skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people don't like counting it because of the way it was achieved. IIRC they only floated a super tiny percentage of their stock and so the overall valuation was inflated. It felt then a little the way cryptocurrency market capitalizations feel now.
Guilt by association. Not an argument.
In 2015, using Amazon EC2 and the bucket with:

> This instance type has two Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3
processor chips, with 36 vCPUs in a NUMA configuration with 60 GB of RAM

A team built a configuration that could factor a 512-bit RSA in four hours for $75. That was August 2015, so it would clearly cost much less and proceed much more quickly today. As a plus, they call out DNSSEC explicitly in their paper:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1000.pdf
It will absolutely change how Facebook treats EU citizens; otherwise, they risk extremely large financial penalties.

May 25th is GDPR Day. The day when you can withdraw consent to be tracked, stored, or processed by businesses with dealings in Europe.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nightmare-letter-subject-acce...

EDIT: To clarify, GDPR applies to citizens of EU member states globally.
A quick test using Zapier's webhook functionality tells me I can duplicate this with their platform. Doesn't seem to work with link shortener, but I have the sense more time invested on that will yield a result. So, I think the concept has merit but you're off center of the target and much more value is required.
Very little!

Although the generated URLs don't have "canary token" in them.
I'd often sit down and write papers at a SPARC IPX in the computer lab because nobody else knew what they were doing. It was a pretty slow computer, but the windows PCs were all on Win 3.1 at the time and that was pretty annoying. You had to boot the PC from scratch each time, while the IPX was ready to go. Anyone else remember Pitt's computing evironment around 1996?
Our society has evolved quite a bit from the times of the Industrial Revolution. It’s possible for progress to be made while having life-saving regulations.
I try pretty hard to refer to "vehicle collisions" and things like that instead of "car accidents".

So yeah.
Once again, I was replying to a post saying that $2000/month after rent and taxes is not livable. I don't live in SF so I am genuinely curious how two thousand US dollars is not enough after taxes and rent to live comfortably.
You might think about embedding bounties in crypto blockchains. For example, create BTC wallets that can be unlocked using a secret sitting next to (or steganographically embedded in) the secret you're trying to protect. This gives the person uncovering the secret an incentive to activate the canary. {RI,MP}AA are apparently doing this with their music and movies, so they know when they are showing up on pirate sites.
There are probably manufacturing processes where LED transfer costs don't scale per LED. For example, they could use some type of expanding substrate material as part of their transfer process.
Awesome. Thanks for that info and link!

This is another reason to keep and all losing tickets... to offset your winnings and applicable taxes.
That's not their only defense contract. E.g. https://gizmodo.com/google-is-helping-the-pentagon-build-ai-...
What was version 1.0 of the product?
I still regret that Pebble went out of business. Any plans to make similar smartwatch again?
Why is Uber allowed on public roads?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16619917
We can absolutely change economics. We - our societies by the means of our governments - have set rules for the economy for centuries. Think taxes and regulations.
> if this is the first (known) case of A.I. controlled cars killing humans, the number of casualties can only grow from now onwards

This is how counting works.
Perhaps time as opposed to distance? After all, we drive much fewer miles in a city, but there are much greater opportunities for accidents, particularly pedestrian accidents.
Even if Facebook was perfect and did everything everyone is expecting from it, would it be worth losing, say, 2 hours everyday on chat and discussions with friends? With 2 hours every day you could become a master in any art or technique.
Not intentionally doing that, but, intentionally ignoring bugs.

"Sir, we have several bugs, one of them would cause the car to run a red in the following conditions... [fictional made-up condition: in case it sees a clown car with Brad Pitt wearing a pink dress in it]".

"What are the chances of that ever happening? Ship it!".
" Obviously more information is needed, but I thought the entire point of having a driver behind the wheel is to manually intervene to prevent this very situation?"

I think it's time to point out the obvious, and require that autonomous cars apply the brakes first, and THEN require driver intervention.

And that they be a whole lot quicker to err on the side of braking.

Cameras getting fuzzy ?

Slow down.

Your ML algorithms are showing lower confidence measures for how they classify nearby objects and trajectories ?

Slow down.

nearby vehicles slowing down and you don't know why?

Slow down.

This is inexcusable.
The group behind them would like to "reform" the system by getting rid of it.
Exactly like what has been done successfully in aviation for decades now. For example Auto-GCAS. I don't understand why car companies are trying to go against a proven model.
The majority of the new sources I consume are not "tech news."

And I can say that Facebook is receiving negative coverage from all of them. It's standard mainstream fare now.

And it has been so for at least the last 3 months.
the color scheme and typography

I'd say it's designed to draw your attention. And boy it did.
Well think of it this way: all of that data facebook put time, effort and money into collecting from you will become less and less relevant as soon as you delete your account.

I wouldn't be surprised if from facebook's point of view they'd rather collect 1/100th of your data as long as it's current data vs just a bunch of irrelevant old data. Pull the plug.
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Please don't make the site worse by posting like this, regardless of how annoying another comment may be.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Please no. I don't want to be killed by my car's software.
wow, thanks for reminding me of that. i remember this happening...brings back some memories. i was trying to learn to program my own games, and this event (despite the unfortunate circumstances) seemed like some gift from the gods in terms of being able to see the guts of a real game.

looks like some stuff is on github:

https://github.com/videogamepreservation/golgotha

https://github.com/saniv/golgotha
It's not calling for the kinds of reforms you'd want though. Is reforming GC caps on this org's agenda?
I imagine these vehicles (especially test vehicles) are also recording regular video and therefore getting a clear picture of what happened should be straight forward.
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it's people like him that make me wary of the crypto fad
Fuck you and your leading question.
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Well, calling type() is usually bad, isinstance() is a little better. But if you're expecting a ThisClass and only falling back on strings, as implied by the example, surely this is the classic example of where duck typing is handy:

try:
processObject(value)
except ValueError:
processString(value)

Where you've written processObject so that it only works on duck-like objects:

def processObject(value):
try:
value.quack()
except AttributeError:
raise ValueError('I was expecting something like a duck!')
In the Tesla one the sensors did not recognize the white trailer of an 18 wheeler against the sky from news reports.
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Aka the Canadian model.
Has it's drawbacks as well, for example once my car's ASR almost sent me against a wall.
The people leading the development should demonstrate that they can stop for pedestrians by personally jumping out in front of them on a closed test road. If they're not able to demonstrate this, they shouldn't be putting them on public roads.
Amazon, google and Facebook..three companies to rule the world. They have been great investments I predict they will remain so for the foreseeable future. They won't suffer from the same sort of diminishing growth and loss of market share that afflicted other large companies. Google dominates mobile advertising and search; Facebook also dominates mobile advertising and social networking, and Amazon dominates commerce and business/e-commerce infrastructure. Microsoft is also a good investment.
I get that the market is drastically different than the late 90s, but isn't there already a direct legal precedent of Microsoft browser bundling as clear evidence of monopolist behavior? seems like a dumb idea to risk this here..
I believe it's the first "third-party" death.
> On a percentage basis I gotta believe autonomous cars are orders of magnitude safer.

Why?

NHTSA reports 1.15 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles travelled in 2015.

Waymo advertises >5 million road miles travelled. Let's say Waymo + Uber have driven 10 million vehicle miles and killed 1 person. That makes them 10 times more dangerous than human driven cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
> Who invented the software language you use or designed the earliest forms of hardware you use ...

Some of us here actually worked on badly made/failing hardware and computers without (dev) software ; let alone internet and mostly not even books or mags to check out.

I for one had no modem, no places to get literature/mags and no friends who had computers; whatever I needed as tools, I had to write myself (sprite editor, assembler, etc) based on 1 book that a colleague of my father got from Japan.

I learned about the hardware because computers where freakishly expensive but luckily had 74series (and before logic made up out of transistors) inside and when you would buy a computer, it would then often contain all the circuit diagrams so you could figure out what was happening and expand memory, make extensions etc.

Now, I'm not a very smart person and this is not a pissing contest, but what you are saying is just not accurate. You have a wealth of information and tooling at your fingertips that was out of reach for almost everyone but big companies in the 70s/begin 80s. Many people worked 'from first principles' with no help and continuously crashing systems without being about to ask anything. And yet we made interfaces, programs, ultimately everything you have now is based on the people who figured all this out back then.

A browser is the furthest from the hardware I can imagine; it is a (badly done imho) abstraction over the sheer bizarre power you have in front of you.

You might be brilliant at what you do, but let's be real about it.
The headline is substantively misleading; Google isn't planning to boost Amazon's competitors, it is planning on extending the degree to which it is Amazon’s competitor (which it already is, in a number of spaces, including product search and retail marketplace) by extending it's product search / retail marketplace strength.

Now, unlike Amazon, Google's marketplace approach (both the existing approach with Google Express and the approach with the new offering which seems to largely involve the same partners at launch as Google Express already has) keeps the actual retailer's identity front and center, and facilitates retailer-consumer ongoing relationships as opposed to Amazon's approach which minimizes seller identity.
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What do you mean, “software sucks”?
There's not a small portion of US society which believes that Trump is a moron and a disaster. I'd wait until after his term to determine whether this is a 4 year fluke or the sign of something bigger.

Nations operate in terms of centuries not 4 years.
At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft decides which apps to install and run and when. I wouldn't be surprised if they're imaging hard dives and secretly sending contents back home for analysis or recording every keystroke, message, etc. The shocking thing is that somehow people still trust Microsoft even though they have proven over and over again to be untrustworthy. I wonder what it'd take for people to question that trust.
Apple was part of PRISM so I don't believe anything they do about privacy is anything but for PR.

But as for why not iOS, it's more a choice of brand. I don't like apple products, they restrict to much for my taste.
Which I'm thankful for since I now have access to taxis because of them.
No, I'm not going to do that. I just didnt know what they meant.
Same goes for my Bank of Montreal in Canada. I have a credit card through them, and when I signed up (5-6 years ago) password criteria was 6 characters, no more, no less.
No. Stop with the "if you call people out for saying shitty things, then you helped elect Trump!" meme. It's complete and utter bullshit, and all it does is serve to empower the racists to say whatever they want without being called out on.

And yes, the campaign is incredibly anti-immigrant; just look at the group pushing it. Yes, one can say that the H1B system needs reform, and that it leads to a lot of abuse without being anti-immigrant. But if your solution is to just scrap the whole thing, that is anti-immigrant.
I agree completely. One thing that is important to me is that the whole self-driving field will learn from every mistake. In other words, every self-driving car should only make the same mistake once, whereas with humans, each human has to learn only from their own mistakes.
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They even discontinued their own PDF reader (completely disabling it if you already had it installed) in an attempt to make people use Edge to read PDFs.

Opening it now just says "Microsoft Edge is the new home for PDFs!"

Edge is unsurprisingly not a very good PDF reader.
My sympathies to the victim, but this post with the XKCD substitution plugin made my sides leave orbit.
How do things run in production vs your CI/CD process?

Is your CI environment a FULL CLONE of your production environment?

Lets take a look at the mysql manual for a second:

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/alter-table.html#alt...

Not every operation can be done "in place" if you have a high traffic table with 100MM records in it, can you run that alter without taking downtime? Where is the safety valve that stops your day one rookie from forcing a down time if you have a CD process?

CI/CD is suposed to be creating a safety net, not a way to push a massive screwup into production faster!

There isn't a magic tool that is going to make this easy, because every environment is different... RTFM for all your tools and figure out what works for you if "by hand" isn't going to cut it and build that.
>"It's worth keeping in mind that most Americans are not news-addicts and do not regularly read the news."

What is the statement based on? Could you provide a citation for this or any corroborating evidence that this is fact?
Your car's software already has the capability to kill you. Things like automatic braking are much more likely to save your life than to endanger it. To say otherwise is just paranoid scaremongering.
Dude. Just delete it already. Once it's gone you'll quickly realize how much it doesn't even matter.
How is that a joke? The third paragraph of the 1983 GNU project announcement (https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.en.html) said:

"GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix. We will make all improvements that are convenient, based on our experience with other operating systems. In particular, we plan to have longer filenames, file version numbers, a crashproof file system, filename completion perhaps, terminal-independent display support, and eventually a Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen. Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages. We will have network software based on MIT's chaosnet protocol, far superior to UUCP. We may also have something compatible with UUCP."
The reason self-driving car companies have flocked to Arizona is that Arizona chose to pretty much completely deregulate them: They don't even have to report statistics to the state like they do in California.

It's unfortunate, but unsurprising, the first pedestrian killed by an experimental self-driving car allowed on public roads was in Arizona.
It sounds like you want the language to change to match your ability. I would suggest the opposite approach: improve your mastery of the language. It requires more personal responsibility but is an attainable goal that will leave you less frustrated.
This would eventually result in violent revolution. Suppressing that revolution will require a complete forfeit of civil liberties.

There's another reason it's bad too, and it's economic: in this world you will not be able to get ahead. These super-concentrated mega-cities will see runaway real estate inflation due to the "law of rent," while jobs will be scarce elsewhere. The choice will be: move to a "real" city and spend all of your surplus income on rent, or live elsewhere and have no opportunity to advance your career. The urban model looks a lot like the old "company store" model, which is a form of feudalism more or less.

In the end this future looks like a 1980s B-grade cyberpunk dystopia: endless slums and rural wastelands patrolled by drones and special forces officers and dotted by gated totalitarian enclaves for the super-rich. "DNA sample and body scan are required for entry..."

You said "liberal." What is liberal about this?
Agreed. I've been in the cars in Pittsburg and the operators laughed about how poorly it performed on certain roads. Slanted telephone polls caused the vehicle to literally slalom down the road.
Or even limit corporations' power to abuse workers altogether, so that Disney can't just lay off its entire IT staff and replace it with cheaper labor, but hey that would be business unfriendly!

The level of cognitive dissonance on HN every time this topic comes up is pretty impressive.
1. I’m a straight and narrow physicist, who, by chance, made the acquaintance of, and hung out with convenience store owners and assorted low lives. (There was a point in my existence where I considered this aspect of lower middle class culture exotic or titillating.) I would like to disabuse all the star programmers and scientists who read Hacker News of any notion that the economic subgroup cited does not have extremely intelligent members in surplus, easily able to outwit state authorities in the crimes (and they are crimes— statistics here are reliable) cited. 2. A key point of the article is that the state’s revenue is not damaged by an unfair distribution of winnings. Indeed, were it to become well known that the lottery was unfair, the revenues do stand to be damaged. So there is zero incentive for the state to match any sort of sophistication on the part of cheaters with the necessary investigative prowess to catch them. 3. Most of the instances cited are clear examples of convenience store employees being able to detect the winning tickets in an undetectable way. This is indeed the case, and is well known in the industry. The article, I conjecture, greatly underestimates the sophistication of the detection methods. 4. I would guess that a majority of multiple winners NOT connected with scratch-off pre-detection are associated with various levels of money laundering. 5. There are times when it is more propitious to play these moron games. But I would defy you to find a situation where the odds are actually in your favor, i.e. where your expectation value of winnings is not negative.
You must use much different reddit then I have.
I'm scared for the children who were born into families that started selling them out to Facebook the day they were born. They've permanently had the ability to choose whether or not they want Facebook to have a permanent record of their life taken from them.
I got rid of Facebook years ago. Finding a useful app for planning an event is very difficult, but just using email works fine. I just use calendar invites and I follow up with chat / SMS if needed.
I can't think of any reason FB is better for chat than any other platform, but SMS group chat is available as a last resort.
Declines in smoking jumped to mind as a potential causal factor...
Uber is embodiment of its employees. It is a flame that the unethical moths are drawn to, so they can realize their vision by the means that delight them. Uber is the Phoenix of Enron.
Oops, I was going to list an example then decided not to. Thanks for pointing that out.
You basically can take a Tax deduction on capital losses, meaning paying less tax (Super simplifying the complex US Tax Code) https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/062713/capit...
liberal used to mean economically and socially liberal, that is, free market economy and let people live their lives. Now we have to call them classical liberals. What does progressive stands for? Who decides what progress is? Is increasing the quality of life of 10 by decreasing the quality of life of 100 progress?
Yeah but I get the feeling that current data is worth way more to facebook and data brokers in general than old data. Having data to make projections is nice but being able to experiment in real time with active data is probably the dream facebook is built on.
Talking about the extremes, I agree.

Talking about defining sensible rules to allow a wider range of people to be successful than only those being a member of the local Golf Club, I disagree.

There should be no question that we need rules, and at the same time there should be intense discussions - if not intellectual fights - about which rules we need and how to implement and enforce them.
Having a hard time sympathizing here. It's one thing to fear air travel based on the very few but very publicized plane incidents (considering all the data we have on the safety of air travel). It's another thing to hold these self-driving car companies accountable, considering a) the lack of data and history of such programs, and b) their touted benefit as a safer alternative to human-driven cars.
As they should: humans fail independently, but autonomous cars can fail systemically, including hacking. Bicycles are known to be tricky for autonomous cars.
We should wait for the results of investigation first. It could easily happen the killed person did some bonehead move that resulted in unavoidable crash. I was once told how a friend of mine fatally hit an older man that decided to cross the highway quickly, giving him no chance to react and a life-long trauma.