skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s the way it works with liability insurance — if you want the coverage, it’s up to them, not you whether you settle or fight. But one would hope in the insurers are smart enough not to encourage bad behavior.
That price drop was more the result of purchase demand drying up overnight with everyone staying home (a car not driven needs no fillups). When the local retailer goes from moving 1,000 gal per day to moving 100 gal per day (numbers made up) that incentivizes the retailer to drop their street prices to try to generate extra demand at the point of sale.

The other price increases/reductions being discussed are when the price of crude takes a dramatic swing, one sees the street prices swing asymmetrically. Crude goes up by $40/barrel today, for one day, street prices for gasoline goes up tomorrow and remains up. Crude drops by $50/barrel next week and stays down, it takes weeks before the street price of gas falls to reflect the reduced price of crude. For these scenarios, the local sales demand for gasoline at the local station would have remained relatively flat. The retailer might have seen sales swing from 1,000 gal/day to 950 gal/day after the increase (again, made up numbers), but not enough swing to impact his pricing choices.
Bookstack is my favourite piece of software. Easy to manage on a $5 DO droplet and easy to udpadte. It is also something that I recommend everyone to use if they have some server management experience. I featured your software on the site.
What long-term technology investments has AMD made that Intel hasn't? Especially ones that are relevant to manufacturing?

This seems very much a "Intel did invest, failed at hard problem, considers buying from someone who succeeded" vs "AMD couldn't afford own fabs, sold own fabs, when formerly-own fabs couldn't afford to develop an upgrade AMD was free to buy manufacturing from someone who succeeded".
You wrote:

>>> The article very clearly points out an error in the original proof.

You didn't say what error you meant here, but later you wrote this:

> The original proof used an implicit assumption, which is a problem with the proof proper

This is true, but this is not pointed out in the article at all, let alone "very clearly".

As established elsethread, the article's problem with the assumption is not it being implict or explicit, the authors simply didn't want to have to use the assumption at all.
Thanks, this looks pretty awesome, definitely will check it out. The MS Teams integration and infinite whiteboard is a major plus to me.
And this is why you would lose your shirt. Supermarkets are low margin businesses.
Two by birth. Third is still six months to go for sufficient years. (Currently perma res which is functionally the same for now)
> But these are normally well known already, just not fixed due to political pressure.

This is just not true. Plenty of developers don't really know much about these. Juniors are basically glad they done the task or tend to focus on like two risks they know. And from experience, many seniors sorta kinda vaguely heard about these.

The fault is absolutely not just in management. And even management that is at fault is often acting on advice or with validation of developers who don't care about these much.

Many companies don't know how to even run internal scans. Even when they have interest in it.
This. So much this.

Unless you’re going the vulnerability/malware research, reverse engineering, or something equally specialized don’t paint yourself into a corner and limit your options with over specific signaling.

And realize that the above are tough roles to get paid for. There aren’t many of them, you have to have intense technical skills across many domains to be effective. All things considered you are unlikely to be able to make as much money as a developer (with just a little business savvy) putting in the same amount of effort.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m still an old hacker at heart and infosec has a lot of amazing aspects of it. It is one of the last holdouts of the old community-driven cultures around computing, but know what you’re getting into with open eyes. Recruiters and businesses have been working hard to commoditize it for years, and will continue to. In addition it’s been a “hot” job track for a while now, similar to “devops” a few years ago, so you’ll find a lot of folks in it without a particular interest or understanding beyond the surface level resume fodder.
Pentagon’s UFO unit will make some findings public
One would kind of hope that universities by now have gotten past live lecture attendance being necessary for remote learning... Guess that's a bit optimistic though.
Flatpak Apps can escape their sandbox
I don't really care about their political stance or what they support (as many people claiming themselves to be slightly right of center seem to be so offended by) but using push notifications to shove that to my face is one step too far. They should just have stuck to their blog and social media.

Reminder this is the same company who have partnered with proprietary service companies to put on first-party functionality on their browsers (hi Pocket) and also used undocumented functionality to push ads on people before (the Black Mirror promo fiasco).
Thanks a lot! I put a lot of effort into getting it to work on latest Chrome, Safari and Firefox on desktop and mobile and working out various bugs. Still more work to do but I feel it's pretty solid right now.

Stack is:

- Google Chrome headless w/ remote debugging protocol

- NodeJS + express + ws

- Shell scripts for some monitoring and user management

- Front-end: Plain JS + dumbass[0] and style.dss[1] (both my own work)

Open source code free for non-commercial use is here:
https://github.com/dosyago/BrowserGap

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dumbass

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/style.dss
> Are you rejecting the concept of variation in aggregate utility? I don't think that you need any sort of capitalist epistemology, or hierarchical vision of society to explain the presence of utility variance.

No, of course there is variance in aggregate utility. It’s what weight that variance is given relative to support of the entire network that determines its ability to produce and further, useful knowledge. Overemphasis on individual contributions and direction of resources to them and away from the overall health of the network results in various forms of gaming and pseudo-novelty. Citation rings and replication crises are obvious examples of this.

>Identifying individual variations in utility is how you maximize network growth. That is precisely the reason capitalism is structured the way that it is. Direct resources to people and entities who are growing the network, in proportion to how much they are growing it. That is the distilled essence of capitalism.

The distilled essence of Capitalism is that people who own Capital accrue more by using it to buy the labor of others, who must concede to this arrangement as a condition of their survival. I expect on this point we’d irreconcilably disagree, so it’s probably best to leave it aside.

Resources in Capitalism, however, are not directed toward people who are growing the network in socially useful or ways that sustain its overall health (including maintaining its diversity), but toward individual nodes or small clusters that pursue their own short term growth for growth’s sake at the expense of the network’s overall health. The externalities of pursuing such growth and the periodic crises it produces are almost never taken into account.

Google is a good example of this because again, they observed a useful signal within a knowledge network and added extra utility in making it available to be easily leveraged by others. But from there, the prioritizing of their own growth deteriorated the network’s overall health, as observed in things like the explosion in various forms of SEO optimization and content mills, surveillance advertising and its malware, foreclosing of the web in services like AMP, and use of its market position to bully competitors and quash innovation independent of them.
Cybersecurity, as a field, is in desperate need of identifying different roles within it. These roles are notionally understood within the field, but what they are called and what exactly they do hasn't really crystallized quite yet. You still see job postings for "Cyber-security SME" or whatever and the organization has almost no idea what exactly they want out or the person they hire. So they end up with bored, highly skilled, reverse engineers and pentesters running automated scans, or overwhelmed "security guys" who's career was running compliance checklists being asked to build a defensive intelligence platform.

I call this the "Cyber Dash" problem where there's many different kinds of Cyber-<insert job> but the industry hasn't figured out what those are, what to call them, what they do, and what the requirements are beyond maybe a handful of roles.
We do a few screens, starting with general security discussion - something like: intro, light tech/coding - just to make sure we aren't completely wasting our time

The main interview centers on software security, and is focused on real world scenarios. We avoid "explain this OWASP top 10 blah blah blah" kind of questions. The goal is to see if you can reach the outcomes we expect, regardless of how you may approach them. I don't care if you can explain SQLi to me, you should be able to approach exploiting it on a live system.

We will:

* Give you a sample system and ask you to threat model it. Maybe you will use STRIDE, maybe you wont, but we hope you will find some threats using structured techniques.

* Ask you about secure systems you have designed, why you made the choices you made, and how you would make them differently today. We want to know if you have a methodology, a structured approach, and experience.

* Expose you to vulnerable code implementations, and running systems. We hope you will discover vulnerabilities.

* Show you examples of our systems, and ask you how you would secure them. We want to understand if you can see, and discuss security architecture.

* Role play developer interaction scenarios. Can you handle soft skills?

* Have you done any of this at scale? Do you understand how to make it work for 10, and 1000 developers? Explain your experience, how would you do it differently?

I can go on, but again the emphasis is evaluating whether or not you can do the tasks we need you to do, with a high degree of quality in whichever way works best for you, while also being able to completely ignore your resume if we want.

It is extremely difficult for us to consider hiring junior candidates, and we frequently encounter candidates with no deep experience. While it is unfair to expect candidates to have spent time at home treating this as a passion project, those are the ones im going to hire because they can deliver the outcomes in an interview. To combat the hiring difficulty, we have arrived at this approach which allows us to send candidates through the machinery quickly, with low bias.
During NetBSD datacenter outage there's an Amiga running a mirror
The word "effective" is used in a misleading way in a huge number of cancer studies. Reducing disease progression is not a particularly good metric of "effectiveness", even less so in mice models. What you want to see is a measure of overall survival (i.e. you survived cancer but died of something else because your health declined overall, making your survival moot) and a measure of quality of life, which is often completely ignored. The gap from "tumors regressed in mice" to the measures I just listed is so astronomically huge as to make these kinds of studies almost entirely unexciting.
Having gone from The Acorn Electron to the Spectrum to the Amiga and always keeping up with the nerdy magazines of the time, I remember it being about price point and 'cool factor'.

The older I got, the more I appreciated how cool the Archimedes could be (especially after seeing Zarch which I think was more technically impressive than anything on the Amiga 500 at the time - I might be exaggerating), but it was a rare and strange beast mostly seen in school IT departments, and the teachers even then tended to be quite protective of the expensive machines.

Being as it was a relative of the BBC Microcomputer, it would always have been an uphill struggle to win the hearts of school kids wearing their parents' wallets down at Christmas time, and was anyway a lot more expensive.

Everyone had Amigas because there was a very healthy Euro/Global trade in pirated games from crackers on BBS' - Amiga had an ecosystem useful to schoolkids, Archimedes did not.

That said - I too would love to have a peek at an alternate timeline! I distinctly remember sitting as an UnMin in Gatwick airport reading some Acorn computer magazine heralding the new age of the Archimedes and getting quite excited. Oh well.

- ed

additionally - I think the demo scene tended to be very tightly wrapped into the cracker/pirate scene, ie. they were pretty much one and the same.
Good point. The main Bloom filter I use at work is 8 million bits in size, and at that scale, it does seem completely negligible whether you account for bits being selected by multiple hash functions since the odds of that happening are so small. We could add a few bits to the 8 million to correct for the error, but that's not meaningfully changing anything; it's just a drop in the bucket.
As typically defined: The margin is 67%. The markup is 200%.

Margin is "profit as percent of revenue". Markup is "profit as percent of COGS".
Ever since I watched Bret Weinstein explain the problem with using today's lab mice[1], I've been more cautious about any results involving mice and cancer.

[1] https://youtu.be/ve4q-1D_Ajo
I don't think the moderation policy is based on drug- and trauma-induced brain damage, but if it were, that wouldn't inspire confidence.

I have a hard time seeing how you could say what you've just said, and expect anyone to see it as positive.
I don't know how I feel about allsides.com bias ratings. The Economist and The New York Times (news only) appear in the left-leaning column. The New York Times (opinion) appears in the solid left column. Given The Economist's solid advocacy for business and free trade, and Douthat and Brooks and Stephens as NYT opinion writers, I'm positive this isn't even slightly accurate.

Treating allsides.com as propaganda, as another commenter here has advocated, I'd have to say that allsides.com is shifted everything left one column, or maybe more.
For two summers between college years, I waited tables at a Pizza Hut. The restaurant did a thriving dine-in, delivery, and take-out business.

With only rare exceptions, it was nobody's job to answer the phone. During busy periods, it would ring and ring and ring.
I’m sure the appropriate sanction for Blackbaud would bankrupt the company. While that is probably the best outcome long term, it doesn’t help anyone now.
How the stones of the pyramids were worked is no great mystery. The interesting part is how they were lifted into place. The external-spiral-ramp and one-long-ramp theories both seem extremely unlikely. Internal-ramp seems plausible but isn't yet mainstream.
Intel Gen12/Xe Graphics Have AV1 Accelerated Decode – Linux Support Lands
Instead of just buying an asset and then selling it, you can also buy an asset, use it to make money while you own it, and then also sell it.
Ask HN: How will inflation change fundraising?
Raising large equity rounds may no longer work in inflationary times as inflation will consume part of the funds, which will dilute shareholders of earlier rounds more than normal. New investors may appreciate the extra participation they gain and not want to change, but when inflation raises high enough, the current fundraising model will collapse. What can we do?
Totally agree, it's not really possible for a hacker or security specialist to excel at all categories. Some people become an expert in web injection, others in buffer overflows, network attacks or crypto. The field has become way too wide for one person to have expert knowledge in everything.
So Firebase is an antipattern?
Most people need structure and cannot provide it for themselves.
Well, that sort of depends on how you value FDIC insurance.
US universities under pressure to cut fees because of remote learning
You haven't seen good pentesters then, I suppose. I personally know a lot better than the level you described and I'm not near as experienced as some of the people I know. Question is whether or not whoever holds the purse is willing to pay for the higher quality work.

Dirt cheap programmers from low-economy countries aren't always the best either, just saying.
Yes, this a big part of how Colleges and Universities are funded.

Alumni tend to contribute either to leave a legacy behind or to help the College maintain it's reputation, which in turn helps the alum's reputation for having graduated from there.
Ask HN: How do you focus on working
I have a hard time focusing on my tasks, whether it's because of YouTube , Reddit or HN, I always find myself doing something that completely break my work mindset.

Do you have any tips, philosophy or tricks?
I don't think I've given you enough premises here for you to deduce that.
This makes sense when you think about the inelastic demand for gas and the physical problem of storing it. The availability of storage makes gas prices change slowly most of the time. But, if there's a chance of the tanks running dry, prices go sharply up. And if there's a chance of the tanks running out of space, prices go sharply down.
Daniel Lemire’s code is most definitely in production, returning fast results so your client code can burn CPU on JavaScript frameworks.
I started coding web apps around 2012. Back then I didn't hear about backend/frontend and I've coded both backend and frontend JS scripts. But we did have specialists who created the static HTML & CSS templates. We just called them the CSS guys. I guess they were the pre-cursor to the front-end engineers. Then the JS frameworks started to rise and at first we used to spend a lot of time rewriting pure HTML to React, but gradually the CSS guys started to learn React/JSX and evolved into front-end engineers.
This is neat!

I’ve built something similar, although my tool can pull its data from any service that supports tile indexing via the Web Mercator Transform (e.g. Google Maps, OSM, basically every online mapping service):

https://github.com/doersino/aerialbot

Its original purpose is the creation of Twitter bots like the ones liked below, but it works well for grabbing detailed satellite maps of arbitrary areas.

https://twitter.com/placesfromorbit

https://twitter.com/americasquared

https://twitter.com/baekmanpyeong

https://twitter.com/nihonmusuukei
Let's all visit that web site and give that Amiga a hug of death. :) (NOT!)
> Parent is simply referring to the front-end skill of building an app with rich client-side state that isn't persisted to a backend DB.

Frequently some or all of the state is persisted to a datastore, whether client-side or backend (which of those isn't really a substantive difference in the skill involved, except that backend stores make planning around communication failures more important), and even when it's not, “my internal data structures don't also get loaded from and saved to an external store” doesn’t add any additional required skill, it strictly reduces the set of skills that need to be applied.
DigiKam 7 Brings Deep-Learning Powered Faces Detection
Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere
The ACLU has been affected as well. From the email they sent out yesterday:

In all candor, we are frustrated with the lack of information we've received from Blackbaud about this incident thus far. The ACLU is doing everything in our power to ascertain the full nature of the breach, and we are actively investigating the nature of the data that was involved, details of the incident, and Blackbaud's remediation plans.

We are also exploring all options to ensure this does not happen again, including revisiting our relationship with Blackbaud.
Ergotamine Tartrate.

Interestingly, ET is used to treat cluster headaches and migraines.
Would yo mind helping someone find that?
I think I might be an OK coder...

Maybe I'm not that good, but would love to find a remote job paying 3-4k...
Deploy apps on Kubernetes with GitHub Actions – from start to finish
If this happened to you I doubt you would ever want to use Amazon again anyway.
What is the issue of figuring just enough NodeJS as long as they can solve the problem at hand ?

At the end of the day what we do is to solve problem.

Even if you specialized in let say just front end, that itself can be broad enough to master.
Good!! That's the right approach. I also think these certifications are forcing students to think in the direction intended by the underlying company, whereas hacking is about looking for the unexpected. It's about mastery of technology, not about ticking some boxes and knowing command-line parameters of common tools by heart.

Indeed there is a major issue with HR focusing too strongly on certificates because they lack the knowledge to evaluate a candidate any other way.
Creating for its own sake runs the risk of burning you out. It is important to have the skills to bring an idea to fruition. Selecting the right idea that fits with your goals is equally important if not more important. Polishing a MVP into presentable finished product is another area where people fail.

What are your goals?
Doesn't this just prove that there is not a competitive market in these industries?

If I - and everyone else - could quickly identify which bank/gas station was acting in my interest without colluding, I would immediately switch.

The fact that prices are quick to rise but slow to fall is dependent on consumer apathy and monopolistic behaviour/collusion.

It might be typical market behaviour, but it's not the perfect market that economists commonly base their models on.
The short answer is that all of this info is out there, but it doesn't live in pop science articles.

For materials scientists the value proposition is clear: quantum computers will enable efficient quantum chemistry simulations. Here is an overview paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.10402
Less than ideal behavior, but this bit is nonsense:

>This command makes your Linux desktop remotely accessible to anyone on the network

It's definitely not a common configuration to have X11 listening for network connections.

In a multiuser environment this could actually be a problem, but I doubt there are many multiuser environments running this driver.

On a single user machine like a laptop, this really doesn't matter at all. Yes, a process running as another user could mess with your X11 session. But if you get compromised somehow that process will almost certainly be running as your current user or root.
Wasn't the Amiga perhaps also popular because the C64 was such a hit? ( in the EU at least )
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we travelled around japan, tokyo included, earlier this year and this was one of the things we loved doing. you just walk everywhere and you'll find really interesting architecture in family houses, made of concrete.
I'm wondering if relations between the DA and police have broken down so badly the DA sees the police as essentially unreliable. If they have so little confidence in police arrests, it is time for police reform.
> The candidate will need to demonstrate they can apply that skill against a real world situation.

I thought this is exactly what holders of the OSCP certificate has demonstrated during the exam?
Thank you. My question was in response to this development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk7iQtad2Qo

Didn't know it referred to the RAISE act.