skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I am a consultant software engineer (finance, simulations). Also a researcher, but I am not getting paid in bitcoins from my university... yet. There is a (relatively) small, but growing international Bitcoin services economy, without much of red tape and prohibitive regulations concerning hiring people globally.
> Or maybe it's just really undeterministic. :)

Never attribute to AI that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Here's the threat model. A president of the united states calls up his friend in Netflix "Hey can I get a list of all my enemies in my admin, in congress, in courts and the military". Said friend says "sure thing I'll just run some sql queries for who watched movie x, y, z and hand you the results".

Now said president discovers that a few people he considered trustworthy seem to be secretly having qualms about his increasing powergrabs. He manufactures a few roadblocks in their careers and within a year and a half they have all been cleaned out.

With them gone he is able to go ever further and more brazen. One day he proclaims himself dictator, and all branches cheer and celebrate.
Some of the mitigations can be opted into on a per-process level via prctl
It does seem perfectly enough to me.
I gave them my address, details, credit card details, started watching a show from episode 1, they did not warn me "hey looks like you're watching a tv show that will be removed from netflix in a week, don't waste your time here" and it didn't expiration date on it, it just disappeared.

How would you feel to rent a car, go halfway to destination, take a nap in a hotel, then you wake up , car has no wheels, because wheels you had couldn't be used on that specific road, and you weren't warned about it. Breach of trust? Waste of time? Disappointment?
In 97 I was studying in the 2nd year of electrical engineering high school. Every year we had to spend one week in internship at some company. I was with 2 other classmates in some company that did ISDN networks. On the very first morning boss brought notebook with 10 minute PowerPoint presentation on ISDN, told us to watch it and left. We watched it in 10 minutes and waited. He returned 8 hours later and asked us what have we learned. The notebook screen was black so he pressed the spacebar, screensaver went on (pipes from windows 95). He giggled and asked: did you change the screensaver? Get the fuck out of here! And they never let us into the building. We spent rest of the week slacking off in the town.
Mastica(sp?) is still chewed today in Greece as some kind of chewing gum. I wonder if the word “masticate” zcomes from this ie vice versa
Kids usually. I know I didn't have money to buy a VPN when I was in high school, but I wasn't going to let that stop me from watching the entire backlog of anime my friends were enjoying at the time. Luckily, that was a bit before the letter's started going out with more consistency.
Now let’s write a Medium post to complain about it

/s
Even with just the advances in better programming languages (and newer versions of old languages) and better IDEs we have achieved tremendous productivity increases in the last 30 years. It's just that so far the amount of work has grown to absorb the added productivity.

There are some parallels to induced demand in road construction: when you build a new road to ease traffic, traffic increases to use up that capacity. But that isn't a sign that demand is infinite, it's just that demand is limited by the available resources. If you keep building roads, at some point they will become emptier. Similarly, at some point development productivity will outpace demand, and we will start optimizing our own jobs away.
> Have you been able to find a trustworthy public DoT resolver?

It really depends what you view as being "trustworthy". Outside of the US good enough? Or do you want non 5/9/14-Eyes? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement#9_Eyes,_14_Eye...)
This is a reasonable jumping off point for someone newly interested in hardening a bare-metal Debian deployment. [1,2] are also quite good.

[1] https://github.com/Whonix/security-misc

[2] https://forums.whonix.org/t/fixing-the-desktop-linux-securit...
Many thanks. I shall repost. Apologies.
I find it hard to make friends generally; making friends as an adult is incredibly difficult.
That which does not break you makes you stronger? It was the era of pop art, experimental art, "happenings" and I could believe in the zeitgeist of this experiment. Consider that for millenia, fine arts demanded students attend dissection right up until the same timeframe.
I have met Artists who would have thrived, and others who would have died in there. It was too judgemental maybe.

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The big confounding factors with caffeine is that nutrition based studies are extremely hard to run to the point where they are almost as bad as sociology studies.

Controlling for all the factors is nearly impossible.

Age, life style, genetics and everything else in between introduces so many variables that you simply can’t estimate or predict their impact on the study.

Even in your specific example it might be caffeine dependency or it might be something else completely like giving up 3-4 americanos a day and not making up for the liquid intake loss which left you more dehydrated in the evening.
Are there any VPNs that support the throughput speeds many consumers have access to these days? I have my client set to a 10:1 ratio, but rarely will a file actually reach that because I don't want to leave my slow VPN online for that long degrading my performance for other online tasks.
Returning the right amount – Wenzel P. P. Peppmeyer
I am sorry if I come across any condescending, but that is how most of the current masters programs are operated. Generally, masters are considered cash cow programs that funds other research and also brings a lot of commerce to the college towns. There are some exceptions, but most of them do qualify for my hypotheses.

That being said, why is it a bad thing then? If the people are spending money to get some quality education that can be regulated within United States, then I don't see any downside in delegating the vetting process to the universities. 4 years in the United States, one family visit per year and it brings a lot of commerce to the country. If they don't perform well, then it's always upto the university to make the judgement.
Oral Histories
If you are a Windows user, Outlook has a built in RSS reader functionality. It's not great, but it does mean you can easily consume feeds on say, a work computer where adding new software is prohibited. It's also private to you, so you are not storing your reading habits on someone else's server.
1. It's optional. So you don't have to do it

2. It's for the paranoid. So you don't have to do it

3. It's on context switches. These aren't that common, and reloading it will pull entire cache lines in from the L2 cache which is pretty quick anyway.

But this I agree with:

> If untrusted code is running on the same core/package/what have you, your security has already been breached.

The biggest untrusted sod to be running is usually the browser. Of course if you're worried about that, how about turning off JS thereby blocking the biggest attack vector in it? (and loads of bloody irritating behaviour, as a blissful bonus).

Edit: why the world-is-going-to-shit attitude I keep seeing everywhere? The worst possible interpretation is put upon everything, instead of evaluating the risk/reward rationally then choosing appropriate actions.
Concentrated vitamin A can also kill you, and a complete lack of it can bring health issues too. Even too much water can be bad for you, along with too much sugar. Too much of X is not a sufficient argument to say something is bad.
Never read about the true incident after watching a "historical movie". :-)
This sounds like a metaphor designed to stroke the ego of Lisp programmers but quite disconnected from the realities of the various programming languages.

> Other languages are more like "playing guitar hero", most of the work is done for you and it it way easier to learn.

What does that even mean? Python might be easier to learn than Lisp, but surely C++ is much harder to learn and impossible to master. And if you talk about "batteries included", Python may have more but C has obviously much less than Lisp.

Lisp is a fine language, but the ridiculous claims is hurting it more than helping it. I do not believe claims about the amazing productivity of Lisp from someone who doesn't know the difference between C++ and Python.
> I'd expect them to pay a stipend on top of my wage

Your wage is already arbitrary so you can just assume that it includes this stipend.
Once again the rules are for the smaller dogs to abide, while the big mean ones can continue to bite you.
Others recommend MBoC, I personally liked Lodish better. More importantly, cell biology is one of those subjects that can actually be fairly light reading. It doesn't burden itself too much with arbitrarily named cytokines, or the astonishingly complicated biochemical pathways and enzyme names. The processes that govern each aspect of the cell are surprisingly very unique so each chapter is a veritable cornucopia of amazing methods our cells use to solve their problems.

The pretty pictures don't hurt either!
Writing C++ code that leaks a std::vector is absolutely trivial, happens all the time and requires no skill.

auto* v = new std::vector<char>();
Sounds amazing :) Which cameras are you using? How's the encoding quality of the Jetson? Is lossless possible?
Here are the instructions for how to fix this ( from the article):

>Shortly after he put the message on the internet, Singh ended his contract with Grubhub.

That’s it. End the contract, don’t pay the high fees
No, beeswax, linseed oils, pine resin are not plastic. They can be used instead of plastic in many applications but they're still renewable and bio-degradable materials.

Bitumen is a crude oil product, and quite nasty material indeed. But it's not really what I was referring to here.

Plastic is very durable but it's quite brittle. A plastic bucket for example can break quite easily and needs to be disposed of responsibly or it'll stay around forever ruining the environment.
Can anyone point to a rational discussion of this online? My few (admittedly cursory) searches have returned only results written by credulous tin-foil-hat conspiracy-mongers.
Yeah, but he also always mentioned how he doesn't want to be controlled and regulated. He rants about youtube (for all right reasons).

And now he is putting himself into a spotify box.

Sure, he can most likely retain all of his freedoms (due to his seer size), but once spotify becomes youtube for podcasts, then he could be partially blamed for supporting the very mechanism he spend most of his podcast life criticizing.
The 12 practices of XP are not XP any more than a finger is not the thing that it is pointing to. XP is intended to be a minimal set of practices that generate a method. Rather than specify a method (which will dependent upon circumstances), XP specifies a set of practices which will hopefully help you discover the method.

Having said that, if you are not doing the 12 practices, then you are not doing XP. You are doing something else. It's totally fine to do something else, but it is not XP. It may have been inspired by XP. That's also really great. But it is not XP.

This is important because people talk about their experiences with XP and it is difficult to determine if their success (or lack thereof) is actually due to XP, or other factors. Do the 12 practices actually generate a method? Does it happen all the time? Is there something you have to do to get it to generate the method? Is the method always the same? There are many, many question.

For most people, those questions are boring because they are not actually interested in XP. They are interested in being successful on the projects. This is a very understandable position to be in! However, it is frustrating for people who are interested in XP ;-)
It's there a completely free and open source UEFI memory tester?
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>Quora used to be kinda good, or at least better than Yahoo Answers

I think that's what they call "damning with faint praise"
Well yeah, seeing that photo I thought that it looks exactly like bitumen but it can't possibly be it.
How could this even be a question?

Either you block ads or you don't know that you can block ads.
The reason why these two companies are having major layoffs is because they are in the travel sector and COVID is a custom made disaster for any company in the travel sector. I think they are hurting themselves in the long run, but they are choosing long term survival and cutting of new incomplete initiatives for the more well proven cash cows, which hurts their future.

Also software in many companies managing large complicated multibillion business are a bit of an iceberg. There is a lot of internal software that you are not exposed to as an end user customer. I call it the google search effect. Why so many servers and engineers for a 2 page website?!
You still get the benefits coming from the antioxidants found in coffee.
Regarding the decaffeination process, all modern processes should be safe and not leave any harmful chemicals around.

I used to drink decaf, but I just missed the taste of an actual Arabica specialty coffee. Because the decaffeination process removes more than just the caffeine, even specialty decaf is not as good.
We are making a replacement for App Store promo codes and just opened beta
Yeah, it solves only the 99.9% case.
He likely wouldn't be able to get past an unknown pass code with checkm8. Whilst it would jailbreak the device the flash is encrypted with a derived key thats stored in the secure enclave and can only be unlocked with the PIN.
Maybe people are too polite? Or not strict enough enforcing rules and guidelines?

Who would tolerate an employee standing in the middle of the open office screaming at the top of their lungs for attention? :)

Of course, we all make mistakes from time to time. Guess the real problem is a lack of learning from them.
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If you trust your vps dns, easiest way would be autossh -D<port> <user@host> and set your browser's socks5 proxy to localhost:<port> and tell it to use remote dns when resolving domains. This requires no wireguard setup, no certificate generation or anything.
Or one of them said something stupid and wanted it out of podcast. Which is absolutely fine. We will never know.
I think the slow speed helped, would have loved to have done it over a couple of years even!
Not at all surprising, since that's how you would do it in handwriting.
Nice. If things really do go reliably in the direction of distributed-first, I'd love to move to Central Otago - where my heart has been since I was a child. I'd love to give my daughter the chance to grow up in Hawea, Bannockburn, or Earnscleugh.

I'd give serious consideration to the Mackenzie Country too - Ruataniwha, Pukaki, and Tekapo are all amazing places.
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> It's optional.

Until it's proven not to be so, through another POC.

And then OPs point stands: Lots of Intel's performance gains since the 90s has been through out-of-order execution and branch-prediction.

If those improvements are deemed incompatible with being able to securely run JS in your browser, I would argue Intel is having a very fundamental problem now.

Hopefully AMD does better, but I don't think they are entirely immune to this category of security-issues either.
Home. And for me that is a small town in the middle of India. It's a remote village. A single lane road connects my village to the nearest town. We source our foods from nearby farms mostly distributed bi-weekly at a Haat. I have 24 hrs electricity and 250 MBPS internet. Lots of serenity and peace. I guess that's all one needs.
Facebook uses apps to track users it thinks could threaten employees and offices
It is easier to understand code and its consequences than human language; hypotheses are testable and verifiable. It helps to think of coding as a form of game.

Open source, and Github specifically, can be mined and reused like any other knowledge; pay attention to Microsoft and OpenAI going forward.
Ask HN: What if any are the real dangers of 5G?
I’m fed up with all the conspiracy theories about how coronavirus is activated by 5G and... I don’t even want to list all the examples.

I am however somewhat concerned that the bullshit might overshadow some of the real concerns and anyone raising them might be treated as the tower burners.

I’ve looked into electromagnetic waves, radiation intensity and so on and to me it seems that most of these issues are massively overblown.

Do you know of real ones that we’re overlooking?
Home Automation and Bitcoin
Samsung Launches “The Terrace” the First Outdoor QLED 4K TV
There is no way that software will soon reduce the need to engineers.

One way to look at it is AWS for example. It removed the need for hardware and sysadmin skills. But the cost of this is that now instead of sysadmins you need devops and probably in bigger numbers.

The way I see it software crates problems at a higher rate than it solves them, hence the need to constantly change and evolve technologies,so that at least of the technical debt created can be written off.
I have found people to attack me when I make a technical criticism of technologies they like.

Am I expected to justify being able to code in HN? I could go on about being a maintainer of the two most promise libraries in npm (bluebird and Q), being node core, organizing promises sessions for APIs in Node core and having over 1000 answers about promises in SO.

I generally find that sort of "non-technical chat" boring compared to the technical stuff and appeal to authority kind of lame.

The only other person attacked in this issue is
aphyr, so I believe I am in very good company in this particular instance.
Torvalds is famously "anti"-loyal. He's a pragmatist of the highest order, and since the threadripper is going to be better at compiling fast I can see the appeal so that's not the news here.

Two things stick out though:

1) He has said repeatedly that noise is the largest inhibitor of having a powerful computer, he doesn't like fan noise and I don't know if you can go fanless with a Threadripper.

2) Hopefully this means the AMD Zen architecture runs even better with Linux, I'm sure that will help the EPYC Rome series, which, in google cloud, are much more powerful than the intel based VMs.
It shows "Browser not exploitable." even after rebooting with mitigations=off.
The timezone question is also about your family status.

When you're single it's OK to work late at night for meetings with a far away team, when you have kids and they go to school:

- the 5pm-8pm time when they're awake and at home is a time you want to spend with your kids. Can be challenging when you're in Europe working with the US west coast, because that's precisely the best overlap time

- you have to wake up anyway to send them to school, so you can't just move your sleep schedule

However, when you do have this flexibility, sometimes the timezone difference can be helpful by splitting you day between one "communication period" (timezone overlap) and "no distraction period" (coworkers are asleep)
Might be projecting here but I find this minutiae regarding embracing remote as a first class is just beating around the bush, people are pro/con depending on how they expect it would affect their salary.

https://elsajohansson.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/what-does-a-w...
That's a weird compliment.
Note that it's "portable" in the Windows sense, i.e. you can unzip it and it should work. It has nothing to do with cross-platform portability.
>No business I know paid "good money" for that.

You'd be surprised. Back in the day web devs couldn't decline enough jobs, and you could make a month's salary for what was a single static webpage...
Congratulations!

Now pray that there is not another exploit that can be used. :)

Like many things; security is an onion, there are layers to it and removing some of those layers can be fine because the outer layers may protect you, but ultimately you just increase risk.
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I don't disagree, but I believe that it's not the traveling that's widening horizons, it's the readiness of the traveler to have their horizons expanded. Imho, modern tourism isn't leading people astray, it's giving them what they want. It's a tiny subset that wants something else, maybe we need a different term for them.
Thanks for catching that.

I don't really understand why they are using numbers from one table and not the other.

I guess, it may be related to the dates they conducted the seroprevalence study, but it's only a wild guess.

I'll try to look through the documents more carefully later, maybe there's an explanation.
>Apart from "it is an evil, vile country",

My family had been at the receiving end of such countries. Twice.
I dont believe in a policy of appeasement. At all.
China is too similar to Nazi Germany for me to ignore it.
It is an evil, vile country that has deception and absolute disregard to human rights deeply rooted at its core.
The youtuber SerpentZA only scratches the surface of what this country is doing to not only its people.

And this is not an overstatement. To compare it to countries like Korea and Japan would be doing disservice to these countries. They are both objectively racist. Are they evil?

Well not at the moment. Imperial Japan was evil. Current Japan is just hypocritical.

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20357430

This was too long ago for me to remember it. I have no idea what I meant in the context of that discussion.

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22538538

I honestly believe americans are overreacting much more than any other nationality I have ever observed. It's a cultural trait.

>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23135072

I have refused to engage in that discussion calling the op out on his behavior.
> you still thought it up on your own

Back in the very early 2000s I had an idea for efficient backups that was essentially rsync, while tinkering with the thought I hit a block and started looking around for implementations of, or papers about, rolling checksums and such, and found rsync.

I wasn't put out that my idea wasn't original - I was glad twofold because not only had someone done it better already (so I could just use it for the task as hand), but it at least confirmed that my thinking was very much on the right track.
In the same vein I've been using https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw + lld + cmake + ninja on windows for over a year with great success, dev experience is much better than with MSVC.
You can use split tunnelling or linux network namespaces to keep the VPN running at all times, but with only your torrent client‘s network connection going through it.

Some VPN companies also provide apps with the feature built-in.
The main 'danger' of 5G, at least what may be an issue for some people, is that it is designed for massive IOT, i.e. it really opens the door to everything around you being connected.
Oh! I confused a bread with an anarchist militant group.
Agreed, I certainly don't think any request to cite X means the reviewer wrote it. But when there's a vague request to cite more without any indication of what (and sometimes a vague request to cite more on a rather niche topic tangential to the paper being reviewed) I would suspect the reviewer of trying to get their own work mentioned without saying so directly. Because if you know the field well enough to know what literature is missing, then it doesn't take you a moment to paste a couple of citations into your review.
Data, especially old data, is very often a liability. It carries storage costs, legal and regulatory risks, and makes a tempting target for attackers. Outside of a few domains like source code management, wouldn't you by default want a mutable database that auto-scrubs old data based on retention rules?