skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In video compression, the advantage of a new standard over an old one is never a single "critical feature". It's a combination of small gains, single percentage points that accumulate to make a huge difference. If you look at H.264 vs MPEG-2, there is no single defining "critical feature", and yet you can get roughly twice as much video into the same bandwidth.

It's similar with Clojure. Are transducers "critical" or revolutionary? Not at all. And yet they facilitate building composable and reusable pipelines, which helps me with modeling a complex problem domain. Is core.async "critical"? Hardly. And yet it allows me to build reliable asynchronous data flows.

Clojure is a practical language, designed by someone with decades of experience in building complex systems.
An Opinionated Overview of NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Round 3 Candidates
I guess you're right. I don't understand why my previous comment is being downvoted though.
I’ve always found it hard to believe a super advanced alien species keeps crashing their space planes.
> See my earlier comment regarding the relative strength of candidates with OSCP.

Have you been through the course and exam yourself, or are you basing this on something else? If you've been through the experience, which parts of it contribute to you not valuing it?
I forgot the exact GDPR laws but I think if they failed to disclose the security breach within 3 days of discovery they are subject to a fine of 4% of their revenue.
Dr Linus Pauling, anyone?
I think the point that the GP is trying to make is that most Linux distributions over the last 15 or so years do not allow X to listen on the network by default anymore. There used to be a specific network port for each X display that would listen on the network, and it was the main way of displaying remote clients on your local display server until the advent of SSH X11 forwarding.

There are two primary ways that the 'xhost +' command could be an issue on a multiuser machine these days (assuming that X11 not listening on the network): other users on the machine can now access your X11 session with no access control (as 'xhost +' disables access control) or that a remote code execution exploit against a daemon running on the network can be used to access your X11 session with no access control.
For those who understand Portuguese, Prof. Menegat recently appeared on the Fronteiras da Ciência podcast to talk about this work:

http://multimidia.ufrgs.br/conteudo/frontdaciencia/Fronteira...
Why would you ever have a savings account? They’re pointless as they always earn little interest. Much better to invest in an ETF that tracks something like the S&P500 with an average year on year growth of 10%, or if that is too risky invest in a government bond.
Just wondering, is the original Gadgetbridge repo not willing to accept code to merge?

They're also on Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/!KlgIJeiotNGZkxSqRi:matrix.org
You criticized China, that's why. You can't criticize China on the Internet and expect to not be downvoted by the fifty cent army.

Edit: Case in point - this comment was flagged less than five minutes after it was posted.
care to ctrl+c the text to here so we can read it without subjecting ourselves to the tracking it apparently wants to do?
> Davis, who now works for Aerospace Corp., a defense contractor, said he gave a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency as recently as March about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”

> Davis said he also gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Oct. 21, 2019, and to members of the Senate Intelligence Committee two days later.
The fact that the lesson they got from software is customer data and not a configurable car means that they still don’t get it.

They’re even further behind than they think.
No penalty CDs are strictly better than savings accounts. I was able to lock my emergency savings into a 1.6% CD the day the Fed announced rates cuts.
That’s all true, short to medium-term. Long-term, I think it takes a toll on people. Even when they are of different nationality, look different and evidently try to kill you. There are plenty of reports about US soldiers having serious doubts as to what they were doing in Vietnam in the first place. It is altogether more so when it is your own people at the sharp end.

You can of course tell law enforcement officers short-term that they are fighting terrorists, criminals and maybe even the devil himself, but I suspect long-term it is much harder.
Don't buy the hype, it's impossible to die from overdose of LSD. The one case I've read of it happening was highly suspect.
So why did you go to UNC for your MS?
Contact tracing has unfortunately also failed as in "is buggy": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947323

To be clear, I've installed the tracing app, having the idea that it can only help to isolate hotspots, which however is mainly the health authorities' task. And 16+ million downloads (of how many eligible smartphone owners?) in Germany still makes Corona Warn-App a chart breaker I guess.
Nepotism? Can you elaborate or link the previous discussion?
> There were two big problems. One is that you feel disconnected from society. This is hard to explain but being outside of normal social structures you lose a sense of context and meaning to your actions. Second is that when you don't have any social or financial pressures it's hard to avoid the path of least resistance. It's very easy to fall into bad habits, just watching youtube, reading reddit, bad diet, etc.

This strikes me as an extraordinary failure of imagination. There are other communities that have nothing to do with money, and other activities that have nothing to do with work, or sitting at home on the internet.

I'm living in my van currently and once I finish pay off my debts, I'll have few expenses. I spend my time rock climbing and volunteering, and both these have communities around them that I'm deeply connected with. My goals these days are around rock climbing, guitar, and helping underprivileged people in my community gain more agency over their lives. I'm in better shape and eat better than most of my friends who work more than I do.

Sure, doing nothing isn't very enjoyable. So maybe when you quit your job, don't do nothing.
And no one principled would object to that if the risk was indeed personal. It is not, obviously, and the people protesting surely know it, so if you have a shred of intellectual honesty that noble narrative cannot possibly hold. The real truth is that these people weighted the risk of infecting themselves and others and decided on behalf of us all, that it was worth it.
More than likely the point of the share, sow confusion within the minds of the uninitiated.
We went to Machu Picchu around 10 years back, and as I'm slightly asthmatic I was a bit worried about the altitude sickness.

I'd read beforehand than coca leaves help prevent it, and made sure I drank lots of coca tea during our time there.

I don't know if it was the coca, but I barely felt the effects of altitude. We even went up the mountain beside the ruins (Huayna Picchu?), and it was no problem at all (at the time I was of medium build, but not particularly fit).

Cocoa tea tastes quite nice anyway, and the locals swear by the stuff - I recommend it.
Can you read the response a little more closely and understand that the original question is poorly premised?

Or are you that spergy that you need someone else to do the work of providing discursive guard-rails for you at every turn. Asking for a friend.
It's very simple: it's a solo-founder business. I would not have been able to tackle the complexity of modeling the problem domain, writing server-side code, writing client-side code, and maintaining the whole thing. I would have needed a team, and this SaaS has a growth curve (line, to be precise), which isn't fast enough to get to a team quickly.

This particular business really would not be possible without the reduction in incidental complexity that Clojure+ClojureScript brought.
The claim to be falsified isn't that aliens exist anywhere in the universe, which is likely, but specifically that they are on Earth, and by extension, that stories of UFO phenomena (sightings, abductions, etc.) are accurate and correct.

Conflating the two is a common misdirection tactic of UFO believers, meant to imply that it's as reasonable to believe in the former as the latter, or that the general scientific consensus that alien life probably exists somewhere in the universe lends credence to UFO mythology.

The truth is, without some evidence that everything we know about physics is wrong, the universe could be teeming with life and it would still be about as reasonable to believe in the presence of extraterrestrial life on Earth as to believe in leprechauns.
So, I had a thought about the wording they've been using to describe some of the more incredulous parts of this story.

Specifically this one: “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”

That feels like a crafted, or intentionally obtuse statement. Now there is something to be said for the clinical and dry phrasing of scientists or the military. But this doesn't read to me as "extraterrestrial" and certainly not aliens.

Combined with the assertion this week that Russia was testing a space-based weapon[1], this reads as "A foreign adversary has built a vehicle in space. And we might have captured one."

[1]: https://www.wired.com/story/russia-space-weapon-twitter-hack...
> That being said I do not understand the need of this NIST competition. I had the believe that current SHA256/512 is quantum proof. Is that wrong? Why?

SHA2, SHA3, and AES256 are all quantum proof, yes. This competition is about asymmetric cryptography though, it replaces non-quantum proof algorithms such as RSA, DSA, ECC, etc.
From the Methods section of the paper [1].

> For vitamin C experiments, mice undergoing standard feeding or at the last day of the first FMD cycle started to be treated with vitamin C (4 g/kg in saline) via intraperitoneal injection twice a day, every day until the end of the experiment. At least 6–8 h have elapsed between the two administrations in each day.

EDIT: 4 g/kg twice a day is about 400 grams (0.88 pounds) of Vitamin C per day for a 50 kg (110 pound) person. 1 gram per day is a good rule of thumb for the upper limit of oral supplementation.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16243-3.pdf#page=...
How was that a hypothesis? It was merely a thought experiment.
Smallish discussion a couple days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23931960
And for a fair comparison, here's an imperative loop that's way cleaner than what TFA used:

bool is_ascii_branchy(std::string_view v) {
for (auto c : v) if (uint8_t(c) < 128) return false;
return true;
}
Nope

https://codeberg.org/Freeyourgadget/Gadgetbridge/
I miss the time when mainstream conspiracy theories were about aliens and governments spying on us. These ideas never harmed anyone. Now we have antivaxxers and the cult of Q.
I invest in ETFs this 10% yearly grow doesn't happen over a longer term and some years are negative. Overall expect 5%.
Currently being discussed here fwiw:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23942463
Yep that was it, ty, it should be fixed now
> Plenty that is true today was true in 1804 and will hold out to 2304.

Even in man-made paradise man will suffer from things. The things vary but suffering does not.
Mysterious seeds from China sent to US, officials say
Good. Why are people suddenly okay with building likely-permanent surveillance systems for temporary outbreaks? How would Apple ever reasonably remove this feature?
The train ride is great, and if you manage to get the seats at the front of the train, it's absolutely incredible, as the front carriage has a full height glass window.

We booked the train a year in advance to make sure (yes, you need to if you want the best seats!), and the seemingly impossible trip through dense jungle was truely amazing. Highly recommended trying to book it well in advance!
Something I appreciate about country music is how it sometimes utilises a chorus that may remain syntactically invariant throughout a song, but hearing the intervening verses changes the semantics.

e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vn6QdqxK3g
But like, all oposition against him was speech.

And he advocated using force against protesters ... which is speech.
If you find books boring, read these 5
Throwaway account - I am in charge of IT from one of the universities affected and am angry at how blackbaud has been so slow at communicating this to us. Even when we asked them the exact fields/data that was stolen they just gave us vague answers.

Our contract with them ends soon and we will definitely not be renewing when it’s up.
In those cases they shouldn't go up immediately only during refilling an order.
> Page sizes are easy to lower bound when you're compiling. You know the target system you're compiling for.

Do you really know the target system?

Most of the time, you want the compiled code to work not only on the current system, but also in future systems of the same lineage. What prevents a future version of the architecture from for instance lowering the translation granule from 4096 bytes to 512 bytes, or even lower?
> I don't expect much technology transfer in this.

Well, Foxconn itself started as a backyard operation making injected plastic parts, so who knows.
Should be fixed now 8)
My favorite (sort of sad) theory is that this is Martian/Venetian/etc. space junk. The people are long gone but there’s some stuff to out there to be found.
Middle Voice
Espressif ESP32: Bypassing Secure Boot Using EMFI
100LL is still a super common aviation fuel. It has a relatively low amount of tetra-ethyl lead, it it’s there.
The banks cost of money isn't closely tied to the Fed rate. It is more tied to long term investments such as government bonds or t-bills. These have been pretty low and very low recently.
I have not, and have no plan to take OSCP - though im familiar with it.

I'm relating the facts about candidates who applied to my roles with OSCP certifications. I did not hire any of them.

I do not specifically dislike OSCP, its that I do not value any of the certs merely because someone possesses them.

Certs are a marginal signal to me about your potential for discipline, may inform how deep I go on questioning, and thats it. Conversely, certs may lead to bias, particularly for some very lame ones.

I don't think it's very fair to weight letters on a resume so heavily, it's about what you can do in the role I have for you.

Having them is not something that will make a big difference to me.
Crack and cocaine aren't really all that similar. Crack and meth are tho. Guess what, they both have the same mandatory mins too.

When you look for racism everywhere, you find it everywhere. Let's be more objective, eh?
"Today, it faces very modern threats including overtourism, a problem that will only be exasperated by plans for a new airport in the region."

...I don't think that's what "exasperated" means. The author may have been exasperated that the problem is likely to be exacerbated by the building of the airport, though.
> Local television stations owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group

As soon as I read the headline I knew it would be them.

Be careful. Your local station, that you might trust, may have been bought by them.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sinclair+broadcast+group&t=fpas&ia...
Well, the Apple/Google mechanism is not useful for surveillance.
Would be interesting to hear some new findings on the 2004 video from the US Navy.

The pilot was recently on the Joe Rogan podcast and talked about it.

I don't believe in anything "aliens", but I'm not really sure what to make of that story.
But it does though ...

https://www.macrotrends.net/2526/sp-500-historical-annual-re...
If the German app would have been less privacy aware, it wouldn't even had 16 million downloads in Germany. The decentralised approach was and is the only one which at least worked a little bit.
I’m afraid to even ask what the cult of Q is. Something tells me it’s not Star trek related.
What is your salary range for all of this? That really, really sounds like it's worth ~$200k.
That was most interesting, thanks.
I can't answer for the parent comment, but after working just when I wanted to for 20 years (onsite at Google and Capital One were the only exceptions in a 20 year period), I finally decided to really retire March 2019 (except I still write).

My diet is even better now because I have time to cook real meals following a hybrid of Dr. Fuhrman/macrobiotic diets. I bought weights, and hike/walk an average of 90 minutes a day, and except for worrying occasionally about how family and friends are doing with covid-19, life is peaceful and fun.

One thing that I think is vital is having goals. For me that is spiritual development and studying specific tech, programming languages, etc. I have been an artificial intelligence practitioner since the 1980s but I have very little experience with probabilistic programming, graph models, etc. My goal for the next year is kicking my knowledge up a few levels. These are the only goals I have, and that is enough for me.
I think about this all of the time. When I pay attention to little decisions I make throughout the day it usually makes sense why I've chosen one path over the other.

For instance, food choice. I can't count how many times seeing or hearing about someone else eating a particular kind of food has primed me to want to eat that food. That's a pretty obvious example of how we're programmed at a social level.

You can go further and think about longer term choices and they are pretty obvious too, given your upbringing, environment, and early personal experiences. Every action stems from biological motivation.
>Specifically this one: “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”

> That feels like a crafted, or intentionally obtuse statement. Now there is something to be said for the clinical and dry phrasing of scientists or the military. But this doesn't read to me as "extraterrestrial"

“extraterrrestrial” is just a single polysyllabic latinate word for “not made on this earth”. The statements are literally equivalent.

The more significant part of that is that the quote is in reference to someone given a briefing on retrieval techniques, for which precautionary procedures would be developed if your mission included dealing with the potentiality, even if there were no concrete past or current examples.
its worth more than $200k cash + bonus. Not everyone will slay every interview and we will adjust accordingly, but you need to be close.
That's probably what I was remembering.
> Protests against racism and police brutality in Portland

That's certainly one way to characterize the activity downtown for the past 50+ nights.
Has a timeline for the announcement been mentioned in any of these articles? So far it's only been that there will be some kind of announcement, but I can't find any suggestions of when.

Sometimes I wonder if these leaks are strategic as a way to say "hey, if this is you, last chance to come forward before we talk about this publicly"; maybe a little more "are you suuuuuuure these aren't your toys?" before someone finally comes out and says "We found this weirdly shaped hunk of metal and it seems cool but we don't know how to make it".

The conspiracy theorist in me hopes that we found something on Mars, and that's what's been causing all the expeditions out there recently.
I think it's possible that it's both. Consider the possibility that clandestine aliens are here and can mess with us and our defences and abduct us with impunity, their intentions are not great, and the manhattan project part is the reverse-engineering of their technology in order to stand a chance in the long run.

There's no way to not make it sound like you're insane when speculating this topic, but it's one that far too many credible people have gone on the record with both experiences and beliefs about, for there to be nothing to it. Edgar Mitchell walked on the moon and believed that the aliens are here.
Why would you write any of this yourself?

This is the classic use case for code generation. (And IMO one of the few justified ones.)
I worked with Huawei back when the first dongles of this kind started coming to market (some time after 2004, in the 3G days). Their QA was virtually non-existent, and it took us something like twelve tries to get a hybrid (Mac/PC) image preloaded onto it.

The Windows drivers were unsigned, the “dashboard” application for managing the dongle was horrible (and the Mac version, which I was especially responsible for, was so bad I eventually asked to provide a modem script instead). But I could not attribute any of it to malice, really (as the saying goes...).

And yes, those things usually have a plethora of USB functionality inside them, from a USB UART (Ethernet in some variants) to storage, which usually had drivers and carrier-specific apps to configure the dongles.

(My notes on the E220 are still around - https://taoofmac.com/space/com/Huawei/E220 has a bunch of low-level stuff I had actually forgotten about)

Now, this post does pose some questions, but not necessarily about Huawei - last I checked, Linux had no autorun functionality, so I’m wondering if the author didn’t actually run some portion of their installer without thinking of the consequences?
Hybrid bonding opens up a big improvement in die-to-die performance, but getting there is not trivial.
Among the ways in which the early web may have been an improvement upon its successors:
https://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5.1_Wrappers.html
For what it’s worth, I agree with your sentiment wholeheartedly in-spite of the harshness of the tone that was used. I was hoping for a reply along the lines of the one you posted because this can be an emotional topic depending on the kinds of companies you have experience working for.

I also feel that some corporate muckety-muck is going to see this and foist it upon their workforce, further subjugating them under the guise of collaboration and togetherness. Luckily, I work someplace that doesn’t do that to its employees but many are not that fortunate.
Gotta grab the faces eh?
"Contact tracing" was the new "blockchain" for a while. It is a technology with great potential, but I don't expect a truely effective, well-designed solution to be deployed at a large enough scale to be useful for years to come. I think it will eventually mature enough to be useful for future outbreaks - even for more benign disease. For now, though, I want to see the technology spend a little more time in the oven.
> I would avoid southern europe and india.

Were you paying good salaries?
Ask HN
Hiring managers, what tech skills would you be hiring for in upcoming months?
(posted in another thread before realizing this was the active one)

Has a timeline for the announcement been mentioned in any of these articles? So far it's only been that there will be some kind of announcement, but I can't find any suggestions of when.
Sometimes I wonder if these leaks are strategic as a way to say "hey, if this is you, last chance to come forward before we talk about this publicly"; maybe a little more "are you suuuuuuure these aren't your toys?" before someone finally comes out and says "We found this weirdly shaped hunk of metal and it seems cool but we don't know how to make it".

The conspiracy theorist in me hopes that we found something on Mars, and that's what's been causing all the expeditions out there recently.
The Biases We Hold Against the Way People Speak
1) Space force

2) Chinese spies in Houston

3) UFOs

Could be confirmation bias but I see a pattern