skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be useful for social engineering, though I'd hazard a guess that a lot of DO customers are going to be more aware of that kind of thing. I've seen email and phone scams where the scammer gets info from a data leak and uses it to lull the target into a false sense of security before trying to extract more useful information.

"Hi, I'm calling from Bank of America about your debit card ending in XXXX. We've noticed some suspicious activity. Did you make a purchase for $200 at SomeOutlandishlyExpensiveStore? Oops, I need to verify your identity first? Can you give me your SSN?"

There you have two pieces of not-very-public information from the leak, and some bait to incite a little bit of panic, which might impede their judgement enough that they won't be too suspicious.
Watch 1,500 birds invade a house through the chimney
It wasn't the same person and it wasn't an attack. Read the LWN article.

> The writing of a paper on this research [PDF] was not the immediate cause of the recent events; instead, it was the posting of a buggy patch originating from an experimental static-analysis tool run by another developer at UMN. That led developers in the kernel community to suspect that the effort to submit intentionally malicious patches was still ongoing. Since then, it has become apparent that this is not the case, but by the time the full story became clear, the discussion was already running at full speed.
nope, having covid when getting run over by a bus counts as a covid death in many places
Pandemic times and working from home. Companies were already exposed by their employees mobile devices and by people working on public wifi networks, like catching up on email while having coffee at the neighborhood coffee house. Now with employees more-or-less permanently remote, what is the corporate network? Add to that the realization that as organizations adopt more and more SaaS offerings into their operations, the distinction between "corporate network" and "public network" vanishes. The old VPN/firewall/DMZ perimeter model was leaky anyway.
That sounds a lot like part of the UofT CS program.
When you see rock walls around fields, it's often partly to dispose of unwanted rocks in the fields. “This is an awesome amount of manual labor, but it is trivial when compared to the much larger effort of getting stones to the edges of the fields in the first place.”[1]

An extreme case is western Ireland. Tiny plots surrounded by far too many stone walls. Pretty, but too rocky for sustenance farming. Cromwell ordered the Catholics to go "to hell or to Connacht".

[1] https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/history-science-and-po...
An optical neural network using less than 1 photon per multiplication
Some past threads - hard to pick out from other nanos -

An Atonement of Nano - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26063301 - Feb 2021 (100 comments)

Nano 5.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23995909 - July 2020 (195 comments)

Fedora Approves of Making Nano the Default Terminal Text Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23818199 - July 2020 (95 comments)

Fedora Devs Looking to Change Default Editor from Vi to Nano - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566828 - Nov 2019 (34 comments)

GNU Nano 4.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19476526 - March 2019 (147 comments)

GNU nano 3.0 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17946145 - Sept 2018 (43 comments)

GNU nano 2.9.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15731079 - Nov 2017 (59 comments)

Nano to remain in GNU - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12420683 - Sept 2016 (65 comments)

What’s up with nano? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11958728 - June 2016 (79 comments)

Nano is no longer a GNU project - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953044 - June 2016 (229 comments)
Yes, except it will be called covid season.
I don't know where you live but in Canada we have programs like FluWatchers which send sample groups a survey every week asking about flu-like symptoms, flu vaccinations (and COVID now) and such every flu season. They can also request a voluntary sample from you to help track these things.

So the data is there :-)
I'm fine with that. I would also hope for more collab cross-departments, but the incentives in academia are unfortunately not exactly set up the right way. People become protective of "their turf".

I wrote a bit more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26984234

I think it's good if people are aware of the origins of the methods they use. Regression wasn't invented under the umbrella of ML, but is analyzed from a particular angle in ML more than in stats.
I work as a Rails dev for a tiny company (< 20 devs, B2B, different internal apps for companies like a language school, an electricity trader, digital signage agency) and I'm currently the only person responsible for three projects that have all been going on for a year and are all in the "the last 20 % that takes another 80 % of the time" stage.

Yes, I feel like I'm spread too thin. I have to rotate work on all three (or at least two) of the projects every week and every week the clients expect me to deliver new stuff and actual, new, visible functionality.

I am not having a lot of fun and I'm hoping this ends soon.

I'd like to do some something on the side (not really a side project, but maybe a toy macOS app, play with some new technology or finally start a blog), but I'm currently too mentally exhausted.
Explainability isn't needed when your training set encompasses your test set, in the conditions that are meaningful. You have a heuristic which says "stuff tends to fall down to Earth", which you learned by tossing things in the air. The relevant condition you trained it on was "am on the surface of the Earth", which turns out to be the only thing you really need.

However, if gravity was very sensitive to the number of cars on the road, or the number of street signs, I think you'd run into a lot of trouble without an underlying model.
I don't think not going to the doctor for mild illnesses is a strictly US thing.
Most of the American middle class does not own stocks separately from a 401k or other retirement savings vehicle.

Also, the 40% rate wouldn't kick in for incomes below $1 million. Someone making a $1 million a year is not middle class and indeed would be in the top 0.01% of all earners, worldwide.
Walmart shut down an entire section of it's business because a group successfully unionized.
Thanks for linking to that. I’d never heard of that case before; that is so incredibly horrifying. They should be in jail right now for having a known psychotic patient sign an “informed consent” form.

As an aside, there is such a long history of blatant unethical behavior and pseudoscientific medical procedures throughout the entire history of medicine (and especially so-called “public health” - take AZT as one tiny example), that it shocks me that people have this attitude of “oh yeah bloodletting and lobotomies and clitorectomedies and male circumcision as punishment for masturbation were wrong but everything’s fine now and there’s no giant institutional problems with the medical orthodoxy anymore”
Sanitation theater is helpful in the sense that it calms certain people's anxieties, much like a placebo pill does.
An author posting a labeled excerpt from their own book on their own website isn't ripping anyone off.
OpenGL 2D Facade (23): Z-Buffer – Design Patterns and Video Games
Using VSCode without the Microsoft tracking with VSCodium
I'm really hoping that the culture change in the US is to wear masks in public when feeling ill from a respiratory infection.
I agree the twitter reason was weak. 'hacked source material' is a huge amount of journalism. But I stand by the rest.
Meeting Creatures (2006)
What makes you think that tribalism isn't in philosophy? It is no pancaea or vaccine and has a history of basis of tribalism - the Great Schism for one. If there is a lack of tribalism in niche philosophies well, it isn't important enough to have a tribe.
I've converted at least 5 people from AM to Spotify once they realized things like the social features like collaborative playlists, artists created playlists, following your friends to see their playlists and what they're listening to and they all tend to say the discovery/radio is much better although I think Pandoras blows it away. The UX is constantly in flux and it's different between OS's (only the desktop has 90% of the social features) and they keep nixing good features (mostly social, I guess due to EU regulations) which is frustrating.

Last year they updated it and removed the Android widget completely - we absolutely revolted blasting them with 1 star reviews, etc. They timed it with the launch of their India service so I have this theory that they knew they'd lose a bit of customers (they had no idea how many Android use widgets apparently) and negative reviews would come in but replace them with revenue/reviews from India which knocked their stars right back up.

Literally same day. I don't like the company because of things like that but it's still IMO the best music service. I'm using Tidal as well for its hifi/masters now.
This isn't a joke.

The webpage has no stylesheet.

This is just how web browsers have rendered unstyled text for as long as I've been using web browsers (probably about as long as this website has existed).
Good book on that is Introduction to the Theory of Computation by Michael Sipser.

One could argue it's from the very bottom up, not much practicum lies in that text.
Well, this might be true but it is irrelevant with regard to powering electric vehicles, smartphones or other gadgets.
Shout-out to UC Berkeley's Open Computing Facility (OCF) which has managed to host this content for decades.
Maybe it doesn't fix the underlying issues of overworked maintainers, but what the "hypocrite commits" team did was definitely wrong.

I mean, a hacker breaking into a bank for research without explicit permission (i.e. contracts signed etc) would results in prosecution. You don't pull a stunt like that.
https://histre.com/ is taking up all my attention now and I'm thankful for it. In the past I've often worked on multiple projects. I have all these ideas, so I want to work on them, but that just means I'm not making much progress on any of them.
Manager probably doesn't care much. It's the company policy.

Now if your team is all going well, sure.

If there is a problem, the first thing other people will question is WFH since it's not a norm.

They will make all sorts of excuses like "that team doesn't WFH and does well" or "that team can WFH because they are better engineers".

This thing is very very hard to quantify.
The Case for Producing Way More Solar Energy Than We Need
The ELF binary format, really? This is like a course advertising itself as an introduction to normative ethics and proceeding to lecture people on canon law in the 14th century in Flanders. Like sure if you into obscure shit this might be interesting but dunno what one has to do with the other.
I think your opinion simply reflects a degree of ignorance of nano's actual capabilities, rather than a genuine surprise at human behaviour. If anything, your comparison to gedit/notepad (notepad??? seriously???) makes that much clear.

Honestly I don't mind vim, but I prefer nano. And I spend 24/7 coding in my terminal. Nano covers all my needs and then some.

And while you should absolutely not switch vim to nano if you enjoy vim, I would totally encourage you to play around with nano a bit more. You may be positively surprised at what you find.
Sure, viral interference, yes; but I didn’t go inside a restaurant for 13 months. You’re saying that (and masking, and social distancing in general) didn’t affect influenza transmission?

Why would it not?
Looks more like computer engineering than computer science.
Have you ever been in a wildly corrupt and centralised country? That frame of reference changes everything about what you just said - ie there are no “FSB contractors” that could possibly be independent under an authoritarian frame of reference.
Unlikely/impossible to kill off all strains. Enough will survive that it will come back, just it will likely take longer to transmit due to greatly-reduced numbers of infected hosts.
Blasphemy! Anyone paying attention can see that every person with the flu was labeled as having “Covid” but everyone who “follows the science” will perform all kinds of mental gymnastics to avoid seeing what is obvious.
Ideas for Good Swag
im in your situation: didnt need to leave my house and minimally interacted with people outside of my bubble. I felt sick recently and got the covid/flu test.
I don't know if it helps, but according to macrumors, now is not the best time to buy a new MBP since apparently the line of products will receive significant updates some time this year.
They aren't tactile, but they weren't meant to be, they were utilitarian. Under normal conditions hall-effect switches could last up to 30 billion operations (From Honeywell's own documentation https://sensing.honeywell.com/hallbook.pdf). They are designed to last and be used for the entire life of a machine, through all its upgrades. The lack of cursor keys was normal for the time, just look at the IBM Model F.
As for Unicomp, they are based off of the IBM Model M (Which I have a few of and love the buckling spring mechanism) but they were designed to have feedback (auditory and tactile) built in. For sure a good design, but that doesn't make it the only good design.

>Please don't part out keyboards from old computer systems so you can use them with your Macbook. Give them to people who are actually working on collecting and preserving the old systems.
I never said I did or would? Hall effect sensors are still available if someone wanted some they have much cheaper and easier options than tracking down an old keyboard. Also who ever implied that I'm not collecting and preserving old systems?
Oh yes I completely agree UMN deserves the ban. The code review process for Linux kernel commits clearly needs to be improved as well. Hence "both can be true".
The other post just raised it as something to think about. It's a good idea to do a sanity check once in a while.

More technology has generally been better, but not in all cases and it's not guaranteed to continue that way.

Bitcoin is cool, but the consequence is using a lot of energy and facilitating a lot of extortion. Open source seems great, but it also facilitated the rise of AWS which effectively locks people out of software more than closed source software ever did.

We already know the rationalizations, we tell themselves to ourselves every day. But remembering the costs is healthy.
Submitted title was "25tons seabed mining robot prototype was lost at 4km depth in Pacific Ocean". That broke the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

Submitters: please don't do that. We eventually take submission privileges away from accounts that do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> You can call Facebook on shit without generalizing against the employees who work there.

I disagree. It's this behavior and lack of disinfectant (sunlight) that allows companies to get away with the amount of crimes against humanity they do. Saying "Tech" isn't political, or "I'm just an engineer somebody else is in charge" is how horror happens.
People may find this interesting too: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mechanical-engineering/2-71-opti...
The cable could be replaced with a rotary switch with stops for each recipient. I’d also add a picture of each grandchild in addition to the name. But overall, this is an awesome idea :-)
We've fixed the title now. More at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26984413.
“Ruining” is a bit strong, perhaps.

Peharps “making the first few seconds of visiting most sites slightly annoying” is a better description.
We need a career path for invention
Exactly. The only result from covid testing it delaying your own civil liberties. The vast vast majority of people wont ever get covid and a tiny remainder will have symptoms, an even smaller number will need to go to bed, a smaller number will need to go to hospital and people who were going to die this year may die from it. Dont take my word for it, this is the opinion of the UKs chief medical officer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzriCFzM5Ys
This is typically the pattern. To quote a tech manager "I like software metrics but if I implement it, my engineers will revolt" when talking about one of the most popular software metrics solutions today.

GitHub Insights has turned into a hot topic for GitHub internally and if you use wayback to look at GitHub's enterprise sales page from a year and a half ago when they acquired Gitalytics to today, you will find they are pretty much sweeping GitHub Insights under the rug because they know how developers feel about software metrics.

Software metrics can (which is what I am working on) be useful for everybody, but right now, too many non-technical managers just want to "tell if an employee is dicking around or not". Until these non traditional tech companies lose talent, they will assume everything is okay. And based on what I've seen with the fintech that I worked for, many employees will just accept things, since it's not like Apple, Google, Facebook and others will fight for them.
Yeah, and even in places with no mandatory measures, people would widely take voluntary measures against SARS-CoV-2 that would also be effective against other respiratory viruses.
Maybe I am misunderstanding. Do you drive for free? If you have to drive somewhere that gets billed to the client.

This is totally normal, I work in a metro area adjacent to another. If I drive across state the person is paying for that hourly. If I could sit on a train instead someone would be paying to have me on the train, hourly, and if I was doing work that would also be billed hourly (I'd try to do work for the client that made me travel but not always possible).
You broke the site guidelines and started a large flamewar with this. That's seriously not cool. We don't want shallow, predictable, nasty discussion here.

At a minimum, you broke these:

"Don't be snarky."

"Eschew flamebait."

"Avoid generic tangents."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Generic ideological tangents are particularly destructive here.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
It's surprising how little the list has changed since then, really, at the more advanced end: at my place we still teach real analysis from Rudin, complex from Ahlfors, commutative algebra from Atiyah-Macdonold, riemannian geometry from do Carmo, alg geo from Shafarevich and Hartshorne,.. There are good competitors to some of these now but inertia is strong. (And if anyone has figured out how to teach a good intro to schemes out of Vakil's behemoth of a book, let me know...)
> Computerization of stock control and sales made trusting and empowering the employees much less necessary.

It also makes distrusting them less necessary because you can know that they've done their jobs because everything is scanned and tracked. You don't have to use stupid proxies for productivity ("if you have time to lean you have time to clean") because you can actually measure inputs and outputs with more detail.
I'm working on projects for my startup, right now at 3, but trying to focus on one at a time. I have a bad habit of doing this. I actually need a co-founder, but co-founder disagreements seem to break startups quite easily.
People resist torture all of the time. The problem with torture is that there's often little reason to think that the torture would end if you give up the password, other than the word of the torturer.
The test positivity in lightly-affected areas is very small, for example <0.1% in much of Australia. This includes both true and false positives, so it bounds the specificity of the test.

https://covidlive.com.au/report/positive-test-rate

A Lancet article cited below references a paper that estimates much worse specificity of PCR tests for SARS-CoV-2 based on the specificity of tests for other RNA viruses (original SARS, MERS, influenza, etc.):

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.26.20080911v...

But why would anyone do that, when we have direct experience with the actual test for the actual virus?

Of course the false positive rate in heavily-affected areas may be higher, due to sample contamination--with more true positive patients, there's more opportunity for one true-positive patient to contaminate multiple samples. But such cross-contamination can occur frequently only if there are actually lots of true positive patients.

For another sanity check, the sensitivity of antibody tests is established on a sample of patients who tested positive by PCR, who are assumed to all be true-positive. So any PCR false-positive among those patients will show up as an antibody false-negative, so that bounds the apparent sensitivity of those antibody tests. But antibody tests show sensitivity around 85%:

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

So even if the antibody tests were perfect, at most 15% of their positive sample was false-positive. (Note that this is a different quantity from the PCR specificity, and can't be translated into such without knowing the true prevalence in the population that the sample was drawn from.) Of course the antibody tests also aren't perfect, and I'd guess that 15% is almost entirely antibody false-negatives rather than PCR false-positives.

You can also compare reported COVID deaths (which are generally established by PCR) with year-over-year excess mortality. The agreement isn't perfect, but it's pretty close.

The vast majority of patients who test positive by PCR are or were infected by the virus. That's a different question from whether a positive test indicates the presence of replication-competent virus (i.e., whether the patient could infect others right now), since RNA from dead virus can trigger the positive too; but that dead virus had to come from somewhere.
Vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves
It means any Rust dev will be even less likely to open their mouth when Facebook does some horrible shit than what they already are.