skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is the X-Snapchat is a one-time use token that changes on a per-call basis and may even been hashed to the actual data being sent in the API call. For example, if Snapchat is sending a pic that has a MD5 hash of X, the token somehow encodes that or other information so you cannot reuse that token.

I’m confident the security engineering team at Snap has all kinds of white hat teams to prove and probe the security constantly.
I feel like college has less signaling value in most jobs than it functions as an idiot check, which is really valuable for people fresh out of college with few ways to prove they're not complete idiots.

I'm not saying there is no signal value, or that some positions have more signaling than others. I just don't think it's the dominant factor in the majority of cases.
You're correct, it's dark thing and that no one is talking about it.

How do courts open back up when 30%+ rentals are overdue on rent?
I used to work on rockets and I'm very confused by the author's opinions.

> No evidence a working starlink network can offer lower latency

This is weird. Even if we pretend that these satellites are directly competing with terrestrial based systems, their orbits put them in range for a latency that is at least competitive with terrestrial systems. It's unproven that they get those latencies, but there's clear evidence.

Note: we're talking about like 50ms (IIRC 20ms - 100ms depending on which constellation). Geostationary satellites (which is what they are competing with) are like 250ms (these numbers are off the top of my head so correct me if I'm off). Starlink is competing with geostationary internet satellites AND places that have no internet at all.

> lower prices

Seems to me they can service a lot more people. Isn't this "scale?" Aren't they targeting something like a billion+ users? I know plenty of people with boats and RVs that are excited about this because the terrestrial solutions just suck (and generally aren't terrestrial based solutions).

> Impact on earth based telescopes has not been discussed

What? You're literally discussing it. It is pretty easy to find articles from astronomers getting upset [0][1]. I can tell you that everyone in my community (which includes astronomers and astrophysicists) is aware of this issue. The fact is that most people just don't care. They see greater utility so it is worth the cost. Of course, there are also plenty of people that disagree.

> Starlink is a play for pentagon funding to keep SpaceX launch schedule busy?

Little bit of this, little bit of that. Having worked at a rocket company I can definitely tell you that, like every other manufactured product in the existence of products, flights are cheaper the more you do (especially true for reusable rockets!). Sometimes this is called the "launch chasm." I'm not sure why you're mad at SpaceX here. If you have an issue with this, it is with Pentagon funding.

Look, I'm not the biggest fan of Musk or SpaceX either, but these aren't great arguments. The things to dislike are a little more nuanced whereas this just comes off as hating SpaceX to hate on SpaceX.

[0] https://www.sciencealert.com/elon-musk-s-starlink-satellite-...

[1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/spacex-starlink-satellites-a...
Just don’t do something like only trust a specific CA cert. really-really pin to a leaf.
I remember back in 2013(?) I went to a collegiate hackathon in Santa Monica. Evan Spiegel showed up to walk the floor and someone showed him how they had sniffed the API and did something interesting with it (forget the particulars now, getting old). If I recall correctly, Evan offered the kid a job on the spot but the kid turned him down.

They've come a long way since then!
Nah, this is just because tutorials for these new frameworks does not include network handling.

It's far more easier to put todo list app or counter app to your blogs.

Really, we need people to come together to build a proper knowledge base rather than fighting for influence with hype and easy blog posts
Not an English speaker, but the very fact you find it pedantic is making his point, IMO. It means their normalizing the word "war" worked on you - or it may be seen as such. Not judging you though, just my perceptions.
The MIT approach looks like a winning strategy to me.
I agree that your analogy works better.

> Your implication that this was due to lack of proper security hygeine is unfounded. Security hygeine reduces risk it does not eliminate it.

Nope. No security professional will admit that anything ever eliminates risk, so that's a strawman fallacy.

The point is that sharing admin passwords is a blatant violation of cybersecurity hygiene which every employee of the CIA is capable of understanding and avoiding. If the org can't enforce even just the basic stuff, there's not much hope of raising standards above that.

> from the most persistent and resourceful attackers.

Here's a secret that everyone already knows: the most persistent and resourceful attackers will always get in given enough time.
This is an annoyingly good point, honestly.

I'm mostly hoping that a lot of the other millennials who have been waiting their chance are planning to skip town for some cheaper suburbs.
Incidentally, I just opened a large urban apartment community in downtown Memphis, and we are leasing up at 2x the rate we planned on, for higher rents than we planned on.
At the first glance, I thought Amazon ship Kindle to customer with storage as a bonus.
>Their beliefs are irrelevant. You don't get to break laws and due process just because of your beliefs and anger.

Yes you do. You might not get away with it, but that's not really pertinent.

In fact historically most change happened through people breaking laws because of their beliefs and anger.

And in every past society, like ours, most thought its laws are the apex of law-making, and should never be challenged or broken in anger, nor its law agents assaulted etc. Only history doesn't work that way.
> average cost of incarceration costs about 70k

In 2015, according to [0], the average was about half that.

> minimum sentence of 5 years is going to run 1.2 mil

How do you get from 70K (presumably per year) to $1.2M over five years? On average it should be more like $135K, with some cheaper states spending about half that.

[0] https://www.vera.org/publications/price-of-prisons-2015-stat...
That sounded weasel wordy so I read the article -

> full $41.59 billion of the Ivy League’s money could be traced back to taxpayer-funded payments and benefits.

Traces back.

So part of it is tax breaks to educational institutions- which is natural, they have the biggest endowments combined so the tax benefits will be massive.

They point out that major research happens at these institutions so they have more money from that as well.

This meshes less with the “have their cake and eat it too” line of thinking and more a result of the distortions from reputation and network effects.
I can understand someone wanting to make money by selling a book. And I can understand someone not wanting to do the heroic thing to save the country if it looked too personally costly. But at some point, it looks from afar like it would have been easier to just take him down, which makes a paranoid mind ask what's really going on and is there hidden protection?
I wish people would stop thinking of S3 as a filesystem because it isn't, and in ways that can cause serious issues. I can't tell you how many questions I get from devs asking "how do I rename a file in S3?" You can't. They're not files. It's not a filesystem. The folders you see on the web interface are just sugar, but if you have only a superficial knowledge of S3, you might be tricked into believing it behaves like a filesystem.

S3 is an eventually-consistent object store. We need to treat it as such.
I bought a bottle of Jimmy Red bourbon from High Wire for a coworker (I got super lucky - it was one of maybe a dozen left), and he reported that it had a lot of flavor -- very natural tasting, and not like anything that comes out of a production distillery.

As much as Tito deserves his success, calling his vodka "handcrafted" is a major stretch when you've got a spirit like this that has true heritage behind it.
1 Megabit ethernet was never a thing.
Potentially, though it would have to be lifelong unemployment. And no benefits, since presumably we could take some portion of those.
No slave labor.

Or at least, it's been outsourced too far away or its too underground to have them sculpting gargoyles in the summer.

Well, I guess Dubai is kind of ugly too.
This is a fantastically well written blog article, and there needs to be more attention paid by the industry to issues such as these ones raised by the author.

I've generally found that all the IT vendors have an incredibly lazy and sloppy attitude to imaging of all types, not just display scaling or font rendering. "The pixels went on to the display! Good enough! Ship it!" is the attitude.

Compare this to televisions, where there 120 Hz is common, 8K is a thing now, wide gamuts and HDR are not only supported but consistent and even calibrated out of the box! Dolby and NetFlix in particular have put significant effort into making sure their customers see the original artistic intention, not some faded or garish mess.

In the PC, Mac, and smartphone world it is literally impossible to send someone either a still image or video that'll look even vaguely correct. It'll be too bright, or too dim, faded, or worse: the colours will be stretched to the maximum display gamut. Photos of faces look like zombies or clowns in full makeup.

HDR is simply impossible to use for still image exchange. No matter what some random JPEG committee is working on, don't even think about such nonsense as sending someone a HDR file, it will practically never work, no matter what display the recipient is using. Or even just an SDR 10-bit file. You're wasting your time.

To give you an idea of how insanely bad this is, for years and years if you enabled HDR for your display under Windows 10 it would simultaneously wash out the desktop colours, dim it until it was way too dark, and then blur everything on top of that so that your 4K monitor is pointless.

Clearly nobody actually tested HDR support at Microsoft. After they received complaints, both to their tech support and in public... they did nothing. For years. YEARS.

I just find the whole thing incredibly sad. It's 2020. The future! The physical technology for nearly perfect display output has been available for years, but... no. You just can't have it, because the software won't allow you.

It doesn't matter what display you buy. You can't have HDR, or 10-bit, or colour management on the desktop, or your browser.

Firefox has had full ICC colour management for many years now. It's off by default. Internet Explorer truncates everything to sRGB even on a wide-gamut screen. Safari stretches colours for un-tagged images.

The only HDR and colour-managed thing you can reliably do on a PC is watch NetFlix. That's... it.
When Antifa Hysteria Sweeps America
It probably didn't help performance. But there's some good news: ARM has added pretty much the same thing, called MTE (Memory Tagging Extension) [1], which uses the upper 4 bits of memory addresses as a region identifier.

[1] https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...
>We are On 21st century, we know violence doesn’t stop violence, crime doesn’t stop crime.

No, we don't know that.

Historically it has been violence that stopped violence, and crime (like toppling an unjust government, breaking segregation laws, etc) that stopped crime.

>People should use modern tools to reduce racial issues. Like voting or social media’s, never burn a state property.

Yeah, they've tried blogging about it. There are also tons of books on the matter, vlogs, articles, etc. They voted Obama twice. Didn't work.

A few months of angry riots and a few burned down police departments though, could send a very clear message to politicians and police chiefs, and help change laws to restrict police abuse.
Very unlikely tbh, but let her work an pay it of would certainly also have that effect if it gets a bit media attention.

I don't live in the US but I know someone who spray painted trains at night for a few year. That eventually did cost him a decent car. Obviously not as much as he caused damage over the years but enough to make some teens think twice whether a nice car or temporary colored train are their short term goals.
OP here. About half are off the shelf. Joint functions, the breakpoint infinite loop, in-house memmove, the overflowing thing, those I haven’t read about anywhere before.
This has been added to ARM: https://community.arm.com/developer/ip-products/processors/b...
Maize has more human induced genetic diversity than any higher order organism.

There are many "heritage" maize varieties grown for various reasons - my favorite is a type of popcorn that grows very small kernels (search for "tinybutmighty popcorn").

That said, this seems like mostly an advertisement for a brand of bourbon whiskey. Most of the specialty maize varieties have a similar origin story, usually with some drama about the "last owner" or "one field left".
That's the cool thing about this. As the schedule evolves, when you make a change, the rest of the day reflows around that change.

1100,1200,meeting x
x,+60,lunch

If you change 1200 to 1220, the "lunch" block auto adjusts.
Airbnb Is Moving Off of React Native (2018)
There is nothing wrong with CGI. It's simply a standard to forward a request from a web server to another application using environment variables and stdio. Generally, you want your router routing, not wasting CPU and memory running admin applications that are used less than once a month.
I dislike modern "flat" user interfaces which try to remove boxes and lines as much as possible. It makes it harder to get oriented in an app, discern hierarchy, and tell different regions apart. (Maybe reducing boxes saves space, as long as you don't replace them with large regions of whitespace.)

I'm glad that https://raw.githubusercontent.com/derricw/siggo/master/media... has boxes and line separators, and hope they don't get removed.
Yeah, more teams need to do this and consider performance on low-end devices to be a feature.

When Android Kit Kat was under development, the team used nerfed Nexus 4's to simulate a low end Android phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_KitKat#Development
> The only problem there is cost

If only there were launch platforms that could put up smaller telescopes (optical and radio).

I mean you can do a lot with telescopes that are much smaller than Hubble Class or JSW. A lot of people are doing work with telescopes that are much smaller. Also, as long as frequencies and locations are published, much of this noise (not all!) can be removed. Sure, the VLA is going to have a major headache, but LIGO wouldn't exist if we didn't know how to remove noise (LIGO had to deal with noise from cars many miles away and all kinds of vibrations because it is ridiculously sensitive).
Russian companies build reactors and other similar tech. Like any other country, Russia is helping domestic industry grow. Same thing done by most big European countries, the US, China, etc.
I don't think this is "deep into pedantry". I think it's probably one aspect of the most important conversation we need to have about the effect that "organizing the world's information" has on society.

The extraordinary permanence of certain aspects of identity ("criminal", "felon", "rapist", "racist", etc.) in the information age is radically different from how identity has worked for the past 100 years or so. The possibility of "starting over" is gone.
Would they be fans if they thought it was bad?
You'd probably have to find an Intel insider to know the real truth.

But the most likely possibility is that the plan was too grand for the time (note, this was 197x to ~ 1984ish, the IBM PC with its 8088 had only been on the market about three or so years) and therefore much too expensive for any market to bear.

Additionally, the iAPX432 was being worked upon during the same time that the IBM PC suddenly brought the x86 chips to significant popularity.

Combine the concepts of pouring money into an arch. that was too big and grandiose for the integration tech. at the time, with a sudden influx of profit from the x86 chip line, and it seems that a likely reason was simply to devote resources to the chip line that was suddenly producing those same resources.

The Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAPX432) also says this about the '432:

"Using the semiconductor technology of its day, Intel's engineers weren't able to translate the design into a very efficient first implementation. Along with the lack of optimization in a premature Ada compiler, this contributed to rather slow but expensive computer systems, performing typical benchmarks at roughly 1/4 the speed of the new 80286 chip at the same clock frequency (in early 1982).[7] This initial performance gap to the rather low-profile and low-priced 8086 line was probably the main reason why Intel's plan to replace the latter (later known as x86) with the iAPX 432 failed. Although engineers saw ways to improve a next generation design, the iAPX 432 capability architecture had now started to be regarded more as an implementation overhead rather than as the simplifying support it was intended to be."
> English has this distinct connotation for the word "immigrant" and it's associated with individuals overwhelmingly based on their country of origin (the poorer the country, the more "immigranty" the person).

I was born in Australia, my mother was born in Scotland. In my mind, that makes me a second generation immigrant. I never thought of my mother, or her parents, as "expatriates".

A lot of Australians who immigrated from the UK and Ireland identified themselves as "immigrants" not "expatriates".
My instant 'WTF' reaction to this was - Is Zoom traffic currently unencrypted?
Well at this point, you might as well run the binary in a Mach-O ARM emulator since Snap has seriously cranked up the reversing difficulty to level 10,000.

I suggest anyone looking at this would need to use Corellium such that Snap has made it hard for almost anyone to get their private API.
I'm such a bad chess player I barely count as an amateur, but it's definitely possible to know simple jerkass bidding systems in bridge and just enough about some of the "standard" systems to screw with people and often win, without being capable of playing any of the standard systems.

Nb however that most tournaments and such ban loads of bidding strategies with all kinds of special rules, so you can't do this just anywhere.
You can blast foods with gamma radiation and then can it or otherwise put it in an airtight seal. The gamma radiation kills all foods and microbes that would cause it to decay. Gamma radiation is just photons (unlike alpha and beta radiation) so it doesn't case the food to become radioactive.

It would enable canning food without preservatives.
Morphogenesis Resources: Resources on the creation of form through code
1. Not in my experience. 2. Basically.

The sad thing about #2 is that said object stores could archive digital artifacts such as code and data sets, and they could provide an open API for the development of improved tools and user interfaces, but legacy publishers like Elsevier don't seem to be interested in such improvements. Technical societies (ACM, IEEE) don't seem to be much better.
They tried reusable plastic boxes for Amazon stuff in Seattle years ago. It was a pretty colossal failure. People just kept the plastic boxes and used them for stuff around the house.

"Bill the people who keep the plastic boxes," is the oft-heard refrain!

What if they're stolen off your porch due to living in a not-great neighborhood? You still owe?
It's the same information, but if you put it on your personal site, it would be less likely to be included in mass data sharing/scraping with people you might not want the info shared with.
Too bad Signal API does not bring unencrypted messages. I was also surprised to discover that when you link new devices, you lose history. In general, I ruined a month of text message history, which got into Signal with not way to bring it back (I am referring to the unencrypted text messages).
Does Startup School give $15,000 to anyone who gets in after completing the basics?
Yes that complicates things. But if you can find the cert in the binary's data section, maybe you can patch it with your own.
The name Jitsi is a disadvantage.

I'm not being facetious. If you compare the name Zoom to Jitsi, people will choose Zoom 9 out of 10 times. You won't get many people to even try Jitsi.

Zoom is quickly becoming a verb similar to what Skype used to be. Let's Skype. Let's Zoom. Everyone understands what that means.

Let's Jitsi... Let's what?
Hey Spiegel! If you see this I’m available for hire.
Gun manufacturers regulations and internet platform regulations are quite two different subjects with very little overlapping.

If a platform controls and exercise editorial control when something is said, what is said, and who may speak and who may listen, then it may be useful to hold that platform liable. It is about intent, control and power.

Gun manufacturers regulations however is full of rules that is about protecting society and international agreements. Selling guns to countries currently at war is problematic, so we hold those manufacturers responsible if they try to profit from running guns.
After reading this article and his related 1998 article on the mob killings of "sorcerers" (https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/20/world/fears-of-sorcerers-...) had no choice but to share.
This is a problem with the article. "for tracking people in incognito mode" would almost certainly indicate that they claim incognito mode is an end-all for GA/Ads tracking, yet the actual case complains about (in broader terms of course):

> To prevent information from being shared with Google, Google recommends that its consumers need only launch a browser such as Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft Edge, or Firefox in “private browsing mode. Both statements are untrue. ”

This type of comment is prevalent in this thread because neither this article nor the original article makes this distinction or goes into depth about what the lawsuit really targets. The average HN user doesn't have a pacer account or the patience to go searching through pacer, so we can only rely on news sites to provide good information (especially when they don't even upload the complaint to document cloud).

complaint: https://i.judge.sh/specific/Sia/520-cv-03664-LHK-1-main.pdf
> Is point-to-point encryption okay for your use cases there, or do you have security concerns that require e2ee for your communications?

I would actually be fine even with raw http for said sites.
60deg is more likely to be due to the limitation of the smaller "pizza box" user antenna, as opposed to the (likely much larger) spaceX operated gateways, which would feasibly reach down to 25deg.

If I recall the FCC filing correctly, the constellation was intended to always have a sat >50deg above horizon.