skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pay monthly for Strava, so you are very wrong. You shouldn't spread false information.

So, it's not like the old meme about one being the product if one doesn't pay...
I wish that were true. If it were, one would expect to see some results outside the classroom. Are we fighting fewer stupid wars? I don't think we can say that yet.
I applaud the author for going out of his way to make his writing look like GPT-3 output madness.
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On the bright side, the JCS saw that refusing to begin is even better than refusing to continue (note the handwritten addition): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23412986

In our state-funded news, the headline about US agents in Portland ran with the subhead "like a private militia". (our reporters may have become biased when US police fired upon them, too.)
How can we prevent such narrow-minded, narcissistic people from gaining positions of influence?

If humanity were able to do what's best for everyone's future, including the rest of the biosphere, that would be a next step in our evolution.
The problem is that visas aren't guaranteed so it's very possible that someone could wind up half way through their college career and then not be able to get a visa.
>> It was discovered by western science in 1911, when Yale professor Hiram Bingham III was tipped off to its existence by locals and led to the site, then overgrown with vegetation.

So... it wasn’t “discovered” by western science if it was known to locals all along... why not simply state that western scientist learned or were aided by locals into the site?
As I've explained elsewhere here, uploading health data to Strava is the core feature it's used for. Asking for that is not a dark pattern, as it's pretty useless without..
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In the 1970s, my father worked as a research chemist for CSIRO (Australian government research lab), doing research into new pharmaceutical products. One of his colleagues decided it would be fun to manufacture some LSD after hours for personal use. The colleague made an error in calculating the quantities involved and ended up taking an accidental overdose. It didn’t kill him, but he spent some time in a psychiatric ward as a result. (I’m pretty sure my father was too responsible to try any himself.)

My brother did chemistry at university too. Did an internship at an Australian government laboratory (National Measurement Institute) at which he got to manufacture MDMA - completely legally, it was part of a research project into different synthesis routes, so that by measuring traces they could determine how street samples were manufactured. He must be one of the few people in the whole country to synthesise ecstasy without breaking any laws in doing so. (They were very careful to ensure none of the staff sampled the product; it was all weighed very precisely and signed off by multiple people from precursors to synthesis to analysis to destruction.)
> their particular passion for freedom, democracy and openness

Our what?
Honestly, that post triggered me. I've had really horrible experiences using LVGL on low powered devices.
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Leaving aside that you actually have to be able to get to and stay on that island, lots of students definitely need the structure of an on-campus life to keep them moving in the right direction. I absolutely did.
I totally agree that officers should better identify themselves.

But I disagree that the actions of federal officers can be conflated with "tyranny", "atrocities", "overreach", "abduction", and "waging war" as has been done in this thread. It's called policing: criticize it as such.
When did hacker news become so superficial. Us intelligence networks rely on surveillance done in University to prevent spying..since these students are no longer under surveillance intelligence operators are helpless to investigate them . This is actually about national security
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"Protestors" attack any law enforcement members trying to arrest people committing violence. This allows the arrestee to escape into the crowd.

Talking about gross government overreach without honestly discussing the actions of the "protestors" is intellectually dishonest.
I work for Nintento and you are all wrong and will be sued.
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Helpful that you have a video ready to go!
They’re both NATO members.

Clearly that fact won’t change Greece’s response, but what does it mean for the rest of NATO? It’s like a “civil war” within the organization.
My understanding is that this is the same rules that have already existed. He’s just not changing them for COVID.

I get that refusing to change rules is a bad thing, but it’s not the same thing as “implementing a policy.”
That's true but on the other side, ideas are sold dime a dozen, only their successful implementation proves in hindsight that the idea was worth something. Stealing ideas doesn't mean much as they are available aplenty but a startup which successfully implemented that idea is worth something.
Stopping the influx of travelers is just stupid. People "are" money. They spend that money where they are. If they are not here, then they are spending their money elsewhere.
>gonzo

Seems you are staying true to your name :)

[edit] Didnt intend as an insult. I didn't realize gonzo meant stupid, I thought it exclusively referred to the type of journalism "gonzo journalism," which I like, and the parent comment seems to be linking to.
I just read the wiki on wave function collapse

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse

I actually found it a simpler and more elegant algorithm than what you describe and not hard to understand at all.
I built a smart volume control system out of distributed Kalman filters + classic PID control to track the EBU-128 loudness envelope of an unknown sound source and attenuate the music gain to keep it at a comfortable level: https://wallfly.webflow.io/

The challenge comes when dealing with silence, or breaks in a song: if you detect silence, should the volume go up or down? Of course, the dynamics make the music and should not change, but you don't know that without access to the source signal. So you add latency to the PID controller, but then you get overshoot (classic time/accuracy trade-off).

To do perfect control you need access to the source signal, or lookahead, but you can still do a pretty good job without the source signal by capping the signal gain, i.e. only attenuate and never add amplify. Still compresses the signal, though.

There are some clever tricks used in radar systems that you can use to estimate the noise in a room, like coherence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence_(signal_processing).

In an LTI (linear time-invariant system), coherence can compare the acceleration of both input and output signals to calculate the power (but not the contents) of external signals that entered the system.

Coherence, is in my opinion, underused in industry.
Krebs does not work in Cybersecurity, does not come from a position of knowledge or experience in Cybersecurity and his only skill relating to Cybersecurity is doxxing people.

I could understand if this was "Thinking of a Cybersecurity journalism career" but there are better people to learn from.
Presumably Firefox on your phone ran out of memory because of the large amount of huge images on the page.
When I was young, I thought we would have flying cars and all live in peace/harmony by 2020. Guess what? In 2020, we are almost back into the crusades.

Also, there is this nice serie on Netflix about the fall of Constantinople/Istanbul:

https://www.netflix.com/ch-en/title/80990771
The further you get in physical/geopolitical distance from the US the more you invalidate assumptions that many US sites and services make.

I've had sites fail because my local time can be one calendar day _ahead_ of theirs... and how could you be doing something in the future?

Once you get into regions with a combination of censorship on the foreign-side and aggressive 'security' measures on the US-side (blocking/triggering on IP ranges of entire countries, VPN services, could services, etc... 'cause why would a legit user be coming in through anything like that, right?) then it really gets rough.

Generally, to reliably serve a country/region it requires specific expertise, personnel and/or infrastructure.

And BTW when I priced out a "reliable" connection in Beijing years ago it was around $1K USD/mo for 10Mb. Not exactly peanuts.
Hi, nice work with this! Another small typo under the "Retain information with Spaced Repetition" header in the first bullet point, effecient -> efficient.
> * (many others that escape me at this moment...)

* Threat hunting / attribution

Familiarity with clustering incidents and pivoting between actors by attack signatures.

Or before that, do you even know what an APT is? (Probably only a small percentage of CS grads.)

* Malware re

* Post incident forensics

Random tools and skills that come up...

SQL keeps coming up even though I try to avoid it. There's generally an "SQL person" on the team that drives simple queries but having the basics down will be faster.

Visualization tools that help diagram clusters of incidents, though these might be declining in importance.

Beyond the network stack, understanding common network services, how people (criminals) register for domains and set up virtual services, techniques for c2.

You can play around with riskiq as a free user. You can read some reports from FireEye, Symantec, Crowdstrike, etc. for free to see how they do it. The MITRE attack framework collects a lot of it. Most CS students probably don't know those names though or where to start.

An understanding of criminal law and/or geopolitics doesn't hurt.
I agree. He was honest. Where he wasn't honest was in admiring that many U.S. interventions he continues create the very same immigrants he wants to stop coming in.

As an European looking at the U.S., it isn't really a desirable place to be anymore, if it ever was. No universal healthcare during a pandemic? not wearing masks being considered cool & edgy?, sky high cost of living and even being treated with suspicion and the feeling that I am somehow not thankful enough to be in a COVID hotspot, while trying to not ever meet any law enforcement as the chances of surviving even a speeding ticket encounter are nowhere near as high as they are elsewhere in the world?

Doesn't sound too appealing, unless in a really desperate situation. The U.S. relied on soft power, (Hollywood), for decades to sell a manufactured image of how great it is, but with increased information sharing, I suspect this image is being eroded.
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Just beware that the author is a Zionist, and as a law, Zionists revel in setting their neighbors at war with each other. Even when there's barely a conflict, they will dramatize it to do what they can to turn words into bloodshed.
I think you're misparsing the sentence. It just means that this is when it first became known to "western science".
My interpretation was that they're trying to force universities to hold physical classes in some capacity or face losing foreign students.
Today I learned that Mozilla was pro-censorship, and using their install base to promote this message.

We're living in an intesting time.
Honest about what he would do?
- Build the wall: almost no new wall has actually been built
- Drain the swamp: puts friends and family members in positions of power or influence, gives get-out-of-jail cards to convicted loyal friends, literally spends millions of government dollars to vacation and golf at his own resorts
- Other random things he said early on: peace in the Middle East will be easy (lol), get rid of Obamacare but offer a better alternative (gets rid of provisions during the pandemic)
- the list goes on and on
The US will suffer if its international students can't get an education here without being told by the government to pack up and head for their favorite Caribbean island because we don't value their desire to contribute to our society.
The rioters had begun vandalizing, looting, breaking in and setting fire to buildings directly adjacent to the federal courthouse before federal agents arrived to protect the courthouse. Active defense of the courthouse seems justified, and more than that, it is legal.

May 31st: Looting and fire at Justice Center, adjacent to federal courthouse: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=25081...

June 27th: Some feds arrive in response: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07/evidence-shows-portl...
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Upvoted because these are good questions, indicating a genuine willingness to understand exactly what another poster is saying. That’s the kind of discussion that I come to Hacker News for. Not everyone has the same background and understanding of terminology and they shouldn’t be down-voted for that.
Yes, my heuristically rational denial of the possibility of useful quantum computing does not imply that we should not prepare even for the lowest risks, especially when they're an existential threat.
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?
Big discussion about this topic a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929044 (1085 points/349 comments)
Why not just download all the offending URLs? "Millions and millions" of entries are nothing for a modern computer. That's a couple of megabytes, and you can heavily compress it. Size-wise, it would be on the order of magnitude of visiting this website. And once you have it, you only need diffs. And querying the data set could be done with a simple binary search, requiring no more than log_2(1000000) steps, which is roughly 20.
Buy it? It does not even need to be pitched because it's true. When American's are struggling to put food on the table it's time to cut all foreign funding.
Sure, that would make for a decent PoC. It's all the work that will come later as you discover the browser is NOT doing a good job that will be the problem.
^ Hate speech is banned on YC
And how do you see that when four of them tackle you to the ground, hit you with nightsticks, and put you in zip tie handcuffs? Are you supposed to lightly resist and yell “show me your shoulders!”
This is not pure travel, but tilts to residence. So if someone stays the whole year - verification can take longer. The USA was always built on attracting smart, brilliant, ambitious people. Those who bans them now, are using the wealth the previous generations, created in this way that is now blocked. They are cutting the resource from their future generations. But this is good news to the rest of the world - other countries will benefit.
Sorry about that... I'll have to resize my images
That’s what I’d have expected from 2010 Amazon. It’s not what I was offered by 2020 Amazon.
I thought the article had a very nice, succinct and clear explanation of bloom filters and wanted to say thanks to the author reading this thread.

A year or two ago when bloom filters became a recurring popular topic on HN I read a long illustrated medium post on them found via HN out of curiosity to add the concept and tool to my back pocket, and it all seemed complicated and the explanation didn't stick. Your explanation however was quick and made complete sense and I cannot forget it. Appreciate it! Thank you!
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More important is that Greece is part of the EU while Turkey is not, and EU members are supposed to come to the aid of any member that is the victim of military aggression.

Many Ukrainians regretted not being part of the EU when Russia invaded.
With $3-4k you can live more than decently in 99% of Europe. Sure, it might not get you very far in the most expensive cities like Geneva, but otherwise you can can have anything between a very comfortable and a very lavish lifestyle. This is subjective, after all a luxury car or a top of the line Mac are just as expensive wherever you go. But for the amenities of regular life you really shouldn't worry about missing out on much when living in Europe on that kind of money.
It just increases the value of American's and their assets ever so much. It's very good.
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For people who don't know what a particle filter is: particle filters are an alternative to algorithms like Kalman filters. They're a lot more flexible, possibly more accurate, but not as fast.

The Wikipedia article on them is pretty hard to follow, IMO. (In fact, I think it's practically obfuscatory). But the video above should give you the gist.
NATO is more and more an empty shell organization. The real question is: will other European nations side with Greece and help her militarily in case of an armed conflict? I’m particularly concerned with the position of France, which has one of the strongest EU military and possess an aircraft carrier. The political leaders have no balls however and they could realistically let Turkey invades part of Greece without moving a finger. The second issue is Germany position, which not only has historically been allied with Turkey, but also hosts a huge Turkish diaspora, and could political veto EU decisions.
Thanks for spotting the typo! I have fixed it now.
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I received an apology email from my Alma Mater. Here's an extract. The last para makes an explicit statement that Blackbaud paid the ransom.

On Thursday, 16 July, we were made aware of a security incident involving one of our third-party service providers, Blackbaud.

Blackbaud is one of the world's largest providers of customer relationship management systems for the higher education and not-for-profit sectors.

It informed us that in May it had discovered and stopped a ransomware attack on its systems, although some data was compromised. A number of universities using its services have been affected, including the University of Leeds.

The company assures us that data compromised in the incident was comparatively low risk and did not contain any password, bank account or credit card information.

We are continuing to work closely with Blackbaud to determine exactly what personal data was compromised. We understand that other clients of Blackbaud have been affected in different ways, with varying types of data involved. In our case, it appears that names and email addresses for some members of our alumni and supporter community were affected. Information on the sums given as gifts or event payments through the alumni web portal, Leeds Alumni Online, may also have been affected, although not any bank account or credit card details. As we understand that you haven’t used our website to make any financial transactions, this aspect will not affect you.

Blackbaud paid a ransom to the cybercriminal and received assurances that the stolen data was destroyed and not used or sold on to third parties. Blackbaud says that – based on the nature of the incident, its research, and investigation by third parties (including law enforcement) – it has no reason to believe any data went beyond the cybercriminal, was or will be misused, or will be disseminated or otherwise made available publicly.
No it isn't. Dogfights happen every day, literally, it's nothing new. Turkey has decided to become the new ISIS in the region so they are desperately going after anything and anyone, from syria, to coddling the government of Libya, to threatening French ships in the mediterranean , to oil research expeditions (at a time when oil prices couldn't be more tanked), to making Agia Sophia a mosque. It's sad to watch Turkey sliding further and further into international marginalization, but this is theater, or at worst, will lead to another incident/accident between two NATO countries.
I'm running Chrome on Android and the images just didn't render instead.

The writing is excellent and thorough though.
Ideas can be promising but implemented sub-optimally. Using this method, they get inside information on where things can be improved. Then they have the financial clout, the data analytics and the resources in place to create a successful final product.
I'm definitely interested.
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It's a flashcard system that schedules the cards to be reviewed based on how new the information is.

A basic system is to review each card after 1,2,4,8,etc days, resetting if you don't recall the answer from the prompt.
The university I work for is unable to employ and pay students that are not in the country. As a result, training students online while they are outside of the country is not possible for graduate students that do not have families to support them.
This is especially ridiculous since the first one or two years of a PhD is mostly in class training.
Yes, this is xenophobia. The purpose of the visa is to train foreign students, without a visa, training cannot happen (except for the wealthy students).
The very first line of what the NYT wrote is a complete lie: "Peaceful protests were already happening for weeks when federal officers arrived on July 4. Our video shows how President Trump’s deployment ignited chaos."

May 31st: Looting and fire at Justice Center, adjacent to federal courthouse: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/police/news/read.cfm?id=25081...

June 27th: Some feds arrive in response: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07/evidence-shows-portl...
I built something similar for https://ipdata.co. The API will return a time object like this for any IP:

"time_zone": {
"name": "America/Chicago",
"abbr": "CDT",
"offset": "-0500",
"is_dst": true,
"current_time": "2020-07-25T06:10:16.945136-05:00"
}
Would you mind sharing why? We are adopting LVGL for PineTime Smart Watch, hope we won't fall into a trap. Thanks!
Here are some pointers:

"Large-Scale C++ Software Design"

https://www.amazon.com/Large-Scale-Software-Design-John-Lako...

Although oriented towards C++, many architecture tips apply to other languages as well.

John Lakos is in the process of writing updated versions of the book.

"Large-Scale C++ Volume I: Process and Architecture"

https://www.amazon.com/Large-Scale-Architecture-Addison-Wesl...

"Large-Scale C++ Volume II: Design and Implementation"

https://www.amazon.com/Large-Scale-Implementation-Addison-We...

Then going back into the old days, you have

"Software Engineering in Modula 2: An Object Oriented Approach"

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Jill-Hewitt/dp/0333515188

"Data Structures and Program Design in Modula-2"

https://www.amazon.de/Larry-R-Nyhoff/dp/0023886218/ref=sr_1_...

"Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction"

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735619670/ref=sr_1_1

"AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis"

https://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-William-J-Brown/dp/04711...

"Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming"

https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Object-Oriented-Pr...

"Use Cases Combined With Booch/Omt/Uml: Process and Products"

https://www.amazon.com/Use-Cases-Combined-Booch-Omt/dp/01372...

Just some pointers to get you started.
This reads like typical 'think tank' fodder with an axe to grind, but with some sentences that just don't make sense as if written by a Chinese content farm. Weird.
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Funny you should say that but I couldn't help thinking while reading that article that it wasn't written by a human.

Some of the grammar is... odd!

I can't put my finger on it (apart from some grammatical mistakes) but it just seems off and kind of had no real point to make.

Maybe I'm looking into it too much...
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It is, but many of the ideas apply to other languages as well.

I have posted some links to books on sibling comment.