skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure you already know the answer to how this will turn out. The price will be substantially discounted. I notice that the secondary market isn't making headlines, just these initial sales.
Ridiculous. I love menthols, I don't smoke often but when I do have one those. If it's true that a lot of black people smoke them like the article and FDA suggest, I assume they will be quite pissed. Guess I'll smoke cowboy killers instead.
Nanny state.
Internal Combustion Engine
This isn't my area of expertise but ... where did they find this?

>On March 25, 2021, 360 NETLAB's BotMon system flagged a suspiciousELF file (MD5=64f6cfe44ba08b0babdd3904233c4857) with 0 VT detection, the sample communicates with 4 domains on TCP 443 (HTTPS), but the traffic is not of TLS/SSL. A close look at the sample revealed it to be a backdoor targeting Linux X64 systems, a family that has been around for at least 3 years.

They saw it communicating over the network? But ... where was it? On their linux system? Someone else's? Any idea how it got there?
Ohh so I need a specific brand of car so I can use a specific charger, and If I leave the interstates I have to be very careful about where I can charge? Also I'm not counting anything that is not a fast charger, I don't want to have to wait somewhere for hours to charge my vehicle.

Edit:

Do the downvoters really think the above scenario is acceptable? Being limited on where you can go, what chargers you can use and the increased time to go places?
We asked for and received a blessing from Jordan: https://github.com/fortran-lang/fpm/issues/90
That is a lot of money. Good thing no one has to pay for it ...
That is one of my favorite shows ever
I use nano when writing short Python or bash scripts in Termux for my Android phone. Is there a different editor I should try? Note that this isn't a common activity, so I'm likely to forget key bindings. I like how nano always displays those at the bottom.
Same, all ready to get a model Y when our current primary car dies. Or, if by the time it dies, there is something better, then that!

Kinda hope current car makes it till 4680 cells with structural packs are a thing!
You still have to link this address to the external entity you're trying to represent.
Nice, I will be checking that out.

I maintain a YouTube playlist called "music to hack by" which is up to over 500 songs now. Basically the criteria are: 1) electronic 2) has a beat (no ambient) 3) few to no vocals, with only one or two exceptions

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2A7B99AB93F1E522
(I am not affiliated with SFDC)

The SalesForce product is essentially a large-scale set of software tools that can be used to manage data and communications (marketing, analytics, contracts, timelines, schedules, records, helpdesk tickets, payments, etc.) between vendors and clients. It's a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system.

The reason it's not clear what their product is to non-users is that there isn't really a "default SalesForce experience"; the point of buying their software is that they (or you) are supposed to be able to customize it to the point where you can use it in exactly the way your business requires. Whether or not that is actually true is the subject of many lengthy debates on HN.
This is what you drop on a system after it's compromised for use later, it's a RAT.

It gets there via some kind of compromise, either an insecure application, some drive-by exploit for some missing patch, owning a sysadmin and pushing it out via ansible/salt/etc.
Probably a good choice running as "systemd-whatever". People have lost track of all the systemd pieces as it's grown in scope, so it doesn't look immediately suspicious.
Eh, Super Charging is 15-25 minutes. Gas fill up is about 3-5 minutes minimum and definitely more expensive. So I'd say they're closer to even, but w/e.

I don't think solar panels will help though. You need too large of a solar array to make a difference. Would be nice though!
I started a new job last November. When I was looking for a job, a requirement was permanent remote. I enjoy not having to commute. I have an office setup in an extra bedroom. It is so much nicer than dealing with the open floor-plans that companies like. For lunch I can just cook something instead of going out an eating fast food.

I find communicating with the team works pretty, we just chat or call on teams. Some people don't communicate well, but from what I've learned, they didn't communicate well before COVID either.

I'm not saying I'll never go back into the office, it will just have to be one heck of an offer.
There's the Caliopen[1] project who tries to do a sort of unified inbox.

[1]: https://www.caliopen.org/
Just invent a torque utility function for yourself to make it economical now, then you are good to go =)
ReleaseHub Environments as a Service Gets 2.7M Seed from Sequoia
Better off than what? Than if they had a union?

Maybe we can look at example like the US auto industry to get an answer there? The answer being "if you were an early member of the union, yeah, a later member, not so much".
I find either take here to be plausible, is there any good research? (I can't imagine how to ethically run an experiment, but maybe someone's figured that out)
> So I would argue it's more sustainable from a social perspective than a punitive tax

Then keep the tax, transfer income and let substitution effects drive preferences.

It’s important to not let social issues get in the way of good policy. Solve the social issue independently (e.g. income transfers in this case).
Mistakes we've made that tanked our first SaaS
> Now people are going back years scrubbing candid thoughts they had when they were teenagers while the naturally reticent have nothing to worry about.

Not only that, but do you know for certain which of the views you have today that are benign and unoffensive, will be considered taboo and hateful in 20 years? I don't know which ones, nobody does! But in 20 years someone is going to trawl through the archives and measure your views today with tomorrow's moral measuring stick.
Not to validate your argument but that’s for OEM (not to mention for Windows).
it's a virus. lol. there are many ways to get them onto systems. file download site, typosquatted apt/pip package names, buying/hacking a download mirror website, 0-day browser exploits, etc.
To be fair, enterprise SSDs (particularly U.2, U.3 and E.1L) have had their own availability issues for a fair bit now, particularly the latest NVMe PCIe Gen 4 devices. However, the problem there isn't cryptocurrency, but hyperscalers having had exclusive periods to buy directly from the manufacturers. Which they have. At immense scale. Some drives announced nearly a year ago are only now hitting the retail and VAR channels.

High-speed DDR4 ECC memory (DDR-3200 in particular) can also be tough to come by. A fair number of VARs actually limit quantity (usually to 20 modules per SKU), since it's so tough to get. Again, not due to crypto mining, but because of hyperscalers.
> The USA pioneered such abusive innovations as perpetual copyright

The US change from a fixed 28 year term that could be renewed once to a life of author + 50 years term was done to match the minimum term allowed under the Berne Convention, which most of the world had already done decades before.

In 1998 the US lengthened the term again, to life + 70 years. That one was to match Europe, which had made that change in 1993.
Nah, nano is probably fine for what you are doing. It excels at quick short edits.
All other browsers have inferior trust store.
> Most people don't learn this lesson till the first layoff

You hit the nail on the head. While I definitely feel for all the early-career folks out there who are genuinely missing out on the camaraderie of working together, I urge all of you not to fall into the trap of thinking that your employment relationship is anything more than mercenary.

They will cut you without a moment's hesitation. Buying into the "we're a family" propaganda makes them rich and makes you dependent on them. Use the learnings of the Pandemic to redefine the future of work on your own terms. It's time we all flipped the script. We're the ones producing value, and from now on we're going to do it on OUR terms.
The article is paywalled for me.

I would imagine that has more to do with curbing local officials’ habits of encouraging land speculation to plump up their budgets. The central government is trying to have its cake and eat it too when it comes to property that needs to rise in value to boost wealth but also not become totally unaffordable for first time buyers, and overheating the market doesn’t help with the latter.
Continuous functions are dense in <pick your favorite function space> so yes.
China does have a ton of sealift capability and for practical purposes can deny us access to the strait. On the flip side, their ships would be highly vulnerable to anti-ship missiles from ground-based, air-based, sea-based, sub-based, and potentially even space based systems.

Once there, Taiwan is fortified and ready to fight with a large army. China will be unable to establish air superiority due to Taiwanese 4th gen fighters plus air support from American and Japanese assets, along with the ANZACs if they have any gumption left in them.
I don't think I can agree with that. You do a Fourier transform when the data you're working with doesn't admit easily or at all certain operations in the time domain but it does in frequency domain. If you already know that to be the case, preprocessing with a FFT is a better idea than hoping a neural network with enough layers uses a few of those to much less efficiently perform a DFT. Always take advantage of pre-existing knowledge of structure in your data. With the FFT especially, depending on how your data is being ingested, you might be able to use specialized DSPs that implement the FFT directly in hardware. These are cheap and easy to find since they're used in frequency-division multiplexing.
Are you suggesting that since we didn't have full liberty before the pandemic we should be ok with less liberty during the pandemic and into the future? Because by accepting these measures now I can guarantee they'll become the new norm just like the changes after 9/11.
Yeah, I didn't enjoy my stint working on Salesforce code. There are a lot weird things around how long a page can run, how man records you can return, user system, no local debugging (but this was coming), etc. I understand it is a shared system but I wish they had some kind of virtualization/isolation. I always felt like I spent most of my time fighting against the platform and not doing any meaningful work. ymmv
> It's decidedly pro-mask, although I guess if warped it could be read as excusing anti-masker behavior

This is exactly it. Anti-maskers/anti-restrictionists seized on the stupidity of our early mask policy (and subsequent flip-flop to sanity) as evidence that restriction policy isn't in the interests of public health, but just a power grab by elites. Denying that this ever happened lets their simpleton counterparts stick to a simple narrative, where masks have always and obviously been a good idea and any deviation from the maximalist consensus needs to be crushed without any equivocation or weakness.[1]

By contrast, the "war" right now is against vaccine hesitancy[2]. There are no Trumpists or other hated subcultures that are gung-ho on vaccines, so the J&J pause is interpreted simply as "scaring people away from vaccines" during a time when we need vaccines (this is unfortunately correct[3])

For a person infected with tribal-brain, consistency with reality is more or less irrelevant. HN is heavily-populated or at least influenced by subcultures (Bay Area, tech) that have been religiously adherent to the appearance of compliance and performative self-abnegation as a response to the pandemic (like a milder version of the Flagellants during the Black Death).

[1] Hence also the ritualistic obsession with masking in places where it isn't necessary. My girlfriend gets uncomfortable that I often take my mask off outdoors when we're walking around, despite it being clear for almost a year that there's minimal risk from doing so, especially when walking swiftly (on top of that, we're both fully-vaccinated). She acknowledges this is irrational, but it's not too difficult to try to meet her in the middle and so I keep it on more often than I'd like.

[2] Fascinatingly, US vaccine willingness now polls at ~61% while % vaccinated is 55%. We're effectively in the phase where demand is the challenge.

[3] https://mobile.twitter.com/FT__Dan/status/138753181546475110...
I've got a free year of Apple TV with a new Mac.

Nobody in our household is watching it; it has no app for Android TV.
It's not just a number. It's a string of characters conveying information about a measured value. The way it's specified conveys information about the number of significant figures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant_figures).
err, no it's not a virus, it seems it has no ability to reproduce on its own.
That's pretty much what I said.. ;)
At the whim of oracle? Built 'on top' of oracle?

Using an Oracle DB doesn't make you a slave to Oracle Corp.

It's also not expensive. Some of the businesses cases I've seen for SF have a massive ROI.
Haven't they moved off of Oracle? I recall seeing they had job openings for Postgres admins with the intention of moving off of Oracle.
> You can back up all Telegram chats including Media, of course this doesn't replace email, but the difference is just a client to parse the data and log it in a message style front end.

While this is true, there's no automatic process and it's limited to the desktop client. Email is much more convenient because of this. I can't "forget" to backup my emails for the past month or year. I know they'll be on my email server until I delete them.
It’s more similar to modern text editors, but yes it’s definitely more of a precursor
This is pretty cool, but I keep waiting until someone finds a horribly malicious version of bash that hides processes, directories and so on unless you have a specific env var set.. It could even detect when you do a update and just copy itself back over the new version, since almost all updates are being applied under a shell somewhere (may need a malicious python also then..)
Or use a visual cue. I've always wondered why they need a pistol.
I have always thought of it the other way around, neural networks are a kind of transform similar to the Fourier transform. But you know, instead of a sum of sinusoid components you get a sum of weighted <insert your activation function>.
"Multiplication of matrices is a neural network"
Other malware has hidden itself as init, mysqld, php-fpm, etc. This is really nothing new.
Well this is garbage.
I was thinking more in line with http://www.underhanded-c.org, but that was also an interesting read
As far as the game mechanics are concerned: the Go serie ? Also maybe https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Arte.vanda... Vandals which comes close.

And Monument Valley which has similar game mechanics (you twist the environment around rather than make your way through it).

Regarding the ambiance: no idea :/.

But in the same vein, not on Android there is : Invisible Inc. https://store.steampowered.com/app/243970/Invisible_Inc/ and another game with a little girl and her invisible friend or something and it's turn based and tiled based and there's a back-in-time mechanic. Eh. I am useless.

Edit: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433530/Bilal_Go/ Found out about that one. It even has Tomb Raider Go's tiles :).
But my understanding is that's not how unions work in Europe. Typically the unions see themselves as another party that benefits from a successful and profitable company. You are correct that they have different goals, but the difference is is that they want the same thing.

At least in the US, you see much more antagonistic approach. Company is facing cheap imports that hurt sales? Some unions say "fuck you, not my problem, pay me".
My statement was as approximate as the one I was replying to. If the original statement had been "you can use FFT to implement some operations involving matrix multiplication faster" I wouldn't have taken issue with it. But saying "FFT is faster than matrix multiplication" has little meaning.
That's... a low bar for an "ultimate dream"? Other than the backups now being offsite, one gains pretty much nothing this way.

And there is much to be gained.

Any type of centralized service provider is a SPOF. Some companies have vastly better customer service track records than others, but their internal operations are fundamentally non-transparent, and driven by a particular implementation of the profit motive.

Interacting with a centralized service provider requires you to expose yourself to poorly quantifiable risks - hacking, internal abuse, government interventions, datacenter fires - and in ways not strictly required by the task of data storage - such as a breach leaving your data untouched but stealing your CC number or other credentials.

A better candidate for "the ultimate dream" would be cryptoprotocol-based participatory networks becoming more flexible, more efficient, more resilient, and more accessible than traditional institutions. That's still far away, it seems - and Goliath won't give up without a fight anyway.
I see, thanks. The term "as of right" was not familiar to me. It looked like a typo for an intended "as of right now".
> You should not ever trust any company in any way.

Idk if I agree with this. There needs to be some level of trust. I trust them to pay my paycheck, I trust them to respect the contract I signed when hired. I trust them to give me my tax information in a timely manner. Now, those are some examples that are backed by law or contracts, but if you don't trust any company in any way, then you could be missing out on some of the benefits of said company.

I'm also highly skeptical of all companies and make sure boundaries exist that when crossed will result in my departure. But there is definitely a balance, and some level of trust needs to exist.
Beyond the problem-solving and planning aspects, I think Factorio helps a lot in learning programming concepts. No theory, just experiments with visual and environmental feedback.

* backpressure: your belts fill up

* optimization problems: there's always at least one bottleneck, it just shifts elsewhere

* deadlocks: a circular universal/sushi belt will block if not properly managed

* parallelism: extending a branch off your main bus

* locks: chained signals for shared train sections

And then, you have combinators
> Tape backups are still a thing in some places, but they are generally considered a relic of the past.

Well that's utter BS. Tape is still a dominant backup form, particularly for archival purposes. The market is big and still growing year on year.

You can't get the same data density and portability out of any other form of backup, and it is a format still under heavy development and refreshes, with LTO-9 due out this year introducing 45TB media at 1GB/s.
AFAIK Axios isn't even universally used for requests, and in the SPA framework space it seems to be a split between Angular and React in popularity. None of these things seem to be occurring in the Python space.
I thought there were apps out there that combined all your incoming communications into one screen but maybe not. I started with the Blackberry 957 through the 8700 and really miss the unified inbox, BBM, BrickBreaker, and the jogwheel on the side.
The IRS is going to "invest" 80 BILLION dollars to increase revenue?

this is mindboggling. Shouldn't it be fairly straightforward to look at the income/revenues of a company vs. how much they paid in taxes?

Oh wait, the IRS requires individuals to do all the math for them at the end of each year.

Whats the payroll of the IRS? Maybe use that 80 billion to replace the entire staff.
Sen. Tim Scott delivers GOP rebuttal to Biden's remarks
Not being rich doesn't make you an immutable exemplar of morality. Give any group of people enough money to make them "rich" and you will get the same behavior as the current rich. We are all humans with the same flaws and tendencies. Money doesn't change that.

Studies also show that as much as 25% of criminals are psychopaths. Psychopathy has survived in humans for a reason. It makes survival in some situations easier. The fact that there are a few more CEOs that are psychopaths over the general population doesn't show anything other than psychopathy can be beneficial in that job.
Malware Analysis: Ragnarok Ransomware
At its core, Salesforce is a SaaS database platform that lets a non-programmer admin create data models for a business, as well as custom views and queries.

But Salesforce goes beyond being a database to the point of being more like a web and mobile framework specifically dedicated to building apps for business. Salesforce has its own flavor of Java (Apex) and its own MVC paradigm (Lightning). You can develop entire custom apps on Salesforce, similar to how Shopify has its own app ecosystem.
> Cambridge analytica is a well known issue of what happens when these platforms have open APIs as well.

One doesn't have anything to do with the other. As a user, having an open API meant that I could choose which client to use to interface with FB messaging. This has no bearing on CA having access to user profiling data.
I did not really understand it from the article but... how can one verify the existence of this on their own system and if needed, purge it ?
As I understand it... You only get coverage if you work 30h a week (and pay for it, per your link). Walmart usually schedules people for fewer hours a week to avoid this.

This is why (despite technically providing healthcare) Walmart is number one for employees enrolled in Medicaid [0].

Amazon's insurance kicks in at 20h a week [1]

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...

[1] https://www.amazon.jobs/en/landing_pages/benefitsoverview-us
I wouldn't mind going back to work in the office. But I have several coworkers who don't want to come back and at least two who physically moved too far away to commute. I see no reason for me to make the effort to be back in the office just to be the only one there.
Your comment was much shorter when I hit reply :)
Ask HN: Do architects play a role in scrum?
I'm currently in a "scrum" team where the whole architecture of the application is thought out by a team of architects, documented in a 40 page document in very much detail (even detailing all the names and settings of all the resources). This all took 3 months to think about and write down. Now that that part is done, the resources are all provisioned by IT and it is now my task as an engineer to "hook things up together". We do this in a "scrum" way, but actually it is already precisely known up-front what will happen in what sprint and all the requirements are already set in stone.

I have some questions about this: what is the role of an architect in an agile process? What we are doing here does NOT at all seem agile to me, it's just waterfall in a scrum jacket. Wouldn't it make more sense to have an architect as part of the team an iteratively let them design stuff?

And are architects still a thing anyway? As an engineer I have boots-on-the-ground experience setting things up, I have all the certifications and knowledge for determining the right way to set this up. Shouldn't a senior engineer being trusted with this rather than a non-coder?

Last question: is it normal to write 40-page documents with all the architecture details before you start building? I never encountered this before at any companies (mind you, this is not a government institution, it's a for-profit company).

To give context: the team exists of only 1 engineer (me), a team of architects that are all working part-time on it, a bunch of stakeholders, product owner, scrum master, external parties. It's a project that should take maybe half a year to build.