skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am consistently surprised by people's attitudes as I read HN comments.

Full disclosure, my old employer was very serious about phishing prevention (we sat on a ton of IP and people were out to get it) and did testing of this type as well. I did fall for a phish test around last review season because the phishing email had something about reviews in it.

Let's be adult about it - it was a good test and I failed it because I wasn't vigilant enough.

The fact that GoDaddy's email was "tempting for people around holiday season to click on" is - guess what - exactly what a moderately-sophisticated phishing attack would look like.

One of the things IT teaches employees to look for in phishing emails is language that either doesn't make sense or seems designed to "get your guard down and act on it."

In GoDaddy's case it included language like "it's free money, claim it now." Really - if you slowed down for a sec and thought about security, is this the language in which your employer emails you? Also, why does your employer need you to fill out any forms about your location - they know where you are.

For all the talk on HN about security and companies not taking it seriously enough, here's a great example of a company taking it seriously (to the point of discomfort) to teach their staff about what phishing could look like, and HN is somehow objecting.

PS: I bet there are no consequences for failing this test other than needing to retake the training which is right because the people who fell for it do need the reminder. If this was a real phish they'd have leaked real data. Perhaps even your data.
I know a lot of people meme about the Reddit Wall Street Bets community, but if you want to see a stream of people losing money trying to guess TSLA’s downfall, that’s a good place to start.

There are also lots of examples there of people gambling on TSLA shooting to the moon and making a killing this year.
I do a lot of LEDs so this was fun to see. My plan is to use ARKit to calculate positions, which should save a lot of the time otherwise spent rotating the display. More or less the same approach as this, just finding the brightest (or greenest) point in the point cloud.
I have a Lenovo Android device here for testing purposes, fairly new (runs Android 9). Could not find anything like that in the UI.
It seems like it starts out unappealing to mainstream users.
Fwiw, many actors doing the former are also doing the latter. If someone paid you once to unencrypt, presumably they'll pay you again to not disclose the data. The line between those two business models is pretty blurry.
Broadcom just did the same thing: e-mail from the CEO inviting people to sign up for a holiday party. Headers were legit with DMARC pass, SPF pass. You were asked to click a URL that showed a Google Drive document but actually led to another site. That and some typos were the only clues that it wasn't legit.
... what?

What moral question?

This thread is someone questioning calling it was a ransomware attack, it was one. Being a ransomeware attack doesn't preclude it from being blackmail, and I don't think anyone you replied to has questioned the morality of it...
The Death of Flash, the Rise of React and What’s Next
I believe John Maynard Keynes
Your OKlab vs HSV plot is useful, but left me curious what that would look like in CIE Lch just varying hue. It seems the most direct comparison to me, just workign in LCH vs your proposal and the post isn't super clear about the benefit.
I've worked as a security consultant for healthcare companies for years. The HIPAA Security Rule is a joke. The HIPAA Security Rule requirements are extremely basic things like "users must have their own login username rather than sharing an account" or "data should be encrypted where appropriate" (and it's left up to the company to decide where they think is "appropriate". There's also zero requirements around the type of encryption or implementation around it.. you could use a Caesar cipher and probably pass a HIPAA audit).

Yes, as the other commenter mentioned, hospitals do "take it seriously" in the sense that they put a lot of importance on passing HIPAA audits... but passing a HIPAA security audit is a checkbox exercise for security controls that are a decade+ outdated. It means absolutely nothing about an organization's actual security maturity.
Etherpad but pricey with vendor tie in? Why?
https://web.archive.org/web/20201224174531/https://coppercou...

Site seems down.
https://telegram.org/blog/albums-saved-messages
https://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/73778/how-to-save-unlimited-...

"Saved Messages" looks like a private chat that only you can see. You can drop messages or files in there, or forward them there from other chats, and access them from any other device.

It's pretty similar to what you describe.
That does answer my question, but I don't really understand why the distinction is made. To the caller, a function that spends time waiting and a function that spends the same time calculating both look the same, don't they?
Towards the end of the article they state a second hypothesis that seems to be ignored in these comments but pretty plausible: people kept the larger examples they found, skewing the collections in favor of size, and thus males over females.

Of course, there could be more than one selection effect at work.
What exactly does that mean, "Facebook does not do counteroffers"?

So you name an amount and either take you or not?
A few months ago, I would have completely agreed with you. But the number of facebook addicts that I know that have quit facebook recently, are starting to make me rethink my position on this. I know it's just anecdotal, but maybe it's also not.
Usually there's a corporate email address for internal email. Does all godaddy internal email come from godaddy.com? That would be strange.
Seriously.

I think it's because of the way they see the problem domain. Both ways of seeing the problem domain look much the same.

I mean, a thoroughly explored domain and an utterly unexplored domain present much the same picture, in that...

There are not many unexplained mysteries hanging around.

Which may be translated to "The problem domain is thoroughly understood".

It's the problem of invisible stuff. You can't measure its extent.
OP was using frets, so I mentioned tapes... :-)

Fundamentally, technique differs a lot based on size of the player. Ricci vs Perlman vs Shaham vs Midori vs Hahn vs Paganini, they all make the technique looks effortless. And the a lot reason why is because they've spent a lot of time removing bad tension from their playing.

While elbow positioning does matter, it is more a function of string and third vs fifth hand position. The fingerboard is curved, not flat, and you want the finger to land normal to the board for any given string.

Look for the work of Sol Babitz, or if you can't find it, Borivoj Martinic-Jercic's forward to his exercises.

For me, what helped the most was removing the shoulder rest during practice. You become accutely aware of the the delicate balancing act that needs to occur, and the forces you put on the instrument. With time, you can develop balance in the left hand and achieve better dexterity than before. For anyone with sufficiently long neck, you can no longer rely on continual holding, and need to support the instrument (in fixed position sections) via the thumb. This encourages you to release pressure on the digits as you play. :-)

But like OP said, they're happy so why mess with what works for them. :-)

P.S. what rep are you working on? Feel free to drop me an email if you're interested in discussing more.
> I don’t have exercise issues.

Well that's what I told my brother, don't get one because you do sports 3-4 times a week anyway. For me it was a motivational thing, seeing my trends in activity, getting nudges, doing competitions with friends, seeing my Vo2max go up over-time, are all great, but unnecessary for my brother.

> the ostensible ease of use just isn’t worth the hassle of wearing a watch. I’m ok just pulling out my phone.

I'd say there's a mix-up here. The watch isn't easy to use versus the phone, which is the primary reason that it allows freedom from a digital device that demands constant attention. Secondly, if you're okay pulling out your phone, then you're really saying you don't have any wish to be free from your phone, so there's an audience mismatch here.

The freedom from the phone first requires you to actually agree that you need it, for many of us that's the case. If you do, the second part is being able to leave your phone at home when you go for a walk, go to the gym, go see friends, go clubbing etc. But for many that's a step too far, without any alternative offering functionality like payments, music, maps, messages, calls. The watch offers that, but in a way that's not super easy to use, but will get the job done. This is why the watch will never be a place where you scroll through social media for hours, or refresh your 5 news apps for the news junkies among us, but the easy-to-use phone, will be.
That's an apt description. His use of language is remarkable. The hapax legomenon Salitter, and this brief post about it, are what convinced me to read his books. https://thefirstmorning.com/2008/09/11/salitter/
Even with that possibility it’s ridiculous. It would require a conspiracy by archeologists (of both sexes) to only find male specimens (as if there are so many that they’d ignore female specimens just to be misogynistic. How realistic is that?

It also primes the reader to think “aha misogyny!” where it isn’t. Just as saying fat free water!
> CarPlay is a subscription

Fortunately they cut that shit out a year ago: https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/4/20995630/bmw-apple-carpla...
Merry Christmas, all. Happy holidays to the rest.

It has been a tough year for most of us, so all the more reason to celebrate the day.
Not if the tester was an outside contractor and it’s reasonable to be suspicious of someone you don’t know asking for information in exchange for money. But it’s a different story if a company worker was doing the “test” and offered me money for company information. That’s pretty much my normal job (get paid for giving people information), why should anyone be suspicious of that?

Obviously we could come up with details that make it sound completely ridiculous, or totally normal. If someone calls me and says they’ll share the bounty/award money for helping them fix a problem, that sounds normal. If a janitor offers to pay me money to throw away proprietary info without shredding it, that sounds suspicious.

But the point here is that an internal email about having to put in info for your bonus isn’t necessarily suspicious. I have my regular pay and my travel reimbursement deposited into two different accounts right now, so I wouldn’t bat an eye at needing to provide account info for a bonus.
If you're running high volume campaigns with fast sales cycles you'll see huge gains from using advanced targeting options. All of them are best guesses and far from certain. Income targeting may be inferred by their (inferred) zip code and (inferred) age for example.

Identifying what to optimize is trivial at scale, simply look at your campaign performance by targeting options and it usually screams out at you. Doing better in the female, 18-25, urban demo? Raise bids for them and lower bids in the non-performing groups. It hardly matters to me how often Facebook or Google got it wrong if pulling the lever still works.

Most of the sour grapes I've seen are brand or lead gen campaigns run by the inexperienced griping about individual clicks. If you can't start broad and prune, you need to start hyper targeted and closely monitor.
AirPods.
1. Okami.
I've always been slightly frustrated by video games. Here we have the opportunity to create truly fantastical worlds with the only limits being what we can imagine and so much effort goes in to creating WW2 shooters or football games or whatever. When the first trailer was revealed for Okami at e3 in 2005, wow. That fake celestial language starts up, showing flowers blooming in the path of the sun god as she runs and then, at the press of a button, the whole screen turns into parchment and you paint on it with a celestial brush to instantiate your nature god powers. I almost cried. I tried not to get my hopes up too much because I thought there was no way for it to live up to my imagination. And then it did. Easily the greatest video game experience I have ever had. Windwaker and Hollowknight are close seconds.

2. Worm. Heavily hyped in my friend circles, I waited for it to finish. Not without its flaws but holy hell, ruined a lot of traditional fiction for me with its length, depth, and quality of ending.

3. As an adult reading the books that childhood movies were based on: The Princess Bride and The Neverending story were both incredibly satisfying books.

4. Therevada Buddhism. Many things in life focus on individual insights. Only a few focus on strengthening the machinery that generates insights. I write about it here:
http://neuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com/2020/01/mistrans...
Often attributed to Keynes, though it looks like it was likely Gary Shilling:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/09/remain-solvent/
That is a very basic analysis and it misses the point. There is a system of building regulation in the UK that makes it illegal to build a building or to carry out building work which does not comply.

The building regulations in the area we're talking about here are very simple. They don't specify how, just what. E.g. The cladding material must not be flammable (simplified).

There is a system of building inspection and certification, and you cannot buy/sell/insure a building that does not have a certificate to prove that it complies with building regulations.

The issue is that at some point some complete genius said "if you're a large enough housebuilder, you can self certify".

All of the effected properties were bought in good faith with completion certificates that stated that they complied with building regulation. The properties with flammable cladding that needs replacing do not comply with building regulations.

You can't sue the builder/developer in most cases, because this will have happened more than 10 years ago.

The system of regulation is there to protect the public from unsafe buildings, and it has failed them. Why shouldn't the government pay, after all it was their promise that has been broken.
The original was 1982, not 1984. [1]

I mention this mainly because I doubted my memories when I saw the date 1984, which would have put me in uni rather than as still at school.

At that time, I was probably more of an arsehole than I am now, but I credit the film for making me rethink some really important things, mainly to do with rights/respect for others. I would like to think that its effect on me was positive.

At the time of watching it in the cinema (1982, with the explanatory voiceover "I knew the lingo, every good cop did" etc), I remember being uneasy with Deckhard's pressuring of Rachael to kiss him etc. But it didn't spoil the film for me.

Years later, I got a DVD collection with various cinematic releases and director's cut (without the voiceover narrative and with previously cut scenes) etc. I was surprised that the Deckhard/Rachael stuff hadn't been revisited; years after having watched it in the cinema, it looked to me to be even more like an abuse thing. However, I still rate the film for providing a slap in the face about discrimination etc.

I'd like to see another cut - with the voiceover, which helped me and I like it - but with revisions to the Rachael/Deckhard pressured relationship thing.

It isn't as though Harrison Ford hasn't had revisionists messing with his work, after all. We all know that Han shot first. ;-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner#Release
The late Mark Weiser (head of the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC) described and pioneered that dream, which he called Ubiquitous Computing:

Ubiquitous Computing Demonstration using Tabs, Pads and Boards from 1988

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4_CcNLd2iE&ab_channel=Linus...

The Computer for the 21st Century (Scientific American, September 1991)

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~djp3/classes/2012_09_INF241/papers/...

>Specialized elements of hardware and software, connected by wires, radio waves and infrared, will be so ubiquitous that no one will notice their presence.

>The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

Tabs, Pads, and Boards

https://norrisnode.com/tabs-pads-and-boards/

>In the post-PC era, we are getting closer to the vision of ubiquitous computing, a termed coined by Mark Weiser in 1988 (a chief scientist at Xerox PARC in the U.S.). Simply put, computing would be on any device, in any location, and in any format.

>We're getting there. During my son's homework this week we created a Word document on an iPad, inserted a photo taken on a Windows phone, saved the doc to the cloud via Dropbox, printed the doc from a laptop over wifi to a printer.

>Weiser helpfully proposed three basic forms for ubiquitous system devices;

>Tabs: wearable centimetre sized devices

>Pads: hand-held decimetre-sized devices

>Boards: metre sized interactive display devices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Weiser

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquitous_computing

>Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing can occur using any device, in any location, and in any format. A user interacts with the computer, which can exist in many different forms, including laptop computers, tablets and terminals in everyday objects such as a refrigerator or a pair of glasses. The underlying technologies to support ubiquitous computing include Internet, advanced middleware, operating system, mobile code, sensors, microprocessors, new I/O and user interfaces, computer networks, mobile protocols, location and positioning, and new materials.
Yes, this is a great book.
Honestly, I'm not in contact with any of my exes. It's not on purpose, we just grew apart and have moved on. If we happen upon a chance meeting, I'm sure we would be friendly with each other, but we're not going out of our way to seek out or avoid each other. I find these black and white rigid "rules" (such as not keeping in touch with any exes as a red flag) to be incredibly judgmental and limiting.
This is great, but I wish there were a broader library that went beyond special functions.

For example, last year I was doing some statistical modelling and ended up with a complicated integral that yielded to analysis much more easily than I expected. I wanted to see if the resulting formula had a name or had been studied by anyone, but it's really hard to search for something like that. Anyone who did that analysis previously might have used different variable names or different conventions to represent the same underlying idea, factored it differently, etc.
They might not want to keep making money in the future. Sometimes, they score something big and leave the business.
Not really a failure. It's important to realize that people are not necessarily always paying for the 'actual value of a company' (subjective itself) but for what other agents will be willing to pay for the stock. If that value is higher than the current price, they'll buy.
If anyone is interested in this question from a 2021 perspective we’re releasing a free (non-technical) course on it on January 2nd.

https://Courses.OpenMined.org
Given what I know about GoDaddy, employees should know that anything involving a holiday bonus is most likely a scam/trap/mistake of some sort.
The tricky part is in the earlier parts of a decline "upcoming redemption story" and "headed for the dustbin of history" look pretty much the same from most seats.
Could you expand on that? I’m not sure what exactly you’re saying, because you’re not using standard or unambiguous terminology. (`type` is a thing, but “class” isn’t a thing, but rather a category of things, a syntactic construct.)

Python 2:

>>> class OldStyleClass: pass
>>> isinstance(OldStyleClass, type)
False

>>> class NewStyleClass(object): pass
>>> isinstance(NewStyleClass, type)
True

Python 3:

>>> class Class: pass
>>> isinstance(Class, type)
True

Old-style classes were kind of their own thing in their own space, but with new-style classes, classes are to `type` as instances are to `object`, and I don’t recall there being any major 2/3 difference beyond the simple removal of old-style classes.
You can't enforce it consistently - as another commenter said, in practice ownership is still masked.

But if the price or terms of ownership of something like domain ownership were legally defined using a reference to beneficial owners, that would make ownership the result of fraud (if terms haven't been complied with) and therefore precarious when such owners are discovered later.

The possibility of losing a valuable domain later due to discovery of that breach of terms would create an incentive against that kind of fraud.

If the terms are just to set a higher price, without requiring beneficial owners to be named, potential owners might be willing to simply pay the higher amount without revealing who they actually are, to ensure they don't face the risk of losing the domain on discovery, and that would achieve the original goal of raising the price.
There are a couple things I forget in the above comment that I remembered when I posted a similar comment a couple years ago. That comment is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18341427
If you want to learn the acoustic instrument-- either upright or grand piano-- pay a teacher to show you how to learn.

There are just so many parts of piano-playing that are counterintuitive. At the same time, if you learn them early and practice a little bit, it's not difficult to develop healthy habits that will make everything you play sound more natural and beautiful.

It's a bit frustrating because at least in the U.S., most people don't do this and just learn how to depress some keys in the right order.

To me, hearing that result is equivalent to walking into someone's house and seeing pictures on the wall where the paint is smeared past the border onto the wall. It's novel the first time, but once you realize everyone's walls are like that you start to feel like you're being set up to eventually burn to death inside a wicker man.
IAAL (this is not legal advice). An offered but undelivered gift conveys no legal obligation on the would-be donor. In order for it to become an enforceable contract, some sort of additional consideration would need to be required from the employee over and above their existing work (e.g. overtime, extending a contract, etc.), and a promise to do that would need to be accepted from the company.

This is covered in first-year contract law.

That said, an employee might be able to recover from injuries on the basis of promissory estoppel if they relied on the promise of a bonus to their detriment.
First AMD came along with Ryzen, now Apple is moving to it's own silicon... I'm not optimistic at all for Intel's future. Had they bought the licensing rights to ARM maybe I could see them being relevant but what is it that Intel brings to the market that's in the least bit unique?
> 92. You have vanishingly little political influence and every thought you spend on politics will probably come to nothing. Consider building things instead, or at least going for a walk.

For those of us fortunate enough to live in more or less functioning democracies, this is very bad advice. Consider what our lives would be like if everyone thought this way. Instead of trying to ignore politics, maybe if you spend a lot of time thinking about it you should consider getting involved at a local level instead. Then you can be part of the solution instead of burying your head in the sand.