skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is true, there are stronger privacy protections in the EU in general. I don't consider the actions here morally justifiable, just legally.

As far as it being the actual password, a false positive AND the fact he had been creeping on a coworker at the same time seems extraordinarily unlikely to me.
In production code I do this too. The struct approach has various advantages (nice syntax, maintainable, shows the meaning of what you are passing, ..).

I like functional programming hence the blogpost, and I like that I can do this in Go. There are places where you might want to do this but I'm not going to advocate doing this _every chance you get_.

But hey, Go lets me write how I want and that's pretty cool!
iOS is so locked down you don't need such functionality. Implementing it would be impossible too, without jailbreaking, which probably defeats your purpose (security)
umm...let us suppose that instead of amazon producing the garbage, it's split among dozens of smaller companies. Would it matter. Economic activity will produce waste whether it is from a single company or multiple ones. it's just that amazon is a bigger target.
Can someone explain what "linked to" means in the context of a research study? Is it just a way to highlight correlation when it is insufficient to assert causation?
How has no one mentioned medical marijuana?
Unlike many members of my family who can fall asleep regardless of the circumstances, I need to feel sleepy/tired to sleep. I'm fairly fit, so getting to that state with a job that involves me sitting at a desk can be a challenge.

When I do sleep, I sleep pretty well, but getting to that state can be tough. I simply have to do some physical work each day to tire my body - otherwise, sleeping is near impossible. The gym is often not enough (and if I go in the evening, it actually wakes me up). I find I need to do something moderately strenuous and mundane, like carrying a few groceries for a mile or two, or maybe sweeping + mopping a few floors round the house or perhaps some DIY.

Also, if I'm unable to sleep, rather than trying to sleep, I find it's better to get up and do some work, even if means being in front of a screen. That knocks me out eventually!
It's not just chemtruthers and Assadists that are mad on Bellingcat. They stepped on plenty of toes elsewhere.
> Fast shipping

This is only if you have a Prime account. Otherwise it takes over a week for me to get orders that are two business days away. I believe this is deliberate on their part, as I experienced it multiple times.
I’m not convinced that a financial incentive is best aligned with the interests of the public, but I suppose it’s the best instrument we have.
This article is about the 737 Max, not about Airbus.
It's the one job that requires a phd so it's not weird
Yeah, throwing money at it could realistically bring this from just-around-the-corner FM to Actual Machines. Not quite there for COTS equipment yet, for cost-saving reasons (fast processing needs beefy HW, which is expensive in itself, needs higher and smoother power, cooling, etc.).
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There is a precedent for "flight envelope protection" for fly-by-wire airliners, which has been applied to all modern larger airliners except for the 737. (directly competitive A320, as well as A350, A380, 777, 787, 747-8, ...)

Small problems with the fly-by-wire system on the A320 get found and fixed on a routine basis. Bigger problems have been found in the past, but how to manage the risks in this kind of system is well known and that knowledge base was entirely ignored in the development of the 737 because Boeing couldn't be bothered to bring the 737 into the 1980s, never mind the 21st century.
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It can introduce worse than bias. My sister got seriously disillusioned about science when she found no beneficial effect of a particular ergonomic chair from a certain manufacturer that apparently funded the research, and then her professor pressured her if she really couldn't find some minor positive effect anyway.

Bias can become quite intentional when the funding of a project depends on finding certain specific results.
could this not just be a weird dude who happens to be funded by the Navy in some more mundane capacity, and therefore assigns patents to the Navy?
Thank you for blogging your notes on it!

Seems like an interesting meetup. How did you find out about it?
I agree that shyness is a huge factor. I don't think that I wrote or suggested that I'm laying responsibility for my shyness on others.

Shyness is a thing, and it can be hard to overcome. And harder still if you are shy and you are not a white male in a white male dominated community. If the community wants to be inclusive, it has some responsibility in communicating who is welcome and what is offered to help newcomers overcome their shyness.
It's absolutely right, but I'd argue we should still send mostly robots from the moon. There are enough people on Earth to look at interesting things in the returned data and seize the initiative once anything new pops up.
The difference is that there is media that is free enough to speak out about how the administration is lying. There are institutions that can resist, whoever little, and reveal the truth in some way. You have none of this in China. Companies, media, individuals, government institutions - all are beholden to the CCP in a way that prevents any kind of accountability, transparency and responsibility.

The US is currently a clusterfuck, yes. But if they were anything like China, the media would be in a blackout, thousands of political enemies would be sent to gulags and people across the board would be losing their jobs for speaking out.

To pretend that the US is in any way comparable is such an absurd distortion of reality, and really plays into China's narrative. Why criticize China if the US is just as bad ?
Well that makes me feel better AND worse about the one I filed a year and a half ago. (Drag events aren't dispatched at all on option elements in a multi-select, which is such a shame because a multi-select seems like the best native form UI for users to create orderings & permutations...)
The Atari Flashback consoles already exist for this reason, the last one even had HDMI and upscaling built in as well as the ability to run ROMs from an SD card. You don't need a Ryzen processor to run old Atari games.

I could see the appeal of them maybe designing the VCS as a SteamOS box in a cool woodgrain retro-styled case, even I'd be tempted. Stick an officially-endorsed emulator and ROMs on there and you're well away. But this talk of their own proprietary gaming platform? What developer in their right mind would want to develop games for such a small market?
It's not so out of character. Consider the recent disclosure that certain famous UFO video clips are genuine and show unidentified phenomena. Why would they disclose that when shutting up would work and was working?

The answer is they want to.

There are factions within the US government and it seems that the "tell them, but take it real slow" faction is presently in the ascendant.
> Even lovemaking is at risk, as artificially intelligent robots stand poised to enter the market and provide sexual services and romantic intimacy.

This perfectly encapsulates why I'm so skeptical of AI alarmists. They tend to boil down the human experience to such coarse terms that it undermines their legitimate issues.

> AI is a collection of passive silicon and metal. It does not speak. It has no mind. Like an ocean wave, it forms part of an ordered sequence of passive realities moved by an agency not its own

No, AI is a series of numbers. I just wrote about this misconception the other day [0]. It would be great if people stopped anthropomorphizing AI just because it has the word intelligence in it and humans are said to be intelligent

https://medium.com/ml-everything/artificial-general-intellig...
I tend to agree over all, I think there is some kind of disinformation campaign behind it. There very well may be some nuggets of truth in there - I wouldn't at all be surprised to learn the US govt has tech that would blow us away today - but I think they're heavily exaggerating things at the least.

At the end of the day, they're either trying to convince other world powers that we have tech we don't, or they're warning others that we do. The only other possibility is, as you suggested, some kind of hoax or prank.

Who knows where the truth really is.
This is the original article: https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/30256/scientist-behind...
A few pieces of advice based on running https://github.com/mozilla-services/autopush-rs, which handles tens of millions of concurrent connections across a fleet of small EC2 instances.

1) Consider not running the largest instance you need to handle your workload, but instead distributing it across smaller instances. This allows for progressive rollout to test new versions, reduces the thundering herd when you restart or replace an instance, etc.

2) Don't set up security group rules that limit what addresses can connect to your websocket port. As soon as you do that connection tracking kicks in and you'll hit undocumented hard limits on the number of established connections to an instance. These limits vary based on the instance size and can easily become your bottleneck.

3) Beware of ELBs. Under the hood an ELB is made of multiple load balancers and is supposed to scale out when those load balancers hit capacity. A single load balancer can only handle a certain number of concurrent connections. In my experience ELBs don't automatically scale our when that limit is reached. You need AWS support to manually do that for you. At a certain traffic level, expect support to tell you to create multiple ELBs and distribute traffic across them yourself. ALBs or NLBs may handle this better; I'm not sure. If possible design your system to distribute connections itself instead of requiring a load balancer.

2 and 3 are frustrating because they happen at a layer of EC2 that you have little visibility into. The best way to avoid problems is to test everything at the expected real user load. In our case, when we were planning a change that would dramatically increase the number of clients connecting and doing real work, we first used our experimentation system to have a set of clients establish a dummy connection, then gradually ramped up that number of clients in the experiment as we worked through issues.
scp manpage alludes to the feature of copying files between hosts without logging in, but I've never got it to work or seen it work until now. This functionality must've been introduced recently.
Why do programmers start counting at zero? (2013)
This link[0] seems to suggest that filing under a pseudonym is not possible. Full legal name, residence, and citizenship of each inventor must be provided.

And there are criminal penalties for knowingly supplying the patent office with false information[1]:

>1) All statements made therein of the party’s own knowledge are true, all statements made therein on information and belief are believed to be true, and all statements made therein are made with the knowledge that whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the Office, knowingly and willfully falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact, or knowingly and willfully makes any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations, or knowingly and willfully makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, shall be subject to the penalties set forth under 18 U.S.C. 1001 and any other applicable criminal statute, and violations of the provisions of this section may jeopardize the probative value of the paper; and ...

[0] https://www.dhuelaw.com/blog/2017/february/is-it-possible-to...

[1] https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s410.html
It used to be better, not anymore. I used to buy on Amazon first, but these days on Amazon I've had too many fake products, and refurbished products sold as new.

True, they refund easily. But I'd rather not have to return half of my purchases.
So it is being reused for irrigation!
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This is happening to a lot of European countries as well. The cost of rental homes/flats is getting higher and higher. Even social rent is at the point that it is often just below 50% of their net income (assuming 1 person with a fulltime job) not sure how that compares to the US. But it is a worrying thing overall that is happening in the western society.

I think it's generally recommended to be at 1/3 of your net income, which simply isn't doable in most areas here in the Netherlands.
How are the therapists at the lower rates otherwise?
Let us not forget SDI (Strategic Defence Initiative - aka StarWars) from the Reagan era.

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

Which, with how it panned out, does fit: "1) luring foreign militaries down blind alleys of expensive research" most aptly, albeit not put into the wild via a patent and more case of funky CGI graphics pushing a dream as reality.
There are a lot of skeptics that think this is conspiracy theory nonsense, but Lockheed has been open about working on fusion for a while and maybe some others too.

The tech could have been operational for twenty years and this is how they’re declassifying it.

Maybe they think world security will be better with this public, maybe the secret is already leaked, maybe they think a bigger advantage will come from having this commercially available, maybe this is useless for defense because it is trivially detectable, or maybe they’re filing patents to mislead adversaries on operational details and delay them, or maybe knowing how it works is unimportant because there is some impossible to acquire secret sauce . There are lots of ways to think about it, and obsessive grabs on technology secrets is not the only one.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/compact-fusion...
Let's ignore n for a moment, because it doesn't affect the chance of getting a more extreme result under the null hypothesis. And that's always a good thing to wonder about when you're looking at multiple comparisons.

They calculated 11 p-values, and got a significant result for two of them under α=0.1. We'd expect that that to happen about half the time if the null hypothesis is true.

(Realistically, they got a significant result on two numbuers that were both derived from the same measurement, which is less compelling than two unrelated ones. But I'm not sure how to model that, so, like any true armchair statistician, I'm going to handle it by ignoring it.)

I also did a hasty power calculation, and estimate that a study of this size could detect an effect as large as the biggest one they reported about half the time.

In summary: If there's no real effect, there's a 50/50 chance of getting a significant p-value out of this experimental design. If there is a real effect, still a 50/50 chance of getting a significant p-value.

Which hypothesis would I pick if I had to guess? Well, I'm sure this is also junk statistics, but the p-values sure look to me like they could have been drawn from a uniform distribution, which is what I would expect them to look like under the null hypothesis. Definitely not what I would expect them to look like under the alternative hypothesis, given that all these tests are trying to measure roughly the same thing.
Google have long supported those and others, which I'd called out back on G+. Much of the major Libertarian / Koch octopus / Atlas Network / Mont Pelerin front groups.

Exceedingly disappointing. Glad to see it getting called out.
I think the idea is that the convenience of Amazon causes economic activity that otherwise wouldn't happen. Personally, I've never bought any knickknacks off of the site, but I definitely see enough marginally-useful garbage when I am browsing to understand the parent's point.
A bit of a contrarian opinion. But nasa, whilst lauded for their achievements thus far. Due to the issues like:

- politics surrounding it

- regulations

- money dependent on jobs (think SLS program)

- ever changing goals (bush, obama, now trump)

Should now just be a research only facility and fully give the mechanics of space exploration to private facilities such as Space X, rockets and Bigelow for the habitats for example.

To clarify this more. Nasa should be given monies by the tax payer for various projects.

Invest in such projects that require 100 years to come to-fruition to projects that can be achieved within 10-25 years and absolutely no government interventions! Just leave them alone and let them to their glorious work.

They should be projects that the private sector can't invest in because it's too costly. That said however, they should also act in a VC capacity. That researcher that wrote a paper about newer modes of transport? Throw $10m at him, put a team around him consisting of nasa scientists and engineers and see what comes out of this. Do this for 10 or 100 ideas and we'll get a lot of inventions.

Finally for gods sake, the current budget is 0.49% of the total spend. Increase that to 5%. If all the current engineers dedicated to the failed SLS program and moon base machinations were reassigned on separate projects like :-

- vasmir ion engines

- portable space nuclear reactors

- simulating gravity without needing a spinning chassis

- solving the galaxic cosmic rays problem with space ships

(and I could go on...!)

Would be a total game changer.
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VLC "needs less" resources, but Chrome "has more" resources.

Anyway, "number of features" has not to do with "native".
Dev.to has a lot of promise, and I visit there occasionally.

I still prefer individual websites to blogging platforms, but Dev.to is the best such thing I've come across.
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That is also a really good way to spin failing to achieve something you tried really hard at,
The 'obligatory' was tongue-in-cheek to be honest, I should have add the /s suffix.
They're in bankruptcy proceedings, no? Hiring more staff in that situation might be difficult.

This is really a situation where bad incentives were created (because as far as I can tell the California state government is pretty bad at doing good incentives in general) and then people are surprised when they lead to bad behavior...
Palo Alto also has municipal utilities.

And the biggest, of course, is Los Angeles Department of Water and Power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Department_of_Wate...

PG&E seems to be particularly bad in terms of upkeep and frequent power failures. That is, the unintentional kind, not like the shutoffs this week.
It's a nice dovetail with American prudishness. The same utterance, with only a few words changed, could justify an anti-prostitution stance.
Maybe just a couple. If you google the StackExchange Hardware Setup, you will find they use surprisingly little Hardware. Back in 2013, they could go with 2 single webservers not accounting for failover reduncancy [0]. They have upgraded since, but still, if you consider the amount of hits they get, they run a pretty humble hardware [1].

One of the arguments I make when people say microservices + cloud built to the core is the only way to scale - clearly a cleverly architected approach can save you lots on hardware/hosting money.

[0]: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2013/11/22/what-it-takes-to-run-...
[1]: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
Found a “clever programmer club” member.
Yeah, bundling Pocket is not good, but if you don't use it I guess you're not being tracked? Or is there proof that it sends your info either way?

> resetting default search provider back to Google on updates
Never happened to me. Was this a specific update I might have missed?
> Bundling Pocket

Why is that a problem? I never got the furore over it. When it appeared, I removed the icon and just went about my business.

Annoying yes, but certainly not "shady". From what I understood / stand it was a mozilla app they included with the browser, not that different to how firefox comes with a bookmarks app.
Could you explain or post a link to something about #2? I’ve never heard of that before!
For real? Because people have been hired directly from Lambda School and App Academy to Google and one would get the impression that https://elementsofprogramminginterviews.com/ and leetcode would do, which is maybe six month’s work from a standing start.
Very good talk by David Braben about the original Elite where he describes tricks they used to cut the size: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1014628/Classic-Game-Postmorte...
> their results only show a strong correlative relationship

The paper's abstract says "The results suggest that a 10% reduction in daily PM2.5 and ozone could save $1.4 billion in crime costs per year, a previously overlooked cost associated with pollution." In my opinion this is a statement of a causal relationship, not merely a correlation.

I wonder why they didn't reverse that relationship, too, and propose that violent crime increases pollution.

I would love to read the actual paper, but it's only available to people with money.
Ask HN: How to get more familiar with cryptography?
I studied cryptography in an academic setting (and currently doing more advanced courses around it) and I work on software that directly deals with crypto operations. However, it feels like there's a disconnect between my understanding of crypto and its appearance in real-life situations.

Are there any ways to somehow bridge this gap?

I've been suggested to try out playing with FPGAs, implementing algorithms there (even knowing they'd be poor with lots of side-channel leaks etc).
Pretty much everybody in this thread is putting the blame on management. Man, no wonder SV is such a shitshow. Either all management is that retarded or all the developers eschew responsibility for their actions.
This may be the Glass Cliff: a tendency to appoint a female CEO to a sinking ship.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90206067/what-is-the-glass-cliff...
Google is trying their hardest to data mine you. Apple is data mining you... but it's not their main push.

Thus Apple is more secure?
Also the city of Santa Clara has no forested areas, avoiding the problems.

The Berkeley campus is up against the East Bay hills and so there are trees all over near the campus.
It ... Kinda is? The company started the project long before I showed up, continues to profit from the project, and is absolutely going to reap the rewards of refusing to maintain the stupid thing. This isn't about other people refusing to help with my favorite pet project, it's the company refusing to act and its own best interests.
Thanks for the recommendation for what3fucks. Entertaining a f.
“colleges and universities must find a way to allow those pursuing academic careers to obtain the basic goods that most people seek in life: marriage, a family, and a career to support themselves. The price of pursuing a life of the mind shouldn’t be the rest of one’s life.”

Wait, why is this the universities problem? If too many people want to get phds than our society can support, then less people should get phds. That or they’ll get stuck in the current academic grind.

Any PhD student should be well aware of the career difficulty that follows, particularly if they want to be a professor. There’s no lack of articles like this one pointing out that fact.

I got my PhD but went in well aware that I don’t want to go thru the ringer trying to be a professor. I’d love to be one, but not willing to sacrifice so much to be one.

So I choose to do industry from the start. The PhD wasn’t the most financially advantageous move but I loved it for the 6 years I was there and wouldn’t trade it for the “sunk cost”.
I'm a water resources engineer. In my experience, this is approximately enough water to supply 15,000 people on an average daily basis.