skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if the artificial meteors ionize well enough to enable meteor scatter propagation on VHF/UHF amateur radio like regular meteors do.
Venturing a Perspective on the Drug Pricing Debate:
https://lifescivc.com/2019/12/venturing-a-perspective-on-the...
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Thread-safe refcounts or not? Do you have separate types for "mutable owned string" and "immutable ref-counted string"? Small-string optimizations? You may think there's a single obvious answer for all these decisions but major libraries for other languages have made different decisions for each one.

Refcounted strings are actually very nasty to use in C because you have no RAII or other automatic memory management. You have to manually deref every string value when it goes out of scope, or get leaks --- and if you accidentally ever double-deref along some path, you get probably-exploitable use-after-free.

Once you've picked some tradeoffs for your program, you have to live with the fact any foreign C you call isn't using your library so you'll be converting to/from their types (typically const char*) all over the place anyway, so the temptation to "just use chars" will be ever-present.

Given those issues, I'm not surprised I actually haven't seen any C programs use this model.
> I feel like that by default would just mean everything involving anyone with any power

Precisely. We give them the power to search our houses and take away our freedom because we trust them to do The Right Thing. When this trust is broken, we are in a very bad place.
They said they're doing a post-mortem, but how much can a public post mortem really say about "forgot to renew a thing"?

I appreciate the sentiment but I think it's fine for them to just say "we examined our processes, found out what led to the issue, and have modified procedures". I worry a detailed post mortem would just throw specific folks under the bus (most likely some low level employee who isn't actually the root cause)
Not true. How much is seen depends on the focal length and lens
Oil is the lifeblood of the US economy.

In times of economic recession, we often blame the government and get rid of them.

We've clearly signaled with our voting patterns what we want and government has delivered on it - a reliable supply of oil to power the economy. Hence subsidies.

On the other side the Norwegian government has managed to implement the world's highest tax on ICE cars and survive re-election so presumably that's what the electorate wants.
I assume that the archive.org mirror is showing what was visible? https://web.archive.org/web/20200203154312/http://captcha.ns...

I see a google search page (google.com equivalent). Which fits with the reverse proxy that does ~any google url.
Oh come on, like I'm going to trust the panic video from the guy selling survivalist porn. /r/CoronaVirus hosts a similar gathering of nutters.
I am going to seize this opportunity and rant out my angst against Microsoft’s worst product till date.

Has anyone even felt that Teams is a heavy app that consumes a lot of time to come alive?

Even during calls, the quality is horrible that I don’t even want to describe the pain I go through. There’s strong distortion and voices will never be heard clearly.
Luck plays a big factor in the success of many products.

We think success = product excellence: how else could a product rise to a leading position in the market or to such pre-eminence unless it was better than the alternatives?

Although success is sometimes tied to product excellence, the mountain of successful products that range from mediocre to terrible shows there's often little reason or rhyme to a product's success.

There's even an element of luck here in Hacker News. Just take a look at 'Show HN' - there are many excellent projects that get no attention or traction at all. And then there a few lucky ones that suddenly take-off. There's no "wisdom of the crowds" moment that propels one project to success over another because it's more worthy or excellent - it really is random in so many cases.
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The only research that is referenced there is the https://journals.aom.org/doi/pdf/10.5465/AMBPP.2018.19 which only has an introduction.
> You don't think it defies logic that a SOFTWARE ENGINEER who works for the CIA, would leave such an obvious trail to a horrific crime on his home computer?

The history of people being arrested for crime suggests no. People who are incredibly savvy in one field have been incredibly stupid in what should have been a very-closely-related field.

Entirely too many politicians who know how much people talk have had their careers tarnished by unpopular sexual trysts, for example.
I have often wondered about this, so I do find this interesting. Of all of the info presented, one question I have is how does the AI decide when to go at a 4-way stop? In real life, I'm am constantly amazed at how confusing a 4-way stop is to humans.

Not that I ever had any doubt into how complicated real-time video analysis could be, this just makes my appreciation of the complexity of the problem that much more qualified.
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Wonder if your claim fell under fair use and it harmed your channel if you could sue for tortious interference? There's some theme park in New Hampshire threatening to go after drone operators even though they don't own the private airspace, however, if it's a business day and full of crowds that a general no no anyways to fly over people.

Be funny if that guy sued CBS in some small town court, I doubt they'd even show up though or argue they don't have jurisdiction over them if no offices there, and I doubt an affiliate would count but maybe. Oh looks like Joe is from Austin, Texas so a pretty big city then, so not sure if CBS has anything other than an affiliate owned by third party company, but I know states in the past said having affiliates create Nexus for sales tax purposes. I was part of a fitness related affiliate program but never made any money with it years ago, and my state created one of those click-through nexuses so the company decided just to kick me out of the program based on the state in my profile.

Then if your tortious interference claim could be valid, and since YouTube has some processes (including automated ones) that side steps and goes well beyond what the DMCA requires, I wonder if YouTube along with CBS also would be opening themself up to additional legal liabilities then.

Be nice if people would stand up to legal bullies more, but sadly the justice and the legal system are not blind as they say and costs to access so it seems like unbalanced powers that favor both the government and corporations over individual citizens.
I think of this statement as less of one that the author considers likely or not and more a way to illustrate the dependencies present in tech salaries.

For what it's worth, I agree with you as well.
I worked in C just before and just after my gig in Pascal. While C had flaws, it was a more usable language than Pascal. First version C, first version Pascal. That's what Pascal apologists never want to admit. They still, 50 years later, either don't understand it or won't accept it: C was more usable than Pascal. Pascal's story may have been better, it's theory may have been better, but when it came to actual ability to write programs, C was better.

Now, Pascal improved. Various versions fixed various flaws in various nonstandard ways. But the same was true of C.
If we are going to save these butterflies, we will need to expedite economic growth. In the US that means libertarian-esque policy. This is the solution most people don’t realize is the correct one.
EDIT: it looks like my reading of this was incorrect. A careful reading of the source I think makes it clear SwiftCrypto avoids any use of the specialist hardware on Apple platform. My apologies for the confusion.

—— original (incorrect) comment

It does not say Secure Enclave is not supported, it says this:

“ a subset of the API is built around using Apple’s Secure Enclave processor to securely store and compute on keying material. Apple’s Secure Enclave processor is not available on non-Apple hardware: as a result, Swift Crypto does not provide these APIs.”

So if secure enclave is available it specifically _is_ used to implement some functionality, but this is implements in other ways on other platforms. However the APIs for secure enclave itself are not exposed in either implementation.
Having kids when you're not ready for them and getting cancer or into a car crash are two very different things, I hope you can see that.

And if people change their opinions when they end up on the opposite side of the situation, those opinions probably weren't worth much to begin with and will likely change again once things turn around.
It’s human nature that when something good happens, we like to credit ourselves. When something bad happens, we tend to blame others.
Are you thinking for cryptocurrency? I doubt that the Mac Pro can compete with other mining setups on performance per $. Also, Swift Crypto is for general-purpose cryptography (e.g., for network protocols), and so it is going to be much slower than an implementation scoped and optimized for mining.
I think rich kids will often lack the inner motivation and discipline to see a startup through. That's the flip side of knowing you can fail and it won't impact your life negatively. Startups are really hard, if you don't have that burning desire and fear of failure driving you forward, I don't think too much of your chances.

Anyone rich, or not can try again and again, it will just be harder for people who also need to figure out how to pay the bills.
It varied: in the “data/audio” folder I used a fairly heterogeneous set of vessels (a short thermos, short and wide ceramic Starbucks “you are here” mugs, some standard water glasses, and some somewhat narrow glass mugs). All were between 10 and 20 oz in capacity.

In “data-v2/audio”, I just did a ton of samples in ceramic Starbucks mugs and the narrower glass mugs.

It turns out the model generalized quite nicely! In build log 3 I took a model trained on “data-v2/audio” and applied it quite successfully to “data/audio”.
This article effectively is saying that if the demand for developers falls that salaries would fall. Which is obvious to anyone who has taken econ 101, but I have no idea how this is anymore of a "risk premium" than anyone else who works for a living.

> and the cut you’re taking from not working at AppAmaGooFaceSoft.

This pre-supposes that:

A) Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft are the highest paying companies (not only not true for liquid cash, even less true if you factor in start-up equity expectation)

B) Salaries aren't being set by all the other companies as well. [Generalists, at least in the Bay Area, are in a competitive employment market, not an oligopoly]
This person went through one of the most demanding interviewing process on the planet and has passed probably more than one interrogation without anyone suspecting he was a paedophile.

I'm really not sure which possible assertions is more disturbing: that the FBI would frame him or that the CIA may be full of paedophiles.
To figure out why he did it is part of the Trial, isn't it? Maybe it's what you've just said, or maybe he did it for fame, maybe a 3rd party forced him, maybe he just had enough of it, etc..
Somebody possibly got a written up for this.
This is a better business strategy than the one they had the last decade.
I also think that generally speaking it's a seller's market right now for tech skills, and has been for years.

At least where I live (Toronto), there are more jobs than (qualified) candidates. At my last job (a very large digital team inside one of the largest corporations in the country), we were hiring up to 20 people per month, and usually interviewing 100+ just to get those 20 people. And still had lots of job openings.

Most candidates would tell us that they're talking to 4-5 other companies, so we often didn't get people even if we made them an offer.

From speaking to colleagues elsewhere in the city and country, most (non-AppAmaGooFaceSoft + Shopify for Canada) companies are in the same boat.
Nylas is a Latacora client. I think they’re a great place to work overall, but I can tell you a bunch about the prodsec role. Contact info in profile.

Email and contacts integration is either table stakes or a superpower for a giant number of products. This is so obvious to me now it hardly seems worth a paragraph. Nylas is also clearly much better at executing on that than individual startups will be at effectively every scale.

If you’ve written those integrations before, consider: what if you were using IMAP and CalDAV, except instead of a myriad of incompatible dialects that never made sense to begin with, you had a good API instead?

We’ve been running security for them for a while, so you can be pretty confident you’re not inheriting a clown fire and that you have a friendly set of faces to show you around while you find your bearings.

The things that excite me most about prodsec here are in a) their ability to ship new product b) the world’s general inability to talk about security and privacy for this sort of access cogently. Nylas has a solid foundation with a pile of products and integrations waiting to happen. That means their technology is being put in new contexts (eg a whitelabeled modal or something) that have new security implications that they’re not used to. That’s where your expertise comes in so there are plenty of opportunities for you to obviously and directly contribute. Similarly: Nylas lives in an environment where consumers and regulators are increasingly concerned about privacy. Industry is barely playing catch up. If you want to shape how we talk about data safety ten years from now, there are few places better to do that at than Nylas. (Yes, there are industry giants who are sitting on far worse troves. Doesn’t matter: turns out you’re helping them figure this out a lot more than you’d expect.)

There are few people in the industry I respect more than Spang. You want to work with Spang.

(You might think there is a COI with me talking up a client, but keep in mind we’re a small consultancy that’s happy to end engagements that aren’t working out, and security placement is a supply-dominated repeat game.)
You are not alone but MS has market share and easy reach with 365. Slack (as an example) is a much better product but MS can afford to be lazy. Hopefully when Slack releases SIP support it will be forced to improve.
https://letsmonitor.org/

Also my employer (well, until the end of this week) Kynd does this as part of its broader "Check cyber-security stuff" offering for non-technical people. https://www.kynd.io/
Correct me if I’m wrong, but AFAIK, Google was legally required by the DMCA to make a Content ID system
Maybe they will be motivated to preserve dark skies then. Maybe.
I strongly suggest fixing the readability of your blog on larger monitors. Everything gets huge and unreadably large, including images.
Oh great! I spent half an hour the other day figuring out how to do MD5 on Swift without CommonCrypto or Xcode.

The best answer was perfect swift libraries, which linked to OpenSSL but damn it was hard to figure out.

It is still too painful to write Swift outside of the blessed Apple world. This is a step, but still a long way to go.
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Don't the salaries at AppAmaGooBookSoft (sorry, patio11's spelling is canonical here) themselves include a risk premium that is incenting the people there to stay instead of going to work at a small company with the opportunity to topple one of them?

How do you model those risk premiums against each other? It seems like they should both go infinity in order to keep anyone from ever leaving anywhere.
To what degree does Army Reserve experience hurt? I have a lot of military time that overlaps with my years of employment as a corporate software developer and am considering taking it off my resume in the future to see if there is an uptick in interest on my resume.
Then what drives the high salaries at AppAmaGooFaceSoft?
it's not trivial in every domain to distinguish between pure and non-pure operations. If you're writing software for control systems, robotics, anything that has a very tight, low-level coupling between programming logic and the outside world it's harder or often not possible to separate concerns into some sort of data -> logic pipeline that lends itself to this style of programming, or it may come at the cost of performance.
No, but they dig through your life, talk to people who knows you, and ask very pointed questions.
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It's not so much that the article is false as it is that its using a very broad interpretation of terminology.

In essence all of'supply' and 'demand' would fall into this risk premium bucket by this interpretation.
Is it? I've never seen a statistic suggesting that. Feels like it'd be pretty easy to observe if it were happening.
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That's incorrect. A company's market cap includes any cash the company has. Buying stock means spending that cash but increasing the value of the stock by an equal amount.

Stock buybacks don't affect market cap.
That's all true. Maybe it is just people are that stupid.

Here is ANOTHER article from Today about a famous Hacker being arrested for child porn.

https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-hacker-busted-also-pleads...

It just feels like from reading the news, that to be an illegal hacker it's almost a requirement to have tons of child porn on your personal computers.
> And have it run at the speed of c

Unlikely; clojure runs on the jvm (or on top of js), and interop with c is slow.
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Because they are not used here since 19th century :)
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Another write up at the NSA.
NSA thanks you for you participation in this experiment. Please terminate all knowledge with the purple pill at this time.
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Akamai rotates their source IPs a lot so you wouldn’t get a captcha very fast.
"Astra's founders say that their goal is to become the 'FedEx of space,' a company that will deploy smallsats into low-Earth orbit daily and for as little as $1 million."
"That's classified."
It happens - yesterday we went down for the same god damn reason. There has be a better solution.
Pismo looked healthier this year as well: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23795
Conversely I know people who got stoned and mooched a lot to get by and were “happy” with sporadic entry level jobs.

They could have done _something_ with all that spare time but they rather vegged out and whiled away their time.
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Wait, the Germans are hoarding money again? Should I be alarmed? The UK just exited the EU.
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^this. i recently had to explain this to a product manager who wanted the user's email and password to be autofilled it they landed at the login page.
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The article is not saying that - if IBM hires 100,000 developers but AppAmaGooBookSoft have a hiring freeze, then then you get a much smaller risk premium. The point being that AppAmaGooBookSoft pay insane salaries so other companies need to pay their employees somewhat well to minimize risk losing their (best) employees to AppAmaGooBookSoft.
Your first example loses the real reason for the error and just assumes "record-not-found", so it will give misleading errors when the network drops for a moment, possibly resulting in an attempt to insert a duplicate record if the code tries to add-if-not-found. That'll make for some debugging fun!

And this is the problem with error checks: They're purely optional as far as the language is concerned, so we keep getting them wrong or forgetting things, even when we're being careful.
I haven't used FDW directly but I would suspect the performance would largely be related to how you can get pushdown and native usage within the source system. Combining data almost must be done on the master node.
Google Calendar and Tasks - the integrated one.

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> The dirty little secret that the successful don't like to admit. Plenty of people worked as hard as they did - the only difference between them and the "losers" is that they got lucky.

The problem is that the alternative is a dangerous narrative, because you can't control how lucky you are (and you don't always know your luck ahead of time), but you can control how much effort you put in.

If you go around telling people that it's basically just luck then they don't even try and then they aren't in a position to capitalize even if they are one of the lucky ones.

People also tend to focus on the billionaires, where the only way to really make it to that level is to win the "right place at the right time" lottery that a million other people who tried just as hard will lose. But far, far more people succeed in building a lifestyle business than succeed in founding a unicorn, and it's disingenuous to count all of those small successes as failures just because they're not all filthy rich.
Comforting to know I'm not the only one who constantly has random problems with Let's Encrypt. You're on point about the silently failing bit too.