skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The data indicates you may be at a higher risk for something expensive, so we're going to start charging you more"
Of course Facebook's fight is self-serving, and of course they'll spin that fight in whatever way will gain them the most public sympathy for it. Anyone even casually familiar with the company would have expected them to try to stop Apple's changes outright rather than agreeing to any kind of compromise that might impact their bottom line. The only surprise here is that people who work for the company have been surprised at its response.
Can sciter expose methods & members of C++ classes to JS automatically ?
It played Don't Stop Believing by Journey, and then made fun of me for liking it loool
My score was pretty okay until it played me don't stop believing and I liked it, hard to argue with that one

It also absolutely disliked the amount of Daft Punk I listened too, and called me pretentious for listening to Periphery, this was hilarious.
> Just in case: Release build of my Sciter.JS ( https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk ) gets re-compiled in 55 seconds on pretty average dev machine that I have here.

Does that repo include all that's needed? Meaning, Sciter.JS is fully open source as the LICENSE file indicates and requires no proprietary bits?
Btw here's a lovely New Yorker article about the miniseries.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/we-are-all-sm...
I have the same opinion on spotify ads, they are so annoying I refuse to subscribe to spotify. It just feels like if I subscribe to remove the awful ads then Spotify has won. I refuse to subscribe because they've annoyed me so much I pay to make it go away!

I'd rather just not use spotify at all.
The idea only becomes difficult if you take it to its extreme, which is not what I would suggest. Also I don't think it would be possible to eradicate advertising completely and in all its forms.

Where we draw the line could be where people make a business out of advertising. Those businesses would be illegal.
This gives a false sense of security, since the most common use-after-free bugs are if you kept a pointer around. Your method doesn't stop things like this:

void *p1, *p2;
malloc(100, &p1);
p2 = p1;
...
free(&p1);
*p2; // oops!

Obviously its trivial in an example like this, but when p2 leaves the lexical scope then there's a problem.
Two small things:

- It interrupted my drawing-by-holding-LMB twice with the "just use shift" popup. Didn't happen again though.

- The "tip" of the text tool is not where drawing begins when I press shift. This is the result of placing the text cursor tip dead center on the top of the bottom line and then pressing shift to draw upwards: https://i.imgur.com/RKoiyar.png

Firefox 84.0, private mode.
Tech companies in the US have definitely hired non-CS majors (Computer Engineering, Math) from my college for Software Engineering roles.
It's a trap. "Enough to cover our expenses" means the ad rates have to be high enough and for them to be high enough the advertisers have to get good performance. We'll see how well this comment ages.
Good luck, they will need it... I wouldn't call those apps low hanging fruit. Even compared to video conferencing, when all enterprises had was WebEx and GoToMeeting - both long overdue for retirement,

But Zoom have to burn all that money on something.
Huge thanks to all the contributors! I've been using Tokio in a few projects and it has been a very good experience. Also thank you all for the welcoming community. I once posted on Tokio's Github about a quirky (in my eyes) behavior of a particular edge case and got an answer almost in real time. This really makes Tokio a kind of a project where I could see myself contributing if an appropriate opportunity arises.

Thanks again! Looking forward to all the good things still in the pipeline!
I love Notion, but also agree with all of this. Unfortunately there are no alternatives. (Waiting for this to be released, https://nvultra.com/)
Can you explain how you think closing options positions a few minutes early can magically generate profit for Robinhood?

The OP complained that with the benefit of hindsight the options went up in value after being sold, but given that all retail traders are degenerate gamblers with zero actual alpha there was a 50/50 chance the options could have gone in the entirely opposite direction, and selling them early could just as easily have saved the commenter thousands of dollars.
I never found signal lacking in any way, except that occasionally push notifications don’t get through. When people say signal is lacking in features, what do they mean? Simplicity is appealing too
Tahoma 4 life
Complex ui/ux for complex problems I guess is today's fashion
> There are no apps that resist the phone being rooted. Everyone is vulnerable to 0days by definition.

I don't know why everybody is repeating this as if I somehow don't understand that. My point is Signal is promoted as some sort of panacea by security professionals even though all that security can be bypassed, likely routinely by actual bad guys.
To play Devil's Advocate, and I ask as someone not in the industry (I'm in academia) - is the difference between expectations really that large?

I would imagine (perhaps unreasonably) that a relatively seasoned person on the job market would have a reasonable understanding of their market value within a few percentage points - so the recruiter might be willing to pay up to $105/hour, while you low balled it at $100/hour.
>evaluating skills that I never claimed to have

Interesting thought. I had an interview experience a few months ago that went fairly poorly and it was in large part because the interviewer pressed me on topics that I forwardly stated I was not well versed on (microservices). I ejected from the interview process afterwards because of my displeasure with the interviewer. He was not someone I wanted to work with in the long term.
> is the candidate coachable, can the candidate accept feedback, does the candidate at least understand the underlying ideas

...isn't that judging? Making a judgement on whether a candidate is coachable is judging isn't it?
That’s because of the Bader Meinhoff phenomenon.
Emotet Returns to Hit 100K Mailboxes per Day
I think TOFU would be really problematic for browsers & the Web PKI trust model. At this point Web PKI is dealing with attacks from nation-states and other advanced threats that end-users aren't really in a position to handle themselves.

Like, just last week the browsers had to remove a certificate authority from their root cert programs because Kazakhstan was issuing certificates to MiTM traffic. A TOFU model would make it a lot harder to detect and remediate this sort of attack and lots of other relevant attack vectors.

We'd also need to re-solve a bunch of adjacent problems like revocation, renewal/rotation, and transparency, which would probably mean re-introducing the sorts of centralized architectural components and processes that I'm assuming you're trying to eliminate with TOFU.
I think you meant “shown” (past tense of show),eg

shone: A bright light was shone on the target
shown: The curtain was pulled back and the object was shown for all the visitors to see

Hope that helps.
AFAIK, you cannot view applications on iOS unless your device is jailbroken. Apps are completely opaque since there is no traversable filesystem. On Android, it is a little simpler.

The vast majority of non-technical users have no knowledge about hexadecimal file comparisons or checksums. They see an app that promises privacy, and they click download.
Smart Doorbell Disaster: Many Brands Vulnerable to Attack
Cool! How does it differ better/worse than Plotly?
In that case I misread you. Sorry! Pattern matching has its limits.
> why should my orthopedic troubles be a risk factor for providing insurance to cover COVID-19 treatment?

I think Google/Fitbit might actually end up benefiting someone like you. If you have a pre-existing condition and if insurance company is denying your normal insurance it tells me that the insurance market in India is highly inefficient. This like like leaving money on the table and sounds very stupid in the insurance company's part. What I feel is happening is that insurance is often a side product for some companies which they accomplish as best effort.

Google/Fitbit might actually help insurance companies gain better data and offer far more optimized products even they themselves do not have that capability. Of course individual rights to privacy etc. should be protected and government has a very legitimate role to play here. But monetization of health data would be beneficial to consumers.
I've never used Spotify. I'm not sure I want to.

Pandora was OK. The issue I had with it is that "Liking" or "Disliking" a song seemed to poison the playlist.

YouTube is what I use to discover music today. It can take me down a rabbit hole, but going down one never seems to adversely impact song recommendations the next time I go searching for music.

Newer stuff I tend to like usually ends up being on Bandcamp.
What's the best easy-to-get-started internal company wiki tool? Notion seemed useful at a startup I consulted for, but I too experienced some of the quirks the author mentions.
It was just permissionig for me. They didn't need my credentials.
J. G. Ballard, The Art of Fiction No. 85 (1984)
> Anytime you move fees from a regime where they’re fully visible to the customer into one where they’re hidden, the customer is eventually going to get fleeced.

It would be interesting to apply this insight to "surveillance capitalism" industry. You get to use Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc for free, even though there is some fixed amount you would theoretically be willing to pay to use them. In exchange, the companies use your personal information to display ads to you, but you have no idea what that is worth to those companies. In other words, your personal info (which is used to sell ads) is by definition worth more than the cost to serve Google/Facebook/Twitter to you (otherwise those companies would make no money). But you have no way of knowing how much more.
Interesting, thanks for the explanation. I didn’t know about that rule.
Business relationships only work if both parties are happy; providing a number that makes you willing to work somewhere will avoid wasting time, and allow for them to adjust their expectations accordingly (i.e. fully appreciate how valuable you can be to them).
I believe HFT is often used to front-run other trades. I don't think I'm crazy believing this, I would love to read something to convince me that this belief is wrong.
SNL did a funny skit on Papyrus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ
> instagram drives a good percentage of camera upgrades, sadly.

How is that sad? People who enjoy a social networking site mostly about photos need cameras. Making a purchase based on real world examples of something that you find interesting/enjoy is not a negative thing. The capabilities of the new phone cameras are often very noticeable and very different, especially recently with low light, wide angle, good HDR, and portrait modes, which could only be found in dedicated cameras, which these people are not interested in. That's the progression and normalization of "high tech". That's fine.
TYSM!
What you can do is checkout the algorithm at particular stages of development. AlphaZero&Friends start out not being very good at the game, then over time they learn and eventually become super human. You typically checkpoint the weights for the model at various stages. So early on, the algo would be like a 600 elo player for chess and then eventually get to superhuman elo levels. If you wanted to train using an AlphaX algo, you can gradually play against underdeveloped versions of the algo until you can beat them by loading up the weights at increasing stages of deveopment.

If you're curious how it would work, I implemented AlphaZero (but not Mu yet) using GBDTs instead of NNs here: https://github.com/cgreer/alpha-zero-boosted. Instead of saving the "weights" for a GBDT, you save the split points for the value/policy model trees, but the concept is the same.
I'm looking for web-based real-time charting / graphing that uses Javascript. I don't think there's an excel rendering in Javascript that is embedable or free like DataTables if it does exist.
The onion is
Whole Europe is getting the 70% vaccine as well so I don't think it's just a matter of GDP. EU made deals with all companies who finished their trials successfully
https://web.archive.org/web/20201220143325/https://theparisr...
Would also give you an indication that the cert changed. It's done for SSH all the time, and if my SSH key changes, I darn well want to know.
When writing my dissertation, I found that changing the font to Comic Sans or Papyrus is an effective way of forcing myself to be self-critical and preventing myself from, for lack of a better phrase, "falling in love" with what I wrote (the "scholarly" classic-looking fonts like Sabon, Garamond, Baskerville tend to have that effect on me)
As every patch nowadays means that yet another symbol gets his gpl-only tag, no I don't report bugs...
Oh fascinating. It does make sense now. Maybe someone will release a open source version that could be included in systems.

Seeing that there are paid versions designed specifically for this
Demotivated interviewers reflect the stress they deal with in those companies.
The Story of T
In the usecase I'm particularly familiar with (law enforcement, specifically of violent crimes), it's pretty valuable to minimize the amount of manual data handling investigators have to do. The State's Attorneys office/US Attorneys office/Prosecutor's office have finite resources and have to be selective about the cases they decide to spend resources on. Even if the correct suspect(s) has(have) been identified and arrested, the case can be rejected if the decision-making prosecutor thinks the evidence isn't strong enough or defending the evidence will be too difficult because evidence collection was done in a nonideal way. It may be possible to forward Signal messages to another device, but A) that just adds more links in the chain that can be challenged, and B) most detectives don't know that's an option or have any idea how to do it, so you'll regularly see sloppy stuff like photos taken by the detective of a phone displaying the messages of interest.

It's just a lot easier for the investigator to just plug the phone into a Cellebrite UFED analyzer and extract as much as is covered either by their search warrant or by the signed consent form of the phone's user(s), and it's a lot easier to defend in court, as it eliminates room for accusations that investigators cherry-picked messages and data that look incriminating out of context.

TL,DR: Even if it's not an impressive feature technologically, it's still a valuable feature to some of Cellebrite's main customers.
Any countries utilizing the wider tech community to help with Covid? Why not?
Over the past few years, we've seen massive amounts of innovation throughout the world in terms of new technology and scientific discoveries. During that time, a lot have been open-source contributions.

It's understandable that technology won't solve everything, but it helps to get us to the point of solving it or helping to mitigate the issue sooner (for example, track and trace products)

I've noticed that especially in the UK, there isn't exactly a huge amount of outreach for entrepreneurs, developers or scientists to contribute some hours of their time to help solve the problems at hand.

Are there any countries/cities who are doing this already? Or are there any projects related to COVID where normal folk in tech (not in the major companies) can contribute some of their time easily?
Please Check your bias at the door for HN.
You'll forgive me if I have no faith in a system that uses polygraphs as input, has inspired leakers like Snowden, and has come up "courts" like the FISA "court".

Being told by the IC it will be reviewed by a judge is not reassuring.
This would really be a double edged sword; who would have the more to lose?
It's not just the code, it's also about what is not filtered in Adnauseum that would normally be filtered in uBO with default settings/lists.
I remember a while back someone posted an open source alternative [0], the biggest downside being that there are fewer features and must be run locally. Also some of the same problems exist as mentioned in the OP.

[0] https://github.com/konstantinmuenster/notion-clone
"2. Cellebrite is not magic. Imagine that someone is physically holding your device, with the screen unlocked, in their hands. If they wanted to create a record of what's on your device right then, they could simply open each app on your device and take screenshots of what's there."

Under the laws of many countries, that "record" alone would likely be inadmissible. Cellebrite's market is authorities who seize computers and then must follow forensics protocols for extracting digital evidence. It is not someone holding your device in their hands, opening up each app and taking screenshots.
I've got a good part of my family who is not tech savvy on matrix (not their server, but actual accounts on communick.com homeserver), nothing that a 10 minute walk-through didn't solve.

It on us the tech savvy to identify these issues, educate and help them overcome them, and ideally contribute for these issues to be solved in the first place. This gives us progress and freedom. Saying "matrix is hard/incomplete, let's just stick in the golden cage" gives us convenience, but no progress.
Senators Ask IRS Whether Taxpayer Data Hit in SolarWinds Hack
No, that is an ordinary claim, and one that has plenty of ordinary evidence to back it up.

This company will monetize this data is also an ordinary claim (from history), but similarly needs evidence. "Companies have monetized similar in the past" is not evidence they'll do it in this case.

If you're a gambler, you should absolutely use that fact to inform your betting, but it's not evidence.
A machine controlling a real car gathers feedback no faster than real time and cannot afford to learn the meanings of street signs from the consequences of ignoring them. A machine can learn the rules of Atari games from scratch by playing them orders of magnitude faster than real time and treating "death" as one signal among many.

In order for a machine to learn driving the same way it learns Atari games, it seems that it would need an extremely high fidelity virtual environment to learn in. The high fidelity requirement would necessitate a lot of up-front investment in trying to get the simulations right. You might spend a whole career just trying to build a drivable Virtual Philadelphia as challenging as the real thing. The details would also make it much more expensive to run training sessions at high multiples of real time.

Given those factors, I'm not surprised that self-driving vehicle experiments just use real environments and don't try to learn the fundamental rules from scratch. But it's an interesting point that these choices may make it harder for agents to keep improving.
I take Loperamide for IBS issues, and 800 would last me a couple years. I would buy that amount in bulk if the unit price was significantly lower.
Of course they have to. Otherwise, Roko's Basilisk will get really angry...

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
That's exactly what they want. It's got all the checksummed replication features that makes zfs awesome and it's pretty rock solid. It's even pretty resilient to dumb mistakes from the admin (ahem). Unfortunately ceph is primarily developed for folks running massive petabyte scale clusters, so setting up a home lab micro-cluster is still a fair bit more difficult than it needs to be, even with the new cephadm stuff. To wit, figuring out what the best practices for setting things up to run a small scale cluster is often guesswork and the pitfalls aren't always obvious.
I'm sure that in future we can get cool version, it's standard updates that will fix
2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Art Projects
Definitely! It might sound like a sales-thing to say, but PyTorch in general is a huge point on our roadmap, but we’re not 100% sure what the most logical approach is. To keep the APIs consistent will involve some fiddling on our end.
Its the exact same in the US. Definitely a false dichotomy between $100 steak and "fast-food steak".
Anyone remember Ping? Now, that was a real social network!
I would be ok with "tries to be less harmful", because it shows some future looking perspective, reducing the risk of stalling and crashing in their climb up.
I’ve considered them before along with Sequelize but their repos are chock-full of issues, and I’ve read some very negative opinions about all of them. They make me unsure that they’re production-worthy.
Energy startup Octopus hits $2B mark after $200M investment from Tokyo Gas
I don’t know, I have quite a lot of respect for the fathers around me. I’d rank climbing Mount Lenin, being a CEO or hitchiking from Paris to Sydney an order of magnitude easier than being a father ;)
I’m pointing out that neither company here has the moral high ground. If you’re bashing FB but defending Apple, then you too, are being hypocritical.
Do they have backups?
Interesting - out of curiosity, why do you thing the TF ecosystem is dying?

ZenML unfortunately does not yet work with PyTorch, but it’s one of the biggest points for our roadmap next year.
"You listen to a lot of Drake. Like, A LOT.
You okay?"

... LMAO. love it.
To be clear, Chrome uses it as part of a "defense-in-depth" strategy, but its sandbox does not rely on it. From your link:

> So, the integrity level is a bit redundant with the other measures, but it can be seen as an additional degree of defense-in-depth, and its use has no visible impact on performance or resource usage.
I'm so offended now.
When hiring in secondary markets, seek out great teachers and avid learners
It seems to me that the last sentence you quoted (on accounts that had supervision added to them) has to be talking about use of YouTube generally, not just YouTube Kids.

If they did behave the same way, why list this as a special case but with totally different langauge.
Dokuwiki is easy to use, easy to administer.

But it's a traditional wiki.
Since when did Stjepang leave Rust?
Just deleted mine, too. Thanks for the idea!

Very shady move on behalf of Google. Seems like the acquisition of Fitbit was done with this intention. Idle dollars, ripe for picking.
This is great advice.

A single memorable event you went though tends to highlight many different skills, so having a few stories down well will let you answer most of those questions

And what if it doesn't answer the interviewer's question perfectly?

Their real goal was to try to get to know you better. The question was just a prompt to get a better signal about you, and you delivered above and beyond what was asked.
I also have a WD15 and it works very well. Connecting everything with one cable is a very nice feature. It's a USB-C dock though, and not Thunderbolt.
Warp should be out pretty soon. It was mainly waiting for hyper, which is already out for 1.0.
Stealing a free newspaper?
Nope.

My notepad environment is chaotic and temporary. Some notebooks from workplaces, some I've picked up at department stores. Some full, some empty. None ever get refered back to, I have neither the time nor inclination. If an idea doesn't bare fruit quickly, its next step in becoming a bigger thing, then it deserves to die.
tokio is to rust what asyncio is to Python.
I haven't been able to get PS running in Wine since the 2017 CC release (and that required some hackery).

Are you aware of a way to get recent releases working aside from QEMU or KVM?
Two-way street: how Barcelona is democratising public space
Going All in on the Mac App Store
A lot of note-taking systems promise Latex support, but the import process always bungles my notes. So far only VSC has been simple and nice.