skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks like a bootrom exploit - the stage before iBoot - that verifies signatures of the firmware. The code for it is hard burned - read only from software. This can only be fixed with new hardware. https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Bootrom
Whenever you're splitting Uranium atoms the results will tend to be radioactive. The results will build up in the fuel over time and eventually make the reactor stop working. Conventional reactors breed a bit of plutonium too as U238 captures neutrons but most aerospace reactors want to be as light as possible and so use highly enriched Uranium. So after your trip the engine will be quite radioactive but, as you point out, there's a lot of space and outside Earth's atmosphere and Van Allen belts it's moderately radioactive anyways.

Thankfully nuclear reactors aren't particularly radioactive until you turn them on, which is a big improvement on the radiothermal generators, RTGs, that we sometimes use in probes headed for the outer solar system where solar panels don't work. It's during launch, before this part gets turned on, that you have a risk of crashing and losing the reactor somewhere on Earth.
This reminds me of the one from a few years back about copying house keys from photos.
Congress created OSTP in 1976 after Nixon disbanded the National Science Committee.
Ask HN: How would you build a Grammerly clone for another language?
What is the process?
What type of datasets are needed?
What algorithms will be used?
In this case the government isn't just allowing the school to use judicial procedures the government itself couldn't use without violating due process, it's requiring them to. That's different.

And movie distributors and Boy Scouts are not the government. And when a private organization deals unfairly with a private person, due process is still available in the form of a court proceeding (e.g. a suit for unfair termination), but in this case that would either be dismissed (e.g. because the school was following federal requirements) or put the school in an impossible situation where the federal requirements require them to use an unreasonable procedure that subjects them to legal liability by an innocent accused person.
It would look like romeo and juliet laws that allow consent between two teens close in age.
> There is a big difference between stats and feelings.

Couldn't agree more.
thx, I just wasn't sure exactly who it was
100% control of any complex system does not and can not exist.
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> A cynical reading is that they are only given away because the competition can derive no value from them... In fact, forcing your competitors to retrain every 6 months when you release another major version that breaks all existing projects will only slow them down and fill your coffers!

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

As a sort of side note, amusingly, Microsoft is rarely included in the FANG-style acronyms. There's a reason for that, Microsoft is the granddaddy of FANGs, from a strategy perspective :-)
Heh, mine was 30 years ago, I hear ya!
I'm not sure things are as universally true as you're saying. I've been managed by developers, non- developers, and people who haven't written a line of code in 20 years but were once developers. I can't say I've really noticed any quality/effectiveness differences correlated highly with their ability to develop software. And I've been both on-site and full-time remote.

Evaluating ability, progress, and effort can be done as more of a human problem than a technical one. Heck, current or former developers are more prone to overconfidence in their assessments, especially when they're not personally neck-deep in the exact area.

A good people manager can smell a slacker based on a wealth of signals from 1-1 meetings and the overall flow of work. But the strongest signals come from what the manager picks up from your coworkers, who are almost certainly going to be more qualified to evaluate your progress than the manager could be.

People can still slack off and put up a bullshit screen that'll fool their coworkers for a while, because they're not watching for it. That's not their job anyway, that's the manager's job, and they don't need to be able to hand-code an encrypted distributed hashtable to smell a rat.

That said, it depends on who you have. Some developers need oversight from a knowledgeable manager, especially when remote. Some don't. The purpose of management extends well beyond evaluation, which is more of a cure that you'll need inversely proportionately to how well you do prevention (team dynamics etc.)
Deepfaked videos are here already, I could see one passing as believable evidence (especially if it's shrunk down to a lower resolution, as in a high quality deepfake pretending to be a cellphone video).

We had this brief period of history where good records of actual events were cheap to capture and expensive/impossible to fake (governments have been airbrushing photos for most of this period, but videos seem to have been tougher). We're at the end of that now, but the public hasn't quite caught on. I think it'll take at least one high profile case getting overturned before society at large stops believing in videos. Then we're essentially back to trusting people at their word/digital-signature, and we'll probably have "trusted" security camera companies that install tamper-proof cameras at multiple angles that cryptographically sign videos while streaming them to remote servers. Before that, and probably after it as well, some of us will rot behind bars based on state-forged evidence.
That's literally what the tesla does. You tie a profile to a key, card, or phone.
Why does the government need another office to provide this commentary? The onus is on those seeking change to explain why its necessary not on those for the status quo.

Government 'independent' offices are not immune from political spin. Congressional committees are ultimately the ones tasked with making policy and they have authlrity to call whomever they want to testify. If the OTA wouldn't say what they wanted to hear, they'd just call someone else.

The United states does not suffer from a dearth of scientists. We should be able to get everything we need from the OTA via private commissions and private subpoenas.
The whole second half of my original comment is on how even if it was illegal, we still wouldn't be seeing them talking about it so publicly, comparing it to their use of stingrays which is pretty much veiled in secrecy.
I was a very young child in the 90s and I think this is the first I've heard of this incident so I don't have a strong opinion. I will say, in general, I don't like executive agencies and would not have a problem with most of them being abolished.
BootRogue, a roguelike game fitting in one boot sector (512 bytes)
My guess is they are using "heart attack" as a general term. My boss at my previous job had a genetic disease that caused heart arrhythmia's frequently. They were not life threatening if handled in time, he had an internal defibrillator(?) that would trigger a shock to correct the problem in the worst case. Most of the time he would have someone drive him to the hospital (1-2 hours away) to have it reset in a controlled environment

Eventually he made several corrections to his lifestyle that reduced the number of attacks considerably and volunteered for several corrective procedures to fix the problem (He wanted his son to be able to live without the risks) last I heard he had the defibrillator removed after a surgery at the Mayo Clinic, diet changes (no alcohol), and improvement to his physique due to regular exercise (obesity increased the chances of attacks for his condition).
What patterns are you talking about? Nothing specific to React, as far as I know, helps with maintaining a large codebase.

Though, perhaps you mean the larger React ecosystem. But still, what patterns are you talking about? TEA/Redux? There's no reason why you can't use the same patterns with Svelte.
I'm sad I can't read the article due the Medium Paywall.
Aren't you just testing the processor's internal overheating protection in that case? It might not shut down the system, but throttle itself into a snails pace.
I don’t understand the faith in state governments. I’ve seen just how awful they can be to trust them over the federal government, in the trend. The federal is a much larger sample of people. In order to function every part of it must pass some basic acceptability requirements from the entire voting public. Meanwhile, state governments can be outright hostile toward one locality at the benefit of another through their own laws and voting practices and budgets. State and local governments are much smaller than the fed - meaning corruption and influence are bought at much lower prices than the federal. I’ve personally lived through economic downfalls brought on by local governments outlawing and fighting new industry for political power and easy votes.

I also saw my university’s tuition revenue taken from it and given to a smaller university in the state capital. All because the surrounding population hated the city hosting the university.
When I applied to the USDS a few years ago, the interview process left me with the impression that "explain[ing] to ULTRA clueless users things they need to know and don't want to learn" was the core of the job, since the interview seemed to be testing that in lieu of actual technical skills. Left me wanting to go anywhere is, 18F, or any similar government program.

Of course, I also have 14 years of dealing with the DOD in technical capacities, so that didn't help.
We are(were) the exact same way, and I hate(d) it.

Every customer is a whale and has demands, both on features and deadlines. Failing to meet these can result in losing the customer and the more customers we get the harder it is to balance/scale it all. Scale is personnel scale to handle each new challenges new clients bring. Somehow no matter what the is always a new client with some new demand we have never seen before.

I don't see how your development is way faster, how do you handle multiple requests from multiple companies all different?

Last year we started our self serve initiative and have slowly been growing there. Before we might have clung on anyway possible to keep the whale where now if they are too much of a hassle we can comfortably say "no" to something and not sweat their loss.

With self serve, we are much more scalable. We don't need to hire more devs just because we have more companies. This is our product this is how you can integrate it and these are the customizations.

We still take client requests, but we weigh them with other requests and if we deem them mutually beneficial to a majority it will get prioritized. We talk with our clients weekly and they have access to basecamp/jira/email to communicate individually, you can still get plenty of insights
I can't say about the specific version, but ZFS has a history of great stability, with very few isolated cases of data loss.

0.8 also has trim support :-)
The tea case and the de Icaza case might not be crimes but they are still unacceptable behaviour imo.
Nuclear slower and pricier than renewables, says anti-nuclear report
Given what a software engineer could make in the Valley/at a FAANG, how much would a software engineer need to be paid to take a government job that banned them from working at a FAANG[M] for the next 10 years?

To make that prospect even money for someone qualified to work at a FAANG, the signing bonus for the government job would need to be in the millions (which obviously won't happen).
Is the government of the USA even still legitimate if it just simply violates core Constitutional principles that the government is clearly and adequately prohibited from violating, while acting as if patching on minor laws and regulations rationalizes the violation of prohibitions to violate fundamental rights; the 4th Amendment prohibition on the government to search and seize without reason.

It' an absolute prohibition and not at all ambiguous, yet when the population is not willing and able to force the psychopathic tendencies of government the psychopaths that control the government will simply do as they wish.
They admitted to encountering the literal definition of UFO -- "Unidentified Flying Object", which in no way at all proves or even suggests alien activity. If you want to get annoyed with the media, direct it at them convincing people that "UFO" = aliens
I agree with your last point: church institutions are privileged in that some jobs in these institutions are exempt from some labor laws.

Since a recent court decision, this exemption is now quite limited (https://efarbeitsrecht.net/kirchliche-arbeitgeber/, unfortunately only in German).
Uh, sign me up! @ewarren! I'm right here! Let's geek out!
I've said it many times before. Biometrics should be used as usernames and not as passwords. You should be able to change a password.
Unidentified != Alien
If you're in the right victim group, you can get away with anything. E.g.,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018/08...
Rocket Water-propulsion tests promising, Senate shows EUS the money
Ask HN: Deploying AI service on client's server without exposing model and code?
I have a deep learning inference application written in PyTorch which I currently serve over API. The application is deployed through docker containers.Recently we gained a new client who wants to trial the service, but for privacy reasons they would like the application deployed on their own servers. Just for context the client is a mature online company with decent size.

Is there a way to deploy my application without allowing the client to simply copy my model from the container? I assume this can't be an unique situation because a lot of AI companies have clients with sensitive data (e.g. hospitals, banks etc.)

What I've thought of now is to first embed a kill-switch to delete files from container (since the customer is trialing our product for a limited time). As for how to prevent them from directly attaching to the container and copying everything:

1) Restrict access to the docker container somehow (From further research it seems this is not possible with docker)

2) Embed some sort of script into the container such that every time user tries to attach the container, the model and source code files get deleted. We will have removed the image from the server after container creation so they won't be able to run directly run commands from CLI of the host. (is this feasible?)

3) Compile script into C/C++ code and obfuscate (this is not ideal since it will take a lot more work and if they can still copy the contents of the container and they may still be able to access the model).

4) Other options (any recommendations? maybe a more suitable technology than docker?)

I feel like this shouldn't be an isolated situation since a lot of deep learning applications have data privacy concerns. There is always the traditional way of compiling the code, obfuscating, and using product key but most deep learning models still run on python.

I know there is no fool-proof way but just anything to make it harder for them to simply rip us off.
Is it growing? It is a difficult metric to quantify, but looking at thing like Github, or Reddit, it seems flat or declining. Clojure initially benefited as the preferred Java escape path, but it seems like that has been supplanted by Kotlin.

https://github.com/oprogramador/github-languages#most-failin...

https://www.benfrederickson.com/ranking-programming-language...
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I've been working with Vue for front end, but always keeping my eyes open to the future.

What do you feel Svelte is doing that hides "warts"?

Hacky stuff tends to turn me off from a tech. (I consider all my Vue work to be instant tech debt, because I know I will be replacing it down the road...)
The problem is that women who make a good amount of money cannot always land a man who is financially successful.

A 30 year old man with a good career and assets will try to date the 23 year old who looks like a fitness model. That's not to say women who make money cannot look like fitness models. There are just few of them because time is a limited resource.

The other part is that men are not on a certain timeline. A man can could spend his 30s and 20s casually dating, then get married at 45 and have kids. Whereas women try to get married before 30, so then she can have a kid or two before it's too late. Sure 35 year old women can get pregnant, but it's common to have miscarriages at that age.
There's a radio host in Florida that had something like 4-6 heart attacks and 11 stents.
That's web design of the late '90s and early 2000s for ya. Resize your window :)
The risk is that in a catastrophic launch failure (read: exploded rocket), the radioactive materials could be dispersed downrange.

The solution--if that's really a problem--is to use the same escape systems used for crewed launches to eject the nuclear fuel with a parachute and emergency beacon, and keep it all inside a durable shielded container until the craft needs to start up the nuclear engine.
You don't strictly need a backport (which I think will never happen, as the ZFS packages are locked to v0.7 on 18.04) - there's a PPA for it: https://launchpad.net/~jonathonf/+archive/ubuntu/zfs.
It's a bit of a tired adage, but that portable television sends mail faster than any rocket, can simulate sending many men to many moons (and could replace all the computing apparatuses used to send the first men to the moon), and... well, you've got me beat on zeppelins as there's nothing we have now to trump that :) I guess my point is that maybe there is still a healthy demand for perspective in the boring future.
Facebook’s Path from Zawgyi to Unicode
You can do worse than browsing WFMU's Beware Of The Blog from start to finish. It's like going down the Wiki hole, only weird.
Flexible Wearable Reverses Baldness with Gentle Electric Pulses
Yikes.

That is extremely misleading. Another reason to tip in cash, I suppose :/
Hmm...I thought Mitre was part of the military industrial complex?
A couple examples: Beazley, The Hartford. There are lots. Most companies have an insurance broker who goes out to the various insurance companies and brings the quotes/options to the companies to choose from. https://foundershield.com/ is one example of a broker for small/medium size companies.
U.S. Battery Producer Celgard Files Lawsuit for IP Theft
Regardless, plain ZFS should be used for Oracle ZFS.
What we have is OpenZFS and various flavors of it like ZFS-on-Linux, ZFS/illumos, ZFS/FreeBSD.
The things are going towards ZoL getting proclaimed as the OpenZFS.
Just change the width of your browser window and use a minimalist browser that only cares about the important stuff like text and images while discarding the trash. Problem solved.
The One Man MMO Project
Swappable Flying Batteries Keep Drones Aloft Almost Forever
Within the actual, global spectrum of political philosophies, the difference between American Democrats and Republicans is remarkably small, especially in comparison to many European parliaments. Just look at the consensus about and subsequent lack of accountability for the Iraq War as an example.

What do you think is an actual, meaningful consequence of something like “90% of journalists being Democrats.” In all the domains you cite, I see a general consensus around a right-wing perspective about America‘s place in the world.
Yeah, this almost seems like satire from a dystopian scifi movie. The actual presented ideas were fine but the tone and jokes landed far from where FB marketers presumably intended.
You might be interested in "hippocampal replay" and "sequence reactivation" during sleep

TL;DR during sleep, most critters' brains actively "re-play" waking experiences, and this contributes to learning+memory. I can't find the paper right now, but at a talk in ~2013 some guy presented work in which spatial trajectories run by rats were reconstructed from hippocampal place cell activation sequences during sleep

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampal_replay

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/28/31/7883

http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.0...

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)31441...
Why don't they name the brands that did test positive? They mention Dank Vapes, but certainly there were others.
I thought the value of backlinks was dependent on the number of backlinks the backlink has, so if all the backlinks are random scrapers with little traffic, why should it boost seo?
The problem with p-zombies is that they lie when you ask if they have consciousness. It's technically not a lie, because they actually believe they are not p-zombies.

Just imagine that humanity is composed of half normal people and half p-zombies. What experiment can you do to separate them?

What if all humans are normal people? What if all humans are liar p-zombies?
Watching people try to teach John Nagle how to do networking is half the reason why I like reading the HN forums :-).

I'm not one to defer to authority too easily, but it's my experience that, when someone with enough experience says something that sounds out of this world, it's a good idea to think about it for a bit.
People are not reacting the way they are because he has the wrong skin color; or, for that matter, any trait beyond his own direct control.

He's being treated the way he is because his actions and comments are insensitive at best and downright vulgar at worst, have been so for a long time, and people have finally had enough.

If you can't tell the difference, I don't know what to tell you.
Your concern about "voilating the TOS" and losing your money is just as likely with government controlled currency. Asset forfeiture over small infractions is well documented.[0]

I have never seen an argument against crypto currency that doesn't already apply to the current systems, we just pretend its not the same.

0. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/10/18/...
> If you could build an interactive graphic design editor

but the same editor will not be used for real work, right?

you mastered the interactive editor, and then you need to use photoshop, illustrator, Maya at work ...
It's the letter of the law and that's why the above quoted position (or see below) is indefensible?

RMS: "I think that everyone age 14 or above ought to take part in sex, though not indiscriminately. (Some people are ready earlier.)”

Just because it's the letter of the law doesn't mean we are forbidden from discussing changing it.
I think that argument "proves too much", as the saying goes.

Something wildly unlikely can always happen that turns your good intentioned idea into a genocidal nightmare or other disaster.

So an honest application of this principle would result in never doing anything. That would of course be impossible.

But usually proponents only apply this "you never know what might go wrong!" kind of thinking for things they already dislike.

So in practice it boils down to "we shouldn't do things I have a bad feeling about, because you never know etc". And that is possible to argue for!

In reality, there are always risks, and you have to weigh them realistically against the reward, and accept that occasionally things go bad.
A friend of mine was once told to make his product idiot-proof. He said "sure, as soon as you give me the spec for the standard idiot."
Do you really think that’s an appropriate level of analysis for the manufacturer of a brand new MCAS? “Any failure of this new thing we’re shipping is just a trim failure, pilots can handle it”?
DoorDash implemented that scheme to give more consistent payments to workers, as tips are quite variable. Anyway, if it helps, DoorDash is currently moving away from that model. [0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/22/20828742/doordash-tipping...