skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is surreptitiously evidence-lite. One of the links suggest that the 'surveillance' involved 'summarizing tweets written by two journalists'.

Technically they used a reporting system that was supposed to be for terrorists. This is useful evidence for people who still believe that 'the terrorists' is something other than a euphemism for 'anyone a government department doesn't like today'. But there aren't any surprises here.
The fate on HN of this well written and intellectually curious article is a neat proof of the point it's making.
That image is already stacked, there is no way that photographer couldnt remove those trails with the data they had.
Clicky: https://www.handstandquest.com/blog

Perhaps a post with more technical details can get more traction. How do you detect the word "stop"? Does it detect any loud noise, or it is specific to the word? Is is configurable for other languages? (How do you mark when you begin? Does it recognizes the word "start"?)

The set of exercises look adapted to handstand. Are you planing to release an extension for other types of exercises?
That's so counter-intuitive and makes so much sense.
> they're ending support for the standalone Cortana apps, which makes sense

This is actually the hardest part for me to understand. They want me to drag a Win10 laptop everywhere to use the assistant instead of just using my phone?
Note to those who already have an Instant Pot: they make fantastic rice.
Huh?

Last I heard, Tom Christiansen is still alive. And I'm not sure what the connection is, other than that he's done a lot of work with perl.
> Do we not have an international body that would decide upon such rulings?

The International Telecommunications Union comes closest.
I am not sure one can compare some JS framework with a language that was already 8 years old when JS as a language appeared. By the time JS was invented, there was already legacy perl code in production that needed to be maintained.
Probably.

The why we sleep book made me think of this hypothesis.

He states that dreaming likely came before consciousness too which I found interesting.

As in, our early brains form reality using the same concept as dreaming.
... they waited until an outbreak hit the entire country and then herd immunity kicked in?
The science behind a rice cooker is fascinatingly clever, yet painfully simple.

In short, boiling water temperature plateaus due to the latent heat of vaporization. When the water is gone the temperature of the pot starts to rise. The rice cooker uses this principle to control the switch. The switch is held by magnet. When the pot finishes boiling the heat rises and exceeds the curie point of the magnet, which means the magnet ceases to be magnetic, and the (no longer) magnetic switch is released turning the rice cooker off.

Here’s a great video explaining how it works.

https://youtu.be/RSTNhvDGbYI
I'm submitting this because I think it's an interesting discussion of unintended consequences of trying to help without understanding a local situation.

There's quite a lot of coverage of this, and I didn't know which was the best to submit.

http://islandluminous.fiu.edu/part10-slide12.html

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13918824-700-saving-h...
Business is motivated to avoid anything which is a tax. Said another way, they are motivated to avoid or escape from anything that grows in line with earnings. If their infrastructure grows, their bill from nginx will grow, modulo the skills and efficiency of their infrastructure teams and the speed of whatever servers they are buying.
My pleasure. You rock !!!
I'm fairly sure that Google already has algorithmic classification for "news" that's accurate enough for these purposes. If not, "is this a news article" is quite amenable to machine learning techniqes. All that's left is ensuring that registered news sources are definitely classified as news.
"Is it secure?" is an incomplete question -- it has to be "Is it secure against...?". And then the answers will depend on whatever threat model winds up in the dots.

That said, all secure boot even tries to assure is that the software that's booting is the same thing you thought you installed. If that is, say, a Linux distribution running a webapp which has problems, well... the boot mechanism can't save you from those.
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Switzerland is just much more homogeneous, we do have 4 different languages (with associated cultural differences), but there has never been the sort of tensions or outright discrimination as there has been in the US with black people.

But, having lived in Switzerland for most of my life, I unfortunately feel that there is a very strong undercurrent of xenophobia, to the point that parts of it are even accepted among more left-wing circles.
Here is an accurate depiction of mumble rap by Snoop Dogg https://youtu.be/g0OdmRtuQew

Warning: lots of exercising 1st amendment in the above video.
Picking between starving and making a penny is not a choice.
As I understand it, in order to interface with a FH-encrypted software the data needs to be encrypted too. So every input needs to be sent to the mothership, encrypted there, downloaded, then computed locally, then the output is sent to the mothership, decrypted, then downloaded to present the results to the user -- which is no different than just doing the computation "in the cloud", which already is a thing. So I don't see how it brings anything new to the table.

Unless the key is kept locally, which would be hackable.
It was painfully tricky

"Until now, this was the only way to get cooked rice from rice..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viejY6UZ5Bk&t=42s

Okay, but in that case the best thing to invent would be a non-horrible stove. I've made rice, and even as an incompetent cook, it really is a non-issue.
How do you know that JavaScript doesn’t have an extra-dimensional component the human mind little understands?
I think most people using Perl for anything non trivial (eg, large web app with Catalyst) are unlikely to be changing their version of Perl without a good reason, and very few people are starting large Perl projects now days. My day job is working on a fairly complex app running 5.28.1, we have no desire to change the Perl version without a very good reason to do so.

I find this post a little unsettling. It seems like even the Perl community is unsure why they are doing this.

At least for me, Perl === Perl 5 (and probably always will). It works, and it's ecosystem is very mature.
What I’ve learned from giving and receiving technical challenges over the years.

Don’t.

The only thing these challenges do is determine whether someone can do your coding challenge. No indicator at all about their ability to actually solve your business problems.

Instead, give the applicants an offline evaluation solving something within your actual dev/testing environment. Pay them for their time. 2-4 hours.

The best interview process I ever had culminated in me logging in to a testing system and working on what I believe was an actual problem at some point in the companies history. The IDE and DB was there and ready to go with some docs and a ReadME. They told me ahead of time what rate they would pay me and that they would pay up to 4 hours. If I decided to spend more it was on me. And I had 4 business days to do it.
It’s an app that China created to spy on and promote degeneracy in other countries
IMO the Korean brands are the market leaders. Check out Cuckoo
a similar argument is going on in c++ community - whether to value stability or performance.

one thing that always struck me is that the number of developers of X language is some factor times the number of developers at the point in time when it first had a strong community. if that factor is greater than 2, and it usually is, then to me dividing the language into two distinct dialects with different values makes sense.
I feel that - I was working solo for a good bit. Then decided to start collaborating with other devs. It comes with its challenges. But I do think it can be worth it if the project is large enough and the devs you collab with know what they're doing and can self-guide.

> If I have the fight those bozos then I lose my passion for the project and even to wake up in the morning.

Second this definitely.

What are you working on now?
It's interesting to compare this situation of affairs against git and GitHub which have become normalized to the point where "master" is consciously perceived as more offensive and tone-deaf than "git" itself.
This gets right to the heart of the paradox of tolerance. When your country is tolerant of other countries' companies operating locally, but they aren't tolerant of the same, then you're going to eventually be overrun. You cannot defeat the intolerant through blanket tolerance; consequences and retaliation are necessary. To make it even simpler, tit-for-tat is a good strategy for iterated prisoner's dilemma; always cooperate isn't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The person you initially negatively responded to said "networking is not the bottleneck," and if it's possible to have a meaningful negative reaction to that, it might involve asking "the bottleneck in what system?" I think he's right, but it's a blanket statement and it's fair to ask for more context.

More context: typical network latency is good enough that video games rendered on a remote server are becoming practical, or at least salable. "Network latency is high" is a vague enough statement that it could mean anything, but if being able to render video games remotely and stream the output to the client doesn't make you reconsider, I question what you would ever consider network latency that's not too high.

The kicker with these games, that perhaps speaks to the original, crazy post by horsawlarway, is that it's normal for a TV set and set of controls to introduce a lot more latency than the network connection itself: the network is not the bottleneck. There's a good excuse for the latency in involved in networking, rooted in physics, but this is not true for the hardware and the software stack.
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Or maybe exposing the Chinese population to to a tiny bit of critical thinking or anything not in line with CCP’s propaganda is what is feared, not necessarily bullying, don’t you think?
Try making black garlic in one. Just do it outside if you can
Nice! I'm creating something similar[0] in Clojure, as my first attempt at a Clojure project. It's still super early stage, but the author of plumebio is free to run it and get inspiration from the generated CV html/css page.

If I have more time, what I'd strife for with this project is to become a competitor of LinkedIn (e.g.), but with only private profiles. Companies are then charged when they query for people with skills/certificates that they are interested in. Or they'll pay a subscription for unlimited querying. Users know they are not tracked by the platform itself, and companies that query users agree to a (TBD) license that limits their usage for HR goals.

It'll provide public statistics on what companies query for, so if users with Java experience see that Kotlin is queried more than Java, they'll have an indication of what skill to invest their time in. (Just an example.)

[0] https://github.com/harryvederci/resumator
(Any Clojurians that find this subject interesting, feel free to contribute.)
From this FAQ it looks like you may be able to as long as you torrent from something that is WebRTC friendly.

https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/FAQ.md#s...
Frankly, what you just wrote is just bullshit.

The whole "perpetual victim" complain exist just to shut up people who tell uncomfortable things about what happened to them.

Sometimes other people do have power over you, other times they dont. Pretending that other people cant affect you and cant harm you is just nonsense.
Yes because out of all the issues that voters care about. I’m sure “breaking up big tech” so you can put an emulator on an iPhone ranks above (hopefully my list equally hits conservative and liberal talking points):

- gun control

- health care

- unemployment

- “The War on Christmas”

- “those evil immigrants who are taking away your jobs”

- banning straws so we stop killing fish

- free college education

The fact is that the only reason $BigTech is $BigTech is because people voluntarily use their products - especially Apple that has a minority market share and charges a premium. Everyone knows how much money they give Apple/Amazon for their products - unlike Facebook and Google.
Right, but you rewrote it. I'm saying totally copy-pasted content is still unlikely to move you from "good candidate" to "no interview".
Comparing the Roman Empire to Napoleon who lived fifty years and only invaded then briefly ruled neighboring European countries under heavy turmoil is quite a stretch.
2:1?! That ratio is crazy and will certainly not produce good rice.
For some variety, how about fiction written in the second person - as in "You Are In a Maze of Twisty Little Passages ..."

One such novel is Halting State by Charles Stross [0], which appropriately enough includes a cyber crime that takes place in a MMORPG setting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_State
It's basically the same physics involved in this toaster https://youtu.be/1OfxlSG6q5Y same channel.

Thing heats and deforms (change properties), when it reaches temperature n, thing deforms just a bit too much, cuts electrical contact.
The photo was disingenuous. Astronomers stack photos to remove interference. The photographer did the exact opposite.
Philosopher kings communicate in ways the average individual has issue grokking, doesn’t invalidate the potential for abuse to complain that it’s free of “tracking”
Most Japanese houses postwar were not equipped to have good gas ranges. The article highlights that widespread electrification had occurred, which favored rice cookers, especially because cooking food on electric ranges is anathema for huge swathes of Japanese cuisine.

The standard to be measured against was also, again, Kamado rice, which most rice cookers today would struggle to meet and I guarantee few bachelors are measuring up to with their sauce pans.
Either all-in-ones by HP, or Dell external touch screen monitors. There are other options available, but I've ended up with multiple of each of these, as they're available and work well IME.
> If a corporation is going to transplant workers to a plantation in an unsafe place, then the corporation has responsibility for keeping the workers safe.

Citation needed - I never heard of a corporation being required (or allowed) to do law enforcement (private security companies might be contracted bt the government, but simply going and doing is most definitely not possible). The UN declares that a responsibility of governments, and one of the keys to the land claim and recognition of the state.

In some jurisdictions it's legal to stop a crime by appropriate means, but it is not a responsibility of any private person or entity, and it also does not mean you do it normally - that's where you're crossing into the "private army" territory.
I don't see how that's relevant to software project management. The ways we release software and plan out roadmaps don't really have much to do with what language or framework the software was made in. Just because Ember is "some JS framework" doesn't mean it has no good ideas.
This paper describes the differences between objects and ADTs, https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wcook/papers/OOPvsADT/CookOO...
Spotify isn’t using their market dominance in streaming to give artist a pittance?

Nothing is stopping another streaming service from offering a bigger cut to artists (indeed Tide purports to do exactly this).

A bigger cut of a tiny pie? In the same vein nothing is stopping app developers from ignoring iOS or users from buying iPhones, using Google, FaceBook, or Amazon.
What's a nice way of saying, "I want to be paid to work." ?
Not American either but CVs (Curriculum Vitae, course of life) are much more comprehensive than resumes.
If you're a researcher then you'd include a list of all of your published work, presentations, lectures, grants, scholarships, professional associations, etc.
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There have been plenty of rises and falls of civilization in China in the intervening thousands of years. It's way reductionist to claim that this is all the same one unflagging continuous empire.

In a way, you're doing Chinese history a huge disservice by making it a lot less interesting than it actually is when you claim that it's all just one empire persisting steadily through time.

And anyway, "the west" has a continuous history going all the way back through the ancient Greeks. That's at least two and a half millennia. It's not been the same people or the same empire since then, obviously (same for China), but the continuous written history easily goes back at least that far.
I’m pretty sure we do. The issue will boil down to who should control (or be controlled) by it. I can imagine resistance from say NASA to have it’s policies determined by nations physically incapable of reaching space.

And the outcome of the debate will be a function of your values versus someone else’s, which could then spiral into whether or not one persons desire for a nice view of the night time sky is more important than someone else’s access to affordable high quality internet (which is increasingly being viewed as a “right” these days).

Who knows how this all plays out but my gut says that we are observing oligopolies in the making. The first 2-5 will get licenses and then no one else, ever again.
there is a pretty big difference between having to hack a local key for every user and a real data breach
I would argue there is no such thing as software engineering. To me engineering has to live in the real world, i.e. gravity, wind, temperature, material properties, water, etc. Software exists in a world we create, while it may interact with the real world, and may run on hardware (perhaps several levels down) it is not truly affected by the real world properties.

But being programmers, we will argue all sides.
Interviews are difficult. A tiny mistake and game over.

Will someone having picky wishes for their first phone screen be invited for more interviews?
Note to self – never give up on your dreams
nintendo1889 is clearly a confused time traveler. The posts haven't been deleted. They just haven't been made yet.
Whereas in most countries on earth it costs the testee nothing directly.
We have a centos 8 server that has been bricked, and there doesn't seem to be any solution right now. Downgrading the packages shows "lowest version already installed, cannot downgrade it.", and I can't manually install the old packages because there doesn't seem to be any way of getting them. Someone says to use http://mirror.centos.org/centos-8/8.2.2004/BaseOS/x86_64/os/... but that seems to have the very latest packages and even after updating the affected ones it still fails to boot.
WaPo wasn't the only recipient of the leak. The other, Lawfare, covered this as well [0]. "I&A personnel are permitted to engage in physical surveillance, the use of mail covers, and the use of monitoring devices," as long as they can justify it as 'counterintelligence'. They need to have a justification first, but LEOs are great at coming up with empty ad-hoc justifications.

[0] https://www.lawfareblog.com/dhs-authorizes-domestic-surveill...
I am not saying this is bad to have no javascript, but it seems like just marketing targeted at contrarians.
You must be that rare unicorn that actually realizes their company isn't a future FAANG. A lot of consternation over hiring could be avoided if most companies realized they can get by just fine with average developers. But most people psychologically want to hire the "best" developer available and so would not be satisfied with "can do the job".
The part where FHE requires 42X cpu and 10-20X RAM of non-FHE operations will initially keep the use cases relatively small, and we don't have Moore's progression to bail them out in a few years. Neither are FHE operations in these kinds of use cases heavily parallelizable.

I'm also seeing some questions over side channel attacks by throwing enough data at the polynomial transforms that make up the NAND gate you're hiding the FHE'd data in, some people are claiming there has to be a way to eventually derive the encrypted value of the data you're attacking, but I don't understand any of the maths around FHE so I can't tell how big a concern those types of attacks are. From my layman's interpretation of the comments IBM'ers are responding to, I don't think a single operation under FHE is intrinsically vulnerable to side channel attacks, but I bet how FHE is used in real-world applications with iterative back-and-forth operations does potentially open up specific poorly-designed usage patterns to the classic inferential side channel attacks.

If FHE becomes practical at the scale you imagine, it would dramatically raise the bar on hacking for sure, but the implementers still only need to make one mistake to give a wedge to the hackers to work with.

The tokenization market (tokenize/detokenize sensitive data) just turned up the "interesting" knob to 11, though. Would take a lot of work between vendors to make real and practical, but some real promise there.
There are no countries that are perfect models for COVID. The ones that have totally “contained” it are either tiny and isolationist or lying / not testing. Previous countries that seemed like models of good now have outbreaks. This virus is simply too difficult to contain, it seems to spread extremely easily.

America has decentralized governance. Every state, and even every county, can determine their own rules to a large extent. Money is handed from the federal government to the states with very few strings attached. It is constitutionally impossible to have a “one size fits all” approach, and also people are so independent-minded that any iron fist is immediately given the middle finger.

Articles like these that harp on about how bad America is seem to be unable to explain why so many people want to come here, and why we have to pass laws to prevent them from coming. For all America’s warts it’s still the best place to live.
My conspiracy theory is that Trump is mad about TikTok kids pranking his Tulsa COVID-19 Death Rally.
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And if it did, was it because of what you learned during the training or because of the certification itself?
> Do you also suppose that it would be a good idea for you to hit your head repeatedly against a wall, if I start doing so?

This is a bad analogy and proves nothing. There's no connection between two people banging their head against the wall.

However, there is a connection between one actor performing a bad action and then facing punitive action from another actor because of it. It makes them less likely to perform similar actions in the future, and could cause them to reverse the previous bad actions that are still in effect.

Whereas if you're banging your head against the wall, me doing the same does nothing to stop you. Hence why it's a meaningless analogy.
The lack of citation in this article perfectly mirrors the chaos and growth still required in software engineering.
I don't quite understand this point. Perl has a major version, Perl 5. They want to offer a new major version, Perl 7, now. If Ember has already release a couple of new major versions, then why not learn from it? Maybe the Ember approach doesn't fit Perl, but without taking a look we won't know.

Also, based on the GP, it seems like Perl is planning something similar to what Ember has been doing: They are planning for Perl 7 to offer no new features, just change behavior. Then users can take their Perl 5 software and try it out with Perl 7 to see how much work it is to upgrade. Or they comb the source code to look for constructs that are deprecated.