skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's been happening since the 70s. Go back and watch the Church Committee congressional hearings. The CIA admitted to having key players in the magazine industry all around the US. When asked if they were involved in TV, they refused to answer outside of closed session.

It is absolutely reasonable to assume much of the major TV and radio narratives we take in the US today are directly influenced by the government. It's also influenced heavily by Big Tech and industry players, to the point where we're not truly getting any unfiltered narrative, compared to just following random actual people on the ground on Twitter.
The common components in the ransomware attacks is Windows and AD.

Some leverage known exploits against elements like LSASS, so if the person infected has credentials for another computer, why not slurp up all the credential tokens on remote computers that you can log into too.

If you use Linux/Unix on the other hand, you can do descent things to contain access. Firstly, elevated management accounts can restrict login sources, either by ssh authorized_keys or deny rules in sshd_config. Secondly, and very importantly, you can contain what applications can access through SELinux.

Running Windows these days is like walking around with "Kick me" hung around your neck.
Hi Andy,

Is it possible to see the draft spec for the file format? A standards-based approach sounds great and I'd like to support this in LearnAwesome.org and perhaps contribute in development too?
You mean, less free alternatives.

I am all but forced by my employers to write non-GPL code - even when I'm allowed to write permissive-license open-source software.

But beyond that, circumstances also pressure me into making software I write on my own available with a permissive license, to reach wider adoption by people writing commercial code. I occasionally have pangs of conscience about doing that, and wonder whether I shouldn't have just taken the "hit" of sticking to the more worthy license.
This is an easy mistake to make. Note the word distinct:

> each message in the set to be stored is hash coded into a number of distinct bit addresses

In Knuth's filter, the addresses aren't distinct. Bloom's construction requires that they are, thus the probability of a bit being set to 0 from (16) in Bloom's paper is 1−(1−k/m)^n, different from the 1−(1−1/m)^(kn) in your paper.

Cuckoo hashing is commonly simplified in a similar way, indexing into a single table and allowing the hashes to overlap, unlike Pagh's original.

Anyway, from your paper:

> Bloom then claimed that the probability of a false positive was simply the probability of a single bit being set, raised to the power of k, reasoning that a false positive for an element y ∈ bf only occurs when all the k bits corresponding to the hash outputs are set.

> Unfortunately, as was later pointed out by Bose et al.[8], as the bits specified by f_1(x),...,f_k−1(x) may overlap, we cannot guarantee the independence that is required for any simple relation between the probabilities.

You're still right that Bloom is off, but it's not due to overlap in f_1(x),...,f_k−1(x), which his construction doesn't allow.

My broader point though was about your "guarantee that there are no further hidden errors", because a theorem prover is just a tool, tools are used by people, and people make mistakes.
From personal experience in this industry, the issues are mostly pragmatic, i.e. legal, and then about authoritarian regimes. There are some ideological issues concerning 'personal information' that varies from company to company and we linger a lot about that in the Western press and on HN, but that's really not it.

It's very simple: if your ABC company has the ability to 'trace' people, and you allow 'friendly country' XYZ to use it - then 100% of 'baddie countries' will immediately full court press for access as well, with the possibility of banning your tech if you don't.

And then the political/power haggling ensues: dictators actually do have to worry about popularity, so what would it mean to invalidate all the iPhones in Saudia Arabia ... probably not good, so there's that. On the other hand, being able to 'trace everyone', especially my political enemies is also exetentiayly powerful so ...

I don't know what would happen if this were not the case - if this were 40 years ago, we were not as technically globalised and Apple was just selling to US/Canada, we may see different outcomes.

But as it stands, most governments in the world are 'completely untrustable' with the tech, and so it's almost like it renders moot the question of whether Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, or the US can have it and 'play well'.
If they really aren't a real person, they might be trying to make their point through that. :P
I just finished an MBA in June. A few thoughts outside of what’s been mentioned here already:

If your company is publicly traded, learn about the variety of SEC filings that most C-level executives are responsible for. In particular, learn how to parse the footnotes of 10K/S1 filings — an income statement might be 1-2 pages but the footnotes are often 30+ pages. The interesting choices a company makes are often in the footnotes. For example, the related party transaction for WeWork’s “We” trademark that everyone was up in arms about appears on page 199 of the filing.

Finance is about cashflows. GAAP accounting is about subjectively spreading costs across periods. The two are often at odds. Learning to navigate both and knowing which your audience cares about is critical. You often need years of context about a business to be able to make contributions on this front.
Also, metasploit isn't used just for yesterdays hacks, it's great for ever your 0days to manage sessions and do some of the repetitive/boring leg work for you
How would you phrase it?

"write only link here"?

I really wanna keep the basic information visible and am not sure about about adding another line
The dance coach I knew refused to video his students until they had reached a certain level of competence, because if it was too soon they'd be horrified at how they looked dancing and would quit.

Video is a brutal but effective teacher for those who are not easily discouraged.
I'd qualify using "lower" rather than "low". There's actually plenty of injury also in dancing, in particular, to knees and backs.
There is a bit of truth to that --- sharp corners are more prone to electromigration:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration#Via_arrangeme...
Using target=_blank the malicious way
Because someone choosing to have unsafe sex and getting aids isn’t going to give their e.g. grandma aids. They are choosing to risk themselves, which is not the same as risking others that have not chosen to partake in the risky behavior. This may be hard to reconcile for those who think the world revolves around them.
I wonder how it works with two such exotic birds.

Did the NYT fire a bunch of editors recently?
FIRE = "Financial Independence and Retire Early"
I hope with mandated masks (properly worn, no valves) and targetted lockdowns, the general lockdown can be prevented. Restaurants, schools/kindergardens and any public venue will likely be closed first.
Real world identification doesn't solve this problem. Forcing it would just lead to growth in the market of buying (and stealing) ids.
Anyone who disparages anonymity is a fed. Or in this case, an obvious bot.
This idea is explored in the first part of Neal Stephenson's novel from last year,Fall; or Dodge in Hell. I'm still reading so no spoilers please.
Just don't call them footnotes if anyone finance-y is around ;)
I'm not even sure that the intent is to treat users as stupid. It seems just as likely that it's just a collective experiment in elevating sour grapes into an art form.
As someone who did a PhD in particle physics, this is very hard to understand (and not just apply math)

This is actually just one of the interpretations, there are more and some are gaining traction (see for instance https://youtu.be/5hVmeOCJjOU, S Caroll is a great speaker but you need to stay concentrated :)
In CA, when Gavin Newsom began reopening the state (many folks thought, "too early"), he repeatedly insisted it was not because of political pressure, but because of the data.

But at the same time, there were health officials being given PUBLIC DEATH THREATS by people who insisted that wearing a mask was dangerous to their health.

Ultimately, I suppose you have to give into politics and public pressure. A mandate that nobody respects and can't really be enforced has no value at all. It's plausible that responding to political pressure and trying to reopen, or give dates and phases, would result in better adherence than just telling the whole state "sorry, stay home indefinitely".
> What if we impose artificial rate limiting with posting fees or some kind of proof-of-work requirement?

This is going to be a tough one. Someone with access to GPT-3 is going to have access to enough funds to post extensively. Also, muting poorer people is not a good idea.

Proof of work seems more promising, but you'll have trouble finding something that can't be automated. Even with captchas - when you're solving them, you're effectively training Googles network to solve their own challenges.
Stats-wise?

Looks like about a 60% drop-off atm.

Content-wise: Part 1 is Redux terms/concepts/"why would I use this?", while Part 2 is a walkthrough of a Redux Toolkit "counter" example to illustrate all the pieces of a typical React+Redux app.
I think this might have been written by GPT-3.
holy shit people it's not a bug it's done because camera initialisation is slow as fuck, they will keep doing it

funny however how the hn crowd downvotes a post with sourced factual information they somehow manage to disagree with
> Free speech is necessary, but not sufficient, to find truth and pursue justice.

I wholeheartedly agree! However, regarding the rest of what you said. Propaganda can and does influence public opinion; numerous verified historical examples exist. It was already an issue that needed to be solved (IMO) long before GPT-3 was created.

Advanced ML techniques seem likely to further exacerbate a problem that already exists.
Was Bob Lazar telling the truth?
Vautour meaning vulture in French, nice aptonym.
What kind of tinkering would you do?

Have you thought of switching to a low paying but more fulfilling job?
Still it happens all the time, of course.
What have you learned this week?
Thanks a lot for this insightful comment. I guess it could be hidden in any liquid or absorbing medium (paper, cardboard, textile, sponge, whatever... thus making it easy to conceal).

I had no idea the drug was that potent... Presumably some neurotoxins have the same potency? This is quite scary to think of.
Not only the time frame but it seems like all the tests have significant false + and false - results.

I don't see any benefit from being tested at this time.

I definitely don't want to spread the virus if I'm positive or be around people who are positive and can spread it to me but the time frame and false +/- results, testing doesn't seem viable to provide any actionable knowledge.

I think we'll see the limits of what testing can do to prevent the spread of the virus with the start of NFL training camp/season.
Version 7 of the REMnux Distro Is Now Available
What about non-activity data, such as step counts, sleep data, pulse ox, etc?
neat. Looks similar to https://buildkite.com .
Exactly, Although not always practical, if kept virus free (which of course is possible), offline back ups are the best solution because it's never broken into. ANYTHING online is risky, we all know this, so why do corporations still practically ignore the obvious?
> “What people don’t understand is how the victims in these scams are manipulated and groomed. For the criminals, this is their job and they are extremely good at it,” says Roy Beauchamp. In most cases a fraudster will start with “love bombing,” either online or in person. The technique—flooding a person with affection and attention to fast-track intimacy and build dependence—is also used in cult recruitment strategies. Mirroring—reflecting a person’s experiences, likes and dislikes—is another effective tool for creating the illusion of having found one’s “other half.”

It is easy to scoff at other people’s mistakes, but ultimately, we’re all a mess of biological impulses that want to be loved.

I like to think of myself as reasonably smart, but against someone like the guy described in this article? Who’s had tons of practice conning others? It would probably be like like going in the ring with a pro MMA fighter.

> A Federal Trade Commission survey from 2013 found that participants who had experienced trauma—a death, a divorce, a stressful career incident—in the previous 24 months were more than two-and-a-half times as likely to have experienced fraud than those who had not.

Astonishingly cruel.
Kubernetes is actually using the memory. Just checked one master node, fresh cluster running nothing, it is sitting at 950 MB used with another 800 MB in buffers. Usage will jump quite a bit higher when running anything.

Very important thing to know about memory: Kubernetes nodes have no swap. Kubernetes will refuse to install if the system has a swap, gotta remove it.

This means nodes better have a safe margin of memory, because there is no swap to use when under memory pressure (things will crash). Hence the minimum requirement of 2 GB.

I tried to run complete clusters with 5+ machines in VmWare, with as little memory as possible because I don't have that much ram on my desktop, and all I got was virtual machines crashing under memory pressure.
Interesting. FWIW, the profile picture could very well be from thispersondoesnotexist.com, a cropped face smiling at the camera with the typical blur behind, plus there's a single picture available of the author. Picked carefully, the telltale signs of the source are non-obvious (unintended swirls and warps, peculiarities in the hair and around the mouth). Not knowing if it is a fake person makes it interesting to dissect, but also very awkward if it turns out to be a real Jay so I won't dwell on it. I will however mention the suspicious blur/pixelation at the chin and below the right ear.. which makes me inclined to agree with the thesis (sorry if I'm wrong M. Riverlong). Not sure what the link with GPT3 would be tho.
If the intention was to rehabilitate, then they wouldn't have sentenced a non violent offender to 2 life sentences.

Giving someone a life sentence means you (or the justice system at large) are either unwilling or unable to rehabilitate that person.
I know you got your profile photo off thispersondoesnotexist.com. There is a better adversary network out there and it can detect you, FYI.

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I missed it the first time around, this is really cool and has particularly great UX. I run notado.app which has a similar content-first focus, when I get a bit of time I'm going to see about putting together an import feature that allows users to import their Quotebacks JSON file.
> But the incompetent response was incompetent because it was incompetent, not because a sensible electoral strategy was pursued ahead of pandemic control.

I don’t think this is an either/or situation. If incompetence and corruption is on the menu this administration seems to always take two scoops, one of each.
the roche antibody test has high specificity and sensitivity
Kens, I love the series on the 8086. For the next article can you go over how Intel did clock distribution?
Myst “demake” let you play it on an Apple II with 48K RAM
I hate to rain on everyone's parade but no one transformed Wall Street. If you saw how most of the banks are run and who is in charge of these places up close there would be a run on the banks. Everyone would be withdrawing their cash and storing it under their mattress.
I agree that gathering user data might be a significant factor why even products of large companies do not support cloudless communication and sync.

I just wanted to point out that since cloud based communication is so easy nowadays, doing sync without cloud support is a significantly larger effort. Not unachievable though.
I don't know about that, I think a lot of people view codebreaking/hacking as pretty magic.
Is that actually a thing that states aren’t allowed to borrow?
The end of social media. Good riddance!
Do you tow a car or drive the rv around town?
I’m an (international level) competitive ballroom dancer and a martial artist of 15 years and there’s a lot of overlap between the two.

And it’s really valuable to me as a software engineer - at the very least it forces me out of my chair at 6.30pm 5 days a week to go to the studio, when otherwise I could easily find myself working 12-14 hours days because I am “in the zone” (which is easy for me to do because of the years of martial arts and meditation practice) which for sure would not be good for my health.

It is also a great emotional outlet for me as most of my day I am dealing with machines and logic.

And the best part is that I dance with my other half - we spend a lot of time together, travel together and get all our arguments done on the dance floor and not at home! :)

I definitely recommend dancing, any kind, to anyone and everyone.
It kills curious conversation. No more flamebait please.
Quality customer service is the only differentiator in these situations.
Here’s a talk about some of Ray Dali’s ideas, one of the ways the Bridgewater system works is by voting and recording the outcomes of votes for longer term weighting/analysis: https://www.ted.com/talks/ray_dalio_how_to_build_a_company_w...
Thanks to the other commenter.

No, closing your eyes and chewing through the legbone bitd of your colleague in your sausage is not the move.
In the suspected auto layout sections does it follow a modern standard cell convention?
> > ban anonymity

> if we do not, the effectiveness of any one individual's free speech is going to greatly diminish

False dichotomy. A solution which preserves anonymity while counteracting abuse should be sought after.

> why the preservation of anonymity is worth more than the lost utility of free speech

The loss of anonymity itself endangers free speech. This isn't terribly controversial - the US Supreme Court has consistently ruled this way. (https://www.eff.org/issues/anonymity)
That’s a valid point. If you can use the community college to transfer to a school with a brand name, it can help a wider variety of people be able to get to that brand name school.

My comment is only in reference to fully completing your degree and getting a diploma that goes on your resume from a community college. You’re better off skipping college and going straight to work in that scenario.

Where my family is from in the Midwest, this is very common. People who get paid more and rise to management jobs in the local blue collar workforce are the ones who just start in the stockroom or doing admin work right out of high school (or otherwise make careers in factory work, trades like welding or go to the military).

They make more money and have higher ranks than people with community college degrees working the same jobs because they have so much lead time in years of experience, while the positions rarely if ever need or care about college degrees.

Meanwhile, other than specific trades which are basically only nursing and elder care, community college grads cannot compete with state school grads for positions that do require degrees, like work in local government, upper positions in law enforcement, teaching at local schools, etc. Community college will never get you those jobs.

I’ve seen a lot of people banking on community college degrees opening doors for them thinking it’s the same as a state school degree but lets you save money & live at home. They end up still with small amounts of debt and absolutely nothing to show for it job-wise.

Really the only exception is if you transfer to a brand name school and you can ensure the degree you’ll have carries brand name signalling.
This has been Facebook’s modus operandi for a few years now.
"not too long ago those particular views were in fact something that was doing quite a bit of harm to trans people"

I understand what you are saying, but there's a pretty big concern right there in the conflation of 'intellectual position' vs. 'ammunition supporting specific movements'.

That some systems take another persons nuanced views, possibly out of context, and use them to promote their agenda, should not in any way stop people from being able to have public discourse about them.

The fact of the matter is, JK's views are not anti-trans, even if they could be used by others as such.

However much we can decry other parties for using her words in a manner in which we do not agree, the same thing applies in the other direction: we don't get to shut her down because she doesn't 'toe the line' on the current, 'new' orthodoxy.

JK's views are reasonable.

It doesn't matter that 'some other organisation using those words to do this or that'. It's relavent, but not to the extent of censoring her.

Now - if we're talking about crude, casual bigotry from 'powerful voices' and the public effects of that, i.e. a 'Famous Person' tweeting 'bad things' - then yes, this is just populism.

But anyone willing to make a serious point within the boundaries of civility needs to be able to make it, full stop.

People can debate with JK, they can even ask her to not make her statements public 'because bad people will use it as ammunition' - but there's no way her words cross the thresholds of uncivil, and she should be able to make them without fear of being banned.
I wish this becomes available as a kit one can just solder and start using.
Not at all - that kind of dataflow analysis is basically just a hack to patch over the fundamentally broken design of having everything be nullable. It's totally unnecessary in a language with proper algebraic data types where there's no all-pervasive concept of "nullability". The only imperative language I know of that has this is Rust, but it originates from ML languages like OCaml and Haskell.

It's one of those features where once you get used to it, it's hard to fathom how anyone programs without it. It's such a simple yet expressive feature that's incredibly useful when writing normal, ordinary code. Nothing fancy or theoretical.
Thanks for reading!

I'm not sure that VirtualHere would work in this scenario because it looks like it requires code on the client computer. I'd like to encapsulate all the software on the Pi so that the client computer doesn't need anything more than a web browser. The other tricky issue is that uStreamer is optimizing the stream to drop frames from the dongle when it detects that the browser is falling behind, so we'd lose that functionality.
More precisely they stated that there were no studies proving effectiveness. They were hiding behind the scientific method to serve some other purpose.
I forgot about 0. I had to double check, but a high school friend was on that team.