skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think I'll disable hyperthreading

It will not help you. Anything short of specially built CPU architecture and an OS is useless against hardware level "attacks," if you can even call them that.

CPUs are simply not built with an idea that you have to protect one process from another, and do it on that level of sophistication. You normally don't have that concern if the only person who can run code on a CPU is its user.

But the whole paradigm breaks when you have multiple "tenants" in a single systems, and whose entire setup is not managed by the host.

The same comes when you allow random untrusted code be JITed or even ran as is with WASM.

The only solution against that is to stop people from using "virtual" hosting, and remove JIT compilation of untrusted code.
By what metric? Time spent in it? Passenger miles?
Khan Academy, not Institute.

Topical because a big push of academic libraries lately is information literacy.
> We label them deniers.

I don't remember ever being modded down here by challenging some GW related assumption.

But if people come just generally stating that GW is based on group thinking, with no scope or analysis of what they disagree, they do get modded down, as they should.
I think there's already an answer to this. In a large organization, such a pervasive and difficult problem can't be solved in a direct fashion, because there's always some weird alternate consideration that keeps it from getting tackled. Only a top-down initiative from C-level implemented across the organization has a chance at rooting it out, and if such an initiative existed we'd have heard about it and gotten yearly progress reports.

I think what we're seeing instead is the same as counterfeits or promoted search results at Amazon: solving it could become an existential threat to either popularity or profit, so they're just "managing" it as BAU.
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> The only thing that will break this is if demand for labor exceeds supply, forcing employers to hire outside traditional parameters.

I don't think that is the "only thing".

Many employers look for degrees because they are seen as valuable. But they are not necessarily valuable in the most obvious way. A lot of time people are not really interested in what you went to school for at all. The are only interested if you have a degree or not.

This signals to employers that they are interviewing somebody that is willing to make major personal commitments and defer reward for years for POTENTIAL gain. There is no guarantees that spending 10's of thousands of dollars will result in a good job. People who pay for degrees are hoping this is true. A employer can take advantage of these people easily.

If I needed somebody to just be a cog in a corporate machine and I know that they are wiling to work their ass off and make huge personal commitments on the PROMISE of future pay... then that is awesome. I know they will work their ass off and make huge sacrifices for years and I really don't have to pay them that much at all to do it. And I know that their debt will keep them scared and living paycheck to paycheck so they are not going to want to risk unemployment because of how devastating this is financially.

This is why when I am looking for jobs and employers make hard demands on educational certificates that they are probably assholes. It's fine to want degrees, but they are not willing to take professional experience as a alternative then that is a huge red flag.

Yeah it's sticky, but you can't expect the current situation to last forever.
Wether it’s right or not, likes are perceived as social validation.

When a company is buying likes, not only this is not disclosed but also gives a false sense of approval by a community which is not only deceiving for the customers but also unfair competition for businesses providing a similar product / service.
ProtonCalendar Security Model
Yes. I use RSS-Bridge and Huginn to automate the mixing of RSS feeds into deduplicated feeds, then put that into wallabag which regenerates an RSS feed with excerpts. It sounds a bit bass ackward, but:

1. Huginn sends me and my partner an email every day about new properties in areas we would like to live so we can better understand the market.

2. Huginn also feeds my social media posting schedule by pulling out content from Reddit and some other places, filtering and deduping. The next step is to add scoring thresholds based on votes at source.

3. I use an RSS notifier to pick up Regulatory News Service (RNS) posts from any stocks I follow.

4. I generate periodic subject-specific summaries of news using Huginn for topics from Infosec to commoddities markets and sports.

Once I have the scoring system set up for the social media feed I'm going to look at integrating threat intel data into the same model using scoring to provide thresholds for digest vs immediate notification.
Yes, I believe a well rounded education is important for a good populace.
Yes, it is the best format to aggregate news to single reader. I use self hosted FreshRSS for that.
> Learning is mostly a matter of motivation. It's like assuming that having an encyclopedia could replace instruction.

Or instruction can replace motivation...
Although you're absolutely right, I still think there's actual merit in the way of thinking of the sentence you're quoting.

Very much about keyboards today is derived from strange quirks that were part of typewriters for very good reasons, but have never been properly reevaluated once they were converted to electronical keyboards. Of course, the main goal likely has been to minimize friction for those users that were already used to typing on a typewriter.

Nonetheless, having switched to an Ergodox EZ about a year ago, I get more and more frustrated by standard keyboards and I'm wondering why ortholinear keyboards are not the default by now. Similarly, I find it very strange that a digital interface like USB HID doesn't allow the keyboard to specify unicode codepoints instead of key codes that then still have to be interpreted by the OS.

That is, of course I understand how we ended up where we are, but I'm constantly amazed by how conservative IT can be in some respects while changing on a dime in others.
I googled the author and this came up as one of the first results:

"Cofnas formerly studied under Neven Sesardić. Like Sesardić, he identifies as a proponent of hereditarianism and "racial realism" (a term used by white nationalists like David Duke as well as the HBD online movement). He argues human races are valid biological categories against the scientific consensus they're not; he disagrees with the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2019) Statement on Race and Racism"[0]

(EDIT: I'm aware the source above isn't totally unbiased but I couldn't find anything else about this guy!)

I couldn't find much more besides that he's a philosophy PhD candidate. [1] I suspect he doesn't have the education or credentials to truly study this matter (biology, genetics, neuroscience, etc) and this essay seems to mostly be an argument on the morality of studying these, not the actual science as it has been discovered thus far.

[0]https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nathan_Cofnas
[1] https://philpeople.org/profiles/nathan-cofnas
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We don't need to dance around the fact that swimming and French courses are just moneymakers for universities. Sure, they may hold some value to the careers of some people, but it's hard to believe that the motivation for foisting them upon each student was wholly altruistic.
There's a lot of images on the article, but most of them seem to be links to other articles. Was that slideshow specific to this article? The first image seemed to be a skull that was completely unrelated.
FWIW, I feel like being able to fall in water without dying is a useful skill

Though college sounds like an odd place
It is if you know where to look.

30 years ago only the wealthiest people in the wealthiest countries could have access to a lot of information. Now all you need is to know English and having a reliable internet connection.

The world is changing.
For me, a browser has to support uBlock Origin, as it works today. I don't want the browser vendor deciding how ads and trackers get blocked, it's a conflict of interest and it's never been done better than uBO anyway. Won't all chromium based browser break proper ad/tracker blocking once that manifest v3 thing happens?
It is easy in retrospect to see that going all in on the amyloid hypothesis was a mistake.

But that is always true once a hypothesis has been proven false (or at least not completely true).

Is it possible to look at this as a very large “fail fast” experiment? Given the limited funding, would it really have been better to spread it over many hypotheses, rather than pick the most likely, and test a minimal viable solution?
> I don’t know the same about my car, which is why I’ll take it over a Max any day

"ignorance is bliss"

If you knew how much software went into a car vs. an airplane, you might think twice. Airplanes seem more complicated than cars, but software-wise they are much simpler. Cars have millions upon millions more SLOC than airplanes. You think MCAS is bad, how about cars that have sudden loss of steering, emergency brakes that mysteriously engage, or a throttle that can't be disengaged?

Serious design flaws in airplanes are these big dramatic events. Serious design flaws in cars pop up in the news every day, and we just ignore them [1][2].

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/mazda3-r...

[2] https://www.consumerreports.org/car-recalls-defects/more-car...
Announcing that they're so incompetent that they failed to revoke a former employee's credentials is pretty dense.

Talking to lawyers is the right thing to do. You don't want this gossip to become a legal issue for you. Collect detailed notes on when and where you turned in hardware, when / what credentials you had revoked, and to whom you delivered these things and informed about them. Just because you didn't perpetrate the hack doesn't mean that someone else wasn't using your hardware for something nefarious. I normally insist that a work laptop be wiped (obviously with all relevant work product handed off first) before i turn it in.
...I should add, that I didn't do this myself, back in the day, because I was lacking in the worldly wisdom required to have this idea. But thinking back of it, I think it's probably what cost me admission to the places I would have most wanted to get into.
Like I said, I'm not a doctor and don't have a medical background. I was just sharing an experience I had.

There seems to be research indicating hard liquor and wine positively impact cholesterol levels: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00219...

If you're calling bullshit then call bullshit, but I'm not qualified to answer technical questions about cholesterol and don't feel like being cross examined so that you can feel smug.

So, I guess you won the internet?
I’m curious if the “dr” in their username is a hint. It could that this is only a good idea to those who have a doctorate and would directly benefit from it.
Because, simply, we don't have that advanced NLP systems.
Great I really want my bridges cars and medical instruments developed by someone who consumed video bits explaining how it is done.

Just because this approach works for CS and a lot of humanities classes this can not be generalized. I have the feeling on here the technology optimism sometimes clouds the view on the reality.

Just some examples here: biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, medicine... To be any use you have to have more than a couple mooc classes.
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Thanks, everyone, for the suggestions. I think the "niche" suggestions were the most helpful. I haven't had much feedback from Show HN. Just FYI, the project is a mathematical oriented drawing app for Android. It's here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doodleback...
It's controls designed in the 60s grandfathered in for many decades because of common type ratings that simply don't make any sense anymore. More modern clean sheet plane designs do not have the issue of literally not being able to apply enough force to adjust the trim!

I think the mismatch may be that these are all-manual designs, and the 737 is much larger now than when it was first designed, plus the first design didn't have automated systems counteracting your inputs.
I don't know about "correctly", but it can definitely be difficult to translate a really good phrase from one language to another in a way that retains both the power and the meaning.

For example, Shakespeare is somewhat famously difficult to translate into French. Much of what's great about his writing is in the level of density he was able to achieve by playing with certain parts of English grammar's plasticity, and the strong rhythm he gets by playing with sounds. In French, it's easy enough to translate the meaning, but stricter rules about the use of articles and some characteristics of the language's word morphology make it really hard to achieve the same density, and differences in the phonology make it harder to achieve the same drumming rhythm.

Double meanings are also tricky. Different languages offer different opportunities for play with ambiguity, because they generally don't have the same patterns of polysemy.
If universities aren't spending all this insanely high tuition on the actual educators, where exactly is it all going?
Let me guess: they have a PhD and would like to live hassle free.
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Software flaws in cars are not nearly so catastrophic.
VMware Completes Acquisition of Pivotal
Thanks for recommending this! I knew about it, but quite a few of the responses have showed me new and clever ways to use it. I love the idea of using it during web development for logged in vs logged out state, for example.
I agree. And since much of that is often superfluous, you end up with a “minimal” setup. Though this does require at least one experienced dev to make those choices.

And my experience tells me that fewer than 1 in 10 React devs can make those calls.
Honestly, I think both foreign language training, and physical fitness ARE useful for keeping one's mind plasticity up and in turn having valuable downstream effects.

The goal for university courses shouldn't be strictly specific skill training, but also requirements that force people outside their comfort zones, encouraging them to think it new ways and adapt their problem solving faculties to new domains.
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> K-12 education is terrible for most people. You can get far superior education for your children by simply enrolling them in Khan institute and hiring tutors for subjects you are not great on.

I'd wager social skills are the most important things you learn in school with peers. Having to work with others, compromise with others, build self-awareness, talk to the opposite sex, and understand social hierarchies.

You can always learn "stuff" later in life, but it's very hard to change your core social identity.

People with no social skills are basically the underlings of society, like 4chan shut-ins and incels. Dismissing K-12 just seems like a way to guarantee even more children are robbed of their social development.
As stated in my first sentence, I agree with you. I think lethal force is the only reasonable option here.

I was just saying drug addicts aren't necessarily garbage. They face lethal force because they've broken into one's home; not because "they're garbage".
How is Git pejorative?

I haven't heard that word used like that, but I've only heard it to refer to the vcs.
My friend read your comment and became enraged. He is a chef. He asks, "why PhDs?" "Haven't they already used a lot of taxpayer and non-profit dollars?"

Why should PhDs get a social stipend, but not a chef? This would ultimately be a net transfer of wealth from the chefs to the PhDs, by force of law.
Yes, I still use the Firefox dynamic bookmarks with the help of an extension that reproduces the classic Firefox behavior.

Livemarks: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/
Obviously not, but charges associated with 'hacking' could lead to jail time. Rumors have a way of becoming problems when the wrong people get wind of them. Lawyering up is the smart thing to do (at very least a consultation).
Bogus research, flag please.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/02/the-unwelcome-r...

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/may/02/why-gen...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/18/race-science-o...
RationalWiki is not a particularly reputable resource, particularly on matters touching this subject.
It may well be that the right strategy sometimes is to pour most funding into the most promising candidate, but the question is how large a proportion of the funding that ought to be vs. how much is left over to fund at least initial inquiries into alternatives.

Even more so how soon you should rebalance funding if further progress isn't achieved with respect to your biggest bet.
> After doing a PhD you can be a high school teacher, a soldier, an actor, start a company, go into politics, do whatever you want.

Most PhDs dont want to do that stuff which is why they got a PhD in the first place.
The trim wheel is the same as in every other 737, and it's one of the safest airplane types ever built.
After skimming through the podcast transcript it's still not clear to me how this works.

What's the difference with say the job queue system of Laravel / Horizon / Redis ? From what I can tell this has all the same features listen on the Sidekiq page except it's free.

What am I missing?
Awesome. What were the big mistakes you made along the way?
Most law firms here in NL will not charge for a 'potential intake' of about 30 minutes.

Good lawyers explain your options, risks and costs.

I have never been burnt, and I have spent very little money this way.
I did Spanish at university and it's a skill I've got for life now.
I have been in the same situation a few times, even at the company I still work at.

The truth is, it's in no one's best interest to drag this out. They'll do an investigation and only if they have solid evidence will anything come of it. In my case, I did nothing wrong and there was no evidence. Someone accused me of something I didn't do or coincidence(s) led to me being investigated (common in the area I work, actually).

Nothing came of it, because nothing happened on my end. However, it was a nerve-racking experience. Especially, because you never know if something is an accident or mistakenly evaluated.

In a case I'll share, we used a ruby on rails scaffold to create a web app. Unfortunately, it had a mailer in there and looked like we could send emails out. It wasn't active and all generic code "hello world", but you can see how people freaked out. Luckily, those investigating dug into the code and evaluated it, realizing nothing was connected.

In any case, if you did nothing, I'd put your odds at 99.9% chance nothing happens. In the 0.1% chance the company does something, they'll have the burden of proof and their customers will find out. Accusations do not prove guilt. The company would likely be more harmfully impacted than you will and you'll be able to provide a defense to the public record.
Right, was the backlash against his global warming skepticism? I'm still confused.
Why should we assume that all people who can get a PhD are fit to become profs? Arguably it's good that there's a larger pool of candidates from which the best can go further in academia (in fields where industry is not so attractive or existent).

Setting aside whether the right criteria are used for career advancements or not, any meritocratic hierarchy is based on having more candidates on a lower lever compete to get into a smaller but higher level.
This may rub some folks raw and be pessimistic, but a half a century on this planet has taught me that any solution which relies on "doing the right thing" (ethics) but does not have any rules, laws or other repercussion for abusing it, then (some entity - person or company) will use your altruistic belief to their own gain, ethics be damned.

Just Google "buy reddit upvotes" and the internet is full of folks who will sell you a million Likes for cheap - in my mind, it's just a modern digital con (confidence game) - some of y'all may remember having created self-signed OpenSSL certs with the Snake Oil, Ltd company named in it. :) Even Wikipedia has a page for "there's a sucker born every minute" it's so institutionalized.
QA is open - I am monitoring hourly:
I agree, but I also have found almost nothing else about this guy.
I get that people love the field, but if you're earning $25k a year and barely able to support yourself, maybe you should consider other opportunities in life than an adjunct professor. It's a shame that most of the higher education workforce is treated as disposable, and people shouldn't accept such employment terms and move onto areas where employees are better treated. Academia has a lot of bright, talented people that could easily transfer their skills to other industries.
The universities shouldn't be relying on 2/3 or 3/4 adjunct professors, but they're doing it because they can

Exactly: https://jakeseliger.com/2016/02/25/universities-treat-adjunc...

Many humanities and social science academics also show extreme anti-market bias, and it shows up in the essay.
That's tough. Not everyone who wants to be an actor gets to be an actor either.

People have to settle for not fulfilling their dreams every day.
Of course nothing is stopping you doing those things (and most people I knew who did PhDs do end up doing something fairly unrelated outside of academia) but if those things are your goal then why on earth would you want to do a PhD?
I switched to tutanota for the price and features already provided, protonmail is really quite nice though. I'd love to better understand the legal implications of the hosting countries laws better.
Yep, every day. I do notice that it’s getting worse, though. Many websites’ feeds are just broken these days. They’ll randomly refresh after months of inactivity with dozens of new articles from the intervening period; or they’ll re-list a slew of previously listed entries; or it’ll be entirely random whether a new entry shows up when a new item is posted on the website, such that I can only take an entry as a sort of “unread badge reminder” for the website rather than taking each RSS entry in my reader as an individual article I should read.

I think some of this is the fault of bad RSS feeds being generated by bad CMS software that never gets its RSS path tested; but other parts of this are the fault of the RSS feed getting fronted by a CDN like Cloudflare, or the URL pulling the feed in through some sort of PuSH hub with non-compliant retrieval semantics, or etc.

It’s gotten me to feeling that I should be writing software to synthesize my own RSS feeds from these websites using scraping, with the RSS feed itself just being an edge-triggered “no longer fresh” trigger to get the site put back into the scrape queue. Most of the sites I subscribe to have very simple linear indices available somewhere anyway, so scraping that into a feed really shouldn’t be that hard. (I remember when Dapper was trying to do this, but Dapper was trying to solve the problem in full generality for even cases where the site generates “changes” without creating new permalinked entry URLs, which is hardly ever a problem any more.)