skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it were true it would've been a fatal accident, but not a conspiracy. Covering it up afterwards, out of embarrassment, would've been the conspiracy - and keep in mind that the US govt. has covered up some pretty crazy things in the past. But I hear you, it's definitely a wild theory.
What do you think TV is?
It's been a while, so I had to look. It seems she was actually interim mayor, and was then recalled as interim mayor. After she was recalled, she won the special election.

https://sacobserver.com/2018/01/residents-protest-board-vote...
The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet
Journalism is getting worse, because the market has changed/evaporated. It is another race to the bottom.

There are more journalists in prisons than ever before.

Attention is a currency and we are easily distracted.
That's not an NDA, that's an intellectual property transfer.

It's also a clear sign whomever you are dealing with is a shark. Swim away, little fish, lest you be eaten.
You can have transactions denominated in crypto using conventional database technology.

This happens when people buy crypto using PayPal or Cash App or Robinhood, and at least thousands of times a second worldwide on crypto exchanges.

More generally, there is nothing stopping anyone from making a "PayPal of crypto" or a "Zelle of crypto."

In my mind, this is no way defeats the purpose of bitcoin. Bitcoin is like a Euro but for the whole world (which would never be politically achievable), plus cannot be manipulated (in terms of supply and interest rates) by a central bank (I think a huge plus, but obviously this is controversial). The point of bitcoin is not to be able to do illegal things on a blockchain.

Personally, I don't care about the other (i.e. non-bitcoin) cryptocurrencies. There's some interesting tech there that could change the world, but defi and smart contracts are addressing totally different things than bitcoin is.
> Withdrawing from either side is pure lose.

Disagree. Withdrawing from family is a pure loss. Who cares about work. Maslow is a red herring here. You hunt for food for your family, you build shelter for your family, it all goes back to your local community.

"Work" in the Silicon Valley (and more generally corporatist) sense, has nothing to do with community, with making a better life, or with family, just pure productivity for the bottom line. I would argue that that's not even really work.
> It's a logging library. I would expect users of it to be feeding user input,

I agree with you, but I did see a couple of days ago someone with the diametrically opposite opinion: that we should never log user input, with a link to https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/Log_Injection (plus this bug) as the justification.
There may have been other reasons not mentioned, such as Microsoft's tiered services model. It sometimes seems as if they deliberately provide poor solutions at the lower tiers. The USG is pretty pissed off about that.

Also, Yubikey would would not work, because like mobile phones, USB devices are restricted in some areas.
> If I were trying to sink the project this way

This should be re-written to say

> If [i were not influencial enough to sink it internally, so i] were trying to sink the project [through bad publicity]

Therefore, the answer to your question is "darn, it didn't work. that sucks but at least i tried".

Also...

> Never assume 4D chess when simple incompetence can do the job

In this context, its very likely that a government is somewhat behind it. We know the FBI and apple didn't get along. We know apple has been doing things quid-pro-quo for china to stay on their good side. So it seems like we're already sitting at a 4d chess board, but no one is sure who's playing.

If a government says you have to do X on the DL, and you don't want to because its bad, then a logical solution is to get general population + news media to say "X is bad! We really hope X doesn't happen." Because then its easy to show the government why you can't do X.
Correct it is to help T-cells identify existing cancer cells, because current immunotherapy isn't all that great (cancer cells are tricky!).

>> Next, the researchers employed new sequencing technology that makes a mRNA-based change of primary immune cells possible. They identified the target gene in single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets. Then they performed a functional test to validate the role of the target gene in enhanced immune cell-mediated killing of tumor cells.

This is important because cancer cells have different properties that enable it to sneak past T-cells. So they are trying to identify specific characteristics to tumor cells that enable them to make mRNA that then is used to shape T-cell behavior.

These vaccines can also be used (hopefully) to prevent metastasis, which is the true killer behind most cancers. Getting the body's immune system to respond is key. It could be seen as a prevention against spread in the body.
Seems they went after him for other things

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/amp/2021/08/bitcoin-ian-free...
this is something you need to dicuss with an employment attorney. Either way, you're working with terrible people and if you feel you need to sign this to keep your job and support your family, you're being exploited. Is this in the US, in a major city?
so beanie babies
Wasn't Bush Sr present ?
I had a few tasks last month that https://nginx-playground.wizardzines.com/ really helped with.
Well if you read the paper it's clearly stated that it comes as an alternative after the recent crackdown of China on Proof of Wok.
This is a neat tool! FYI, make sure the domain is registered with Safe Browsing in advance. If one subdomain is cataloged as malicious by google the entire domain can be flagged. It can be a pain to deal with.
That report is already too old to be relevant. It took battery prices at $200 they are around $100-120 now it took solar cost at around $50 per MWH it is now around $35~40 in the US $20~30 in India and China etc. And prices for both are still falling approximately 10~15% annually.
Simply, don't read anything that is dulling your brain. At the very least learn to skim so not to drown in the information overload that constitutes large chunks of the Web. There is just too much good literature out there to have "to learn" to focus on some schmuck's badly written ramblings.
You’re saying businesses always make the right decisions and never put them off?
That doesn't make sense. The Zapruder film shows him shot from the front. Jackie Kennedy goes and grabs a piece of brain or skull from the back of the car.
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The missing part of the axis, down to 0, is just 1/9th of the current length, so I think it's absolutely the wrong trade-off to cut the y-axis.
A single-core single-tasking (or co-operative multitasking) OS kernel is fairly easy. You just need a memory allocator, syscalls, maybe some virtual memory or process isolation (as a treat), and a basic display driver.

Writing the USB stack would probably take longer than the whole rest of the OS combined. (Though you'd be hard-pressed to write a USB stack in less than four months.)
I see nothing wrong with this.

Very few people truly have a passion for their work and for most , it's just a means to an end. This has been true for all other "high paying" professions such as law and medicine. One of my best friends is a lawyer and he happened to mention that no one really gets into law because to fulfill some higher purpose..

Further, I don't think it really has an impact on the quality of the work they produce, you don't need a spiritual awakening to build good systems. You just need to be vigilant and gain experience.

As an older engineer (is mid thirties old?..) I've grown out of this and now look elsewhere to nourish my need for numinous in things like philosophy, art, music, relationships, etc. When I was younger, I used to naively think my identity was a "Software Engineer"; now looking back I chuckle at that outlook on life.

On a final note, I would argue that more people joining our profession is a _good_ thing. It will create more jobs, increase demand and we end up with a stronger workforce.

I don't think gatekeeping a field yields to a healthy outcome.
If I wanted antivax propaganda, I could get it myself. You're just copy-and-pasting things you don't understand so I won't be spending time on further replies.
LOL.

No, virtually nothing made 18 years ago is secure. In fact virtually nothing made a day ago is secure, but when something has been sitting around stagnating for 18 years that means the world has had ~6575x as many opportunities to find a vulnerability.
Yes there is but I think esp for sale it means different things at different places.

Big tech companies do hire a ton of data roles but they might not align with what people assume the role to be.
> The latest year in the table is 2017 because I wrote the first draft for this post in 2017 and didn't get around to cleaning it up until 2020.
Documentation-Driven API Design
What kind of sanitation needs to be done based on where the data is going. There is no "one size fits all" method of sanitizing because what sanitizes for one purpose will just make the data look like garbage in another.

ie, if the User-Agent is being reflected back to a user on the web page, then HTML entities such as < and > need to be changed to &lt; and &gt; respectively. If it's being put in a SQL query, then quotes (both single and double) and backticks needs to be filtered. Of course, really you should be using parameterized queries so sanitation isn't necessary at all.

If your data is going straight into a log, nobody would expect that data needs to be sanitized, beyond possibly filtering \r and \n to prevent log forging via CRLF injection. I would expect it to not be sanitized, since then it's not clear based on the log what a user actually sent.
I'm referring to the fact that the "video" in question was an 8mm color film:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film

Obviously "video" existed then in the sense that there was television -- but consumer video cameras didn't appear until around 1979 or 1980.
I wish I had a space alien or God himself teach me low level computer architecture.
Usenet is still alive on some tech newsgroups, at least on the English speaking side. On the Spanish hierarchy (es.*), here there is nothing more than a ghost town.
I read in an article (this one - joke) that all lower case letters except `jvyz` are in use - it looks like `-j` and `-y` are just sitting there waiting for someone to add some output formats - then we just need to add a verbose flag and... maybe a switch that automatically gzips the output? We're so close to the 100% completion achievement - we can get there in our lifetimes.
The sum total of your life at any period of time should be fulfilling and each part of your life should be rewarding.

If you don't have that, then you probably need to be doing something else.
It seems like you really could vaccinate someone against their future cancer using this, assuming you had a time machine and a tumor sample.
I have no idea and probably wouldn't be allowed to talk if I did.

We have one factory that does 5 months of production, then 7 of maintenance. Everything is replaced in those 7 months, thus ensuring there are no breakdowns (just in time doesn't work if the conveyor breaks). The workers mostly go to a different factory in the area on the opposite schedule, we plan labor that way so they have a job year round just a different destination.
Why do you think it's mistakingly perceived as less dangerous?

All numbers seem to point in that direction ( = mild)
Auth services need to be engineered for at least five nines if not six. System design fail.
Kinda? Detecting CSAM doesn't stop the victim from getting abused in the first place which is the goal. It's to increase the risk of getting caught and punished, and to make the photos worthless.
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It does. Veracrypt is basically Truecrypt with some new features as far as I've been able to tell.
Perhaps, and then I hope they will be made obsolete as all the essential parts for making e-bikes are becoming commodities. 250W electric motors (max allowed in EU dor normal e-bikes) are not exactly rocket science. My jigsaw even has a 300W motor (though probably not rated for hours of continuous use)
Well,

About a week ago this topic was widely in the news under variations of the title:

"DARPA and NASA Scientists Accidentally Create Warp Bubble"

That's the context of my response here in this thread. I am not sure if everyone reading this thread knows that. The new title "No, we didn't accidentally create a warp bubble" was the NASA engineer attempting to fix the misinformation generated by the journalists.

Absolutely agree with you about physics journalism. I enjoy science fiction books too, I have no problem with the theoretical FTL topic.
Yeah I can see that now. I honestly did not see this as a "hot take" at all; at the time of posting there was less than a handful of comments and not much engagement.

But point taken.
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If I recall correctly, this will get you a standard deviation of 1.

let result = 0;
for (let i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
result += Math.random() - Math.random();
}
return result;

Obviously this costs 12x as much as Math.random() itself, but it sure is simple.

(It'll also never return anything more than 6 standard deviations away from the mean, but it's not like you actually want that in most applications.)
OK, there is another way to proceed - you could put a price on the value of your prior inventions, and ask for them to purchase those rights.

Either way, this is not binding on you unless you sign it. I agree with the other comment that calling an attorney is a good idea, as is walking away from these guys. There are a lot of job opportunities out there right now.
Maybe you should! Sometimes that's still a lot of work though. And sometimes for some people, the lines between life and work are pretty blurry.
The commenter thinks the Zapruder film was a "video" is what I'm saying.
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From the top of the article:

> We want to thank Citizen Lab for sharing a sample of the FORCEDENTRY exploit with us, and Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) group for collaborating with us on the technical analysis.

This reminded me that NSO went after Citizen Lab on multiple fronts. They even tried to use a spy to talk to JSR (https://www.johnscottrailton.com) and make him say controversial things, which could be later used to malign Citizen Lab. Darknet Diaries covered this incident recently: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/99/
User reports — i.e. the number of people who google “is X down” and then click a Down Detector link.

It’s a clever way of getting reasonably accurate data very quickly and easily, though it does have it’s flaws — the data is pretty noisy and users often attribute outages to the wrong service (e.g. blaming their ISP or Microsoft or something when YouTube is down, or vice versa).
If someone with access to the phone installs the app, will the monitoring be obvious to a user who is the handed the phone?

AKA if someone can install the app is it possible to use it to monitor someone without their knowledge?
The comment since it lacks any context and presents nothing but a vague opinion. It's actually a recursive comment because the poster heard that programmers love recursion.
The term we non-medical folks need to learn is "Standard of Care."

Anyone recommending something outside the clinical Standard of Care is suspect unless it is through the peer review process, which incentivizes real, impactful outcomes as a crab bucket of a reward (i.e. if someone publishes something false, I have monetary and fame incentive to call it out).

Here is where one can find the Standard of Care: https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

Is Standard of Care always right? Of course not. But it works well and aligns incentives.
And who said they are not valid?
Obviously while using Arch btw
What outlet of serious rational reviews and outputs should be considered?
Blackberry required you to enter the word "Blackberry" after the fifth try, which would at least prevent butt-dialing from wiping the device. Some kids might figure that out too, but at that point I suppose you had the choice to use a condom and decided not to...
Have you never had to rely on logs from some JDBC library to figure out an issue in production? There are absolutely many reasons for a library to have logging, specially in the case of libraries providing tooling for anything that deals with networking (clients to any kind of services, serving requests through the network, etc.).

I think that an opaque library in terms of logging is absolutely hell to deal with, I already have my fair share of issues with libraries that don't do enough logging and require painful hours of debugging instead of reading a log...
It has "Comments: This is a silly article". Was that not there initially?
With redundancy in other regions https://www.okta.com/video/oktane19-roadmap-why-building-cus...
Generally Docker. We install all required node deps during our docker build to ensure that running the platform does not require npm.
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It's like a vaccine in that it is using/stimulating the immune system to target the cancer.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29568403 although not a ton of traction there either (29pts, 4comments)
Ah yes, the curious culture of circumcision in the United States is a great example of something that could use a bit of reexamination.

Mr. Kellog, the Corn Flakes guy, in the late 1800s led a zealous crusade against masturbation. Eventually, he somehow managed to sell doctors and the public on circumcision as the answer to one of the hot-button social issues of the day: preventing teen boys from having the occasional wank. Freud would have likely deduced that Kellog himself was a hopeless and compulsive fapping addict.

All jokes aside, I have some friends who feel very resentful about not having had a choice in the matter. And other friends who strongly defend the practice, also likely due to not having had a choice in the matter.

My thinking is that American foreskins will remain on the chopping block until a majority of doctors change their views.
The reason the conspiracy won't die is because the official story is totally implausible. Watch JFK Revisited
Good catch; I remembered she wasn’t elected as an incumbent, and found a reference to Farrell as interim mayor at the time, but hadn’t recalled all the preceding mess.
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In Germany, the employer must pay half of the monthly healtcare plan and the employee pays the other half. Goes like this since decades in one of the strongest economies of the world. Of course, Apple is more worth than the whole DAX...
This article is also operating under the assumption that all "work" is equally fulfilling on every level of Maslow's heirarchy.

But much of what we work on nowadays has very little attachment to the actual physical sphere of connections, people, objects, community, etc that we interact with daily. [1] This makes a large portion of modern work simply not worth doing, because of how little it fulfills our needs.

It goes without saying that if you're able to work as a caretaker or nurse or volunteer with people in need (and also magically maintain the life side of the balance) that you will be very fulfilled by your work. But I don't buy that this is true for very many jobs in tech.

[1] https://davidgraeber.org/articles/
If only the binary is emulated by QEMU and sharing the same Kernel, this should work fine. Similar to what Apple is doing with their x86-to-ARM tech.
Please don't feed the trolls. They live off it.
TV is a video you can't rewind. Not the real thing.
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So it seems like the tech giants may be in a race towards creating the "metaverse", or "metaverses". As a kid this would have been an incredibly exciting idea, but instead this kind of news creates a weird feeling in the bottom of my stomach. That's mostly for two reasons:

1. It seems like efforts so far towards creating the metaverse are heavily focused on reproducing the inequalities and status heirarchies we have in this reality. What's the point of escaping into a virtual world if it's just another place to get on a status treadmill?

2. Is there any chance that this is going to be an open, standards-based system like the current internet? It seems like this will almost certainly be a walled garden, or a set of walled gardens tightly controlled by a few powerful corporations. Will the open web be "legacy" which is gradually fazed out?

Even Niel Stephenson's metaverse in Snow Crash was not this dystopian.
Bidets don't involve dead trees, require less ongoing transportation, and run concurrently with the costs associated with plumbing in general. The better question would be: what could use and installation of a bidet possibly involve that would make its impact greater than ongoing use of toilet paper? It's a toilet gadget, probably comparable to the plumbing in the toilet tank in terms of maintenance and durability. So a single bidet installation is likely good for 5 to 7 years.

5 years of toilet paper means about 500 rolls per person. A family of 4 would use 2000 rolls so about 400 kg of paper. The cost to transport, produce, package, and dispose of that much toilet paper is clearly higher by the end of the device's life.
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Seems interesting!
Looks like hug of death. Nice when it was going.
A brief history of code search at GitHub
I had no idea!

Pretty funny actually.
It's a good side effect that a large manufacturer is considering building an easy-to-repair laptop, but don't wait with baited breath for it to be a reality. I feel that the average consumer doesn't care about things being repairable, and that this is more of an enthusiast/niche issue.

All of that said, I love the concept of the Framework laptop and it may be the on my list of considerations the next time I am looking to upgrade my laptop.
I don't have advice or answers to any of your questions. I don't know if your situation will get better or worse. I appreciate the humility implicit in your question, and it makes me feel a little better about related things I'm dealing with in my own life. Thank you for that, and I'm rooting for you to get where you want to be.
It's possible to be many things but I wish you would have provided examples of tech workers punishing people.
> As soon as the second process writes a result file to a filesystem, it notifies the first process, and the first process exits. The second process can take time to exit, because it is not an interactive process.

Looks like a trade-off which may favor speed over reliability. If a syscall (like msync) in 2nd process will return an error there will no way to abort a build if 1st (main) process already has finished.
Comments: This is a silly article
You’ve got it backwards. By not directly employing low level workers for roles like janitors, companies do not need to pay for their healthcare. It is a very expensive cost per head even if the plan is shit. In America, employees get health insurance from their employer.

Your eagerness to shit on America made you entirely miss the point. Believe it or not, it is extremely obvious to many that universal healthcare would be a cheaper and preferential option.
What citation? LOL There wasn't one (just a footnote, and not even on the proper page) but I'm not sure why you think a citation would make a blatant falsehood any more true.

This sentence is an ad hominim: I don't think you know what "ad homenim" [sic] means.

Saying something about the way someone presented their argument? That's not an ad hominim.