skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excerpt:

"Do you still trust your processor?

The security of programs and operating systems is based on the security of the hardware on which they are deployed. As a rule, software developers do not take into account the fact that the hardware on which their software is deployed may be untrusted, harmful. When iron behaves erroneously (regardless of whether it is intentional or not), software security mechanisms are completely depreciated. For many years, various models of protected processors have been proposed: Intel SGX, AMD Pacifica, and others. Nevertheless, the enviable regularity with which information about critical failures (from recent ones, such as Meltdown and Specter) and the detected undocumented debugging functions — leads to the idea that our selfless trust in processors is groundless."

===END EXCERPT===

Phrased another way: If the hardware isn't secure, then the most secure software -- ISN'T...

Which relates to the User Agreement -- of every single social network, online service and website (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google, etc.).

If they promise user privacy, then they promise user privacy based on their part of the software stack, which may comprise several or more vendors, and must include the underlying hardware.

If just one of those parts, such as the hardware, is flaky "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link" -- then so is that guarantee, so is that CONTRACT that they made to their end-users... In other words, they are "guaranteeing" something that they cannot know to be true across all machines and configurations, and if they cannot know it to be true, they cannot guarantee it...

Which in turn may open them up to future class-action lawsuits.

Also... think philosophically for a moment... would these companies have became as successful as they are, if they would have advertised, in plain and simple english, on their user sign-up pages, something like "HEY, WE CAN'T GUARANTEE YOUR PRIVACY - Would you still like to sign up?".

And now think about stock prices, which exist as a valuation by a market given relative to the ability to keep and maintain profitability from users... would those stock prices have been the same had each company been up-front with its users from the beginning?

Corporate Integrity it seems, at least in this case, is contrary to profitability...
Yeah but Mailchimp makes lots of money
> In an email reviewed by Motherboard, an HR representative told Jennifer, “your situation could never be planned for so would never be communicated,” and “all normal situations don’t fit your situation.”

Jennifer was told that because she couldn't plan for the tragedy, Informatica would renege its promises. Perhaps Informatica should plan a bit more about what happens when you have incoherent policies and treat human beings as disposable resources.

edit: updated for clarity
I will recommend anyone curious to know why the stubble burning issue has become this serious only in recent times, to have a look at Shekhar Gupta's (a well respected journalist) analysis from couple days ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAnSS6rdJCA

Tldr - Stupid laws trying to tackle heavy water consumption in the dry months forced farmers to grow paddy 6-8 weeks later which then left them little time to get the fields ready for next harvest and hence burning stubble seems like a quick option (with no consequence to them).
But this isn’t a lock pickable by the government, so there can’t be anything wrong.

Instead it’s just a lock the reports who visits your house and can choose not to allow some people in.
The post you're replying to is presumably a high income left-leaning voter from the way they phrased the comment. They're literally expressing what you say doesn't exist quite clearly.

And anyway your own candidate in 2016 famously called everyone that didn't agree with her "deplorable", and it's a common theme throughout left-leaning high income coastal communities to look down on those hicks in flyover country who are too dumb to vote democrat -- you realize the right didn't dream those up, right?
Do these people just sit around and spend time coming up with ways to screw others over? How the fuck is this thing even legal, let alone ethical? Makes me so mad
Upscale 1080p anime to 4K in realtime with WebGL
I think you meant how well the pig paints. [1] [2]

[1] https://pigcasso.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/7.jpg
[2] Also, I am not affiliated with anything in particular that has been mentioned, or with the pig.
What is the worst documented open source project?
There are (sometimes) great or interesting open source project but with poor documentation. I would like you mention example of this kind of problem.
At Google Cloud the 20% time is just a recruiting tactic. Once you join you'll find out that it should be on top of your existing 100% FTE.
https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/looking-around-corners/ov...
I had a baby that died. It was an excruciating experience and nobody around us knew what to do or say. From personal experience I can say it should be treated as a grave mental health issue and companies should be forced to provide a great deal of leave to both parents.

Whether leave is paid or unpaid, this should be treated in the same way as any disability or health related leave. IMHO it would be cheap for companies to simply buy infant life insurance for all employees and pay out $25,000 or so if this horrific thing comes to pass. That would help everyone at a reasonable cost since infant deaths and still births are so rare these days.
I've had it for long enough that I am not sure.

I think my best bet would be to install OpenWRT on the AP and sell + replace the USG. Not sure with what. It'd be kind of cool if I could have a router running NixOS so I could keep the configuration declarative, but pfSense is the obvious preferred choice in the community, so maybe I will just get a device designed to run pfSense.

I dunno if messing with tech support will really "send a message," so I will just send feedback through the regular channels. Chances are, it will get ignored. Chances are pretty much anyone that isn't a huge customer doesn't matter.
You have a position of power in a system. A position that gives you a good salary, power over your fellow citizens, recognition and social status.
You're probably going to identify yourself with the system, and thus, some level of bias pro-system is very, very likely.
Lol is that a thing? Say the alphabet backwards?
It's basically modified form of communist centralized control of the economy and closer to feudalism than it is American style crony capitalism and regulatory capture.

Although I can see how someone could mistake the two, the former is far more obvious form of corruption, while the latter is wrapped in language like 'saving local x industries against foreign competition' or well intentioned liberal equalization that always somehow ends up benefiting the politically well connected over the wider society, trading one problem for worse ones.
USB isolators (single port) can be bought cheaply on eBay but may be bandwidth limited. They use a small isolated DC-DC brick and a USB isolation chip, probably with internal isolation capacitors to get the signals across
YES.

Dimensional analysis and a basic understanding of metric prefixes. Again, this is just ass-u-me'd to be well understood by all.
Hypothetically, there's nothing to stop some useragents from "blessing" certain libraries as common enough to justify shipping them with the useragent and satisfying requests for them locally. That could leak details on useragent, but none that shouldn't be available from the http headers anyway.

But I suspect this will be unnecessary; even the bandwidth-constrained use case is getting to be more bandwidth every year.
"The whole arrangement is about control, preventing workers from having the time or energy to build competing enterprises, develop skills beyond a certain level,"

No, it really is not this at all.

The 5 day work week is a result of a reduction from the 6 day work week which and it's mostly derived as a standoff between organised labour and the capital class. It's the big entente.
Are we ignoring Gen Y?
The other big unknown is what happens to prices when population starts growing.

Much of investing common wisdom is based on the assumption of a steadily growing population. The reason land prices generally rise is because there is a growing number of property buyers chasing a fixed amount of land; this means that the higher-income buyers buy up the land and the overall price rises. The reason stock prices rise is that there are a fixed number of oligopolist markets in the economy (competitive markets like restaurants & hairdressers rarely take investment), and an ever-increasing number of savers looking to earn a return on their money. If you start shrinking the working-age population, the price of land falls dramatically (most people end up inheriting a house from their parents; if they don't, there are several people that inherited multiple houses that they have no use for and are looking to convert into cash). The bargaining power of labor increases dramatically, pushing down corporate profits, but it also means fewer buyers for capital stock and more people trying to sell it to meet their daily existence needs.

The last time this happened (in the wake of Black Death, where 30% of the world's population died), the social system that had been in existence for a millenia collapsed. Serfs were able to demand better wages and working conditions for their labor. Increased bargaining power led to the guild system of the early Rennaissance. Increased saving power led to systems to manage pooled capital (like fractional-reserve banking and the corporation) and to the rise of the mercantile and capitalist classes. The big losers were the landed aristocracy, who found that the land they owned just wasn't worth as much in this new world.
She got six weeks instead of eight. How dare they. She could've applied for more days based on her psychological state.

Also how dare they not pay her commissions earned by her team while she was away.

I think the tone is all wrong here. Economically, it makes sense to "discriminate" against pregnant women, so the discussion should be more "Here's why you shouldn't do it" and less "How dare you do it!".

Just my $0.02 as a woman.
I am also a bereaved parent, although my child died at age 25. I utterly agree about the grave mental health issues being caused in the parents.

May peace be unto you.

(Ping me if you want info about an organization called "The Compassionate Friends" specifically for bereaved parents.)
FYI about these two websites that demonstrate the various data your browser shares:

https://browserleaks.com/

https://webkay.robinlinus.com/
Sadly, that 'data' will be used in a manner (most likely) inconsistent with any rigorous scientific underpinnings - but passed to policy makers as such.
I also experienced the gigabit performance issue (Debian 9 and 10, APU4C4); estimate a bandwidth cap of about 400 Mbps, too. I don't actually have a need to exceed that speed on my home network, so I'm still happy. But also curious if anyone has built a beefier, more capable open source hardware router that also isn't a power hog.
Interestingly, Google is slower with an adblocker. Probably has to do with the slight overhead that uBlock Origin adds. For most sites, it’s a net positive with all the trackers and ad networks sites load. However, for sites with little or no trackers/ads it just adds a bit more processing time.

https://webtest.app/?url=https://google.com
The Case of the Missing Barrels (2017)
> Discrimination is particularly flagrant in Silicon Valley, where women hold just 5 percent of leadership positions.

This is particularly inflammatory. Just because women hold 5% of leadership positions, it doesn’t mean discrimination is the cause (or sole cause).
There aren't enough details in the article for me to know what's going on here, but my first thought was "the commissions are being paid to whoever is leading the team in her absence". The crucial (and unanswered) question is whether she would have received commissions which she "didn't earn" based on work her replacement did in her absence.
Don’t forget how they “cling to their guns and religion.”
Agreed. The main point is that a CS degree is not a proxy for success in all things that require code. I like to keep in mind that a BS in CS only demonstrates the ability to study, memorize and be quized on your memory. Using a set of axioms to build something unique is totally different.
It's absolutely a conspiracy theory.

The 5 day work week has a historical basis and it has nothing to do with 'keeping you from a side job', nor do most managers concern themselves with these kinds of issues whatsoever - other than leaking company IP or working for a competitor etc. - but those are knowledge worker issues that having nothing to do with most jobs.

The conspiracy theory doesn't even make sense considering the vast majority of jobs are things like: 'truck driver' 'school teacher' 'nurse' 'construction worker' 'accountant' 'retail banker' etc..
Just in case there are other bereaved parents (of whom I am one) reading this. I want you to know about an organization called The Compassionate Friends, composed solely of family members of a deceased child.

https://www.compassionatefriends.org/

"You need not walk alone."
Companies have been enjoying historically easy access to capital for years now. In fact, that was the prescription and treatment to remedy the GR to good results for corporations.

Just look at the recent IPOs. We had one go sour and it highlights how rare those occurrences are.
My guess is that self-driving cars are basically a meme at this point and that people believed a self-driving thread would detract from the discussion.
Nah, I don't think so. Most rules come about because one person, at some point, abused the policy, and so the company tries to make a more explicit rule to prevent the abuse in the future.

I don't know the specifics of this case, but maternity leave is absolutely something that has been abused. My spouse worked with a woman who got hired while she was pregnant, had the baby and took advantage of the company's extremely generous paid maternity leave, and then came back in and quit on her first day back. From the company's standpoint, this hire was simply a cash giveaway and a huge loss.
If a PKI key exchange over classical layers is still required, this device is probably functions solely as a show piece. It's amazingly compact, so that is a good place to make a mark in the industry.

A classical binary en/decryptor chip that destroys the private key on first failed use would do essentially the same thing at considerably less cost.

Now that they've made this so small, does it mean current quantum chips are soon to be obsolete? What about the refrigeration?
I agree; and yet, here we are, with people attempting exactly that and going to frankly ridiculous lengths to do so - apparently, in an earnest effort to do real work. How did we end up here?
>The simplest possible way to implement this: local hash matching. In this situation, there’s a full CEI hash database inside every client device. The image that’s about to be sent is hashed using the same algorithm that hashed the known CEI images, then the client checks to see if that hash is inside this database. If the hash is in the database, the client will refuse to send the message (or forward it to law enforcement authorities).

The image could be scanned when it's received, and not when it's sent. That way you can't use hacked clients to send forbidden images.
You need to get out of the city from time to time. I've done plenty of business where one or both parties were packing, yet no threat of violence, no sense of coercion.
Many sites are slower with an adblocker. Some have a multiple second timeout waiting for a script or ad/analytics package to never load.
> This is dangerous though. You might unknowingly become a victim of vendor lock-in.

The simplicity of the individual services means it's easy to compose within a cloud, but it also means (particularly when the fundamental problem concept each is directed at is similar) that it is easy to abstract from a particular cloud by composing the solutions from separate clouds for the same problem behind a shared abstraction layer.
Ok then here, buddy!

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603314/new-camera-can-see...
Warren's motivation behind breaking the Googles of the world up is to .... wait for it, ensure that the already overpaid tech workers at Google, get paid "free-market" wages, because if Warren is known for anything these days, it is for fighting for the pay-rights of Google employees
Berlin court used Windows 95, hit by virus, now uses typewriters&fax (German)
I just think people’s address and email shouldn’t become public information just because they voted or donated.
> No Indian government will openly fine farmers

Why aren’t the farmers’ interests balanced by the afflicted voters?
Good software is written like this. Joe could not be more sharp on that.
I did the exact same thing at my current company. I created a ticket system integrated in Slack where employees can quickly open a new issue and put a tag on it.
A ticket is created in HelpScout where out IT support team follow up.
Works 100% of the time and had zero downtime so far (around 2 years on production).
No need for new features. It just works.
Ask HN: Recommended Project Management Introduction
As a technical lead, I'm not a project manager but I'm working with them and I am increasingly exposed to project scheduling, costs, risk management, etc. My background is completely technical (BS Math+Physics, PhD Engineering: I work in mathematical software and HPC), but I'd like to learn more so I can be conversant with PMs and understand how they view the world.

I'm a voracious reader but I would also be interested in MOOCs, online resources, etc. Anything that can give a perspective on managing and leading large scale projects with complicated interdepedencies.
Say you write some code that increases conversions by 0.01%. Thats worth 10 bucks to momandpop.com compared with millions to Amazon. No wonder that programmers can make more at Amazon.
I love websites like this—online museums which catalog relatively-mundane items. It reminds me that these "mundane" items actually have a lot of history, and I'm sure a lot of interesting stories from those who worked on them.
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A strong reason for an altruistic vote is precisely that you might end up needing it yourself someday.
Private profits, public costs.
Not constant? (jk)
This is a fair point - it's hard to predict the future with our current technology given the difficulty of envisioning future technology.
Safari on iOS really is total garbage. Everything this person said is true, but he forgot a few things: It's really inconsistent. Adding a webpage to the homescreen usually makes the experience even worse as apple usually have two webkit versions for iOS. One for browsers and an even worse one for pages added to the homescreen.

Not only that, but the browser is so insanely full of bugs, with race conditions, keyboard that won't show up if you press the address bar (requiring people to quit the browser), scroll that isn't always working and so on. The amount of strange bugs are really impressive.
This might be a place where we have to agree to disagree.

I guess the stark quality difference I've experienced made me assume everyone had a similar experience.

I'm glad people find ddg useful, I want it to grow (I'm using it despite the fact that I personally find the results inferior)
Adblock Plus sells whitelist entries to companies, so I wouldn't use that anyway.
I mainly block ads with the hosts file, works fine for 99% of all ads. Although I still also run uBlock Origin to get rid of all the annoying popups and banners as well. Now the only thing I'm missing is a filter that blocks all videos from even loading(because turning off autoplay does not work on many sites).
Which countries do you mean by easter EU?
I would understand if you mean former USSR, but EU countries?

I don't see such things in Poland (which is in central Europe - Europs center is in the center of Poland, but some Westerners think it is in Eastern).
For me, I think that no matter what terms are used, the important point is that we don't automatically give "our" oligarchs, or Very High Net Worth Individuals, some sort of free pass on ethics simply because they aren't post-Soviet kleptocrats.
I'm not entirely convinced breaking up Big Tech will be a net benefit, in fact that position weakened my support for Warren.

But then again, I also don't work for a FAANG (I do work for a big corporation, and they don't need broken up, they're imploding just fine on their own), so I wouldn't be included in that statistic anyway.
When I was first playing with Raspberry Pi clones, one of the ways you could talk to them is over USB, which would have been great for control plane traffic. I was miffed to find that none of Anker’s products were simultaneously USB hubs and chargers. I just figured that was a feature. There are many other options now but at the time I wasn’t satisfied with them for some reason.

I ended up waiting for later models with more bandwidth before trying again. Power over USB is a much more compact and reusable pile of equipment.
Thank you for articulating this in ways in which I cannot.

A lot of people (though not everyone) have the opportunity to go to university (typically only once in their lifetime), to learn more about the mysteries of the universe, or about complex humanities, or about our history, art and anthropology, all of it from the leading experts in those fields. The fact that so many people seem to end up doing their subject because they think that's what they need to get a job to start a career they may or may not even have 10 years down the line seems a little sad to me.
I'd assume there would be some physical recovery, but agree that while tragic, bereavement is more appropriate.
Gen Y and Millenials are the same thing (at least that's how I've always understood it):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
but it's not:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-super-rich-elite-have-...
Someone posted this here long time ago - http://njparcels.com/

I believe the entire site is built on public data. This has info like voters, broadband, sales record etc. On one hand, it is impressive to build a site like this, from a software/data perspective. On the other, I'd be annoyed if my name, age and voter details are shown like this.

But then, credit score companies leak much, much more sensitive data with zero consequences. Suddenly public property records seem like a much smaller problem
The Linux kernel used to be a bootable MBR image, but I believe support for this was removed at some point.

I used to build custom Linux kernels for rescue floppies that had no boot loader and a bundled rescue initramfs at an ISP back in the late 90s. They booted very quickly despite being 3.5" floppy disks, it was kind of epic for the time.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-i386-Boot-Code-HOWTO/bootsect.ht...

Edit: It looks like 2.6.23 is when it vanished as part of the arch/i386/* -> arch/x86/* migration:

Present @ 2.6.22:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

Gone in 2.6.23:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
I know of one that's essentially like that [0], but like you suggested - it only fires on user action, not programmatic update.

(The examples here are for buttons and sliders, but it's the same syntax for input fields)

[0] http://rebol.com/docs/easy-vid.html#section-20