skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The September intrusions detected sound pretty suspicious. I am sure there are plenty of bad actors trying to take over existing Google Developer accounts to use for spam/fraud, and it sounds like there was at least one compromised account and compromised device which could easily lead to other compromised accounts or persistent malware.
I also did not wear a mask when biking before COVID. Now, having easy access to masks, I would rarely bike without one, if I am near traffic, because of the better air it provides. Fair point about lack of traffic on campus though.
Yes, this is exactly my point, thanks for putting it that way.
It's not just about him spending money. It's about him clearly not doing everything he can to fix the situation.

When you're buying a boat and spending all your time sailing as you are supposed to be putting together a deal to save the company, and then that deal falls through, people are going to wonder if maybe there was more you could have done if you hadn't been buying boats and playing.
So a trained engineer who won the Nobel prize. What an egregiously clickbait-y title.
Their EMMC issue on the S was pretty egregious, that's something you get right in even basic consumer electronics. They also had numerous issues with door handles(I had two fail once the car was outside of warranty).

There's things they do well but I don't know if I'd qualify them as having better reliability.
It’s understandable that you wouldn’t see people wear masks on campus prior to COVID. Mainly because mask wearing outdoors was previously a rare event for any reason in the USA prior to COVID, so you’d stick out as making a statement if you were one of the few who did. But the normalization of wearing a mask outdoors now likely plays a contributing role towards people feeling comfortable about wearing masks for other reasons that aren’t as straightforward as ‘preventing COVID’.
Thanks for that link. I'll have to dig into a few of those things more, ROP is something I have not bumped into before. Comparisons to Windows/Mac/Chrome/Android security are kind of a moot point for me, given that they are tools of corporate surveillance capitalism.

I wondered how linux stacked up, outside of the mentioned MAC capabilities, but the article was more focused on openbsd. How much does MAC buy if I don't notice that I've outgrown the granularity of normal file system permissions? I know that does often come up in environments with more users.

Do you think openbsd has worse security than normal linux? (not selinux)

My next planned security update is to attempt to separate apps that need network access from those that do not. I'm still brainstorming on how to best do this, maybe leveraging the ability of the pf firewall to allow/deny traffic by user account.
The fine article quotes the Intel CEO:

> "I’ll make them as many 16 nanometer chips as they want"

However,

> Carmakers have bombarded him with requests to invest in brand-new production capacity for semiconductors
> featuring designs that, at best, were state of the art when the first Apple iPhone launched.

He then says of that:

> "It just makes no economic or strategic sense"

So if we look at this from a capitalistic standpoint, automakers are not offering enough money to convince Intel to continue supplying their "old" types of chips. Either the automakers need to supply a convincing amount of money, or they need to adapt as their suppliers change priorities.
SoP - Senior on Paper. There's a lot of places where senior is just a title they slap on someone to fit them into a position.
Inciting violence in a public space isn't tolerated either. There was no "vague" TOS here, the reason was pretty clear.
We have an entire political class devoted to lying to the public. I expect better of the scientists, but if you were given the choice between having a chance at securing humanity's industrial course or being able to not stretch the truth, which would you pick? Importantly, this is a stretch of the truth with technically no lies actually being said. If you sat down and really talked to any fusion researcher they would not say a bald-faced lie.
There's no denying the inequality that exists in tech. I find the "another white dude" comments don't really add much though and can even come off as veiled racism.
> Impostor worries about being found out. Scoundrel thrives on the hilarity of not being found out.

This comment immediately reminded me of Alan Watts’ description of the scoundrel. I’m inclined to consider this to be the correct framing and attitude.
> the lockdowns that have been ineffective

In the US they were ineffective half-measures with little to no real teeth. In other countries they mitigated the pandemic within weeks by having lockdowns that sustained the people and organizations affected and were strict enough to mean something. Saying "amount of social interaction is also a choice" is only true when the lockdowns were performative and the choice was given. And now the US, which is less than 5% of the world population, accounts 14% of all deaths due to COVID-19, not counting excess deaths.
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[1] https://www.gq.com/story/sperm-count-zero
> J is interpreted, so it is not as fast as other implementations

Which implementations are you comparing J to? To my knowledge, all of APLs, K, J are interpreted. BQN is compiled, but still very new. I also know that Dyalog was experimenting on a byte code compiler. I don't think there exists convincing benchmarks comparing those languages.
Which itself reinforces cartel behavior. The small players get the full force of the automated rulings, the large orgs get infinite levels of undo.
Who Wouldn’t Want a $500M Theme Park in Their Town?
windows 10 will be here at least for another 4 years, by that point those workstations will likely be upgraded
The pedals are close together in my car, and a couple times I have hit the accelerator rather than the break. But I knew immediately what was wrong and adjusted.
On older DJI Phantoms, you could connect to the Wifi hotspot and SSH into the drone. Not sure if that's still possible.
Why isn't it about making it functionally impossible? You can break WebAuthn if you can guess a 128-bit AES key. You won't, but it's not impossible it's just astronomically unlikely if everybody spends their lifetime trying.

That's why Google gave all its employees Security Keys. Instead of "Well, we spend a little bit of money on some half-solution but we just raised the bar and so we'll have to spend more forever and always risk phishing attacks" they just solved the problem.

This saves you extra money because your adversaries stop trying. Not only are remaining attacks unsuccessful, they become much rarer and the associated clean-up (even if it's just helpdesk reassuring employees that although they fell for that scam email claiming to be from HR their credentials are fine) cost is reduced.

Think about SSH. People scan and attack every SSH server on the public IPv4 Internet. But not on IPv6. Why not? Because it's statistically useless to attempt with 128-bit addresses. You're just wasting your time and money.
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Yeah, but I think those enthusiasts are mostly just fixing up calibration values, not changing the actual control software.
Indeed, which is why my trusted definition of 'senior' is that you have a budget and can sign off on a decent signed purchase order.

There are very few senior people.
A similar venom-based analgesic that actually became a drug is Ziconotide [0], a selective calcium channel blocker contained in a certain type of cone snail venom (the actual drug has some minor modifications for stability but the structure was already perfect re: activity). Unfortunately as a peptide it's not orally active and has to be administered directly into cerebrospinal fluid.

I only know about it because the person who discovered it gave a wonderful talk at my grad school. Apparently venomous sea snails produce incredibly diverse mixtures of incredibly receptor-selective peptides. They used a cheap phenotypic screen in which snails were purchased from fishermen, venom fractionated by HPLC, individual fractions injected into mice, behaviors were characterized and interesting ones flagged for further study.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziconotide
Does this mean their contracts had no mention of severance pay? How is it possible to not compensate when it's not the employees' decision to leave the company?
Super material discovered in error could be key for batteries, fuel cells
> now everytime I have an opportunity to suggest businesses I work with not to use any of Google services, including GCP, I do exactly that

What would you recommend as a good alternative to google (and Facebook) ads?
Depends on the app in question. OP is about a gaming company so using a website isn't a serious option.
Google owes me money too. They screwed me back in the early years of this century by billing me for ad "hits" that were clearly bogus and I've never used their services since.

I still use their search engine but I always use duckduckgo first and I won't click on any of the advertised links the offer. Never.

If anyone hasn't figured out by now that Google is a predator who'll screw them out of everything they can, including their startup ideas, they will sooner or later.
>I'm not an engineer but I can draw up a bridge right now. Would it stand or collapse? Who knows. I think it looks nice though so I post it online. Then an actual engineer sees my drawing and makes an actual bridge out of it.

Right, it's not the publishing but the use which is proscribed - same applies for engineering. But that would apply regardless of whether the software you're using is open-source or not, and regardless of how much you're paid.

A social-media site operated by an amateur in the bedroom being paid nothing and using only open-source software would still be liable under any sensible and realistic regulation.

>>Besides, it's trivial to launder everything if you give such an out.
>That would require companies to not only refuse to compensate their programmers for their labor but to also open source their source code. Doesn't seem trivial to me.

You can compensate for code with this regulation, it's not difficult. e.g. create a non-profit, and pay the non-profit which pays the programmer. So long as the programmer is one step removed from you it's fine.

Open source isn't much of an impediment either, just have a suitably restricted licence. Or don't, it's not an impediment for many types of businesses.
Archvial libraries have rights under copyright law.
Wiki says that they sold almost 7 million in 2020 globally. To get to top 10 it's required to sell something like 2 million units globally.
They’ve got both sides covered. The fact that you only know about one side should tell you that the other side, and where it places its money, might be worth looking into.

You think Thiel and the Trump election was interesting? Go look at the largest donor to Biden’s “Future Forward PAC.”
Not a financial advisor, not financial advice, this is merely a thought experiment.

Uber will survive as long as there are investors willing to believe they might be profitable, eventually. Once the consensus or shared belief turns, I believe they’ll face significant challenges raising capital in the market.
Samsung Galaxy phone, Huawei phones and other phones have 3rd party stores that update apps in background just fine.

No need to spread FUD, come on.
Mazda has been using Opera running JS for their infotainment since 2014...
Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri
He retired from EMI in 1986 and used the prize money from his Nobel to build a personal laboratory in his home.

Loved that part. Imagine a $1M home lab!
Cus I’m the CT scan!!

Cus I’m the CT scan yeah!!
Google isn't even telling you that that's what happened. Also as a developer who used to use ads until 5 years ago, I got a wrongful 1 month suspension claiming I was clicking my own ads even though I never did. It's obviously my words vs theirs but I know what my truth is. Yet Google claimed I was clicking my own ads and therefore gave me a 1 month suspension. That convinced me to stop using ads all together and since then, I have become even more reluctant to build Android apps. I just work on iOS apps instead. I hadn't built any android apps for past 5 years except last month when I finally built one because I was getting many user requests to have one.
Am I missing something, or are you directly contradicting your original comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28725817
Yeah this part and the other comments about multiple malware infections makes me think this is an issue they caused with poor security practices.

Google support should still be better at this rather than banning with AI and never being flexible, but the developer is not exactly sounding blameless here.
It's more like a trillion dollar market. The actual players are Google, Facebook, and Apple... these startups are just location data gnats.

Location data is probably the single best demographic info to have to make money, and at least 3 companies in the world have basically everyone's phone bugged. Ads, maps, social... all totally dependent on location data from users.
It is astounding to read this point of view that people should just shut the f** up and be OK with being treated like shit because that'S BusiNEss BABY.
Silent installation of applications without your confirmation or knowledge is a privileged permission reserved for preinstalled apps. So Samsung can provide a 3rd party store on their phones that can silently install applications on your phone while others can't.

This was changed in Android 12 (I think) where silent app installation is a grantable permission for other stores like F-Droid.
How do you know if a person you hire was banned before?
Starts off with a quote from a murderous psychopath from a movie. Yep, that tracks.
I don’t see how it doesn’t add much—the tweet pointed out his race to point out his privilege. Can you explain where the veiled racism is in that? Because I’d hate to think that we’re actually making the CEO the victim here.
I am not the author of the article, I just posted it. The article is about game development so webdev isn't a serious option for the author either.
In some parts of the world, that would be discriminatory against ex-convicts. If a person has been convicted and has served their penance, you are not allowed to use that fact in decisions concerning them.

Besides, why should we allow corporations to run their own private justice system?
It's not as if they invented copyright law. Even if their ToS didn't say that it would still effectively be disallowed
And may more that weren't, especially in the leadership positions. The major lack of interest and even the opposition of the actual workers were always a problem in every Marxist revolutions.
In my experience a lot of engineers leave because they feel that they deserve to be promoted, but there is no clear way to get promoted. The criteria on the very extensive promotion guideline docs can be impossible to meet for even the most brilliant of engineers unless the engineer is in the right environment/team.

It's a problem for the FANGs to fix. Leave, get hired for a role that pays better/has a better environment, and don't look back. There will always be another tech company to work for.
> It said this was due to "impacts related to the Covid-19 pandemic and other unrelated service disruptions".

I think it is time that the causality of the pandemic is re-evaluated. Covid-19 didn't cause any significant loss to the workforce. The cost-benefits analysis of the public-health measures needs a serious update.
Not sure why you are being down voted.

I am conservative jewish, and of Hungarian descent on my mother's side. Russian on my fathers. Neither parent has a Ph.D. I do, and one of 2 brothers is a DDS, other is MS in CS. Daughter is double majoring in math and physics, with now a minor in complex systems. Going to grad school next year. She's half me, half my wife (Mexican American).

Conservative and orthodox jews tend to have quite a bit of familial pressure with regards to education. You are expected to go to school. Expected to excel. Expected to pursue a professional or medical career. I recall this growing up in the 1970s.

My dad is an EE, with a penchant for math. My mom is more psychologically inclined. Wife has an MS in Physics, and teaches college prep high school math. Daughter started out as an Art major. I kid you not. Transitioned over to Physics in her second year.

Ok, with that as the back story, a few observations.

Many of my fellow jewish students, easily a majority, have gone to post graduate education, and are doctors, lawyers, scientists, and engineers. Very few have not. The familial pressure was common, and we all talked about it in our groups. I see a very similar trend with Indian and Chinese American families. Same drive to succeed, with pushes from family.

Jews are not a "racial" group, we don't share locus of genes that can be used to easily identify us as such. Apart from certain families with markers for Tay-Sachs or others.

Conservative and Orthodox jews do share a culture where education is seen as the pathway to success, a better life, taking care of the extended family, etc. That is, its kind of built in to our way of life.

I interpret this to mean a number of things.

1) Genetics, while important, isn't the dominant feature of highly successful people.

2) Nurture, culture, society, support systems, etc. are the things that matter. Put another way, if you set low bars, you get results appropriate to setting of low bars. If you set high bars, and provide both a support system, and strong cultural motivation, you will get results appropriate to the setting of high bars.

For me, the martians have always been fascinating. JvN was foremost, though Paul Erdos was always a fascinating character. I don't think genetics/religion was the deciding factor for them. I think it was their environment. If it was an aberration for this time and place, or if it was common, that environment, the support systems behind it, should be studied, and leveraged.
The answer is simple don't make a mobile game. Write a web app or desktop application.

It is the same as console games or anywhere someone else controls the platform.
Unrelated to the politics of the company and this post, Treehouse was one of the best products I've ever subscribed to. I learned how to develop Android Apps via TT as a sophomore in college and within a month was working on paid projects. I run a software development firm and have had employees use TT to quickly get up and running. I haven't had close to this experience with other code learning tools.
This is so sad. I used to take that bullet train back and forth to go skiing at Gala Yuzawa. My kids loved it.

Unfortunately, the lack of any real cargo space meant people who were carrying their own equipment had to improvise (a lot). The lack of any service in car was probably a pain for JR too.

I'll always have my Transformers representation (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:MidnightExpressProto.jpg). Goodbye Max Toki
You're just moving your consumption farther from your leaf of the tree of life--which is totally fine, even most meat-eaters will balk at cannibalism. But what makes you so certain plants are unfeeling and can't experience pain? I observe plants attempting to avoid and heal from damage, so I assume they do have some analogue experiences around feelings of suffering.
Tesla has yet to do even a face lift on its Model S. In the meanwhile most incumbent OEMs either came up with EVs based on existing platforms or completely new EV platforms.
Back off - do not be emotionally involved - do the minimum required to get the payout - then take the money and walk away.

If you can, hire someone to do the job you don't want ... if you care, pay them well.
I have F-Droid installed on all my Android phones. Admittedly it's something you must go out of your way to do, but you can put third party app stores on Android phones very easily, or just sideload apps individually if they have an official APK link (many do).

iPhones on the other hand, yeah very different story.
Agile does not mean less reliable. See Boeing versus SpaceX.
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Sure they can, well they can have a link that brings up the feed anyway. What the browser does with it is a different story, and that depends on whether RSS preview extensions are installed. Copying and pasting that URL wherever it needs to go isn't all that complicated.
It's because the cost to bring them to court is far to expensive. I don't know anyone who can afford to do that here in the U.S.
I can digest your take. I’d say that governments shouldn’t be on Twitter. I have conflicting internal voice - on one hand, I don't want any of these social media companies to allow populist movements to rise (that includes people like AOC that are running populist movements on Instagram and social media). On the other hand, I don't want any politician banned unless they ban all of them - on principle. President Trump was violating TOC left and right but Twitter allowed him for 4 years reaping engagement revenue, but all of sudden they were emboldened as soon as President Biden took office. These are weak companies with weak ideologies.

Make Politics Boring Again, I am down with this.
The article doesn’t mention the reason. Does anybody know more?
Any discussion about why you can't transition to newer chips that doesn't mention the software is incomplete.

Chips are not fungible in part because of software compatibility.

OK, so you got a newer chip, and have redesigned the board and everything to fit. Now you have to get all the old firmware running on it and validate it.

If the new chip isn't a 100% backwards compatible version of the old one, including all the peripherals, that could be a considerable effort, fraught with risk.
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The entire point of these devices is to provide a window for the corporation into your home, so that Amazon can better sell you things. They're not doing you a favor by making the product; the product is an excuse to uniquely position them to observe your behavior in a domain previously unavailable (meatspace).

Expecting "privacy" from such a device is absurd. You waived it when you bought the device.
Good context, but it would be better if you could refute his take instead of attack his past.
The easiest way to do "counter-geoengineering" would be simply lifting emissions limits, carbon taxes, etc., at least until the point where the economy is thoroughly decarbonized and we don't need to create pressure to emit less GHG, because right now emitting is cheaper than not emitting.

I think right now, any country willing to invest resources to fix our shared mess would at worst be met with some grumbling about unknown risks, but otherwise mostly with a "sure, knock yourself out", and possibly a silently muttered "thanks".

Counter-geoengineering is an interesting concept and long-term problem, but I don't think there are many powerful countries that don't want the planet to cool.
"For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law." - Óscar Benavides
Why does it offend you that someone makes money when you make use of the web site they created? It literally costs you nothing at all, while the site creator spent time and money making this available to you.
To google.com? Sure, but what about non-google-related searches on Bing?
I’m empathetic. But not to the point where I’ll come into an office to keep them company.
They definitely have created tremendous amount of value, hopefully they do.
Is it?

With physics, we haven't uncovered anything new that would lead to whole new technologies.