skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Animals have rich models of objects and their behaviour over time, these models aren't "sequential"'

This strikes me as patently false, which means I'm probably not understanding what you mean. What does forward simulation mean if it isn't sequential?
How many millions of years do you think _adult_ mammals have been drinking milk _coming from other mammals_ for?
Forced Exposure (2013)
History of Income Tax in the United States
So, what happened at Nortel?
I drink unflavored, unsweetened soy milk. Just two ingredients, soy beans and water. It tastes great when made properly, and is very nutritious, high protein and good fats, calcium etc
Cusins. By the way, have you any religion?

Undershaft. Yes.

Cusins. Anything out of the common?

Undershaft. Only that there are two things necessary to Salvation.

Cusins [disappointed, but polite] Ah, the Church Catechism. Baptism and —

Undershaft. No. Money and gunpowder.

Cusins [surprised, but interested] That is the general opinion of our governing classes. The novelty is in hearing any man confess it.

Undershaft. Just so.

Cusins. Excuse me: is there any place in your religion for honor, justice, truth, love, mercy and so forth?

Undershaft. Yes: they are the graces and luxuries of a rich, strong, and safe life.

Cusins. Suppose one is forced to choose between them and money or gunpowder?

Undershaft. Choose money and gunpowder; for without enough of both you cannot afford the others.

Cusins. That is your religion?

Undershaft. Yes.

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There have been studies showing private equity does more good for dying businesses than bad. Congress attacked them heavily during the 2008 crisis and they were the first companies called in to congress to answer "tough questions". But it turns out they didn't cause the crisis and that more companies are better off after PE acquisition (ie, they got turned around for the better and created greater economic production had they not existed). Basically most of those companies would be dead without PE as they are often the only solution left, even if it often seems on harsh terms.

Private equity firms aren't all just corporate raiders of the 1980s that certain politicians try to spin them as.

That's not to say that small towns selling off public services to them is a good idea. Or any other public/private partnership bullshit that is sold as 'free markets' when its the mostly just politicians and their wealthy connections being complete vultures creating things that are nothing like markets.

The book "King of Capital" has a really good overview of the history of private equity:

https://www.amazon.com/King-Capital-Remarkable-Schwarzman-Bl...
>This "we" business is a very lazy argument. There are large numbers of people who have been against this system.

It's not lazy at all; it's absolutely true. Those "large numbers" haven't been enough to change anything. If the American people really wanted this situation fixed, it would be, but they don't, so it isn't.

>"WE" are not getting what "we" voted for, without even considering that we haven't really had the opportunity to vote for it in the first place."

Bullshit. Health insurance has been a major campaign platform for some time now. Have you forgotten Obamacare and what a big issue that was? And ever since then, the GOP has been campaigning on the idea of rescinding it, while the Democrats have campaigned on either keeping it intact or going to single-payer or some other scheme in between. The voters have absolutely had the opportunity to vote for it; that's what they've been doing for at least 15 years now.

> perhaps you should focus on easy choices that impact ability to work like prescription drug use like Ambien, guys who stay up late to watch sports, or anyone who stays up late to watch late shows, drinking too much, eating too much, eating an unhealthy diet (which depends on who you ask of course) . . .

That's all perfectly fine with me. Employers have all kinds of rights to police employee behavior and discriminate against them as long as it's not a "protected class". Why should employers be forced to pay higher insurance costs for unhealthy employees? And again, if you don't like it, there's the voting booth, but most Americans don't want to change this so good luck with that.
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I'm not sure, but that doesn't sound all that great. It's kind of the problem now, people in belief circles with little basis in reality.
Windows has never had a universal "keep above" menu option.
Debugging Production Doesn't Have to Sock 🧦
seems like it's resolved

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That's neither "uncommon" nor "powerful".

Most of the these "strategies" lie pretty much on the surface. Also, half of them amounts to blatant comment/blog spamming, basically. Ditto with Reddit - it may work once, but try sneaking your promo there under a disguise of a genuine RFC again and it'll get you promptly flagged and banned.
> France has a more permissive surveillance regime than the US[0], and as a foreign (US) user I have no recourse if they spy on me.

Hahahahaha, enough with the jokes. Comparing France to the US... Thinking you actually had some kind or chance of recourse against any of the three letter agencies. You are funny!

> Note the "for commercial purposes" in the first sentence, and the "to sell it to third parties" in the second. These are weasel clauses.

Could be, could not be. With Google you can be sure that they sell your data to _anybody_ that is willing to pay something for that.
Building a Quantum Computer from Off-the-Shelf Parts
I really liked the idea of Google+ circles. Creating "containerized" groups of people (things?) that I could act on in a complete unique way was really cool. I could say something in my "friends" circle that I couldn't (or would be misunderstood) in my "family" circle. I could also keep track of technology (Linux, Tesla, etc.) in another, completely separate, area.

I wish that a "social" network would bring back the idea of Circles.
Many things are winner-take-all. Olympic Gold. Company founder. CEO.

And looking past the top one person, there are power laws too. The number 2 person in a company gets paid twice what the number 3 person gets, and so on.

And it's not just money. There's power - politicians. And fame - actors, and others. They all follow the same pattern.

Given that this is the world we live in, there's a huge incentive to move up one rung on the ladder relative to the people around you.

Part of this drive to move ahead of other people is rational because of the geometrically increasing rewards.
Does she ever comment here any more?
3:2 display? I know it harks back to CRT specifications, but 4:3 was just right for pretty much all computing purposes other than watching wide movies. Even better? 3:4, a 90-degree rotated tall screen.
Like the two files on the linked page?
Did tech “barely exist” when Zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004?
On OpenBSD:

$ ls -l /dev/*random*
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7 Dec 10 15:05 /dev/random@ -> urandom
crw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 45, 0 Jan 6 15:30 /dev/urandom
> The rationale seems to be that users of the data types can choose whether to make them safe for concurrent use or not depending on the use case.

Also that for most uses a concurrent map is way overkill, and a thread-safe one is both costly and basically useless (hence the Java folks not keeping the thread-safety when migrating from Hashtable to HashMap).

On the other hand they're kinda shit given how awful non-builtin data structures are in Go, and how easy it is to "leak" maps between goroutines.
Has firefox fixed video playback on sites like instagram and gfycat yet? Their mp4 playback was broken for a significant number of videos last time I attempted to update. I'm still on an FF version 10 versions back because of their atrocious compatibility with mp4s (which is still incompatible, but less so).
Ask HN: Easy topics to introduce others to the programming?
Hey!
I am really passionate about coding and the programming ecosystem in general. I was wondering what are some interesting topics I could present to young non-coders for a short presentation.

I am trying to find a topic that would interest them without being too technical. Do you have any ideas? Thanks!
Yeah, but how would you log a user out? Delete the local token?
And if someone got access to the token, your account will be owned forever with no way to revoke the access. Unless you auto expire them... Now you need a flow to refresh the tokens....

If you implement jwt, you will need sessions and all other features authentication servers have... It would be way easier to implement a custom authentication flows mimicking your email auth than recreating everything else.

I think your service is good as is and introducing jwt to it would be a net-negative

But I'm just a random person from the internet, do whatever you feel like doing ;)
This kind of thing always brings me down a bit. It's not rational, but it does.

I mean I truly admire these folks skills, the math involved is obviously remarkable.

But I think the feeling is related to not being able to rely on anything in our field. Hard to justify going to the trouble of encrypting your backup. 10 years from now, it might be as good as plain text.

It's not security only, nothing seems to work in the long term.
Imagine an engineer receiving a call at midnight about his bridge because gravity changed during daylight saving in a leap year. That's our field.
After talking through this thread a bit, I realized that I'm pretty sure emauth.io already works the way you're describing. Having the link alone is not enough to login. Only the process (whether in browser, on your server, curl, or whatever) that made the original request will know that the email has been verified. The browser that opens the link simply gets a text response that says the email was verified (or failed if already expired). You can use that information however makes the most sense. For a secure application, it would be used by your server to validate a session.
And what's wrong with discriminatory hiring against negative health markers? It's perfectly legal to discriminate in other ways: employers are absolutely allowed to fire employees who are incompetent, for example. They're allowed to administer tests to job candidates to see if they're competent to do the job. There's all kinds of other things they're allowed to discriminate based on (like "cultural fit"), as long as it doesn't look like they're discriminating based on a "protected class" (race, sex, religion, etc.). "Negative health markers" are not a protected class. So why shouldn't an employer be allowed to discriminate based on BMI?
I strongly agree about the "mix of the two". Though social security is just a defined benefit scheme that's bankrupt and replying on a political bailout so I'm not sure I'd include it.

The big issue here though is how to make either work for the average person? A defined benefit scheme where the employer is fiddling the books will fail. A defined contribution scheme where the management company is charging fat fees and pushing risky investments will fail. Can we really trust the majority of people with no financial acumen to tell the difference?

I feel like both require the user to swim with sharks right now...
Dutch National Flag Problem
If they did then they'd be ruffling feathers on some alpha predator they'd rather not piss off.
Yes, absolutely. My one quibble is that I think their point is slightly less valid in that if the men in question got it together to become better humans (and therefore better partners), the imbalance wouldn't be nearly as bad. Partly on the socioeconomic level, because then their companies wouldn't be alienating or excluding so many female employees. But also on the personal level, because somebody from their past might see them as a good catch.

But yes, they should definitely be fighting the system, not getting mad at women and/or society at large. Of course, the whole of incel culture is pretty good at explaining why no woman wants to come near them.
The decode of sad feelings into binary is 10101011111101000101010101000000001011111112
I actually thought that was a bit unfair. Is it a misuse to use three times as much concrete as is strictly necessary? That would make the Empire State Building a "misuse" of concrete. Even if you aren't doing Empire State Building levels of overkill having engineering margins is a very well accepted thing. Is extracting 4096 bits from /dev/random for a 4096-bit RSA key "misuse" when said key only has between 200-300 bits of cryptographic strength? Meh.... I've got more important things to worry about; public key generation happens so rarely. And I do use a hardware random number generator[1] as a supplement when I generate new GPG keys.

[1] https://altusmetrum.org/ChaosKey/
Check for publication integrity before misconduct
To eat food is to build a healthy body, not pleasure. It is a means to an end. That made me lose 60lbs and live happier with myself, while still eating good food, doing only one or maximum 2 meals a day.
> No...

Why ?

> in this scenario the attacker has the victim’s new private key

You don't want to keep your private key in cleartext on your email provider servers, do you ?
Caching improves conversion and reduces expenses
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Misleading headline. Interesting how this has spread.
"If I got 2000 years of fame, I'd be pretty satisfied."

Actually, you'd wouldn't... be.
> Multi-million grants are common in academia.

Not in the way you explain. Multi-million dollar grants are usually awarded over multiple years, and pay for multiple researchers’ salaries, as well as other resources, some of which are expected to outlast the project (e.g. microscopes, or hardware for databases). Burning 75k on a single experiment (which is effectively what was done here) is rare.

Note that this is true even for current hot topics such as biomedical (e.g. cancer) research, for which vast chunks of the federal budget have been allocated in multiple countries. Obtaining similar sums in less sexy fields is much harder. And even in biomedical research, multi-million dollar grants are considered large. Most grants are much smaller, they just don’t get talked about as much.

Since you mention human RNA samples I assume you know this. You mention the per-milligram cost but this is pretty misleading if you mean to imply that “milligram” is somehow little, because it isn’t: yes, the samples are tiny (≤1 µg of RNA is more typical than milligrams!), but so what? It’s not like we need more.
Remember the scissors cut the eye of toy doll recommendation video when my kids watched video on youtube. After that only supervised youtube watching. The recommendation algorithm is made to keep people hooked coming for more content.
If you're already a cogent customer, you're unlikely to drop Cogent because they spam. There's costs and risks associated with onboarding new transits, and (one of) your current providers being spammy to other people isn't generally likely to drive a business decision.

If you're not a cogent customer, you're either not going to become one because of their tactics, or you are going to become one because of their tactics. I guess it's working towards the latter given how long it's been going on for.
We’re one step closer to printing functional human ovaries
That, and CPUs will juice themselves up by default. Intel has turbo boosts up to like 5GHz nowadays. I couldn't do that if I tried, and frankly I don't feel any reason to.
I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advise and probably not great advise.

You said you are broke, so that rules out lawyers. Emails however are free. Contact the registrar and datacenter provider and advise them you are working with a legal team to have their registrar status revoked and AS number revoked for the ISP. Maybe barter with a kvetetcher to nag them daily. There are no grounds for revocation of registrar accreditation, but if the right person reads your email, they may just dump the domain to make the problem go away. Ethics aside, lieing is legal. Debt collectors do it all the time.
.NET Core, .NET 5; the Exodus of .NET Framework?
Weight Gain Lines
> An entire new development environment will be created so they can run a client based language as a server to handle the new date format

Is this in reference to something? Did some Y2K patches partially consist of putting Node.js-based gateways in front of mainframes to translate dates back and forth?
> Haha, called it!

One or two years from now I invite you to take a look back at this comment and see if you still feel so smug. This is a relatively recent paper, give it some time to be chewed up and spit out by the cosmological community before hailing it as the deathknell of a decades old tricky problem.
It's a little more complicated for that. The main problem is that the way GPUs are designed, their execution units share the same instruction pointer[1]. That's not an issue if you're multiplying matricides, but it's an issue anytime you have branches. Therefore, even when your workload is massively parallel, it doesn't necessarily mean that a GPU cluster would perform nearly as well as a CPU cluster with the same amount of FLOPs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_block_(CUDA_programming...
That really resonates withe, too. Aged 36 now. Last time I really cried was when my grandpa died 12 years ago. Since then I lost my remaining grandparents as well. Luckily all of them lived beyond ot around 90. But I just didn't cry. Same when my best friend decided to leave for the US for good. Sad, yes. Crying, nope, even when I tried.

Still working on the anger / frustration front, so. I'd really love to feel even less of that. But than I am a rather analytical type, so not sure if it is an age thing.
I also don't like the UI, but it's only a default. After installing, right click anywhere on the top UI to pull up "Customize...", then in the tab that appears, select "Density" and change it from Normal to "Compact".

The compact UI has back/forward buttons being the same size. The UI also takes up less space and is generally nicer IMO
You still may never find the entry point if you don't recover the machines. Saudi Aramco and Maersk fell victim to similar ransomware attacks and practically had to start from scratch buying storage devices straight from manufacturers to get back online. NotPetya was so destructive it didn't leave behind much in the way of meaningful evidence. If you don't recover the encrypted data you probably won't recover evidence that points to patient zero anyway.
They added sync.Map

> Map is like a Go map[interface{}]interface{} but is safe for concurrent use by multiple goroutines without additional locking or coordination. Loads, stores, and deletes run in amortized constant time.

https://golang.org/pkg/sync/#Map
Significant because I just polished off a pack of thin mints.
>> "Hard to justify going to the trouble of encrypting your backup."

Huh? If you're "encrypting" using SHA, I've got some bad news about those backups of yours.
Most of the substantive reporting seems to point back to here: https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252476283/Cyber-gangster...
This is no place to discuss masculinity.
Operational sales deck are a great way to understand how your value proposition
The paltry price paid for Unruly rattles the consolidating ad tech market
These aren't synonyms.

Random is a property of the world itself; stochastic means "we allow ourselves to think of this process as random because we can't/don't want to deal with it exactly".

Following this is the difference between Random Differential Equations and Stochastic Differential Equations.
"SHA-512/256" is a single entity
You don't want to approach a promotion by saying "I want a promotion now-ish". Rather, you proactively start the conversation by saying "I want to be promoted in 6mo/1y. How do I get there?", and then you keep that conversation going.

For raises, if your relationship with your manager is half decent it's fine to just ask for it. If you're a junior-ish IC your manager is also likely a lower-level manager who feels more affinity for ICs than for upper management and he'll side with you when bubbling your request up to the right people. If you're more senior, you have more leverage and the power dynamics start inverting a bit too. Also, you're expected to have the soft skills to manage that conversation.
I effectively have 100% work from home for a FANG. I live in the Midwest and my compensation is the same as engineers working from HQ. I worked from HQ for a few years then told my manager I was gonna quit to move closer to family and we ended up being to arrange this. I fly to HQ a few times a year to have face time with my team. Not sure how long this arrangement will last, but it’s been awesome so far.
China’s lander releases data, high-resolution images of the Moon
one of many great lessons in that book. happy to have finally read it after it came up on here a few times.
This is some awesome PR too! Didn't expect them to be a software security consultancy.
If you use SHA-256 to encrypt your backup, then I just need to steal your backup and wait 20 years, until that is cracked, and then I can decrypt your backup, even though today you’re using the “correct” encryption.
Study shows animal life thriving around Fukushima
Oof that hits the spot. Can't seem to be satisfied until I get to bootstrap a product I love, even though my day job is already perfect.
Why is there such a push to use this new language that's so inaccessible to much of the world? Not everyone has a multi-gigahertz, multi-core, multi-gigabyte computer to develop in Rust. It seems like unnecessary stratification for nebulous gain.

Perhaps the Rust team should make their compiler work on reasonable resources, like 32 bit processors, before marching off to try to convert the world.

Or perhaps we should have rust2c instead, so people can take all this Rust code that everyone is pushing and compile it on modest machines.
My point is that Oracle doesn't have to be right in their potential dispute with Amazon. All they have to do is use a defense that does not rely on denying copyrightability of APIs or on fair use. And that's what they are doing by referring to the SDK license.
Strangely, I feel better in situations I am less secure. More alert, less bored. And when I do have a certain degree of control over the volatile, and potentially threatening, situation it just feels great. Not in the sense of joy, so. More like a certain kind of calm satisfaction.
For some reason, your Firefox profile doesn't have a preferred language, but Qwant expects one. If you add one in the Preferences (option "Choose your preferred language for displaying pages"), it should work.
ESA selects Arianespace for Euclid dark universe probe launch