skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And here I am thinking it was a wax lining. Why would you a plastic lining for something you put hot liquid in, which would cause leeching? (Not that was doesn't have issues, aka melting)
This goes much further back, Russian peasants often expressed similar sentiments towards their tsars. Even Robin Hood stories feature benevolent king who would come in and fix everything, if only he knew.
great point - personally, I see so many people wasting massive amounts of time and money on content that goes nowhere. Content producers should approach content like investors and go after the opportunities with the best ROIs
I really hate how inherently biased and subjective most reporting about "social bots" seems to be.

For these last years headlines about all kinds of "bot armies" are constantly making the rounds, getting blamed for pretty much everything from Trump's election to Brexit.

Often based on some research that defines the parameters for a user being a "social bot", that they have extremely high false-positive rates, but still end up only identifying hundreds, maybe thousands of accounts, on platforms that have total user numbers in the hundreds of millions or even over a billion.

That is already enough to cause widespread paranoia about Chinese/Russian/Iranian trolls supposedly being everywhere.

So anybody on Twitter, Facebook or Reddit who's opinions and views don't align with a certain Overton window, are quickly labeled as being "foreign influencers", regardless of any arguments or facts whatsoever, in a purely ideological reaction of "What, you do not agree that <insert country> is evil?! How dare you!".

Meanwhile, barely anybody talks about the reality that these kinds of games are played by pretty much everybody [0] [1], but I guess it would be weird for a US American platform to ban users for spreading pro-US propaganda. Tho, it's still scary how completely oblivious most people seem to be about that, while seeing the Chinese/Russian/Iranian version everywhere.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit...
Yes, overseas Chinese communities are divided, as are families too.

What's happening now is that a Chinese person who doesn't support the protestors is labelled as being pro-China, which is ludicrous.

Protestors have been described as "Little Black Guards", a reference to the Cultural Revolution and the student led Red Guards.

Why? Because it's dangerous to voice an opinion or argue with protestors. There have been numerous assaults. The protestors even beat up a man and tied him up in the middle of Hong Kong international airport!

Now, there are daily fist fights between different factions, between police, radical protestors and pro-government supporters. Excessive force and violence has been committed by all sides.

It's a real mess.
Imagine if the Confederate states had had a TLD. What do you think, what kind of people would be using it nowadays?
I really recommend trying to learn just the basics about big-O, because it is really the single most important thing that a CS degree teaches you.
Thinking about this more...I seem to remember we used to have wording "CS degree or equivalent" which takes care of the lying aspect. There may be some detail of US labor law that make this a bad idea, not sure (for me having moved from UK to US the laws and customs around hiring are a bit odd and unintuitive...for what I understand are good historical reasons).
I'm not familiar with the details, but it is my understanding that their status as a library helps a lot with that side of it.
I'm a huge proponent of this core idea -- that networked technologies have changed the cost structure that underpins our 20th century implicit understandings about privacy, and that one stopgap approach is to rework the economics of surveillance in a way that re-approximates the cost structure under which our legal and moral consensus was developed.

For example, it was never possible to read, secretly and automatically, in bulk, everyone's correspondence in the 20th century. With email, it's a commonplace that governments do it routinely. Encryption doesn't make it impossible to figure out what someone's corresponding about, it just makes it more expensive (as the investigator may need to devote resources to shoulder-surfing or other means instead of auto-collection). It used to be fairly expensive to have to go to the post office and steam open an envelope, copy it, and seal it back up without detection.

Likewise for various other surveillance technologies, such as the ALPR/ANPRs. The people who (still) write our laws were raised watching TV cops listen for a radio APB on a license plate. For their intuitions about this matter to be valid, it should be roughly as costly in manpower, time, and attention to do a "live alert" on a license plate today as it was for those TV cops.

A pen register used to be an actual box you put at the central office on a specific bad guy of interest, not an excuse to sweep up and cross-correlate every dialed number ever. Again, several orders of magnitude cost difference here, in a way where the difference of degree (cost) becomes a difference of kind.

The big danger IMO is when you have well-meaning legislators and jurists opining about network-enabled privacy intrusions using intuitions and examples formed with 20th century cost expectations.

Eventually those expectations will need to reflect current technology, but in the meantime, anything that can be done to raise the cost of pervasive surveillance is IMO a good thing as it buys time for legal and moral intuitions (much slower rate of change) to adapt.
The voice quality issue is real. Before cell phones, audio quality was fine. However, cell phones brought a serious reduction in audio quality, and it has never improved.
Don't talk to people on the telephone.

Skype/Facetime/videocall them.

* insert a long article about the importance of face-to-face communication *

Seriously, though, every technology has a time and a place.

It's a sliding scale that goes like this: video calls, voice calls, IM/texts, group/forum posts, emails.

One one end you get synchronous communication which has the full attention of both parties. On the other - go at your own pace asynchronous information transfer.

I love calling my grandparents on Skype. But I need to be alone in a room for that to work. (Screens and speakers still suck outdoor).

I rarely call my parents on Skype, because my mom doesn't like looking bad on camera, and she just wants to chill after work sans make up and what not. So I call her on the phone. But I know her schedule, and I know that I won't be taking here away from something - and that she'll be happy to give me full attention.

IM and texts are great when you need to get some information across, but you don't want to take the other party away from whatever setting they are in.

While IM/texts work great to talk to many people at once, there is still a sense of immediacy to the conversation. If you want to organize an event, the relevant information will get lost in flurry of messages after a day or two. FB groups / events, and similar, work better for that: communicating in groups, with a latency that spans days.

Finally, emails work best when you want to take time to compose a message or a response (sometimes, days), and be able to go back to it a long time afterwards. I have long email threads with some of my friends, months passing between responses sometimes.

And obviously, some methods work better than others depending on whether the other party is next door or 7000 miles away, whether they speak your language fluently, etc.
Banning Nazi content is easily the most obvious way to create real Nazis amongst the youth, who being young are attracted to anything taboo, or who may believe that there's some big conspiracy to cover something up so "it must be true, they don't want us to know". This is a dark line of thinking.
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Why Silicon Valley Pushes the UBI Narrative
You can, they're just not marketed to consumers. Search electronics retailers like B&H, Newegg, etc for "commercial displays" or "digital signage" and you'll see a lot of familiar looking units that don't have all the consumer garbage built in. They tend to be more expensive but not prohibitively so.
Wait until DNA reading gets cheap enough to be used for this. Then we can downgrade the social credit scores of litterers.
Anybody counting on investors or startup boards to exercise proper oversight of management is dreaming.

Short of the CEO being accused of sexual harassment or assault by an employee or being caught red-handed stealing from the company, they will keep the job -- especially if the company is growing revenue and continuing to raise money at ever high valuations that VCs/board members can use to mark-up their stock, take back to LPs and raise new funds to grow their assets under management that they can collect 2-3% on every year.
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6.3.0 is already out...
I posted a job and you wouldn't believe the number of resumes I got that had neither the education nor the experience for the role. I can see past education -- but if you don't have either, and I'm trying to fill mid-level to senior engineering roles -- I just can't consider that candidate.

If it were a junior role, and they only had bootcamp experience, then I'd consider it.
PQ-Crypto is still a very young research area. There is no widespread (or even niche) use of PQ-Crypto algorithms, no consensus on how safe any of the proposed algorithms are (and many proposals were found to be exceptionally broken -- on classical hardware -- within weeks of their submission[1]). I'm not really sure it's fair to say that just because there are some on-paper algorithms (which have no usage outside academia at the moment) that might solve the problem that it's false to say that "all modern PK crypto is broken with quantum attackers".

But if you prefer, you could imagine that I said "all modern PK crypto [that is actually in use today] is broken". Because, at the end of the day, that's all that really matters.

[As an aside, for RSA the security is provided by the hardness of factorisation which also breaks under QC attackers, not discrete log (it's discrete log for DH, and EC discrete log for ECDH).]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCmnQR3_qWg
Can you be sure it is not connected to the Internet? I thought previously someone gave example of a Chinese TV connecting to open hotspots, or perhaps that was just a thought experiment.
Gotcha. My dad's truck weights less than 14,000 pounds so it sounds like he'll be OK.
ArchiveTeam is NOT the Internet Archive, though the two groups work closely. If you hit the AT's IRC channel, you probably got bounced or told to go to the discussion side channel.

The main ArchiveTeam channel on Efnet is basically for "the house is on fire" emergencies. Normally you'll be asked to bounce to the chat/discussion channel. That may be inconsistently applied.

I worked with ArchiveTeam in the G+ shutdown process and have only fantastic things to say about them. Highly competent, considerate, and GTD/GSD.
It's an APL compiler, written in another APL dialect, which is about as dense as you can get in terms of lines-of-code. APL is one of the few really high level languages.
Chaos Engineering and GraphQL
I don't really want to have a debate about this on HN, but I do have some points of curiosity:

What kinds of work are you hiring for? Are these young/newly minted CS grads looking for SW jobs?

If they're new grads, they're gonna push boundaries - academia is so different from the workforce. The naivety I'm sure is just inexperience. Acting like a mentor instead of a Corporate Suit can rectify their expectations.

P.S. On equipment purchases: my last three companies provided laptops as daily workstations (is this uncommon?) - they went home every night (yay business continuity policy), came to the office every morning. And traveled to conferences and bootcamps as needed. If your company is providing desktops, I think it comes down to whether this one-day bootcamp business is a personal enrichment exercise (at the employee's expense) or whether the company is compelling attendance. Obviously in the first case, the employee should be using their own hardware - in this case, maybe it's a bit entitled to expect a hardware purchase for the event.
I've yet to hear anything good about the coverage in my city - New Orleans.
I used to wonder what caused the crazy amount of litter in SF. After working in SOMA for years, I believe the vast majority is due to people rummaging through trash cans in search of food/recyclables/whatever, often dumping the entire contents directly onto the sidewalk. I've seen this more times than I can count.

More trash cans would be great, but they absolutely won't fix the problem when people regularly empty their contents onto the street.
Semicolons. I mean I got the hang of them eventually but it took a lot of banging my head against the keyboard. I only mention this because I'd guess that most people won't think of it.
As the other comments point out, it's hyperbole. It's also an aspirational statement.

Aspirational, as in, they wish that github would be the key factor in human progress. Maybe I can say that even plainer: to the leadership at github, the progress of the human race depends on github.

The open source community depends on github.

That's what it's implying.

(The reader is left to identify that as wishful thinking.)
I have a degree and I know a great deal about those things. But I learned none of it in my degree. otoh the mathematics I learned in college is highly useful to me every day. ymmv.
I got a Samsung "SmartTV", turned it on and the first thing I saw was advertisement and an insane amount of calls to Samsung servers on my Pi-hole. On the TV I just paid for.

Opened it up, disconnected the WiFi module, connected my Apple TV to it and am pretty happy.
Less honest? No. Less forthcoming might be a better way to say it. I tell my supervisor I'm taking time off and never say why. I might tell her I'll be reachable if there's something urgent; but, that's it.
I have been playing with both over the past two days and am using Pelican because I couldn't get a functioning enough ruby install put together for Jekyll. Either tool looks about equivalent in actual usage... Which is an incredible improvement on the state of the world 12 years ago when i last cared at all about generating web content.
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This is the official way to do that I think -

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Subres...
Then we need to start studying how to help parents have a better experience when vaccinating their children. The fact is that, as a parent, it's unsettling to watch a doctor pump vial after vial into your kid. Even immediately after birth, I remember there was a big vial they injected into my son. If the patient had been an adult it would have been like injecting an entire tumbler full of serum. There's a bit of a gut punch there, especially if you're like me and generally believe that you were born with pretty much everything you needed to live well and that seeking medical treatment is something you do because you can't otherwise live well.

I'm good with vaccines, but we shouldn't be dismissing the parental perspective. Also, studied side effects probably don't include things like increased agitation, crankiness, lethargy, as side-effects. These things make life miserable for parents for a few days so yeah, parents are going to notice. Of course some parents are going to blame the vaccine when the kid just happened to get a cold at the same time too, but people get the message of "trust your instincts" and then see their kid get sick, and it is the parent that is ultimately responsible for the child's well being and also the one that will be blamed if the child is having a bad day or year.

So yeah, some amount of working with parents would be a good thing.
I'm an old guy, but I don't remember a time when this was generally welcomed. It was done, but it was always considered rude. How rude depends on the circumstances.
Not stupid, greedy AF
> Perhaps I should knock up a script to visit random sites with ads and maybe click on a few, in a container/vm. Would that help?

Don't worry, there's enough publisher-side fraud already doing that for you!
Bonus is a way of trapping someone at the company until the one time of year when the bonus is given out, so you can better plan for attrition.
PiHole.
Don't those units tend to have subpar picture quality though due to being optimized for reliability and minimal burn-in over refresh rate?
I stopped watching when he said they were in the process of building a time machine. I can't even imagine how crazy it gets later on.

I can't believe these people are being given a platform. They weren't the first to come out with the videos, were they?
Most of the exceptions are pretty big life events (divorce, death of a relative, military PCS). That why I said "typically" in my comment, it's not something you can really do at-will
> Users don't search various services looking for a specific piece of content

This is a very black and white statement, and as such I can directly say it is wrong because I do this.

If you meant "most users", I'd like to see what the breakdown is. Even if "most" is true, if a significant portion don't, then a significant portion has an incentive to pirate because streaming services don't fit their use case.

> they usually pull up to follow what they were watching previously or to browse a catalog,

Following what they were watching previously is looking for a specific piece of content...

It's a fairly simple case to solve, but it also breaks when the streaming service you're subscribed to no longer licenses the show you were watching--again, going back to the problem of needing multiple streaming services to gain access to all content.

> If you want the opposite of streaming, look at movie theaters. They don't compete on content availability

Huh? Yes they do. Maybe at one time people went to the movies and just saw whatever was playing, but now people look up what's showing online, and if there isn't anything they want to see, they don't go. It would be inconvenient not to, because you might show up at a time when no movies are starting and have to wait.

> - yet the diversity of content is down, barrier to entry is high, and prices have been rising for years.

There are a lot of confounding factors here.
"The US has a lot of them for profit reasons not necessarily for health reasons."

You seem to suggest that having the availability of life saving equipment is BAD if a profit is being made, but a lack of life saving equipment is GOOD if no profit is being made.
I'm not at all discounting your experience; mine are quite similar. I was just saying that what the article is discussing is not how things are now most places but looking at a possible projection of a trend seen in some companies that appears driven by a new generation entering the workforce.

Basically the premise (as I interpret it) is that younger generations have such a drastically different relationship with their employers and work-life balance expectations that it may not be possible for employers to make the kind of demands and "take-backs" your describing because they would just not be considered acceptable anymore. It's basically a positive (and I think more accurate) interpretation of "Millennials don't want to work hard" that says "Millenials aren't willing to sacrifice their health or happiness to make their employers more profits", and looking at what employers may have to change in the future to account for this.
> April 22, 2019, is a prominent example, though we don’t know for sure what happened that day to cause it.

Monday, 4/22, was Earth Day, after Good Friday, Passover,
Easter, and of course 4/20 - so a near-perfect storm
for SF.
With 'the unknown' I prefer to focus very strongly on where known and theoretically known truths are.

Based on your statement (I don't recall offhand), it might be said that it is widely believed RSA and ECC algorithms are vulnerable in a world where quantum computing is plausible. The safety of other systems would require a more rigorous proof; the absence of known vulnerability does not imply safety.

I am not an expert in this field, but the understanding I have from the last time I spent an afternoon reading about it might be summarized as:

* Known/Suspected vulnerable systems use "classically-hard" problems with vulnerability based on small key (or subkey) size.

* Most of the 'theoretically more secure' systems make the working set size large enough, and complex enough, to eclipse the scope of stable quantum computers.

* Thus, the two attack vectors to consider for 'post quantum' cryptography are currently unthinkably large systems or weaknesses in algorithms that allow for attacking a subset which does fit within a quantum system.

If my understanding/memory is incorrect updates would be very helpful.
I did that, but I cannot go flagging every message. To me, it is quite clear that this is abuse, and the account should be banned without me having to sleuth about for more posts like this.
Even better, I think Eclipse’s Java compiler introduced the optimization in a given version, but Maven hadn’t yet. So it wasn’t optimized in production, but was optimized on the developer’s machine. What a time to be alive.
Cigarette butts seem to be the most common by count, but what about weight and volume?

On the streets of NYC, I don't really notice the cigarettes, but I do notice the enormous amount of plastic bags (much of it stuck in trees), plastic or paper cups, straws, takeout containers. And gum. If you ever look at a sidewalk and see dark splotches [1], that's discarded chewing gum. It's absolutely everywhere. Not as invasive, of course, just odd.

I don't know what SF is like, but NYC has a fascinatingly ugly system [2] where you're supposed to put trash and recycling out on the sidewalk for it to be collected, where it's effectively temporary litter. NYC's sanitation workers are notoriously careless about handling the trash, and my pet theory is that a sizable portion of street litter actually originates in the sanitation workers spilling trash on pickup day.

NYC's trash problem is also exacerbated by the fact that landlords can get away with not doing their part in keeping the outside of the building litter-free.

[1] https://www.ediblegeography.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/S...

[2] https://i.redd.it/x0iye2nog6m31.jpg
They should be like Yahoo was and buy everything they see? (for billions, only to sell it at a massive loss later)

I've not heard from Yahoo in a year at least, do they still exist ...
Nowhere near as much - especially when it comes to accommodation.

To pay a £1500pcm rent on a modest house in outer London while commuting to work, I would have to earn about £60k more than someone who owns it outright and lives off dividends with the same disposable income, and therefore I’d be paying £25k more in taxes.

On top of that the owner would see their wealth increasing at a further £50k a year, which would require even more income to match.

In the UK income is taxed at 30-75% (including NI, income tax, student loans, and child tax). Capital gains is 18%-28%.
This feels less like an Android issue than it is a Facebook issue (which I say without implicitly defending Google's privacy-breach record).
Not entirely on-topic, but the cover image on your homepage is scary — it looks like the exact type of workplace I wouldn't want anyone to end up, degree or not. Noisy open office where people are like cattle, essentially the same as cubicle era, except no cubicles.
Official Varnish repositorie (https://packagecloud.io/varnishcache) doesn't offer any release for Buster yet. 6.3 was added since 2 days, but not for Buster yet.