skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, these things don't "just happen". I cannot imagine even in a relatively low stakes environment (let's say a photo sharing app) to fuck up that badly without getting a heart attack.

I am in Spain right now and I have to get cash from an ATM soon, it feels like russian roulette to do so. I had to use a money transfer service UK internally to pay a dentist bill, because TSB's online banking website was showing an outdated phone number of mine that is used to verify transactions for new recipients. And of course, when you change the number you cannot use the new number for 2 days because of "security concerns".

IBMs involvement in the case doesn't fill me with confidence either.

I really hope this disaster is finding its way into MBA courses as an example of why you need a sane migration path, "no matter" the costs.

EDIT: removed the request for recommendations for new banks, should be a different thread.
What's your licensing situation with Nvidia regards their prohibition [1] on datacenter deployment for 'consumer' cards?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16002068
The Fraught Cold War History of Novichok
Many cases in the US of people choosing unfortunate "vanity" license plates and then getting billed for zillions of unpaid parking tickets: "UNKNOWN", "NO PLATE", "NO TAG", "VOID", "XXXXXXX", "NONE"... https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/licensed-to-bill/
Returning to our senses
On the contrary, such companies don't deliver value. Their sole purpose is to extract value.
Pair this with Taleb's views on globalism, and how it enables this kind of interconnected environment, that doesn't leave much room for error. And if an error happens, it's going to be systemic.
The works of the philosopher J. Austin, author of _How to Do Things With Words_[1] (and the wonderfully titled _Sense and Sensibilia_[2]), seem eminently more relevant to law, and I hope are cited as well.

Austin writes about “performative utterances”[3] such as “I promise I will give you a dollar” and “I pronounce you man and wife”, which by their utterance become true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Austin#How_to_Do_Things_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_and_Sensibilia_(Austin)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance
My Nokia 9500 had all the features of the iPhone, as well as apps like a spreadsheet. Further back I traded stocks online on a 2001 phone based on a Palm Pilot, which also included basics like email, messaging, calendar and so on.

The iPhone took all those features and repackaged them into a stunningly simple and intuitive device. It was absolutely a repudiation of the existing devices and industry, but that was the design, not the features.
I agree, but this is not real question. It's just a disguised add for a service.

(To the OP:

It's ok to post your service here if the post is interesting and you don't repost it too many times, and you don't try shady things like pretending to ask a question or creating new accounts to avoid the spam filters.

Many times an interesting post about how you solve one problem in the implementation of your app is better here than a generic post. Specially if the problem is specific to your kind of app, but generic enough to be useful in other apps.

)
Why "sacrifice" and not murder?

> "People sacrifice that which is of most and greatest value to them," he explains.

But then:

> isotopic analysis indicates that they were not all drawn from local populations but likely came from different ethnic groups and regions of the Chimú Empire

To accept to have your own child taken from you and cut open to offer its heart to some angry God supposes an amount of "faith" difficult to imagine. Isn't it more likely, they were taken by force?

It's always strange when we assume ancient people would necessarily be superstitious; maybe some were, and some weren't.

Isn't it reasonable to think that mass killing would be a punishment inflicted on one group to another, following, say, a long war, or simply a conquest?
I started making bread for the first time in the last two months. 20 years ago I tried a few times, and it didn't ever work.

This time round I've had consistently good bread, rising well, and tasting good. It takes me 2-3 hours to make, which is a reasonable way to occupy myself on a slow afternoon while my toddler is having a nap.

My only real annoyance is that I've no idea what I'm doing differently these days that makes it work. I'll pretend that since I've moved countries the temperature/humidity is the key, but I genuinely have no idea!
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I have no real idea but sometimes its better to ask forgiveness rather than permission (i'm not in any way associated with this service).
I am a business school graduate. It's a little shocking to read this but also hard to argue. I think many degrees have no value except for serving as a requirement for entry into a career.
What's the benefit? The best I previously found was nomachine since it has clients for everything. But it's still so laggy over a remote connection, maybe I'm doing something wrong.
What you more likely want is a sense of privileged, sensitive, and/or high-consequence users who arent trivially compromised or blocked.

E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically_exposed_person

That and some sanity in your account-handling ops.
Not entirely sure why the Guardian uses a hypothetical here. This is how amazon is used for money laundring. Fake products, and real products sold at 10,000% prices
I believe this actually used to be written into law in the UK. I don't think it is technically law any more, but regardless my dad finds that bakeries are always very happy to hand over some live yeast.

Not sure if that is the same as a sourdough starter though...
Tempted to file a bug report that simply reads, “Bacteria”.
Sometimes, Being Thirsty Can Be Confused with Being Hunger
I have a genuine question that is kind of unrelated to this discussion:-

What is special about Japanese candy? Is it the packaging? The ingredients?
Suppose you have been in/next to significant number of places of serial... criminal act. And you sneezed at each place. Or, like me, you have a condition that make you shed excessive skin. Or both.

Chances are your DNA would be at each site in a significant amount and you may be amongst several people linked to all cases. Chances are that you being in all these places is not a coincidence but you have a motive to be there - be it a work or something else. You can be tied to these places in some other way.

If your cousin let this DNA DB shows his DNA and police can relate these, you are... you will have some interesting time with the justice system.
Did he break a law, or did he just do something that you personally disagree with? I don't really understand the criticism here.
Congressman Suggests Republicans Are Retiring Because of Assassination Fears
Who writes that law?
Yup. I've had several el Cheapo LED bulbs fail on me, and it always seem to be a problem of the electronics driving the bulbs. I wouldn't be surprised if, in China, people were actually recycling the bulbs, because it probably only involves replacing the right capacitor or driving IC.
If the database you are using understands transactions then it is best to begin a transaction before any update to make sure you did it correctly.
Firefox release speed wins
I'm not sure if I'm cargo-culting here or just trying to figure out the point of Chesterton's fence, but I would be worried about the effects of significant amounts of salt in sourdough starter. Salt could theoretically inhibit yeast growth less (or more) than bacteria, potentially causing the ratio to move in an unhealthy, less flavorful, more sour, or less voluminous direction. If it works and tastes good though, this is a super clever and awesome idea.
> Next up was the laborious process of determining which bus lines one could actually take to each tennis court. My approach was 100% analog, starting from the top of the alphabetical list of tennis courts (Alamo Square) and marching straight through to the end (Youngblood Coleman), noting all of the bus lines that had a stop within reasonable walking distance to a court.

As a cartography nerd myself I was surprised just one comment suggested using GIS and geospatial analysis to match bus lines to tennis courts. Actually this very analysis could be made via services that provide a visual interface such as Mapbox or CARTO.

I recommend watching this documentary where Roger Tomlinson ("father of GIS") is highlighted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VLGvWEuZxI

For those interested in learning to create maps on the web and visualize geospatial data CARTO also has a free MOOC site https://carto.com/academy/

Disclosure: I used to work at CARTO
Stevey's Blog Rants: June 2008
Discipline is the solution.

Isn't that a bit like saying eating less is the solution to weight loss. It's true of course but completely useless advice for the majority of people who struggle with lack of discipline.
I learned it as a kid and played until my professor died.

I don't play either much but prefer it to chess.

I'd say the sudden traction comes from the tv show Counterpart: the opening credits feature a board of Go.

* spoiler alert *

If the show is definitely worth watching, it doesn't show much of the game itself. I would say this is a good way to tease gamers into (re)discovering it.

As to why it is featured, the game philosophy is about the uncertainty of a win, capturing your adversary is never a definite thing.

I think the show actually needed to introduce Go to explain it's depth.

Hoping you will enjoy both :)
I like to think of organizations as large living things. Just like people are made out of numerous living cells, organizations are living things made out of numerous living people.

As such, they behave similarly to other living things is some ways. And all living things want to keep living.
Strongly typed languages help somewhat, but you still often need to store or serialize the data in something less clever (e.g. JSON).

To reduce risk of mixup of different kinds of IDs in the system I used different increment values in Postgresql sequences (e.g. 13 for users, 7 for categories), so the IDs quickly went out of sync and had little overlap.
In the late 80's I had to give a 3-week programming workshop to a group of 8 people in Bombay, India (now Mumbai). The group consisted of 7 women and one man. I was not used to such a demographic in a teaching group. So I asked: "Why are there so many women in this class". They looked at me with amazement: "Well, that's obvious. For programming you have to be able to use your brain!"
If you had money to launder, you were going to buy fake eBooks on Amazon using that money [0]. If we're talking about credit card fraud, for how long do you think you could keep those prepaid bitcoin-mining computing resources once the fraud is detected?

[0] But I wouldn't say the article describes money laundering. The proceeds from the scheme are not (and don't try to look) "clean" at all.
wow, Hy Lang is sweeet !!! Will check it out, thanks ;)

Considering your question, I'm not a data scientist but this book seems to come up often when search for 'lisp ai' on google. It's pretty old, but maybe it's a good place to start: https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp
Hey, can I ask you what prompted you to just go reading nginx code? As pointed out recently, most people - even people who advocate reading source code for its own sake - don't actually read code unless they have to. (http://akkartik.name/post/comprehension)

So it's interesting to see a counterexample. What led you to go spelunking in nginx?
AAI Inks MoU with Ministry of Civil Aviation
Except prior art?

I mean, clearly there’s a difference between “blows up” and “destroys all the key material”, but clearly Apple can point to prior art here.
I’d really like to see a propose-and-vote crowdsourced game against AlphaGo. Can 1000 players, with appropriate ranking and selection of moves, perform well? There’s precedent for Chess using basic plurality voting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov_versus_the_World
With culture and social policy, there's no question that the u.s. is irrational. But it's still the land of opportunity and produces most of the innovation in the world. I just wish it wasn't so religious in its thinking a jug hm control and health care, etc.
> So in fact very few judges have used a phrase that is now very much within common usage in English, and which has obvious appeal in legal arguments.

Actually, it appears that they only counted uses of the phrase that were footnoted with a reference to the Austen text.

But I agree with your overall point about the article.
It wouldn't be very entertaining; AlphaGo would just win. Twitch isn't going to play very well.
Hmm...

1. She has dual French/US citizenship, says so in her Bio. Not sure what "Central America" has to do with anything. A lot of US citizens renounce their citizenship because of the insane tax requirements. But of course the US also makes renouncing very hard, for example taxing you on unrealized profits. It's a mess.

2. You find the article "naive"? How much experience do you have living outside the US, if I may enquire, for example in Europe?

3. Freedom of speech is actually quite comparable, and in many ways better, as for example corporations are prevented from denying your freedom of speech. The limitations the US corp. I worked for recently tried to put on employees were laughably illegal in Germany. Yes, we are a bit down on Nazi symbols. Can you guess why?

4. I would like to see what happens to you in the US if you give the middle finger to a police officer. Can you assert your 1st amendment rights from the grave?

5. "The first and second amendments of the U.S. are unlike very few In the world." Actually the first is pretty common, with very slight alterations. The second is uniquely US-American and, surprise, the US is a uniquely violent and deadly place.

6. Statistically, you are about 10x more likely to get shot in the US than you are in a Western European country. And at least 4x more likely to get killed in a homicide. So no, the violence in the US is not made up by the media, it is a statistical fact.

7. Whereas the much publicized terror attacks in Europe are exactly what you claim for the US, a statistical blip. They are only noticeable because (a) those countries are so much less violent overall and (b) media coverage of anything that can be counted as "terror" is of the charts.

8. Not sure what you mean with "one of the worst gun massacres". The Charles Hebdo attack? Sorry, that doesn't even crack the US top 10, and is not even a day's worth of gun homicides in the US.
The point of money laundering is confusing the origin of money you can’t spend.

If you can already spend it on miners and utilities, why go through the pain of cryptocurrency? Just buy jet skis and restaurants or whatever it is you actually want.
"If you don't feed your mother dough it will starve eventually as it has no more food." I read this out of context with hilarious interpretation.
I see the same problem with Amazon's eBooks. They detect the fraud, and they yoink the eBook back and refund the credit card. Whatever time you can mine between use and discover you get to keep as there is no way to revoke the computing resources you've used.

Look, I'm not a criminal mastermind so I have not run the numbers to decide whether or not this is a good use of your resources. I'm just saying that cryptocurrencies might be appealing to people wanting to steal money and that KYC isn't going to save you.
Both aging and death have been with us since before we were apes, small furry mammals, fish, or had any form of consciousness at all. You'd have to argue specifically why the analogy is still valid despite that.
Please don't comment on downvotes. It is what it is, and it can change if you wait.

In response, yes laws change. It was once well established that separate but equal was equal; and blacks could have their own bathrooms and drinking fountains. It was once legal to employee 13 year old boys as factory workers.

Disney's big items are well past their trademark expiration dates. Mickey Mouse should be public domain soon, but Disney is large enough they keep lobbying for laws that extend their IP well beyond what it should be.

We do need copyright reform, especially in cases like this where the physical disks aren't even made anymore.
Read the article. They used someone elses SSN so no tax. Also 70% from of $3999 from a stolen credit card ain't bad.
It does not sound like they are deploying in datacenters: https://vectordash.com/hosting/

That said, the license also has this:

No Sublicensing or Distribution. Customer may not sell, rent, sublicense, distribute or transfer the SOFTWARE; or use the SOFTWARE for public performance or broadcast; or provide commercial hosting services with the SOFTWARE.

which seems to prohibit Vectordash's individual hosts from participating.
I make about $500k a year. My effective tax rate is 28% (I’m not in Bay Area). This is, admittedly, not common. My reports make 200-250k, which is far more common. You?
It is now probably safe to dispose of your old mfm and SCSI cables. Probably even your parallel port cables can go as well. ;)
Aren't Win10 licenses tied to both the serial in the UEFI and the CPU ID (so if you need to replace one or the other, it will still activate?)
This is precious world's top banks have being laundering 100s of billions of dollars for drug cartels, ISIS etc. Yet they are worried that some small market place might be used for money laundering.
Springer Nature warns of ‘free access’ threat to revenues
I’d love a new sound driver model so music professionals and enthusiasts can have low latency audio without exclusive locking as provided by ASIO
I like your solution.
In Hunt for Golden State Killer, Police Uploaded His DNA to Genealogy Site
That sounds familiar. I was there too around 2003-2005, very little of what has been said surprised me and rang a lot of bells from my time there. Hugely siloed and with very strict hierarchies.
I see this an issue of typing. Programs use integers in many different kinds of ways, and if you have a function that accepts an integer as an argument, neither static nor dynamic type checking will catch the case where you pass the wrong "type" of integer. The same goes for UUIDs, strings, etc. or whatever other opaque values you use to reference entities in your system.

You can avoid these problems by wrapping the integers in objects that you use solely for referencing entities of the relevant type. For example:

class UserRef {
id: int;
}

Then you define functions like this:

function ban_account(user: UserRef) {
// ...
}

And a static type checker will pick up incorrect uses. For dynamically typed languages, you could instead use a unique field name such as user_id, to achieve the same thing (though getting a runtime error instead of a compile time error).

Obviously you'll still be using ints or strings as an external representation, but as long as you do the conversion at the point where the identifier enters the program, the type system will take care of the rest for you.
(N^N)!
But in my example, surely the data type for a manager's ID will still be the same as that of the user, so I'm not sure it really solves the problem entirely.
If you were a jazz musician in the 1920s, the best-paying stable job you could get was in Paul Whiteman's band. So Whiteman was able to attract some of the best players of his day (well, the best white players of his day, anyway). But the work frequently meant playing boring arrangements for upper-class toffs. There was a fair bit of turnover in the staff despite the good pay. Some of his players just drank themselves into an early grave.
Gates Foundation launches $12M Grand Challenge for universal flu vaccine
I never feel like celebrating the releases that were shipped even solely by me. Maybe once I build something with Idris or Ada?
If I understand correctly, the instances available are containerized instances that users run (i.e, the system matches hosts to guests and takes a cut).

Beyond being dangerous on multiple levels, there doesn't seem to be any guarantee of storage or network bandwidth/traffic. Having a multi-TFLOP GPU to train with is hardly useful if you can't get the training data on the device in a reasonable amount of time, or hold that data in local storage.
It is not useful to discuss about the law on a forum on the internet, at least not yet. Still...

Counterfeiting is an act that is similar to theft, apparent from the fact that this guy has succeeded in making money from what Microsoft gave birth to, and therefore owned [1]. The relation between the guy and Microsoft is clearly a parasitic one.

Microsoft would be compensated justly if they were simply just awarding the monetary damage back by the damaging parties, here Eric Lundgren and his co-defendants. However, it would not be just against the community* (which includes Microsoft, but also everyone else) to let the damaging parties go away without deterring them from doing such actions further. Otherwise, the damaging parties may continue living off their lives through damaging, simply because it is almost certain that there will be cases where they will make profit without being detected and required to award the damages back.

Another way to explain the situation is this: If they are not made to pay more than the damage they have caused, their worst-case (for them, not us/community) profit is 0, and for all the other cases they will be making profit. Should this really be the justice cast upon the individuals causing monetary damage?

[1]: Declaring creators as the (copyright) owners benefits the community, hence we do. The relevant example Windows is a product of Microsoft that benefits the community, evident from the fact that it has a userbase. Microsoft would not create and offer Windows to the public, if the law allowed everyone to freely redistribute their products, and compete with Microsoft using their creation, as it would render their novel efforts meaningless against the much simpler effort of copying products created by the others.

[*]: Edited from "robbery".
I don’t get the problem... it discloses the IP of each user to themselves, no? In that case what’s the point?
I think you're right. You can always sell your PC and that includes the license (and for OEMs, Microsoft ties that license to the hardware; typically the UEFI serial or the CPU ID). That can technically be enforced at the hardware level.

But before they did that, you could peel off your case serial number, install Win XP on another machine and sell your old one blank. Is this violating your license? I'm honestly not sure, but we did it all the time.

Also if we didn't have an XP key, we'd often go to Staples and write them down off the store units.