skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> #4: These Fake Bootcamp TAs (FBTA) will claim any previous job that is within 20 miles of "tech" is a qualification to teach computer science. FBTAs have used:

> Geology

> System Administration

> Accounting

> Law

> Civil Engineering

I'm gonna have to disagree with System Administration as not being "tech" or not qualified. Skillsets of Syadmins and Netadmins may vary greatly, but someone with a background in bash and some knowledge of the Windows Registryis going to be light years ahead of someone coming in with a background in geology or law.
I use Firefox as my default browser. But the dev tools is too slow, apparently someone thought it was a good idea to rewrite it in React, causing it to lag even on a few thousand console log messages on a fairly powerful workstation. And there is no search functionality, only filter. So I've started to prefix all my debug messages with whatever I'm working on just so that the logs can be found in the Firefox dev tools console. One good feature though is that you can filter on type of messages, like only show error messages, or warnings. Which is very annoying in Chrome dev tools where it will tell you there is an error, but you can't click on it, so there is no way to see the actual error.
The risk of breaking anything by overclocking is really low anymore - you'll run into instability long before you damage anything. The best argument against overclocking IMHO is that the time and expense is generally not worth it. With a CPU overclock you might gain 10% performance while consuming 30% more power, after investing time and fancy cooling solution. Gone are the days of rapid improvement when you could occasionally get a stable 33% overclock with no real downside.
> Mindfactory

> doesn't have an option for a full refund but only replacement/repair.

I got a gpu refunded, I think the terms they use on the website are kind of misleading but they do offer refund. Contact them by email they speak english and reply quickly.
Location: Currently Ottawa, Canada
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes. Looking to relocate to Switzerland (Basel, Zürich, etc) to be with fiancée.

Technologies: Java, Clojure, Python, .NET, C#, C, C++, JS (Node, Angular), Docker

Résumé/CV: http://jkwaters.codes/

Email: jkwaters [at] gmail

I am a graduate from Carleton University with a Bachelor Computer Science. I am currently working as a full stack developer using .NET and Oracle SQL. During an internship I worked in a DevOps environment and it sparked passion about DevOps culture.
It's easier to hit the ceiling of how successful you're going to be when you're working on your own. If you're someone other people want to work with/for, there are a lot more opportunities that can be taken advantage of.
Based on what precedence? Imo this statement is just false.
Generally speaking Lenovo has been on top of Ryzen, especially since Zen+
For me it's mainly about synced history, open tabs on various devices (phone, tablet, computer), shared preferences, etc. The rendering engine is secondary to that in my list of priorities.
Yes, but the rest of your life is a step function. I don't get to gradually pay my health insurance or mortgage.
Twitch / "Influencer" video gamers aren't using Premiere for videos.

Twitch streamers need a "streaming" solution. They play live, and instantly react to the crowd. If someone pays for an emote or something, the Twitch-streamer is expected to look on camera and say thank you to the donor (and maybe repeat the message that the donor paid for).

This means that a Twitch streamer's computer MUST encode the gameplay live. Traditionally, Twitch streamers would buy two computers, one to play video games, and a 2nd computer to process the video stream and upload it to Twitch.

With the advent of 16+ core computers, Twitch streamers have begun to simply buy one computer, lock 8-cores to the video game, and then lock 8-cores to the Twitch encoder.

Presumably, something like a Threadripper (24+ cores) could process the video stream for better quality and lower bandwidth. Maybe live VP9 encoding, for example (8-cores for the video game, 16-cores or more for the encoder)
How is Tether holding up BTC price? Can you elaborate?
Also, it's unlikely there will ever be another Musk or Zuckerberg in tech. Technology is a largely established industry and it's very unlikely that a single person is going to found and maintain control of another trillion dollar company.

Zuck-a-bees need to get in on the ground floor of the next, next big thing, which barely exists right now.
I remember a friend telling me a very similar story of many uears ago, where they had to develop a website for some institution, and the client wanted some screen to match the color of some traditional peace of paper.

So after explaining that it wouldn't work they spent a lot of time with the product owner guy holding a bit of paper next to the monitor until the color matched.

Then he walked out, only to run back upset after checking it on his laptop: "you changed it!"
> We note that classical collisions and chosen-prefix collisions do not threaten all usages of SHA-1. In particular, HMAC-SHA-1 seems relatively safe, and preimage resistance (aka ability to invert the hash function) of SHA-1 remains unbroken as of today.

Nice to see this bit of intellectual honesty. Would be even nicer if they had explained what that means in terms of PGP keys.
The problem is we kind of have that with Facebook groups, but when they’re filled with people with low online media literacy they become semi-private conspiracy breeding grounds
I have been using it since 2005 (since 1.0.X), and while Firefox at times were slow during those years I always preferred its UI and its extensibility.
Yeah, the main complaint of the ex-Gawker outlets seemed to be that management weren't letting them use their clickbait to manipulate public opinion in the political arena anymore and were making them stick to topics that were actually related to what the site was ostensibly about.
The use case of PiP is legit but I agree it doesn't make a lot of sense for the browser. However, many users do not have proper native media players that would provide the same functionality so I can see why browsers might want to implement it for the casual users.

A native media player with youtube-dl is still king for power users.
“Unveiling the Underground World of Anti-Cheats”
This is one of those supposed character flaws I could have used a bit more of in my personal makeup.
That's super cool!

What I'd really like to see is benchmarks that compare the rust version to C.
Late to the party but does anybody know if this is connected to the findings a few weeks ago that this Quanta article is replying to? (https://www.quantamagazine.org/no-dark-energy-no-chance-cosm...)

I know they are proposing different mechanisms for the error in calculation but it gives a sense of a 'moment' shifting against dark energy. Coincidence?
Tampa General Hospital and Odoro team up to digitize patient services
Empathy, shame and the Golden Rule have to be taught.

If not, feral kids tend to grow up to be self-absorbed, mean, psychopathic, selfish pricks.

PS: I grew up middle class but am now completely destitute and semi-homeless.
Wow, not one positive comment so far. I guess the American dream really is dead. Feels like Eastern Europe.

A man goes to hell and upon arrival sees two giant boiling
cauldrons - one with a large detail of devils, and one completely unattended. The man inquires about the cauldrons and a helpful devil explains: "One is a Russian cauldron, another one is American one. The American one needs serious attention, because when Americans try to escape, they all start helping each other,and it really is a bitch trying to beat them back in. TheRussian one, we just leave it alone, when a Russian tries to escape - the other Russians pull him back in.
(It does explain the whole webdev/javascript situation a bit, I would claim.)

I don't mind people entering this field with a goal of getting rich. The problem is when that is their only motivation.

There are definitely lots of other factors at play here, but I kinda look back at the late 90s/early 00s with nostalgia. It seemed like most of the people you worked with, or even interviewed back then had some basic level of sincere passion for the field. Today that's not really the case. That makes the work less fun.
I know a couple people who have very desirable Florida condos (as well as other properties) and each condo alone is doing ~2k. Granted that's day-by-day, not a monthly rental.
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>Can I try it out for myself?
Since our attack on SHA-1 has pratical implications, in order to make sure proper countermeasures have been pushed we will wait for some time before releasing source code that allows to generate SHA-1 chosen-prefix collisions.

Sigh. Again with this idiocy. All instances where the adversary is capable of launching this attack financially mean they also have the capability to write the exploit themselves.
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>A countermeasure has been implemented in commit edc36f5, included in GnuPG version 2.2.18 (released on the 25th of November 2019): SHA-1-based identity signatures created after 2019-01-19 are now considered invalid.

Since SHA-1 was always possible to break, and since NSA probably gets access to big computers and sophisticated techniques before researchers, why doesn't this invalidate every SHA-1 signature ever made and not just ones from last year?
I've felt both extremes. As a child growing up in poverty, I felt my intellect didn't match the situation I found myself in. I remember being deeply angry watching other children squander opportunities/resources I would have taken 110% advantage of. As a young adult I based some (not all, but enough) of my life decisions on "what the hell do I need to do to ensure I am never in this situation again?"

Yet also as a reasonably successful adult, I still never entirely feel secure in my class position. Sometimes it's hard for me to tell whether I'm being responsibly frugal or still living in a mindset that I can't afford nice things. Or if I do buy something high end then I question if I actually splurged because of a mindset of not being able to hold onto money, if that makes sense.
Theres been plenty of work done to make git enterprise scale in the last year

https://vfsforgit.org/
>..these companies were recently bought by private equity firm KKR Co

Not KKR.

In 1995, Borden was acquired for $2 billion by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which proceeded to sell off pieces of the company to various buyers. Washington, D.C.-based ACON Dairy Investors, LLC purchased the company in 2017.

https://www.bevnet.com/news/2020/borden-dairy-co-files-for-b...

[Edit]

Not sure whether the twitt narrative is correct. From mundane wiki looks like KKR tried to right the sinking ship..

Borden suffered significant losses for the period 1991-1993...In deep financial difficulty, Borden was bought out by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) in 1995. KKR increased the pace of divestiture, but was unable to right the company... In 1997, KKR focused the company solely on its pasta and pasta sauces lines. But the new strategy failed as well..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden_(company)
Multi cloud? is there a need? thoughts?
This might not be so true after CES is done.

I was watching Linus Tech Tips[1] video yesterday, and Asus had a new array of nice laptops (albeit, gaming laptops) that were AMD based, including a 13" one with decent AMD CPUs

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGUESEq75ZI
I highly recommend dark-reader: https://darkreader.org/
If you want it to just always use what you've configured and not have to follow the changes they make you can set network.trr.mode to 5 in about:config. 5 signifies "off by choice"

If you just want to know how to toggle it normally in case something goes weird with one of the changes it's in the network settings part of the settings page.
The key word here is "subpixels."
To be fair intentionally made unreadable from EU (without any provided reason, the "therefore" sounds to me pretty much out of place):

>451: Unavailable due to legal reasons

We recognize you are attempting to access this website from a country belonging to the European Economic Area (EEA) including the EU which enforces the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and therefore access cannot be granted at this time. For any issues, contact news@unionleader.com or call 603-668-4321.

Anyway, this works:

https://outline.com/hZ5Xw7
I can give you the run-down. I have a contact form on https://bigboys.nyc, will give you the eBay spiel after I'm out of work
According to this[1], which I think might be an official FAQ:

> Currently the design of the Git index (staging area) only permits files to be listed, and nobody competent enough to make the change to allow empty directories has cared enough about this situation to remedy it.

[1] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Can_I_add_empty...
My impression as a web user is that if any devs actually use the performance inspector it's just to learn their site is slow and then not do anything about it.
Every (successful) rewrite I've ever done was in secret.

I once spent 6 months fixing someone else's MVP. Every bug fix exposed 2 more. I begged for a do over. Nope, we've invested too much money to abandon.

Once I understand the problem well enough, I banged out a full rewrite in two weeks. I had just one bug before release (one of the trig equations had the wrong sign, facepalm slap).
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Now that you can arbitrarily produce collisions, the second step is easy enough for a skilled and well-funded attacker.
This is cheap!

Breaking MD5 for the Flame malware probably set the NSA back millions when you sum the person-hours and CPU time together.
Yeah. I'd agree with that. I also think you, CiPHPerCoder, should implant yourself in a local bookstore and maybe you'll see what I'm talking about :)
Fonts are so god damn crispy at 4k you have a "awwww maaaan" reaction to going back down, particularly when using an aesthetically pleasing font like Fira Code Retina with ligatures
Google explicitly calls out in its brief the fact that Sun, as the original author of the code, very explicitly did not consider Google to be infringing.

Although I do wish Google tried harder to press the point that, based on Oracle's argument that copying the API infringes copyright, Oracle itself is in violation of others' copyright. Ars Technica has an example of that (Amazon's AWS), and the brief does give a vague allusion to this fact, based on what I presume is the trial records:

> Notably, Java SE itself “reimplements” interfaces from earlier programming languages. JA154-157; see also JA211.
Objectively not true. Many (most?) are just using Perforce in an off-the-shelf configuration.
I finished the Bible last year. It took a lot longer than other equally long books have taken me to read. The Bible is really a collection of a bunch of different books. The constant narrative changes can be hard to follow. To be clear, I'm really glad that I read it, but I understand why a lot of people don't.
Git isn’t something which you can generally be successful using in a shallow way. Most developers will need to devote significant time and energy to mastering it. There really needs to be a better layer on top of it in order to make it easier for developers to figure out how to do what they want to do. Some of the commands and switches don’t seem to be orthogonal and/or intuitive.
"Say goodbye to annoying notification requests (unless you want them)"

For a moment I thought they had done this for the cookie and privacy notices. Oh how that would be amazing to move that functionality into the browser.
Watch that movie until my family objected - not that again.
but that's a different perspective - stoicism addresses the hedonism treadmill and how to get off of it (as well as how to respond to misery) - it isn't in opposition to charity or altruism. It's a totally different thing to try to have a great influence for posthumous fame and recognition, versus just trying to help people whether they know it was you or not.
In a browser, gpu acceleration is a security risk, cf.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/13799/is-webgl-...

TLDR: if js gets direct control of GPU, it can read/modify present and past screens.

Maybe after Wayland implementations get good enough, distributions will make hw acceleration work securely with wayland compositors, probably years? Just guessing.

Playing video on youtube is easy, but performance sucks due to bloated youtube website. Performance of the same video URL in empty page with video player is much better, close to that in video player with CPU only.

If you need GPU acceleration, you can use something like youtube-dl or mpv to play videos on a URL in a video player.
Sweden’s population is confined to a narrow corridor, so it’s not like they need many lines of coverage. Likewise, density in Europe is good enough to make electrification worthwhile, while America is way too spread out. An extreme case would be Australia, imagine electrifying the entire route from Melbourne to Darwin.
It's not up to them to decide not to offer refunds.

You have a right to cancel and return an online order for a full refund within 14 days by law.
Is one no longer allowed to say "I wonder why thing A has properties that resemble thing B" without pretty directly implying "Thing A is exactly thing B"?

My hope was to have a conversation about whether the franchise model is bad in ways that have overtones of scams, or whether MLMs are only scams by virtue of the MLM bit and not because of any of the other behavior that is often called scammy, or any such thing, but apparently that was too much to ask.
The problem with that is you'd need to match to the soldered-on memory specs to gain all performance benefits, as opposed to just buying a matched set and plugging it in yourself. You're also stuck with whatever highest common clock speed all the RAM would support instead of whatever the maximum the memory controller would allow.
Most people don't need double-precision.

Similarly, Threadripper loses on RDIMMs, LRDIMMs, and have 1/2 the memory channels and 1/2 the PCIe lanes. Most people don't need that either.

Of course consumer products have fewer features than enterprise products. The chip manufacturers need to leave some features for "enterprise". The general idea is to extract more wealth from the people who can afford it, while providing consumers the features they care about at a lower cost.

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Really, the feature enterprise GPUs need seems to be SR-IOV, or other PCIe-splitting technologies. This allows a singular GPU to be split over many VMs.

Double-precision floats is niche to the scientific fields, also "enterprise" but I don't think most enterprise customers use double-precision floats.
You're thinking much too small. Zoom out. Then zoom out again.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Martin's+Beach/@37.3759307...

From the LA Times, the "Gate in dispute" is right off highway 1:
https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/1d63e71/214...

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-martins-beach-supr...
Apple has dragged Photoshop kicking and screaming onto different platforms and even OS’ before. If they succeeded when they were nearly dead (OS X Cocoa timeframe) they will have no problems doing it now.
I can relate to several of that. In the end i believe it’s really hard to build a life where you feel secure but still can express yourself. So over time you play a role for the outside but inside you just go numb. I guess it has been this way for most people throughout history. Societies aren’t designed for happiness and self expression.
There are two threat models against code using RNGs:

1. The adversary has an amount of computing power that is feasible as currently foreseeable: in this case, all you need are K "truly random" bits where K=128/256/512 and can then use a strong stream cipher or equivalent to generate infinite random bits, so you only need to block at boot to get those K bits, and you can even store them on disk from the previous boot and have them passed from an external source at install time

2. The adversary has unlimited computing power: in this case, you need hardware that can generate truly random bits and can only return randomness at the rate the hardware gives you the bits

Now obviously if you are using the randomness to feed an algorithm that is only strong against feasible computing power (i.e. all crypto except one-time pads) then it doesn't make sense to require resistance against unlimited computing power for the RNG.

So in practice both /dev/urandom, /dev/random, getrandom(), etc. should only resist feasible computing power, and resisting against unlimited computing power should be a special interface that is never used by default except by tool that generate one-time pads or equivalent.
Yes. I work on web design/development with a focus on brand development & auditing, and general marketing/seo. I've had a couple small gigs the last month and one ongoing partnership. Probably put in 15 hours of work last month between the two. https://bigboys.nyc
Switched to Firefox recently on my desktop. I had the strangest problem with Chrome: Somehow it just kept forking more and more processes until the rlimit got filled (100k+ threads/processes).

Too much trouble to debug it so I opted to switch instead.
FF71 - default is also true.

Edit - default for this config variable could be platform specific; the above is based on Windows 10. I'll check on my MacBook tonight.
I'm way into it. I was using the feature in Safari to have some low-key video game streams on while I work. I suppose it's not for everyone, but I'm stoked about Firefox having this feature.
Is there a reason for -D and not -d? Wouldn't -D also delete the remote branch if you accidentally pushed your changes?
Sure, as I say it'll be interesting to see if Zen 2 improves things. However, as things stand today, it's not surprising that AMD high end laptops are rare, because they're not very good when they are made. Zen 2 could absolutely change that, of course, if AMD's claims work out.

(AFAIK the memory difference was because the AMD chip used didn't support LPDDR4.)
Code-wise, cloud-foolish: avoiding bad technology choices
Bitcoin Cash chain has done increasing the blocksize rightfully.
Seems aimilar to the Swiss startup Mindmaze -
2016 Intro article after their initial fundraise https://www.forbes.com/sites/aarontilley/2016/02/17/mindmaze...

And a more recent Wired article
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mind-maze-virtual-reality-br...
Second thread: https://twitter.com/RainerJoswig/status/1213877752308350976
I am so glad Bitcoin Cash exists for people like you.
Can anybody share some insight as to why the PiP mode is implemented non-natively? Both macOs and Windows have a system PiP mode that should be usable?
"similar situation" is where the bulk of the luck resides. Where you born and to whom, the ovarian lottery.

Everything else is very minor but yes it makes a difference.
I would hazard a guess that the last POSIX/SuS VAX/VMS were coded against still specified a 32-bit time_t, which would have likely polluted their proprietary userspace. The OpenVMS guys were shooting for compatibility, so it stuck. Legacy is a PITA.