skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, so you dont enjoy 80+ MPH on the interstate? Like in Texas/Oklahoma/Kansas- Flat roads in the middle of nowhere with barriers on all sides?

I love going fast- In the city or in neighborhoods/parking lots with little ones 25mph is too fast- I generally idle through those areas or go about 20. On city streets 40-45mph is comfortable where I am....Much of how safe I feel going is actually up to good civil engineering. 'Road Diets' are all about mixed use and slowing down the speed delta with cars, bikes and peds sharing the same area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_diet

I love going fast- with technologies like forward collision radar systems and lane assist technologies we are hacking the human condition to augment our abilities. Cars are getting safer as we go even faster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

I disagree with your statement that we should not go over 25. But I am also willing to be that I drive through more nothingland than you do each day. Going over 25 in a crowded city is not the same as a highway in BFE. Am I accurate there?

For some of us, Driving is a hobby and cars are very fun. I love the hell out of my cars.
The biggest player at the time (in the US) was RIM. This is why initial Android prototypes were built using the HTC Sooner devices - they wanted to copy the Blackberry and iterate on that layout. Once the iPhone came out, Google had to pivot and copy Apple's glass slab platform instead.
To be fair I have the 16” MacBook and the new keyboard is much, much better. I almost bought a Windows laptop but the MacBook came out just before in bought it.

The touchbar is still 100% useless. I don’t want my keys to keep changing on me, did no one do any usability studies on it? It’s absolutely stupid. And the previous keyboard is pure incompetence.

But the new keyboards are better. They should really just go back entirely to the 2015 keyboard.
Kenya should embrace automation to improve productivity and efficiency
I'd be interested to see their listener numbers after they switched to spotify (and rebranded). Unfortunately it's hard to get any meaningful statistics in the podcast world except for downloads.

I was a regular listener of Sanft & Sorgfältig back in the days and stopped after their switch to spotify because it was just inconvenient to use compared to overcast. I'd probably do the same with other podcasts I regularly consume.
U.S. charges four Chinese military hackers in 2017 Equifax breach
This can be done better with traits in Julia, which are more powerful, safer and faster.

See here: https://white.ucc.asn.au/2018/10/03/Dispatch,-Traits-and-Met...
This kind of stuff is exactly why I'm not "upgrading" from Windows 7 to 10.
It's back! The good old days of Micro$loth!
Because we paid money for this OS license, and we didn't go to Microsoft.com
CS graduate here.

Can confirm this site is legit. These are all standard recommended texts in CS curriculum.

You could probably substitute SICP with other modern language text books on programming, but you're not really starting from square one so I'd skip to data structures and algorithms.

That being said, from my limited experience with SICP, it's very good. Even the old MIT lectures are good. And it gives you exposure to a functional language.

The only thing glaringly missing is computational theory which you can acquire this by going here:
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-404j-theory-of-co...

Or reading this book: https://tinyurl.com/rm6bgws. It's the one I used in my studies and it isn't that great.

This book is apparently good because it's less wordy: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/second.html

WARNING: This stuff is very difficult to learn on your own. It takes a considerable amount of time to master and it would be worth it to go to university for support. You will often find that many of this stuff is not directly applicable to the workforce unless you're entering research positions. That being said, if you're a genius, unlike me, and extremely dedicated and consistent (also not me) you probably won't have any difficulty.

I've not taken the MIT course or read the second book so I can't vouch for its quality.
Hi, fellow employee.

edit: sorry. I misunderstood you. Some projects are delivered with subcontractors, of course. But I can tell you from inside that we still have a healthy GBS, GTS and Cloud Services, delivering projects.
It’s incredible how many companies in this space snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Microsoft, Sidekick, BlackBerry, Nokia...
They might go exclusive to BBC Sounds. The BBC has already started pulling its services from those they perceive to be competitors, like TuneIn[1] and Google Podcast[2].

[1] https://radiotoday.co.uk/2019/08/bbc-to-pull-all-radio-servi...

[2] https://www.thedrum.com/news/2019/03/27/bbc-removes-podcasts...
Headlinese
I guarantee you Chomsky knows more about game theory than you.
China’s Coronavirus Information Cover-Up Unveiled
I've never bought an album in my life. I like Spotify. Millions do. People want to pay for choice, not pay to commit to a single album.
In such a pedantic thread, we should at least use his proper surname, Peyton Jones.
The great vowel shift needs to be taught much more. Native English speakers commonly default to not taking the great vowel shift into account when encountering a new language. They'd be so much closer to the correct pronunciation by just pronouncing it like it was a word from any language other than English they might already know a little.

This should be one of the first things that gets hammered home when learning the first foreign language.
Thanks for the feedback, consider it done (very soon)
I have heard second hand that the devtools group is practically a separate company.
Your time is very expensive. A good podcast is a full-time job. Some can be pulled off as a hobby, but most of my favorite podcasters are either full-timers. For a living wage in the US, that's perhaps $30-$40,000 a year... which is a lot of mattresses and underwear to hawk, or a lot of donations to cajole. Which requires even more time spent managing that, tipping it further to being a full-time job.
The belt and road initiative is creating alliances between China and many countries in Africa and Asia.
I wonder what Snowden thinks?
Playlists for Learning
> They routed traffic through approximately 34 servers located in nearly 20 countries to obfuscate their true location, used encrypted communication channels within Equifax’s network to blend in with normal network activity

How cool is that. They have been able to grab and correlate netflow from across 20 countries.
That scenario is about as sensible as a person committing a crime and attempting to collect the police reward for information by turning themselves in.

(Depressingly, a bit of Googling shows that people have actually tried this. Needless to say, they did not get the reward.)
That link describes how a MCC worker was taken into custody, being charged with some degree of terrorism collaboration. He got out on bail 2 days after. [1]

Caja Laboral was not involved and they even fired that worker sortly after his detention (next day). [2]

I fail to see how that link proofs that the "Mondragon Group already had some historry of financing terrorism".

[1]https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20020531/51262755730/l...

[2]https://www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20020530/51262755722/c...
Interesting, how does deployment work for you? What sort of executables do you ship?
If you over-generalize, sure.

But different corporations are selfish/ruthless/exploitative in different ways, and organizing our thinking about the ways in which a for-profit organization acts selfishly/ruthlessly/exploitatively helps us make our own decisions and craft our own strategies for getting what we want from them, or choosing with whom we do business.
What would you pay for type checking?
OS victimization is largely self-selected today.
> these companies are committing slander against Americans and facilitating fraud en mass

What slander? If credit information is inaccurate, you can have it changed. If they don't do it in a timely fashion, you can sue. (I won several thousand dollars a few years back for a tax lien on my report that wasn't even mine.)

I'm no fan of credit bureaus at all, but "slander" is hyperbole and not even true (and it's an inaccurate word, when credit reports are written, thus the correct word would have been "libel" -- however, even accusing credit bureaus of libel is ridiculous.)

To further dispute the claim that these companies "slander" people, one must look at what the legal test is for defamation.

The company (or person) must have:

1. Published or otherwise broadcast an unprivileged, false statement of fact about the plaintiff

2. Caused material harm to the plaintiff by publishing or broadcasting said false statement of fact

3. Acted either negligently or with actual malice

Credit bureaus don't publish or broadcast.
Material harm has to be proven. There must be quantifiable damages. Just shouting someone's potentially inaccurate credit information from the rooftops isn't necessarily causing damages -- it's possible, but those damages would have to be proven.
It's not negligent if a file is inaccurate -- it's negligent if they were presented with a challenge of that inaccurate information and refused to correct it. However, admittedly, the bureaus do seem to act negligent rather frequently when it comes to information accuracy -- however, negligence alone doesn't make a defamation case -- the information must be publicly released (i.e. broadcast or published,) and cause material harm.

> and facilitating fraud en mass.

...and facilitating credit en mass... Without credit bureaus there would be a much more difficult credit market and it would be much more subject to discriminatory practices. A credit report can't be racist, but a local bank manager, making a credit decision based on "knowing you" is (and has been,) prone to discrimination and unfairness. The VP's golfing buddy needs a loan: "No problem, we got you!" While the immigrant business owner needs a loan -- a much more difficult proposition. America's economy is the largest in the world -- and contributing to that is the ready availability of credit.

To be clear, I'm not defending credit bureaus from their numerous misdeeds. But throwing words around like "slander" or "fraud" is a childish view on the importance of credit bureaus to the American credit system.
Depends. Iran has (allegedly) committed what could be constituted as acts of war already. With the US in a heightened state of engagement in direct conflict with China and possibly regional actors, the Gulf of Oman seems like a great place to touch off a regional conflict.
Still requires JS. I'll stick with nitter.net, which doesn't even require a login.
I made a comment in passing about doing this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22262965 and had the most upvotes I've had in a while (hah) so here's a write up about it. Let me know just how naïve I was being.
Good point. Performance is a problem on these tools and I need to do some work on that front as well. My email is on geoman.io - send me a data set and let me try. I will make improvements here in the next weeks.
Yeah, why not both?
That's still an exception. Sure you can, but the lack of PhD is likely going to make things more difficult.

In some domains, trying that stuff is even explicitly frowned upon. Me for instance started to get into applied cryptography, starting 3 years ago, by writing a crypto library¹, and learning whatever was needed to do it properly. Problem was, I had no prior reputation, no PhD in the relevant field, so reactions were mitigated.

Some welcomed the effort, either for its own sake, or because they recognised it filled an under-served niche. The majority however parroted variations of the usual "don't roll your own crypto". Some established authorities here took the time to demonstrate I might not know as much as I appeared to know, without providing much help.

Yet, it's pretty normal. Cryptography is difficult, full of subtle death traps, and is routinely used in contexts where stakes are high (up to and including life or death stuff). Of course you should be cautious when you see a new Maverick around the block. Plus, the domain expert there are few, and very busy. They don't have to give their time to any newcomer. Slapping down the newcomer may be harsh, but it's easier, and possibly more effective than providing help.

Now, 3 years later, I enjoy a pretty good reputation on /r/crypto², but I'm a long way from widespread recognition in the field. Monocypher did find some real users in the embedded market, though.

[1] https://monocypher.org

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/
Sorry for the late reply, but here is a write up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22290466
No, it's the opposite. The activity was directed by the state, the state must absolutely be held responsible.

If this were a rogue state, or rogue actors, or non-state related activity like general corruption, as we see with Russian figures, it might make more sense to go after the individuals.
So? There are free products with ads (like Gmail), paid products without ads (like Netflix and Windows 8), and paid products with ads (like Hulu and Win10 home edition). I'm not the biggest fan of the paid+ads business model, but it's a valid model and Microsoft has been pretty consistent - Win10 has followed this model since release, so nobody is being tricked.
> Next time, others will push back against an order to attack like this because consequences will be personal for them, not just another move in a war

I don't think so. People usually follow orders until the bitter end, especially when the government wields as much power as China's.
I don't think I'd describe my hand position as a claw. My wrist is straight but my hand wrests above the line of text and the pencil meets the paper at basically a "north-west" angle.

If some people write at a more extreme angle than that, I agree that sounds like a recipe for a bad time.
Tech shuttles now travel as far as out as the Central Valley
I redesigned the infamous IOWA App in 30 minutes
They will come soon. No paid features planned yet but we will see how much effort the tool is for us in the future. For now, most of these formats will be supported for free.
> what are they supposed to do? Do nothing?

Isn't Edge still actually bundled with Windows? How is that nothing?

> SJW logic

WTF?! What part of this is "SJW"? And how is their title misleading?
These aren't mutually exclusive. We should blame both.
It looks like they’re using the common meaning of routing and are implying tunneling instead actual route hijacking. So finding which servers they’re tunneling to is thorough but doesn’t seem all that impressive.
Critical infrastructure operated by a single company. That can't ever go wrong, provider redundancy is overrated.
Having used Intercooler a few times now, it feels like the worst of all worlds since you now have to write and return HTML at AJAX endpoints and keep that HTML synced with the rest of your HTML (e.g. consider CSS) instead of just returning data from an API endpoint.

You end up with a bunch of made-for-Intercooler endpoints instead of thoughtful, general, data API endpoints.
Is it not possible to blame both Equifax as well as the presumed attackers? If a bank was robbed, you would blame the bank for inadequate security and the bank robber for the theft.

Although the fine is too little and too late, Equifax was blamed and punished for their lax security and ineptness at dealing with the situation[0]:

> Equifax will pay up to $700 million in fines and monetary relief to consumers over a 2017 data breach at the credit reporting bureau that affected nearly 150 million people.

0: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/22/744050565/equifax-to-pay-up-t...
Expose Your IngressController and Get TLS from LetsEncrypt
I can’t speak for all of Google (maybe there is something secret I don’t know about, although I doubt it given how much leaking there has been), but for the sensitive data I have had to deal with for my job, I’m not aware of anyone having a way of bypassing the controls.
I remember the "reboot" bug on the HTC G1...

Apparently everything you typed was executed in a terminal, so if you typed "reboot" anywhere, including in a chat window, it would reboot your device.
https://rosettacode.org/wiki/100_doors
No it shouldn't (even if I agree with your sentiment about company, growth and probably life in general). People interested in coop model have a legitimate interest in proving that it can work for various business size
Those are the two biggest features of Spotify lol.

Thats like saying the only thing McDonald's french fries have going for them is that they taste good and are cheap.
Larger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289826
> Government can't solve the problem of externalities

Do you enjoy the the benefits of the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act?

In your view, does government at least partially solve the problem of some negative externalities?

(Based on your bio, I assume you're in the US.)
Nice to see someone from Parsec here! USB forwarding like VirtualHere would be nice, so that I don’t have to fiddle with that every time I start the instance.

IIRC I tried the Parsec AMI but it was difficult to use and required a lot of fiddling. I can’t remember the details unfortunately, but I would have preferred to just use that instead of Paperspace (this might be a niche use case since I’m an engineer). If I could have figured that out, I would have written a CLI around it and open sourced it for others to use.

Also because I’m an engineer, I really wanted to read the source code to see how it worked. But I get that it’s your magic sauce :).

Thanks for the awesome tech!
Btw, there is another big thinker who has an idea of how to do this. The "trick" is to define the tiny market as small as it needs to be to have the tech dominate. And then, when it grows, define the market as slightly larger so it dominates the new market and so on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm
Whatever investments they have in the US are probably dwarfed by what they have in China.

I doubt any government wants someone working for them that invests the majority of their wealth in an adversarial country.
A Novel Path to Homeownership
> - Every year a new version comes out that requires developers to fix bugs and sometimes adopt new technology.

this is a huge bug in the ecosystem from a user perspective as you have to continue paying to keep your software working.
Mini ITX 16-core Linux workstation board
I think “bad information from China => daily mail as good as anything else” is a pretty cynical view. I don’t think it’s true in this case
What Needs to Happen to Get Boeing’s 737 Max Flying Again?
I think they had an unpatched weblogic server/java web application that was internet facing.
I'm assuming by "more effectively" you mean "less shortsightedly"?

In any case, such judgement is only clear in hindsight (that is, calculating effectiveness implies a time window over which effects are to be tabulated).

Most charitably, the executives perhaps felt they were making judicious, acceptable tradeoffs that would maximize business outcomes over the time horizon they were concerned with - periods measured in quarters or years or even decades.

How would we incentivize people to only take profits over an arbitrarily long (and ever-widening) window? What happens when a black swan occurs and significantly drives down the effectiveness of prior decisions (which until then had been deemed quite effective)? Are profits clawed back?
The other thing hobbyist vs career is you can solve problems the way you want and take the path of least resistance at times. "Man I'm a bit overwhelmed, I'll learn that later, let's do this for now." And you're done and that's probabbly ok for a one man show / dude just playing with a hobby.

Career you're going to have to jump those hurdles... doesn't matter if you're in the mood or do or don't want to. Sometimes for really dumb reasons too. It's great for growth and learning, but it is a very different experience.

I did a bootcamp with some folks who had been doing web development as a hobby for fun for a while. Many of them really didn't adapt well to suddenly HAVING to do things new ways. They were comfortable with what they knew and were surprisingly resistant to other things. Granted that happens in every job / career but a comfortable happy hobby suddenly can become something else. We had a lot of "No man I get that worked for your javascript game but we're not hard coding all that every time ...."
They have a pretty good browser again, and this looks more like a play to get more bing search in front of more people. They make a lot of money with everly little % increases in add display.
I am not sure I feel this is different then Google trying to get you to browser switch when visiting their search site in Firefox or Edge.
Realizing what the extent of DOJ's intelligence capabilities is a bit eerie. They were able to name individual Chinese military operatives. Yet telegraphing that capability is a message all by itself.
> Normandy, not Brittany.

Fair point. In my head the two tend to merge into an unicuum, but that's not the case.
I do not feel that way, and was fascinated by the intensity with which some people on HN dislike metrics and adds. So I had tried an informal survey of people i knew, and out of 39 only 7 were somewhat concerned and some said they thought phones and tvs can capture video or audio and were not particularly concerned even with that.

Another indirect piece of evidence is that even NSA backdoors did not get the attention they deserved.
Layoffs result as consumers think twice about DNA testing
Political economy is a wide field with something for everyone. Consider it a choose your own adventure.
Idiom salad
Hopefully as theorem provers improve and become more expressive, we can begin to state these theorems and even formalize proofs of them, letting a computer verify the proof for us. Check out Lean[1] if this sounds interesting to you.

[1]: https://leanprover.github.io/
And Taika was the voice of IG-11, in case that also wasn't clear.
It's tongue-in-cheek of course :). That being said, I did find tiling WMs to be very unwieldy on most screens. When I first went down the tiling WM rabbit hole, I was using a laptop with a 15" screen, and that was great. After a while I got a 27" monitor, though, and tiling became extremely annoying -- every window is now either too wide to be read comfortably and I end up padding the screen with useless xterms, or too small for contents to fit in any reasonable way.
Sometimes simple works just fine...
In the context of describing an idea to minimize false positives, pointing out a false positive in the given example is at best nitpicking, it's definitely not relevant.
Pixelpost (Calendar addon 1.1.6) 1.7.3 Multiple vulnerabilities
> Want to get me to try Edge? Great -- instead of a passive-aggressive ad, try telling me how it's better than Firefox and why I'd like to use it instead. What will it get me? Better privacy? Better performance? Better development tools?

Isn't this exactly what Microsoft is doing? Clicking on the ad leads to the product download page which also describes the features.

In most cases, average users like to try software by feel, not by looking at a technical spec sheet.
also by Danish..where do you think Anglo came from? yes, the term is Roman for what they called brits but the actual group that was not Saxon(Saxon ie German Saxony) came from the middle of Denmark..
He cites numbers from Google's previous financial reports (likely to be valid) and then adds a guess of 45% at the end (less likely to be valid). If you want to believe the guess, well, that's up to you.