skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Companies are well accustomed to bullshitting employees, so many people do fall for their lies.

Or they may have not been lying but just reacting to circumstances. They can’t give everyone everything needed to make everyone stay if the threaten to leave but they can do it for the one who does actually threaten to leave.

As a team lead I don’t believe in convincing someone to stay if they took an offer. Their heart and soul has left the building!
Email is the only protocol that has widespread adoption in probably every programming language. Clients are ubiquitous. Filtering allows you to receive many mails without getting out of hand.
> You may argue "Well, sure, but people like reading about the rich and powerful because they are more exciting to read about." But that is in itself partially a result of a culture we've built that says that your story is less meaningful if you aren't successful or powerful.

There is something to what you say, but perhaps less than you think. Stories about unjustly downtrodden members of the elite overcoming adversity and opposition to return to their rightful place in the social order (eg. every fairytale princess ever) didn't circulate as oral traditions for centuries due to the patronage of the upper crust. Nor can you really explain the popularity of the current incarnations of these stories (eg. as Disney princesses) that way.

Incidentally, I (vaguely) recall a story about a wizard from an alternate reality seeking out a baby switched at birth with one in our world. Said baby grew up to be a garbage man in our world, but always felt out of place. Said wizard offers to return said garbage man to his rightful place in the magical realm.

Bapr gurl'ir erghearq gb gur zntvpny ernyz ur'f unaqrq n oebbz naq gbyq gb fgneg fjrrcvat bhg gur fgnoyrf.

This was a short story (perhaps even a short-short), and not Zelazny's Wizard World novel (or any other novel).
The US hasn't even committed to defending Taiwan. I doubt the US would militarily intervene. The risk of escalation is too high. If China is committed to taking it, they will get it. The response would be economic, and I'm not confident enough of the world cares, or isn't already beholden to China for it to matter.

>Ford class aircraft carriers

Isn't there only one Ford class carrier? And it is still not fully ready, and it is in the Atlantic, so at this point is not ready to play a part in any South China Sea conflict.
This seems like a weird quibble to have. "Burned out from work" has been an acceptable term for "extremely stressed and exhausted from work" for at least a decade.

The workaholism comparison to drug addiction is actually pretty apt, too.
> Or is it the airtag functionality specifically that’s bothering you?

Yes. What does find my phone have to do with airtags?
Freedom of speech is not the same as unlimited reach
The fact that email is interoperable is what makes this possible. Try building a bot to forward your Facebook Messenger messages to $OTHER_PLATFORM.

(Aside: if they are okay getting a push notification per email, I suggest that they are Doing It Wrong. Email serves a different purpose entirely.)
Yup.

Even radiuz was probably better.

https://wifinetnews.com/archives/2004/06/radiuz_combines_wpa...
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”

-- Robert Heinlein

Edit: I noticed "science" doesn't appear in the description of a good data scientist. That's ominous.
"breached data" doesn't matter to companies, as we've seen. "gone data" is an existential threat.
Trade is a small percentage of US GDP. In 2019 it was only 2.5T in exports out of a 21.4T GDP.

That’s no where near enough to keep the economy moving.
Reynolds and Danvy, top choice

Have you ever been into chemistry-oriented programming models ?
Anecdotal but I had burn in on my LG B7 within a year or less of usage. Chrome and windows start menu button in the taskbar.
> we have obviously not tested every combination...

I mean, for transparency, we've only tested a very very small subset of the combinations, so it's not very indicative of anything.
Monitoring API calls is typically reactive on AWS - e.g. GuardDuty relies on logs from CloudTrail, which are incomplete (e.g. sending a message to SQS is not logged at all) and log delivery is delayed as well. Nevertheless it should detect the specific issue described here fairly quickly, certainly in less than 2 months.

Overall the best defense is defense in depth - use MFA for all human accounts, use IAM roles wherever possible, don't put stuff in public subnets, use restrictive firewall rules, follow least privilege principle, use secrets manager or similar services for storing credentials. You could write a book about it. Many people pretty much have.
Almost. It's anyone with Amazon IoTs sharing wifi with each other.
Creating a morse-code interpreter with Elixir, MQTT and Raspberry Pi
> Bit of a tragedy of the commons situation if we have too many selfish people like you who want the benefits of being able to find their own phone when it's lost but not participate in helping find other people's.

What if you only want to turn off airtags? This false choice is caused by apple.
So, everything practical.
>So what?

So people will meet inside rather than outside, not realising what a huge difference it makes, thus increasing infection.

I have family members who still disinfect all their shopping, but don't even open the windows when they have guests round. Prioritisation is essential here, not everybody is going to be perfect, and if they are compromising on the wrong measures due to miscommunication then that's a massive failure.
I expect my baker to offer me cheesecakes if he has observed that I often buy cheesecake from him. I would be disturbed if he started offering me Viagra, because someone he paid to track my purchases told him I often buy it.
Is theory of evolution describing attractors in its own way ? I could never find a clear answer.
Ask HN: Bay Area ransomware reversing shop?
Hi all, a family member recently passed away and the NAS we had been using to backup their photos has been compromised by ransomware.

Of course if there is no other option, we would pay the substantial amount of money to get the photos back - but if we can pay significantly less to have someone reverse the encryption key, that would be preferred.

Does anyone know of a service that reliably does this in the bay area or in the states?

Thank you...
Read receipt isn't handled well by my mail server either. Its not a good feature anyway
The good ones are fairly technical, but there are services that make them easier. Sieve or procmail filters and clients like macOS Mail.app and mutt are good ones.

My main email client is macOS Mail.app and it's pretty great when configured properly in conjunction with serverside preprocessing/filtering.
Lol. False trust at best. There's still scams to be had on the App Store.
Colonial Pipeline Hack: Newt Gingrich Wants Death Penalty for Cyber Attackers
>You won't even get a warning unless -Wextra or -Weverything is turned on.

I know people are used to languages where compiler warnings are on by default, but if you are building C without -W/-Wextra you are kind of asking for trouble. -Weverything is probably too pedantic for most people but -Wextra is pretty much required. And -Werror is required for projects where discipline can't be assumed or where the build log is bigger than a screenful.
This is what I have been doing! I might think twice now.
> a month and a half is practically no time at all

A month and a half is plenty of time, but it requires (1) the company decides that fixing security bugs is top priority. (2) They need a senior engineer or two on hand who are smart enough to understand the issues involved and implement a fix. And (3) They need a decent release process which allows security fixes to be promptly rolled out to users.

I’m not sure where most companies fail here. It’s certainly easy to downplay and deprioritize security fixes from the inside, when you have a big deadline coming up, or your customers are yelling at you or a refactor is blocking other people from doing their job. Security issues from the inside never feel like the “all hands on deck” emergency situations that security researchers believe them to be. (And I’m not sure if this is right or wrong, just, the experience I’ve always had from the ground when security issues potentially affected us.)
I'm working on a medium article as we speak. It's more about the journey from drumming to software, but does get a bit in depth with some of the challenges of S64.

Thankfully the timing is handled by the Tone.js framework. It allows you to sync events with a callback function which passes in a 'time' argument that keeps everything in line.
> 11K per month?! That is absolutely bananas

No, it's not. I work from home, remotely from Europe and I get paid $17K per month writing some PHP and JS code.

I imagine writing Babel code isn't some trivial task that you can hire a junior dev to do.
"dug straight down" and fell in a cave... cave might have been full of something that eats flesh like piranha or bacteria, or even just angry bats...

Seems pretty trivial for this kind of lore to get started.
If you want clean IPs for self-hosting a mail server, you can use a service we created called Hoppy Network:

https://hoppy.network

Our IP addresses are not on any blacklists, and we don't block SMTP or mail ports.
most data scientist are just jupyter notebook and sklearn cowboys who know a lot of the buzzwords but lack even basic statistical understanding.

and I've met a lot of data scientists.
US world order centres around its word.

If allies can't depend on US to defend them then it opens up all sorts of possibilities none of which are in the best interests of the US or those that value democracy.

For example closest allies like Australia for example would have no choice but to capitulate and bow down to China's whims. This would include ending the Five Eyes security arrangement and allowing Huawei to operate the 5G backbone infrastructure.
Emergency declaration issued in 17 states over fuel pipeline cyberattack
> Food prices are way up, lumber prices are way up, restaurant prices are way up, clothing costs are up.

As was predicted:

> So what’s going to happen in the months ahead? We’ll probably see a number of transitory price increases, not just because the economy is booming, but also because the lingering effects of the pandemic have produced some unusual disruptions — for example, a global shortage of shipping containers.

> The question will be whether these price increases are a 2010-2011-type blip or something more dangerous. Smart observers will look past the headlines to measures of underlying inflation — not just the Fed’s standard “core” measure but things like the Atlanta Fed’s sticky price index as well. Anecdotal evidence, otherwise known as “talking to people,” will also be important: Are businesses actually starting to set prices and wages based on the expectation of high future inflation?

> If they aren’t — and my bet is that they won’t be — then the lesson of 2010-2011 will remain: Don’t panic.

> Now as then there are people eager to denounce government attempts to help the economy. And it’s certainly possible that the American Rescue Plan will turn out, in retrospect, to have been too much of a good thing. But don’t let the usual suspects seize on a few months’ inflation data as evidence of looming disaster.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/opinion/us-inflation-stim...

* https://archive.is/Vxj5h

I don't how old you are, but we went through the same thing ten years ago:

> Well, booming economies often run into temporary bottlenecks, which show up in surging prices for selected goods. For example, the price of copper tripled between December 2008 and February 2011, even though recovery from the 2008 recession was fairly sluggish.

* https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/opinion/us-inflation-fede...

* https://archive.is/64iz2

For a history of copper prices see:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCOPPUSDM

If you look up the inflation rate 2008-2011 you'll find it was nothing to write home about.

Will it actually be a problem this time around? It certainly can, and people are concerned about it. They're paying attention to it. But we had 3% inflation in the 1990s and the world didn't end.
I'm a remote contractor, and my policy is to essentially work my clients time zone. Right now I'm 11am-7pm (I'm in NZ, they're mostly in Sydney, Australia).

For a while my team was all in Malaysia, so I did 2pm-10pm.

Hell for the right contract I'd work as far east as texas, mon-fri 10am-6pm for them, tues-sat 5am-1pm for me.

No one asks me to do this, but it just makes life easier, and clients like knowing that I'm working normal hours and will pick up the phone.
Why the Sharpe Ratio Matters
The Sharpe ratio is nearly the only investment metric that matters. Let's dig into how that can be.
Make it clear that you have, live with, or take care of someone with health conditions that make you worry for your own health or someone else's.

Organize with your coworkers who feel the same way as you do about returning to the office, and negotiate as a group.

It also helps to have an offer from a company that can meet your needs if your current employer won't.
I was in an executive position at a startup that wouldn't move to full work from home. I quit and moved to another startup that will let me work from home. In the end it was higher salary, lower responsibilities and the ability to work form anywhere. Best decision I could have made.
Most tech reviewers publish the reviews right after the Apple embargo ends or just a couple of days after getting the product. For something like AirTags, where you want to try more complex usage scenarios, this is not optimal.

Keep in mind the idea of "other iPhones will help you find your tags" was not even a thing you could test for when the first reviews came in, since iOS 14.5 was not out yet. Testing Airtags, therefore, was extremely complex for some edge cases and the experience was not as serendipitous as it would be now.

It didn't help that Apple was not very open on how the anti-stalking features work exactly, for obvious reasons (you don't want people to figure out how to bypass them).
Possible performance regressions in Linux 5.13
Never offer to be paid less for X. Even a shorter work week. Let them say you get paid less first (they may not) and then counter. I’m mainly writing this comment for me later on :-)

It’s simply the case not everyone wants to screw you down on cost. Don’t assume they will. If you have every purchased a Mac when a pc is cheaper (or similar buying the brand when generic is cheaper) or paid more for the pizza from the restaurant you love, you’ll know what I mean.

In fact if the pizza place says “sorry delivery only due to COVID so pizzas are half price” I’d think “huh... what’s wrong with their pizza?”
The Wikipedia page for WIPP still mentions that "[warning information] will be recorded in the six official languages of the United Nations (English, Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, Arabic) as well as the Native American Navajo language native to the region, with additional space for translation into future languages. Pictograms are also being considered, such as stick figure images and the iconic The Scream from Edvard Munch's painting."

A great video about Fear of Depths briefly talks about this: https://youtu.be/7MOKTU9tCbw?t=1299 (timestamped at 21:39 when they mention WIPP, but I highly recommend the whole video)
archive.org accepted dumps of Parler, in recent memory, which is clearly stolen information. Do you think that's the first time they've accepted information that is meant to be private?

Facebook had created puppet profiles from people's contact information and made them public, notoriously.

Like, at what point would you like to accept that GPs statement is not hyperbole? Would all information that was private need to go public? By then I'd say it is too late.

This is a rather silly argument where you try to draw some line in online services that has been willfully greyed by the people who create these platforms for their own benefit.

If you want to call GP a privacy fatalist, then I'll just call you a privacy denialist and leave it there.
Get to know Django models better
More blaming money for crime. Cryptocurrency is money. Crime will always exist as long as there are laws. Laws will exist as long as there is society. Money will exist as long as there is trade. Society<=>Trade. Stephen once again shouts at the inanimate money or tech to blame it for societies ills. This is a dangerous attitude can lead to cryptography restrictions, like banning of e2e or tor.
3D printer I presume.
Asynchronous Tasks with FastAPI and Celery
> the market shows us that SWE's are more highly valued presumably because there is more demand for those skills.

I think it's that it's that a tech company can more consistently make money from a SWE than any other role. You can always roll together an app and sell it. For every other role[0], you provide value to the organization, which eventually makes its way to the customers.

This is why the software bootcamp grads have fared better than the DS bootcamps (and ML bootcamps). A company can get a lot of value from a pretty crummy SWE and is willing to pay for it. A crummy Data Scientist, not so much.

[0] Sales is also similarly direct, depending on the industry. They enjoy a similar status.
> boring commutes

They're not just boring, they're dangerous and expensive, especially if you're commuting by car. Commutes are responsible for a 9.91% drop in hourly wages[1].

Using the media commute time, a commuter might spend close to 10 days per year just commuting, and in some cases it's closer to two full weeks[1]:

> In the area with the longest average commute (New York-Newark-Jersey City), commuters are spending an average of 13 days, 2 hours, and 26 minutes driving to and from work. That means that 14 vacation days a year are barely covering the time it takes to get to work every day. So in addition to dropping the average wage from $34.71 per hour to $30.15 per hour, in order to get 14 days of hanging with their family on a beach, New York commuters must be willing to spend nearly as much time sitting in a car.

[1] https://go.frontier.com/business/commute-calculator
I disagree: for defenders trying to establish veracity of flaws and prioritizing defense this is useful information. "Active exploits seen in wild" is a strong signal.

Picking two potentially high impact announcements from the last month or so:

1. There is a severe flaw in the RSA cryptosystem.
2. There is a remote code exec vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange.

One of these was a sketch of an incremental improvement to an attack that remains mostly of theoretical interest. The other was being actively exploited, was tragically simple for 3rd parties to replicate post-announcement and resulted in widespread pain.

There is some (non-linear) scale here (theoretical flaw/poc/weaponized poc/public poc/public weaponized poc/exploited, but limited actors or targets/widely exploited/HAVOC). MS for example uses just "less likely to be exploited", "more likely to be exploited" "being exploited". It's coarse and somewhat subjective but there is value even so.

"This flaw is being actively exploited in the wild" is the best line I can take upstairs. I don't want that to go away just because some parties might misuse it.
> Isn't one of the problems that JIT was made to solve that there is a tax on inventory?

Then hold that inventory in Canada or Mexico or India or China? This isn't a hard problem.
> having high profile test would actually improve the image of the public figure

Of course....everybody would feel bad for him and would love Amazon (which has a credit rating equal to the one of the US government) even more if its CEO rockets were to constantly explode.

Bezos has a legacy to protect , whereas all Musk has is a company he raided and sued to be referred as founder. A company constantly on the verge of bankruptcy. Kinda different.

> So I guess anybody not selling software should just go home and start drinking because apparently its not worth it

Kinda?? Nobody comes to the Silicon Valley to deal with all the BS which comes with building physical stuff. Software eats the world.

> That is other then haters who clearly have personal dislike for the CEO.

I don't hate Musk . I just think he's an Elizabeth Holmes who had the right timing. The only difference is that he was smart enough to understand that just the promises of a technoutopian future would compel sychopants and fools to make him rich.

Liz thought for her to become rich she had to give the illusion that the product was already delivered and functional behind the scenes. Musk understands people are happy with being told every 2 years that Level 5 is just 2 yers in the future.

Comparing him to Bezos or Gates or Brin or Benioff is madness.

Unlike those titans he's very loud because he knows well that the business doesn't have the numbers to succeed without the constant shilling of the pumper in chief.

Tesla is structurally unprofitable, not a tech company, low revenues/employee ratio...an absolute dumpster fire.

And frankly Musk is a mess, the way he carries himself make it very clear that he's on heavy drugs.
although given the context the units should be specified in stones...
> Terrorists are interested in creating fear, hence why they take attributions in the first place.

That's one possible way, but not always needed. The message for fear may be "us gas infrastructure can be broken for days by internet exploits" - that's been done. Adding "by Russian groups" at the end does change the message and creates a lot of issues as we've seen - so the preference may be to deny it.
> You should be able to say "I'm not using this service, the limit should be $0."

In your organization, add a service control policy which denies access to services you don't use. This will prevent all member accounts from executing actions you don't want, including root users. You can also deny any action on any resource in region other than whatever you expect to use (with some exceptions due to legacy stuff).
I don't think starship propellant can be made on the moon.

I also don't think it is necessarily easier to manufacture space machines there given the constraints, even if the materials are available. If Starship is fully reusable 100T to orbit for just the cost of the propellant, there is a huge benefit to Earth-based manufacturing in the short to medium term.
You can still have traditional Find My- the one where your phone connects and tells Apple where its GPS is. This switch is specifically for the networking, which allows other devices to help out when your phone is dead or otherwise not connected to the internet/gps.
China's per capita GDP is over 10,000 USD. Their middle class is already huge.

I think a decent analogy is that Chinese market is approximately the size of USA and India's is approximately the size of Canada.
Steam Coming to ChromeOS in 2021?
Thanks! This is really helpful, will be sure to update it asap.
I agree with your gift card point. That's definitely how they are operating right now for phone and pc repair scams. It wouldn't be a terrible idea to disallow redeeming gift cards in countries outside of the purchase.
I think the fact that “check your spam” is so widely understood is a testament to false positives in the inbox being an issue for Gmail.

Ideally this phrase would not be so widely known and understood if Gmail didn’t have so many false positives going to the spam folder. I’d imagine that, as a performance metric, the Gmail team would consider false positives to be a metric for improvement, not a metric of pride.