skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Too much tech, not enough MBA

Yup. Left to their own devices, engineers will chose to do what is “coolest” using the hippest technology stack and the most pure architecture imaginable. And they’ll build something and it will be cool.. to them.... but it won’t solve any business needs or will solve the wrong ones and not deliver as much value as it could have if it had somebody with a good business head on.

...or they’ll go reinventing the wheel and build massive costly systems that should have been purchased off the shelf from a vendor.

Nope. You need a balance. It isn’t enough to just have tech smarts. You need somebody with business smarts to keep things grounded and solving real business problems that deliver value to the customer.
"Intervals", "Scales", and "Chords" are good terms to search for. They are elementary concepts present in a lot of music. Ten Steps use six notes of the C Major Scale, all of which belong to either the I or IV chord. The I and IV chords use, by definition, an interval of 1-4-7.

For an entertaining overview, check out Leonard Bernstein's 1973 Norton lectures, "The Unanswered Question"[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFjonLo8gYHIXC35K4Ujr...
Still not convinced that the functional programming paradigm is at all useful
Not yet, but someone suggested Chrome DevTools protocol. This is still in the very early stages, so we're looking into these things.
See also: https://plaza.one/
An incremental evolution may cause us to get stuck in a local maximum. You are correct that the incremental step is necessary. You are ignoring that this incremental step sets us onto a path of closed protocols. In time we'll be worse off.
Having cryptographically signed DNS records that can’t be forged and can be validated is good thing, which is what DNSSEC provides.

Right now, DANE is the only way to mitigate downgrade attacks with SMTP and TLS connections. Apparently use of DANE for email is growing [1].

DANE hasn’t taken off with browser vendors because of their concern about additional DNS lookups when making TLS connections.

[1]: “Number of DANE-enabled mail domains growing exponentially”—https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/number-of-dane-enabled...
Tips for writing great Cold Emails to B2B customers
In September 2017, Rohrabacher appeared on camera and said that he took part in a "confidential interaction" with the White House in order to secure Assange a deal.

https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/interview-from-3-years-ago-a...
You also have to make sure the machine your browsing from isn’t compromised.

IMO it changes very little unless you’re living with other people.
Great: furniture movers should also have the free speech right to talk about my address, describe all my possessions, etc.

I hire those assholes to transport my bits, unmodified except for TTL, from my endpoint to a peer, no more, no less. Since they have a de facto monopoly I don’t even have the ability to choose an alternative. This exploitative crap must be stopped.
Corporate personhood is a centuries old idea. It is what enables you to sign a contract with a company, for example.

As a counter example that shows they are still not fully "people": a corporation cannot adopt a child or get married.
Not everyone is 30-40?
Previous HN discussion from 3 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12515308

Back then, the platform apparently still required invites (which probably explains why nobody seems to have started using it despite us living in an age of fake news which seems kind of perfect for this sort of thing), it seems that it now no longer does so.

Some background info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_competing_hypothes...
I guess because it's silly, that's very unusual for IBM.
Growing as a Leader: Stop Mediating
I did think today :)
rather offtopic but this rolling marketing gag is powered by a Peterbuilt 579 (why is the logo blacked out??) and only weighs 23 tons. The 579 can easily haul more than double this. https://www.peterbilt.com/trucks/highway/model-579

this is a class 8 truck which retails for around $150,000 new and has a 12 liter PACCAR MX13 engine with ~450HP and 1800FP of torque. Collision mitigation, advanced cruise radar, and an all aluminum cab in standard or automatic transmission.

however- on the infographic this says its powered by a Mercedes Actros? Do they have another one of these things rolling around Europe as well?

Drivers can expect to see around 7mpg. Was this really a good investment on the part of IBM? Do you explicitly need a cyber truck to come to your office for security or do people use the internet these days? "X-Force Cyber Command" sounds like something you'd see on sunday morning cartoons.
Thanks! Zoom is there, #3 from the cohorts that haven’t seasoned for 1 year.

Yea I’ll see what I can do to get the pre-IPO private round in. It’s easier to get per-IPO exposure as a retail investor nowadays.
> A scripting language is not a goal in itself

Agreed, I think this is a case where people forget “what is the problem I’m trying to solve” and instead get lost in a means not an ends.
So that's two things you think we should prioritize over people's safety: ergonomics and technological progress. You're digging the hole deeper for your argument.
Daniel Kahneman with Lex Fridman [video]
I've used 3DSMax for two decades and I wish they would replace all the buttons with text. How do you design a button that describes the idea of a "bias"? Well they tried and I still don't get it after all these years.
Perfect Day Expands to Develop Animal-Free Milk Fat (2019)
We're definitely going to laugh on how ridiculous and over-the-top this is, but we live in an age of spectacle. If I'm getting a cybersecurity seminar or training session, I'd rather it come rolling in like Gordon Ramsay than something standard and boring.

If its entertaining, maybe people will pay attention to it more? Communication can be an engineering problem too.
You should totally branch out on your own. Maybe put some "teaser" courses on Udemy with good content, but not premium, and do premium on your own. I want to take your letsencrypt course but would rather pay you directly. So as an example of my suggestion in this case, your Udemy course would maybe explain SSL, explain LetsEncrypt, and show how to get around, but the best, most usable scripts and info would only be available in your course.

It's like all the other platform stuff: You're basically a contractor for Udemy. Their rules, their terms, and you're ditched when somebody makes them a "better" deal.
Howdy, It's funny, I'm actually the worst person to ask about Raleigh meetups. My interest is more in finding excuses to never actually go to a meetup. If you need help there, I'm your man.
Samsung freaks out smartphone owners with mysterious '1' notification
I would say that anything has bias (even AI, they exists because of us and our initial preconceptions), but at some point you can't deny the fact that we are all biologically born either a man or woman even if you don't feel like one or feel trapped into the wrong gender.

And even if you're a man or woman, we live in the present where some fashion items or appearances are commonly associated to a specific gender. Those change over time, but don't expect people to associate a style to another gender overnight and AI still have to make these common associations to be useful or relevant to the current time, and they'll evolve too.
Udemy is ostensibly in business to help people learn something.
> it would take IBM an age to roll this to an environment suffering a breach

No problem, that's where we use the X-Force Command Cyber Tactical Operations Center Helicopter.
"I'm still looking for a solution for the situation when I'm trying to communicate without revealing my identity to the person I'm talking with."

This exists. In the past, it took the form of an "anon.penet.fi" email address. This was a very simple, useful service[1] that many people used to great advantage.

In modern times, you can see this very same concept used at craigslist wherein CL maps your email address to a random craigslist email address, allowing you and another party to have painless email back-and-forth without leaking identity.

Now that I am thinking about it, you could set up a simple SMS remailer with codes that would allow the same thing to happen.

None of this addresses secure comms, but that's not the question you asked ...

[1] A "remailer".
Only one. I never mentioned ergonomics.
What monopoly? Here in Palo Alto I have full consumer “choice”: comcast or att.

I have to use crapcast (though goes down each night) as att, despite their ads, will only provision me 768kb DSL though I’m less than a mile from the CO/DSLAMS (and the PAIX for that matter)

I assume elsewhere the two companies have a deal where comcast is slow and att is faster. Of course the competition authorities and fcc are utterly supine.

Palo Alto used to run its own infrastructure but over the years stupid privatization has gradually shed phone, TV, garbage collection, parking enforcement and such for inferior, more expensive private services. I expect power and water to fall next.
Rohrabacher confirms he offered Trump pardon to Assange
I can totally understand why they need a moving truck for their operation center.

It's a lot easier to find a fast working wifi when passing through all those coffee shops.
Does it have RISC technology? Because RISC technology is going to change everything.
Silenced by Academic Specialization
True, but you can still use the less granular risk_level. So yeah, you don't get the full detail but you can still use the data they learned.

> So as mentioned before, this feels really dirty because they are taking your private data and are profiting from it by selling it back to you and others in the form of insurance -- and there's nothing you can do about it.

No, you and everybody else processing on Stripe has left that data there whether it's used for Radar's ML or not. I absolutely don't see anything dirty with them monetizing the software they built on that data.
Crypto Exchanges and Best Price Overview
I believe the only discussion necessary involving Mr. Barr is when he be disbarred.

No pun intended; the man should be in prison.
Ephemeral: The always-incognito web browser
The word "gif" now means both the format GIF, and also any generic short, looping video on the Internet. As a result, you can just use a webm or other format, as Gfycat does, since it's highly compressible and no viewer actually cares about the underlying format, only the content.
I expect his is a holdover from before and it will be revoked as soon as they notice.

PS I tweaked my comment after you started to write your reply but before I saw it; the wording is better now but the meaning is basically the same. Sorry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ChoHNEgRI
This is a good example of how this leaderboard is very focused on short term IPO performance. Facebook is a another example (I’ll add it) that went down a lot but look at where it’s at now. I’m a big fan of Xiaomi and companies with products that make my life better everyday.
Having worked on the Newton you might get a kick out of this - when I was in high school there was a guy still using one with a WiFi PCMCIA card, probably straight up to when the iPhone launched. I imagine he jumped to a smartphone eventually, but he was still on the Newton in 2006.

Seemed like a neat little device.
Would you drink pea gin if it helped solve climate change? (2019)
Why do you think it's uncommon? The zillions of people who communicate gmail-to-gmail, in Gsuite, etc never have their mail traverse some external SMTP network.
Reading the following:

> “No longer are tech companies the underdog upstarts. They have become titans,” Barr said at a public meeting held by the Justice Department to examine the future of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

> “Given this changing technological landscape, valid questions have been raised about whether Section 230’s broad immunity is necessary at least in its current form,” he said.

...all I can think of is “well, here comes the state-sponsored moat.”

If they weaken these protections, the big four will just hire a few more entire buildings of minimum wage content moderators (like most of them already have running) and it’s curtains for small entrants.

It makes me really sad to see the US thinking about shooting its only real growth industry in the foot.

Edit:

> while a few Democratic leaders have said the law allows the services to escape punishment for harboring misinformation and extremist content.

It’s also terrifying to think that parts of our government want to explicitly punish people for hosting legal content that they don’t like to read.
Configuring Sql.db for Better Performance
Did you work in a factory job? That is putting bolts in, or making the same cut on an assembly line, or other such repetitive manual labor job? A position where the limit how fast you can go is the speed the line is set at/the slowest person on your line? A position where you are setup for success for the quality standards?

Unions do exist in Germany for non-factory workers and they can measure performance and pay accordingly. This weakens the union a bit because employees do not stand
for each other as much as you can get a head even if the next guy is bad.
This is a very common answer to these stories on hackernews but this one is from a humble point of view that truly brings home the point.

My side is that I worked for a bank on the brokerage side for ten years in different positions. What always struck me was that my access was very carefully controlled, I was a background checked employee and had to meet with compliance once a year, etc etc.

However when a law firm asked for anything or consultants said they needed more data they just sent massive data dumps to the network admin guy, no questions further asked. At least not at my pay grade.

As I've consulted I ask for only what I need to keep my own risk down but it is always a surprise to my clients I don't want PII I don't need and only the data that my model will help enhance.
Today, you would use SecureDrop[1] for that particular use case (talking to journalists with an established organization). But you're still right for the general case.

[1]: https://securedrop.org/
>I actually don't know if that works with domains not managed by them, but I believe so.

Yeah you can use domains not managed by them, just have to throw a txt record given by them on on to the DNS for the domain to validate that you have control of the domain.
Ha, thanks. Our algorithms differ slightly in that mine deals with ranges (rather than individual leaves) and processes the tree "left to right" rather than "bottom to top". As such, your algorithm is probably better suited to generic trees, whereas mine was specifically designed for "complete" binary trees. But otherwise, they are quite similar. :)
Companies who offshore also run across this dilemma. This is how companies can lose IP to competitors.

Let’s say an IC designer offshores some work, that company has other clients as well and the off shore company has access to a lot of the R&D of the client company. Lots of things can happen in that situation and does happen.
You could put the hash in a custom HTML attribute, and have the JS load it from there.

<canvas width="100px" height="100px" imgsrc="hirez.jpg" blurhash="abcd..." />
Neither food safety nor the NHS are up for grabs - as you well know.

Quite why these scare stories persist is beyond me. Has rationality left Hacker News as well?
because you have to write RUN

just like real
Make your logo 3D in 10 minutes
The U.S. Is Worried About Bitcoin–and It’s Finally Doing Something About It
A reminder that RSA was "Security Dynamics" before they bought "RSA" and renamed themselves. Their main line of business was hardware tokens, which were infamously implicated in a compromise by overseas attackers that coined the term "Advanced Persistent Threat". RSA diversified into multi-factor authentication tools for servers and then a bunch of random enterprise security gadgets.

Companies like Duo and Okta ate RSA's lunch; their original core business is now a commodity. RSA's relevance in the industry is greatly diminished.
> Be quiet you don't matter, you are lucky they allowed you on the platform.

That's actually the feeling I get from YouTube when you try to Like a video when not signed in: "Like this video? Sign in to make your opinion count." -- I always found it mildly condescending.
> I wish your teams the best of luck and skill in this project. If in the alternative you would like to dedicate their time and attention to more pressing concerns in your business, our software is available for 2 cents a transaction.

Do you happen to work for Stripe support?

I'm just asking because your response reminds me of how they addressed my questions in email. It's very dismissive of my original questions, and then tries to guide the conversation away from my question into some type of "hey, good luck with whatever you do" response.

I'm not asking for an evaluation of whether or not it's a good use of engineering time for me to implement this feature. I'm just asking how I can do risk score assessment on my own without paying your extra transaction fees, or be forced into doing a post-transaction refund (and then lose the transaction fee on the refund).

You mentioned I'm free to do my own risk assessment, but I'm trying to say that's not possible to do in such a way that doesn't involve me paying extra money to Stripe since your API purposely goes out of its way to remove critical information unless you pay extra for Radar for teams (in which case using your API for this info wouldn't be necessary since your platform would provide that functionality in your dashboard).
It looks like the first repo list is intentionally left empty?
Who forgot DF? Maybe young'ns too young to remember playing it when it came out.
That's what federation is. All else being equal, you'd prefer people use less secure messaging so that you can have greater choice of clients and servers, and run your own server.
How do you know they're idiots? Maybe you're the idiot
Yeah I had a similar experience in terms of security being strong in one place. .. and non existant (as I describe) elsewhere.

Some of our customers did have pretty strong proesses in some places... but then zero when a process changes or something like that.

Lots of: "Oh no we can't do that because <security>".

Ok makes sense. It's a hassle but it is a good policy.

"But you can..."

All sense out the window, everything is undone.
Artificial intelligence yields a powerful new antibiotic
Ask HN: Any way to aggregate recruiter jobs in a feed?
I'm looking to aggregate job postings (for developers/engineers) by 3rd party recruiters into one feed, searchable by zip code or metro area. I understand how to use the major job boards or aggregators like Indeed/Google Jobs, but I don't see a way to search for 3rd party recruiter jobs specifically- as of right now I'd have to pick through them one by one. Any thoughts? This is more of a data project than actual interest in applying to recruiter jobs....
Its current big downside (which I hope they address in an upcoming version) is that it lacks occlusion culling. So while it does have half decent VR support, for example, the performance in anything but very simple scenes is quite poor.
I worked at a charter school for a while, and had access to the test scores and demographic data (including dob and ssn) not just for our students, but for every public school student in Texas, past and present.

Data security is a myth.
The NHS isn't up for grabs, never has been and never will be. It's just a scare story with zero foundation. Classic truth by repeated assertion.
In software architecture, it's really the only good evidence we have, though. I'm all for better metrics, but there aren't any. The point is just that none of these ideas are remotely "new", they've been heavily pushed by one of the biggest players in the industry for decades, and if anything was really beneficial in a profound way we'd surely know about it by now.

But we don't. So, no, that doesn't prove they're bad ideas. It does show that whatever benefit they have is underneath the noise floor of the experiment, though.
Understanding this is the essence of abstraction.
Predictive AI is biased tool in flawed criminal justice system: Brookings Inst
had a bit too much fun with this the last few days, but had an idea and trying to get it into a tweet (without minifying) was fun - wanted more of a typing effect but lack of way to delay/wait/slow BBC BASIC flow or get timing right with GIF maker (should've read doc note! it generates the gif after 18 seconds and then for only 2 seconds long). Still very neat, takes me back to my <ahem> youth.
Constructors Considered Harmful (2007)
Show HN: I made a browser extension that hides distracting feeds
Using Redis as external scoring source for Elasticsearch
I've often looked for this, and there are surprisingly few options. Maybe something like this would work?

https://www.amazon.com/Geekworm-Raspberry-Storage-Matching-E...
Disclaimer: I know nothing and this is an honest questions.

I wonder if they intend to be able to use the tractor for power in situations where external power is lacking. Powering, and more importantly and power-hungry, cooling "23 tons" of equipment wouldn't be the lightest task.
I did have map applications in 1993.
JXL dev here. Thanks for raising these points. Indeed regrettable we have to have a bunch of boilerplate.

FYI we actually do support hooks for malloc (JpegxlMemoryManagerStruct) and threading (JpegxlParallelRunner) precisely in order to be a good citizen :)

The topology is more about #cores/sockets, used by the benchmark_xl app to decide how many threads to spawn.

I agree adding Processor Groups makes sense, but Windows hasn't been our focus yet.

FYI it is indeed critical to parallelize ANS streams. Each 256x256 "group" can be decoded in parallel.
I would modify the article to say "the next leap in AI is prediction". There is a lot of activity in this space called Predictive Coding.

Look up the work of David Cox[1], Karl Friston et al. A fascinating variant is Contrastive Predictive Coding[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0yVuoATjzs

[2] https://ankeshanand.com/blog/2020/01/26/contrative-self-supe...
Previously posted and discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370405
It says: "Force Majeure Event" shall mean any act beyond E*TRADE’s control.

I'm sure you could pay a lawyer enough to argue that their own site security is under their control.
Ask HN: How can I get a remote position?
I live in an area with not that great public transportation, and due to a visual disability I am unable to drive. I'm commuting six hours a day right now which includes seven miles of walking and I can't keep it up forever. My life would be so much easier if I could work from home. Is a remote position something I can hope for as my first development job? What should I have to show I would be capable of it and how can I best work towards it? Is freelancing my best bet for awhile to try to get a foothold?

It might not be super impressive but I've got a personal page up at lessthanseventy.com. What kind of projects can I work on that might be enough for someone to give me a shot? I just want to get as much direction and focus into my learning as I can since my free time is pretty limited at the moment and I would appreciate some advice.
I'm with you on the context issue. Funny thing is as soon as OP ranked the dash icons in order of clarity, the very first one - right arrow, ranked "clearest" - I had no idea what it was. I had to think for a sec and realize it was a turn signal. For me, without that symbol being shown specifically on the right side of the cluster, with a big steering wheel in the middle, it loses a lot of meaning.