skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author touched on this lightly, but I feel like there is a little more to be said about “signaling” or what I like to personally call, “resume flexing”.

In India, all people at all times are building their resumes for a semi-vague goal usually wealth or a happy retirement. This idea is embedded quite early on in age as the article author suggested - you’re usually pointed at a career in middle school that makes it easier to achieve above said goal.

The flywheel then spins ever faster as every decision you make thereafter is about getting closer and closer to this vague goal of “success/wealth/societal perception”. You pick universities based on rankings, large tech companies over startups, management over individual contributor work and of course America over everything else.

This problem isn’t isolated to India by any means, and like all stereotypes isn’t applicable to all people from India but in a country of 1B+ people, it’s just dialed up to 11. Hacktoberfest and GSOC are just unfortunate victims to this resume building. The fastest way to put these on your resume and flex it, is to create a spam commit and shortcut your way to a tshirt or certificate.
Use of VBA without improving for 20 years is shame.
Microsoft released the first version of Excel for the Macintosh on September 30, 1985, and the first Windows version was 2.05 (to synchronize with the Macintosh version 2.2) in November 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel#Early_history

I remember there being dozens of different spreadsheet programs in the 1980's. Flash forward to 2020, and there is primarily Microsoft Excel, it's imitation LibreOffice Calc, Apple Numbers, and Google Sheets.
It's still pretty misleading.

They are supposed to be the experts (in the eyes of non-technical people) and if you don't have the skills to understand how the attack works it's reasonable (or at least used to be reasonable) to consider that the risk is minimal if "experts" do not believe it's bad.

This response lures their users into a false sense of security.
It is effective against gingivitis and mouth ulcers and will also ward off vampires and werewolves. Actually smells better than garlic and is cheaper than silver, so win win.

It really isn't that bad to gargle but not particularly pleasant either. It is effective though and that's the real point.
I don't see how saying "let's focus on work" leads you so call someone megalomaniacal.
Logging IP address and have some AI/SIEM comparing IPs of regular/past use to IPs on-or-after a password reset can give 'some' level of comfort. E.g. if someone has extensive use from NY-USA IP address and the requests came from a Paris-FR IP address then 99% it is an attack and you block or send out email/SMS (just in case) or 1% that person's company guest WiFi surfaces in another country (e.g. mega-big insurance company in London has corp internet exiting in Chicago and guest network exiting in London).

In any case, it is better/safer to cause some slight inconvenience to prevent data leak.
Escape from Google
I suspect it’s a historical observation. They used to be crazy high. (I lived in Tokyo over a decade ago. Prices were crazy then, but they’re roughly the same now. Meanwhile SF has gone up at least 3X in that timeframe)
I had never heard of this syndrome! I think it can be found in Europe as well.

The post was really illuminating. I don't know the Indian culture very well, but now I can understand why sometimes Indian resumes are so lengthy, difficult to parse, and essentially filled with air.
It does look nice, and I kind of miss the feature in other programming languages. I also maintained cperl-mode for many years, and honestly the editor support for this functionality never quite worked right. It is hard to parse, and even harder when you are doing a heuristic-based incremental parse. (The challenge with text editors is that you have to provide correct syntax highlighting even when the document contains parse errors that the compiler would have bailed out on.)

Because editor tooling is important to me, I'm willing to see an ugly "\"quoted\" string" from time to time, if it means that I get better tools as a result.
"An update on Daydream" :)
What a Second Bauhaus Movement Means for Europe
flagged already.

last time something was posted about trump (his leaked taxes return from nyt) such links were flagged and somebody said they were probably "off-topic".

so the potus is sick with a deadly disease, the us might fall in civil war and all this is considered "off-topic".

"cool".
But mass can be converted into energy. Obviously that's not the primary weight loss driver (what a metabolism that would be!), but it certainly doesn't break the laws of physics.

EDIT: Because I was curious, I did the math.

Assuming diet of 2000kCal per day.

2000kCal / 3500kcal/lb fat = 0.5714 lb fat = 0.259kg fat

0.259kg = 2.329×10^16 joules = 5.556megatons of TNT

5.556megatons/day / 24 hours / 60 minutes / 60 seconds = 0.000064megatons/second = 64 tons of TNT per second

Less than I thought actually, but not someone you'd want to hang out with.
Reminds me of urban legend of the team who pointed a webcam at the RSA token

https://www.google.com/search?q=webcam+rsa+token&source=lnms...
“well, they had really heavy boots!”
I think middle and eastern european countries are decent enough and shouldn't be too hard to get into if you can land IT job and cheap enough to live in with your passive income.

Maybe Czech Republic? Or Estonia?
I haven't seen an open wireless network for years around my residence. Is open Wifi still a thing?
Thank you sir, I only understood after reading this!
Nice, it's a cool illustration.

> (and I'll admit it looks very pretty)

It does look better with all the colors, but it distracts from what you are showing.
I love the term "cord cutter" as if the Internet connection that plays their new media is somehow a different cord than the cord that their cable TV came in through.
Comparing a bacteria with a neuron is laughable.
I read about Samsung (?) smart TVs connecting to nearby unsecured Wi-Fi networks and others containing LTE hardware with a data SIM.
It's not a bug. It is either a backdoor placed there from the design/implementation or super lazy programming. I don't want to think it's done on purpose (Hanlon's razor).
FWIW Amazon / AWS also use YubiKeys.
I don't have any statistics on physical books, but anecdotally the physical books I check out from the library happen to be much older than 2 years and still in good condition -- perhaps survivorship bias combined with my preference in books.

For ebooks there's this:

> Macmillan’s claim of only making $1.15 per book is incredibly misleading, Potash argued. “Seventy-nine percent expired and were removed from library catalogs because the two-year limit occurred first—not because they were checked out 52 times,” he said. In reality, the average is about 11.5 lends. According to Potash, the cost to the library is $6.07 every time someone borrows a Macmillan book.[1]

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa78wv/one-of-americas-large...
How Storytellers Use Math
discussion about this from last night:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24659420
Yes, especially in more densely populated places. I can pick up a few open networks from where I’m sitting in a moderately-populated American suburb.
The Vizio that I bought four years ago has kind-of gone that far. They updated the OS so that you can't access the main interface (which includes built in Netflix and Amazon Prime, among others) unless you agree to a ToS giving them access to all kind of information I don't want to give them. So I factory reset it and now I only use my Apple TV with it and am all the more happy having done so. Screw Vizio. They'll never get another dime of mine.
In this context a splinter doesn't have to be tiny, it can be a pointy shard that's 8 inches wide and 2 feet tall. Shattered glass pieces are too small to "lop off" anything. See this image for an illustration of the contrast:

https://www.karseyglass.com/single-post/2019/06/24/Tempered-...
I was only trying to highlight that this slippery slope you talked about do exist and happens all over the Internet, and no I'm not Polish. Whether one would be really offended or just pretend to be is not the issue but mindless word policing is never for the benefit of discourse.
I blame the parents for this, they should have kicked the kids out of the house when they were 22. Then they could live with roommates, men and women and learn how to live. There was a show about that in the '90s bunch of good-looking men and women and sometimes a monkey. I can't remember the name of it though.
I haven't followed the console hacking scene for years but Team Xecuter has been around since at least the original Xbox. Back then they always said "this is only for home brew" to try to cover thier asses. So I wonder if these guys were were doing this on their own.
This was hot off the recent information that it can cut duration of symptoms in half in people that have not yet mounted an effective immune response.
for me, I've yet to have an online hangout experience that I actually enjoyed. I have a lot of trouble focusing on a screen, and with only one person able to talk at a time, I just can't get into conversations. They feel so unnatural.

Some people at work meet up on zoom rooms to hang out but the idea gives me weird anxiety. I'd give anything to go back to the office, but yet another meetup app wouldn't do anything for me.
By finding people that need or appreciate what I like to do and making them my customers.

PS. I have to admit I'm lucky to like doing something that also pays off well. Not everybody is that lucky.
>3. LATITUDE ALWAYS COMES BEFORE LONGITUDE IN A COORDINATE PAIR

This has bitten me so many times, that I just default to named structs instead of pairs
I think there are too many people that have no computer and no home internet (and just use the their phone for internet browsing) for that to happen, at least generally.
If your company is being actively targeted by nation states (and rest assured, Grindr is), you should have a serious security team where this sort of stuff shouldn't have seen the light of day.

I'm not exaggerating when I say this bug may have gotten people locked up, or been the lever for corporate/government espionage.
Haven't read the article but as in the title, you shouldn't look to get the best dumb tv. Look for the best tv you can get, and see if you can make it a dumb one.
This happened - a mining group approached (and possibly passed) 51%, so they directed some of their miners to other pools because they didn't want to devalue their earnings.

Anyone with that much mining power has a huge financial incentive to keep the golden goose alive.
I’ve had good luck with sceptre brand TVs. They are no frills and cheap. Plug in a $30 roku and hook it up to some decent speakers and you are good to go. I’ve had two of them going on 8 years strong now. Loads of connectivity to. From vga to dvi to component/composite, 1/8” audio in/out, spdif, hdmi, etc, etc.

On the other hand the power supply in my (former) LG plasma tv died after 1.5 years. I DIY replaced that with a ~$100 part. Then 6 months later it broke down with large green vertical lines interrupting the screen, at which point I gave up on it.

So for me it will be no frills cheap TVs from now on. If it breaks in a few years I can replace it without feeling as much of a hit to the wallet. And the external streaming boxes will always be better, faster and more flexible for me than the inbuilt “smart” software that stops getting updates after a few years.
egg: Fast and Extensible E-graphs
A McDonalds hamburger patty is just beef, salt, and pepper. It was preserved by an environment that allowed it to dry out before spoiling.
I really impressed how the CIO replies explains the problem on press conference. He knows the system and explains the issue perfectly.
let the world burn. hope coronavirus never goes away.
They deviated away from that many years ago. They’re brazen with the switch advertisements and playing bootlegs.
This is a harvest year for the banks. The time when we all turn in our property in exchange for chuck-e-cheese tickets. So hold on to your shit no matter how bad it gets. Once it's gone, it probably won't come back. I don't expect the country to recover at all.
I agree. However, I suspect facebook is gonna try and claim some sort of tortious interference between the TOS the user agreed too.
This assumes that the spammers can code/contribute in a meaningful way.
Not necessarily. It might be out of precaution to make sure prompt action is required if needed.
hopefully all the people in the hospital died.
VR Workouts have unlocked this for me.

I'm pretty sedentary but playing beat saber for 1 hour is a lot more moving than I'm used to.
Failover should be tested, but what should be tested? There are many components and possibly innumerable failure reason is exists so 100% confident isn't possible.
>I'll say without a doubt people are absolutely meaner via social media vs real life

HN is somewhat unique in not fostering or tolerating that sort of thing. Sure, sometimes a comments gets downvoted, because it expresses an unpopular view, but not so much if it is well thought-out & presented. And it's extremely rare to come across comments that are mean or otherwise unproductive without it quickly going dead. It's no Utopia of internet peace & tranquility, but you can have a real conversation.
Thanks, sounds interesting. Surprising to hear the performance is ok. I wonder if using the arm version of alpine wouldn't be more efficient.

I love alpine, I use it on all my servers since Ubuntu went overboard with the snap thing. Alpine is light and simple just the way I like it.
I felt like my experience as a Linux web user in the late 90s and early 2000s was way worse than it is today.

But, if you guys had better experiences, sure. Half of the websites out there wouldn't work because few worked to standards supported by libre web browsers.
I got a dumb external
monitor for my laptop and then learned it doesn't have the right DRM for me to watch Blu-rays on it. Literally, I can view the Blu-rays on my laptop screen, but if I drag the window to the other screen, it won't display the video.
I had had the exact same reaction. My career sometimes feels like a series of meetings in which I implore product managers to keep things simple and consistent instead of adding every bell and/or whistle imaginable.
I did a Google map of US car dealerships for a former employer. When zoomed out dealerships would be clustered together using a modified k-means clustering. I had to do a lot of non-trivial coding to handle the variance in how latitude is distorted in Alaska vs the continental US. To this day, that was the algorithmically most interesting coding that I've done.
Based on the specific example (hashing buckets for a hash map/table)… just use a hashing function that uses a random seed per map/table instance during hashing to prevent insertion attacks, eg. SipHash. This prevents an attacker from being able to purposely engineer the overloading of a single bucket with too many entries, allowing the implementer to use a standard linked list per bucket without worrying about external influences. Then, if you're still worried about the one in a trillion chance that a single bucket receives too many entries… yeah, you're over-engineering and wasting your own time, and the mental capacity of every developer who comes after you to try and understand your attempts to circumvent the problem in supposedly "smarter" ways.
Cool. 1/2 way Stamet's book Mycelium Running which I highly recommend. This dude seems to have the same, highly infectious enthusiasm on the same topic.
> But, to paraphrase Drag Race: men are rotted gila monsters. (I’m a gay male, I can say that. Also I speak from experience. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.)

No dude, being gay does not give you the license to be disrespectful towards all men.
Plasma and the Systemd Startup
Doing self discovery without action is going to yield zero results.

The way you deepen your self discovery is to try new things out and discover new interests that are beyond your work! To steer a ship, you first need to get it moving. So move, try shit out and then you can course correct accordingly.

I remember trying out a Salsa class one day. That was enough to get me hooked to dancing almost everyday and it being something I really look forward to after work. Who knows? maybe yours might be pottery, or board games, music, community work etc. Try. shit. out!
Google has a new feature on their android phones that will wait on hold for you and connect you when the agent finally picks up. Having waited 40+ minutes for zipcar twice in the last few months I'm somewhat excited about it. It seems like a gimmick, but also seems like a good form of automation that works in a lowest common denominator situation like telephone lines.

Wondering if this and things like it will help you address the automated assistant issue one problem at a time.
I find the obsession with certificates interesting. One of my past school used to hand them out like candies. It costs like a dollar for 10 and made everyone happy. Same with trophies and medals. After some questioning and feedback from a lot of people indirectly, I concluded that it's one of the best investment any school can make. It results in lot of good PR, recognition, talks, feel good, etc.

It's useful to target and engineer certain behaviors in students. Many of them conflate their value and status with those papers.

You can make money by holding competition to handout these and charge for chairs, food and other stuff.

Many students won't talk about certificates and medals with their classmates because they will be aware of how easy it is to get one but they will boast about it to kids from other schools and their parents. Ha, better conversion rate if someone is looking to transfer their kid to a better school.

I don't understand how not enough schools are doing this and still cheap out on $100 total spend every month at best.
thanks for responding based on the article rather than the title. the 2 recommendations from the article:

* Sceptre 65" 4K UHD LED TV

* Sceptre 50" 4K UHD Ultra Slim LED TV
>however attempting to create an account would disclose that fact by rejecting an account creation attempt with an existing email, unless they use emails purely as communication channels

They can tell the user to await an e-mail from them with the confirmation link. Then if the e-mail address is already in use, send an e-mail saying, "somebody, probably you, tried to register as <new-username> on <site> but we have you down as <old-username> already". Otherwise, send a normal confirmation link.
Breathing out CO2 is not a factor contributing to global warming because it's carbon that's already in the carbon cycle.
Ps by using arm I mean still virtualizing it of course, not running on the Android kernel which is what termux already does very well
Nobody cares about Boris Johnson.
Sounds like a folk tale, unless you have a source? The second part in particular.
This sounds extremely likely, because it sounds like something I would have done.
Yet another angle on the same story: The oxygen that makes this cycle possible wasn’t always available on Earth. It was the cycle itself (specifically photosynthesis in microbes) that created our oxygen rich atmosphere. [1]

I’ve heard of Big History [2] as one effort to weave lessons into a coherent tapestry. Agreed that this is a great way to learn.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event

[2]: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Hold Me, Squeeze Me, Bite My Head
Another variant of this is "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down." I've usually heard it in reference to Japan, but occasionally other Asian countries as well.
You could do that, but most users don't.
I mean I always saw this as something theoretical TV manufacturers could do but I've never seen such a TV in the wild. Can you give an example?
I don't mean to downplay the issue, but why would LGBT-hostile nation-states target Grindr's infrastructure when it's much easier to detect users at the network level based on TLS SNI (since encrypted SNI is still not a thing thanks to corporate influence)?
You’re welcome.
Thrips is just an example I used because it tends to be the most common.
I still think you should rephrase your statement because saying there are ‘No’ pressures is wishful thinking and unrealistic in any growing environment.
> If you've got adversaries doing a sun swapping attack you are in a Rick and Morty episode not the real world.

It happened to Jack Dorsey. And attacks tend to become easier over time. Any employee of an at&t store could do it to you right now.

The reason we know Dorsey was the victim of a sim swap attack is probably that he's important enough that when he was hacked he couldn't be dismissed with the "You probably messed up and leaked your password" dismissal.
Also depends on what you are used to. I couldn't stand Coke Zero initially, now I can't drink regular Coke.
I don't think failover won't work in every failure scenario, but won't work in this particular scenario. We can't test all possible failure situation regularly.
Mass cannot be changed into energy. Maybe it can down the hall in Mr. Einstein's physics class, but here in my nutrition class we will not violate the classical laws of the universe.
This needs a pause button, or at least some way to view the starting configuration. It's hard to think when everything is moving.
I'd hazard saying that the purpose of a YubiKey is to provide two factor authentication. A YubiKey acts as an item, posession of which implies identity. When you allow for the YubiKey to be activated without human interaction, it's moved from domain of posession into the domain of knowledge - identifying party needs to know where to knock, not to possess they key. It's no better than appending the URL at the end of your password.

If you allow for a YubiKey, or any other physical artifact in that matter, to be remotely invoked it negates its utility as an authentication factor in the physical domain.
My (older) Samsung TV works the same way. I haven't seen a TV that refuses to operate without an internet connection yet.
Zoning That Works: For New Yorkers, its own reward
That isn't true. A bijective function will map all inputs to distinct outputs and its inverse will also map all inputs to distinct outputs.

They don't need to be the same length.

For a toy example, I could give you a compressor which:

If the input begins with a billion copies of "HurrahHackerNews!" output a one bit then the rest of the input (if there is any more input). Otherwise it outputs a zero bit, then the input (but if the input begins with a billion copies of HurrahHackerNews! except last one ends with " instead of ! it skips that last bit, so the encoding isn't redundant).

The decompressor just perfectly reverses this process.

This format is a bijection, and if you often have inputs that begin exactly with a billion copies of HurrahHackerNews! it will get pretty good compression. :P
Ethanol has a distinct smell. It is neither tasteless nor odorless.
Names: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-...

As far as I know, that was the first one.
Exhaled CO2 is in equilibrium with plants inhaling CO2 to provide us food, so exhaling isn't considered a factor in global warming.
Twitter Says You Cannot Tweet That You Hope Trump Dies from Covid