skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the hack was conducted through the use of account hijacking then why didn't anybody at Citrix notice. Unless once the hackers got in they migrated within the network using as yet unknown vulnerabilities. Makes one wonder of there are backdoors in all networking equipment. So as the various state security entities can keep an eye on us.
The original MTU was 576 bytes, enough for 512 bytes of payload plus 64 bytes for the IP and TCP header with a few options. 1500 bytes is a Berkeleyism, because their TCP was originally Ethernet-only.
The other good news is that the wire distances are not up to current standards in the MAX. So when one goes you have a better chance the other critical one also goes.
> The modern environmental movement seeks to limit how these countries can develop and what they can do with the natural resources of their countries by using Western social, diplomatic, and economic pressure on these developing countries.

But it's a two-way street. The so-called third world did not decide to deforest in order to grow oil palms and soy in a vacuum, it did it because there was huge demand for those from the so-called first world.
I'd say yes to both, but I'm not from the US so I have no horse in this race
> what impact that will have on my career?

Only idiots will value a "big name" over solid results. You don't want to work for idiots.
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What if there's some learning curve in the product. How would you prefer to receive this information?

We iterate on onboarding constantly. There's a few concepts that users need to understand to get to grips with using Trevor. E.g. that queries are made up of steps.
It's crazy how much beef fat is thrown away because no one wants it. I just asked the butcher and they gave it to me, and I made my own tallow.

Obviously this doesn't work at industrial scales, but if you really want to be ecological, try working things out locally first with the stuff that's getting tossed.
At the very least, a billionaire is cashing out a decent chunk of his assets and the money is going to other people. I personally think he's wasting his money, but I guess it's helping the economy?
Hah, never made that connection.

But yeah presumably.
It is certainly inappropriate and unprofessional. But it's also sexism, in that for centuries men here have been using power to push women to have sex without regard to their actual interest. E.g., marital rape didn't become a crime across the US until 1993: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_rape#United_States
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It doesn't really matter. At scale, 3% is huge.

We keep having these discussions about the impact of social media as if the relationship was directly causal, ie Zuck pushes a button and robot people do his bidding. Wish the problem were so easy. It's at scale, dealing with fractions of percentages over thousands of randomly subsegmented markets, nobody knows what the hell is going on. It's incomprehensible by any human.

What we know is that people pay billions of dollars to advertise there. We know that most of the world's population (!) has signed up. We know that people who quit feel better. We can observe people doing and saying things with other people at a scale never seen before. In fact, that's one of the selling points. We know that more and more studies are showing addictive and maladaptive behavior from people who spend a lot of time there.

We're not trying to convict FB in a court of law or inventing some new science. The preponderance of all the available evidence says that there's a major social change at work worldwide that has at least some deleterious effects. Works for me. Any small number times a billion is a big number. That's the entire business model of social media. You logically can't deny the way social media works in order to make a defense of social media.
like the employees who wrote the "designed by clowns supervised by monkeys" email. boeing took swift action... to fire the employees who made the mistake of documenting the problem in writing.
He's just protecting his fortune against Bernie. Spend a billion, keep the remaining 39. Good deal. He will lose even if he does get nominated, and he's OK with that. This is a page directly from Trump's playbook: Trump routinely puts himself into situations where there are several ways for him to win and no way to really lose.
I believe most wanted a bull in a china shop to gore the sacred cows of the media elite, policy wonks, and "experts".
Hmm. As long as nothing is setuid, mere presence of different language interpreters doesn't sound like it would make much difference.

I suppose a nicely set up host would be a bit more attractive as a target, and similarly a VMS box not be an attractive target, no matter how insecure it is. Still, I wouldn't want to switch back to VMS.
I'm sure of exactly zero things.
I tried. They were throwing away thousands of dollars worth of brushless motors. I asked in writing if I could donate them to schools and hobbyists. I was told no by a mid level manager. That rubbed me the wrong way, so I went to Astro Teller’s office hours. He said “this is our trash? We obviously don’t need it then.” He gave me tentative approval, and asked me to email him to check with legal. I did, and ultimately got approval from the head of intellectual property at X. I saved the motors from the trash, but apparently going to Astro was seen as “going over somebody’s head” so I pissed off upper management (the head of the team did not respond to my email and was on vacation while all this happened). So I parked the motors under my desk for a while while things calmed down, eventually got a few more approvals, and took the motors home. I’ve been donating them to hacker spaces and local robotics groups.

But the thing is, schools can’t use brushless motors by themselves. They need power supplies and motor controllers too. So when my team was throwing away fifty 600 watt power supplies, I wanted those too.

The whole time, I was not just asking for one item from the scrap bin, I was asking for an approval process. We threw away perhaps tens of thousands of dollars of valuable off the shelf parts a year. I couldn’t be talking to the head of X every time I needed approval. But management in my team didn’t care. Instead of responding to my request, they complained about my methods, saying I need to go through “proper channels”. I drafted a document describing a process for saving items from scrap that had documentation and oversight without requiring much bandwidth from the higher ups. It went nowhere.

So Google X still scraps thousands of dollars of stuff on the regular. Many people inside X want to help donate that stuff to schools. But the management on my team didn’t care one bit. I guess when you’re paid a million bucks a year, you just can’t relate to the local school kids who can’t afford motors for their robot. But I was once that kid, and to see these people dismiss what help we could give them was too much for me.

It’s still upsetting. Google X talks about changing the world and moonshots but you know what would change the world? Giving valuable supplies to local schools. I offered to do all the work on my own time, but they couldn’t be bothered to give me the time of day.
This seems to be hard for some folks to understand. Allow me to simplify.

Fuck snacks. I do not care about snacks. Take them away. I won't complain.
Or of course for smaller targets their attack is just much closer to the target than to any of the multiple viewpoints, and so this mitigation makes no difference to them whatsoever.

We shall see how well this works in practice. Assuming it's relatively cheap it's harmless to at least try.
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I guess this stuff needs to be clarified before taking the take home test. Otherwise there's no point to doing it.
SQLite is a wonderful database. We use it in production many times over for all of our clients. Not having to worry about whatever arbitrary SQL Server installation is available in a particular environment has saved us so much time and frustration. Combine SQLite with .NET Self-Contained Deployments means that we (our automated tools) now copy our software distribution zip to target, extract to path, run executable as administrator and walk away. Without SQLite we could not do this.

Migrations are also hilariously easy with SQLite if you use the user_version pragma. We have a monotonically-incrementing number to indicate each version. Our migrator first queries this upon startup and runs all the migrations that exist between current user_version and whatever our highest sequence # is (defined as a constant in code). Some might argue that you should just use EF (or whatever language-specific ORM), but I prefer the level of control and the substantial performance boost you get with raw SQL and a simple migrator approach. I cannot speak for EF Core, but EF6 performance was absolutely abysmal in some more complex cases.

I would also say that performance might surprise you if you turn on WAL. I have saturated NVMe disks inserting lots of data into SQLite. The trick is to use a single connection and let SQLite handle the serialization for you, rather than try to manage multiple connections to the same file in code (i.e. one connection per logical operation sucks for SQLite).
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I am also a CS PhD at Berkeley...
I don't like this idea of buying elections. But at the very least, I'm happy to see the Democratic machine upside-down, with all of the designated incumbent royalty falling behind the outsiders.
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That is good. Please accept my apologies for having been that biased; distance paired with misinformation don't help in this context.
This is awesome! I love hearing that others are doing this. I do something similar but I run after school clubs. I work mostly with 5th through 8th graders and run clubs 5 days per week in 5 different local schools.

It is a lot of work but so rewarding and I feel it has made me a better developer. I myself have learned so much from doing it. I have met so many amazing kids & parents too and it's made me a much bigger part of my community.
His message was definitely, in many ways, way more and more effectively populist than Hillary's. His wall's a great example: it's far-right from some perspectives, but from others it's what they've been speculating aloud (amongst themselves, with no public stage) as a "common-sense" solution for decades (source: been around plenty of that, for... decades). It's the definition of populism. Ditto trade issues. There's a lot of perception among voters that the average citizen got screwed by things like MFN (or whatever they renamed it to) status for China and a variety of other trade agreements and, go figure, a lot of that sentiment crosses party lines. His hard talk about those agreements and China was, again, blue-collar as hell and exactly what you could have heard anywhere in middle America (or just outside a big city) for many years before the election, but had practically no voice in either viable political party. His message was, to borrow one of his favorite words, kinda perfect.

Nb I'm not using populism as a negative term here, and do not consider something automatically bad because it's populist.

Now, to defend describing his supporters as having been "fooled", I'd say the strongest evidence for that would be that some of his major proposals weren't ever really proposals, and still haven't meaningful become proposals (his "most perfect" or whatever health care reform comes immediately to mind—what exactly was that supposed to be? Very good, the best, whatever it was.) and that his support many of these positions is very probably opportunistic and disingenuous.

To tack back the other way, I personally would accept someone I knew or suspected to be opportunistically, rather than genuinely, supporting my interests if I believed they were likely to meaningfully advance them regardless, so my support of such a person wouldn't necessarily be evidence that I'd been "fooled". Probably some were (I mean, there've been no shortage of interviews with Trump voters all over the media in the last 3 years, and clearly some were not, uh, going in with both eyes open) but who knows how many knew he was full of shit (I mean it's kinda his thing? What he was famous for everywhere, including right-wing radio, before he became a Republican politician?) but thought he'd effectively advance their interests anyway. Possibly a lot.
I'm not sure it's so easy. If you own 51% of a company, which owns a slice of a company, which does business in America, does this grant uncle same the right to collect 5% of your profits? Sounds pretty imperial.

Here's another idea though: Arrange things so that the taxes owed depend on the goods sold, not on any ownership structure. Don't sell goods in the US? No problem. Sell mostly in the US? Who cares about your office in the Bahamas. This probably means abolishing the tax on corporate profits, as where these occurred seems to be basically an accounting fiction. Which is fine, we also don't tax windows anymore.
I'd guess that many, maybe even most, people are tied down to a metro area.

Job, social circles, family... after you've been in a place for a few years, many people find it hard to leave.

I think about my own situation. I'm happy at my job, but I could feasibly go remote and still work for the same company. I don't have any family in the area (they're all on the east coast). But my social circles are here. I do have good friends who live elsewhere (somewhat scattered, though), but the thought of "starting over" in that regard just sounds like a hill I don't feel like climbing.

I'm not exactly the type of person you're talking about, because I do want to live in a city. But when I look at Seattle, Portland, LA, San Diego, Honolulu, Austin, Chicago, Boston, NYC, DC... while I could see myself living in some of those places, the thought of actually making that leap gives me pause. I'm nearing 40, and I'm not sure I have the appetite to rebuild the relationships I've been building in the bay area over the last 16 years.
we already have that to some extent, can you be more specific?
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This is great to know! One question I have is what the actual technique the author used is (ie distance and time), because they mention that it took a minute for solder to melt at 15cm and I'm not sure if that was what worked best in the end.
trump and putin aren't even on good terms and he is assisting ukraine. turn off cnn, bud.
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There are always two sides to every story, but when you have outright fraudulent claims I don't think you can say that the article is simply painting the school as "Satan"

If you stated that you have an 86% placement record and in reality it is 50%, that is a pretty large discrepancy. If the original 86% placement was from the first 70-ish students and now you are over 2500 students, that seems a bit fraudulent.

If placement rates aren't critical to you getting students, then you can say it is 50% publicly and see if that affects your enrollment numbers or not. Otherwise, it would stand to reason that stating a higher placement rate gets you more students.

Also, this isn't run a a non-profit organization, its a for-profit enterprise. So they have a financial incentive to get more students because that equates to more value for them.
> Pick the ecosystem you like. Spend what you can afford. Buy the newest device.

This is the only bit I'm not sure I would agree with today. The improvements between device generations have gotten so marginal that you don't even need to buy the newest device anymore.

I switched from Android to the iOS ecosystem last year. I ended up buying an iPhone 7, and there hasn't been a single day where I thought "man, I really wish I had spent a few hundred more dollars." The 7 is fine, you know? Everything works, you get OS updates when they come out just like the newest devices do, it's not dramatically heavier or more awkward to carry. (In some ways, it's better than the new devices -- it still has the physical home button, for instance.)

So, barring any huge innovations on Apple's part, I'll probably use this one until it breaks and then replace it with whichever oldest model is available then. I just can't make a case that the newest premium device is worth paying the premium price.
European countries should reduce their agricultural land and create forests with local species.

First world countries should stop consuming as if the planet was infinite.

Ta-da! Here you have a (obviously naïve) solution to both problems.
Surprised to see such naive takes on HN. Wealthy people don’t “hoard wealth like a dragon”. It’s invested in companies that translate to products, services, and jobs.
> It had to take less than $1.25 worth of energy to produce and distribute.

Not always, they could be subsidized to get people off of incandescents.
Bang on!

I have been doing software for a while and there has been no realistic situation when a business needed a problem solved from scratch without an collaboration, discussion or feedback within an hour.

I have been in situations where companies needed a solution within an hour and it almost exclusively involved extreme team work and cooperation.

I made a comment on how it would be cheaper for the employer to hire a candidate on an at-will basis once the candidate passes a basic skill and design test: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22368572
Id much rather have python syntax and Haskell semantic to get good parts of both!
On earth, you have different countries, regimes, for that to work, we need to have a bunch of wild crazy ass leaders come together and agree on other that corporations are lobbying against to protect their interests.

Starting fresh on a new planet, with a small cohort, and building out frees that society of the current geopolitical related problems on Earth.
Here is what MAPS (the organization running the Phase 3 trials of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and the same organization that applied for expanded access) has to say about this: [1]

Donate to MAPS, people, if you believe in this!

[1] - https://maps.org/news/media/8008-press-release-fda-agrees-to...
Interesting. Now that the cat is out of the bag any mention about him from any acquaintance is just going to make me think they got a check from Mike and make me dislike him more each time.

Does buying support like this work? "Hey family, Mike Bloomberg is awesome, we should all vote for him". That just feels so artificial and fake, but maybe if the phrase gets repeated enough people start believing it...

> Outvote also allows users to look up whether their friends have voted in past elections by matching their contact lists against public data.

That's a good way to lose family and friends. "I see you haven't voted, if you want to stay friends and be invited out, better vote or donate to Mike's campaign".

> it is important to be transparent about paid commercial promotions, but he views the ethics of political activism as less clear. ... “it took decades for TV and radio to figure out what disclosure for ads should be.”

So promoters don't have to put disclaimers in their messages. Does that open the door for his opponents to pretend to be Bloomberg's supporters but say ridiculous stuff to make people dislike him.
previous discussion(2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10259471
You still have to migrate the data. I faced the same kind of dilemma, but with MySQL, and kind of noped out when I got to stuff like [0].

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/87531/1210797
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the original paper on jamming microphones and/or using them for covert data transmission: https://synrg.csl.illinois.edu/papers/backdoor_mobisys17.pdf

it seems to me that this is largely an attack on common preamplifier circuitry. would it be sufficient to ensure that the preamps implement low pass filtering? or is the issue more in the microphone element?
Your assessment is pretty accurate based on some of his talks I listened to. Trump is scary to me partly, because he is not that competent and has low impulse control. Bloomberg is scary, because he is competent and seems to have very.. top-down view of things. His talk about regressive taxes in particular was illuminating.

It feels like a Simpsons episode. We are the democratic party. I don't know how we are going to blow it, but we will give it our best shot.

It gets very depressing.
> Pretty bad when the FBI has to step in and alert you that someone has brute forced their way into your servers.

Yes ..
>but it still reduces attacks by quite a bit.

But that's a wrong metric to optimize for. Cutting down the number of "attacks" by 90% doesn't improve your security. If your server has a vulnerability that can be picked up by script kiddie scanners, changing the default port only delays the inevitable.
If you're in the market for the Taycan, you'd probably be in the market for the 2020 Roadster [0]. While it's still in pre-production, these two cars seem to me to be the real competitors (both electric sports cars, with very fast 0-60 and 1/4 mile times, etc.) over something like the Taycan vs. Model S.

[0]: https://www.tesla.com/roadster
> If I did something wrong I apologize and move on, there's no point beating myself up over anything. I don't have big ambitions to make millions and millions, I just want physically show up for people who need help.

This is such a good mindset and, knowing myself and those around me, a rare one.
I don't think it's going to work. Money may be a guaranteed way to get yourself in "the top tier" in polling but when it comes to voting, I don't think that pans out. Money is a factor but it's not the only factor. Ross Perot spent I don't know how many millions and never got more than 10% of the vote. Clinton outspent Trump in 2016. If people don't get excited for a candidate and connect with them its just not going to translate to votes.
You seem to think that this "loan" that the investor makes to Lambda School only has to be paid back when the ISAs pay out, and if they never pay out then Lambda School's debt is just forgiven. That would indeed be similar to just selling the ISAs to the investors, but I don't think that's what is described in the article (as Lambda School's current practice). Rather the article says that Lambda School gets a "loan that is secured by students' ISAs" which implies that Lambda School has to pay it back with or without the income from the ISAs.
So he's hiring a bunch of barely-over minimum wage workers to spread his message... and? What do you think the other politicians are doing with the millions they raise? This isn't a story.
How can candidates attack the ghosting problem?

Leave a comment on "Who's hiring" that "Hey, I got ghosted by this company?"
Any program teaching CS or software with relatively open admissions will have its discontented students, because there are simply people who don't have the cognitive ability to handle it, and their inability to do the homework is always the teacher's fault.
... and candidates are apparently delivering.

The company was still advertising the role a few months ago. There could be more than one, or maybe they hired someone who has since left, or maybe they haven't found anyone yet.
Democracy and Republic are orthogonal the same way you can be libertarian and right-wing, libertarian and left-wing or authoritarian of either economic policy.

The U.S. is a democratic republic, because the power stems from the people (demo-), not from a small group of people (oligo-) or a single person (auto-).
I think they can help with saving energy indirectly: by letting power companies give customers more detailed information about their usage. But I don't know how often people take advantage of this.

I've shaved off around .15 kwh of energy that was used 24/7 ($25/month in California) based upon usage information from our energy company.