skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can they make a strong case about what their intent was?
Do they have some legal agreement with the hacker that the judge can use to divine their intent and the hacker's violation of it beyond reasonable doubt?

Or might the hacker and his clever lawyers have an equally strong case that whatever the code allowed was the "true" intent, that the code is the ultimate arbiter of intent, regardless what Index might have said otherwise?

I kind of hope it does go to court, will be interesting to see what the opposing legal teams come up with.
They've been in the Med for a while: https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_191063.htm
hey that's called modern physics open-problems
I think in general, hating people comes not from thinking they are doing something wrong, but from thinking they have some sort of bad intentionality behind their 'wrong' actions. That is where words like 'traitorous' come in, it implies bad intentions. However, the opinion piece doesn't impose any bad intentions behind the behavior he is critizing. He is just making the case that it is wrong.

It is a very different thing, and not at all comparable.
As an engineer, I love having product management around and I love my product manager. I'm desperately trying to get the headcount to hire one more, because I know a great one and having good product people makes it so much easier to make awesome shit that people will actually like using.
Why is Zoom help page broken? A router IPv6 bug
You can't. But a runtime panic also very easily causes an outage. At least it's not as subtle.

Still. Rust is infinitely better in this regard. Go feels like a crude hammer, especially regarding the default interaction between deserialization and missing struct members.
so that represents between 32 and 64 days of coca cola production of 1997.
I'm sure that's true, they can respond in various ways, but how much can you tell about the internal experience of individual bees? In the article hyperactivity from sugar stimulus was interpreted as delight, but it could just as easily have been having a really bad trip on all that sugar.
Aeroelastic surfaces have been studied for some time, though I don't know of any production applications (yet). Here's a NASA F-18 fitted with them:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-06...
Which is the core of why these power games are so dumb yet dangerous.

Divisive narrative battles seem to spiral out in a vicious cycle until a group splits into tribes/echo chambers. The large battles continue until one side is conquered (materially - via financial or physical means). And even if a side wins, it is now suspect to splintering and the process starts all over again.

I imagine this pattern is very old and it's only now on these rapid time scales enabled by the internet are we able to clearly recognize and discuss it more broadly.
I'm not the person you're replying to but i believe that their point was that it is happening and this headline is an example of such behavior.

We seem to often portrait ourself to be in a completely irrational victims position (like the headline) which usually doesn't exist. this makes finding the common ground for a discussion challenging.
Some languages and build systems also allow you to set constants from compiler flags (Go for example). Other systems make the entire build configuration an executable program (Gradle).
I answered a lot of this in another subthread.

Here I will just provide a couple of links to a couple of anti-air drone systems under development:

> But concepts that would fall under this class are under development. One relativly large example is Baykar Bayraktar Kızılelma:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baykar_Bayraktar_K%C4%B1z%C4%B...

> This one is a hybrid drone, capable of both anti-air and anti-ground missions. It would fall under what I would consider "medium" size.

> Here is an early model of a Russian attempt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcAqF5BVLU4
Want. Need. But first, I must get a window.

Apple's marketing style has been pretty consistent for a long time, and it is funny how their selling strategy is always an attempt to put prospective customers in sheer, speechless awe. This stands in contrast to the tried and true simple marketing strategy, such as "Our soap gets you clean."
We test microservices locally at Nylas
Beyond the obvious increase in complexity, what were the other costs incurred with introducing a service mesh layer into the system?

for example:

- Latency increase measurements

- Changes in bandwidth and network throughput

- New or different failure modes

- New challenges observing application and traffic behaviour with the introduction of additional networking layer in the middle

- Any other new problems caused by introducing the service mesh
Klarna is also in an extreme bad position they give credits to people with FICO scores way below what normal banks would count as credit worthy. You can even order take out and pay 30 days later. It's a system designed to fail.
Care to point out what bothers you in the latest versions of PHP?
Hey! Would you be interested in collaborating on this? I have a wide selection of hardware I'd be happy to contribute as well. You can reach me at my username at gmail dot com.
After the MVP is found, then the real work begins in building a company. We all understand that if everything is a priority, then nothing is, but often times, business resources don't. Support wants bugs fixed to keep customers happy and to re-sign. Sales whats features to land their whales. Engineering wants to work off tech debt, refine, and innovate. Etc.. I've found that a formal "Intake" process works wonders. Engineering needs an advocate to take these disparate priorities and refine what, when and how to address. It's really that simple, and that complex. Finding someone to own it. Sometimes it's impossible depending on the Org and personalities involved.
No no, I apologize, I didn't mean it like that at all. I thought you were being a tad snarky, implying that my efforts haven't succeeded because I haven't made something good yet. But I didn't take it in a bad way at all, we are all trying to make good things, and only sometimes succeeding :).

I coded and made things for a long time before I ever even considered getting a job doing it. So, for me it's always a little bit of a struggle trying to find the right "portfolio" project to attempt to spruce up and point to; but I experiment with showing off different things. But that is why the prompted project here is refreshing to me.

I don't know if I code better than that person, but I am very careful about what goes into version control.

Thank you for your well wishes, one day it will work out for me!
>If you can't be specific enough to be scientific about it, just keep it to yourself.
If it is gradual and emergent as you say, then where do you draw the line between an "unemerged" system without consciousness, and an "emerged" one with consciousness?

Doesn't Occam's razor demand that we must assume the distinction is only of degree, and not of kind? If it were the latter distinction, you would have to have three theories -- one for unemerged, one for emerged, and one for the transition between the two. Having one theory (everything is at least infinitesimally conscious) seems much more appropriate given our current understanding of the science and philosophy of consciousness.
Copycats are usually subtle. But Eco has one that isn't.
I work at an elite tier 1 research university that is an international household name. My spouse is a tenured faculty member who runs a lab and several concurrent DoD funded grants.

I understand perfectly well what a phd candidate does and what they are compensated for as well as what their fully loaded costs are.

If you believe that the cost of a phd student is 18k a year, it is you who does not understand what working with a phd student involves. In fact, 18k probably does not even cover their health care costs. We can debate about what a phd candidate "should" be compensated for and if their current levels of compensation are fair but any argument needs to include the full picture.
> It’d be pretty cool if we had a real path for later-in-life research time.

We do. You can do a PhD in part-time, self-funded. Yes, your financial situation will definitely take a hit; you can control to what extent though.

Expect to need about 5-6 years of 1.5-2 days a week. If you'd like to know more, I'm happy to discuss my experiences as a supervisor of such PhD students and share what insights I have.
> I felt less and less comfortable in a setting that apparently expected me to pick some low-hanging – let’s call it fruits – and call it a day.

Why should you be uncomfortable with that? A discipline with lots of low-hanging fruit sounds like a pretty good place to be.

However, I concur regarding the quantity-over-quality problem. Personally I favor quality over quantity, both as a reader and as a writer. It wastes less of the reader's time and improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the field.
I understand you have strong feelings about whether you wanted an abortion, and that's totally understandable and I'm glad you are happy with the choice you made. But that's not at odds whatsoever with referring to yourself as "pro-choice". (Most folks that get abortions already have kids, so it's not like everyone has to pick "abortion" or "no abortion" for life.) I had an abortion back in the aughts, and never once regretted it, but that doesn't mean I think it was the right choice for you or anyone else that decided to continue their pregnancy. I'm glad we had the choice.
I am not a medical person, so my reading of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034215/ should not carry much weight.

One thing I noticed was it was meant to show that people who followed Hof's training had several measurable differences to those who did not.

What it doesn't do resolve if all three parts of Hof's training ("meditation, exposure to cold, and breathing techniques") were essential. The article in The Guardian seems to suggest that these aren't all needed, albeit only because two of them weren't mentioned. [1]

I also noticed that the nine people who did the training also went to Poland, while the control group did not. That means the study cannot exclude the possibility that air travel, the food they ate, or other shared factors had an effect on the result.

[1] I came across https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096522992... - "A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effect of whole body cryotherapy on mental health problems" - which suggests the benefits primarily come from the temperature.

It ends as you suggested: "Results indicate preliminary evidence for WBC as efficacious add-on intervention for mental health problems, especially depressive symptoms. Further research in the form of RCTs with larger numbers of participants is needed." :)
Oh wow, what a roller coaster ride! Thanks for sharing, this is just so much more informative than the usual "look how successful I am" posts!

And good luck with your future projects, Pareto Security sure looks interesting!
Cool thx. I signed up and got the PDF. I'll have to print and read the proofs... In my books I go for more applied (not using general thm-proof style for each detail), so it will be very interesting to see formal proofs presented succinctly.
Weird Machines, Exploitability, and Provable Unexploitability
I guess you can always argue for _more_ of whatever angle you prefer, but it's right there at the start of the article. It's even mentioned twice in the same paragraph.

>The thing you should understand about Apple’s home repair process is that it’s a far cry from traditional DIY if you opt for the kit — which I did, once I saw the repair manual only contains instructions for Apple’s own tools. (You can just buy a battery if you want.)
amazing - would love to see that!
Builder-Hex0: kernel for bootstrapping compilers without trusting a binary
> the days are long gone when an ordinary engineer needs to study algorithms in depth

Except to pass the interview screens at high-profile tech companies?
That's just a complicated way of saying "you can locally test a smart contract that you're coding".

Nobody is suggesting grandmas code their own smart contracts.

This is not the reason to keep grandma's savings away.
Right. In his brief window of opportunity Obama could only achieve what the most conservative/deluded member of his caucus would agree to.
I see, not every frame-less door has this mechanism.

In the case of Toyota Solara, how does the glass fit with the seal on the A-pillar and roof? The roll-down mechanism is required because the glass on those doors have to be "inserted" into the seal.
My big 4 consulting firm did not pay me a dime of saved leaves when they laid me off -because unlimited PTO

Another company which had set 22 days a year paid me the balance of pending 6 leaves when they laid me off .

In both cases there were department wide layoffs but the one with set PTO at least paid me for that.
Leaking memory is always undefined behaviour regardless of the language when talking about manual memory management.

What guarantees can you assure about the state of the application?

In any case, in this specific example for x64 it doesn't matter, because new gets optimized away.

However, if that optimization isn't done, e.g. AVR backend, then nasal daemons will be summoned.
> The problem is that precision guided munitions are fairly expensive. Drones are cheap, but giving them any kind of offensive ability increases the cost significantly. A switchblade drone only costs about $6,000 and there still aren't swarms of thousands of them. Maybe once the economics enable massing hundreds of thousands of drones, autonomous control will become more reasonable.

Exactly this. How many drones can you get for the price of 100 F35's?

If you get that many drones, you want to have drones that can attack both enemy land units AND enemy drones.
That sort of depends on what the exploit is, right?

For example, if DRNK costs $1 per unit, but I find out that by putting in $1.25 I get 2 units, have I actually exploited the machine? Is it not reasonable to assume that discount was intended?

Now, of course, if I'm prying open the machine with a prybar then we could argue that's just theft. But, putting money in the machine and getting units out is the intended interaction.

Similar to how if a gas station accidentally puts the price of gas at $0.20 per gallon, even though everyone knows that's probably a mistake, it isn't on them for taking advantage of the artificially low price.

So, that's what I'd say the difference is. A smart contract defines all the interactions that are valid. Thus, it is impossible to interact with a smart contract in a way that is "invalid" or "stealing". That'd be different if the user could modify the contract (apply a prybar) however, that's sort of the point, that you can't modify the contract to fix it.

If the contract said "all your deposited crypto goes to cogman10" would we call that a theft when someone put their crypto into that contract? Perhaps if I misrepresented the contract, but then the whole point of these contracts is they are visible to anyone that wants to read/use them.
Except crypto is decentralized, and you can use mixers, which are not owned by anyone, to anonymously move coins from a blacklisted wallet. There is no mechanism in decentralized crypto to freeze an address, and I don't think the crypto community would adopt such a blockchain.
Sounds like BigQuery!
I don't know, he was a co-founder of computer science.
Thank you! And it's using moviepy to make the cuts (which is technically speaking the actual hard part).
The short clip showing the results of searching for 'ing' words caught me so off guard. I have the humor of a 12 year old.
The problem with a lot of these attempts at fingerprinting prevention is that they cause additional data which can be used to more accurately fingerprint users.

getImageData() is blocked - datapoint

Any detectable difference from what a “regular” browser would return is another point of entropy.
How do nested loop, hash, and merge joins work?
I wasn't referring to the complaint, it was a reference to the output of Knuth not being particularly accessible if you don't like reading digested summaries, because a big part of what he set out to do is to summarize academic research across a wide range of topics.

I guess it's like rain on your weeding day.
Apache Camel 3.17 What's New
> (1) you're suggesting that before the 14th amendment, a state could pass a "law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." ? That seems preposterous.

The words immediately preceding your quote are "CONGRESS shall make no ...", and so "preposterous" seems a bit too strong, doesn't it? In case anyone is curious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_... says

> Beginning with Gitlow v. New York (1925), the Supreme Court applied the First Amendment to states—a process known as incorporation—through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

(Fun facts: "Gitlow was the first major First Amendment case that the American Civil Liberties Union argued before the Supreme Court." Also, although Freedom of speech was incorporated in this case, Gitlow's conviction was nonetheless upheld.)

You're welcome to read more about it yourself at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R... . Therein, you'll find references to fun cases like Barron v. Baltimore (1833), finding "State governments are not bound by the Bill of Rights" before the 14th amendment, and United States v. Cruikshank (1876), finding "The right of assembly under the First Amendment and the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment are only applicable to the federal government, not the states" even after the 14th amendment.

You may also find Article III of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1780) interesting:

> As the happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend upon piety, religion and morality; and as these cannot be generally diffused through a community, but by the institution of the public worship of God, and of public instructions in piety, religion and morality: Therefore, to promote their happiness and to secure the good order and preservation of their government, the people of this commonwealth have a right to invest their legislature with power to authorize and require, and the legislature shall, from time to time, authorize and require, the several towns, parishes, precincts, and other bodies politic, or religious societies, to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.

When do you think Massachusetts stopped taxpayer funding of churches?
lol i had to look up trite.

I guess using uncommon words is the way to go
Link to intel report?

There have also been regular AWACS circular flights over Romania near the Black Sea and Global Hawk flights in the Black Sea.
I did a baby bakeoff internally in my prior role ~18mo ago now. Prefect felt nicer to write code in but perhaps not as easy to find answers in the docs (though their Slack is phenomenal). Ended up going with Prefect so I could focus on biz/ETL logic with less boilerplate, but I'm sure Dagster is not a bad choice either. Curious to hear about parent's experience
It’s an observation, and one I don’t care to spend a lot of time defending. Take that for what you will.

My note was that the macro-economics of going net withdrawal from net contribution with what is currently the largest, wealthiest economic segment in the United States is not likely to increase the size of money seeking to invest, which would, I expect, correspondingly decrease the pool looking for that particular outlet.

And on further reflection, especially since VC, being a fundamentally high risk, high variance of return business, is probably less attractive to those trying to avoid losing money in a bear market, with other, now higher interest earning investments available (due to less easy money).

Hell, if you’re looking for a gamble, even Junk bonds are probably going to be a good play soon.

I’ve only been through 4 (maybe 5?) downturns/market crises so far though personally, so add however much salt you want.
This power plant is run by a very sloppy operator who wastes ~99.99% of energy. The management team should be fired and sued for such gross negligence.
Cool! How big were the emitted nim binaries?
Contracts are contracts and law is law. Law can overrule contracts. Smart contracts just let you have executable terms which allows greater composition and commoditization.
If the default for Firefox is that it blocks these, then you don't really get a useful datapoint.
>Academia is full of mechanisms to negatively judge your research work.

Fascinating, as I did not find this at all to be the case in general. I imagine in some cases it could be true, but for the most part I found most research in academia to not be of much interest to many people, one way or another. Hardly anyone takes much time to either validate research or to critique it.

I'm glad to hear that you managed to find something to research that caught the attention of many people/mechanisms, even if only to judge it negatively. It must mean you were doing something important, which I think is the exception and not at all the norm.
Thank you for feedback. I try very hard to make compact explanations, but it's not always easy since some ideas are inherently complex, and once you include prerequisite topics (like `apt-get install x` pulls in dependency packages y,z,...) it ends up being hundreds of pages.

Sometimes it's amazing though, you can condense a lot of material in just a few pages of notes, see for exmaple the linear algebra tutorial https://minireference.com/static/tutorials/linear_algebra_in...
The US is more akin to the EU than it is to a normal country. I don't think that is necessarily good or bad, it just is. But I don't know if I understand your bit about shared culture, language, and ideas... Would that imply that we should share a govt with the UK and Australia? Or if oceans are the breaking point, at least Canada?
it's OK, I already wasted $20 worth of time reading HackerNews blog articles, haha
Something I would highly recommend you to do is seek out an expert I your area of research (there would be someone) and contact them. Many academics are open to discuss ideas, work related to their research etc.. This might give you valuable feedback from someone who understands your work.

Now from your post it sounds like you don't work in the natural sciences (apologies if I assumed wrong) so you might not have publications (in many natural sciences it's very common to have multiple publications before the defence, in many humanities the thesis is the publication), if you don't be prepared to send that person some condensed work (they likely don't have time to read a whole thesis) or if you have a publication. However only do that after starting a dialogue and after they have agreed to look at some of your work.
I'd avoid making the link to "gay men", by highlighting the link to "promiscuity".

That's more strictly correct anyhow, and assigns causation to a behavior - where it belongs - instead of a vulnerable group.