skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish this worked with Australian banks and credit cards. I do most of my transactions through credit cards and want to use something like this
It's an artificial benchmark running for a short duration. The fact that it boils a complex topic down to a singular number should be your first indication that its nonsense.

I think Geekbench is what Tiobe is to programming language rankings or Fox news is to objective news coverage.

If you can't run the same tasks on the same OS you probably can't objectively compare them in a meaningful way. Lack of good data however doesn't excuse using bad data. After absorbing bad data you actually know less than when you started because you think you have objective analysis.
The implant is gone, but the attacker still has keychain data and can/did/does use it to continue downloading data in clear text:

“The implant uploads the device's keychain, which contains a huge number of credentials and certificates used on and by the device.
...
The keychain also contains the long-lived tokens used by services such as Google's iOS Single-Sign-On to enable Google apps to access the user's account. These will be uploaded to the attackers and can then be used to maintain access to the user's Google account, even once the implant is no longer running.
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There's something thus far which is conspicuous only by its absence: is any of this encrypted? The short answer is no: they really do POST everything via HTTP (not HTTPS) and there is no asymmetric (or even symmetric) encryption applied to the data which is uploaded. Everything is in the clear.”

(Source: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/08/implant-teard...)
The self checkouts I have used are explicitly worse than if they let you operate the regular checkout. I'd happily use the cashier's workspace and check myself out. Self checkout kiosks are a nightmare of user unfriendly design that assumes you are going to steal every chance you get. The workflow of cart --> scanner --> bag is hideous, the weight sensors to prevent theft fail to detect items all the time, entering produce codes takes forever since unlike the cashier you don't get dedicated controls, the bagging area is too small even if you have minimal items and since 6 other people are getting the exact same voice feedback nearby you can't distinguish which instructions are for you.
I sometimes I have a feeling this is the case, as a regular user. But to clarify, I'm struggling with understanding differential geometry, and work as an se. Not trying to humblebrag but just trying to establish context. Should I be worried? I ask because I experience some of the same symptoms you do.
For something like an SSL/TLS library, you could have a fuzzing mode that sets the initial randomness to a fixed value. That lets you create a pre-baked input file that can successfully establish a session, and you'd start the fuzzing from there.

You can do the same thing with session IDs or similar. In general when you're fuzzing you want to fix your random seeds (and date/time inputs etc, as well as reset any external data store modified by the program back to initial conditions) - ideally your program being fuzzed is a pure function of its input.
They own all the pipes, why bother hiding what passes through them?
I've been planning the move to vanilla emacs for a while now. Spacemacs is a good way to see what powerful tools are out there. I'm just gonna write down which packages I actually use regularly from Spacemacs and then start my config with those and see what's missing. It will probably be a stressful transition, so I'm putting it off for now. I will probably also take the chance to manage all my emacs packages with guix at that point, too.
Unfortunately sometimes important callers use anonymous numbers. I recently had to deal with this in the public healthcare system where I live (not in the US).

A certain person who needed to give me an appointment kept calling at unpredictable afternoon and evening times from an anonymous number, ignoring the voicemails I left with my availability info, and not proposing specific times in her voicemails to me.

I did get the appointment in the end, but only by happening to notice one of her calls in real time - still from an anonymous number - and answering.

I'm told similar important uses of anonymous numbers aren't too rare in this public healthcare system.
There are other ways to do road pricing: odometer taxes, toll roads, even fuel taxes.
I think so. I never had this problem in Canada but it's been terrible since moving to the US.
Choosing a cloud DBMS: architectures and tradeoffs
(I don't think this thing is meant to be taken literally)
Excellently put. He's the perfect host for me. Just presenting and exploring thoughts and ideas.
I have done similar like. I think I do much better than those. But, I don't pass their interview haha.
yes. we probably have different definitions for AGI. For me artificial means that it’s facilitated and/or accelerated by humans. You can get to the point where there are 0 biological parts and my earlier point is that there would probably be multiple iterations before this would be a possibility. If I understand you correctly you want to make this jump to “hardware” directly. Given enough time I would not dismiss any of these approaches although IMHO the latter is less likely to happen.

also, augmenting a human brain for what I’m describing does not mean that each human would get their brain augmented. It’s very possible that only a subset of humans would “evolve” this way and we would create a different subspecies. I’m not going to go into the ethics of the approach or the possibility that current humans will not like/allow this, although I think that the technology part would not be enough to make it happen.
I embraced the awkwardness, and now I know for sure that I'm doing ‘a thing,’ instead of worrying about whether I do or not.
The Open Source Alternatives to the Most Popular Design Software
Evoke Emotion and Increase Engagement Through an Outstanding UI Design
i agree that email could use server-to-server synchronization. but isn't that what usenet does/did? i think it would be worth to explore the specific differences to usenet to see if there is anything that can be learned from it
Also, recent discussion about a very good intro article about Transformers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20773992
> Obsolete 32-bit CPUs are more common than CPUs with PAC.

According to this (taken soon after iPhone XS/XR went on sale) this is not true: https://www.statista.com/statistics/755593/iphone-model-devi...
Oh god this hits close to home for me. We all know that a one liner can be valid js, vbs, ps1, and cmd at the same time, but you would never imagine the html, xml, csv, crap, and cruft files that parse correctly in those languages.

(To be clear, whenever we mistake a .cruft for a .cmd at my work, it means firing up a (relatively expensive) VM...)
I’ve got a 2000 4Runner that is still running great, but looking to switch to a truck in the next couple of years.

My thought, years ago, was to wait for the 4Runner to break down then upgrade, but I’m now starting to wonder if that’s still a few years (decades?!) off.
Why is less than 300tx/sec a such a big deal?
I work in infotainment for a manufacturer. We're required to bring up the camera in less than 2 seconds from cold start. I'm can't recall right now if that was a legal requirement our internal one.
It would be interesting to run samples from the cosmic microwave background radiation through the Perl interpreter until something runs.
<Throwaway because co-workers are stalking me on hackernews and marijuana is still taboo over here, although legal>.

Sorry for the long post, I feel I need to say this.

I smoked daily and multiple times a day starting at 28 and until 33. During this time, I switched jobs twice for higher pay, learned a lot and I was very uninhibited to the extent that I grew my social life tremendously.

One of my favorite things to do was to get high and solve leetcode problems. I could do it for hours. I will never forget the stuff I learned while high, I was focused to the extent that I feel those things etched into my brain (I'm talking algorithms, competitive programming tricks, etc..). I rarely played games or wasted time when I wanted to relax, I mostly read books (about mind bending stuff) or listened to good music while drawing.

I was super productive at work also. I never smoked at work but the 9-10 hours of sobriety during the work-day were laser focused.

But all my intellectual ventures have been at the expense of my lifting hobby so I stopped going to the gym for 5 years.

But at one point, it all took a turn for the worse. I started getting panic attacks and some severe anxiety. My heart rate used to go over the roof and one day I realized that I was burning out at work, marijuana wasn't making me feel better anymore, I was just smoking to get to the baseline of 'meh'. So 5 years later, I realize that:

a) I don't have too many memories since I started smoking pot.

b) I'm morbidly obese and my resting heart rate is dangerously high.

c) I'm burned out at work.

d) I'm an addict.

And I stopped. After stopping, I went through the worst 3-4 months of my life. Severe panic attacks that I was prescribed medication by a doctor. Depression, insomnia, irritability and the scariest IMO, depersonalization... Marijuana withdrawal is real. Not as 'real'/dangerous as opiates or alcohol but there is no mention whatsoever in the pop culture about it. If I knew how it would have been, I would never have smoked daily. It took me about 6 months of existential crises and bouts of deep depression to be decently productive again, to be able to feel 'normal' and to feel that I got my cognitive function back on track.

I haven't touched it for about 2 years now and I don't believe I ever will. I learned a lot about myself, most important thing being that I'm vulnerable to addictions.

I am one of the most liberal (in the European sense) person you'd meet. I would legalize all drugs, everything. And I am happy that marijuana is legal. Because now, perhaps the medical profession will take a closer look at it and people will be more informed (at least more informed than I was).
Does anyone have a recommendation for a call filtering app that does not leak your contact list to the app developer or a third party?

Open source is preferred, but any app with a solid privacy policy would do. It would be nice to see suggestions for both Android and iOS.
Similar experience, though kind of in reverse. I was born with a congenital cataract in my left eye, and my brain learned to either correct or tune out the picture from that eye. When I closed my right eye, the left picture was significantly darker and had a large black spot near the center, but with both eyes open I had very good (I guess? Hard to compare when you've known nothing else) vision.

I got the bright idea to have cataract surgery in my late 20's despite the cataract never really bothering me. While the sight in my left eye is now objectively "better", the surgery actually made my binocular vision worse because my brain isn't used to the new type and degree of aberration, and so doesn't yet know how to correct for it. I'm a few years out from the surgery and it's definitely better, but I kind of wish I'd left well enough alone.
It comes on automatically when needed but thanks.
It's be easier and equally fair to just grade student's essays by rolling a pair of dice.
Sounds like they need another check from the US government.
It is becoming increasingly evident that the hubris for implementing AI is what is going to ruin everything.
Do you know anyone who has gotten in without taking the SAT essay?
https://i.redd.it/7k32bhp9jgj31.png

Look at that sales trend line. Rocket ship. They aren’t going belly up any time soon.
Columbia U is pretty far uptown, not midtown. Small pocket parks don't really cut it, people need to be able to go for walks under trees and maybe a sporting field or two.
The Recurse Center and the joy of learning (2015)
It's primarily an American problem, but I've seen in the last year or two an uptick in certain kinds of Spammy activity to my Australian mobile number.

The most prominent type, and have appeared in the last two years are the one-ring-only calls from some foreign country. They're trying to get you to call back to some premium-rate number.

The second are SMS based random spam. Just an hour ago I got spam from "JbHiFi" (even though it's not them, I've never given JB my number) with phishing/spam "you won a contest". I also get random SMS spam from other sources.

Then again, if you have any kind of landline in a regional area you're going to get a ton of fake NBN/Telstra/ATO/etc scammers.
Slavery fears rise for migrant workers
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google offer more paid services?
E.g. Gmail and Search that doesn't show ads or track you everywhere.
Lessons for Capitalism from the East India Company
In the case of GDP I saw a post on reddit the girl was flown out under false pretenses. Then pressured into doing the shoot, otherwise she was told she would have to reimburse the producers for the flights and hotel. She was also told this wasn’t going to be released and was for a private collection. Pretty slimy if true, and it sounds like 22 other girls have a similar story.
The Single Biggest Factor Affecting a Startup's Success
> And just as Facebook today can employ Nick Clegg, the former UK deputy prime minister, so the EIC was able to buy the services of Lord Cornwallis, who surrendered Yorktown to Washington. The EIC, in other words, was not just the world’s first great multinational corporation, it was also the first to run amok and show how large companies can become more powerful, and sometimes more dangerous, than nations or even empires.
Havel-Hakimi Illustrated
They are starting wrapping up and deprecating Edge classic, as the Chromium one is now in beta
The API looked pretty normal to me...
There's a much more simple answer. You can see where others' cursors are. Don't edit something someone else is about to edit.
I'm in Australia. I'd say I get between 5-10 spam calls a year.
I really wished they hadn't killed Edge. And I love EPUB in Edge for technical books - you can open several in different tabs and also search within them. The browser is the most natural vehicle for EPUB! Using a third party reader on Windows is going to be a pain.
This article is all too short, but it left me wanting to know more about this opening day where so many things went wrong.

My favorite bit: "Nearly all of the 36 cars on the Autopia, which Disney envisioned as a utopian miniature freeway on which children would learn respectful rules of the road, were wrecked by aggressive drivers who crashed into other vehicles."

We've never seen this happen anywhere else, have we?
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It would explain so much
https://xkcd.com/224/
I mean that’s generally true but depends on which state actor. North Korea definitely wants your money (or crypto) but Russia doesn’t.
Being a college grad does not affect entry level pay?!?!? TIL
“Joy of Coding: Live Hacking Firefox Code and Debugging” by Mike Conley
> Because if there were a few techniques that improved our efficiency 10 times either, we should make it our top priority to find and adopt those, because a couple of those are already a gamechanger.

You're not really addressing the question, just talking about an easy hypothetical where no one could disagree.

What decision would one make differently if sold on No Silver Bullet (NSB)? I can't think of one. Would someone not woke on NSB prefer a 3x improvement over a 10x improvement, for example? Of course not.
This doesn't seem any more open than Verified by Twilio.

Why would you trust Verizon/Comcast more than Twilio?

As not a customer of both, STIR/SHAKEN doesn't help me.
How to Setup a Simple Apache Web Server in a Docker Container
When Henry Ford built cars, he knew that the people making his cars were also buying his cars. That mantra was thrown out in the 80s. The new mantra was "make sure the people making the stuff are poorer than the people buying the stuff, and you [shareholders and executives] can pocket the extra profit margin."

The flaw in this theory is obvious: Eventually you run out of poor people willing to build things they themselves cannot afford to buy, and since the buyers of your stuff no longer have jobs, they're no longer buyers either.

And that's where we are today. It sucks, but a lot of wealthy people made a lot of money on the float while it lasted.
What a clever framework and clever bunch of people behind this. Take it for a spin and find out for yourself just how great this is.
That sounds like a cool setup. I used to daydream about putting together a neat setup like that with Asterisk but over time I’ve actually regressed and even started giving out my direct cell number instead of my Google Voice.*

Having kids, buying a house/land, starting a business, contracting with services - every once in awhile I’ll get a high priority call that I really don’t want to be delayed (emergency at school or daycare, last minute problem with land/house offer, etc.). One time even my doggie daycare called because my dog had collapsed and they were doing CPR in the background and needed my consent to emergently administer epinephrine.

I also live in a rural area and I wonder if I tried to get a local business or contractor to return a call if they’d assume they had a wrong number if they called and a robot asked them to do a math problem. I know I’d not infrequently get confused voicemails with my Google Voice number (“Not sure I’ve got the right number but ...”).

So in the interest of not wanting to risk those rare important calls being delayed or blackholed I’m one of those luddite bozos who answers every call and has to deal with hanging up on the occasional spam call. :-)

* The other reasons I’m dropping Google Voice are 1) it seems like it noticeably affects call quality, at least in my area (particularly w.r.t. latency; I imagine there are fundamental round tripping issues since I’m in the midwest, and I’m sure the cell networks also have a lot to answer for here compounding the problem with the inherent latency of modern voice calls compared to the old POTS) and 2) I’m trying to get ahead of Google pulling the plug on the service and leaving me to track down and update phone number info everywhere and 3) not being able to do iOS stuff with other “blue text” phones (“call me on my other number in order to Facetime”)
For personalities try Jason Friedman. Martin Fowler's Refactoring is a nice read too.

But personally, I'd like to ask what business goal are we looking to solve? Because regardless of how murky a codebase can be, if that codebase keeps hitting a business goal, then we really can't drive a change in practices.

So, we first present business goals. Here's a few examples:

If the business goal is to give better estimates for fulfilling custom features faster, then testing would be the first in the list. Not even the release process. Tests lessens cognitive load for developers when they're asked "how long can we make this feature?". They'll have an idea that it'll probably break a bunch of services, etc. a.) If you're in leadership, ask for tests when people make a PR. b.) If you're not in leadership, look for the smallest part of the monolith. Write 1 integration test, add a CI integration, put it in a PR. Co-workers would probably like that.

If the business goal is to give better SLA's (turn around time for addressing breaking bugs, scaling better), then the release process would come first.

Regarding technical debt: One way to address technical debt is to slowly address it by folding in the effort of cleaning and refactoring inside a feature request. ex: making a new form about 2FA takes 3 days, but you can say 7 and explain that we'll setup a CI test build, then hit and address some debt regarding User Authentication along the way.

It'll introduce as a "Clean As You Go" culture in the legacy engineering team, which will pay off in the long-run instead of having a huge amount of time just dedicated to addressing technical debt.

The danger of separating "address technical debt" as a separate effort is it sometimes results into some unnecessary abstractions and over-refactoring: i.e. trying to make certain things too generic, bordering on building a framework.

But then again, if the business goal was to make a framework for a business goal (maybe something the bizdev can sell), then it can definitely be made as a separate effort. Otherwise, it'll be seen in the bizdev as someone just "playing" around with tech.
If our entire userbase switched to Brave and we made $300 a month from them, I'd have to shut the site down.

Either way, it's really not worth the time and effort to set it up right now unless you're a huge site like wikipedia and you don't have any ad revenue to lose.

I do think it will be interesting what this does to donations to wikipedia. It would make sense, I think, that Brave users may donate less per user overall as they feel they are contributing by using Brave.
Because advertising value of poor and dumb users of the internet is more profitable.

And Google is pretty bad at creating products so no one is willing to pay for them - Gmail, Search Google Cloud etc. - they can survive on the market only because they are free.

As long as Google products are free they can suffocate any potential competition. If Google products were paid for there would exist healthy competition that would marginalize Google in a blink of an eye.
It's not a perfect comparison because we benefit slightly by batching messages with the same content when sending to Android devices, and we have some backend features in place to reduce storage usage when the content is the same across many messages.

iOS, however, is still quite challenging at scale since there's no batching mechanism for APNS, so even bandwidth becomes a bottleneck. We do web push too, which requires a lot of CPU cycles to encrypt each payload for its recipient.
I completely agree, and that's exactly my point: the median data science screening process tries to be all-encompassing to an extent that would seem ridiculous (for a "take-home" assessment) in any other technical field.
Are foreign-currency amounts calculated by the exchange rate at the time/on the day the transfer or spending took place, or does it utilize the current exchange rate? My budget operates with four currencies, easily, in a year so it adds up
I learned to swim without goggles and could see under water. It went away when I started wearing goggles. I can remember trying to go without and was shocked by how blurry the water had become.
Depending on your goals, there's the GPD Micro PC [1]. Quite the odd duckling, but it includes an RJ-45 and an honest-to-god DB9 for RS232! Not nearly as fun as building it yourself though!

[1] https://liliputing.com/2019/02/gpd-micropc-handheld-computer...
This is odd - Walmart threatened to move out of my city (DC) if we raised the minimum wage
Wow this is pretty shocking. I can understand using automated systems for something like math problems, it makes sense. There’s (usually) one right answer. But essays? This should be banned.