skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Wiggins and Brantingham specified and designed the chip entirely by themselves and without any approvals from anyone, according to Frantz. TI management had neglected to fit the project into any particular reporting structure, and that suited the four team members just fine. In Frantz’s estimation, the lack of “help” from management gave Wiggins and Brantingham the freedom they needed to figure out a successful design.

I am dying to know what was learned internally at TI after this regarding project oversight. I think we all KNOW that the way get things done is hand out the tools and get the hell out of the way. This seems to be the message at Skunk Works, Bell labs, Xerox PARC etc.

But when the pressure is on, your Big Corp is GOING to lay on the product, tech, marketing, etc etc governance, replete with timelines, KPIs, budgeting, accounts, timesheets, yada yada. This kills the project.
Do you really need that one external function though? At what point is it better to simply write it yourself?
Powerup 4.0 – Smartphone Controlled Paper Airplane
The point is not security though, but privacy. At its base privacy is obscurity.

Also you seem to advocate for every single individual to run a race against the rest of the world to not misuse their data. We both wish there was decent safeguards, I am way more pessimistic about any effective rights regulation though (I think it’s just way too hard for any legislation body).

Not saying nothing should be done on the elgal anr regulation side, but that it’s only a tiny drop in what is needed for us to preserve privacy.
It's a fair point for standard software engineering libraries, that the defaults should be obvious, but I don't think that it's possible to hold scientific libraries to the same standards. They require expert knowledge, and the assumptions you make about the models that are being used should be very carefully checked. There is no obvious defaults in that case because we're not writing software, we're building scientific models.

For example, look at the neural network classifier model in scikit-learn:
https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.ne...
None of these defaults can be assumed. If you showed me a function call with no optional arguments I couldn't tell you, nor anybody else that hasn't read the documentation, what activation is being used, what optimizer, learning rate, etc...
In fact when coming across these kind of models during code reviews the nature of these parameters is the first thing I ask about.
Your definition of ML engineer comes off as being a high-risk individual to have in an organization. I would rather split those into two separate orthogonal roles and have redundancy in my resource pool. It seems like a very difficult and scare resource to hire. How can Average Corp even think of hiring someone like that? Dead no from me.
PJON, decentralized networking made simple
Isn't the fear more about a man-in-the-room attack rather than weaknesses in the e2e?
AdNauseam and similar obfuscation mechanisms strongly remind me of Neal Stephenson’s ‘bogons’ he introduced in his cinderblock-sized (and eminently enjoyable) novel Anathem. In that regard, he appears to have been highly prescient: hiding signal in reams of random noise (and random meta-noise about both signal and noise). http://www.virtustate.com/fake-news-advertising-and-bogons-s...
>the Garmin panel goes to the next step of beginning an automated sequence of events that results in a safe touchdown on a runway, where it rolls the airplane to a stop, shuts down the engine, broadcasts a message on the local frequency that the airport is closed because of a disabled aircraft on the runway, and plays a video on the multifunction display that instructs the passengers how to open the door and get out.

This is amazing technology. Hats off to the developers at Garmin.
I think coding is already a tool for professionals to build things around their domain knowledge --- and this is already since 40 years, when the first programmable desk calculators came. BASIC was an enabler technology for scientists to programmatically approach their domain. Engineers, physicists, chemicists, etc could use it well without studying CS. In some way, a modern Jupiter notebook is just the equivalent of an average 1970s BASIC calculator with attached plotter device.

Where do we go? There always have been the frontiers of computing, this is where CS sepcialists are required. The old saying, that an IT guy works hard on making his own position superfluous, has always been a bit true in some sense. I don't think that's bad at all.

I which computer scientists would be aware of their competences but could acknowledge that they never gain as much domain specific knowledge as the experts they work together with. I've seen quite some computer science guys who thought of themselves like they could replace everybody. That's not quite true.
Sometimes your organisation installs Mcafee, you then proceed to install Firefox.
CBP officer withholds journalist’s passport TIL says he writes ‘propaganda’
Do you run in the morning or in the evening?
Boycotts say, "You won't get my money." How exactly are divestment any different? What _exactly_ makes them idiotic?
jnettop

Well, it has "top" in the name. ^__~
I would say that jnettop is more similar to nethogs than htop...
Because I shouldn't be seeing it in the first place.
New Tools That Tame the Treachery of Files
Here is the link of You want to check it Out:

https://github.com/tristangoossens/snake-go
How to Deploy a Website to Netlify
On the other hand if you are just a mostly normal guy with a dark secret, your normal life generates enormous amount of data and that's fairly easy to misrepresent the tiny bit you want to hide.

If you are an avid facebook, instagram, youtube, reddit, twitter user, it should be fairly easy to hide your plan for world domination on HN.
Of course. That's why I spoke in some detail about my dad above, but I did omit useful details.

Rural.
Long driveway.
Zero wired high speed options.

Comcast wanted ~$1200 to install wire.
I actually do live in a country where people expect you to have Whatsapp, both for personal and for business. And I still don't install it.
Yeah, they just used a terrible internal name for the feature they are removing, that makes it sound way more severe than it actually is.

Seems somewhat tone-deaf with one of the big criticisms of the project being their restrictiveness regarding add-ons.
In addition to this, many products come preinstalled as bloatware. McAfee products (amongst a hoard of other programs) have come preinstalled on Windows laptops I've purchased from Dell and Lenovo.
Logistic regression without regularization blows up if your data is linearly separable. This is an issue you don't really encounter with linear regression.

EDIT: Apparently this is getting downvoted. To explain a bit more clearly: if you know nothing about the data, then your default should be to run with regularization, since you won't get a useful result if the data turns out to be linearly separable. In the case of linear regression, it's often sensible to start with non-regularized fitting, since that won't mess up your coefficients. But logistic regression is quite simply a different beast altogether, and this is covered in any intro on logistic regression you care to consult.
Hi,

You are right about angular. We already have done 50% of the work, as we have the "customer" facing part done in angular 8 (https://github.com/alfio-event/alf.io-public-frontend).

In the next release (M3) we will convert the "admin" part too (we are targeting a new frontend built with angular material) :)
Yggdrasil[1] is a similar project that seems to be a bit more active, if you're interested.

[1] https://github.com/yggdrasil-network/yggdrasil-go
The whole article is nothing but conjecture.
We need dedicated Footer email field
Everyone reading business emails surely knows the pain of scrolling through an email thread. Usually there are a handful of one-line messages and a whole mess of company contact details, confidentiality boilerplate, logos and other crap. Can we introduce a Footer field to email standards, hide it in readers and put an end to the madness?
Period-Tracking Apps Say You May Have a Disorder. What If They’re Wrong?
Pegasus breach: India denies WhatsApp hack amid outrage
Steve Jobs Is Dead
Google Cloud Networking Incident #19020
Not really, you're still giving them the real signal.
If we agree that data will be collected whatever laws we put in place, under the same premises can’t we agree that it will be misused as well ?

Problem with laws to me is that they are only binding to some portion of the actors. Some government actors have a mandate to work around the law, and other organisations have divisions dedicated to avoid triggering these laws. Regulation is only part of the solution.
Is that page supposed to produce a speaker noise? It doesn't produce anything audible here (standard Firefox on Windows 10)...
And let's remember that nations are based on our ability to willingly forget our dark past

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_a_Nation%3F
Wow that was a waste of time reading it.
Hi, one of the devs here. I would like to clarify that this project has been developed as a side-project, it's not (at least, during that timeframe) our main work.

So don't take the time to develop a feature as a 100% full time work :)
This is such a great article - I’ve worked with linux for more than a decade and never really understood what “setuid root” actually meant or that “kill” is a builtin to Bash
I do not sleep very long (when I wake up, that it is; usually dingdong after 7 hrs) but when I sleep I sleep very deep. I had fitbit saying 80% deep sleep and my doctor told me to get tested for sleep apnea and other stuff but I just sleep very deep; they found nothing. I also remember dreams (I can lucid dream whenever I want; I spent a year training that when I was 18 and it is like riding a bicycle) very vividly.

I am wondering if the lucid dream training I did made my sleeppatterns like this; lucid dreaming is so much better than lsd or shrooms or games; it is free, does not harm anything and you can do anything you want (fly, infinite strength, immortal, ...) so I cannot wait to go to sleep every night.
Java Feature Spotlight: Local Variable Type Inference
You ever had your fingerprints taken without you knowing and consenting/ being under arrest?
I'm no expert in ML, but doesn't this paper basically argue for reintroduction of rule-based expert systems (though obviously what's going to happen is that rules are going to get so complicated that they're no longer sensibly interpretable) and has basically no useful suggestion for actually complicated (and successful) fields of ML like computer vision.

> when a new image needs to be evaluated, the network finds parts of the test image that are similar to the prototypical parts it learned during training

basically just waving away the complexity/black-box-ness of "computer vision" into the complexity/black-box-ness of "similarity".
Cool project. Why don't you mention pjon.org in the repo headline or readme?
I feel like I'm losing more and more faith in Reddit reviews/conversations.

As the site has been growing, I feel like there are increasesd amounts of astroturfing going on. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid, or maybe I've visited r/hailcorporate too many times. However, consider this - reddit is a huge website with a lot of reach, where it's free to post. Even better than that, you can control discussions if you're a moderator. This means you can advertise comparatively cheaply, in a way that looks genuine and reach a wide, desirable audience with your message.

Would you be surprised if there are whole businesses that specialise in creating positive content about brands on reddit? I would be shocked if there weren't.
It's not "purposefully convoluted", and I'm not talking about "normal development experience", but rather the larger amount of non-essential complexity it shows; and as anyone should be aware, complexity is always an opportunity for bugs, regardless of whether it's something you would see or write or even be aware of in the "normal development experience". Combine that with Apple's attitude of constant churn and it's not hard to see how bugs can multiply easily.

Using a C++ library from C is not hard because objects map to structures in a straightforward manner (and in fact early C++ compilers were C++ to C translators), and you would need to use structures anyway, unless the library was obtusely designed with nonessential complexity. That's how the Win32 API works too (with the exception of the bloated COM stuff.)
I don't think it's fair to call this a "backdoor". Because of E2EE the law enforcement access is limited to looking up IP addresses associated with whatsapp users and such.
> Why can't I use a version of the app that doesn't collect that data

Because that particular developer hasn’t chosen to offer you that deal. If you don’t like the deal vendor X is offering, don’t use vendor X. Particularly in the case of a phone app, you tend to have a lot of choice. If vendor Y provides you a deal you like better, why not use them?

You might find that vendors who offer those terms might bundle them with other terms you don’t prefer (like charging money directly for the app or service).
Honestly if I could pay Google to revert whatever they did to their engine $5 - $20 a month for better searching and absolutely no bubble or tracking WHATSOEVER I would. I would pay roughly the same to any competitor.

I just want to go back in time to where Google found the code I was looking for. Seems to be after they started filtering results strictly and trying to maintain a bubble around specific users.

I pay for a JetBrains annual subscription to all their IDEs I would gladly pay for a search engine that only filters out whats illegal to a reasonable extent (piracy filters shouldnt be extremely aggresive to where it cripples everything).
For intranet/companies you should use Group Policies to install extensions: https://github.com/mozilla/policy-templates#extensions
So the whims and popular beliefs of the masses decide what’s moral and immoral? If tomorrow society embraces organ harvesting from loving children, is it suddenly ok? Or is it always wrong irrespective of public opinion? If law doesn’t tell us what’s moral and immoral, what does?
How did you “train” for this and how do you make it happen on demand?
I think you're talking past each other a bit here.

Nothing the parent is discussing is regarding correctness, so I think your last sentence is a bit uncalled for.
Test Post, don't read
[Just trying to get my formatting right for who's hiring later!]

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Biology vs. Tech
>>Software development at scale is about much more than code. It's about maintaining relationships with people, being willing to trust other people can do good work without your input, and sharing responsibility for what you started.

Correct.

Worth noting that this holds true for everything at scale, not just software development.
I didn't say they should have done otherwise. I'm actually arguing in favour of private individuals/businesses being able to make the decision on what they sell and who they sell to.

I'm simply pointing out what is almost definitely hypocrisy on the part of these Github employees. Tech companies are usually more progressive, and no doubt these employees would object to a private company, such as a family run bakery, choosing who they sell to. When the Github employees are advocating for their own company to do just that.
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Personally, I currently believe that this research is quite probably bunk. There was a recent HN thread in which it was pointed out that some of the results of experiments involved might have been data processing errors. And then there's the most obvious confounding factor - peoples' reported reasoning may not be their true, or complete, reasoning, because people aren't always comfortable with revealing all the details.

But regardless of that, while post-hoc explanations may not be that good for building predictive models of behavior, observed behavior is. We generally know how people behave, and we know the expected variance due to individual and situational circumstances. Truly unexpected behavior is rare in society, and we tend to filter it out. Truly unpredictable people get locked up and/or are given medical help, but even less unpredictable people are tested and kept out of professions and activities where that unpredictability could cause problems.
Also known as "tools" or "equipment"...

Would you call an excavator or crane a "human-controlled robot"?
That's pretty neat! Good to know. Mine doesn't do it yet though. I'm also worried about discoverability if they don't give any indication that the camera has this feature.
The "Fresh Start" feature in newer builds of Windows 10 (1709-onwards if I'm not mistaken) will automatically remove these kinds of applications preinstalled on new systems.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s...
i was born in a communist country and lived thru the downfall of the USSR.
the level of censorship and control that we have now is nothing compared to what the soviets were doing.
that's why my impression of the paper is very negative. we're the generation that has the most access to information in history, we can travel like no other human generation travelled in history. and we have so much money and access that obesity is a thing.
and yet people still prefer to believe in myths and propaganda.
i wonder how will this pan out once we colonise other planets. i imagine the disconnect between planets will be much much greater than the disconnect we now have between countries/cities/etc
Most AV software patch dlls, or inject their own code into running browsers.
Ciao rapnie, you are right a link to the website is missing in the README. Thank you for your suggestion, I will fix it as soon as possible.
Oh! Sounds like this can help with keeping the setup in Ansible.
htop can do all (most?) of what iotop can.

Press S in htop and you can select to show i/o-related data, including number of bytes and number of operations in total and per second.

You will need to be root to look at most i/o related data.
Will Firefox stop copying Chrome's features that are hostile to power users at some point?
That's just Javascript...
Nice scenario for a horror movie when this robot gets hacked or remote operator replaced by somebody with evil intentions. We can’t secure our cellphones and bank accounts. A robot from a “move fast and break things” type startup will be even worse.
Facebook Launches News Service for Select Users
Tips and tricks for developing console games – Unite Copenhagen
They also work at the OS level or in kernelmode.
"We use explicit secret management software"

This is interesting. Can you go into more detail?
Kurds aren't a nation, they're different tribes. Have different views, speak different languages/dialects
What’s your background?

It seems the answers to these questions are either intuitive or irrelevant.

> - how is the fluid itself cleaned?

See the intuitive and imaginative answer would say something along the lines of white blood cells would consume the toxins.

How is bacteria during an infection cleaned? White blood cells consume them!

Why would this point even add to your discourse? It has no relevance. Either the fluid gets cleaned or it doesn’t. Either way there is a correlation between brain health and the fluid.

Also it’s not like a fucking snow globe. Or mouth wash. It’s not just a fluid reused and swashed back and forth.

Again, this is why I’m asking what your background is. Did you even read the article?
Maybe :) TBD!
For back-end tech, it's almost always a job board
I feel your pain, but I wouldn't underestimate our current situation. This is much much bigger than we think it is. Forget about fake news, election interferences or Russian propaganda. The reality is much more chaotic, complex and dreadful than that.
audible text worked right away from iphone to my webcam. ultrasound had some packet loss , it had to be really close to the cam.
https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/744595961217835008

His talks, particularly about superintelligence and automation, are also relevant.

https://idlewords.com/talks/
I've had a really annoying problem where various sites weren't rendering properly. In many cases you could see garbled mess instead of text, if I remember correctly. I eventually figured out that it was Avast side-loading an extension, without explicit consent I might add, that was causing this.
> Could you tell me why elites want to destroy nations?

Elites mess with the nations all the time in their own benefit but aren't a monolithic group

They could want to distroy nations by money and/or power displacement and control, and decens of cases are registered in history. They do it all the time.

Financed Coups d'etat in Latinoamerica or Borgias killing popes in the ancien Italy are just two examples
> security-minded service like signal.

There's no security-minded service which use Google services.
Kontena Lens (K8s Dashboard) Updated: Bring Your Own Prometheus
True, but the question was about books that are like the Feynman Lectures. MTW has similar tone and breadth, and a similar reputation for being useless for learning.

For actually learning GR, I prefer Wald.
Still a terrible title for a scientific paper.
There are different kinds of elite: nationalists or globalists/cosmopolitans
Importance of Chatbots in Banking Sectors
Oh if they'd said useful I would stay quiet. The word they used was powerful

I mean QR codes are just an encoded link, right ? What is the big deal ?
Google’s Network Congestion Algorithm Isn’t Fair, Researchers Say
Then it's not your computer. What I meant is "the owner of the computer installs (or uninstalls) mcafee at will".
Excellent feature. It's important to note that it's a good idea to have a copy of all of your devices' drivers before using it.