skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope that some security researchers investigate this software more closely and at the same time suspect that this lawsuit is primarily intended to scare away people from doing precisely that.
> If none of this matters, why did you even bring it up?

Because it's pretty funny everytime I come on here and people are bringing up lot's of weird theories, speculations, and just outright falsehoods but fail to acknowledge the elephant in the room: the pandora's box is open and that's that.

You can try to make bitcoin illegal but you will find it's like making drugs illegal. All you will do is lose further control over it while not actually addressing any of the downsides of having the system running. There's always another jurisdiction that doesn't care and will perpetuate the blockchain
I honestly can't tell if this is satire or no; leaning towards former
No one even makes 16Gb on one chip. Samsung and Micron currently max out at 12Gb and I would imagine there's much less supply of these than of 4 and 8.
Yeah I had to go back and forth between the HN headline and the page 4 times. I couldn't believe I read it correctly, did it really, REALLY say "YC".
Things SC2 Taught Me About Business
Playing Starcraft 2 taught me a thing or two about business:

(1) When you have a competitor, attack early and often - but be prepared for an aggressive advance.

(2) Be prepared to make dynamic decisions when things don't go as planned, but make sure they are calculated and not spontaneous.

(3) Identify your competitor's weakness, which may change as the competition advances.

(4) When you identify something that works, continue to focus and pursue it until it no longer does, be prepared to change your strategy based on the conditions.

(5) Be prepared for small defeats in battle, that does not mean the war has been lost.

(6) Things can often times turnaround when you think you have an advantage and vice versa - do not get discouraged or complacent.

(7) Don't underestimate the value of espionage. Closely monitor your competition to assess their weakness.

(8) Take time to learn from great players and it is OK to copy aspects from their approaches.

(9) Never underestimate your competitors - never get complacent.

(10) Use smoke screens, decoys, and other techniques to keep your strategy concealed by your competition.
There’s something true to that.
Friendly tip: Do not transfer negative amounts! They get substracted from both sides =)
No joke. If you work "too hard", apparently fellow MTA employees will kindly as you to "slow down".
The software - problematic as it is - is older than the pandemic. Also, maybe if you cannot reliably proctor exams, the solution should not be to use a highly-invasive, potentially problem-causing software, but to cancel the exams and the academic year until the pandemic is over. After all, if you cannot give exams, students also were not able to take part in studies to the same extend as before (e.g. library and/or lab access would probably be limited)
I think this would be more like including exploding dye packs in your bags of money.
Its up to the market to discern the earlier date of the original issuance. Its always been this way. The blockchain just allows for easier provenance instead of hearsay.

If you buy a duplicate art piece or an art piece that was "sleepminted" just because a popular artist addresses "dropped it", that's really on you

this sounds more like a UI problem that can be easily solved

try not to get scammed, ripped off, or if you want to buy things with resale value in the future maybe just avoid the entire NFT market and not worry about a UI issue
I haven’t tested this exact scenario but I like doing something like this when needed

mkdir -p path/to/{one,two,three}/done

To create:

* path/to/one/done

* path/to/two/done

* path/to/three/done
Engineer has created a suit that helps people with Parkinson
The middle ground would be if the Emperor jailed the tailors of the New Clothes after he had shown off the clothes at the Parade, in front of the whole city.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26900700
So the entry fee to work out how to wash my clothes is 113 Swiss Francs (for the standard PDF)? Cheaper to buy new underwear every week
Not true even within the bitcoin specification itself. Look at how transaction fees are calculated. Older coins pay less fees than newer coins. They are not fungible. It’s one of bitcoins biggest weaknesses. Even Adam Back agrees with that (Google some older ltb episodes)
And yet, it's still an Alford plea. He gets out, but no compensation or exoneration unless he leads the effort to clear himself.
eh looks more like a UI problem in GUIs

popular sites just don't look for transactions right now that would show it was "sleepminted"

I'm all for also updating the protocols. ERC721 is not the predominant NFT protocol in use, actually that's hard to quantity as my point being there are several other standards in popular use, and many others still evolving.
I played for around 10 minutes, quite fun. Some comments:

- how would you get 4% gains in real life? it makes a massive difference, but you're unlikely to reach this unless the money is put into the stock market

- was unable to sell my property (the "request valuation" button does nothing)

- the university option never showed up

- there were no further jobs after ~12 years of career (stopped at something like engineering manager at ~45k/year which is very low for London)

- advancing month-by-month is pretty slow. there should be a way of fast-forwarding to important events (new job, promotion, housing market goes up/down, etc)

- had to transfer $ to savings / pension in batches every year or so, losing out on a lot of interest. should be possible to set a monthly amount

- the expenses are way too stable to reflect real life

I ended the simulation at 35 years old, with €200k savings, €60k mortage equity, and €80k on a pension fund. Living on a €100k house, no car, no gifts, no travel, no family. It's not bad, but for someone saving fiercely from 18 years without any major expenses it's not a great result. Getting a high-paying job (80k+) around your 30s will land you in the exact same place, while giving you 12 years to live more liberally.
(https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/91699/why-cant-...)

TLDR:
"Without authentication, impersonation is feasible, ..."
Yes, this exactly. My health is nobody's business but mine and my doctor's.

I'll make a partial exception for the ongoing pandemic, but that's because the disease can be spread to others by close contact. Insomnia, although quite serious, is not contagious.

Overall I don't welcome any attempts by my employer to track anything other than my actual work performance.
Of course it's speculation; as far as I know nobody's done much research of any kind into this phenomenon. Making it more widely known seems like a good way to improve the odds of someone doing such research, so in that sense the article is worthwhile, whether speculative or otherwise. And, again, how could it not be? The subject matter practically compels such consideration.
Poland, EU.

I remember doing some Internet searches for this over a decade ago, back when I started doing my own laundry :). Maybe I didn't look thoroughly enough - but between that search and the actual labels on the clothes I had, I saw no indication of a standard.

Might be because my clothes were probably a mix of branded things sold on EU market, and (mostly) unbranded ones I bought on a bazaar, which could've been imported from Turkey or East Asia.
> Citation needed, please. Could you link me to the formally defined national grammar for American English, please? Who is the body that maintains this formal standard? Is it NIST, or ANSI, or an ISO standard?

It's not a technical language like C so you're not going to find a technical standard in ANSI but organisations like Websters (and Oxford in the UK) do define standards for formal writing. I guess the confusion here is it's not a "formal standard" but a "standard in formal writing". I apologise for not being clearer on that. Generally the formal version of the language is considered "correct" while variations are "slang". You might argue that is only a de facto standard but it's still one that is upheld.

Some languages go further and do literally have a formal body in charge of maintaining their language, such as Académie Française who dictate the evolution of French https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_Fran%C3%A7aise

> You sound like you are a prescriptivist

I'm really not. I frequently colour my speech with non-literal imagery and slang. But I also acknowledge that there are still underlying rules to any language. And if I seem like a prescriptivist it's only because I'm dyslexic so have to work harder than most to make my thoughts understandable -- so much so that a frequent phrase I used as a teen was "if the point of languages is to be understood then who gives a shit if I'm grammatically correct when you clearly understood me?"

Suffice to say, human languages aren't something that comes naturally to me. Thus I might be more acutely aware of the rules where you might take them for granted.
Realistically, if all existing diplomas were invalidated and the entire system of diploma-granting were to be stripped away from educational institutions, an equivalent would quickly be re-established by the free market - and it would probably resemble Proctorio.

> So my question is: who are we trying to solve the problem for? What is the expected outcome, knowing that there will always be people who "cheat" their way through life too?

For one thing, all the harm that incompetent professionals can cause - and in a moddern society, the scope of that is not inconsiderable - in fact, Proctorio is probably an example.

Let's not lose focus on the real problem here, which is Proctorio being an aggressive vendor of garbage.
Particularly helpful for quickly appending something to a file name

mv something{,.old}
To be clear laundry labels are candidates to become an international language. They are currently not.
I think OP meant antibiotics, not antivirals.
compatible with Buran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClpzVNhxkZQ
Thanks a lot, will pass on the feedback.
It would appear that it's already in use in Europe and has win in court.

https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Rb._Amsterdam_-_C/13/6846...

> The Amsterdam Court of First Instance rejected the request by student representatives and an individual student for a preliminary injunction against the use of digital surveillance software for exams by a public university. The court ruled that measures against covid-19 did not allow for a suitable alternative and the processing could therefore be based on Article 6(1)(e) GDPR.
This is great - I could use something like this (without having to face into Mechanical Turk), and definitely would use this if the pricing was right.

What's the pricing structure?
Yes, but my subject is maths :-). 1st and 2nd year engineering maths don't really have projects, presentations, or writing as options, as we mostly care about whether they know particular fundamental mathematical techniques and skills. All those options also have the problem of knowing who did the work.

From talking to remote students, I don't think they feel like they're being treated like cheaters. Instead, they seem happy we're making their study possible, and accepting of what they're asked to do. They know it's important that they can demonstrate unequivocally that they have particular skills.
It's even worse that they saw this team and thought "these guys will definitely build a billion dollar business".
In many courses, the grades are curved, so cheaters might really make the grades of honest students worse.

While I am against these surveillance software, making sure that tests are fair is very hard, especially since everything is online now thanks to COVID.
Is this one of those regional things? Is the same word used throughout the entire English speaking world?

Not a native English speaker myself, so my association was to the Greek word as well.
This kind of thing is rampant in Italy's public sector (and other nations as well). They basically just found one of the worst offenders (i.e. the guy that half the public sector employees aim to be) and are making an example out of him.

The timing relative to other government misconduct in Italy is suspiciously convenient I might add.

If this wasn't broadly considered ok he wouldn't have gotten away with it for 15yr and they wouldn't be going back 15yr to find "alleged threats" he made. Based on my experience the threat was something less like "imma bust a cap in yo ass" and more likely along the lines of "you know everyone does this and if you take a hard stance on this misconduct your career progression is dead" which is something that not everyone has to be explicitly told but a situation that damn near every career public servant (not just in Italy) will have to deal with at some point.
Sounds like you need to design an online version of that course if you're going to allow online students to take it.
Unless you can be sure the client has the typeface to render the unicode symbol, you need to supply the font, so you might as well just send the needed PNG or SVG.
If you are using the same skills over and over again in different consulting environments, you probably will be gaining deeper expertise with them, especially as you traverse different business domains that will exercise and flex the "boilerplate" in different ways depending on the business and project requirements. There, one sentence.
Older graphics were much more simpler, like draw a line here and here, where you have to iterate through like 400px per line of a window border.
Also, smaller resolution.

CPUs are fast, and rendering could be multithreaded, but 4-16 very fast cores will still be slower than the very very wide SIMD of GPUs that can simultaneously operate on many many pixels. GPUs can also change to a different “lane” to compute while it waits on IO like some graphics.
You also got gradients, transparency and the like, so you basically always have to do a full pass over every pixel, so on the order of 1000*1000 pixels. So GUI rendering definitely doesn’t use negligible CPU resources. It is the canonical example for a task that can be parallelized, so it only makes sense to do so.
The Purpose of Financial Markets
I think all this model says is the it's currently profitable for bitcoin miners to build their own power stations to run their miners. But if they're doing that, why would they contribute to the grid? From looking at the model it just assumes the power will go to the grid first and bitcoin miners second, even though it would always be more profitable to run the miners (by 2x to 3x). I don't see this happening without government intervention. And from the point of view of the human race even this approach involves a huge amount of extra resources going into the mining hardware, an extra cost which only really benefits the miners (extra mining doesn't even benefit bitcoin at this point). I find it extremely worrying that 'bitcoin price' is not an input to this model: it's buried in the assumptions that it basically remains as it is. Bitcoin price going up means even less incentive to contribute to the grid, bitcoin price going down means the benefits it can bring under the broken assumption miners are altruistic go down.

The only way I see this actually having a positive impact through market mechanisms is if there's a railroad fever and massive buildout of solar capacity for mining, followed shortly by a bitcoin crash which actually makes that energy available for the rest of us to use.

(Also, solar is not a great source for mining to use at the moment: mining hardware still costs an appreciable sum relative to the energy cost of running it, especially considering it depreciates quickly. So if at all possible the miners will run them constantly, not adjust to grid supply vs demand)
I was in the same boat, except I moved to Querious (https://www.araelium.com/querious)
It's a problem for institution reputation, and for remaining accredited to confer professional degrees controlled by external organisations, like engineering degrees.
I have the IP address memorised. Is that what you mean by "preexisting knowledge". How does a certificate give me more confidence that I am in the right place. ICANN could choose any name it wants for this IP address. It might cease to use "www.internic.net". That name is only a CNAME at this point. If I look up the actual name "internicwww.vip.icann.org" it does not even return this IP address. It returns 192.0.47.9. Both addresses serve via FTP as well as HTTP. The only thing that gives me confidence that 192.0.32.9 is still the "right" address is 1. it is in a block that remains registered to ICANN and 2. the server continues to offer root.zone, arpa.zone and root.hints.

Am I understanding this correctly. You are concerned that the IP address might change. As I said, if that happened, they would not change it without notifying the public in advance. This IP address is used to bootstrap DNS. Thus, no one should need DNS to find it. AFAIK, outside of EV certificates, CAs rely on domain name registration as their "verification" mechanism. Seems like one has to trust the DNS in order to trust a CA. And why trust a CA.

I am quite certain I will be dead before this IP address ever changes again. It used to be 208.77.188.26. This is going to be the "right" IP address for the forseeable future. TLS cert or not. I use FTP to get the root.zone, not TLS. Verisign's zone file access program used to offer .com and .net zone files only via FTP. Even if you can use TLS to get them now, I'll bet you can still use FTP.
> the developers themselves acknowledge this and are upfront about it

I'm sure they'll be able to solve any problem that comes up. Monero isn't plagued by miners blocking progress like bitcoin is. I believe the coin will continue to improve.

> Are you really going to store a 2 TB blockchain that needs days of compute to initially confirm so you can transact with your friends privately?

Isn't it possible to prune the blockchain on local nodes?
>> people with no credentials or history in the gaming industry, and try to get funding for some massive project that multi-million dollar corporations haven’t been capable of producing

> Isn't this what YC is all about? This team is attempting to disrupt an industry, to do something that a large, bloated and bureaucratic corporation has trouble achieving. Why be hatin'?

No, YC is not about doing something without experience. On the contrary, YC partners have been known to say that you should work on something where you are a world class expert. The better you know something, the more likely it is you can disrupt it.
I wouldn't be too sure about those GDPR penalties. Dutch universities are also using Proctorio, with the recorded footage being sent to the US: https://www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opinie/opinie-universiteit...
I appreciate this perspective, thanks!
If you're the type of guy who doesn't know how to use a screw unless he's read ISO 68-1, sure.

The rest of us learn from our parents. Or books. Or even Wikipedia.
I started as a consultant and moved the other way, here are some key differences I see:

- "long-term" architecture of projects is non-existent on short contracts (anything less than ~2 years)

- The ownership feeling is very different if you're working directly with a client, or if you work with your own team

- Even if the project sucks, it's nice to know that you won't be on it forever

- Networking as a consultant is great

- Your manager is always planning for the next project, any "down-time" is lost revenu, so expect to spend less than a week when switching between 2 projects

- I found salary negotiations simpler as a consultant, basically I knew what my manager was charging for my day. Remove some % that they're willing to live with. Then, you can do some easy math. This was within a small shop, so I wouldn't know if that would scale to big groups.
Requiring distopian spyware doesn’t weaken your brand. It destroys it. For most of history, reputable universities built their brand just fine without any software at all.
> You can use excess grid capacity for lots of useful things including water desalination, charging cars at off peak hours, producing hydrogen.

Ideally you need something where the cost of electricity would normally dominate the capital costs of setting up the operation. Otherwise, you're better off running the process all the time, and it's not a useful grid battery.

Alternatively, something where you need to overbuild the infrastructure, perhaps to serve peak demand or for emergency availability.

Water desalination plants and hydrogen factories are expensive to build, so they don't work well here. Bitcoin mining rigs aren't free either. Charging cars is a great application even though cars are expensive to build: they meet the second criterion as, for logistic reasons, we build way more cars than are on the road at any point in time.
Hyper Textile Markup Language, of course.
Real talk, so please read charitably:

1) BBC has a policy of not going hard against the sitting government, this seems to be true regardless of who's in charge.

2) BBC is a large organisation, they have parts which are more pro-tory and others which are more anti-tory, but overall the anti-tory stuff will be a bit more curbed due to point 1.

3) David Cameron stacked the board with pro-tory people, this has little effect on the actual stories since the board has no direct involvement, but this could lead to a tory bias in some cases.

citation on point 3: https://www.ft.com/content/7ba884c2-176d-11e6-b197-a4af20d55...
Love this line: "There’s a process of forgetting that’s crucial for growth."

Strategic amnesia is a requirement for any meaningful change. :)
For architechture, would you not prefer the TOGAF documentation ? you will get a useful certification out of it once you pass those tests.
I believe this regional symbols vs. text difference can also be seen in many washing machines - it is quite common to have symbols for the knobs and settings here (e.g. https://imgur.com/a/7yRzT), while I've understood that this isn't common in e.g. US.

Though I thought textile care symbols are common in US as well, or at least I think all my US-bought clothes have them too. So this is probably not one of those US-Europe differences.
Everyone in these comments is naively assuming the guy threatened to actually harm someone and it's absolutely infuriating. Has nobody here ever seen the kind of deviance that goes on in a large administrative organization or bureaucracy before?!

It's almost certainly a not a "imma bust a cap in yo ass" threat and more along the lines of a "people higher than you and me in the org chart tacitly condone this behavior and your career is gonna be a dead end if you narc on me" type of threat.
To be able to say that you were "funded on kickstarter in only 9 hours" (which seems very slow for such a paltry amount) and "overfunded by 500%" etc.
Go binaries that are statically linked work great in scratch images. If you or your dependencies start dynamically linking against libraries then they don't so much, but that's relatively unusual in my experience.
I would work for a product company or get your own consulting clients.

In the agency model, the company's profit margin is everything they don't pass to you. There are too many incentives to overwork and underpay you. The larger the agency, the more this is true (see accenture). But give it a try and if it sucks you can always quit.

I like consulting directly with clients because it does expose you to a lot of different industries and also pays pretty good compared to most startups. Working with other agencies has been a very bad and expensive decision for me in the past.
Not in my experience. I don't think there are enough cheaters to shift the curve (the noise from year to year is much more significant), and despite what you'd expect, the people hired to do others' assessments aren't necessarily very good at it!