skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I'm even more impressed that someone could touch a rat without jumping backward, scared out of their mind like a child. Maybe that's just me :).

Tests like this make me wonder about the ethics of being able to perform experiments and tests on rats; clearly these creatures are smart enough to understand a fairly complex game like hide and seek; at what level do we, as a society, determine that this animal is too self-aware to be experimented on, and that doing so would be an act of cruelty.

Note: Obviously I don't think it's an act of cruelty play hide and seek with a rat; I'm talking about testing food additives and whatnot for cancer.
Last week I wanted to purchase a used item but discovered that, without warning or notification, Marketplace was deactivated from my Facebook account. My Facebook account is quite active, with posts, discussion in multiple groups, and hundreds of friends. I still have no clue as to what rule I triggered and no recourse to reactivate it. Now imagine that's my digital Libra bank account? No thanks.
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Well that is gangsta. It's an unlikely coincidence that these three people had poor performance with such timing that led to firing in the same week or two. You gotta space out the firings to give the cover story more plausibility.
Even if, like for BF2, you can patch (cough hack intellectual property) the game to change what server it has to ping to enable "online" play, it will still needs a, as you say, third party benevolent group and we still won't be able to do what I was trying to do, which is a basic, fully offline LAN gameplay.

My friends and I often play BF2 remotely on a vLAN through a VPN, so we are quite used to BF2 networks tricks, and I thought we could trick the game, no luck.
The money is taken from the CC account, so I guess that would make it a CC transaction when I draw money to pay in cash? That's kinda funny lol
That's fair, I think I forget that not everyone knows that this is a project managed by a consortium, not by a single company alone.
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Yes you can ban trading in carrots. Especially in Germany where the law is ... enforced.

A ban make most things commercially unviable. If botcoin had widespread use a ban would make it an underground payment system.
That is indeed the case. Some of my new teammates asked if we should have some time tracking software, to reassure me they are doing their job. But I told them that they have my trust since we have hired them, and if they deliver on the expectations they set, they will keep having our trust.
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So killing any startup’s chance of hosting user created content is ok as long as it kills Facebook?
Even diversified countries are vulnerable to similar shenanigans. There are a lot of vulnerable points in modern society. Destroy a couple of electricity substations or power line towers and you could paralyze cities housing millions.

These kinds of targets are also really hard to defend and comparatively easy to destroy. Hell, you could probably drive around tossing copper wires over power lines and inflict gigantic economic damage that way. (You would also probably die)
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Only if going for wordpress jobs anything else php related pay is comparable to other languages.
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Facebook can also rig the economy, even more probable because it is a for-profit business. And if current state monetary powers are quite unaccountable already, imagine when the monetary power is a foreign company.
I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment.

In contrast, Google’s plus codes(https://plus.codes/) provide the same functionality but avoid the most of the pitfalls you mention.

If you wanted to encode the same data using words instead of alphanumeric characters (which is a debatable goal), then you could just combine it with WCodes (https://wcodes.org/)
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While I think the whole “telemetry” thing is overblown, there are enterprise editions of Windows that come with little to no telemetry. And I’m certain there’s custom builds of Windows for the government that have all traces of telemetry (to Microsoft) scrubbed.
Thanks for clarifying. I can see how that administrative difference matters. It doesn’t affect the “money out of my pocket” equation but does affect how the money is controlled.
> With the risk of being downvoted, what’s the point of ai generating text knowing that it will never understand it like we do

In part because we're trying to probe what it even means to "understand" something. If an AI is capable of carrying on a cogent conversation with you, does it understand what it's saying? How do you know?
For the go executable to be so much larger than the source code, when he majority of that is data, there must be something going wrong...
So instead of summarizing it and putting it into the context of this discussion and how it might refute my point, you're just going to link to it as though to say "look Chompsky said something about this therefore I'm right"?
IIRC for those that make senior, five years to senior is about average at Google.
> backed (edit: created and fully controlled) by a foreign company

This is factually wrong. Facebook controls a very small portion of Libra (<1/10): https://libra.org/en-US/partners/
The post war consensus seems to have been a very complex thing. Part if it came from the New Deal, part of it was a shared goal to win the cold war. Goals change, i dont know if values also change.
Things are going so well we’re doing a hiring freeze (2018)
Yeah, also regardless of how meaningful you find a job, you almost definitely don't get an option to not work Fridays, or take multi-month vacations, or to stop working for several years then come back. You must let it take over your life to the extent that they want it to.
Another waste of resources is that global dead code elimination happens really late (LTO). So functions are compiled and then discarded much later instead of not compiling them in the first place.
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Also, i know this will not be a very popular opinion here but, the prophecy in the book of revelation says about a entity(be it a country, company or both) who controls the financial markets and where only people who are 'marked', (have a valid subscription) can trade, buy, sell, etc..

Apart from the religious point of view, the control of a very powerful currency by one entity is very likely to happen. And while before computers and the internet we could use paper money and other means, and work without any sort of centralized control and regulation (at least a very effective one), with the extinction of paper currency and with digital control of a global currency, if this entity somehow decides that you should be left out you are doomed and will face severe consequences because you wont be able to support yourself anymore.

I know i could have expressed my point without the religious aspect of it, but the fact that we are very likely to reach this point, its kind of creepy how someone could have predicted that 2000 years ago with a very different reality than ours.

Im also glad that Europe is awake to understand the real consequences of all the mess this can bring.

If the Nazi regime were happening right now, with all the tecnology we have, they would actually become a 'thousand year reich' and be unstopable.

And i guess some greedy entity, someday might forge all the right symbols(digital currency, AI, control of truth, etc..) and become this inevitable hydra we cant escape from.
Not really. Germany effectively controls the euro, and it's not a great thing for many of its member countries. It was entered into as a union, sure, but now it's effectively a prison.
Dragonflies are not picky predators. Their larvae are essentially miniature murder machines that happily devour fish and amphibians along with other insects until they undergo metamorphosis, and they continue the process as adults. I would be very wary about introducing them anywhere they didn't already exist.
Yes, but the consequences are (AIUI) not very significant for the company.
Many ransomware attacks originate from a different nation than their target. One could arguably classify these attacks as a threat to national security, albeit primarily in an economic sense. When they hit medical targets though, it inches closer to basically profit-driven terrorism.

With that said, I'd love to see the full power of western signals intelligence loosed on these attackers. If they're going to spend our tax dollars on domestic surveillance, may as well get some use out of those programs.

I've often thought using these capabilities for early detection of active shooters might not be the worst idea either, granted it's far more of a legal and ethical gray area there, at least in the US.

Foreign ransomware attackers who target medical systems however, should pretty much receive the same classification and treatment as normal terrorists. If they're beyond any reasonable legal jurisdiction, then extrajudicial means should be used to eliminate them as a threat. I'm not saying torture and assassination, but messaging. Most for-profit criminals, after they realize they've been targeted and identified by an intelligence agency, will probably change their ways pretty quickly, or even end up being turned into assets.
Europe has developed a fairly anti-US-big-tech attitude recently. As a Brit I kind of understand it. We probably don't benefit from importing all of our 21st century products and services from the US, especially when these companies don't pay any taxes in our countries.

Europe as a market has higher taxes, more regulation, and has more cultural barriers giving us a huge disadvantage when trying to compete in the global market with the big US (or increasingly Chinese) tech companies.

Unfortunately I think we may need protectionist policies like this if we want to develop our own tech companies and products. It's the same situation the US is in with manufacturing. The US simply can't compete with countries like China, so if the US is passionate about preserving its manufacturing sector the only answer is protectionism.
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To unionize? It is in the tech scene
All for projects in this space, but you're going to generate so much confusion naming it the same thing as Eli Bendersky's pycparser (which you even acknowledge the existence of in your Similar Projects section).

The alternate capitalization makes no difference to a search engine.
> this only worries me as to what a determined, calculating person is capable of with these tools.

What do you think they would do that they haven't been doing for decades? This target has a court-ordered wiretap on them. The police can request everything up to and including bugging a target's house in these cases, as long as the judge approves.

You seem to believe they can get this data for anybody, but the company that has the data will not hand it over without a court order
That sucks. I empathize. But I don't sympathize. It remains incumbent upon you, me, and every tech worker to prioritize decency of output regardless; our fellow humans shall demand it of us, morally first and legally if morally doesn't work.

The machine stops when we say "no". It's what we must do.
If you can get your hands on the very first, unpatched version, it should work. I got that to run in an offline LAN setting.

EDIT: I remember now what the problem was, running a co-op local game. They'd allow you to do a LAN game, but not with bots. A friend of mine played it locally in single-player, and I'd use my online account to connect with IP, a button which was only unlocked if you used an online account. You may be able to work around it by specifying the IP address to connect to in the windows shortcut for launching the game.

EDIT2: I may or may have not been using a crack at the time, not sure if that has anything to do with requiring an online connection...
> I'd say that as a general heuristic, if you want "to increase agility and innovation speed" do the opposite of what Amazon does.

That’s a pretty vague and useless heuristic. Since you worked at AWS, maybe you could answer why AWS moved slowly on releasing features for existing services? An Amazon-y “five whys” analysis would probably yield a lot more specific and useful heuristics.
You should look into how to recover data if the laptop doesn't boot.
Discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/d3znww/leak_of...
I certainly like text manipulation (well string manipulation at least) in python much more than other languages I use (C, C++, Matlab). It might just be the case that python is the best tool in the authors tool belt for this sort of work.

I'm curious what language you would consider optimal for writing a parser in?
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Yes, I agree. In a world where all projects are comprised of a myriad source files where each one takes a fraction of a second to compile, this kind of approach sounds a tad pointless.
I don't like the nature of it.

I went out walking and wild camping for a few days recently, in areas of not much signal. I usually check in with family as I move about when I do these things, with location and updated plans, and I was surprised that my brother recommended it to me. He said it's becoming quite popular in search and rescue applications.

As it goes I did what I normally do an just pin my location on WhatsApp when I get a bit of signal, but in the right (wrong) circumstances I could see it being a good way to quickly convey location.

I can also see numerous issues with it.

But it made me think maybe there are applications, beyond navigation where it might be useful.

I'll keep an eye on this project anyway, I hope it survives.
Thank you! I'd love to talk about the integrations, as it is our next step to work on. Please feel free to text me, if you want napest14@gmail.com :)
Came here to say this. That was my favorite part of all of WC3, trying out all of the wacky TD coop mods
Amazing how WC3 maps were responsible for both MOBAs and Tower Defence, two of the most popular genres of all time, both moreso than conventional RTSs at this point
It hasn't been a problem for most of our things at Shodan. I think there's a lot of confusion about when to use multithreading vs non-blocking sockets. Most security tools tend to use multithreading when they should just use non-blocking sockets. With Python3 you can also swap out the scheduler if you want better performance:

https://magic.io/blog/uvloop-blazing-fast-python-networking/
Not in a very short period of time, the intensity of a phenomenon should not be ignored.
> You're assuming those people are not forced, tricked or otherwise persuaded by a company worth hundreds of billions of dollars, to use Libra

Anybody who creates a product tries to persuade people to use their product. You can be a cynic and just attribute ill intent of basically everything but it's not really productive

Facebook doesn't control Libra. They have a non-controlling stake in the Libra Foundation, a non-profit.
Three? Last I checked, there were only 2. Has a third person been fired?
I intentionally didn’t suggest any, because I didn’t want this to turn into a language shootout, or for me to sound like a fanboy of the particular languages I prefer. It’s the same reason why I avoided levelling criticisms at PHP. And yes, I do think JavaScript has the same market supply issue.

If you haven’t done much other than PHP and JavaScript, I’d suggest going through the Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book, and also doing a bit of market analysis; see who’s hiring for which languages.
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So's operating a taxi without a license or running a hotel in a residential area. If you can get enough investor money to ignore the consequences, laws don't stop this.
Here's something you can do:

1. Go to https://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/PHP to see websites that use PHP

2. Focus on smaller to mid-size companies (large corporations likely have the tech team and contractors to cover almost of their needs)

3. (Optional) Search for each company on Linkedin and add managers with relevant roles (VIP of sales, project manager, marketing manager, etc.). The goal is to familiarize them with your name so they're more likely to open your email (step 5).

4. Find the email format of these companies with https://hunter.io/.

5. Reach out to the most senior person with a relevant role at each company with a personalized 1-on-1 email.

The key here is to review their website and business and share 2-3 ideas of what you can them build or fix (if there are any glaring issues or vulnerabilities). They may not necessarily use your ideas but the goal is stand out and help them understand how they can put your programming skills to use. Here's a template you can reference: https://artofemails.com/new-clients#developer

There are a lot of businesses out there whose teams don't have the capacity to build everything so they would be keen to have a reliable freelance programmer help them bring some features or projects out of backlog.
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Exactly, it boggles my mind that this passed review.
Tbh, I think the only stable outcome is that which was during the cold war, MAD.

That or may be people can try diplomacy for once.
>When I worked at AWS, it used to take us months to change the position of a button in the UI. Things that our competitors did in hours and days, we did in months and years.

From what I understand, the culture in a large company varies from team to team. Was it your experience that all the teams were that slow?

Are you claiming the whole of AWS is that way or that since your team was that way we should disregard any advice about AWS?

If I invert all the advice from the post, would that be better as a development practice?
A large monolith, backed by an off the shelf database where there is a central security team looking after every line of code?
Are you (1) employed by the Libra Foundation or Facebook, (2) in possession of a large Libra stake, or (3) duped by the marketing and in possession of a large amount of free time?
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I have a great respect for my mother. She worked hard (as a nurse) and raised 8 kids.

When I talked to her about retirement (she retired at 67) she suggested not retiring too early-- it's too easy to get bored.
While I know people who could get by with a Chromebook, I personally recommend to them not to use them because their specs are usually on the low end. Celleron processors and the like don’t deserve a place in today’s market IMO (look at how successful the woefully underpowered Atoms were with “netbooks”).

I’ve also yet to see a Chromebook with good specs that couldn’t be matched by a Windows laptop for the same price. Windows laptops can have Linus installed much more easily (I.E. no jailbreaking)
> In those situations, your only option is to follow orders.

It is the only option for the morally compromised. The solution is to refuse to be so compromised--and we can do it in this industry.

That's not a "for thee but not for me" judgment; I've left a six-figure deal on the table because the client was scum. It requires some grit but is within (almost) all our grasp--and we would be in a better place as an industry (and as people) were this behavior the norm, not the exception.
As another commenter noted Facebook does not control it.

But you're right that the token is backed by something, mainly one to one reserves of currencies and government bonds. So you're okay with bitcoin, that has a market cap of over $100bn that's backed by nothing, but someone creates a cryptocurrency that's backed by one to one reserves of the safest investments in the world and that's somehow extremely questionable.
> Will you get bored and depressed with all this time on your hands?

Don't you think it's much more natural to ask the opposite question? About the impact of exchanging all of your good years in order to generate revenue for your boss? About the prevalent 40 hour / week, 48 weeks / year job contracts people rarely question? About being forced to cram your life only into evenings and weekends? About the blinders this puts onto your personal development? Oh but you get money so you can sit in traffic in a nicer vehicle, that's nice. You can fly further away during your measly, rushed two week vacations, that's nice.
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One of the side effects of Russia's maintaining of the official decorum of non-involvement ("little green men" of unknown origin in Crimea, and the whole tank battalions taking their tanks on voluntary vacation to Donbass :) in similar situation in Ukraine was avoiding opening themselves to the risk of otherwise legitimate counter-strike by Ukraine and scaling up of the war. Saudis seems to have forgo such risk in favor of full military power they can apply in the open war. Nothing helps a regime popularity better than a quick victorious war ... until counter strikes hit deep home where it really hurts, like the Saudi oil fields in this case. Reminds about the Berlin bombing that USSR did several months after the start of the war in 1941 - the almost unstoppable, at the moment, German forces were already deep in the USSR territory with the Moscow and the glorious relatively quick and easy victory pretty much already in sight, the Germans had full air superiority, and reaching Berlin from the yet unoccupied USSR territories was on the edge of USSR bombers capabilities. 11 bombers took part in the raid. The actual damage to Berlin, if any, was minimal, yet the psychological impact was huge on the both sides. ( US have the similar story of bombing of Tokyo in 1942 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid)
> which does rather imply drone / UAv manufacturing is within reach of any state and most groupings

This could totally have been done by someone with a $100 drone, a grenade, and a few weeks of electronics work. Program the drone to wait 1 week, take off, fly to the target, and trigger the grenade. The fact the target was a tank of petrol will do the rest.

Do this 100 times on the same night, and the attacker could have a real impact on a nations economy.
To sell them these highly over-priced houses and tech stock.
That's because they have a clear way on how to stop facebook while they don't really know how to stop decentralized crypto (whose whole point is to resist state interference).
Heh, from the looks of things, there are a number of people interested in playing BF2 in this day and age, even if only for nostalgic reasons. It's quite a pity that EA doesn't offer us that satisfaction, I'm quite sure a number of us would all go "Shut up and take my money!" about it.

If you go to the official BF2 website (I was surprised it still exists and is hosted) and click on "Buy", they redirect you to the 2016 "Battlefield 1" game.

...no EA, that's not how it works, then don't have any money from me at all.
[I expect if I'm being asked to do something, it's been vetted by our corporate legal team. I should not be expected to know every aspect of criminal and civil law to protect myself from my employer.]

"I have been only following orders" had stopped being a valid defense quite a long time ago.