skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, especially if your budget is next to nonexistent.

Oh, it was broken alright. From a security perspective, Flash was a nightmare to the extent that you almost had to wonder if Adobe was making it vulnerable on purpose. By using Flash today, organizations are putting themselves and their users at serious risk. Ransomware, identity theft, all of the bad things. School children would be an easy target for hackers to gain access to the parents computer, so it's especially appalling that learning software is still using Flash.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-53/p...
Manager?
I think mainly what's wrong is our thinking of it as hierarchical. The "leadership" position should be/is a support position to help production staff perform to the best of their abilities. That could be someone less experienced as long as they're good at eliminating obstacles for their team(s) and communication.
Works fine for me. Just don't try to scroll by tapping the globe.
You’d have a point if Flash Player was paid software.
Got some sources to support this assertion?
And that is very solid bayesian logic. Wuhan has the only BSL-4 lab in China, and was specifically working on gain-of-function research on coronaviruses.

The initial prior of zoonotic origin simply because that was usually the case in the past is just as circumstantial, but also just as solid in bayesian terms.
‘I Feel Like I Have Dementia’: Brain Fog Plagues Covid Survivors
Thanks for some great anecdotes! A couple of thoughts:

- It's often not is Python a good fit for the task but are there Python libraries that are a good fit? If so the actual Python code may be pretty trivial and the equivalent Excel a lot more complex.

- Writing good Excel is definitely possible but needs real discipline as you say - and bad Excel can be really bad!
>A press release by federal prosecutors said Ticketmaster employees held a division-wide summit during which the stolen passwords were used to access the victim company's computers "as if that were an appropriate business tactic."

>According to the deferred prosecution agreement, a Ticketmaster executive described that the goal was to "choke off" the victim company and "steal back" one of its clients.

This sounds insane. The article started out just describing a single employee abusing their unrevoked access to their previous company's systems, but it's mind-boggling that executives and huge swaths of the company would openly and actively participate. That sounds more unethical than even the shadiest of the Uber "intelligence gathering" revelations.
This has frustrated me as a python user for the last 7 years, working as the only python user in business environments dominated by Excel. People will say things like, "if you leave, who can support this report you made in python?" Well I say, who can support the bloated 40mb spreadsheet that would take forever to unpick and figure out how to update with new data? No one can, because I've seen people would rather rebuild their own spreadsheet from scratch, than use the files they inherited from the last person.

If these tools are necessary to conduct business and they are so worried about being able to support it, why don't they use proper software for that process?

A lot of people who make these bloated spreadsheets are people with no education in computing, and don't think about the basics of how to store data that is easy to analyse later. If they are building a weekly report, they build the report and enter the data directly into the report structure, which then makes it almost impossible to analyse later. Next week they just copy the file, rename it and update the data. If you want to analyse that same data over a year, good luck! You can't even count on the data being in the same place over the 52 weeks, since they would have added and removed data points over time.

Once I got the process down in a jupyter notebook, handling all the oddities with the data coming from whichever website, CSV file, data warehouse report I need, I can just save it as a .py file and run it as a scheduled task on a virtual computer forever. The data is kept in a format that can be appended to with each update, and can be easily analysed later.

The most amazing thing with replacing excel with python is you don't need to manually perform the update process yourself. Which means it doesn't cost anything to run the process more often. Weekly reports can become daily, or even hourly email updates that are only sent when something interesting happens. People can start reacting to things shortly after they happen, rather than having to remember what happened a week or a month ago. The iteration on improving becomes so much faster. People spend more of their time discussing how to fix problems, rather than spending time building problem finders. You can even start to automate the fixing of the problem in python and people don't even have to spend time on that thing at all, ever again.
archive.org can help.
Are you seriously suggesting that Dave Relman (and the National Academy of Sciences) has an agenda here beyond scientific curiosity and a desire to find the truth?

What has he to prove and to whom?

I'm as distrusting of establishment forces as anyone (and heck, maybe that's part of what predisposes me to take this more seriously), but everything about this seems genuine to me. And while I don't think he's entirely above reproach, I think he's a really good guy and someone who is unlikely to mislead or engage in the kind of undue speculation you're talking about.
> Dominating a market so thoroughly that your competitors go out of business and must find another line of work creates a cost for society that is not borne by the winner unless they pay for it through taxation. Namely those costs include retraining, possibly monetary assistance, etc, etc.

I’m not an economist and I can’t give a formal account of externalities.

But, your reasoning, I think, leads to absurdity. For example, if I start a company to sell generic, mass produced pencils for $1000 a piece then no one will buy from my company and it will be forced out of the market and my principal will be lost. Then in your words, my company failed because of “externalities” from my competitors who are selling pencils at the market rate and who then owe me money.

> Beyond that, companies like Amazon[1] and Walmart[2] have well-established histories of paying their workers so little that they have to use SNAP to make ends meet.

So eliminate SNAP?
This is on par with election fraud. No matter if there is any, one side will downplay while the other screams it’s the tip of the iceberg. Both sides know presidential elections are a zero-sum game and will do whatever it takes to win.

Again, I don’t think there was that much, let alone enough to swing the election, but we can’t even discuss any of it honestly.
> Obviously the car manufacturer will be liable when a fault in their product kills people

But how will that be proven? We can't exactly pop the lid off the driving algorithm and say "ahh, there's the problem. Time to take it to court".
The restrictions in the UK are to try and prevent the healthcare system from being overwhelmed. COVID is maxing out capacity which is having a knock on effect where normal treatments are having to be delayed. Eg cancer treatment for a young person. Even if young people aren't at risk directly from COVID as much as older people, they are at greater risk with health issues that affects all ages because of the delay in treatments.

But yeah I understand your point of view. It is frustrating all the same.
A) You did consent, as you indicated here. B) Your computer still has the ability to run Flash programs, this is removing the Adobe Flash Player, not disabling Flash programs entirely, which leads to C) The Flash Player is disabling itself on January 13th, so Microsoft is not removing any capability for you at all, Adobe is, and D) since it’s free software they licensed to you, the have every right in the world to make it do whatever they want (including making it not work any longer), and you have every right in the world to remove the app early if you don’t like what it provides.
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You can share it here! You have our attention :)
Another argument would be that SK wouldn't have been able to maintain their GDP-per-capita growth without switching to a democratic republic.
The Wuhan lab being specialized in bat viruses means very little.

For one thing, this is a classic example of correlation != causation. Let’s say you had a shark attack on some beach and there was a team researching shark attack located right in that area. Would you then conclude that the team engineered the shark attack? The simple reality is that the most likely reason the team studying shark attacks is located in that region is simply because that region either has a history of shark attacks or even if it doesn’t have a history, is likely to have shark attacks. That’s why a team studying shark attacks would decide to locate themselves there.

The same is true here. Wuhan hosts a bat virology research institute because bat viruses are a higher risk here than in most places.

The other factor is that there is probably an infinite number of things that could look suspicious if there is such a disaster. It could be the presence of a bat focused research institute. It could be a conference that was held out there in the past few months. It could be a scientist from that region predicting a bat virus a few weeks before. It could be a district updating its pandemic protection plans in the weeks before. Etc.

The odds of any specific one of them happening are extremely low and would rightly make one suspicious. But the odds of at least one of the infinite suspicious things being true is almost 100%. And that’s probably all there is to it here. The presence of the bat research is just the 1 of many suspicious things that just happens to be true.

That being said, I think the strongest explanation is that Wuhan was considered a likely source of bat virus infections and that’s why the research was focused there.
Because I personally don’t want to lend any credence to bat-shit crazy conspiracy theories, especially in a public forum.

I’m a complete nobody, but the internet has a way of amplifying things.
> in 2015 Mozilla negotiated a deal with Yahoo netting them an additional $100+ million

... after spending years saying that the relationship with Google regarding search royalties was a serendipitous one that involved getting paid for a decision that was the right thing for users whether money was changing hands or not, and that the default search engine spot wasn't actually for sell.

That lie is not unlike their carefully crafted PR statements that were intended to mislead people about the financial arrangement regarding the Pocket partnership. Those efforts turned out to be so successful that they hoodwinked many of Mozilla Corporation's own employees—who interpreted the statements to mean that there was no financial incentive, just as it was intended to be interpreted by the general public. Then those employees began showing up on places like HN and started saying explicitly that there was no money changing hands, even though that's not what the PR statements ever said and reality actually differed.
Making things easier for the team, solving problems before they become really problems, finding the resources. These sort of things.
This is a Good Thing, and you should be wishing Microsoft, Apple, Google did this more often, because if they did, we'd all be meaningfully safer, having lost zero liberty along the way.

Hell no. This is essentially the rise of authoritarianism...
>What you don't own is the commercial software which runs atop it.

I do! I bought it after all.

If the software does something I did not agree to at time of purchase, I'm going to hold the seller accountable.

If the gardener you're paying suddenly went and threw a painting in the trash because he considered it ugly you'd have a problem with them too.

Whether or not people 'agreed' to this being done is another question though.
Consider a very simple concept.

Now one can have mutation by simply returning the mutated value which internally can be implemented as mutation since the type system guarantees that the original value never be used after.

Conceptually, it's purely functional programming where a function consumes a value and returns a new one, under the hood it's understood to be mutation which is possible due to these constraints.
Your arguing for an economic system where no producers will fail?
> where most people do not want to be in a leadership position

This happened to me too. I didn't picture myself as a manager and I thought I wasn't legitimate to lead the team, being less experienced. But it turned out my team members were quite introverted and none of them wanted to take that role. In the end, it was a fruitful collaboration and a very good experience. I never saw that position as hierarchical, more of a different role within the team.
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Here's how I think autonomous cars could be introduced, once they reach human-level safety:

As a penalty for bad driving.

I believe people would be much more accepting of machines taking the wheel if it meant that at least "this guy there" isn't driving.
Serious question: What do you consider an "open source" vaccine? To what degree do the current vaccines not fulfill this? What specific concerns are the result of this difference, beyond principles?
I agree with you in general. I just don't think a person 6 months out of college can effectively do what you describe.

When I was six months into the job I certainly didn't know how the org functioned, nor did I have any political capital to move things my way.
Open doesn't imply it's easy.
Early GCP engineer explain why GCP lost the cloud war
That's kind of true but also stuff like hessian noise filters are still useful and they existed and when written about prior to the application of neural networks to images.
And I think it's hard for a young person coming in, even a very talented one (or maybe especially one), not to go in thinking they know all the answers and creating a lot of friction. Or thinking that obviously things should be done differently.

I agree that in general a lot of senior people (including myself) have no interest in managing. But my best managers have always understood to manage liqhtly.
Lane keep gets it wrong often enough that this doesn’t really work. Probably ~80 of activations are false alarms in the two vehicles I’ve driven that had it.

Assists are nice, but I don’t want the car to be aggressively wrong.
Good point in general, though on specific cases UEFI and similar may complicate things so much it's out of reach of the masses
Have you as a human ever come into this situation?
Personally I'd look at https://love2d.org/ if the game is 2D. It's a much more manageable scale for very small teams.
You don't work for Blizzard do you? When I worked there engineers (not my team thankfully) designed their own alternative to protobuf to try and save more bytes over the wire, which in my opinion was a really poor decision. Rather than get on with actually adding value, they ended up pushing back multiple other teams deadlines while adding almost no value. It was a classic "not built here" mentality and doing engineering work for the sake of the work, rather than actually ask "what problem are we trying to solve here?"

If protobuf works for Google then it essentially works for 99.999% of every other company on the globe.
Here, too, the development is moving away from RNN and LSTM in the direction of Transformers. One of the most promising algorithmic composition projects I recently came across is https://openai.com/blog/musenet/.
I mean, perhaps you use features I just haven't had to, but I don't recall any time in the 6.0-6.5 era needing something the HTML5 client couldn't do servicably.
In addition to that, one of their other priors supporting lab escape appears to be plainly wrong:

>Furin cleavage sites are not common in other related coronaviruses.

However, this claim appears to have been investigated and debunked [1]

>Furin cleavage sites occurred independently for multiple times in the evolution of the coronavirus family, supporting the natural occurring hypothesis of SARS-CoV-2.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...
Flash animations could mix bitmap and vector resources. No video container can offer artifact-free scaling of vector resources.
"Co-ordinator" describes the work that a lot of these managers do much better. A lot of my manager's work in spent in having meetings and such with other teams to find out things that would otherwise take the same amount of time out of 5 people's calendars.
Yeah well, in unaccelerated scenarios like mine that translates into software rendering on the CPU, which there seems to be a whole heck of a lot of happening despite nothing really changing on-screen.
I've worked in companies where standard practice was to give new managers senior-level engineers, because senior engineers were less likely to require some of the more complex management issues that someone more junior might.

Speaking as someone who, when I was a junior, only ever worked for first time managers -- I hated it, and wished that I had a more experienced manager. Meanwhile, my senior friends who had a first time manager enjoyed the process of teaching a new manager the ropes.
Once you read a headline it's you've already engaged with it. Maybe we could address the problem of why some media outlets keep polluting the semantic space instead of just telling consumers to change their behavior as they trudge through an ever-rising tide of information sludge.
Ask HN: Intel Reaction to Apple M1?
Anyone working at Intel prepared to comment (off the record) on internal reaction to the M1?

Not asking for any secrets and please don’t disclose anything that might get you into trouble - just pure curiosity about what the view looks from inside at the moment, given what looks like a large disruption.

For comparison, the blackberry stories about the reaction to the launch of the iPhone were fascinating, though those came out later of course.
Secretary? Some high level execs have such a secretary for scheduling stuff. In this case the team is that exec.
Dominion Voting Machines hacked in real-time at the Senate hearing
Thank you so much for your genuine interest and feedback, I really appreciate it. Getting external news/blog coverage is definitely something that is on my SEO to-do list, but I have other priorities at the moment as the competition is not getting traction despite numerous press releases and storybook SEO methods.

However, I have not yet thought about landlords, homeowners' associations and insurance models. But these are great ideas that I will start to explore now.
From a philosophical perspective... Except for your thoughts and perhaps your life, which is another discussion entirely, it is arguable that you don't own ANYTHING. Not your home, your car, software, or the phone in your hand. You only have it because a corporation or government allows you to have it.
Maybe they could have alerted about the lead contaminated water in Flint Michigan? A disaster that will affect the next generation. Lead Lowers IQ's in Children and increase crime rate in adults.

BTW, the invasive Zebra mussels have done a great job clearing up the Great Lakes. At times the water is so clear on a sunny day in the summer it can look tropical blue.
One of the image links on your hiring page is broken.

https://imgz.org/i9xyk2H2.png

(or is that a joke I glazed over)
Also tail end of a niche but long flooded market. I wouldn't beat up your marketing skills too badly for it I the Steam page probably would have gotten a decent number of conversions if the demand had been there.
headline is strange to me. "still" implies amazon had any intention of fixing this problem.
Legally you usually just buy a license. Often with automatic updates and an EULA subject to change at any time.
The same is true here. Wuhan hosts a bat virology research institute because bat viruses are a higher risk here than in most places.

Except the bat in question doesn't originate in Wuhan. I can't remember the cave exactly but the Wuhan researchers documented the capture thousands of miles from the lab, several years ago.
> The counterpoint to this I'll make is that all financial systems engage in costly signaling.

Bitcoin uses 600+ kWh per transaction currently. With current use, to process VISA's 1700 transactions per second would consume >36 PWh annually. That's significantly higher than global electricity consumption and capacity. At current US electricity prices it would be significantly over 4.5 trillion USD annually. Global annual banking revenue is under 6 trillion: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-services/our-i...

> The only question is whether crypto mining is more of a fundamental waste than traditional signals, like high-paid bankers and prestige real estate.

The answer is yes. Incredibly higher.
But that's not the goal of autonomous driving or the goal of most autonomous driving advocates. The goal is that you never need to know how to drive. It's essentially a taxi. Most people I know who are waiting for the autonomous driving future are waiting for one where they never have to drive.

I imagine now: "Sorry, can't drive through this thick falling snow. Must pull over and you must operate now, human. We are 100 miles from civilization in any direction and no cellular service is available, best of luck!" I cannot imagine that most future drivers who are minimally driving in their daily life will be able to suddenly handle
conditions that the "autonomous" vehicle cannot.
Please indicate how the policies you support, i.e., "tough policing" differs from police brutality. As I said in my previous comment, I fail to see how "tough policing" is anything other than a polite euphemism for police brutality.
Back in the early 2000s there were no equivalent to flash in terms of features and ease of use. It's bordering on whig history criticising people back then for not going FOSS
The big problem I've always had with "programming" in a spreadsheet is by nature everything is obfuscated and difficult to trace. Yes, you can inspect a cell and see what the source for that cell is, but that might be 10 other cells and you can only really review one cell at a time. It's like a programming language where you only see one line of code at a time. Worse, those references usually aren't named. What does "A1 + SomeOtherTab:B2" mean?

All of this really starts to fall apart when you have 10s of tabs with hundreds of rows of data which are often copy/ pasted. You won't even notice that some intern hard-coded one value into cell F75 until you actually drill down to that cell.

Spreadsheets are great until you hit a certain complexity, then they are unmanageable messes.
That I agree with. Experience is hard to shortcut.
Highly recommend this book.

"The Way of the Shepherd: Seven Secrets to Managing Productive People" by Kevin Leman and William Pentak

The principal's within it are highly effective and are not impacted by your age or comparitive experience.
Yes I couldn't agree more. I am currently in a leadership role and I feel like I spend most of my time taking bullets for the team. I am not trying to act like a martyr or anything but someone has to go to a bunch of stupid meetings and if that means a marginal increase in pay then I am happy to do it. I don't get to write as much code as I want but it still is a means to an end.