skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Human level is just silly sophistry really even if though there should be some special protections for great apes such as minimal conditions, abolishing medical testing except for when they are outright patients to be aided, etc.

If it were truly human level rights bestiality laws would be unconstitutional in that context for one. Orangutans would be allowed to vote (only age, citizenship, and possible felon status are valid qualifiers and not mental competency), and we would arrest orangutans for committing crimes against organutans and allow them to face their accusers in court. To be found incompetent to stand trial would require special casing for every last incident.
No, the trespasser commenter's personal preconceived notions and views about what humanity is and the responsibilities of a society to its out-group de jour are enable their vitriol. They've been lead to believe "outgroup bad, America good" by what tends to be a right-wing media following. You're not going to successfully fight nativism/tribalism this way. I'm not sure why you keep stapling unrelated issues together, it's possible to have more than one problem at a time.
Do you deny that those ideals stem from hate for others & systemic harm to the various suspect classes you mention?

A common argument I hear is that since right-wing leaders aren't explicitly being racist or sexist or whatever, that we should give them the benefit of the doubt, be charitable. Maybe we're misunderstanding them.

But bad actors subsist on the benefit of the doubt. And the American right-wing has a strong case for being a bad actor against a large swath (arguably the majority) or the American people.
Agreed.

Other things about people coding, though, in tech talks and conference, I actually enjoy seeing the psychological and social impact of the talk as much as the concept being talked about. They're fun.
Imagine you are the someone in a position to doso, what's your risk tolerance?
You make a good point but your second paragraph really takes away from it.
"Researchers from Canadian company Krypterra believe that we’d need 2,953 logical qubits to break AES-128 and 6,681 logical qubits to break AES-256."

Grover's algorithm only gives a sqrt(n) speedup for breaking AES, so the number of bits is irrelevant; breaking 256-bit AES on a quantum computer would take as much time (or gates, rather) as breaking 128-bit AES on a classical computer.
I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner and all over the world.
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Of course severity matters. Someone who gets a speeding ticket every single day of their life is still less of a criminal than someone who commits armed robbery just once and never breaks another law.

I agree severity is hard to measure, but that's not a reason to ignore severity and compare something that's easy to measure but uninformative.

In the absence of numerical measures of severity, there's room for opinion. My opinion is that the Great Firewall or Chinese IP theft are more severe infractions than tariffs or protected industries.
Why do we need bookmarks when we have softlinks. They are the same concept, and an OS that makes a distinction, is a faulty OS, IMHO.

Ditto for tabs. The task bar already serves that. It't the task bar's flaw if it isn't hierarchic.

And actually, a directory already solves that too. Which even exists on Linux. (/proc)
All you need, is a (filtered?) horizontal directory tree listing for the tasks/tabs and a sidebar with another directory that you can put softlink URL into.

Add a bit of window manager placement automation, and you got your browser.

And with JS, as a former pioneer web developer: A website whose HTML relies on a certain way of being presented or a certain interactive logic, is a defective website, full stop.
The whole point of HTML, is that it is semantic markup, and semantic ONLY!
E.g. an audio browser must work just as fine with a website. If one’s website fails at that, it’s because of disinfomatiom spread by the What(TF)WG and because of incompetence, and the causing people must be fired.
TSMC and Arm Show First 7nm Interposer-Based Chiplet System for HPC
So what does "appropriate risk assessment" look like? Vary some parameters and add confidence bounds to your outputs?

If you're building an economic model and they economy enters a regime that you haven't seen before in your data, your model calibration is going to crumble. So maybe good models can be distinguished from bad when predicated on the assumption that the near future looks like the past. But when that changes (i.e. when you need your models most) is when your models become least reliable.
To answer your question: probably any software following the widely accepted, opinion-free definition of "free software".

Can you run it? Read its code? Redistribute it verbatim? Make modifications to the code for private use? Redistribute the modifications? Then it's free software.

You are free not to like some free software licenses though.
> So let's say this law passes

In that case, would you expect the people who wanted this to actively create a means for its circumvention?
* "Security Check" https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/546564142.jpg?...

* Cartoons - https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91dnIHIQXfL...

* The Red Armbands - https://www.patriotguard.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/pgr_...

* Passport check - https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/who-lives-in-border-p...

* Police everywhere. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8G7XsjSzRo

* I saw a a mosque surrounded by security cameras. https://www.aclu.org/other/factsheet-nypd-muslim-surveillanc...

* I was watched everywhere - i could go on and on... PRISM, security cameras everywhere, Ring doorbell cams being given to cops, stingray, etc etc etc etc etc

* Signs in the Hotel warn you that you DO NOT have a right to privacy, and you must register your passport or state ID - Same in the US

at least China is open about it, and has tons of socialist policies so people don't die from poverty.
> I'm in favor of retaining only a limited form of IP law, which makes it unlawful to misrepresent the origin of a work.

There's a technical solution (crypto signing) to that which is applicable exactly to those people who care, so it seems unnecessary to have legal machinery to enforce it.
Sadly it means the rest of society being under surveillance and actual criminals with day-to-day privacy.
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There’s a reason why states have rules against monopolistic companies. Once a company reaches a critical mass in one sector, it becomes almost impossible to create competition, for many various reasons.

But you’re right, old european countries really never tried to think seriously about what makes them lagging so much behind the US and China.
>If I can compile the code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren't any backdoors (excluding perhaps hardware level backdoors--but that's why we do the encryption in software).

Not necessarily. Have you ever heard of Ken Thompson's backdoored C compiler?

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1848...

>Re-write compiler code to contain 2 flaws:

>When compiling its own binary, the compiler must compile these flaws

>When compiling some other preselected code (login function) it must compile some arbitrary backdoor

>Thus, the compiler works normally - when it compiles a login script or similar, it can create a security backdoor, and when it compiles newer versions of itself in the future, it retains the previous flaws - and the flaws will only exist in the compiler binary so are extremely difficult to detect.

It's not necessarily a viable attack method today, but it's the lesson behind it that's important. Anything can be compromised.
It's important but you need to consider the situation where the government is corrupt. The Us is about to impeach the President; and the two factions in government are each accusing the other of corruption, albeit using wildly different criteria.
What good is industrializing recklessly going to do for Brazil or any other developing nation when climate catastrophe destroys all of those GDP gains and more, causes food crises, destroys trillions of dollars of coastal real estate, and causes climate refugee crises? This is not a case where any country is going to benefit from ignoring climate change for more than a few decades.

Climate catastrophe is going to hit the lower GDP nations the hardest, because they're starting with less capital to adapt and mitigate the effects. All they'd be doing by developing carbon intensive economies is flooring the accelerator towards the cliff.

At any rate, it's a false dichotomy. With the current state of renewables, countries like Brazil, India, China, and Nigeria can continue to industrialize with clean energy and skip coal-based industrialization. They can also develop cities and infrastructure to support mass transit much better than some other nations did.
Ah the first four things are pretty amusing to native Chineses, but I’d say for locals they probably never thought it’s related to any sort of oppression or censorship (they think the cartoon was cute and btw Chineses love polices around don’t ask why...). Upper class Chineses are more aware of surveillance and they have some countermeasures but most people don’t really care and even support it. Yes there were attacks before so many places in Beijing has absurd security control.

There’s definitely a privacy issue there but it’s close to impossible to raise the awareness of Chineses unless something drastic happens.

Edit: Perhaps I have a low bar of human right issues but those you described doesn’t seem like red flag to me
> it is sexist to harp on the differences because they don't tell us anything really useful

The people harping on about the differences, or supposed lack there of, are typically people insisting that any statistical difference in representation between men and women, such as the number of CEOs, is due to sexism rather than psychological differences and preferences in life choices.
Classic HN, assuming these questions are only for technical roles.

If the only true signal in an interview is weeding out completely unacceptable candidates, these are great questions because the only goal should be staying in your lane with two hands on the wheel.

Also, reversing the questions can be insightful as a candidate.

Personally I think the biggest disconnect comes in the job descriptions and postings: a lot of these preferences companies have about their candidates could just be openly posted and the candidates could self select themselves for fit.
Totally unrelated to the article (which I enjoyed), but the LA Times website continuously jumped up and down on my iPad. I suspect ads reloading above or below the fold. Incredibly annoying!
On top of the 'natural' threats mentioned in the article there are two specific EU policies that threaten trees in the EU even more.

The EU has a policy to get the member states to reach a certain percentage of 'renewables' in the energy basket or face stiff fines. So far so good. However, commercial logging managed to get 'wood pellets' on the list of 'renewables'. The result? Forests and roadside trees are being 'harvested' like there is no tomorrow because it helps meet the quota.

The EU set up a program for returning surfaces to more 'original' vegetation. Much of Europe's forests in low forested areas are created 2 or 3 centuries ago to serve as hunting grounds for the aristocracy. 'Nature' organizations (pretend green lobbies in reality) are now strip cutting forests in the name of 'planting more native species' and even 'landscape diversity' in regions that barely have tree left. 'Coincidentally' raking in nice subsidies to do so with a positive financial return, allowing them to buy more land to 'converse' raking in more subsidies...

Yeah, I know you can see the excessive airquotes, but I'm mad as hell.
>What lawmakers do or don't say is just noise.

Back in the day, it was illegal to export "good" encryption. There was nothing stopping it from happening technically, just like there is nothing stopping you from stealing from a convince store, except for the threat of enforcement.

But the threat of enforcement can have a strong chilling effect.
The Constitution was designed 240 years ago, when travel along the Boston-DC route took days or weeks. Communications took as long as people could move. The uneducated masses weren't expected to play an active role in government. Gerrymandering was considered, but not a problem (certainly not to the ultra-optimized state it is today). Firearms didn't carry nearly the destructive power they do now. The Supreme Court wasn't so consistently divided along partisan lines.

Almost every facet of our country could use re-evaluation. Health care should be a right for the people. Basic living conditions should be provided for all. The country has the money, the space and the food.

We could be so much better than we are now - and we're pretty good now.
Economists frequently get things wrong, because understanding the economy is hard. Pro-tax-cut people said that the tax cuts would have a stimulative effect (which both economists and the opposition were skeptical about). And they did. US prime age employment is almost back to its pre-financial crisis peak. Does that mean economists were wrong to reject trickle-down economics?

Economists will always be the people policy-makers turn to, because they are the only people who actually try to understand the economy. Economists sometimes try to advance an agenda (and the actual economist varies by person), but the alternative is to turn to someone who only has an agenda.
Thanks for the feedback! I can see how that phrase might seem alarming because it just explains what not to do, not what you should do.

I try to tell my candidates something like: "During this interview, my main goal is to understand what it's like to work with you as a coworker. We're not looking for specific right or wrong answers, but more to work together as allies to find the best design." (Background: My interviews usually take the form of pair programming or design discussion).

I'd be curious if you have any recommendations for how I could improve that. I definitely don't want to alarm anybody, if anything my goal is that you can relax and try to treat me like a coworker (to the greatest degree possible in an otherwise stressful setting).

edit: Random tip, although you probably know this already: If the interviewer asks "tabs or spaces?" the correct answer is usually "Whatever the existing code/linter uses." That's one of those questions that there is definitely a right and wrong answer for, because it's basically a culture question not a technical question, so it's one of those questions I always avoid asking :)
Which is, in itself, extraordinary. It can't be the solution for most of humanity.
It didn't, because the encryption keys are in the secure coprocessor.
I think you misunderstood the threat model. The concern is that they seized your phone, used the exploit to bypass the "normal" passcode protections, allowing them to bruteforce your 6 digit passcode in hours/days rather than years/decades/never (if you had the wipe after 10 failed attempts enabled).
There are two subgoals towards the creation of quantum computers

* quantum supremacy: this is a scientific goal. This can be achieved by building a quantum device that can solve some, possibly useless, computational problem faster than a classical computer. The Google team claims to have done so. For scientists, wondering whether the extended Church-Turing thesis is true or not, the Google result is a significant result. It provides some evidence that the thesis is not true.

* quantum advantage: this is a technological goal (even though it also has scientific implications). This is about building a quantum device that actually solves useful computational problems (like breaking encryption) faster than a classical computer. We are not there yet.
They're after the metadata. Who contacted who, and how often.
i think simply googling for blogs and the topic you want will be enough.
In next 2 weeks, we are releasing Redshift as destination. After that, we have PostgreSQL destination in our pipeline. You can configure it and capture everything there.

If you prefer that to be in files, you could setup a minio server on your VPS instance. It's coming in next weeks too.
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> Unless your mom is planning to involve herself in illegal activities I don't see a problem.

I assume you'd be happy to post all your credit card receipts and emails for all of us to see then. You're not doing anything illegal, right? That would be the only reason you don't want those things to be visible.
Few people, but enough that it's good to have it conclusively answered. Someone on HN in a previous thread put it nicely. Paraphrasing, this brings quantum computing into science/engineering and out of philosophy.
I certainly agree with this and follow this, but even then I've found communications downstream in the game of telephone using the midpoint of what I tell them, dropping any mention of uncertainty. In fact, many times it's the very first thing they do. :facepalm:
And google chose option 2, and the French government is pissed off because they expected Google to choose option 1 and give agencies free money.
There are several factors that I think contribute to this:

1. Education takes time. Therefore, evaluating whether an intervention actually improves education outcomes also takes time.

2. Decision makers both in companies and in schools buying their products are not end users, so their interaction with the product is limited.

3. Most learners hate the work it takes to actually learn something, so they'll prefer technology that helps them avoid that work.

In the end you get products that look good in a short demo and are well-received by students, but that don't really help in the long term.
the search is good, but sometimes you don’t find anything.
Having students watch lectures at home and focusing on individual problem solving during class time is an educational approach called the “flipped classroom” and is supported as effective by research. I wouldn’t worry too much about that methodology.

On a different note, the classroom technology that seems really important as the parent of young kids is the parent communication tools. Comparing notes with my parents, we both agree the communication about expectations, curriculum, and homework is really enhanced by technology
I don't understand all the hate for Siraj and all the personal attacks about being a "fraud" and a "coked-up" guy and I think it's really unwarranted. The dude isn't Geoffrey Hinton or Andrew Ng and doesn't claim to be, and obviously nobody should consider his videos or courses as a substitute for actual coursework etc.

I'm actually a really big fan of his channel, and all I see is a guy with a bit of understanding in the field trying to be enthusiastic about ML/AI in the hopes of getting people that otherwise wouldn't be interested in such a topic interested (i.e. a younger audience or audience that doesn't normally delve into this kind of thing and/or doesn't have access or exposure to academia or the community and culture behind it). There are people in this world who don't know who Hinton or Ng are, or what ML and AI are or what that means (a lot of them are high-schoolers or people from poorer and less fortunate backgrounds than I'm sure that a lot of people on this thread have any exposure to).

That being said, almost all of Siraj's videos have working demos (and usually some references to their source), and having watched numerous videos of his, I don't get any sort of feeling that he's trying to take credit for anything he shows in his videos as being his own or why that's even an issue considering his videos are 99% free, intended to be fun, interactive, and educational.

I also have no doubt that Siraj could be working where ever he wanted and could be making a great deal more money from starting either his own company or working in industry. I have no problem with Siraj trying to make a bit of money for himself by putting out a $200 course which is totally optional, is obviously not a credential, doesn't claim to be, and is honestly the comparable to the price of a Masterclass showing you how to cook dumplings or something.

I think Siraj makes a real effort to put quality, working, engaging content out there for possibly a less exposed and younger audience in way that's entertaining and doesn't take itself too seriously, 99% for free, and considering todays educational climate, is something that I think will actually benefit future generations to come and isn't done enough.

I'm actually really disappointed in HN community's response to him in general, especially the unwarranted attacks on his personal character, behavior or the way he dresses, etc. I would have thought a community like this would be above superficial and meaningless things like that.
Your chemist analogy doesn't fit. No where is it in a chemist's job description that they should consider the price of food where as an economist's job is to consider the economy and consequences of change.
> If you had the chip in a lab you could do sidechannel physical attacks with lasers and liquid nitrogen

Wow, what do you do for a living if I might ask?
This concept of reviewing every line of OSS and copy / pasting the ones you agree with is really holding PHP dev back. Embracing dependency management is an important way to focus your codebase on your application code and is just a modern practice in all languages (https://12factor.net/dependencies). This is part of why JS (particularly node / isomorphic) is continuing to take over previously PHP marketshare. The actual (vs handwavey) security risks are low especially for popular projects.

In this case, if the datastructure or algorithm were useful to your project, you could:
1. Not use the algorithm / data structure at all, resulting in worse performance.
2. Hand roll your own version which is more likely to have improper implementation issues than an OSS version, likely resulting in performance or security issues and wasting your time.
3. Use the OSS version which is likely to have bugs / errors / security issues already solved.
yes a lot use tap water but they almost all invariable will go through a RO system and ozination and/or uv with some minerals added back in at the end for taste. the RO water with minerals tastes better to me than a natural spring water without that treatment. (used to work in water purification for a spell)
I can imagine it the other way round: "hey have you tried that new javascript framework? It only came out last week, it's pre-alpha but I already have it running in production. What? No, not a problem, I just chuck it over to ops and they keep it running".
Get a life. This is bullshit. My bet is you've never been out of the country. There is no equivalency between a Democracy and China's system.

You found an image for each idea. What I described was a society without Human Rights.
New York Attorney General Sues Dunkin' Donuts over Cyber Attacks
Anyone can link to their own getaddrinfo(), including an internal function, they don't have to use one from whichever libc happens to be laying around on the system.

In theirs, they read the DNS servers from the OS (like the original), and then if it's part of a list of known DoH providers, they try to connect over DoH before falling back to regular DNS queries.
Strange to hold such a position on a news aggregator like HN.
EDIT: I was going to respond to you then I realized your account is created on May 2018, so I decided not to.
This is about as credible as a press release from [name of a prominent engineering school redacted]. There is no evidence of any blueness in the pictures.