skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This a peak comment of a particular style of hacker news commentator - the I will die on a hill for one very specific thing and I don't understand why other people cannot see it my way.

Question to OP: do you see a distinction between addictive scroll and like based social media versus Windows/Gmail/Zoom or are they all Big Tech heroin to you?
>You have seat-belts on your car? Is that a fix or a workaround? Because a fix would be to actually have a car that doesn't crash at all. But would not be economically viable.

Lmao. I like this perspective. I guess all if life is basically a workaround to not dying.
I'm sure you've seen this elsewhere in the comments, but multiply two polynomials to see a discrete convolution in action! Here your functions would be discrete.
Not sure about Microsoft higher-ups in particular, but C++ and related compilers are notoriously bad (in fact negatively good) at enforcing the assumptions they use for optimization. Eg:

void foo(bar_t* p)
{
baz_t* q = &p->baz;
if(!p) panic("...");
do_stuff(p,q);
}

A (stereo-)typical C++ compiler will assume that p is non-null, then actively remove the code checking that. Surprise! You now have a security vulnerability. But only when optimisations are turned on, so if you have distinct debug and release modes, your testing and other debugging systems will be useless.

I suspect this is a recurring source of vociferous opponents of allowing any information to be used for optimization, regardless of how much compilers promise that this time is totally different and they'll definitely actually check that it's correct before using it.
That the author wasted their time is purely your opinion, and really adds nothing to the conversation here. Why insult someone for doing something you don’t find interesting?
It absolutely is available. It's just powerful lasers are very dangerous to your eyes, and you better really know what you're doing.

You can buy a 1.5kw laser cutter for $35K on Aliexpress.

https://aliexpress.com/item/4000063563337.html
I’d replace “having fun” with “doing something fulfilling”.

It has the same subjectivity but hits closer to why we regret some things and not others. Surfing is fun and fulfilling to me where cocaine is only fun but unfulfilling.
Preemptive move.
After casually watching the progression from SWF, to Silverlight, to some overdone version on the Wii, it gives me warm fuzzy feelings that linerider.com is still hosting a down-to-earth
(albeit modern) version.

I remember backing up the SWF version of line rider. And then they added a STRAIGHT LINE tool. No more abusing the right click menu! How far this game has come!

> After years of development, after some more collaboration with that Line Rider friend, and after connecting with the owners of Line Rider, it wound up becoming the official version on linerider.com. This version resolved many of the issues I had with the original version

I'm so curious to hear more about this. That's like a geek dream come true.
Following this thread, will post some Kubernetes debugging issues.
Someone has to pay for complexity. Let that be vendor and it’s engineering. Rather end users.
Unfortunately, it’s like any other business, you need to get your first customer. It’s a huge market and plenty of customers to go around though.

Salesforce has listings of recommended Salesforce development and implementation companies. You’ll need to get training first and prove expertise.

You could look for companies that have job listings for Salesforce administrators and then see if they are open to contract work.

Attend Dreamforce to get a feel for everything is also a good idea.
Seems really Atypical to see such preemption by a tech company. Are there other examples?
"You don't hear a lot of people praising AWS"

You definitely hear a lot of people praising AWS.
Refuting it shouldn’t require 4 essays though unless there are a bunch of mental gymnastics involved that the author has to sell you on?

What is the tldr? China didn’t do it on purpose and they were just grossly incompetent? They didn’t share data because it was all in word perfect files and they couldn’t convert it?
> The potential reward for an attacker who successfully gains access to an account is high, so it seems almost certain anyone running a targeted attack would defeat this by handing it off to a human upon detecting that they had a good account.

Then it may surprise you to know that simply preventing automation makes many types of account takeover attacks infeasible in practice. It won't mitigate the attack if you are personally a high value, named target. But most account takeover attacks operate en masse and are coordinated after large security breaches, so having to hand over accounts to a human operator as part of the auth loop would make the campaign uneconomical. It also introduces another step at which an attack can be logged, recognized, fingerprinted and stopped by an incident response team.

This is something your security team would probably gladly tell you about if you asked them. There's also a bunch of talks about this presented at conferences like Blackhat, DEFCON, USENIX, etc.

Stated in another way: not all potential rewards for successful account takeover are high. The modal account in the modal campaign is low value, which is made up for by volume and particular purpose of accessing accounts. If you model these campaigns economically, you can eliminate entire classes of "low margin, high volume" attacks simply by introducing friction that mitigates automation.

Then there is a natural cost-benefit tradeoff as to how much friction is allowable on a per-user basis to prevent the most common types of account takeover attacks.
I was confused about why some of the black lines are solid and some, the guy just passes through. So I read a bunch of Line Rider tutorials, but they said the only possible colors for lines are red, blue, and green, and now I'm even more confused.
I too have caused and authored many COEs at Amazon. I have also been involved in 50 to 100 COEs written by other teams and have also observed no instances of this having a negative impact on anyones career. COEs are core to Amazon's learning experience and you can be assigned to write one for simply being unlucky enough to be oncall when the incident occurred.
Hi. I too went to art school. And spent 10+ years working on a grand software art project.

I relate very deeply.
Ass covering par examplar
Yep, that's correct.

The original SCO made SCO Xenix, later branded SCO Unix. Meanwhile, another company called Caldera Systems had been spun out of Novell to keep working on the Linux version that Novell had originally done, back when they had a grand plan to challenge Microsoft on all fronts from applications down to the OS level.

As Linux really took off, though, SCO kind of saw the writing on the wall. They sold their Unix business to Caldera and renamed themselves Tarantella, after a... frankly, I don't remember what it was, anymore, but it was a program they made that had become the bulk of their business.

I'm not sure when Caldera renamed themselves to SCO, but by the time the litigation started flying, Caldera Linux had failed in the market and most of its original staff had left the company. The people now in charge decided that their best asset was IP relating to "real Unix," and the rest is history. Strange, strange history.

The sort of ironic footnote lost to history at this point is that the original Caldera Linux you could get back before they went all troll was, in my recollection, actually a pretty promising distribution. I played with it for a while and was pretty impressed.
v7x86-0.8a.tar - ~13 MB

v7x86-0.8a.iso - ~14.6 MB

Keep in mind, that also includes kernel, kernel source, C compiler, C compiler source, and utilities and utility source.

For comparison, the source of most recent version of gcc, 10.2 -- gcc-releases-gcc-10.2.0.tar.gz -- weighs in at ~118.7 MB, and that's compressed...

Or for comparison, one of the "standard" 600 MB+ (and sometimes much more!) Linux distributions...

Also, v7 Unix occupies a unique place amoung Unices, that is, it's

the simplest possible version of Unix that is actually still functional with the code being readable

(earlier versions have much more assembler code and less C) -- so anyone interested in learning Unix or one of its derivatives from the ground up is well advised to study this source code!

To the Author: You undertook a great job in getting this ancient code base to work on x86, and the community of Unix researchers, students and scholars, both now and in the future -- thank you for this laudable effort!
> We are committed to maintaining an environment that is safe, supportive and welcoming to employees of all backgrounds.

These are inexpensive words said by every company. I feel that most companies, after uttering them, don't actually do anything to follow through.
To be fair, interferometry was really insightful independent of the static aether theory being wrong.

So much so that LIGO is basically the same thing, used to measure flexible aether theories (eg, relativity).

We can’t detect our drift, but we can detect far away objects causing aether ripples.
All You Need to Know About Object Detection Systems
Yeah everyone talks about the technology and nobody talks about the Confucian foundation that many Asian countries are built on.

For anyone who wants a summary the Confucius episode of Genius of the Ancient World on Netflix has a good overview.
that made me feel good, thanks
Laser-Based Hacking from Afar Goes Beyond Amazon Alexa
Mask Detection system using OpenCV and TensorFlow
> That is point blank crazy. That is a weird financialisation of the economy that we don't yet understand - inflation in a fixed asset that doesn't increase productivity.

This isn’t weird, it’s simple supply and demand. Nobody wants to build housing and people still need a place to live so they have to sacrifice more and more of their income to fight over the limited good space.
>One particularly egregious misuse of captcha in a service I use presents one after I enter a correct username and password.

I run a problem validation community platform. Couple of days back an individual launched automated spam/DDOS attack by commenting an abusive, demoralising text on every single thread by creating different users.

Fortunately, I had systems in place to identify and mitigate it with Cloudflare. So, in this case even genuine users would have received captcha. I found out soon enough who the attacker was from the firewall, he had earlier created an account with his own name and was using the same IP to attack, after I blocked his IP he tried with couple of other IP addresses incl. Tor; but stopped with his activity after couple of hours.

I generally don't like re-captcha because it takes cultural background for granted(e.g. 'Pie' is not a common food worldwide), Accessibility as a disabled person myself and has no mitigation for captcha-solving farms.

But in nuisance cases like the one I detailed above, captcha is the easiest method available en masse.
Woah this is really cool and an awesome point of view. Collapsing along the x-axis is just a projection along the vector [1, 0, 0] onto the the y-z plane defined by it and the origin. Then if you project along the vector [1, 1, 0] onto the plane defined by [1, -1, 0] and [0, 0, 1], you get the convolution.
This article seems to neglect that Google earnings continue to rise year over year with continued growth forecast. [0]

This article tells a flagging story but it needs an earnings ticker next to the timeline showing ad revenue growing and earnings growing.

Maybe they could make even more. Maybe they are just exploiting a captured market. But the article ignoring and not addressing this seems like the author just didn’t do their research.

[0] https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NASDAQ/GOOG/earnings/
If I had to guess it's probably something relatively mundane but embarrassing for the various 3 letter agencies involved at the time.

If it was "The CIA shot JFK", regardless of improbability, it would have to be a moon-landing level cover up with the sheer number of people that have flowed through over the years (some of which have been traitors let's keep in mind, although I'm not sure many would've had the clearance to find out)
> Will the idea of big spending government also delivers the same outcome?

I don't know if that is the right lesson to learn. The great depression was largely caused by a stock market crash related to lack of regulation, and a drought (hello climate change). It was largely solved by big government wartime spending.
> The militarized police force was bested by a couple hundred anarchists and no charges even filed.

Source? A couple hundred anarchists were not there to "best" Officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove when they shot 32 times at Breonna Taylor in her own home.[1] It is not just a few "bad apples" when the whole tree was planted to enforce and uphold slavery.[2]

> The lack of access to medical care just spent $6 billion buy vaccines for everyone in the country.

We funded the development of these vaccine candidates, yet it seems like we are going to have pay to out of pocket if we actually want to use them. If we already payed for it, under what circumstance should we not already have it guaranteed for everyone?

On another note: losing a job should not mean losing access to healthcare. Healthcare is a human right.

> The unchecked imperialism just drew down all their troops and is achieving real progress towards normalized peaceful relations.

Really? All their troops? This one really puzzles me, especially since my country currently has its hands deep in at least two South-American country's democratic processes.[3][4]

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_patrol

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gideon_(2020)

[4] https://theintercept.com/2020/07/23/the-u-s-supported-coup-i...
Pretty much everyone has a shared resolver at some point. Almost no one’s running a local resolver on their laptop these days.
> Apple only added an app store after the fact, because web apps weren't fast and functional enough, and the app store was a huge success with consumers.

That's half correct. The iPhone was always meant to be able to install and run native apps, just because that's how all computers and phones worked back then. The concept of a web app was still pretty far away (Flash was the closest comparison). Even on day one most of the heavy lifting on iPhone was done by apps rather than the browser - email, messaging, music, YouTube, Maps etc.

The novel part was restricting the distribution of apps through their own store. If that hasn't happened, the alternative would be people simply downloading and running iPhone apps from all over the internet, as is standard on most other platforms including macOS.
Is this is what the CEO gets for rejecting corporate social activism?
> Its also just much more efficient.

That's the sales pitch, sure.

Size scales in reverse order with security. The larger you are, the more difficult it is to make sure all the gaps are sealed - that's why the greatest of empires fall eventually - they get spread across so large a portfolio there are bound to be gaps, which are endlessly exploited, even on users of the large ERP companies.

If products were actually integrated well and deployed well all of what you say would be true. But that's just not the reality - trust me, I've been there. It's bad.
Falling in love helps to be a successful entrepreneur
There is no problem here. jedi mind trick hand wave
I was a bit surprised to not find a reference to the singularly most irritating thing about Google's recaptcha - that it treats me - the one trying to authenticate - as a free source of data labels for its ML systems. I guess I'm unlikely to be the only one irked by another "identify all the bicycles" challenge.

Do the labels I provide belong to me or to Google? .. when I signed no job contract with them to provide that information.

edit: aha! https://www.hcaptcha.com/labeling - that's why it wasn't mentioned. One more labelling service that I won't like.
"In Imagine a world without apps Shira Ovide asks “a wild question: What if we played games, shopped, watched Netflix and read news on our smartphones — without using apps? Our smartphones, like our computers, would instead mostly be gateways to go online through a web browser.” This question can be extrapolated into a larger question: “What do we want from our technology?""

To quote Bret Victor, "Toolkits, not Apps" : https://twitter.com/worrydream/status/881021457593057280

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw&t=4m19s

Jumping straight into talk about providers, personal data, security, etc. assumes cultural scaffolds of 'personal' around the device. That's fine, but the assumption needs to be made aware.
Streisand effect. Now I want to read the article when it comes out.
>Overall, we expect the story will paint an inaccurate picture that lacks complete information and context, despite our best efforts to fact-check details of the story with the reporter.

Probably the most important line from this; those that have been through it before know it better than anyone. Likely best to apply healthy levels of skepticism to both parties.
It's really really hard to prove your not racist. If anyone has any clue as how to do so, please share.

They could have waited until the story was published I guess to share this statement, but publishing it preemptively makes sense too I believe (it's an always open entity that is incredibly easy to switch away from).

But truly, when you get accused of racism, what can you even do?
I strongly agree. Some might call the comment sexist, and inherently it is so, but that misses the point.

The point is we live in a society that is male dominated (sexist) and it has unpleasant effects on socialization which leaves many "normal" men to be problematic (or as you put it, "trash").
>For decades, leaders like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad spoke proudly of Asia's tradition of small, nimble public administration.

Yeah, but speaking of it was all they did. Singapore always had an entirely dominant state, they just figured out how to brand themselves correctly. State owned businesses became 'state-linked', regulatory frameworks are 'governmental disruption', and so on. The government owns the housing market, pretty much controls every piece of equipment that any hospital buys, and controls what newspaper can be printed. Imagine if the US nationalised the entire housing market, created an investment fund of the size of a third of the economy, and banned a dozen newspapers, I doubt we'd call it nimble administration.

There is no tradition of 'small government' in much of Asia. The centrality of public administration in the region, in China say, goes back thousands of years. Post-war Japan was basically the US if the New Deal had gone on for fourty more years, and South Korea developed for the most part under a military dictator.

In general 'big government' isn't a scary thing to most people outside of the US and England maybe. Not even in Europe does anyone actually complain about 'big government', so it's an entirely weird discussion.
And still, Firefox is less efficient and less secure than Chrome or Safari.
Only problem is that they don't offer that complete information or context either?
It’s a fine line, for sure. Cheating is considered by some to be part of the game, too. The referee is there to prevent cheating, and without VAR they are liable to fail. We do not tolerate cheating, but but we can not prevent all forms of it, only punish it when it is uncovered with some certainty.

The litmus test for somebody’s football beliefs, of this generation at least, was the Luis Suarez handball against Ghana at WC 2010.

Was Suarez justified in volleyball-spiking the shot out of the net? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tDpx9GGH79I

When I was younger, I was bitter and thought it wasn’t fair. But I’ve come around. Handballs are part of the game. The punishment in that circumstance is a red card and a multiple game suspension. Most people would have done the same thing in his boots. If you want to remove cheating, you’d have to ban people from the sport. But I think people would prefer to have controversy than to have a synthetically clean game.

(Where I draw the line is tackling with intent to injure, or intentionally escalating physically dangerous situations. That is never OK.)

People are gradually trying to make the game more binary. They tried to make the handball rule more black and white this season, and many players and most fans agree it’s a regression.
In an HN thread the other day someone mentioned Coinbase as a positive example of a company that decided to separate employee political activism from the workplace (which IMO is the only rational option unless you like volunteering for lose-lose landmine situations).

As soon as I saw NYT in the I assumed it would something along those lines. It’s not clear what the grievances were yet so I’ll hold back judgement for now.

There are always consequences to trying to run an apolitical as. It’s always seems easier to just give in, especially on the surface layer, with the social media grievance machine, but upholding values through out your company is worth the effort. Not being racist should be common sense by now. Engaging in political campaigns is another matter.
Hmm okay. I'm going to start fixing that part and also attempt some CGO/objective-C to replace the python dependency. I had figured that removing any possible directory that could be seen as an application directory (at app-startup) would alleviate the issue you described. Thanks for the feedback though and also taking the time to look.
Wonder how they think / thought that this will play out?

That internal email is nothing but "NYT bad" and what seems like pretty cheap promises... if you have to send those to your employees in the first place.

Then I don't think it will help Coinbase itself much with the potential backlash of a NYT story with what seems like multiple employees coming out including receipts that will get published.

And it doesn't seem really helpful for employees to defend themselves from some potential inquiries/harassment either?

And then there is the Streisand effect...
Not really. They're just trying to own the narrative with this post here. Streissand effect only applies when someone tries to cover up an already-published piece of fact.
> did the community meme about OII never being finished ever get to you?

I've always found it really funny and played along with it!

> What kept you going on this

It was mostly my conviction about the creative potential of Line Rider but it helped a lot that the community remained alive and people understood the significance of this track
Not sure how wise it is to preemptively post a response like this. The technique may backfire.
These laser weapons conveniently keep the Navy funded and their sitting duck surface fleet in the budget.

I'm skeptical a laser can defend against supersonic antiship missiles and ICBMs.

Furthermore, the future battlefield will be owned by swarms of drone weaponry, these lasers probably can't fire frequently enough to defend against those.
It sounds like the bunch of half dose tests were originally administered by mistake and then turned out better.

Which is a heck of a way to do science.