skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people don't understand how much work goes into actually making a startup happen and flame out pretty quickly

Understandable, this problem has worsened over the past 20 years as an increasing number of new grads just see computers == way to get rich quickly || a good job. Crypto is the worst example of this greed-oriented mindset, at least during the dotCom boom you generally had to come with a unique idea instead of just forking a git repo and rebadging it.

There used to be a greater degree of intrinsic curiosity that drove most engineers & startup culture, but FAANG ideology has really taken over the bulk of the mind-share around what it means to be in tech. Some of this is not bad because it's been easier than ever to find quality brick-layers who view it as "just a job", but your genuine visionaries who are motivated by excitement about tech and great ideas are increasingly lost in the noise.
It should be pretty obvious that as long as ransomware is this profitable, we are absolutely fucked when it comes to computer security. The economical incentives are so completely and utterly skewed, there is no way for society to function.

This is all because of cryptocurrencies. They are the one single factor that enables this economical fiasco. They need to be banned, now, or this will just get worse from here on out.
I’m not sure that’s true. There is a certain strand in postmodernist/critical thought that, by consistently seeking to unmask power, recovers the perennial, “religious” questions. Some examples might include Horkheimer’s later works, Simone Weil, or Habermas, who famously had an encounter with Pope Benedict XVI (then, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger) that caused him to reevaluate a lot of his views towards religious thought.
I think Aquinas is also pretty accessible to the dedicated novice.
Maybe you mean positivist instead of postmodernist? In that case, yeah, I’d agree.
It is curious why we haven't figured out the difference between a "healthy" french/mediterranean/home cooked meal and a tv dinner yet.

Obviously something gets lost in the macro nutrients/vitamin content - but I don't think I've seen a formal study of why they are different.
I cannot imagine a situation where a small interpreted language is "too complicated" but "free monads" are not.
Sure, I am here to state the current state of the world and point to the most up-to-date way to find out what the status is, that's it.
This is the MOST important reason no one talk about.
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https://youtu.be/xOCurBYI_gY&t=15m10s
Also there are always FSB agents sitting in Kaspersky office. Let that sink in.
Yes it is an unfortunately common definition among the groups you mentioned, but I still believe those people to be a minority relative to the population.

The dictionary.com definition for racism says nothing about power being a requirement:

A belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.
I like the idea of starting a new town, something that’s in great need with so many cities oberpopulating

Why no AC? He says they can’t produce enough power. But all it takes is one powerwall and 4K or 8k solar panel per house.
The thing is, in web appsec world, when Classic ASP was a production platform, we were very early in terms of what attacks would be prevalent and the defences that are generally added to modern web application frameworks were not in use.

In theory you can totally add those protections per application but the effort of doing that, maintaining the knowledge required per application or team and keeping on top of new research, is likely higher than just moving to a new framework which has in-built protection.

Also you have to consider developer availability. At 19 years since it was deprecated, there is a smaller pool of people who are skilled at maintaining that codebase, and the group of people who can do that, and keep on top of web application security attacks is even smaller.
1) most of those taxes aren’t specifically for environmental policies. For example, vehicle taxes go to fund roads
2) no, most of government spending does not go to funding pensions and there’s absolutely no evidence to support that. That claim is absolutely ludicrous.
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"We don't know what will happen" is a specious reply because the models we do have are continuously improving, have been proven quite accurate so far, and backtesting continues to refine the behavior. This isn't a matter of having no idea what'll happen; there'll always be uncertainty but when the models continue to be validated and keep pointing at potentially devastating scenarios then the prudent thing is to act now instead of hoping the models are wrong.
A former coworker went to work for the USDS. He left a few months later and had nothing positive to say. As a whole, they do not seem in any way to be competitive with the compensation, talent, or innovation of private companies.

You still have to pass a marijuana drug test to work there, for heaven's sake.
Just curious, do we have recorded cases where a paramilitary coup or terror operation happened through funds obtained by hacking? Also any evidence that post-9/11 KYC measures have prevented anything bad from happening would be interesting.
The trees are rotting from the inside. That's a complex issue and doesn't sound like it's from warming. Old live oaks can suffer a similar fate, and the issue is usually caused by stress on the tree impacting the tree's immune system.

Trees are really good at managing stress from heat, however stress from moisture much less so.
"There's no evidence therefore that's proof there was involvement"

What? You're trying to pass off absolutely zero evidence as proof.
> Or I guess two new categories, because the victims are all criminals now too.

The victims won't become criminals because you'll never find a senior executive willing to go to prison to pay a ransomware ransom. And no, "pay someone to pay it" or "have a random low-level nobody pay someone to pay it" is not going to work. Judges/juries aren't that stupid and senior leadership typically know judges/juries aren't that stupid.

Criminalizing paying ransoms would work, and this particular "they'd just pay someone to pay the ransom" argument against criminalizing paying ransoms is beyond specious. Criminalizing paying has worked with other, much more serious types of ransoms. Why wouldn't it work here?
Understanding there's orders of magnitude of possible scale, what's the likelihood that one of these passing through the solar system would destabilize it enough to affect Earth? What happens if it hits the sun?
How can folks contact you?
Ahhh premiocre! I read and then forgot about this term that describes "a lot of stuff." I owe you huge internet bucks my friend, this has been at the tip of my tongue for months.
Of course, it's not a magic, because everything is written in clear text, but it works:

> However, in this case, Donald writes, "with Cisco, years of trying to work through their predecessor's compliance problems didn't generate the progress we were hoping for, so we had filed a lawsuit. It was quickly settled, and compliance was achieved."
>
> There’s an even brighter silver lining to this story: Cisco later became a contributor to the GNU Project. "It really is a success story in bringing a violator into the free software community," Donald wrote.

For a proprietary code, it doesn't work because a commercial company is looking for profit.
> climate models are basically useless for predicting anything

That is false. Although you’re correct that climate is very complex and it is impossible to model every detail. The notion that you cannot make valid conclusions from modeling because a set of observations do not match models is fallacious because it discounts the correct conclusions that climate models have achieved. For example, the first climate models from the 1960s predicted that the mesosphere will contract and cool as a result of increasing co2 concentrations, and this conclusion has been backed by empirical observations. Furthermore, modeling from the 1970s by scientists at Exxon Mobile found that by 2020, net warming would reach an average of 1 degree centigrade, which we’ve since exceeded.
Several problems with your post:

First, it is necessary to state my assumption, clearly. Especially when it seems it was at least partly false. Good faith means that you're interested in learning, not winning. But the remaining points show your motive is winning, not learning.

Second, you argue against the straw-man that I think everyone shares my expectations. I don't, and in my experience this is precisely the kind of mistake someone wanting badly to "win" makes.

Third, you attack me personally by characterizing one of my statements as "going off the rails", and follow that up with your own statement that assumes you know what "people" will and will not listen to. Again, it's the rhetorical baggage of the sophist, not the reasoned debate I would prefer.

Go ahead and keep arguing that passive phone-home behavior in FOSS is fine and that arguing against it is actually harming the public in general, and their privacy in particular. I think it's a ridiculous argument on its face and I don't think the person making it is making it in good faith, so I am not going to discuss it further with you.
A movie doesn’t have to be cerebral to be good. The Rock is a good movie for the type of movie it is. There are bad movies in the same basic genre as The Rock or Con Air, many of which also starred Nicolas Cage.
Fair enough, I admit my take is an (the indefinite article, to be clear) orthodox, but meme-y and not especially "deep" one.
A refreshing read. Most 'modern' towns are loud mainly because of vehicles and lawn care. It is interesting to think about a town built around not needing those things.
With Whitehurst stepping down, where do IBM and Red Hat go from here?
> big-endian bit order makes the very very very low-level circuits easier

These probably invert pretty easily I suspect (the 1-bit bus with a latch would be the only order dependent thing).

But as a human, it is definitely so much easier to write down 7 on paper tape if the numbers match the big endian order.

The big-endian bit order definitely made my "write binary on paper" exercises in college much easier to read back.

The whole "arabic numeral" thing is accidentally visible there, where you fill numbers right to left if you want the decimal points to align.
Another famous example: adventure games using z-machine (Infocom), and later SCUMM.
The parent comment is not about fiat->crypto, but the other way around. A similar effect to stronger kyc on someone suddenly inexplicably trying to pay for a yacht with crypto.
It is an outlier today.

Do you think it will be an outlier in a year? In two years?

If a zero-day can gain you millions, tens of millions, maybe a hundred million dollars? Do you think we can keep operating the way we have been up until now?
The insinuation is that in such a scenario there would be a strong enough disincentive.

And perhaps also the incentive of not having a years long pandemic.
I'll post this on the first Monday of every month moving forward.
I think we're going to see a rise in private towns.
Love to see it!
That's a very nice way of putting it. I agree that VCs aren't an API. But I think there are builders and there are hustlers. We have a system which is looking to fund hustlers, even if they have zero clue of how to build. And most importantly, most hustlers want to build software products. Yet the builders of those products struggle to find minimum fund to go full time. It's like either you have a great deck and thousand emails or nothing.
Ah... brings back memories. I can still hear the handoff message.. bizzip.

I used to run an AMPS network back from 1991 to 1994. I miss the good old days; dailling NPA-NXX-7626 to reach a roamer, having to copy call records to magnetic tape to send off to GE for roaming calls, manually tuning combiners with my spectrum analyzer, calibrating audio levels on DS-0 cards using 1004 Hz tones, etc... it truly was a wireless telephone network.
Performance is not a part of behavior. Specification is about specifying logical behavior and that's it. I don't know of any specification framework that supports saying anything about performance.
The Selfish Dataome – Does the data we produce serve us, or vice versa? (2018)
Sure the phishing email could cause a data breach. But this is about ransomware.
The nuclear submarine is just part of our extended phenotype :)
A friend of a friend recently planted pecan trees. In 20 years when they mature it might be warm enough for them to produce pecans.

She lives in New York.
What audit would have found a zero-day vulnerability?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
This would be trademark law if anything, not copyright.
Ask HN: What submissions are censored from discussion on HN?
I made this submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27748173 and it appears to have been censored and shadow-banned by HN

edit: changed from subjects to submissions
I'm very suprised that Linus is accepting this.

In my experience with mid size projects the key to success has always been controlling complexity. I can only imagine that this is even more true for large projects.

Generally the complexity an additional language brings to the table is immense in several aspects.

Specifically Rust has it's own problems and drawbacks.

Looking back at the history of Rust and Firefox/Servo, introducing Rust was overall quite a disservice.
Alternatively, 60% of candidates prefer to give "return to office" as the reason they want to leave, rather than explaining why they hate their boss.
I could be wrong but the CEO kept mentioning their "Cyberdefense playbook" and how it dictates immediate shutdown of services at sign of breach.

Well didn't their Cyberdefense playbook have anything to say about simple ACLs protecting those internet facing systems that were vulnerable to SQL injections? I mean even a very broad ACL allowing an entire country geoip block would be better than nothing.
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AML works against the small time criminals but when the sums get large they have access to much larger infrastructure and good old creative accounting. By infrastructure, I mean states.

That said, every once in a while a larger fish is caught. Right now a huge topic in Turkey is about a local businessman laundering about $1B of a US Mormon sect that stole the money from the US by faking business activity and receiving subsidies.

In this case, the Americans are in prison and the Turkish guy is in Austria, awaiting extradition.

Shortly before things got sour, the guy had access to the highest Turkish officials and was the darling of the media.

On the US side of the things, apparently the criminals were partnering with a high ranking CIA official to pull this off.

Here is a video on the topic: https://youtu.be/BPZIX5oBrUc

It’s already out of date as more money and connections were revealed since then but if you Google the names, more juicy stuff comes out. Sezgin Baran Korkmaz is the name of the Turkish guy allegedly laundered their money, now under arrest in Austria. Erdogan scrambled to remove his photos with the guy from the internet.

It has been revealed that they bought old Turkish companies that were under financial troubles and used these to move the money.

Why Turkey? Because Turkey is in economic turmoil and to motivate people bring money in the country they passed a law so the state doesn’t ask the origin of the money and politicians facilitate the bureaucratic process(allegedly for a substantial commission).

Pretty straightforward laundromat.

Once the money is in the Turkish system, they have access to EU, USA and pretty much everywhere because according to the paperwork the money is coming from legit companies, some a century old.

I bet you, Turkey is not the only rough agent here.
That was an excuse and a convenient cover story. GCP can't even serve the needs of large organizations, they definitely can't service the government. Couple that with the leaked plans to shut the thing down because it's an abject failure (it's a money pit for Google), and why would you want to be on the platform of certain disaster?

I've had demos from GCP sales reps, and the platform is shambolic. It doesn't even work during sales presentations.
The markets aren't always rational but a slew of security flaws increasing the drain of revenue by having to pay out ransomware or losing all of your data will be a driving force behind improving security.
How many hours you have to work for that ?. How long before you get fired because you didn't kiss someone's ass or can't keep competiting with 27year single male with no other life ?

Compensation is only one aspect of a job. Plenty of people work in defense while private sector pays more, public service motivation, job security, benefits, better work hours, more seniority driven promotions there are a ton of reasons.

Doesn't mean it is the most efficient way to run an org, point is there are enough qualified people who value the other benefits more than just the cash.

Funny you mention 170k Amazon is known to have a fairly strong cap on base salary compensation. Usually at 150-170k range.
Ransomware existed before crypto, also banning crypto is very hard to do and arguably not legal.
> And yes, you can put a full memory fence around every access to a variable that is shared across threads. But doing so would just destroy the performance of your program. Given that we're talking about concerns that are specific to a relatively low-level approach to parallelism, I think it's safe to assume that performance is the whole point, so that would be an unacceptable tradeoff.

Indeed.

Just a reminder to everyone: your pthreads_mutex_lock() and pthreads_mutex_unlock() functions already contain the appropriate compiler / cache memory barriers in the correct locations.

This "Memory Model" discussion is only for people who want to build faster systems: for people searching for a "better spinlock", or for writing lock-free algorithms / lock-free data structures.

This is the stuff of cutting edge research right now: its a niche subject. Your typical programmer _SHOULD_ just stick a typical pthread_mutex_t onto an otherwise single-threaded data-structure and call it. Locks work. They're not "the best", but "the best" is constantly being researched / developed right now. I'm pretty sure that any new lockfree data-structure with decent performance is pretty much an instant PH.D thesis material.

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Anyway, the reason why "single-threaded data-structure behind a mutex" works is because your data-structure still keeps all of its performance benefits (from sticking to L1 cache, or letting the compiler "manually cache" data to registers when appropriate), and then you only lose performance when associated with the lock() or unlock() calls (which will innately have memory barriers to publish the results)

That's 2 memory barriers (one barrier for lock() and one barrier for unlock()). The thing about lock-free algorithms is that they __might__ get you down to __1__ memory barrier per operation if you're a really, really good programmer. But its not exactly easy. (Or: they might still have 2 memory barriers but the lockfree aspect of "always forward progress" and/or deadlock free might be easier to prove)

Writing a low-performance but otherwise correct lock free algorithm isn't actually that hard. Writing a lock free algorithm that beats your typical mutex + data-structure however, is devilishly hard.
The relevant in my comment is the first language.

English is popular as second language just because english is at the present moment the language with more access to documentation and resources, so more people needed to learn it to defeat language barriers. If in the future the language with more resources became Mandarin, more people will learn it as a second language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27749247 (54 comments)
Star Wars was released 6 years before SDI was created, so I don't see how it would be any other way?
The activist who died yesterday died in a multi-speciality hospital.
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I disagree with the logic that Twitter ToS choosing to focus on combating a specific type of abuse is indicative of the definition of "racism". It does not mention that word anywhere.
They seem to be trying to insist that the virus didn't even originate in Wuhan at all, leak or no leak.
Very poor reasoning here. 90% of all humans that have ever lived are dead. Therefore jump off a bridge right away?
Valid point. That's a whole extra tier of cooperation necessary. I suppose in this case it would not be unfair to treat each state similarly to a country on the global level, but it does complicate the path to the success condition.
I enjoy some self-help books because they seem to articulate an underlying gameplan for pursuing whatever one considers "success," which are ideas my parents and school only taught me implicitly or inaccurately. My parents' advice to me as a kid was "do what you love and the money will follow," which is not true, and/or "join the Navy," which I had no desire to do. So I've ended up trying to find my own way in life, however imperfectly.

Essentially, a lot of these books are about executive functioning skills, the meta-level planning and goal-setting and failure-analysis efforts that are necessary to make progress in whatever field. I think it is also true, as other commenters note, that to some extent they fill an ethical or existential void left by the decline of religion.
The latter regime is less a function of the ratio itself and more a function of the total number of accessible teachers, and the ability to switch teachers at will to find the one most suited to your learning style. If a university had 100 teachers all teaching the same course in the low or medium STR regimes and students were able to easily swap between teachers at will, the effect would be the same.
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Geesh, I left Microsoft in December, but back then it was all hands on deck, drop everything else, to meet this contract, and I doubt much has changed. I had a feeling it would be a bad end even if JEDI paid off, because so much else was being neglected. Now though....
Asking about this kind of stuff is.
It's hard to imagine humans going extinct. An extinction level event for organisms which can't adapt fast enough, sure. But humans have existed in all sorts of climates from the stone age, while colonizing most of the planet. Our ancestors survived ice ages.
Oops, you're right about the pipe..

I thought that looked a bit wrong, but ignored my gut.
Privileged port: I'm root anyway. =) I can't make it too easy on these kids.
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My understanding, which was never great and is imperfectly recalled:

Augustine was the foundation of Neoplatonism in the Medieval church, which was it's guiding philosophy (to some great extent) for centuries.

The works of Aristotle were lost to them. They knew of Aristotle but didn't have his writings. Around the time of Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle's works were rediscovered, having been preserved in the Muslim world. Aquinas' great task was reconciling them with the existing church.
> The wild thing is that the ransomware operations are making so much money that they can afford to buy multi-million dollar zero day vulns that at one point were only available to nation states or fortune 500 companies.

Is it a wild thing that if you permit a safe mechanism of extortion a sprawling economy quickly develops around it, dunno.