skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You gain a higher chance of the bookstore being around when you want to go there for the atmosphere in the future. (and if I don't want a specific book right now, the people at my local bookstore are quite good at recommending things. And some people don't want to support Amazon)
Almost as an aside, he mentions the need for "content". The 24 hours news cycle and proliferation of Internet based news sources has created an insatiable need for content. These media personalities are so desperate for something to "report" that they will literally do anything to create it.
The derogatory use of terms meant to slur a person with limited mental capacity is obviously poor taste and maybe offensive, but is it news? Is that what a "reporter" with a national audience should be focusing on? The news business is in desperate need of constriction.
I learned that obsolete definition too (I'm old!) but the article touches on the problems that caused that definition to fall into abeyance (e.g. species that reproduce asexually)
Well, in case of bodybuilding you need very hefty dose of hormones to even start looking like low level competitors. The bodybuilding physique isn't good for any particular activity. It's neither useful nor healthy. It's all organized so you need to grow yourself like cattle (bodybuilders even take steroids designed for making cattle killed for meat muscular). This is already terrible enough for men but for women it's way worse as their bodies are even less equipped to cope with huge artificial levels of male sex hormones and their derivatives.

I think it is a terrible sport. It's not only terrible for the competitors but also for the culture as a whole as normalizing steroid physique hurts normal people. It's not only bodybuilding by the way. Fitness magazines and Hollywood actors take most of the blame to be sure.
Household is different than person

Just because someones father has a gun doesnt make the kid a gunowner or say anything about their attitude towards 2A
>> That doesn't line up with the narrative you have about this paper. Nowhere does it say, "pediatricians should figure out how to convince families strongly willing to follow a vegetarian/vegan regimen that they're being scammed/deluded."

I'm sorry, I don't follow. Who said that?
$15! for this article.
RIP Aaron Schwartz.
It does for me as well. If you visit using a different IP from a country in which it is available, the comments are turned on and there are 11 at this time. One of these comments is the same question as OP.
OK, asking from total ignorance here, shouldnt the companies putting these things in orbit (and benefiting from it) be responsible for safely decommissioning the satellites after their useful life is over? Shouldnt they be liable if their "space garbage" fuck other people/nation equipment?
Both are symptoms of a problem, don't you think?
Thank you for informing me. I did not know about such parties.
Restricting gun access is less and less popular, and gun ownership is rising rapidly across demographics that were traditionally opposed to gun ownership - e.g. women and black women in particular.

The NRA is simply a corrupt organization, and even within the pro-gun community has been under criticism for years.
Maybe Apple does a favor for us and releases docs for their hardware, so it would be easier to write drivers for the open source operating systems. That would be the best news for 2021.
> The future will be audio-first. We’ll trade our tiny screens for always-in Airpods [...]

No.

It comes with a lot of drawbacks:

- Speed. A lot of people can read a lot faster than your usual conversation speed (and in their own pace), while audio is at a rather constant speed, which you might not even be able to control. Additionally, you can easily re-read something when you missed it or did not understand it - doing so with audio is not that easy.

- Privacy. When you're using a voice assistant, you're broadcasting your inputs to your surroundings and maybe even the output. Yes, people can already look on your screen, but the field is limited and the behaviour is discouraged. You're basically becoming that annoying person on the phone overheard by everyone, all the time.

- Scalability. Somewhat related, but a full bus with people on their phone is not a problem (in non-pandemic circumstances). Now, imagine 40 people talking to their phone in that bus.

- Clarity: Human-to-human understanding is quite imperfect already, especially in noisy environments or with distance. Text does not have any problems with this [0].

- Information density. "A picture can say more than a thousand words". Try reading a scientific paper with graphics via audio only, it'll be fun.

That's not to say that voice is useless. When you're driving or your hands are full while you're in your home, it is ideal. It also opens up accessibility to people which might not handle screens that well (for example very old persons).

But given these limitations, I can not imagine voice replacing screens as the main input method any time soon, or at all. For the edge cases above, sure. But in the general case? No.

[0] There are still understanding problems with text, but voice has those, too.
Not exactly an article, but John Oliver's concerns over the security of voting machines in the US (November, 2019): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svEuG_ekNT0

Personally I had not seen anything from him stating he believed the security holes were fixed on a broad scale, or on any scale. But his recent video in November 2020 suggests he no longer had any substantial concerns regarding voting machine security: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMz_sTgoydQ&t=521s
I have nothing more to add than up-vote this and parent comment.
Execs don't get bonuses nor career tracks through good security. And it's hard to make a career or professional friends in the org by telling people they are doing things wrong.

And all the fantabulous security breaches we have had through the years have failed to sink a single company.
Concentrate on "products that drive value" unless you already enjoy the security field and can't imagine your life without it.

A long time back, personal story: was excluded from certain exec meetings for a time after I brought up that a simple website scan showed multiple vulnerabilities, which should probably be fixed before our big upcoming pitch, so as to avoid a highly probable deface and embarrassment. Tried to fix it through email for 2 weeks before then, went public in the org as a last ditch effort to prevent damage. Only thing it damaged was my prospects in that org. They took it as an insult and not loyalty to the org.
PoW is far from immune to it as the Chinese have proven, as they hold roughly 49% of all BTC and 65% of all mining capacity on the planet.
The slide is part of the SafeShore project (System for detection of Threat Agents in Maritime Border Environment[1][2]), which received ~5 million EUR in grants, the largest beneficiary being an Isreali defense contractor. I'm not entirely sure what it bought us, I'm certain it included a PDF report and a few powerpoint slides.

One of many (MANY) grants under H2020-EU.3.7. Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens programme with a total budget of 1.7 billion EUR[3].

Another example chosen at random[4]: Improving the Effectiveness of the Capabilities (IEC) in EU conflict prevention, 2 million EUR, beneficiaries seem to be universities and think tanks. Another one? Ok[5]: EfficieNT Risk-bAsed iNspection of freight Crossing bordErs without disrupting business, ~7 million EUR, 1.3 million of which went to -- for some reason -- the French government owned nuclear power research think tank CEA, other beneficiaries include manufacturers of things like airport metal detectors who apparently need millions of EU funds to improve their own products.

The H2020 in H2020-EU.3.7. is Horizon 2020[6], the 2014-2020 research funding framework (2014-2020 was a EU budget cycle, the current one is 2021-2027), which had an overall budget of an "estimated €80 billion of funding".

What's my point? I have no point, really, I don't know a lot about EU research funding in general or this domain in particular, but it was interesting to look this stuff up and if nothing else it's nice to see that these things are out in the open for anybody to look up, even if virtually nobody does. Given how much money is being spent here, I can't help but wonder what kind of fraction of a fraction civil society is spending checking up on all of these projects.

[1] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/700643

[2] http://safeshore.eu/, defunct, apparently 5 million wasn't enough to buy the domain for more than 4 years; working snapshot from late 2020: http://web.archive.org/web/20201128133711/http://safeshore.e...

[3] https://cordis.europa.eu/programme/id/H2020-EU.3.7.

[4] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/653371 from the page with all H2020-EU.3.7. programs https://cordis.europa.eu/search?q=contenttype%3D%27project%2...

[5] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/883424

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framework_Programmes_for_Resea...
Back at Uni we got four new workstations so obviously I named them 'death', 'war', 'famine' and 'pestilence'. Then shortly after we added a fifth, it ended up being 'mayhem'.*

Some time later we got two more boxen and the female members of our research group were given the job of naming them, and we ended up with 'itchy' and 'scratchy'...

* for the Pratchett readers I was wrong, it should of course have been 'Kaos'...
And to my point: You’re talking about a potential specific process for that one specific product. What if the manufacturer uses and emulsifier or infuses the cellulose with additional chemicals?
> Like some creepy informant for a state security apparatus

I really admire his restraint with what he’s trying to convey here despite how many people will miss reading between the lines.
People way overuse "monopoly" these days.
Apple is much less likely to sell off your data
It's not a comfortable discussion. The fact those lines often coincide is a symptom of a problem many people refuse to recognize.
Better also enjoy reams of eye glazing paperwork
Ok. Google Assistant is available for iPhone. I'll try it. Thank you.

Continuing my rant...

I know that Siri is impaired by choices Apple's made wrt to privacy or some such.

But why does local voice recognition fail so often? Like while hiking or I'm in the basement. Surely some hybrid is possible. Does Siri really need network access to process a stop playback command? (I do fuss with the Voice Control features every few months, to see if things have improved.)

Warning, idea incoming:

I want the ¡Tchkung! voice interface. Pops, clicks, buzzes, Looney Tunes sounds effects. Why are we limited to just speech recognition? Why can't I beatbox to control my phone?

In the 80s, there was a comic who'd straight read serious writing, adding sound effects for the punctuation. Hysterical (at the time). Sorry, can't remember name. But I want to make sounds for punctuation, backspace, back one word, newline, etc.
That would be more a mic drop if I hadn't also provided reasoning for heightened concern about tactical rifles, which your stat doesn't rebut.
Narrator: it didn’t.
That's because Intel made the 8086 kind-of-sort-of backwards compatible with the 8080; it had six 8-bit registers (A Flags B C D E) plus a 16-bit register pair (H L), in that order.

AL corresponds to the 8080's A register and AH to the flags (which is also why the LAHF and SAHF instructions exist). CX corresponds to B+C and DX corresponds to D+E. Finally, BX is the 8086 equivalent of the 8080's pointer register HL.

(The 8086 didn't use the same opcodes as the 8080 but it was designed this way so that a simple translator could 'convert' existing 8080 code.)
In my experience, security roles have more to do with the practices of risk management than anything else. With security policy and compliance roles also requiring an element of jurisprudence.
I switched to the security industry without even realizing it when I was hired to work on IAM software. It's not pen-test security, but it's a great way to get into the industry for a software engineer.

Before that I worked on military software
The author is simply making it clear who the target audience is: people who already agree with him, the purpose of this article is not to inform or persuade the reader, but to help the author therapeutically vent to like-minded people who will agree with the premise of the article. The racial jab at Whites is simply the political litmus test du jour.
Hey there, Are there any open roles for frontend developer specifically in Reactjs ?
Can facts be racist? (2013)
I think diff & patch already serve us well for a few decades.
TIL you can put gas in a fuel cell. Why don't we today? That seems like a handy way to run a hybrid
There lots of apps that are great at helping you find and organize them, pretty much automatically, compared to manually tracking all that.
tl;dr; Take the online courses for Cloud Security is the best bang for your buck IMO.

As a Security Engineer that works on network/devops stuff at a modern Saas company.
I think 90% of what I do is Cloud DevOps with a focus on Security. That could mean: making frameworks to make security easier, or advise other teams on how to secure their pieces of infra, or identifying insecure configs and pushing to get those fixed.
The other 10% is understanding security risks and what designs/implementations of the infra are good/bad. Pen-testing might help with the later skill, but at ~10% it's a surprisingly small factor.

I would like to echo the points made by other posts, that there are a lot of different fields of security.
Pentesting is one field, Application security is another, there's also compliance, red-team, IT-security, threat hunting, etc. The list goes on, and there are a lot of different skills you could build, certifications you could get, and areas to specialize in (or distract you from your specialization)

It does sound as if you enjoy the InfraSec/SecDevOps parts of the problem. So learning more about AWS/GCP Security in detail is probably the best way to improve your skill set in the area.
"definitely"? you don't even know what country they're in
Does the Pi still have a composite video output? Some interesting things can be done with a precise CGA emulation on NTSC output.
Not sure what you're reading but I wouldn't call those wide spread takes from a year ago even if they existed.

That said, when you drop out of a race or an election completes, the oppo stops. That's not really a surprising change.
I think the point I'm trying to get at is that from his perspective, America is white and is run largely by white people. Corruption exists everywhere, but Americans are in the practice of being complacent with it. I feel like a conversation about how we've normalized corruption needs to die on the altar of civility. The people benefiting from corruption certainly don't care.
As discussed in the Frontex papers, the problem here is, that Frontex does not even comply with EU lobbying regulations. They go around them as if these just don't apply to them.

So even if there are regulations in place, as long as institutions not facing dire consequences for noncompliance, the rational thing to do as a member of such an institution is to ignore said regulations.

As long as the negative consequences of your actions are minimal at best while some form of positive consequences are very likely, why comply with regulations.
A Comprehensive Guide to the Software Engineering Interview Process (2021)
There was a link in that README to https://freedombox.org/
that I suggest you read of you are too young to remember the freedombox project.
Robert Charles Wilson's "Blind Lake" (2004) is a scifi book about a (then) very near future when the data from telescopes would be almost as much hallucinated from big data models as composed of actual data from measurements. It's plot goes a little more quantum handwavy than direct machine learning but the gist is the same.
This is the best summary of the article.

There are very few actual numbers in this, just a lot of generalizations about what happens in the US based on reading the news from afar.
yes and that is very resource intensive as you have to do it rapidly and continually

you still need to know what markets and contracts you are targeting and with that variables
Can you try again? I did have some issues, but it should be back online now. If not, feel free to reach out to @HighQAGuy on Twitter.
I've also always used Simpsons characters for my home machines. So far I've gone through itchy, scratchy, krusty, blinky, moe, and edna.
IMHO Architecture is a too vague term, there can be many decisions that will be user facing and that doesn't alter the "overall architecture" of the software.
Calling them Technical decisions records or simply decision records would be better and less cargo-culting prone.
American Cheese Vaults (2020)
I don't see how this addresses any of the concerns brought up in the article. This entire spat is because SpaceX got approval from the FCC to deploy their system in a specific way, and Amazon acknowledged that and designed their system in a way to not interfere with SpaceX. Now SpaceX is coming and saying they want to change their system in a way to interfere with Amazon.

Forget the names of the companies and their leaders for a second. We have a shared public resource, like a pond. Company A showed up and says "I am going to set up shop on this side of the pond, and we will leave the rest of the pond open for other people to use." Company B then says "okay, we are going to set up shop on the other side of the pond so we don't interfere with each other." Company A then says "no, we actually want to use that side of the pond, too. too bad for you".

In what universe is Company A in the right here, and why does it matter who gets there first? It's clearly anti-competitive practice on the part of Company A trying to shut out Company B, and the only people who will suffer from it are the general public.
23andMe taking steps to become a public company
Did you read the very thorough rationale provided by the project page, complete with pro-cons for many other methods?

I have no idea how someone could read such a thorough README and say "this sounds like a solution looking for a problem" with a straight face.
Ummm ... Smaug?
My tower is the highest tower. And I have the best lamps. I have the best Orcs!

And I don't want to hear your fake news about how I have no body. Fake! ... Now, the folks at One Guldur Network, they're the kind of people know how respect a leader.

And if you spite me, I will summon my loyal Nazgul: The Witch-King, Khamul and Covfefe.

----

(... Things I was expecting to read at the link.)
LibreOffice has incidentally asked the question of how much and what kind of support people actually need from an office suite. This information was always hidden in the past-- how much were people paying for MS Office because they wanted to be able to call someone when it crashes, and how much to avoid the BSA Goon Squad knocking in their door?

If anything, I'd think there's less enterprise support needed and more direct-to-consumer.

Your big organization doesn't need to call Microsoft with every question because they have someone who has been living inside Excel since 1992, knows every nuance, and can untangle you from whatever you've done. But most home/SMB users don't have that, and would pay $10 or $20 every few months for a-la-carte hand-holding and support sessions, buy a $49 streaming video course or book, etc.
I installed it to my fun and games laptop I carry with me when I travel. It's the ThinkPad X230 that is small enough and has hardware that Just Works with almost all the open source operating systems. I'm not planning to work with this, so I'm not really thinking about installing Zoom or any other closed source software. I have other computers for work business. I'm considering trying on jails and iocage to see if I can get something similar to docker, but it's not my biggest priority: I kind of like having a computer that I'm not doing work with all the time.

What I now have is just a boot to console. I haven't decided on a login manager yet, so I just run `sway` to get to the desktop. I run sway window manager on wayland. I installed rust, emacs, vim, a music player ncmpcpp and firefox. It feels like this old laptop got lots of energy from this new setup.
> And it's hard to make a career or professional friends in the org by telling people they are doing things wrong.

This is a really good point. Every one will cringe when they see you coming, and that's going to drag on your career.
Despite the strong responses already it's only been a recent development that Starlink requested all orbital shells be the 5 year decay orbit or lower (and that change still not approved yet). Assuming they go forward with that plan though even the worst case scenario is a relatively temporary problem - they've shown the satellites can move and de-orbit on command and when they don't the newly proposed highest shell is about a 5 year natural decay.

Also it's not so much the concern about hitting a satellite on your way up (easy to track and space is spacey) rather the concern that over many years any 2 satellites in the shell will collide creating a lot of debris that could collide with more satellites in the shell and so on. That's why there are requirements about being able to move your satellites actively as part of these proposals, to prevent such a scenario from happening or growing if it did.
FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home
If it's a problem in 10, 20 or 40 years, we can deal with it then. The anti-trust tools are there. Also the current LEO satellites de-orbit in 5-10 years, so the concern is moot if Amazon actually gets their stuff together.
>> Why is management consulting a billion dollar industry?

Because most rich people are idiots but they have direct access to money printers via hundreds of legal money laundering schemes going on in the background so they can afford to waste as much of it as they want on whatever they want and still be profitable.
> For example the GDPR takes the best of intentions around citizen privacy and ends up causing unintended harm by layering ambiguous and extensive responsibilities and liabilities on small businesses and individuals with web presence.

This happens in spades in the finance industry, which has addressed it by outsourcing it: small companies start up that do nothing but compliance for regulation X or Y. You can see this, for example, in US retirement funds: if you put a dollar into your 401(k) various people touch it before it is actually invested, certifying that the 401(k) fits this or that qualification restriction, certifying various arms length rules etc, each taking a small fraction of a percent as a fee. In then end only perhaps 97* cents of asset is purchased with your dollar.

In case it is not clear: I am not advocating this system! Just saying that the market can adapt to it, and favoring big incumbents is not the only way/consequence. Each of these little entities of course becomes a protected incumbent themselves.

* I don't remember the precise amount but it was more than a percent and I think it ended up added up to three or four. But it was many many years when I looked at this, and it was when I was evaluating a company's tech stack for an investor, so my focus wasn't on these details. But it was fascinating how the market had adapted.
The last time the UK government wasn’t Con/Lab, Ireland had not yet become independent. I wouldn’t call that “robust”.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UK_popular_vote.svg