skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YouTube as a company is the victim?

Even if it was, as opposed to the individual employees involved, victims can play a role in situations that come to be. Making an observation about this is not victim-blaming, nor does it absolve the aggressor.
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If you spend a few days reading code written in this style, you will quickly get used to it. This is not “obfuscated”, and there’s nothing wrong with using this syntax for general functions. (Personally, I would recommend putting the function body on the next line, but meh.) If you have any kind of reasonable text editor, you can add syntax highlighting or other visual call-outs for functions, if that is important to you.
Yet another reason to blacklist the pcspkr module.
I've recently discovered that videos don't cut it for me. I fall asleep or get distracted doing side research of what is being discussed.

The only one I've finished is edX's CS50. As an electrical power engineer, I used to code in matlab as a hobby: Optimization problems, Power flows, and stuff.

This mooc gently took me by the hand and gave me what is basic to change my career. I quit my job as an EPE and now work as a software engineer, and now I can't stop learning. The course is real fun and challenging at the same time.

Another one that is interesting is mind and machines in edx, kinda thoughtful and different and yet interesting approach to artificial intelligence.
Vultr would be great!
The article claims that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe and French PM Emmanuel Macron are Estonian “e-residents”. Has anyone seen any non-Estonian reports which support this claim?
I couldn't agree more. Also, liquid water boils away on Mars due to the low pressure, while on Venus it should be no problem (AFAIK).

When I've brought up similar points to the parent's, one response was that Mars offers solid ground which provides a base for heavy equipment (factories, etc.) and has minerals.
I don't nearly enough to weigh all the factors.
That's not a quote of mine. I think you're confusing me with someone else.

Edit: yes, you appear to be quoting olivermarks
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Although the demo works, if you just copied part of the text your username isn't taken with it. I think a better way would be to insert the zero-width characters in between the letters and repeat it throughout the text.
well google is a money making enterprise, so is say medium, the blogging service. medium aren't doing anything to help other publishers, just themselves, right? i think google has done some stuff to help the world, the internet, but they are so big when they make changes to reduce spam say, millions or thousands of people get pushed out of the way too.
How is this enforced? For facebook, let's say, is all I have to do is change my country from a non-European country to a European country, and I'm good? Because that is a fairly easy line to cross.
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No reason to think so. Apple, for example, is already rolling out new features that are intended to make them GDPR compliant worldwide.
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Still can't beat a place in colo with few own transcode servers with FPGAs or transcoding asics.
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Yep, and they didn't answer. It's a question that sales would be able to answer. No need to downvote me for a legitimate response, right?
I agree that Venus is under-appreciated as a colonisation target, but I haven't seen anyone attempt to address the issue of how you "land" in the atmosphere without touching down on the surface? And if you ever want to get back to Earth, how do you launch a rocket within the atmosphere? These are non-trivial engineering problems that need to be addressed.

First things first, lets get a probe floating around in the clouds of Venus.
EmpireMUD has a rogue-like top-down 2D ASCII tile interface as I recall. That's the world map on which you can construct features of your empire. It's not played that much, but I wouldn't call it a failure since it is still going and still has players and developers.
i think its more likely she was frustrated at losing payment, which could be completely separate from "social media attention".
The first time I met zero-width characters, (I suppose this was long before they became popular for "fingerprinting" text) it was in a weird bug where some javascript would fail due to a \u200b being present in a user-entered string (it was easily fixed by changing the method that we used to sanitise strings). I remember thinking "wow with these zero-width characters you could do steganography within text, even in a very short string". It looks like I wasn't the only one who had that idea.
I played a mod of rogue multiplayer and it was awful becuase the ticks were fixed in length. It felt like walking through treacle followed by very difficult combat with no time to browse ur inventory in the moment.
Sysadmin at Backblaze here. Unless it's closer to 500+ and they all have 100Mbps+ connections, the clients will definitely be the bottleneck. Even in that case with smallish objects, it's unlikely that the TCP window will ramp up enough to put a dent in things. That number will of course continue going up with time as we expand and improve the infrastructure.
I did this (non-publicly) many years ago for my eve online alliance. A substantial problem exists in that forging the identity of _someone else_ is fairly easy in a naive scheme if someone detects these characters. That means you can sow chaos by blaming innocent folks. In practice you'll want to "sign" the inserted data as well.

Also because of the overhead here and the fact that you will want the signature to occur at regular intervals a better compression scheme than 0=>char1 1=>char2 is needed. Combining zero width chars and homoglyph substitution* can produce codings which hold signed usernames in only a few characters.

There are other, far more interesting ways, to watermark text than this that are both harder (to impossible) to detect that produce better results.

*https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308044170_Content-p...

P.S. It's nice to see people publish conference papers on this stuff. I always had to hide it because we actually used it.
That's true, too. Do you think that unclear or arbitrary rules tend to aggravate individuals as often as rules that are clearly laid out, enforced evenly, and can be appealed?
I have never met her but my guess is that she is orthorexic with a narcissism disorder and few friends. Maybe many thousands of 'Facebook friends' which is no replacement for family and a small handful of real friends.

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

'Orthorexia' masquerades as veganism but is not the same thing.
Yes, that's why I recommended modern clients in the original message, they work well and are maintained. I wouldn't say the support on servers is poor if you run your own, two most popular servers (Prosody and ejabberd) support modern XEP suite after enabling modules. For third party one can check here: https://conversations.im/compliance/
Whitelisting might be better...
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Or compete with Netflix. If Viaplay can do it, perhaps Spotify can also.
The suspected shooter in today’s YouTube incident has been identified
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To be a resident you have to provide proof that you actually live in a country.

The US commonly accepts utility bills in your name. The EU most likely requires you to have a residence permit.

Edit: that said, GDPR may still cover you while you are within the EU borders: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16751963
One guess would be that people enjoy visuals and scenery. On Mars, there are landscapes, sunsets, and the stars. From a think Venus atmosphere, I'm not sure what the view would look like, but I'm guessing it would be pretty consistent and confining. Traveling through a cloud in an airplane is fun for a few minutes because of how unique it is, but seeing the ground feels more enjoyable and inspiring to me.
Once the courts settle it with the big Fish like Facebook we'll have a more accurate understanding.
Do Bayes/Kalman filters count as (super simplistic) A.I. somehow?
More better: "Beer Drone"
What was the original purpose for these characters' design?
Presumably, yours and GP's would be their entire dataset as far as reading the ToS goes. ;)
Thanks for touching on some of the things I was expecting to read in the article.

> you need to have half of your capital available always

What does this mean, in a bank account?
Just so we're clear, I'm not blaming a "random" Google employee, as you are suggesting. I don't want to downplay this tragedy, and I wouldn't say that anyone deserved it. It's horrible that you had to witness what happened, and I'm sorry to hear it.
Likewise.

I'd go so far even as to say that IRE's MUDs made me who I am today. A commitment to integrity of role-playing my characters helped shape my identity while I was growing up, particularly as a social exercise. And my first exposure to scripting in the form of simple aliases and triggers led to the pursuit of programming skills. Without MUDs, I'd be a different person entirely, I have no doubt.
It looks like there are just four: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_width
I have a theory about workplace shootings. American companies have a very pronounced dog-eat-dog culture. So much so that whole books have been written about the workplace asshole [1]. I'm wondering if some of the shootings can be explained as the workplace asshole going one step further and bringing his guns to work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_No_Asshole_Rule
Could you expand on what's dangerous in using a curve with a non-unit cofactor? I haven't heard of this as an attack vector before.
I'm Iranian and she seems bizarre and it's quite clear from her videos that she is, well, not normal.

Not sure if that translates well and Americans would realize the same or not.
We've built a private China for ourselves.
> What's the way you measure and get consensus on community leaders' merit?

Dunno, elections, maybe? Seems like a common way to get community consensus on personell decisions. For things like public office. So people get to vote for who they think is best suited, who has the most merit. And for lower level positions, you could have entrance exams and a mechanism for promotion that takes into account job performance.

And for the economic sphere, we could let people vote with their wallets...
If you want a fast window manager try ratpoison (similar idea to GNU screen), which is widely available. It is really nice to have a window manager that actually manages your windows. If you use GNU screen (or, I assume but have never used, tmux) you can have two terminals sharing the same session for split screen use.
IANAL but I think it's more complicated than that...IIRC if you want to do.business in the EU, you need to comply. Not sure if.you can argue that HN does 'business' though
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I think at this point it's safe to assume that Zuckerberg is probably not being truthful.
I like this outsider HN post style. Rare treasure. But, I am concerned with you being in Discworld by Terry Pratchett for 17 years... it's a long time to spend in someone else's brain. Though when you really think about it, I guess we're all kind of in Discworld.

http://discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/decafmud/web_client.html
Is it? I ask as an EU citizen residing in the US. I thought it was based on IP and possibly verifying your residence?
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U+200B: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space

U+200C: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_non-joiner
One more thing to remember is even though you cna have a company incorporated in Estonia if you mostly operate it from another country you may still need to pay your taxes locally (depends on country, consult your tax advisor).
> compiler optimization will rarely make last year's program faster, but it will make next year's program faster.

This doesn't follow. From your argument, last years and next years programs will run the same speed (about as fast as they can). It's just that next year's programs can be cleaner in some sense...

Which is interesting, because Dr. Proebsting's page also says his current interests include improving programmer productivity by removing syntactic baggage from statically typed languages.
Definitely, as do most of us. But that IMO is mostly attributable to the network effect and not to anything particularly special about Facebook as an application. An incumbent social network with mostly identical software, minus the spying plus an ethical monetization strategy, would be out-competed financially by Facebook unless user tracking is regulated more closely.

I now live in a country where Facebook is a major part of how people function online. I deleted my profile and stayed off for 2 years when I still lived in the US, but here it's more vital to have one unfortunately.
These look exactly like airplane images.
No Stripe unfortunately..
I figured that the joke was encouraging folks to run unexamined, downloaded shell scripts.
Hah, it is quite surreal what kind of scripts are asked to be curled and piped to a shell. And some users do eithout hesitation, because some website asked them to. Hopefully this pipe to sudo shell joke works as an eye opener to some.
I just got an email from the embassy that the eResidency documents are ready to pick up. I wanted to set up a company right after, but this sounds like a really bad news.

But I'm wondering, do you use any of the government certificated services who should help you to do all of this? Like LeapIn and similar? Or do you manage everything by yourself?

Also, anyone else has a similar experience?
While that may be technically true, the specifics of the law would make it impossible to follow unless companies assumed everyone who visited their site was an EU citizen.

For example , using google analytics in many cases in the EU will now require opt-in consent, even for anonymous visitors. But unless a user registers and says, "hey, I'm an EU Citizen actually" you wouldn't know ahead of time. Make much more sense to segment for EU IPs if you are a large company that relies on such stuff to make decisions.
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"I've been waiting for something I can use to backup my workstation and laptops to a server at home as well as a server I have at $work (ISP)."

borg[1] has been referred to as "the holy grail of backups"[2] and is supported at rsync.net.[3]

The end result is encrypted, zero knowledge remote backups on a ZFS filesystem that you can SSH to.

I think everyone here knows all about rsync.net, but here are some examples:[4]

ssh user@rsync.net sha256 some/file
pg_dump -U postgres db | ssh user@rsync.net "dd of=db_dump"
ssh user@rsync.net du -Ahd2 some/directory

[1] https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[2] https://www.stavros.io/posts/holy-grail-backups/

[3] http://rsync.net/products/attic.html

[4] http://www.rsync.net/resources/howto/remote_commands.html
It is a bit like explaining zen but I will try.

A programming tool has a certain affordance. It talks to the programmer and says "hey - here is how you use me".

Maven says: Hello. I am a just a configuration file. Just put your project's name and the dependencies in here and the defaults will take of the rest. You remember Ant? Please don't turn this into a big mess.

Gradle says: Oi buddy. I am a full-fledged scripting language. Anything Maven can do? I can do the same times 10. Plus my syntax is tight - just look at this &#€#"&/+=+++ << '${.&%&}' ... Not even a semi-colon.

You see the cool kids over there? They all have advanced build scripts with code generation, variable substitution, dsls, database migration, performance daemons. You need this too (unless you are one of those corporate XML-dorks ... yuck XML, it sucks, no one uses XML anymore).

And because we are so cool, we change all the time so you better keep these random files we generate for you under version control: gradle/*, gradlew, gradlew.bat besides your actual build script.
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FWIW I am running a two week old Ryzen 5 2400G and ASRock Fatal1ty X370 Gaming-ITX/ac setup with rock solid stability under Windows 10. I did end up having to run my 3200MHz memory at 2933Mhz to avoid some issues. This is the max memory speed the CPU supports anyways so I don't consider it a large loss. The ASRock published memory QVL agrees with my finding that 3200MHz isn't stable with the specific memory I'm using. See https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/Fatal1ty%20X370%20Gaming-ITXac...

What ASRock model are you using? Are you sure the culprit is the CPU or motherboard and not another component?
> take payment in Euro as a consultant

Isn't it relatively easy to open a Euro denominated account in most countries?
Yeah I think the JVM is a special because of Hotspot -- a state-of-the-art JIT compiler.

I'm pretty sure that without a JIT you will not get decent performance on compiling one language to a VM designed for another language.

Also, I think the JVM "required" at least one modification for dynamic languages? I recall something about JRuby and invokedynamic bytecode, but I don't know the details:

https://www.infoq.com/articles/Invokedynamic-Javas-secret-we...

As another counterexample, I've heard that VB.NET is just C# in a different syntax, more than it is VB6. That is, when it moved to the CLR, the language changed.
He's very concise, a bit rough around the edges and got a dry sense of humor. He told me he means well and has tried to be more verbose (slack is 1/2 of all our communication). He's also tried to tone down the dry.
He really enjoys working with 2/4 folks who complained about him and wants to make it better.
Because I keep looking at it when I do not wish to.
For some reason you assume I want or need any of that.

Reddit is not my go to website. Neither is Hacker news. Or Twitter. Or... Or...

I browse the web. I may come across links that I click. I really really really don't appreciate the experience of getting yanked out of my flow into some app.

Even Facebook has a very decent mobile web experience. However for some reason Reddit actively degrades its mobile site and tries to make it as unusable as possible.
That’s a style of web design I’ve seen before - lots of colors, different font sizes, wall of text rants... something about it screams mental instability. See Time Cube for an extreme example.
How does that have anything to do with the shooting at YouTube? It comes off like you didn't even read beyond the headline. (yes, it's happened at a workplace, but this wasn't some disgruntled employee in the sense that you're making it out to be)
I naively thought Washington could mean Seattle :-) But they mean DC. They do mention in the article that Seattle is kind of a lesser but visible part of S.V.
Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with blood of tyrants. Sorry you can't see yourself as such.
Seems like a great way to start a discourse.
I use the zero width no break space with formatting languages to format only parts of words. Something like _rest_ful to render the first part in small caps may not work while _rest_ ful will, of course but renders as two words. Replacing the space with a zero width no break space solves that.
"brilliant jerks" - great background info. Thanks!
I was afraid this was going to happen, after Microsoft became one of the primary supporters of the CLOUD Act recently.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/03/21/microso...

It's also the second time in the last few months that Microsoft has settled with the government instead of pushing forward the privacy fight. The government pinky-promised that it wouldn't abuse the gag orders anymore, and that's all it took for Microsoft to give up:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/10/23/doj-act...

It was starting to look like Microsoft's Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith was starting to care a bit about privacy with all the things he was proposing (like the Digital Geneva Convention) and these recent lawsuits he pushed the company to start against the government. But it looks like that fight was very short-lived and the pro-surveillance people in the company (Nadella, probably, going by how they implemented law enforcement's whole wishlist into Windows 10) won that debate.

So I guess we can no longer trust Microsoft to fight for privacy at all anymore. And with the CLOUD Act, nobody should trust any US-based company anymore anyway.
I hope that block 5 launches will become "boring" in the near future (no pun intended).

As in, reusable rocket launches become such a common thing as airplane flights.
That feel when your brain upload data gets leaked and 50,000 instances of you are enslaved and put to work in a compute-farm generating spam emails under threat of having the sensation of pain applied directly to your simulated nervous system.

The future is bright.
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GaAs is gallium arsenide, which still has applications in high frequency transistors.
Wrong. This is an exaggeration at best and just plain wrong for most US LTE users. LTE is very hard to fully MiTM. You can still catch / observe through IMSI, but the phone won't deal with your rogue tower. If you can downgrade someone to 3G you can more easily observe voice and or texts. Data is actually harder to MiTM, even on 3G. That said, it is not feasible to down grade any modern US LTE devices as far as I know.

Turning your phone off usually does prevent tower pings, but some phones have been known to be sneaky.
As long as it is over HTTPS and you trust the author, it shouldn't be any different than downloading and running an arbitrary binary from a website.
Wow. Blast from the past. I played Dead of Night 20 years ago.

Are psionists still useless at night?
SCP03 is from 2009 actually. But its authors were likely very aware of HMAC, yet chose CMAC.
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My Q6600 based desktop (g0 stepping) died right before all this news came out after a decade of dedicated use. Guess it would have had to be retired anyways.
There's nothing logically impossible about time loops.
You'd probably won't have been eligable for compensation since this delay was definitely beyond the airline's control.

While a lot of airlines try to weasel out of their obligations (mechanical failue, for example, which however is the airline's responsibility) I would think such a case is pretty clear cut.
Yes, we're kind of stuck on individual CPU power. Clocks have been around 3GHz for a decade now.

There are now architectures other than CPUs that matter. GPUs, mostly. "AI chips" are coming. And, of course, Bitcoin miners. All are massively parallel. What hasn't taken off are non-shared-memory multiprocessors. The Cell was the only one ever to become a mass market product, and it was a dud as a game console machine.