skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You speak of health concerns down the road, but I have concerns over the health of my soul right now. I do not want to get to old age and realize that I've just been doing pointless shit for money my whole life, just to stay safe, meanwhile building someone's stupid dream instead of my good dream.

That's where the hedonism road leads you, but whose trip just takes you 20 to 30 years instead of 60 or 70 or 80.

The ant and the grasshopper fable was written down by Aesop over 2 thousand years ago. This isn't new. Just because you come up with an excuse about "soul health" that doesn't mean that you aren't volunteering to enter a world of pain by neglecting your livelihood and ability to generate income.

And please do realize you do have influence over your career. If you chose to work on uninspiring projects them... Don't, and instead search for projects that you feel are more rewarding. Demand for skilled developers is so high that anyone remotely competent has to fend off recruiters lining up to pay salaries that are way above any nation's median wage.
contact tracing + massive testing.

It is unclear to me why this wasn't doable in more countries but this has been one of the very few winning strategies. (not trying to be malicious here, I admit that I don't know the logistics of large scale testing and why it wasn't applicable to more countries).
"Overlaying our built-in spatial awareness with focused data is an area of information architecture with a lot of untapped potential."

+1 for this; couldn't agree more
There apparently is also an RFC someone mentioned earlier in the comments of this thread which says you can use double quotes “ https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23951099&goto=item%3Fi... or angle brackets < https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=23951099&goto=item%3Fi....
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These are among the top app developers in the world you're talking about. Instagram isn't a todo list or torch app made by a 12yr old in their bedroom. Incompetence doesn't come into it.
Almost everyone wants to create more privilege for themselves, the problem is not admitting when that privilege is obtained at the expense of others.
Thanks for the update. This is an important feature for me, too, for a different reason. I've discovered that, with Anki, oftentimes the fastest way for me to bulk edit a deck is to export it, manipulate it with a Python script, and then re-import it.
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Assuming the guise of a Pamela Anderson-like character in an internet chat room
So, if you start off with something new or large, your UI/UX designers would be the ones driving all the work. Then once you're working on something established, then your developers might suggest components based on common patterns they know, and then ask designers to validate it. And then once you're adding trivial things, like another field to a form, you wouldn't involve the designer at all.
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It's smart because it's a solution to a problem (freezing dynamic content) in one line of code, the wget command. It should work for most cases and it's easy to understand and deploy.
As the author of the first web browser plugin for Unity (HTMLTexture) I must say I'm very impressed by this. Kudos.

Sounds like Unity has changed enough under the hood that the technique I used (calling gl_bind() behind Unity's back, using the texture ID you pass in, to basically write to the texture Unity is using for your mesh) no longer works.
Modern tools pale in comparison to hand laid out designs, so if something is very smart to save area, it's unlikely it was machine created.
Covid-19 survivor who had most of his fingers amputated–‘This can happen to you’
Seems like it just weakens the reputation of these universities. It'd be nice if someone like US World and News Report made a public point of dinging schools doing some of these things.
Ask HN: Hour of reading articles in HN vs. 1 hour of reading books?
I'm debating about what would be a better of use of time between reading different blog posts in HN and other tech blogs/news vs. reading books. Some tech blogs or research paper offers a lot of value and help me come up with new ideas and stay up to date. However, reading a book is also very helpful in understanding a particular topic in details.
It's usually better to segment the text on the image (and twek the perspective if necessary) to help tesseract extract the text. All the "easy" preprocessing that can be done beforehand helps a lot. I understand that Google Vision Services doesn't need these kind of adjustments (or maybe they do them automatically?), which makes for an easier time/less code, but setting up the account sure looks like a lot of work from the article!
> Have you considered the case that you find the discussion delightful because it is just reinforcing your biases?

Funny you should say that, because I recently wrote a comment on the subject of cognitive biases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917259. As you can see the far left reply to it was not viewed favorably. And while I try not to be obnoxious about it, it's pretty obvious that my ideological leanings are probably not shared with the majority of the HN commenting population.

It's my observation that the moderation here tends to discourage discussion of issues like average race and sex differences not out of a desire to censor, but because they are inevitably a waste of time and no intellectually interesting discussion occurs. I suppose one could consider this a heckler's veto, but them's the breaks. Besides, there's no consensus on which side is heckling. In my experience discussion of such fraught topics that challenge deeply held beliefs is best started with persons that you know well and who are willing to approach the subject in a spirit of intellectual honesty and curiosity. That's hard to do on a pseudonymous Internet board with thousands of users.

Edit: From your username I surmise that you are at the 'zon. I've heard from people on the inside that the climate has become rather oppressive for anyone who doesn't publicly embrace the Seattle/Portland school of politics. You're certainly not alone.
8 years after starting my own company I discovered Kay and Jim Stice. I wish I had discovered them years ago.

They are world renowned accounting professors from BYU and their courses are easy to understand and surprisingly entertaining. They have several excellent courses on LinkedIn learning.

Here's a good one to start with: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/accounting-foundations-2

I highly recommend them.
I think there's nothing wrong with that.

As long as you don't ruin your life (debt or overwork) because of it then self-built priviliege is definitely worth it.
Not only the scale but also the multi-agent nature of the problem makes it hard to predict.

As an example, humans killing each other is an ancient problem. But humans killing each other at scale with nuclear weapons is a much different problem. We are able to keep that threat at bay by the virtue of only nation states having the power of killing at this scale; number of agents that need to coordinate not defecting (that understand mutually assured destruction) is a handful. Now imagine if some new technology made it possible to make nuclear weapons with materials found in a kitchen. Then we have a coordination problem that requires planet level cooperation with billions of agents. It only takes one defecting to cause disproportionate harm.

By the same token, information warfare is not a new problem. Lying is an ancient invention. News outlets being biased makes it easy to guess those biases and somewhat balance them out. We expect states to engage in some degree of propaganda. But human created but AI curated content (i.e. recommendation algorithms) is already driving us a bit nuts; we are having a hard time making a cohorent narrative of what’s going on. AI created and curated content intermixed with human content will completely destroy our sensemaking capacity for the benefit of a few who can deploy this technology.

Imagine a per-voter propaganda model that drives AI created social media interactions with them, that can precisely tell what issues would you need to change your mind on to make you change your vote, which could be polar opposite to what the next voter is going to hear. Imagine this was deployed by multiple nations whenever there is an election in a country. This would still at the level of nation-states having nuclear weapons. I can’t imagine what the consequences of a more diffuse access to this tech would look like.
Your more charitable characterization is certainly reasonable, but I find that pushing the complexity of matching the cases to the users (including the IMO invalid state of "returned a value AND an error") just results in a below-MVP error system.
I had dozens of photographer friends try importing their multi TB photo libraries into different Linux systems using all kinds of photo management software. They all choke. Shotwell is the most stable but even it will crash every few few weeks and that would periodically require reimporting all the photos again...
This needs to be flagged
Writing propaganda is labor intensive. GPT-3 could do it well enough and almost for free. Think automated troll farms and spam that can be generated in unlimited quantity and that is close enough to real text that it can't be filtered.

Basically it does for spam what the machine gun did for open field warfare.
Perhaps a lame example, but I'd love it if someone would build a good PHP SDK library for Box.net. There are two libraries out there which are unfortunately disjointed and relatively unmaintained and unfortunately Box engineers won't create an official SDK in PHP.
I didn't say that! If you see my first post, I agree with you that in many 'cyber'security jobs other skills (like politics/influencing) are much more important and unfortunately often lacking in key people. I actually don't like the strong focus on the CEH/OCSP certs as most HR depts seem to apply them to all areas of security. Not just pentesting and auditing.

And especially for pentesters, I'd want them to have more initiative than just running through some standard textbook operations. At least that's what I've seen. But as another poster mentioned, what they do at this company is more like an audit, just under the flag of a pentest which sounds cooler.
A cure for alcoholism that works fifty percent of the time is ground breaking. How could doctors not be impressed? The success rate for AA itself is about 2%. What has a better rate of success than 50%?
These people are already being paid their normal salaries by the government. If they don't want to work, they can quit. Now, if someone is in a high risk group, they probably shouldn't be out in the field, but a lot of contact tracing is done over the phone.
Yes, this is likely the hard problem here. If one were to be cynical, one would say that it is also the strategy that makes the most economical sense for everyone. It's just a bit comical from a certain viewpoint.

And to be clear, this is not just a problem of the Apples and Googles of the world. Many more face similar issues, starting with the telcos themselves. The point is that location tracing is something that is routinely done for other legitimate reasons, but the recent pandemic suddenly forces everyone to be specific about how and why we allow it.
And maker of SelfControl, hello HN :)
Does this work with DRMd content like digital textbooks?
>The uploader has not made this video available in your country.

This seems to go a little bit against the idea of the internet.
People promoting violence usually means targeted violence. Proposing violence against a specific person or group of people. A protest that happens to have people in that become violent and then those some people posting online is a completely different situation than a bunch of Nazis saying we need to exterminate the Jewish people.
It's just like mask usage -- nearly useless unless a critical number of people are wearing them.
Direct link to the section with Windows results: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/#windows

Scroll a bit down for Windows with power saving, Linux (section 3.4), and VirtualBox (3.5).
They could. But that means the macbook pro would perform worse on all the superficial benchmarks.
You really think 5 months of a pandemic is going to expose this? New York is returning back to normal. The new surges will pass in the same time frame (5 months). The looming primary care crisis will show itself on a much longer time frame. It’s a snake that’s wrapping around, slow acting venom, and we’ll finally see it when it’s not just the ailing boomers that will need continuous care for ubiquitous things like Diabetes, but gen x, y, and z after it.

No one’s gonna die, that’s when it’s all going to come to a head. We cannot afford Medicare for all when everybody is fucking sick.
Indeed, what you describe sounds very typical!

Especially pre-Wannacry, since then things have improved somewhat, when top management woke up to the thought that these things do in fact actually happen.
No, I can understand why you'd think that, but that's not what I meant. I used the word "cryptography engineer" carefully. I'm talking about people who can implement and verify the implementation of known algorithms.

I don't know. Maybe cryptocurrency startups change the equation. I know that prior to crypto-mania, good jobs doing pure cryptography engineering were not especially easy to come by.
I need a simple seo tool to find keyword rankings and check backlinks without going through the complex routine of google adwords or costly keyword platforms. Will you be able to build such a tool and make it open source?
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No, it's not at all murder. At the very worst, it's disproportionate defense against crime. If you kill someone actively trying to kill you it's obviously fine, if you kill someone vandalizing a house it's the same principle; it would usually be disproportionate, but not wrong as such.

However, in this particular case, when fighting mob intimidation like this (or marxism in general, come think of it) ends justify the means.
>Agents have said they believe Tang sought refuge at the consulate after they interviewed her at her home in Davis on June 20.

So did the consulate give her up, or did she turn herself in?
That's like saying "the way to beat poverty is for everyone to have a billion dollars". Both true and impossible at the same time. At least impossible outside Zimbabwe, that is.
Yes. But these are the same. The have plate carriers with police on them.

Patches that ID their department and have personally identifiable information.

The main difference is they are using multicam instead of black for the color. And the location of the id informatikn is on a shoulder instead of their breast (given plate carriers)

Sure they are using rentals/unmarked cars but they arent disappearing these people or denying them attorneys or violating habeas corpus

Heres an example

http://www.efreenews.com/storage/posts/July2020/0b57937515a7...
They are doing this already for football. Seems realistic. They even play people chanting as some kind of soundtrack. When you think of it, it's pretty pathetic.
My annoyance is that we aren't taught about alcoholism or that alcohol (and caffeine) are drugs.

Once your brain chemistry is changed, it takes significant pain to get it back. And according to the book Power of Habit, it never goes away.

Then alcoholics have the need to make everyone else drink. It's a cycle.

I'm glad I was addicted to alcohol and weed, easier to break. But I still relapse.
Cloud Authentication and Networking are the modern lock-in.
APT, not PDT. PDT also began as part of Morgan Stanley, but it didn't come along until much later.

I don't know of any book.
By this logic, no Chinese company would be allowed to operate in the US.
That's a massive exaggeration. They turned off some features. The free offering is still very usable.
Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Optimism
The worst is when I see someone using vim or Emacs over SSH. If you think Electron apps are bad, imagine adding a network round trip between every keystroke!
I actually don't think that developers who use things like VSCode are simply naive. Personally, I am a young person and I frequently do use vim in a low-latency terminal emulator (xterm, mlterm) without a compositor. Yes, I enjoy the fact that it is very fast. However, I still use VSCode when I'm making more complicated edits primarily because of the plugin ecosystem. Plugins "just work", are easy to configure, and all work together nicely. I get rich syntax highlighting and intellisense. I might be doing something wrong, but this was not the experience I have had with vim.

I like the UI simplicity of VSCode in contrast to native editors such as IntelliJ and Visual Studio, which I do use when I really need the features. I am interested in efforts like Onivim 2, which seek to combine these advantages.
Show HN: Nx-go, a plugin to use Go in a Nx workspace
Is Nintendo not phased by the next generation of consoles?
I believe this isn't correct. Contact tracing can't work using location data, because it's far too coarse and unreliable to be useful. Too many false positives.

The point isn't to figure out where the contacts were. It's to figure out who they were.
Olds?
When Roman generals were allowed a triumphal march after a decent enough victory, a slave would be placed in the chariot. The slave was mandated to constantly repeat in the ear of the general "You are mortal" or words to that effect. The idea was to remind the general not to get above himself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias gives two versions of "Ozymandias" (scroll to halfway to read them.) They are both rather good and should speak loud across the centuries.

There are many simmering tensions (and quite a few outright wars) around the world. Some of those simmering tensions, that involve the really big proponents, are starting to look quite close to the boil.

Remember Ozymandias and the futility of conceit. Romans getting a slave to murmur stuff is what we might call "value signalling" these days.

We are enjoying a relatively peaceful period in human history. It would be nice if that continued. When I say enjoying, I'm obviously not referring to Syria, Yemen and other war zones or zones of continual atrocity.
Hey there, today I created a plugin that enables using Go in a Nx Workspace.

For those if you unfamiliar with Nx: Nx combines a monorepo structure with CLI tools to develop and manage 1 or more applications and libraries in the same repo. It encourages code collaboration, unified testing, and optimizes builds and testing performance by caching.

I have been using Nx for most of my frontend and Node applications.

I'm now learning Go and having this plugin allows me to use it in a familiar structure.

Happy to answer any questions :)
I think this is intentional to prevent confusion/abuse. The national app also gets singled out on the Play Store.
And I'm pointing out that when your attacker has control of device management they can also disable device management on all the devices after their attack is deployed.
As a long time senior dev who's desperate to get out of development right now because I'm sick of it, my overwhelming advice is to be sure you're working at places where you can grow. I job hopped from one consultancy to another, getting great pay jumps each time but doing the same thing. And the places I've worked are small - there's literally no job opening to move into, or any way to make a new job.

It's really hard right now to transition to something new while also seeking out a new employer. They see my years of a senior software engineer and probably bin my resume because they probably think my salary expectations are too high or I'm poorly suited to something closer to project management, despite having a lot of PM experience and listing it on my resume. It's just never been a job title.

Transitioning to something different, or more niche, is much much easier when done internally and the people there know you.
Really? Your interview sounds pretty par for the course. I did this work for ~$140k, but was not in the bay area. I knew I was underpaid but not THAT underpaid.
Though I will add that it occurs to me that if I was using a broken link across most of my sites, that could explain the poor performance. Duh.
The easiest way to back up 8PiB of business critical data is to be a business with a need for exabytes of non-business-critical data.

I think the people who are the worst off have petabytes of business critical customer data, but don't do massive datamining projects on top of this. Then you end up with a data center that is 90% (business critical) prod, and triplicating that becomes much more relatively expensive than having a data center that is 20% prod.
Finance Theory I by Prof. Andrew Lo: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/sloan-school-of-management/15-40.... You can view the first lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdHlfiOAJyE&list=PLUl4u3cNGP....

Prof. Lo taught this course at MIT in the Fall of 2008, which you can imagine would be a very interesting time to teach finance. The course is excellent. I think you'll really enjoy it.
Back in the day, US capitalists didn't coup monger in public
I love to hear about the tools people have created. There is almost always a good story about a problem and a solution.

However, this is not really what I mean. If you are interviewing for a role in software security, you should be current on the industry and ready to talk sources and research. At a minimum, you should have areas of interest that you are passionate about discussing, even if you are still ignorant about the deep details.

You wont do well if security is something you only do 9-5, but I don't want you working for me after hours.
Plus the new generation is pampered with much cheaper resources (RAM and CPU), so programming efficiency goes out of the window.
Get yourself some Monero and order LSD, already, for Christ's sake ...
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Your comment isn't helpful unless you're willing to point out what isn't true and can only be observed from within America?
No idea what you want to say, but in my country the situation is worse for about 100 years. Yes, we have free lack of health care: no resources shared to almost everyone, so we are equal in getting nothing.
This is a really good point. I have actually seen that happen.

I just wish we could get our own point across (at a level higher than myself) sometimes without having to do this :)
It is sfbay. Senior security folks are at or above $200k in the majority of cases. As with all sfbay salaries, it is not representative of any other market.
>Bystanders are never inadvertently drugged

I don't have a counterexample, as the allegations I was reading on Wikipedia are generally of intentionally drugging people,[1][2] but I wouldn't be particularly confident in your statement; how would one know it hasn't happened?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951_Pont-Saint-Esprit_mass_po...
[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra#LSD
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in sfbay
> Law enforcement is one thing, medial tracing is another.

Dragnet location use is vastly more justified for pandemic tracing than for law enforcement. I'm not sure how this could set a worse precedent than we already have. Just trading one for the other would be a boon for privacy.
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It would be nice if it could display UTF-8 text. Apparently it only uses ISO 8859-1.
I live in Scandinavia. Doesn't look anything like what style we have or had to me at all. Looks more like something from Germany or Austria.