skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Johnny Can't Write
MIT challenge. 4 year CS degree in 12 months
> You're showing a fundamental misconception and outright ignorance of what research papers are, and more importantly what science is. For example, you're somehow assuming that academic papers about to be subjected to peer review are somehow milestones which write in stone the truth instead of what they actually are and always have been: a way to share data, observations, theories, hypothesis, and even assumptions on research topics.

This is an ivory tower view on what research papers should be, not what they actually are. I'll quote you the paper in question:

"Our estimates suggest that control measures of a similar stringency to the national lockdown implemented in England in November 2020 are unlikely to reduce the effective reproduction number R t to less than 1, unless primary schools, secondary schools,and universities are also closed. We project that large resurgences of the virus are likely to occur following easing of control measures."

This is de-facto a lockdown propaganda tool. The doomsday predictions based on naive models have greatly affected public policy, while more moderate assessments have been swept under the rug. The most dramatic piece of research tends to win over the public, even if it's junk science.

That's not to say that this paper is junk science, but if it was, it wouldn't matter to the outcome, because the default right now is to be overly cautious and portray dissenting views as reckless.
> but hidden better so that random researchers won't stumble on it.

> 2020-12-02: Zyxel requests more information about how the vulnerability was discovered

Hmm
Not everybody is getting into a job just because it makes money. People have passions and ambitions to have an impact on the world sometimes. Doesn't mean that you can't do both at the same time. I chose to not work for one of those ad-tech companies, would have multiplied my salary by 10 easily just at entry level, but optimizing a system so people click more on ads is not what I want to spend my life doing. Of course you could take the big salary and do good with the money... Later... but I don't see many people around me doing that efficiently and a lot of what they give is wasted by people that know how to abuse them for "a good cause". And in the meantime more important work has to be done anyway.
It’s possible I missed this from the article, since I’m not actually following along, but why do I need to create the custom C++ adapter? The article mentions both ll bc formats, but I don’t see how they are used?

If I wanted to target LLVM, why wouldn’t I emit ll or bc files?
`git cthulhu merge --force`
Where do you get it though? Seems like only a few on eBay
True...but that supposes the bomber is more competent then they seemed to be...

McVeigh caused a lot more damage with presumably a lot less explosive (van vs. RV)

Thank god they got the timer right, and hopefully everyone got out.
The absolute worst part of pinterest is the the time it takes to respond to ctl-w. It's slower than just about every other site.
I loved the old flat crt grey scale vga monitors
Yeah, on mobile here: the first time it froze for me midway through the 1800s one and refused to scroll anymore.
I don’t think making Google’s index public would be sufficient. Their real core asset is not the index but the historical engagement data they have of searchers’ interactions with the index (both on the results page and offsite analytics Google has access to, eg Google Analytics/display ad network).

Making that historical engagement data public is not feasible/realistic, IMO.
The cognitive dissonance and total denial is off the charts with telecom and tech leaders who don't realize (or care) that their massive growth has played a large role in global civil unrest. The general public is terrified and angry at the rapidly shifting technological landscape and the changes in social norms that come with it. Trust in technology is at a low, and for good reason.

We have titanic businesses with almost superhuman like abilities to get under our skin at an algorithmic level. Tech companies can literally, for all intents and purposes, make people disappear from the internet. A small group of companies can casually destroy your life with a small code change and you wouldn't even know it. Everyone's data is being sold, stolen, sold on the black market, and intercepted by governments both local and foreign. An internet outage now means that your thermostat or fridge could go out and you're going to spend the night cold.

I mean, there's a reason that Cyberpunk 2077 was one of the most hyped games of the last 5 years. The anxiety resonates. Sometimes I wonder if there are people in tech/cable who grew up reading Neuromancer or Snow Crash and thought "Cool! Let's make it happen!"
CVE short for CaVeat Emptor in that case :D
A stopped watch is correct twice a day--yet everybody would still throw it out.
Apple’s New M1 Chip Is a Machine Learning Beast
How to Scale-Out a Real-Time Data Warehouse for Second-Level Analytics
TinyCore (on the frontpage a while ago) fits an OS with a FLTK/FLWM desktop in 16 MB of storage⁰, but it requires a bare minimum of 46 MB of RAM to boot (regardless of swap space, which it recommends along with 128 MB of RAM).¹

OTOH KnightOS² (not Linux) has a rudimentary (obviously not Xorg) GUI that IIUC runs on TI-73 series graphing calculators with 25 KB of RAM.

⁰http://tinycorelinux.net/welcome.html ¹http://tinycorelinux.net/faq.html#req
²https://knightos.org/
It’s just conjecture based on China’s history. Mainly, what happens when things decentralize vs being centralized? China’s growth has largely depended on decentralization. Now Xi is reversing course with centralization.

As for China’s current success, Xi has only come to power in recent years. If we’re being honest, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping deserve more credit For China’a current state than Xi for building the foundation and engine of China’s growth. Xi is only inheriting it, and will likely run it to the ground with his policies.
Many of the current neural net voice synthesis engines are fantastic and sound extremely real. Amazon Polly for instance. I'd punch in the phrase and do some comparisons, but given the attention those logs will certainly get maybe I won't.
And I knew a guy who had just bought a 2013 MBP, and slipped on ice, and landed on his bag, and bent the thing in about a 20-degree angle around his hip, and even the dang screen still worked. Isn't anecdotal "data" fun?
> why am I recycling plastic?

It's a small, easy act that takes seconds to feel good about yourself.

The snow boarders are going down fake paths like yourself, they are however putting more effort into it, to me they are closer to objective reality. I'm not sure why they are idiots?
Any time you see corporate apologetics on this site, it's always from accounts registered two hours ago. Something ought to be done about this obvious sockpuppetry.
Low code. There's two types: Writing less code, and cutting the lines of code in the code stack. The latter involves writing more code, and is a response to the low code trends so far.

2020 was the year of offline to online technology, and we'll see new things emerge from this. Things like video and remote conversation/management might finally get adopted, as well as contactless payment.

More ethical/privacy focus. Platforms (e.g. iOS, Mozilla, and Android) are clamping down hard on things like cross-tracking. Businesses that learn to make money without selling their users are going to do well.

Some AI products will start to emerge. My bet is on GPT-3 actually being useful.
I write for a newspaper. Limit my speech? I publish books. Limit my speech?

There's an easy solution. It just causes problems. There's a difficult solution too.
Hey definitely checkout indiehackers
Lol Feel sorry for the dude on fiverr about to get his loft tossed by alphabet boys
this is fact, this is evolution. when reproduction occurs this is success, this is fitness to reproduce. if a host is killed, or inconveinienced enough to lay ill and not contact others, that is a selective factor that favours reduction of morbidity. in the case of coronavirus reproduction and transmission occurs before morbidity occurs in the index host. there is no selective pressure to become less virulent. there is selective pressure to change host, to evade recognition by the immune system.
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken
Perhaps war is a form of terrorism.
Here's two possible solutions to Fermi's paradox that don't require the Great Filter: interstellar travel is hard, and interstellar communication is hard.

1. Interstellar travel is genuinely hard, so hard that advanced civilizations do it from time to time, but not so often to result in "percolation". In order to have a reasonable argument, let's start from contemplating how hard it would be for us, humans. This is the only civilization we know of at this point. There are two things that make interstellar travel very difficult: 1.a. potential collisions with dust grains and 1.b. violence.

1.a. Danger of collisions. According to wikipedia, cosmic dust grains can have a size up to 500 microns. At a typical density of 2g/cm3 this is a mass of 0.5 mg. Assuming you have a spaceship that travels of 0.01 the speed of light, the energy of impact with such a dust grain will be about 20% the energy of an armor piercing round shot from a modern main battle tank such as the M1 Abrams. Over a 4 light year travel (the distance from us to the closest stars), or a few hundred years of flight at 0.01c, there would be billions- trillions of such impacts.

1.b. Human violence. Assuming we get the technological prowess to accelerate things to 0.01c, what's to stop someone to point a little projectile in the direction of Earth, or some other place colonized by humans? Such of projectile weighing only 15 kg would have the energy of the Hiroshima bomb. In fact, it's actually most likely that the road to interstellar travel will start from military applications, just like the Apollo program was a side-effect of the arms race that created the ICBMs.

2. Interstellar communication is hard. Let's say that aliens are indeed everywhere, including in the planetary systems of our closest galactic neighbors. How would we know? Would SETI find out about that? The only way we'd find out were if they were pointing some large antennas straight at us, and putting some megawatts of power into beaming signals at us. How do we know that? We know because we get radio signals from Voyager 1, which is 150 AU from us. Proxima Centauri is 1700 times further, so the signal would be more than 3 million times weaker. Voyager's antenna is 3.7 meters and the transmitter has 22 W of power. So, if our neighbors are not actively trying to beam signals at us, our chance of detecting them is practically nil.
I remember several games that had were promised to have amazing new gameplay features, were hyped based on those features, and then failed to deliver. A few from my memory: Fable, Spore, and No Man's Sky.

That isn't to stay those games were bad, just that they weren't what was promised.

Looks like Cyberpunk 2077 is in the same category.

I just find it sad that anyone ever believes any of the hype.
Base case (those are true AFAIK):

- /usr/local/bin is in a "system-wide" default PATH, (and it is even in front of /bin !)

- There is an important service, like Time Machine, which needs root access for important actions -- for example, to erase previous backups

- There could be a vulnerability in an application which gets data from the internet -- for the sake of example, let's say it is "foo file viewer". This can be exploited for code execution.

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Case 1: Packages in ~/bin, /usr/local/bin is read-only:

A user wants to look at a "foo file" from the internet. The file is malicious, it exploits "foo viewer" and gets local execution. It is a cryptolocker, so it encrypts all the user documents.

The malware has installed trojaned "~/bin/sudo" wrapper, but since the user does not use "sudo" that often, it did not have a change to get executed. And none of the system services look into user's "~/bin".

A week later, user notices that a document is encrypted. But the time machine backups are still OK. They reformat their machine, and then use time machine backup to restore the documents. Day is saved!

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Case 2: Packages in usr/local/bin:

A user wants to look at a "foo file" from the internet. The file is malicious, it exploits "foo viewer" and gets local execution. It is a cryptolocker, so it encrypts all the user documents.

The malware has installed a bunch of trojaned binaries, including "/usr/local/bin/touch" binary. Unfortunately, there is a LaunchDaemon which runs the script periodically which contains the line "touch /some/file". That is run as root, so in a short time, the malware gets root access. And it immediately used this access to disable time machine and delete all the backups.

A week later, user notices that a document is encrypted. And the time machine backups are gone, too. Oh no! the documents are lost unless they pay the ransom!

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You might notice that some people may consider the scenario unrealistic: What if the user uses command line a lot, and is used to running "sudo"? What if a malware social engineers user by popping up a fake dialog asking for user password? Are there other privilege escalation methods? How often does this happen anyway?

You should make your own decisions, but hopefully you at least see what the people are concerned about.
A monorepo does not let you deduce the revenue consequences of experiments, but regardless, even if you could figure it out, it isn't part of the incentive structure.
you dont seem to understand either concept. mutation is passed from individuals by vertical or horizontal transmission. variation of a gene [alleles] are mutations, mutations are the index variation. mutation is a change in the gene sequence, this is variation, this has created a mutant, also known as a variant.

mutation is also a term loaded with connotations due to popular depictions.

sexual reproduction is the mechanism of verticall transmission of variation of genetic sequence through a population.
genetic drift is also a mechanism of variation of a population.

the long and short of it is that mutation and variation, are tied together, they are the same thing.

you also seem to have overlooked the abuse of the term mutation, by the original article title, the use of mutation is slicker, than the use of error prone generated variant.

the use of the term strain is also erroneous in this context.
Is this something that commonly happens to airplanes, or is this another special feature of the 737 MAX?
What’s a cat bomb?
Twitter Fleets Web App
I don't think anyone is claiming that the N64 is finally unleashed with this, or anything.

It will knock down an entry barrier for some people, though, and there's no harm in that at all.
It’s really a shame. I had no reason to buy a new phone other than Google ditching support for the Pixel 2, a high priced flagship, after only 3 years. Combine this with how much more Android phones depreciate compared to iPhones (who wants a device you can’t get security updates for) and it’d have been cheaper to buy an iPhone. Needless to say, I didn’t buy another Android. I don’t think the update situation will improve further to be honest, even Google doesn’t care enough to lead by example.
Isn't acting out of a sense of morality the definition of a 'good deed'?

Granted, bombing stuff hardly classifies but if you decide it's necessary to bomb something, preventing unnecessary harm for moral reasons could still be seen as a 'good deed'.
Yes, what a reductive, bogus article! The assumption that 1) people choose majors based solely on ROI and 2) you cannot enter a field outside the domain or discipline you studied in college are both ridiculous and flawed.

Even if one were to take the lucrative salary at an ad-tech or fin-tech company, and then invest that in "effective altruism", you'd likely never offset the net harm, even if you contributed 100% of your salary.
> I don't mean to sound like a Windows fanboy, but once you understand why Windows is so much better you'll never want to use macOS again.

You DO understand that you're talking to a group of people that can and do run about every operating system available, right? I mean, you get that don't you? Every one on here runs everything. We are all well aware of Windows, and yet most of us seem to choose either Mac or Linux where possible. In fact, I'd venture to say most -- not all, of course, but most -- of us only use Windows where necessary.
Neural net synth would be even easier to trace. It’s quite hard to set up an aws account via untraceable currency and an untraceable phone. I did it when I was 25 or so, and it took about three weeks of planning and execution just to get the cards and phone.

Given the sophistication of the attack, I wouldn’t say it’s impossible they have neural net experience. But as someone who spent a good chunk of time trying to get Dr Kleiner to sing (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=koU3L7WBz_s) it wasn’t remotely easy a year ago to do this locally.

Using “say foo” in macOS would’ve been the most straightforward solution, I think.
What gets me is why isn’t major (as a proxy for future earnings) considered as part of approving student loans?
I warn people against going to Apple authorised service providers in Singapore.

Most of them haven't been very ethical in their business — I've heard numerous cases of the authorised providers charging for additional labour and parts to replace an out-of-warranty MacBook battery, while the Genius Bar does it for a flat fee [1].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-sg/mac/repair/service
I remember there was a puzzle type of game trainyard
I haven’t really found it again
From the article:

"I would rather not have to write this post at all. However I know that people will ask about why my talk isn’t available on the JupyterCon site, so I felt that I should explain exactly what happened. In particular, I was concerned that if only partial information became available, the anti-CoC crowd might jump on this as an example of problems with codes of conduct more generally, or might point at this as part of “cancel culture” (a concept I vehemently disagree with, since what is referred to as “cancellation” is often just “facing consequences”). Finally, I found that being on the “other side” of a code of conduct issue gave me additional insights into the process, and that it’s important that I should share those insights to help the community in the future."

With this quote in mind, I highly recommend that you take a look at the rest of the piece, it may challenge some of your views on the topic :)
Related posts:

- https://pingcap.com/case-studies/how-we-use-a-scale-out-htap...
- https://pingcap.com/case-studies/horizontally-scaling-hive-m...
> Like as if the admin gets a notification every time a crawler comes by or something, with precise details about it.

This is exactly how it works with user-agents and your naivety here is shining bright.
FYI, Jack Ma owns Weibo, he can surely make stuff disappear regardless if he sees fit.
I loved this thing back when I was using Windows. Brings back good memories to hear about it again.

(good memories of the IDE, not the OS)
Is there any kind of independent organization from which networking device vendors can seek security certification?

E.g., they get to review all hw / sw / firmware, and if appropriate make a public affirmation that they could find no vulnerabilities for that stack?
Wood fires are great for heat, but really crappy for light. It's pretty hard to read by a camp fire.

And you're either gathering dead fall or using a sharp steel axe. Dead fall is a limited resource, if you need some every day you'll run out close by soon. So soon you're spending more time traveling for wood than collecting. Eventually you'll have to use a stone axe. IIRC, it takes three days to chop down a tree with stone axes that would take an hour with a steel axe. You'll go through several axes chopping down one tree, so you spend much more time making and sharpening axes than chopping.
Public guarantees.
Attention Comrade Students: You must chose the correct major to make the most money in order to give the most taxes to the glorious empire's military-industrial complex! To not do so would be unAmerican!
Disinfo. Apple’s internal systems, security policies, and the culture of secrecy is far less blasé than you describe. Discussion of internal tools should be avoided on public forums.
I started off more bullish about ForestAdmin but then maybe I just couldn’t grok it but what it auto-generated wasn’t as elegant (connecting to a Postgres server) as I’d hoped.
*car bomb
> The cognitive dissonance and total denial is off the charts with telecom and tech leaders who don't realize (or care) that their massive growth has played a large role in global civil unrest.

I wouldn't leave out leaders in other industries as well: finance, energy, etc… TBTF/ TBTJ policies can incentivize this type of stuff as all other options to date seem to cause no effective changes.
Clickable (for folks on mobile, and whatnot):

https://hasura.io/ - Instant GraphQL with built-in authorization for your data

https://strapi.io/ - Open source Node.js Headless CMS

https://www.forestadmin.com/ - Forest Admin does all the heavy lifting of building the admin panel of your web application and provides an API-based framework to implement all your specific business processes.

https://www.appgyver.com/ - The world's first professional no-code platform, enabling you to build apps for all form factors, including mobile, desktop, browser, TV and others.

https://www.integromat.com/en - Integromat is the most advanced online automation platform

https://nodered.org/ - Low-code programming for event-driven applications

Interesting to me that I've never heard of any of these. Thanks for sharing.
I ran Linux on the desktop for 19 years before moving on to macOS. I can assure anyone that it's perfectly serviceable as a daily driver unless there's some particular piece of software you need which isn't supported.
Machine Learning, Mathematics and Wittgenstein
Thanks for posting this! I love to hear about traditional Jamaican cuisine.
I don't live in the Bay anymore. Maybe you should practice what you preach, brah?
You might enjoy Tichu. It was wildly popular for fifteen years or with the crew that I played a lot of Titan and poker with.
The article provides anecdotes that tech execs are leaving due to the rigid SV/woke (if I'm using that right) ideology, which sounds interesting... But the article has no "so what", it says a few people have left and gave their reasons why, more analysis, and some kind of point would have made the article stronger.
I'm more surprised that Nashville has city gas. It's not a very cold climate. It almost never even snows there.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. There are certainly people who believe both or either of those were terrorism.
> Was the invasion of Iraq terrorism? What about the Boston tea party?

Yes, pretty clearly. Just because you might agree doesn't diminish it. After all, a terrorist is just a freedom fighter depending on the observer.

edit: Instead of downvotes because you disagree, why not point out the error in my thinking?
I don’t really understand why this is a “rule.” Say there’s two viruses and it takes both 3 weeks to run their course. They are both equally contagious during the 3 weeks, however the first virus results in death for 50% of those infected (50% recover after 3 weeks and are no longer contagious), and in the second the death rate is only 1% (99% recover after 3 weeks). Is such a virus not possible to exist?
Teaching is functional. Performative adherence to other people's politics is less so.
TBH, if I recall correctly, something similar happened already in the past just by pure coincidence. I'm pretty sure somebody somewhere already experiments with self-porting AI malware.