skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks future proof to me: `if (JSON.stringify("something" in foo).match(/t/) != null) { … }`
Russia says radioactive isotopes released by missile test blast
Its not really a secret if it outright tells you what is happening. Its like claiming at all 3rd party JS is a conspiracy.
Maybe the title should be modified to: “Tell HN: It’s now slightly harder to find a Java download link in a few seconds of searching”
So developers are writing Java Runtime software that nobody is running at all?
B.C.'s middle-class gangs are unlike any other in North America
It looks a bit the same, but is not 1x230V or 3x400V.

With T15 you can plug in a normal just L-N plug (like a normal USB charger), a L-N-PE plug (normal computer) or a 3L-N-PE plug.
I took up issue with "Great Hack" as well. At some of my previous companies, we evaluated purchasing data from a lot of these vendors for a data hydration purposes, Cambridge Analytica included. They didn't offer to sell but we did have conversations around leveraging their platform to create insights.

What was funny to me in the whole process was that CA was the LEAST of what worried me. We were talking to Acxiom as well in which I could buy 500-1500 data points on 300M Americans for $250k-$500k. This included info like types of bank accounts, types of CC rewards, mortgages left, restaurant chain preferences, etc. They also had their own methods for creating data (the ML sauce) which created psychographic profiles.

The other thing the general public doesn't realize about profile data is that it suffers from sporadic and episodic contributions, making accurate high-resolution profiles difficult to obtain. There's lots of deduplication, profile merging, etc. that needs to be there.

Sure, CA had some shady shit going on. But from my perspective, they were tame relative to some of the other big players.
Yeah because you know, NOW really is the best time to prepare themselves for being the next Salesforce or Office 365.

Don't you think it's a just little premature for that scale of thinking? I mean, they just got the thing posted on HN.
Tidy Data (2014)
> As anyone who has tried to buy a CRM will know, these prices are crazy low. Which is a good thing!

No, no it's not. CRM is incredibly valuable to any business and if your software provider can't sustain it's own businesses because they charge too little, the last thing you want to deal with is switching costs (direct costs and hassle) when they go under.
R.U.R. is one of my favorite things to reference when people ask, "Why do they call Robots <X> in <Franchise Y>?"

(For example: Omnics in Overwatch, Synths in Fallout.)
AH receptor ligands may suppress – not enhance – glioblastoma invasiveness
I am being facetious, but I daresay a lot of people who work in the publishing industry sincerely believe that viewpoint.

I believe we're living in a time when publishers are becoming increasingly irrelevant. They're clawing onto anything they can to retain their position as middlemen and as a tax on commerce.
I've certainly read apocryphal stories (perhaps on HN, can't remember) about offensive data being used in test cases "as a joke" and due to a variety of reasons having that data end up in production systems (visible to customers). I'm all for a bit of humor, but it's worth thinking about the issues that might be caused were your fake data to wind up on a production site.
Forget it, Donny, you're out of your element!
If I read it correctly, the attack has three steps:

1. Exploit a miscalculated pointer to write arbitrary data.

2. Exploit a ASLR infoleak to figure out the target.

3. Use (1) to create a fake timer with a callback to "system()".

Can some forms of Control Flow Integrity mitigate this type of attacks?

W^X is useless in this case, but if Control Flow Integrity offers code pointer target verification, it could have a chance to catch the final bogus callback, am I correct?
A Scavenger Hunt for Fire
The White House also evaluated personalization technology to use on whitehouse.gov so that they could serve particular "stats" during major events (election season, SOTU, etc.).
There is no substantial argument here. It builds mostly on anecdata from the author meeting Kaiser and being unimpressed as well as the Ted Cruz campaign dropping CA.

Apart from that, we see a reference to a meta-study, where the only actual underlying study[0] looking at online ads (as opposed to traditional campaign methods) is from the same author as the meta-study in 2013, measuring " Recall of the ads, candidate name recognition, and candidate evaluations" for direct candidate ads. The kind of campaigns allegedly employed during the Brexit and Trump campaigns are a lot more subtle than that and I don't think any of the studies are actually relevant here. These campaigns rather work on breeding anger and pushing the values and opinions of voters towards the intended direction, rather than directly promoting parties and candidates.

I'd take this with a huge bag of salt and I am still leaning towards online campaigns having had a role in recent elections and referendums.

All that said, I still haven't watched The Great Hack - wouldn't be surprised if there are significant misrepresentations there. And I'm also sure there's more to this than only CA.

[0]: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11109-013-9...
You can! One has email field the other has. description field.
Thanks! I don't really want to compete on price so that's why I'm not highlighting it more. I just want to speak to small business owners :). Fixing the typo now!
Let's be clear: I think (i) the book is great and (ii) your rude and inaccurate comment was not.

(i) I said:

> It's still great though

(ii) I said:

> lacks data

You replied:

> It is the computer book with most tables pr page of any I have seen.

> How you come to this conclusion is beyond me.

In case you were wondering, this is the part where you apologize handsomely.
Rust is less complicated than C++, but it is more complicated than Go. However I’m a big proponent of minimizing complexity wherever possible - language overhead should not become an obstacle to programmer time.

The nice thing about Rust is that it allows you to compartmentalize complexity very nicely by creating rules the compiler will enforce, whereas with C++ the programmer is also burdened with knowing them.

I’m not sure if I’d say that it’s more complicated than Python, since Python’s flexibility can in practice lead to creative but very hard-to-follow code.
I completely agree. Most of the time when I code I am working through problems. It's unrefined and messy until I'm done. You want me to show you what I did and explain how I got there when I'm done? Great! I'd love to but not when I'm in the middle of it. I rarely get things correct the first time, and I would like to not have to be self conscience about people judging how I think.
> Personally I don't care about Amazon. But I do care about the precedent set when it comes to distributing applications that make doing something legal easier (at near zero cost). I personally don't even prefer the argument they use and don't even think it works that great as an argument (because it doesn't work if you replace the AI with a person hired to do the same job).

I'd say if this were an open source project created by some volunteers because they were genuinely of the opinion that this provided value to people, and it would in the same way that DeDRM is, there'd be no problem.

> It is my understanding that the user's device does the translation

It's Amazon doing this for financial gain, integrating it into their app with which people consume audiobooks bought through their platform, based on licenses they legally acquired that presumably don't allow this use. I don't see any context in which this is okay. We can't excuse anti-competitive behavior just because if you do the right amount of twisting it seems okay and they found a neat way to skirt contractual and financial obligations. I'd say most significant issue is the scale. They're essentially providing automation of creating unlicensed copies for everybody on their platform and presumably will have a significant impact on the original copyright holders. Which simply wouldn't be the case for an open source project (the amount of people who use DeDRM is miniscule).
Ask HN: What are the productivity benefits of tiling window managers?
It's common for people to bring up the productivity advantages of tiling window managers on Hacker News, here's a recent thread with some examples[1].

I'd like to start out with a couple of assumptions, but please feel free to correct me on them if you aren't convinced by my reasoning:

1. A tiling window manager isn't necessary to efficiently switch between applications and windows (with or without the keyboard). The one OS I know well, macOS, has many different ways to do this without tiling windows.

2. A tiling window manager isn't necessary for programmatically customizing your window management. E.g., features like storing and retrieving window configurations, and moving and resizing windows programmatically aren't specific to tiling window managers. Again, there are macOS apps that do these things without being tiling window managers.

These assumptions are intended to keep the conversation focused on what actually differentiates a tiling window manager from a stacking window manager: That if you have two windows next to each other, and you make one of them larger, it will simultaneously make the other one smaller.

Finally, we can also safely assume that it isn't necessary to use an OS-level tiling window manager in order to be able to tile terminal windows, text editors, and file browsers, since for example, Visual Studio Code, Emacs, and vim/tmux can all tile those types of windows. But certainly points about why tiling those windows rather than stacking them is more productive would be very interesting to hear!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20791947
Good thing that Android Studio includes its own JRE.
Please, note that I'm not saying that QE it's not inflationary (it's not), I'm making a more general statement: adding reserves to the bank system it's not inflationary.

You probably agree with me that what create inflation is the spending in the economy.

One thing is the public deficit and another is the public debt. The deficit happens when the government spend in the economy. If the government (or the private sector) spend too
much in the economy inflation will happen. The other way inflation can happen is by some kind of supply shock.

The public debt is just the accumulated of the money that has been already spent in the economy. So, the public debt can't be inflationary. That money is already in the economy!

Paying the public debt it's just not emitting new debt and waiting until all the debt mature.

Could that be done (if we forget for a moment the rules currently in place)?

Yes, the government just could spend what they need without emitting bonds. The real restrictions in the government spending would be the same: don't spend more than the economy can provide or you will get inflation.

The public debt number is basically irrelevant. This is true for countries with its own currency and the debt denominated in its own currency, otherwise the issue it's very different.

We are not going to see a crisis created by a public debt problem of countries that have their own currency, but the public debt, of the countries in the Euro, is a good candidate for the source of the next crisis.
well, that does not seem to be a very constructive answer. mind sharing some info/references on this specific one, or any others ? because I though it's a blackbox type of software
Trump suggests 'nuking hurricanes' to stop them hitting America – report
In fact Bethany McLean was a key player in bringing Enron down - which at the time was named the most admired company in America (6 years in a row!). Virtually no one was questioning their black box of profits.

But then a stock investor tipped her off that Enron's numbers didn't make sense. She started investigating and wrote an article, "Is Enron Overpriced?"[1]. That was the first domino.

Here's a clip about that from "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room". A fascinating documentary and cautionary tale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZOIAJJ6Kk

1) https://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archiv...
Did you file a ticket?
The biggest issue I keep running into is just the concept of data "shape". I love that clojure gives you so much freedom but it can be quite the footgun in a large system because you see that a function expects a map with keys :foo, :bar, and :baz but what are the values for those keys? Spec helps a little bit here for primitive values but for complex nested structures (e.g. {:a [{:b [1 2]} {:c "bar"}]}), it doesn't do much. So, as data moves through the system, and as the system grows it has become increasingly difficult to track the mutations to the underlying structures.

I do think that a static analysis tool would be of some help. Some sort of tooling to better handle tree structures would be very handy. I often find myself being off-by-one level with get-in calls on tree data (E.g. (get-in m [:a :b :d]) where m is {:a {:b {:c {:d 1}}}}), which is annoying because the NPE gets thrown 3 function calls up the stack.
No framework, just CSS :).
"collecting thousands of data points on millions of individuals and then building psychographic profiles linked to their inferred personality traits"

The truth is this shit works.

It doesn't work on every individual, and it doesn't win every campaign, but there should be no question that it can shape public opinion.

If it didn't work, how could Facebook charge $75 billion a year for it?
I don't think publishers are entitled to anything, but I bet that publishers do. Content ID exists as a response to the DMCA, which was heavily lobbied-for by publishers. Content ID wouldn't exist if not for that lobbying.
I talked to the Data scientists at Cambridge Analytica before and after the scandal, including in-depth on the technical details. Couple of things that they told me that change a bit the interpretation you can have of the scandal:

- There was a moat between the operations/sales team (Alex Nix, Brittany Kaiser, etc.), the people you see on most documentaries and the technical team (Alex Taylor, etc.): Sales would say anything to convince buyers (campaigns) and had no idea how the technology works. You can take any sentences uttered by them and quote it to the data scientists, their reaction would be… bow, shake their head, “Yeah, not, that’s… not it.” Probably the worst case of over-selling I’ve heard of.

- The company kept Kogan’s data in archives (breaching their agreement with Facebook) but overall, data scientists considered it useless because it was ageing, not helpful for models. They never used it in production.

- Instead (and you can see that at the 1:00:00 mark in _The Big Hack_) they used election data (participation, name, demographic, address), which magazine people are subscribed to (name, address and the title) and credit information, notably what car they are paying back (name, address, make and model of the car). How are magazines and car helpful? Well, in their words: “guess who the driver of a Ford-150, reader of _Guns & Ammos_ vote for?” Both are a well-documented source of political insight, so much that there’s an open-source model for parsing Google Street View, classifying the car parked and making precinct-level predictions.

- Kogan data could not be used on Facebook (it was blacklisted) but they didn’t know that.
Churches are scrambling for membership like they are gay bars, you might be surprised what you find!
Not every household. E.g. in Berlin it is still quite common to only have a single phase in older flats.
Source: I work at a metering company in Germany.
> on a Zen 2 system if you increase the voltage to push frequency you also wind up increasing the temperature which retards the maximum possible stable frequency

Well, that effect is there on Zen 1 to an extent, but you can overpower it with >1.4V.
Yes! I use Rum :).

Also Garden for CSS so it's 100% Clojure :D.
> I'm sure YouTube would love to be more lenient...

I downvoted you because this is not true. YouTube has built their own takedown system that goes above and beyond the legal requirements. They could be more lenient to users and follow the law but instead they made it easier for content to get taken down.
> Another (very) common early criticism of Tesla: You’re just filling up with coal power.

Also an incorrect criticism since plenty of power in the USA is generated by natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and utility scale solar and wind.
Finally, someone else talking about Acxiom!

You want a bad guy, with no regard for privacy, making crazy inferences (and getting a lot wrong)? That’s your guy.
Pretty sure their nuggets are a huge seller
From TFA: “With the baby boomers occupying most of the top jobs and much of the housing, Millennials are doing less well than their parents,” concluded Credit Suisse. “We expect only a minority of high achievers and those in high-demand sectors such as technology or finance to effectively overcome the ‘millennial disadvantage.’”
1% of the testing population.

Yes, you are rightly identifying a staggering large number of people, but the flipside is you're misidentifying an even larger number of people. Which is why the scandal was way overblown.
So basically a deterministic simulation?
I was pleased to see that there is a fuckit.rs: https://docs.rs/fuckit/0.2.1/fuckit/ in the vein of fuckit.js, fuckit.py and libfuckit
Corruption? I would have never expected such a thing from a member of the PayPal mafia.

Edit: Down vote! Quickly! Do it before Elon notices your lack of loyalty.
That's almost a standard disclaimer by now. If this API let's you upload an image and by request (of yourself or a user) it returns a resized version of that image, that might already be a derivative work and distribution of that content.
> It's quite a privilege to shut everybody up with the magic sentence 'Check your privilege!'. A privilege often overlooked.

yawn
People who know these things have said that Zen was principally designed by a different individual, not Keller. I'm trying to find the link/who that person is.
“Dumb”. Is that a financial term? Or a legal term? Perhaps we are able to benefit from hindsight? I’m just saying that, calling vertical integration by a company that doesn’t have widespread industry support and is moving very fast and needs to control as many of the required moving parts as possible, calling that corruption, nepotism, fraud, and dumb,,, not a balanced argument.
> renewable energy subventions

The word you are looking for is subsidies.

Not every Latin-derived word also works in English. ;)
Daydreams Shape Our Sense of Self
By their own admission in pitch decks the CA system was no better resolving an individual accurately than existing ways.
The main architect of the system's only previous experience was trying (and apparently failing) to model fashion forecasting.

To say then CA situation was overblown in terms of scope and insight is an understatement imo. The irony is their sales pitch was so good it caused an international incident.
Is that their target market?
When did Facebook charge $75M? Genuine question, the claim is new to me, and Google doesn’t know either.
The author posted a clang benchmark at the end of the article. It has pretty much the same performance as the MSVC one.
Famous last words...

After reading: “oh my god it’s full of stars!”
Eh?

So I had a downturn in my life back in 2012 and did otr trucking for about 7 months. Every large company had a Qualcomm in every truck that wouldn't even let you fully start the truck if you were over hours. They also recorded all the data mentioned due to insurance reasons. To prove what the driver was or was not doing when an accident happened. Even fuel economy was shared with dispatch so they can yell at you for idling. Hell, most trucks after 2010 already shut off after 15 min of idle.

I dont see what they're upgrading to that hasn't already been implemented, in spades.

Now, small and indy trucks, yea. They were all on paper logs when I was driving. Mid to large, I never heard or saw one that didn't explicitly mention elogs as part of the job description.

This article feels like it's from bizzaro world.
This happens to me all the time. As an amateur pianist, whenever I sit down and play a piece and upload it, it nearly always gets a copyright flag -- even if it's 150 years old or more!
I remember my grandfather who was a carpenter. He had a 3-phase woodworking machine in his garage. It was in the late 80s. He needed a special installation for it, and possibly a more expensive subscription.

He later changed it for a single phase machine, partly for that reason. And then he moved, and he now has only one phase like everyone else.
That's odd, it works in Fennec for Android. I wonder if it's a side effect of iOS not actually using Firefox's rendering engine.
Slow news day at The Guardian?

Why is it always

Quoting unnamed sources who were present at the meeting, Axios report that the response from one official was “We’ll look into this.”

Tabloid News Source.
How the brain 'approximates' without counting
Simple Virtual Machine and compiler implemented in pure C
The biggest difference between the two campaigns was that in the 2012 campaign these APIs were available, while in 2013-2015, Facebook shut down the friends API, with a few exceptions. The only reason CA got access to it was that it was for "research purposes".

In other words, CA lied about the intended use. From a data collection standpoint, it was the same thing Obama's campaign did in 2012 for get out the vote efforts.
Fundamentally, for a service to not be discriminatory, it must be regulated like a utility (e.g. telephone, electric, etc).

Using something that has the same functionality as a utility but is not regulated as such raises some questions.

Also, profiling social media is nothing new. It's not uncommon for insurance companies to hire private investigators to look into suspicious cases. One case I heard was a man going on disability citing being homebound but the private investigator found evidence completely to the contrary. I fail to see how this is any different.
I think the driving factors are cost and unfamiliarity. Induction has historically been seen as a premium option, but in the US, if one is getting a premium stove, they're usually going to get a gas stove.
The Gas/Electricity cost comparison are off.

CA electric rates average 15.34c/KwH
Tesla gets 27 KwH per 100 miles
which comes out to 4.14$ per 100 miles for the Tesla
A Camry at 50mpg uses 2 gallons costing 7$ per 100 miles.

So, on a per elec/gas basic the comparison should be:
2250 vs 3804

And, if you live in the bay area, then your electric rates can easily be 18, or 19c/KwH nearly putting the TM3 on par with the camry.

Also, as other pointed out: in the long term, the camry will cost much much less on maintenance than a TM3. if those TM3 door handles go out, that's 1500$ each just for that.

a year or two ago KBHD said nearly every Youtuber who's ever reviewed a Tesla (with the exception of 2), has at some point had their Tesla's up on a flatbed truck.

I don't know if they've improved the reliability since then but I think Tesla still has a lot to prove in this category, especially considering how expensive they are to repair.
There was a step in between, SolarCity was in trouble so they issued SolarBonds. Musk and some of his companies, notably SpaceX, decided to buy these since there were not enough interest.

So this final buyout was not to save SolarCity, but to save Musk and his companies that had previously rescued SolarCity.
Soaring Student Debt Opens Door to Relief Scams
Also, Amazon Corretto, supports Windows, Macs, and Linux.
https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
I am sure they are perfectly able to negotiate once the usage gets out of hand.
Copying data is among the fastest operations possible on a modern computer bus. Not a thing to worry much about.