPU
> in order to bring about equality of the sexes in all aspects of public and private life.

And none of that has anything to do with helping men. It's all about women. Which is fine, women need advocates for all the shit they have to put up with. But pretending that feminism has any interest at all in helping men is utter bullshit and such an atrocious lie and this isn't the place to push that lie. I've never once ever in my life been helped by a feminist. I've been demonized, insulted, discriminated against, but never helped. Because that's not their goal.
Another good alternative is Azul Open JDK build.
The same ones that aggressively gerrymander districts. In most cases this is a committee, it is seldom one person.
> As we know, there was no invasion of the Japanese home islands—not by the Soviets, nor the Americans, nor the British. Fearing massive loss of life both among Allied forces and the Japanese civilian population, President Truman ordered nuclear bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These bombings quickly brought the war to a close.

Why do American scholars have to justify the bombings each time? "President Truman ordered nuclear bombs dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki." would have been sufficient. It feels like newspeak in 1984.
Fair enough. I mainly was trying to elevate the fears of unwanted children rather than downplay the risk of STIs.

Though among the people I know close enough to know this about them, nobody has HSV2 and almost none of them know somebody who has it. Meanwhile I know a dozen men stuck with accidental children with women they never wanted anything to do with.

CDC says HSV2 has 12% penetration into the population aged 14-49 but has no further demographic info. HIV is even more common yet I don't know anybody with it because I'm just not in the high risk demographic. So these just aren't part of my perception of day to day worries (perhaps incorrectly, as you would point out) compared to unwanted children.

The person I replied to made it sound like unwanted pregnancy is a solved problem which isn't even true for women, thus categorically less true for their partners.
I would totally be willing to do this, however I fear the actual implementation would be more of the same:

- Terrible consultants, middlemen, and lifers making progress too hard or impossible.

- Constantly changing or unclear requirements

- Making penny-wise, pound-foolish decisions for political reasons or budgeting idiosyncracies

- Resistance from lawmakers since it would give more government influence to people from states that lean towards some of other party (put more bluntly, Republicans don't want to give a bunch of liberal or left-leaning people from California, Washington, and New York more influence)

- The government only seeing the value in surveillance/military software that people are likely to refuse to work on. Not sponsoring software that actually directly helps people domestically

What I think we need instead is something like the US Digital Service, along with some other government programs, rolled into a Department of Technology that will hopefully have a completely different culture, payscale, etc. compared to the rest of the government. And maybe even something like jury duty, but for software people, engineers, scientists, etc. so it's more representative of the general public and not the old-school government culture.
The problem is most the interviews ask a question along the lines what if there are 10s of millions of rows. Would a SQL database be still preferable?
The Skype Mafia: Who Are They and Where Are They Now?
Would you please share the "very specific technical differences"?

As a long-time JVM user, I am curious about WASM and how it compares to the JVM and CLR.
Just make vote selling illegal then? Or just make verification onerous, so that you can only do it during a recount, not on-demand via the internet.

I would rather be able to verify that my vote was cast to the desired candidate than to have a strictly anonymous (but unverifiable) voting system.
No one any where is against identifying voters.

Voter ID is required to register. At which time it is verified and eligibility is adjudicated.

Identity is confirmed when a ballot is issued. For postal balloting, which is not opposed by Republicans, your address is proxy for identity. One exception is North Dakota; no ID is required, because presumably poll workers know their neighbors.

The issue is what forms of ID are required to be issued a ballot.

Pro democracy persons who support enfranchising their fellow citizens are content to accept many forms of official ID to confirm identity.

Anti democratic persons who openly advocate wide spread disenfranchisement demand restoring unconstitutional poll taxes.
No. But that might be an unfair comparison.

People vape by choice.

Smoke machines on the other hand have more in common to going to a restaurant or bar back in the day and being subjected to other people's second hand smoke.

You go to a venue for music or something similar, and get exposed to smoke machines.

Never have I ever heard anyone say, we should go to a concert or night club because - smoke machines!
In the most contested counties and states, one assumes.
> It's a cult built around feelings and imagination at this point, not logic and reality.

Sounds like a cult that would use memes and social media to indoctrinate children, start crazy conspiracy theories about pizza, conspire with foreign governments, and suppress opponents votes though arbitrary requirements.
Agreed. Having had the opportunity to encounter, use, setup, and then later on, read the code and learn from qmail early on in my computer career I think it helped learn about proper system design with an eye towards security. Back when qmail was released there was nothing like it, the most popular MTA at the time was Sendmail and we all know how great that was :)

qmail had a great impact on system design for many years and especially in the mail delivery area. Things like Maildir redefined how even MUAs store and use email. djbdns also provided a breath of fresh air at the time it was released, worked much faster and much more secure than something like bind.

DJB also had many other (likely even more impactful) roles in the software industry, leading the fight against the encryption software export restrictions of the 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein
Isn't it quite common for companies to provide quotes to reporters through spokespeople without putting the person's name on record? I don't think leaving her unnamed is Bloomberg's choice.

Personally I found the article interesting because I knew nothing about "Moose" or DeepMind Health beforehand.
Horrible title as some point out. I got a good tl;dr from the first paper related to the article (same authors):

"Comprehensive population models, such as the one we have presented here, seek to link cellular properties and network structure to dynamics and function, the ultimate goal being to use these models to test hypotheses and to suggest future experiments. We propose that for areas of the brain about which there are sufficient data, such as the visual cortex, it is time to move to next-generation models that are more comprehensive, data driven, and dynamic. Such a move would constitute a paradigm shift in computational neuroscience, and the present model is a step in that direction."

Basically they want more than just a simplified mathematical model, something that accounts for all the measured data. I'm not sure this is the right approach, and only some example application would show if it is. I don't think they applied their model yet or whether it can be applied, just browsed the first paper.
Ouch, I didn't look at PAIR. They lost all their delivery claims. I was impressed by their priority date, which pre-dates some of the competition, but it looks like they lost most of the key claims they'll need to fight off a lawsuit.
using a captcha of course. (I work on hcaptcha.com)
I think that explains only part of the problem.

The other problem is that for-profit media would never have an incentive to hire journalist with quantitative skills. There's very little demand for it outside of trade and professional presses and I would bet media companies would have to pay quant journalist at least twice as much as regular ones.

So why should media companies hire and publish quant journalists? There's no good reason.

And that's also why journalism programs don't teach serious quantitative methods - there's not going to be demand for journalists with those skill sets.

The obvious exception to this is trade and professional publications, but those are often subscribed to by businesses with a vested economic interest in the information.
You mean like... a German bank? They will happily do what you ask. For a small fee. In the form of a negative interest rate.
No, institutional investors never put vast sums of money in banks, regardless of the yield.
FYI, the foreclosure rate spiked from a historical rate around 0.5% to around 2.3%, which is actually a massive increase.
> Kravets said he was banned from the platform following the public disclosure of the first zero-day. His bug report was heavily covered in the media, and Valve did eventually ship a fix, more as a reaction to all the bad press the company was getting.

> The patch was almost immediately proved to be insufficient, and another security researcher found an easy way to go around it almost right away.

You might want to read the article.
"Because the timestamp on the file was set back, it did not show up in any Git diffs."

Wait, really?
Another reason, I've not seen mentioned, is that you think bonds will go even more negative, so you buy now, to avoid having to buy a much more negative rate later.
>"attacks on vaping are for the purpose of driving smokers back to cigarettes"

I don't think it is intentionally on purpose, but it sure does seem this way sometimes.

A specific example that comes to mind: city of San Francisco banning sale of e-cigs completely, while keeping regular cigarettes just as legal as before [0].

0. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/25/7357140...
Our lives are becoming comfortable illusions
I doubt you get the same performance as direct compilation. LLVM ir carries lots of annotations useful to optimizing passes, e.g. aliasing information.
Nonsolar farming may not be able to feed 9 billion people.

However, they are great for specialty crops that require lab testing for purity and quality before being sold to the general public. These include crops like cannabis and mushrooms.

In the state of California alone there are nearly 40 million people. That is a big enough market to support allot of firms. ~O

There is a hudge market for
>Even if the subprime-to-prime ratio hasn't changed much, a large increase in the ballooning subprime total may still be newsworthy in its own right.

Wouldn't the news there be that the total number of mortgages have grown dramatically? Unless you have a narrative to push that is.
Oracle does not provide Java 8, so they are unreliable vendor. It's better to use more reliable sources which do not drop the version that the whole world still uses and will use for many years.
Money talks, if companies can make billions of dollars from individual $10-20 subscriptions, I don't see why we can't do it for climate change/deforestation!

I personally use Project Wren (https://projectwren.com/) to offset my own footprint and a bit more!
Acknowledgement is one thing. Disclosure is another.

If Steam had no problem acknowledging that this functionality exists, they should have had no problem with it being disclosed. There lies the problem. In the bathroom with the needle in their arm; "...there's no problem here..." but if you swing the door open they'll still try to shut it. Because they know they're wrong.

If HackerOne isn't going to help you they have no right to hinder you. If they want to strongarm everyone into effectively the same agreement as an NDA then there literally is no point in turning vulnerabilities into HackerOne.

They seem to only exist as a cow-catcher on the locomotive of software vendors too lazy to actually fix crappy code.

"Who needs to fix code and shell out bounty if you can pinpoint and silence the researcher?"
JetBrains
https://www.jetbrains.com
"a man was placed on leave, must be a sex scandal!"

Is this seriously the society we live in?

- Maybe he's sick

- Maybe a family member is sick

- Maybe he had a kid

- Maybe he's adopting a kid

- Maybe he's burnt out and wants something longer than what is considered a vacation off

- Maybe they're taking a direction on current research he objects to for any number of reasons

- Maybe he has interests in the UK he has to focus on due to Brexit and needs to step away while he deals with them.

- Maybe he's doing something for Partnership on AI that is going to demand most of his time.
Is that 5% of the risk of cardiovascular disease or 5% of risk from any disease?
Average TSA wait times in 25 busiest U.S. airports in 2018
It's just an antenna and resonant cavity. No wires involved. The modulation was performed by the mechanical vibration of the diaphragm.
This is awesome! I'd love a tool to animate them too :D
Yeah I take issue with this also. I've tried to get my dad to stop smoking for the past 15 years and I've come to terms that it just won't happen.

So for me it's more about helping him risk manage, getting him on vaping instead of cigarettes is "less shitty" way of getting that fix for him, even if I'm fully aware that it's not healthy in any shape or form.

It's the lesser of two evils for sure, however, nobody should pick up vaping if you aren't currently smoking cigarettes.
> Kravets did eventually publish details about the Steam zero-day, which was an elevation of privilege (also known as a local privilege escalation) bug that allowed other apps or malware on a user's computer to abuse the Steam client to run code with admin rights.

No, using this 0-day malware, with lower privilege level, could do stuff it could not do.
I came here just to comment on how I think that is the worst news site I ever came across.

Finding the actual content in among that crap was terrible - it's almost as if they are trying to fail.

I couldn't imagine what it looks like without an ad blocker
Just numbers. But leaving aside ballot questions (of which there are usually around a half dozen in Massachusetts, more in some places like California), there were 13 state-level elected officials in 2018 plus whatever county-level or local officials there were on the town ballot. So you can be making 20-30 choices. That's a lot of paper shuffling.
Jimmy Dore has been calling it out for years. And I think it's interesting, because he's a pretty progressive person, very left leaning, but he was able to see through the partisanship, which I give him a lot of props for. That doesn't seem easy for people to do these days.
that's how it had worked in LA county for as long as i've lived here, but i've heard that they're changing the voting machines for the upcoming election cycle, so we'll see how it goes.

it's angering to realize that some people will accept election fraud if it benefits them (while simultaneously decrying other unsubstantiated election fraud), regardless of moral or ethical concerns.

cheating to win is losing in my book. hopefully the long arc of the moral universe corrects the harms eventually, if not soon.
Not the authors only gratuitous editorializing

> the United States… is now riven by toxic political discord and stands at the brink of social collapse

both cases unnecessary, off-topic, and detract from an otherwise good article
In the US there is no such a thing as a universal ID. The closest thing is the state drivers license, and statistically poor communities tend to drive less for various reasons, so for them it is an extra hassle to go get a driver license OR EQUIVALENT ID just for the purpose of voting. The policy is not racist on his face, but a minimal context awareness is enough to understand the ultimate purpose.
Is some of this in the category of "looking for new business areas as signs of possible recession loom?" Between the yield curve inversion coverage and concerns about trade war impacts I could easily see concerns and people trying to get things started while it's possible to do so.
Let's imagine a state signs this and is a tipping point state for the presidential election. If this compact has any effect, it will be for the state's electors to vote against the popular vote in that state, resulting in the election of the undesired president according to the state's voters.

Nothing wrong with that constitutionally, but I suspect the politicians will feel differently after the voters express their opinion of the matter.
Disclaimer: I served as an election judge in the 2012 general election in Arapahoe County, CO.

I'm so sick and tired of stories like this framing the issue of election security as a software issue or hardware issue. You can mitigate software flaws with chains of custody, tamper proof seals, bipartisan poll watchers, bipartisan election judges, and enough transparency. Most election systems in the United States employ all of these controls, which is why you have few stories of legitimate votes being discarded due to software failure or tampering.

If your argument is that paper ballots are more auditable or harder to hack, they are not. The same access controls above can be applied to paper, and paper is always susceptible to being destroyed, lost, or conveniently found in a clutch race. In Russia, cameras were provided at many election booths in a recent race and caught multiple instances of suspected ballot stuffing [0]. Paper products can be created at will and the requirement for ballots to be anonymous often prevents measures to prevent double voting or outright forging of votes.

Hackable machines are a problem, but they are not the only problem. Ultimately, it's easier to influence an election by discarding legitimate voters from voter registration systems, selectively failing to notify voters of elections, and other indirect interference campaigns that have been known to happen. Not only are hackable machines not the biggest issue, but they turn the camera away from bigger issues like these, which decreases scrutiny on the most vulnerable parts of the system.

Ultimately, if you vote in an election system, you must have something you trust in the system. You need to be able to trust the body running the election, the individuals that makeup the body, or the system elements itself. If you trust the government then you can be certain that collection processes happen correctly. If you can't trust the government, why do you think trusting the terminals that collect votes is any better? It's like trusting your child to bring home important documents from the school about their discipline. Sure, the paper might be tamper proof or tamper evident, but if your child throws it away it's pointless [note 1].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH7uXZQsyHI

[note 1] The analogy breaks down if you talk about electronic records, and assumes that the child is the "higher authority" bringing the documents to you. The point is to demonstrate that tampering with reporting is much easier than tampering with the record collection.
> And it allows you to lock in a monthly payment for potentially decades, which has a massive amount of value by itself.

Well, that might be a good thing when house prices are appreciating at a crazy rate, but it also locks you in when the housing market and/or the economy crashes. If you're renting, you lose your job and you're stuck with your lease for maybe another six months (assuming you don't break it). Once you buy a house, you're stuck with it until you can sell it or foreclosure, even if the price goes down or you lose your job.
Good post that covers nearly everything. The only thing I would add to this is that the ECB's deposit rate of -0.40% is the only thing that has enabled all of this.