skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A large company can afford bad hires. You can shuffle them around or find something they can do.

A small company can not afford that luxury so they have to be more careful in their hiring. A bad hire completely distracts a small team.
Also unless you're very diligent about semantic markup and separation of content, presentation, interaction logic, the more complicated s site is the more difficult it is to port.

I have run into this problem trying to migrate very old web pages or blog posts off of SaaS sites that are shutting down or just decaying. It's not just that complicated sites make it difficult to extract the content in the first place; it's difficult to publish that content on another site in a high-fidelity, and sometimes even readable, way.

The hard part isn't keeping the old site (page) running (although that's not always easy either). The hard part is when you want to do something _else_ with that content -- more complicated means less (easily) flexible.
One of the advantages of bloom filters is that you can also do intersections, unions and cardinality estimations thereof on remote sets. These don't seem to support that.
Remember when facial recognition tech was new and it could never recognize black people?

https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni...

I guess apparently it's still a problem.
I agree, I kept reading to see their approach and "woof, there it is, so much better, you work it out!". sigh.

Rule #1 of getting something adopted breached.
Critically, there's no information about whether reporters are allowed to disclose, which usually means that Apple is going to hide any seriously damaging vulnerabilities...
You can assume anyone named and quoted in an article like this is speaking officially on behalf of the company they are working for, with some level of preparation and filtering by their Comms team.
That link seems to be broken? Nothing opens when I click it.
I think photos might have helped the article.

But looking at SciFi and what the article talks about it seems to me we need intelligence or beauty combined with constant exposure.

We can't get constant exposure since we don't have the tech for a robot to traverse a house.

We can't get great intelligence, since to be frank when this gets solved it won't be to make money on social robots.

So we need beauty with as much fake intelligence as we can muster and to hack the Gordian Knot of movement, which would be Teddy Ruxpin?
I don't get about Prefer one page over several.

Anyway some points seems reasonable but I bet most people will use wordpress and when they are not interested they will abandon it and it's gone.

Imo better force web archive to make more archives and donate it or smth.
I still think this misses the point. Looking at individual services (especially the most comparable "commoditized" services like EC2 and S3) is not how most people derive value from cloud services these days. In fact, as someone who just made a cloud decision for a company, pricing of individual services almost wasn't even on my radar. At the end of the day these differences are almost inconsequential to me compared to bigger issues like "is this service missing critical features". For example, I really like Google's cloud, but I'm a bit baffled their postgres Cloud SQL offering still doesn't offer point-in-time-recovery, which is a critical need for me, while AWS has had it for a long time. So do you really think I'm worried that S3 buckets may be slightly more expensive, compared to how much more it would cost me in developer time if I had to manage my own postgres instances on a compute machine?

I do think the data in this article was valuable, and it probably is likely that AWS charges more for these services because they can - the total value people get from the whole AWS system makes it worth it. So if you only care about a compute instance and storage, you probably don't need AWS, but the second the decision becomes "Do I have to hire a developer if I have to do this thing on my own?" it becomes pretty clear why people want a more full-featured cloud.
I know It has been made for us... But it's really strange to have a "mediterranean" diet with all breakfast only with eggs
I can copy text in Safari on iOS. What are you on?
RDS Pricing Has More Than Doubled
A friend of mine recently made the excellent point that Ring also provides Amazon with surveillance footage of their own delivery service employees. Synergy!
There's this:

> Not disclose the issue publicly before Apple releases the security advisory for the report. (Generally, the advisory is released along with the associated update to resolve the issue). See terms and conditions.

No guarantees, then.
Firechat, Signal Offline, Vojer, Bridgefy, Briar https://www.thequint.com/tech-and-auto/tech-news/apps-androi...
That deserves a story, too. Why not?

[Note: this is the early 80s. A computer with a large amount of memory might have 64K in this period. I think a 64K ROM cost about four dollars, and 64K of RAM was about fifty bucks]

The Atari ST's operating system (TOS, and no I don't want to talk about what that stands for) was written in C and assembly language.

Initially the ST was going to have 128K of ROM; we wanted to one-up the Macintosh (which hadn't shipped yet, but there were rumors and we had copies of Inside Macintosh that were simply fascinating to read) and put both our OS and a version of BASIC in ROM. Most home computers at the time came with some version of BASIC, and the Mac did not; we were hoping that would be a differentiator. Trouble was, nobody had actually sized our software yet (the only things even remotely running were on the 8086, not the 68000 we were going to use, and Digital Research wasn't exactly forthcoming about details anyway).

So mid-October (the project started in earnest in July 1984, and FWIW we shipped in late May 1985, a whole new platform starting from zero in less than ten months) we realized that just the OS and GUI would be 128K, and that the BASIC we were thinking of using was like 80K (but could probably be shrunk). So the hardware guys added two more ROM sockets, for 192K of ROM. A month went by. Wups! -- it turned out that the OS and GUI would be like 170K, with little hope of shrinkage. No, make that 180K. Would you take 200K?

The code topped out at 210K or so, and that wouldn't even fit into the six ROM sockets we now had. No chance in hell of getting another 64K of ROM -- that stuff costs real money -- so we shrunk the code. The team from Atari came from a background of writing things that fit into really tiny amounts of ROM, so we went about this with a fair amount of glee. We got about 1K per programmer per day of tested code savings by ripping out unused functions, fixing all the places where people had "optimized" things by avoiding the expense of strlen or whatever, and coding some common graphics calls with machine trap instructions instead of fatter JSRs. For about a week, the hallway in engineering was full of people calling out to other offices, "Wow, get a load of this stupid routine!" and in a codebase that had been tossed together as quickly as GEM/TOS had been, there was no lack of opportunity for improvement. We found a fair number of bugs doing this, too.

Additionally, the C compiler we were using was not very good, and even its "optimized" code was terrible. Fortunately it had an intermediate assembly language stage, so we wrote some tools to optimize that intermediate code (mostly peephole stuff, like redundant register save/restores) and got a relatively easy 10-12 percent savings. I think we had a few hundred bytes of ROM left on the first release.

I remember that 192K pretty darned well. Though they're fun to talk about, I honestly don't miss those days much; today I wrote the equivalent of

void *p = malloc( 1024 * 1024 * 1024 );

and I didn't even feel bad.
The leaks about tapping international fiber cables predate Snowden by years. I remember NPR articles about that in 2008.
Sure, unless the entire system is at risk of crumbling, then one may not want to cut off their nose to spite their face.

It wasn't just that everybody was leveraged, but the structure of that leverage, the short time periods of rolling over the debts and loans that would result in an extremely rapid negative feedback loop, various accounting rules insensitive to what was necessary for the system to unleverage, etc.
What'd I keep telling you, Hackernews? This is the new norm, get used to it.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of punch cards.
The old IBCMs of mutually assured destruction fame were liquid fuelled and could be launched straight away but had other issues eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_ex...
The idea with Starlink is that it will be low enough in the atmosphere and the satellite density will be high enough that the satellites should be able to route site-to-site. For some applications (high frequency trading) you could get potentially lower latency than with fiber.
Works fine for me. It's using __attribute__((cleanup)) to call a function that calls the block you give it.
Interesting. Where does 3 come from for the number of hash functions? Why not 4 or 5?
Women who sewed the suits for the space race
Exactly. My preferred pronoun is "gigantic cock" and if my coworkers didn't refer to me as this, I would be highly offended.
Just like you don't tell a job offer 'no' until you've already signed a better offer. There's nothing to gain by closing off options prematurely.
So that they can be watched from elsewhere in the house...
I have DOSBOX, but Windows 3.1 runs very slowly on DOSBOX.
I was told to eat a serving of almond butter and some almonds as my lunch. Maybe flag some things as 'snacks' and try and pair a meal item like a sandwich with a snack item like 8 almonds.
Have you seen Little Bits? https://littlebits.com/.

They have kits that allow you to quickly build really interesting things. For example, a Space Rover: https://littlebits.com/collections/invent-at-home/products/l... - scroll to the "What's In The Box" section and you'll immediately understand the price point. It's quite worth it. Educational through-and-through, yet everything is simplified by the magnetic connection strategy they employ to ensure you only ever connect modules in ways that work and don't ... fry. And the almost origami-meets-Lego build is a whole lot of fun.

We actually have the Space Rover Inventor Kit in our household, playing and re-configuring it a lot. The sensor modules and other plug-in things are really great. And you control everything using the tablet, which your nephew has already started becoming proficient at.

We love terrorizing our pets with it. But I digress....
Pine and MDF are amazing for slapping together prototypes, jigs, and custom furniture. They're the perfect blend between adequate strength and malleability. I haven't tried balsa but I bet it's perfect for smaller stuff.
Yep. But authorizing things on a file-by-file basis would be a terrible UX, while granting programs blanket access to all of ~/.local wouldn't be very secure, since lots of programs need something from there. It's the same situation as ~/Library for macOS-specific code. App Sandbox avoids this problem by giving each app its own virtualized home directory, so that data sharing between apps becomes opt-in instead of opt-out. It still exists... too bad nobody wants to adopt it.
At least that never wakes me at 6am
Yep, also the insertion procedure is retried with increasingly larger arrays until no “collisions” are encountered.

Reminds me of minimal perfect hash construction.
I see the biggest bounty is for &1,000,000USD and says:” Zero-click kernel code l execution with persistence and kernel PAC bypass”

As someone who doesn’t speak this language, what does thismean? And are there examples in history of this type of exploit affecting a large company?
I watched the video posted below. Says they have 110 engineers so they must have significant investment and growth if they were in the W16 batch. I'm really curious if anyone can speak to why they went with YC? This seems like a much longer haul. YC seems geared towards very different segments and coaching. Obviously I'm totally wrong about that!
Are undersea fiber cables bundled with copper conductors to power the repeaters?
Bad SEO Habits to Leave in 2019
IIRC GEMDOS was written more less from scratch by Jason Loveman (last I heard he was at Microsoft). While it's possible he might have cribbed a bunch from the CP/M-68K codebase, it started "in his garage" as a private effort that he hoped he'd be able to sell to someone. DRI wound up acquiring it (I wasn't privy to the terms, I hope Jason got a lot of money, though) and we wound up using it on the ST because absolutely nobody liked CP/M-68K, OMG.

I'll have to check out the sources and see if I get the same impression. It's been a while.
The Handmade Tech That Powered Apollo 11’s Moon Voyage
Brook v20200101 support WebSocket mode
Reminds me of the opening of Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese),

—

Come on, hurry up with that shit, huh?

What's this, more shit?

No, that ain't shit. That's a German lens.

I've got two shipments of those.

That's good stuff.

Can't use it.

What do ya mean ya can't use it?

That's a telescopic one.

That's the best one they make.

It's not German, it's Jap.

This is an adaptor, it's not a lens.

You bought two shipments

of Jap adaptors, not lenses.

Jap adaptors.
Every time I read something like this it blows my mind that there are still places in the world where you can be "let go" so easily. I'm really sorry to hear that this happened to you. I hope your next employer can be more communicative.
I didn't realize HE was still so primitive. Whenever there is a privacy kerfulffle for thing X, HN commenters say "X should be implemented with homomorphic encryption instead!"

LOL
I grew up with a mouse too and am excellent with it. I was born in the 90’s for reference. However recently on the job I have learned to use keyboard to navigate mainframe menus and editors and it’s very nice. While I don’t find a mouse bad at all, it is noticeably less efficient in some key use cases. Many productivity tools could benefit from a focus on keyboard interfacing.
How does this work if you're traveling? Logging in from a mobile phone?
It's a short article, and worth reading if you can work out why the Wayback Machine isn't working for you.

The magic is basically:

static inline void defer_cleanup(void (^*b)(void)) { (*b)(); }
#define defer_merge(a,b) a##b
#define defer_varname(a) defer_merge(defer_scopevar_, a)
#define defer __attribute__((cleanup(defer_cleanup))) void (^defer_varname(__COUNTER__))(void) =

Which let's you do:

FILE *a = fopen ("a.txt", "r");

if (!a)
return EXIT_FAILURE;
defer
{
fclose (a);
};

It uses cleanup and blocks, both of which are extensions. There may also be some strangeness with the way blocks hold memory. (Block references become const copies).
An exploit that allows full control of the device that installs with no user interaction, zero-click, and is persistent even after rebooting or power cycling the device.
The Like button primarily allows Facebook to monitor your presence across the internet. Tracking pixels can be deployed on a page by page or site-wide level (included like analytics scripts) to enable remarketing or retargeting.

The site-wide implementation will, for example, enable URLs that meet %string% to be grouped into a "segment". And then you can serve specific ads to that segment while excluding others
> The old IBCMs of mutually assured destruction fame were liquid fuelled and could be launched straight away but had other issues

True of Soviet ICBMs (including some still operational in Russian service) and early US ICBMs, but the Minuteman I, introduced in 1962, and all later US ICBMs (Minuteman II & III, Midgetman, Peacekeeper) were solid fueled.

> and could be launched straight away but had other issues

Those “other issues” directly impact the probability of successful launch “straight away”, and did involve having to replace the fuel. (They also involved missiles exploding in their silos, which is bad enough when it's a ground based ICBM, but pretty catastrophic when it's a sub-launched ballistic missile, which cost the Soviets a number of subs apparently.)
SmugMug emails subscribers with request to find more paying users
Sounds like you had a bad recruiter setting you up with bad interviews. You can throw a pebble and hit five recruiters so no need to stick with a dud anyways.
Pac It Up: Towards Pointer Integrity Using ARM Pointer Authentication [pdf]
> Zero-click

No user interaction required.

> kernel code l execution with persistence

Persistent malware with root privilege.

> kernel PAC bypass

I think PAC is some protection measures.
This sounds very wrong.

If you train a model using simulated data, the result you can obtain will be a slightly worse simulation.
My experiences with GCP have been pretty good, most of those experiences were with GKE. In many ways, their products are superior to AWS. At the very least, they have a different approach to offering cloud services rather than simply attempting to copy AWS offerings.

However, their support is absolute shit and they're absolutely devoid of the customer first mentality that AWS demonstrates.
You interview at two companies. Your first choice rejects you. Your second choice says yes immediately, then gives you time to decide.

If the first company rejects you and tells you so, you can immediately accept the second choice. If the first company rejects you and ghosts you, you instead wait a month hoping the first company will get back to you, then accept the second choice.

If you are willing to completely burn bridges, you could accept the second choice, with the intention of immediately leaving should you hear back from the first choice. While possible, I'd have some qualms about doing so.
Chemically, a big factor is ozone at high altitude. It has caused window problems.
Russia plans to cut off some internet access next week
I don't get why news sites don't have a "coin slot" where I can insert a few quarters if I like an article and get a pass to read that day's edition.
Does said messaging app also not show up on Glassdoor? Making it hard for candidates to identify this problematic process.
2FA for spotify? I'm curious where you draw the line for 2FA. Should every app (and web app) have 2FA?
The same thing happened to me, but I am thinking of having another go and just discouraging the use of E2EE. (The community I’m thinking of is currently on Slack, so there would be no marginal loss of privacy.) Have you considered that, or is your group already using another E2EE platform that isn’t a massive pain in the ass? I’ve yet to discover one myself.
Use BSLN landline broadband internet. In the recent internet ban by indian govt in assam the bsnl landline internet was active and working (torrent/porn/darkweb are blocked).
--: imindian live in india/assam/barpeta
Then I think you need something like archive.org.

You can design and mark-up content that will still be useful and readable in 100 years. You might be able to preserve the presentation logic (CSS-style) for 100 years.

You probably won't be able to preserve the interaction design for 100 years (without a dedicated effort -- that's why they bury computers along with the software in time capsules).

But I think it is optimistic to think that _most_ SasS hosts are going to archive content for 100 years. Preserving digital content is an _active_ process. It takes resources and requires deliberate effort.

Postscript: I'm trying to think of modern companies that would preserve content for 100 years, assuming they make it that for.

Facebook is the only significant current platform that I can even imagine preserving content for 100 years, but even that seems like s stretch. Historians might step in to archive it, but is there real value to Facebook to maintain and publish 50 year old comments on 2.5 billion unremarkable walls?

Twitter won't. Certainly Insta, SnapChat, WhatsApp etc. won't. Flickr probably could do it relatively easily but won't. YouTube maybe, but there's more to store. Something like GitHub maybe?
You are ignoring the fact that generative AI is not closed-loop algorithm. You can synthesize expected features in a data set and feed them to the detector - out of bounds of the generative neural network that rather serves the purpose of mapping into (a subset of) the proper input space.

The power of synthesis is not within the GAN or VAE, it is in the outside mechanism that guides the creation of content with specific domain knowledge about the feature space.

This might not replace the value of real data, but it will allow to accelerate bootstrap, improve coverage (at cost of accuracy), or provide free environments for auxiliary processes like CI/CD in many deep learning applications.

There is a lot of published material on synthetic data augmentation if you actually look for it.
Some stuff here: https://blog.ycombinator.com/founder-stories-blake-scholl-of...

Scroll down to "Craig: So what made you decide to apply to YC?"
Serverless Security Best Practices
I mean, I don't personally disagree with you. But I was trying to keep the framing of my opinion a little more neutral.

There are definitely some times when you want to go to the dealer; especially in rural areas, where the local repair shop has a lot of breadth, but not enough depth, to help with hard problems.
If you're willing to use macros, this can do the trick.
Return and break will preempt the expression, but continue should work fine.

#define DEFER(EXPR) for(int _tmp=1; _tmp; _tmp=0,(EXPR))

Example:

char * data = malloc(32);
DEFER(free(data))
{
// do stuff
}
Why do you assume the quoted phrase implies some ridiculous fizzbuzz HackerRank memorization-based hiring process? I agree with Spolsky that generally it's safer to err on the side of false negatives when hiring. I guess the exception would be if truly skilled people in your industry are extremely rare, so you essentially have no choice but to deal with false positives if you want to be able to hire at all.

But none of that has anything to do with the screening process itself, and it's certainly not advocating screening based on bullshit.
> Congress party is inciting violence, particularly among Muslims

> This is purely Indian National Congress (GOP of India and currently out of power) driven rioting

No proof, just claims
add some banana, cinnamon and you've got my favorite healthy breakfast! fancy coffee shop next door puts pollen on too, subs in almond butter, and it's amazing.
I'm not convinced the comment I replied to is a valid generalization capturing what the majority of feminists believe.
I'd argue, in 2019, every app/service that requires a login should offer a 2FA option to add an additional layer of security - the person logging in most likely is the owner of the 2FA device.
Self-Managed VPN, in our case.
Everything you said doesn't dispute the above comment and agrees with its core premise:

"In terms of model improvement, yes synthetic data can help. In terms of the arms race? No. True examples provide knowledge that is unique. "
You're absolutely right. These people have seriously marred my view of the language.
The Inquirer reaches end-of-life
The Inquirer is closing the curtains. This is sad, I loved their style.

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life
Depends on the SVG. I regularly hand-write SVG diagrams. But I won’t claim to be normal!
This article is very uninformative. Author spends entire post building up to simply saying Smalltalk will make the world better, and does not continue. No rationale is provided.
Keto is a fixed 25g