skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what about non IBM keyboards ? I remember seeing wildly different keyboards at my father's job.
> Why aren't there smart locks on every home that unlocks with the app?

AirBnB is reportedly pressuring hosts to install smart locks, but they are getting pushback from hosts who like socializing with the people who come to stay at their property. Yes, a huge amount of AirBnB listings are faceless property developers now, but there is still a good slice of individual families renting out a spare flat. Sometimes the host is an elderly person who craves that kind of interaction with other human beings (which can be awkward as a guest when you just want to quickly lock yourself in the rental and have some time alone).
While yes, that would work, we were talking about hosting things yourself at home.
My cat is awesome and cool and wicked smart. Sometimes he isn't interested in hanging out but otherwise he is incredibly friendly. He programs with me at least a couple hours a day sitting with his rear on my lap and his upper body on the desk in between my typing arms. Our communication is great too, he knows how to ask for food, water, to go outside, for upset tummy rubs, and to play. He has as much character as any well adjusted dog.
Thanks for all the work, Guido. Your work made my career!
Hah, maybe. And maybe we die every night when we go to sleep and are only deluding ourselves into thinking we're the same person who went to sleep. But ultimately "dead" is a matter for us living beings to define, the universe itself has no notion of elan vital that discriminates between the living and the dead.
You don't have to be afraid of Kubernetes
For image processing them being from 2013 doesn't matter all that much: they're more than sufficient. As to why Mac, let me try to offer a guess: Apple ships Core Image, and they've sunk close to 2 decades of hard work into it by now. This is why there are two dozen "photoshop alternative" image editors on the Mac and a lot fewer (and poorer quality) on Windows.

So the benefit is, you can just use the API and get state of the art quality without spending three person-months tuning and debugging each and every op.
Always disappointing to see counties used for comparison. Also disappointing to see totals instead of per-capita values.
This is the human version of the philosophical Ship of Theseus[0] question.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
I'd imagine that it begins well before that with Requirements Management: probably more important than any other single thing since that drives the entire development process.

Anyway, I'm sure there used to be a blog for the Dreamliner test team, but I can't find it now, so here's this instead: https://www.wired.com/2010/03/a-look-inside-the-brains-of-bo...

And specifically for code, look here: https://ldra.com/aerospace-defence/standards/misra-cc/

and (JSF, not commercial) https://www.f35.com/about/life-cycle/software
If you watch the alphastar games inhuman speed and accuracy are a big part Of why it is so successful
Right, but then you wouldn't be hosting it at home anymore, which is what we were talking about.
In this case DI seems to be compensating the lack of a proper module system as in SML.
The title's a bit clickbait. He was one member of a panel in one segment of a fairly dull and sparsely attended investment conference. It took me ages to track down when he even appeared but here it is for what it's worth:

Program: https://futureinvestmentinitiative.com/en/programs/solving-t...

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UWx1hbhpOU&feature=youtu.be...
Introducing Certera
One day they will release calendars
The contributed $45B of the $100B in the fund
It varies on the cat so much as well, I've got two (brother and sister), girl cat ignores food and comes for cuddles before going and eating, boy cat largely ignores my existence except when he wants feeding except when I'm ill then he'll come sit on me, half a dozen times in last 6 years.

Girl cat is ridiculously affectionate, she has to be on or near me or she cries.
Is backing up still a thing? I prefer to keep my laptop stateless:

* I use Ansible to configure a vanilla Ubuntu 18.04 into my workstation [1]

* I keep everything that is "source code-y" in some Git repo

* I keep non-source-code-y stuff in Dropbox or Seafile (both have a restore to previous version)

I prefer everything else to be lost (e.g. some AWS, K8s credentials).

I wipe my laptop between customer projects and it works great.

[1] https://github.com/cristiklein/stateless-workstation-config
That's the thing. If you exist as one consciousness, then they copy the other while the first dies, the second is, essentially, the same consciousness. Therefore, you are still alive.

I feel like this has been discussed somewhere already in history.
This seems like a disinformation campaign aimed at diverting attention from the fact that the governments of the human rights activists, human rights lawyers themselves used pegasus from NSO to target them.

Many of the Indian activists, journalists, lawyers who were targeted are working for low caste victims of false cases filed against them. John from Citizen Lab personally called them and told 'Your government attacked you'[0].

If anyone from Citizen Lab/WhatsApp is reading this, please corroborate with evidence that the governments themselves spied on its citizens when these activists sue them in court.

[0]: https://scroll.in/latest/942218/nagpur-lawyer-notified-by-wh...
Google Discourages Culture Fit in Hiring with ‘Googleyness’ Update
IMO, it's mostly a popularity contest. Apple is well-loved and people want to make excuses for them whereas Blizzard has been getting a lot of negative PR for a couple years now and this new outrage is just a natural fit for Blizzard's already strained public image.

I think it's easy to argue that Blizzard's actions were more egregious, but at the same time Blizzard as a company is also much less important from a cultural perspective (i.e. Blizzard is a popular gaming company whereas Apple operates the most influential application platform on the planet)
For starters, the issue isn't remotely as rampant for men as it is for women who routinely (i.e. multiple times a day) receive unsolicited sexual advances offline and online in the form of dick pics. It's also much easier for a man to physically take advantage of a woman than vice versa, so women would naturally feel much more threatened by this behavior. Men's inboxes just aren't constantly getting filled with unsolicited nudes, and those that are received rarely cause men to feel concerned that it could lead to real aggravated sexual assault.
Dozens of tech companies around the world that were established in the last 4-5 years were done so entirely for the purpose of being fronts for spy agencies to engage in the vast collection of data.

This extends also to shipping, licensing, and auditing companies.

One example is https://www.pacificbasin.com/en/fleet/fleet.php

Somehow they’ve managed to assemble the worlds 2nd largest cargo fleet in terms of dry weight tonnage, all verifiable on https://marinetraffic.com btw, and yet they appear on NO LISTING ANYWHERE for the top 100 cargo companies.

That company is a front for the Chinese military, because if you do a reverse WHOIS search you will see http://pacbasin.com was also registered by the same organization...it is an autonomous drone hardware and extended flight operations firm. There is more to say there, but I will leave it at that.

Other firms that have been espionage operations since day one, or were acquired at some point and repurposed as spy outfits. This list includes both Western and Eastern powers:

NSFOCUS Global

psychz.net

mimecast.com

terra.net

protonmail.com

creditkarma.com

ipvm.com

ClearDDOS

Neuvector

Multacom

HighWinds

Black Oak Computers

IT7 Networks

Ramnode

Gorilla Servers

Digital Core

InMotion Hosting

Choopa

LeaseWeb

StackPath

Voxility

Perfect International
Which is hilarious and hypocritical, since the government keeps talking about making end-to-end encryption apps illegal to distribute without backdoors. Now they're using an encryption app with a backdoor,* and they're upset about it? I thought this is what they wanted!

*I know, I know, this probably wasn't done with a backdoor -- it's just funnier to lie in this context.
How to Lead a Software Project
One reason is that it's not true. Corporations are limited in their ability to say "screw the shareholders", but they aren't required to be unethical whenever they stand to make a profit from it.

Even apart from that, it just seems like an overly reductionist perspective. Why couldn't an honest commitment to act ethically help the bottom line?
If you have Matlab code that's mostly expressed in matrix multiplications, porting to Fortran 95 or newer is quick (a lot of copy-pasting even) and makes your stuff fast and compiled.
At this point, I think they're just waiting out the x86_64 patents and want to release their own core.
But I thought WhatsApp was end-to-end encrypted?
except the dog would have had the potential to maul and kill you
The asymmetry of the platform is really my biggest gripe. Hosts & AirBnB themselves have basically no way to lose money on the platform and are laughing all the way to the bank, while users can be left with nowhere to stay 5 minutes before check in, and be forced to pay 2-20x what they paid for the AirBnB to get a comparable place last minute. It's absolutely fucked, and it's the same deal for most major corporations.
Also Keybase
And Telegram (need to enable e2e for a given conversation, though)
Vaguely connected to this conversation now, the Daystrom Institute subreddit is one of my most favorite things that exists.
something is unclear to me - by 'how is it unacceptable', are you asking how people could possibly disagree?
And there are plenty of low end hotel chains, e.g. Motel 6, that I assume are doing OK. But I also assume they offer some base level of crappy quality (in addition to things like a 24 hour desk and no question that they're actually allowed to rent the room.)
Bloomberg spreading disinformation? Impossible!/s Reminder that Bloomberg reporters get bonuses if their stories move markets[0].

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/bloomberg-reporters-compensa...
Very cool. Thanks for the explanation. It sounds useful!
Really cool! As a Go noob, I love the comments everywhere.
How would you efficiently keep continuously updated complex metrics (aggregations, windowed functions, etc) calculated on top of unbounded/streaming data using a database? I'm not saying that Spark is the ideal solution, but there are a set of problems that require tools such as Spark.
> When a hard drive is retired, authorized individuals verify that the disk is erased by overwriting the drive with zeros and performing a multi-step verification process to ensure the drive contains no data.

Thanks. I guess the reason is to avoid future decryption due to either a new crypto attack or to avoid being vulnerable to potential errors in key generation.
He meant that the owner can cancel for free, while if the renter wants to cancel they will most often end up paying a fee. The wording confused me too for a minute.
You only need excess dexterity than your opponent, and only for a couple seconds, to decisively win a match in SC2.

Error rates, EPM and APM are all red herrings.
>You want folks with money to have “more free speech” and don’t see anything wrong with that?

Yes, I don't see anything wrong with that.

If I choose to print 1,000 flyers to hand out, I am using money to amplify my voice. Do you see anything wrong with this?

Facebook Ads are no different.
I have an idea: there are a couple of these already, pretty fun to play. There could be a service, in which you can SSH into then play these games! with scoreboards, forum, discoverability and stuff. It would be a pretty niche product/service, but would be fun to build and play!
It could be the steam of modern terminal games :D
Depending on the complexity of the geometry this is within the realm of reason. Fairness might not be a huge issue as long as you make sure visibility is a two way street. People will probably complain about high latency players popping into existence after they're already most of the way around a corner though.
The article claims that "a flaw in WhatsApp-owned servers" was used to "take over users’ phones".

This seems to imply that the hackers were able to escape from the WhatsApp mobile app to perform other actions on the phones.

How would this be possible?

Or is this just likely careless journalism, and the exploit was that the server breach allowed the attackers to exfiltrate WhatsApp data only?
Got it, thanks for clarifying!
Why I'm sort of leaving Linux
Thats really funny because a friend of mine used to work there and always talked about how all the internal very classified communication was done via whatsapp!
Questions from their fans about their behaviour. You don't get to have a public, paid for, where you get to interact in a way that is positive to you.

If your fans want to ask why you are betraying the values you espouse, then they're gonna ask it. And this is not harassment.
Since they instituted the communist economic system that makes it impossible to save capital by draining the purchasing power of the currency at an exponential rate the working class has been on a steep downhill decline. I think it is pretty obvious at this point the experiment has failed.
>Why couldn't an honest commitment to act ethically help the bottom line?

Well if it did you'd think corporations would act ethically, whereas reality says otherwise and they don't unless forced by government or public pressure. The world's totally fucked right now because of corporate greed.

Every day I read a new story about how some corporation is acting completely and utterly unethically. It

https://www.hoover.org/research/what-purpose-corporation

>There are two levels of corporate duties to shareholders. First, corporate boards and officers deal at arm’s length with outsiders, and here, their responsibility is governed by the so-called business judgment rule, which protects them against suits by shareholders so long as they follow appropriate procedures in reaching a decision and act in good faith to maximize shareholder value. This rule both constrains corporate insiders but also protects them from liability if their good faith efforts turn out less well financially than expected. Indeed, if officers had to make good on every loss that occurs when deals go sour, no one would take on such roles. And second, whenever corporate officials enter into any kind of self-dealing transaction, the standard of care is much higher, given the conflict of interest. For such transactions, insiders must analyze whether corporate shareholders received “fair value” from the transaction.
Spark is specifically useful for querying streaming data. How would a distributed database help with that? You'd have to build your own stream executor on top of that.
> “All right. He’s dead. Go ahead and talk to him.”

https://www.gregegan.net/DISTRESS/DISTRESS.html
relevant: https://pretix.eu/about/en/ , which is used e.g. by the 36C3
The trouble with indiscriminate tree-planting in Africa
RMS Titanic (1912)
Nukes are legal as long as you have enough of them. Isn't that how the game is played?
Establishing, maintaining, and handling the inevitable connection issues of the data connection necessary to remote pilot an aircraft is a lot more work than integrating a "best route" algorithm with existing autopilot features, automated radio communication, and calming cockpit UI.
E2E provides protection against the server provider knowing your content. It doesn't protect either end, since that would be impossible.

In this case, it seems like WhatsApp itself was compromised; malware was distributed through the server directly to the app, or something along those lines. (Y'know how you can dynamically change apps nowadays using Codepush, etc? If Whatsapp had something like that in their pipeline, and that thing was compromised, and that compromise could be targeted at specific devices, then no amount of encryption can save you.)
That is a major part of the formal training program for professional intelligence analysts. Of course they still often get the probabilities wrong.
Yet they still sell games where you shoot people and movies depicting horrific graphic violence.

Murder simulators? Yay! Violence on film? Wow, awesome! A drawing of a gun? WOAH HOLD ON WAIT A MINUTE

Makes nothing but sense.
Very interesting.
Can't find references to "Perfect", though; could you please point to a link?
'all but' is an idiomatic synonym for 'almost'.

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/all+but
Can you provide any sources? Surprised to see Credit Karma on here...
Interesting thoughts. As an Ansible fanboy, I tried Salt just to understand it, and absolutely hated it. It was too complex to set up for me.
They exploited the app to take over the phone through a vulnerability
> Unfortunately people often don't have the luxury of doing the latter.

What? Just don't install the Facebook or other social apps. I do have Telegram, but no other social media apps on my phone. If you need to communicate, then SMS / MMS / telephone is fine. What can be done with Facebook that cannot be done with normal SMS or MMS or phone calls or video calls?
If you don't mind, does it give you a /64 subnet? And do you know if you can get a larger subnet?

I am interested in this, but I have three VLAN subnets for my network, and the last time I tried it, it turned into a massive headache.
But the system of continuous electrical processes that make up your consciousness is immutable, from your perspective.

If it is perfectly transferred to another vessel, as a series of direct connections (maybe some kind of neuron-based "wire"), then maybe it could be considered the same continuous consciousness.

The body around it, from the perspective of the system, doesn't matter. It can be replaced forever as long as the system remains continuous.
According to a number of posts, (some?) credit card companies have closely partnered with AirBnB and will not accept your chargeback.
Do you have a source on protonmail and creditkarma?
Seconding the sibling comment that I'd love to read more of your posts, and the most likely way I'll notice a new post is if the RSS feed works :).
Roasted almonds become marzipan (2018)
Is it possible to want to work in China without merely being pro money?

I keep hearing that greed is the ultimate motivation, but if you want to work within China for any reason you must follow the governments ethical guidelines.

For some people within Blizzard, they want to work within China because it is their country or their ancestoral heritage.
Wait, can you expand on some of these? Like ProtonMail and CreditKarma?
I mean, Signal is open source and not owned by Facebook, so I'm not sure why anybody uses WhatsApp instead.
My thinking is, my brain is almost entirely what makes me "me". The rest of my body is just a container. I do understand the analogy though.
Neither review is visible until both are done, so that's nonsense.
>"Hey Catalans, you guys don't really know what's good for you, so we are taking decisions on your behalf"

Hey Catalans, you guys really know what's good for you!, you are trying to get out of Spain and EU all in the same step. Hooow foxxxyyy!

You don't want to be like those savages that speak spanish in Chile, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Los Angeles or Madrid! you are too good to speak the language of torturers!

You can insult your main customers six times a day because you are best buzzinezmen in the world!. Customers love a "meneíto" and everybody will kill for buying your stuff made of pure freedom vapour! at any price!.

Independence will raise your economy to the stratosphere like a Winged San Jorge ascending to heaven with a choir of Xavier Cugats playing golden trumpets in the background!. The world will worship you as the first really freemocratic potency in Europe and you are zupaclever and megasmart and have a solid economic plan for the future.

...

That would be better for you?

Lies feel warm?
And Blizz just can't stop stepping in it.

https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/9488/wow-community-feel...

Before people chime in with "but they technically didn't say that they would add the toy revenue on top", that is exactly how it is typically done by other companies in the same situation. They made a ton of money and didn't have to put up a dime of their own.

Who exactly is working PR over there?
Please note that I said that the customer had been defrauded. I didn't say that Airbnb was the one committing the fraud--although they are certainly profiting from it!

I agree that customers should make reasonable attempts to resolve issues with merchants, and not go straight for the nuclear option of a chargeback.

However, if I deal with a company and they don't resolve issues to my satisfaction within what I consider a reasonable period, I do not hesitate to make it clear that I will be contacting my bank to dispute the charges.

Funnily enough, I have never actually had to do so: the mere threat seems to be sufficient to convey to the company that yes I do actually expect them to solve my problem.

The system works, at least for those privileged enough to be aware of their rights, and to have the ability to issue effective threats to merchants who don't respond to complaints within good time.
https://www.prefect.io

Not the most SEO-friendly choice of name. Great product though.
You're just outsourcing your backups, trusting github, Dropbox, etc. to have good backups.
Messages probably are, the app itself may have openings that allow an attacker to see messages.

In the early days of android, it was also possible to have a rogue google update service on a wifi AP, so when android connected to it you could push an update with malware.
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For most people, it's the fear and nervousness of public speaking that's the problem (not the content, knowledge, or skills of the presenter.) This fear can hold people back (it did for me). I'm sure Toastmasters would have the same impact (and I went to a few TM meetings) but I couldn't make it work with my other commitments. Propranolol is immediate and from a personal experience, it was extremely helpful for my career, confidence, etc.
People who say cats are unfriendly have never taken the time to get to know a cat. While dogs are promiscuous with their affection, cats tend to show affection for a particular person more than others. When you're picked by a cat there's no more friendly, affectionate creature.

That said, I have also known cats that were just friendly to everyone. We used to have a large orange tabby cat in the neighborhood who would just walk up to everyone who walked by and give them head butts. But he was a rare cat.
> The time you spend in GA is just completely gone. It feels like you went through a time warp.

I've heard this a lot, so I was surprised the one time I went under GA and it felt more or less like a normal dreamless night's sleep. I remember a sharp transition from awake -> out, but coming around felt like waking up groggy after a few hours sleep. Since then I've wondered if that's unusual or if people who feel like time passed just assumed it would be that way so don't mention anything.
I believe the parent was mistakenly interpreting "lies told by your president" (emphasis mine) to be a #NotMyPresident kind of attack from a citizen across the aisle as opposed to an observation from a non-citizen. It sounds like the parent thought gp was a democratic who was insinuating that the current president and his political party are the only president and party who've told lies so egregious compared to those told by any other president from across the aisle that they're the only ones of consequence.

That's what I assume, but you know what they say about assumptions.
Or a maester.