skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, absolutely right. That decoder is also beastly. Of course, fixed (nearly) length ARM instructions make the problem a lot easier. x86 instruction format and length variance is just ridiculous. Intel has saddled themselves with years of complexity and it has become a big obstacle for them. They have always muscled through it by throwing process innovation at the problem, but recent stumbles leave them trapped in a box of their own creation. Intel is a great company and I expect them to dig out of this, but it is tough right now.
Off topic, but how are these OneTrust cookie settings GDPR compliant? I though there had to be a way to opt out of these?

Link different devices Always Active
Different devices can be determined as belonging to you or your household in support of one or more of purposes.
A weird thing I noticed: software developers complain about these doors a lot more than other people.

I worked in a big office building with lots of kinds of people, and on the internal chat devs would always complain about a couple of these doors.

They would also regularly complain about a few other things, which while indeed being real, they would be considered minor by other people, one example - not being able to see from a distance if an elevator is busy, with the suggestion of placing elevator availability lights throughout the floor (like plane toilet lights)

I wonder what's the cause, is it attention to detail, being a bit further on the spectrum, too much free time so you hang out on internal chat, ...
...more than humans do currently
How often are people remanded to secret prisons and/or are just murdered because the computer says their passport photo doesn't match their face? Why bring it up?

Technically, a previously unknown near-earth object could wipe out most life on earth at lunchtime. Odds are, I'll still have that 2 PM meeting, though.
How to Think Like a Product Manager?
I've got a lot of family in the education space. They get paid shit money but having a solid two months off every year is pretty appealing.
I had a Gell-Mann amnesia moment when their video about electric car charge infrastructure made some major errors about electrical engineering. But their videos do generally feel exceptionally well researched, especially by YouTube standards.
> … "but the US Government has even bigger pockets."

The thing people often forget about those US Government deep pockets is that they're the pockets of the US taxpayer being badly mis-managed by politicians with zero math skills.
I find it interesting that the card companies are concerned storing the data in India could allow the government access to it when the data apparently currently resides in the US. Either they're doing something with the data in the US that prevents the US from accessing it the way India could or they're just accepting the US being able to access it as a given and don't see why Indian customers wouldn't want that.
> Then observe that the ratio between these two measurements is 12

Then their space isn't locally approximated by R^3, so what's a circular object? What does it mean to be straight? What's length?
> Why does a recession need to have a negative connotation? It's what a healthy economy does to get rid of market inefficiencies.

Because market inefficiencies get restless when they can’t pay the rent or feed their families. They might even pick-up pitchforks…
"I'm not sure I follow" in this context is a kind of low brow rhetorical technique, used to try and make the recipient feel stupid or inferior and drop their argument as a result. I've also seen it used for objection handling by mattress or car salesmen.
What is TezEdge[1]? At first glance appears to be a performance monitor for "Tezos"[0], a “Liquid Proof-of-Stake”[2, 3] blockchain. However, its github repo[4] calls it an implemention of "a secure, trustworthy and open-source Tezos node in Rust.".

Tezos seems to have a pretty strong presence on both Medium and Twitter.

0: https://tezedge.com/

1: https://tezos.com/

2: https://wiki.tezosagora.org/learn/baking/proofofstake/consen...

3: https://medium.com/tezos/liquid-proof-of-stake-aec2f7ef1da7

4: https://github.com/tezedge/tezedge
Every time I see "the former guy" I read it as "he who must not be named." What is the origin of this and why do people do it?
You may want to read up on fuzzy set theory. Most certainly there is a set of 1 that when added to itself results in the set of 3, 4 or really any arbitrary set to varying degrees.

Bivalant sets is only a special case subset of fuzzy sets where 1+1 must equal 2.
I've realized we're probably confused about whether we're talking about Japanese in America vs. Japanese-Americans. I was talking about Japanese in America (the article is about a foreigner in Japan), but I'd make roughly the same claims in either case. Empirically, I would bet that both Japanese in America and Japanese-Americans both show rates of criminality more similar to Japan's than to the remainder of the U.S. population's. In the case of Japanese-Americans, I'd bet it's higher than Japan's. I haven't looked any numbers up or attempted to figure it out in detail.

As for why, there are a few reasons. One interesting one is selection effects (immigrants to a new country are not a random sample of the old country's population). There is culture, of course, probably the biggest factor, as well as other inheritances (material goods / wealth, genes, disease burden...).
Generally speaking, yep! It works for Star Trek, although sometimes they get to elaborate in their descriptions or start to take the "science" too far. But generally they walk the line of science-y sounding explanation decently well. How about you?
Vaccinate enough and the virus can be totally eradicated even if the vaccine is only 50% effective. With a 90+% effective vaccine it's fairly easy. We did this with smallpox.
> We'd often get requests to retry all failed webhooks in a time period.

(I worked on the same team as bkraus, non-concurrently).

For teams that are building webhooks into your API, I'd recommend including UI to view webhook attempts and resend them individually or in bulk by date range. Your customers are guaranteed to have a bad deploy at some point.
Product has never been Google's strong suit, but I'm in awe of how incredibly poor their messaging/communication product strategy has been over the last decade. They had a decade long headstart and they more than squandered it through the selective application of neglect where attention was needed and attention where things were already great.
If you're happy with your keyboard it's likely a hard sell.

I'm not sure where you're getting the impression it's meant to be used with one hand, but QMK would give you the ability to create a keymap that you could use with one hand if you wanted.

Handful of reasons I like it:

- I was able to maintain the pok3r navigation function layer

- QMK is pretty flexible, it took little effort to type/code until I felt something could be better, then modify a keymap to make it better

- The size is a bonus, it's really easy to take with you

- Hotswappable switches are great, and only needing 47 of them to try out new switches makes it easy
Run privacy engineering workloads at the touch of an API call
With this product release, the Gretel service enables the following workloads without having to write a single line of code.
It is good to see India growing as a world power as the largest democracy in the world.
How about just avoiding wars? Global interdependence of countries is beneficial for this reason. Also, India's military is no match for and unlikely to have any reason to fight the external countries where MasterCard's data is likely to be stored (US, UK, etc).
What's incendiary about the opinion piece? Did you even read enough to find out what the Word was?
a dark sky clone

Apple bought Dark Sky and closed the api for new devs. Supposedly they'll shut down the api next year for existing customers. If that happens, there are a bunch of sites/apps that would love to swap out their connection string to a similar service.
I worked at Facebook for most of 2017 and 2018. In the first week, they made it clear that you would be fired instantly for any improper access of user data.

They further said that if you need to access any sensitive personal data, or if you need to log in as a user in order to debug a problem, you need to have approval from your manager _before_ the access, not after.

Also, you are not allowed to access the data of anyone you know personally for any reason whatsoever. You have to find someone else to do that if it needs to be done.

Finally, they really do audit every single access of personal data. I had every reason to believe that if I accessed any data improperly, I would be fired within the week if not the day.

I don’t know how much abuse still exists despite all of the above, but I don’t think this article does a good job of explaining how seriously Facebook takes this.
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Logic refers to the most basic set of logical operations, and the axioms which we can build on top of those fundamental operations. Mathematics builds on these fundamentals with non-logical axioms, postulates which are used as building blocks for a more complex system.

Euclidean geometry is a mathematical system which starts from a set of five basic postulates:

1. A straight line segment can be drawn joining any two points.

2. Any straight line segment can be extended indefinitely in a straight line.

3. Given any straight line segment, a circle can be drawn having the segment as radius and one endpoint as center.

4. All right angles are congruent.

5. Through any given point not on a line there passes exactly one line parallel to that line in the same plane.

These, with corresponding idealized definitions of 'point' and 'straight' and 'indefinite' and 'circle', rather than physical constructions, concretely define pi as a ratio between the circumference of the circle and the length of the line segment. Any universe where a mathematician can imagine these five postulates and use them to calculate pi will result in the same value.

If you discard or modify one of these postulates, you can come up with a system like a hyperbolic or elliptical geometry where pi could have a different value. Euclidean geometry closely corresponds to a our macroscopic physical world, one can form something fairly close with a straightedge and compass.

If you're imagining other universes, you might as well imagine one where the universe itself has a different geometry and the basic axioms are different. In that universe, children drawing a line in the dirt with their fingers would fundamentally understand that there are infinitely many lines parallel to the first in the same plane and would be taught so in primary school, but if they grew up to be a mathematician and replaced that postulate with ours, independently inventing Euclidean geometry, he could discover our definition of pi.

Conveniently, typical algebraic postulates like those resulting in Euler's formula, differential equations, integration, power series, and other mathematical constructs also result in the same definition of pi as that derived from Euclidean geometry. This seems to indicate to me that it's not just a constant in our preferred flavor of geometry but perhaps more fundamental.
Excellent.

They'll need that for "free shit"-style givaways such as equity-enhancing campaigns, fight against climate changes and socially beneficial spending and - eventually - Basic Income.

As long as cross-referencing wallet owner's details doesn't uncover undesirable comments, group memberships and other red flags on social networks, of course.

Let's take a look at the nonsense from the PR:

> Our work aims to ensure that in the digital age citizens and firms continue to have access to the safest form of money, central bank money

They have that today, it's called gold. They also can use central bank money through e-banking services that have been around 10-20 years.

> A digital euro must be able to meet the needs of Europeans while at the same time helping to prevent illicit activities and avoiding any undesirable impact on financial stability and monetary policy.

e-RMB, but Made in the EU. Nobody wants to use that crap, but many surely won't mind to receive freebies that way (and instantly convert them to cash, precious metals or crypto).

> According to these experiments, a digital euro core infrastructure would be environmentally friendly: for the architectures that were tested, the power used to run tens of thousands of transactions per second is negligible compared with the energy consumption of crypto-assets such as bitcoin.

That is funny. Almost no one uses Bitcoin for daily transactions. Those cryptos that are used for frequent transactions don't need to do "tens of thousands of transactions per second" - we can have ten of them, each catering to a different use case or audience and doing 5,000 tps, and avoid all the baggage that comes with this euro-shit-coin.

How about you shut down the ECB and fire all the useless eaters employed over there, that's a lot of CO2, don't you think?
Oops, by ML I meant machine learning not the programming language!
Totally unsurprised by this.

Where I used to work, user activity/transactions data sent to us would be stored on a single giant nfs volume. If you were added to a Linux group you can full, unaudited access to everything. Whenever someone tried to build anything that would restrict and audit access there would be a ton of pushback from engineers and customer support who loved being able to ssh into a machine and have full access to everything.
Feel that I missed out, why? If your investing strategy relies on being able to predict the future prices of individual assets it's not a very good strategy, and having been right about a particular asset doesn't mean you're smart or that you're a skilled investor. Anyone who knows anything about investing knows this.
Agreed. The sexy AI twist is just the squirrl bringing attention to normal human authoritative behavior that has been going on for many thousands of years. In my mind the involvement of AI or facial recognition is immaterial.
I think no one argues for having it visually. They argue for having the GUI linearity converted to appropriate perceptual linearity, which depends on the medium.
I suspect this is more a case of “unwilling” rather than “unable”. Slightly related, China recently passed a similar law:https://www.ropesgray.com/en/newsroom/alerts/2021/July/China...
This is so common. Think of any start up you gave way too much info to. They have lots of lower paid employees who can look at that data. It happens a lot.
@kbelder,

this will probably clear up any confusion you have:

https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/25/a-very-comprehensi...
Without the measured changes being caused by Alzheimer's, it is unlikely they will have any specificity. On the other hand, the results reported here give at least circumstantial evidence for this causality.
Well, one issue (not shown) is that if your control center has so many items that it scrolls vertically, then there's ambiguity whether you're trying to scroll control center or drag the volume slider. This could have been fixed by making the volume slider horizontal.
I don't know, I've used these and I think they're actually kind of ingenious. Perhaps not the most intuitive thing, but once you understand how it works, it's pretty easy to use, and having the entire vertical area you can move your mouse for granularity is probably superior to moving a circle back and forth on a tiny bar.

I imagine this was originally implemented just because they wanted the UI to be a 1-to-1 matching of a soundboard, but it actually has the advantage of what I mentioned (granularity), as well as being able to display the level within a circle, AND you can fit a ton of them on screen without taking up much space. They're actually very functional.
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Was it ever a serious effort; or was it an excuse to get the FCC to hinder similar projects?
Silicon Valley investor Paul Graham gave up TV at 13
As I recall, extraordinary rendition occurred precisely because the interrogation techniques they wanted to use were illegal in the US but legal in the other country, which was by the way a willing participant. It may have involved kidnapping or it may not depending on the case, but certainly denotes an important distinction as compared to simply violating some foreign country's laws to bring someone to (your idea of) justice. The zinger simply doesn't fit well here.
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There’s a difference between having an audit trail and actually using it. I would be interested to know how often Facebook analyzes this data and actually fires people for improper usage.
1) Confusion between Japanese in America and Japanese-Americans

2) "More likely to behave similarly" is a considerably wider net than just crime rates

3) I think the mainstream view is that East Asians of all stripes commit considerably less crime than average. It's certainly true of violent crime, which is something I've looked in to.
We were talking about the NSA getting an exploit onto an individual's computer, not an air gapped machine.
> Traditional financial services organisations are notoriously slow to adapt to changes in the market. Using cloud resources alongside the legacy infrastructure is one way to try and remain competitive.

Or, you could have a single executive action revamp IT resource acquisition policies. Simply mandate that internalized self-service resource provisioning capabilities be developed.

It is not rocket science to put a web dashboard around vmware or some other virtualization solution. Most of them already sell something like this as part of their feature set.

You could set something like this up in a week if you had enough buy-in. There are no excuses if you want to win at this kind of game. The bad guys are way more patient in aggregate.

A 2nd perspective - One of our customers has a "traditional" process for setting up new IT workloads, and we were still able to get 3 servers provisioned within 8 hours along with 3 new publicly-routable IPv4 addresses and matching DNS+TLS certs. Anything less than this in 2021 for any organization is indicative of sheer incompetence IMO. We do have some customers that are really slow, but they are also really small. I don't think any F500 is taking weeks to provision SQL Server anymore.
Wouldn't a better use of resources be to retrain people for new careers?

Propping up failed businesses and obsolete jobs because "the economy" makes no sense to me.
Confluent will tell you straight out it is not production ready. I know there are other common features not supported, but authorization for example is not supported in the current implementation. They told us 2 years before zook is dead dead.
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Microservices Authentication Strategies: Theory to Practice
https://watcherr.com | Life-saving start-up | Machine Learning/Data Scientist | Senior Software Engineer (Python) | Always remote (in EU)

Brief overview video: https://youtu.be/ANSosPGSuEU

Company: watcherr.com is a healthcare tech start-up that is currently developing an ecosystem around a medically certified smartwatch that can provide a much sought-after solution for the market, providing features like indoor and outdoor location tracking, voice communication and advanced daily activity insights to save lives by proactively trying to prevent cardiac arrests and helping a person in distress more quickly.

Location: always remote (located in EU), main timezone is CEST

Type: can be either contractor or on payroll, both for a long-term cooperation

Looking for:

- Medior/senior Python (Flask) engineers with cloud experience (preferably AWS): https://watcherr.com/careers/software-engineer/

- Machine Learning/Data Scientist: set up the data pipeline, train models on medical data to detect diseases and heart rate anomalies, gesture recognition with data from our smartwatch and more: https://watcherr.com/careers/data-scientist

Bonus: worked in a start-up before

Why us?

- contrarily to most start-ups, customers are already waiting in line for us to deliver the product

- the company is founded by people with proven experience in this industry

- we have our hardware, firmware and software under one roof, which gives us full control over the ecosystem that we are building

- we value everyone who helps to build this story and reward that with stock options. If the company does well, so will you.

If you’re interested, send me your resume/LinkedIn via the website or to jobs@watcherr.com
This looks really cool. Well done! And no electron. Will definitely try it out
Gears are usually slightly smaller than design size for clearance sake (and to make cutting the teeth easier). I imagine this tolerance disappears to almost zero in aerospace, though.

If the outer diameter of a gear tooth is too large, it can bind with the root of the matching gear, and this can cause rapid wear, and an unplanned disassembly at some point very early in the service life.
IMO, it's likely that the article was confusing "passwords" with "hashes" here. No company the size of Facebook is going to be storing plain-text passwords in 2021.
That still leaves them in violation of anti trust law, which apparently was what they were fined for.

Of course the popular opinion seems to be that laws that are meant to restrict abuse by monopolistic companies are not actually laws.
The original RBI circular was in 2018[1] with a audit date set for December 2018. That wasn't met as most companies requested for an extension, which the RBI gave multiple times.

So yes, it is difficult - but it has been years since MasterCard knew about this.

[1]: https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/NotificationUser.aspx?Id=1124...
At this point, why not just make any of this social media information public? What’s the difference to more than 16 000 people knowing with whom you cheated vs. the whole world knowing?

By 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon there surely is a connection to one of these 16000 people in your bubble, hence the secrets are theoretically out, too. Why should they have the advantage over you and potentially blackmail you?

/s
It will probably be another typical EU design by committee disaster, like the cookie banner laws.
With this release, the Gretel service enables creating synthetic data, transforming sensitive data, and classification workloads without having to write a single line of code
The Classic supports 4G, you know.
I don't think it actually matters much; your database is your core business and access to it should be restricted. Same as your machines. To the point where, if you have everything set up right (which is a big if, granted), NOBODY should need physical access to ANY machine or database. All access through the application's management interface, where access can be finely tuned and access logs can be used to hold people accountable.
Small world, I won Best Mobile Hack at hack.UVA a few years ago :)

Notes:

- This was one of many I snuck into after I had dropped out of college

- It was a mobile app that let you scan an ISBN and would pirate the book for you. The results were sourced from your usual trackers, so 1% of the time it would work and 99% of the time you'd get <NSFW>.
Yeah they are no longer allowing unlimited time because covid seems to be coming to a close (or at least the USA is treating it like it is). It wasnt free before. I don't love the move but it's not surprising at all.