skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can already make the sort of nuanced queries you're talking about for any of the hundreds of millions of Americans whose records have been leaked in one of the state voter or B2C lead-gen databases. The dumps are all freely available on databases.today and various forums. Phone numbers, addresses, names, email addresses, relationships, members of household...it's all in there, even if paid searches like Intelius don't have it.

Unfortunately, anyone who tries to normalize the data and release a public frontend for querying it will probably be dropped by their hosting provider and ostracized by the security community. People don't tend to like the idea of what you're talking about and will blame the person hosting the information as much as the people who leak it; much like how Troy Hunt will never release the HIBP corpus of normalized password dumps, he'll only allow you to seen if you're in it.

The impact of searching your personal data with that kind of granularity would probably be more dramatic than seeing your compromised passwords online, but I bet it would be even more villified.
The underlying issue here is that Firebase was sold as the answer to the not-so-techy people that wanted to create apps but couldn't necessarily handle the backend and here the issue is that Firebase should have thought that the majority of the audience thought Firebase would handle backend security for them as well.

Yes, Firebase team messed up here, but technically speaking it's not too late to fix if done right now. I noticed Firebase already added big banners in Firebase dashboard to make people aware of this issue, or maybe it's a way for Firebase team to cover their asses by saying we told you so!!
It's a good step towards fixing this issue but it's still not enough.
Which they needed because it’s tricky to dodge stuff at warp speed: "Faster than light, no left or right: course-corrections can fracture the hull."
"mutually all-but-unintelligible" doesn't make any sense. Should read "all-but-mutually unintelligible".
The only way "pretty awful" is incorrect is that it is too polite and reserved. Reams upon reams of pages are written completely at odds with Wikipedia's own style guidelines and common-sense expectations of what one might find in an encyclopedia. Unlike some famously dense mathematical texts, wikipedia maths pages don't even come with any of the benefits of brevity or focus. It's like a giant joke competition of who can describe every trivial thing in the most abstract and abstruse way except it got out of hand and the participants forgot it was supposed to be a joke. Mathworld and similar sites will help you much more with undergrad maths.
There's a lot of oxygen in space, too. Just like carbon, though, it will be bound to hydrogen.
How do you deal with databases, redis stores, secure env vars etc?
I cannot recommend this enough. I loved playing this with my dad when I was a kid.
It's always a tradeoff between having fun and accepted practice, and I'm glad for the brave souls who do use Crystal in production. After all, every mature language was once someone's toy, and you can never get from one to the other without many successive firsts.

I'm not here to recommend people use it in production, but I can understand the mindset of people who do.
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An interesting project. Without documentation, it may not be as easy for other people to use as it is for it's authors because other people will come to the project unfamiliar with its abstractions, methods, and syntax.
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Best. Thing. Ever.

After being raised in a cult, this describes perfectly the members in such organizations. A cult is being rational in undermining the reasoning abilities of the members and indoctrinating them to use fake reasoning. And redefining words such as logic, reasoning, truth.
I wrote a bunch of scripts and plugins to enjoy the Beatles better
Because I'm not that familiar with every The Beatles song to recognize who is/are the vocal(s), I wrote a bunch of scripts to help me achieve that, in both manual and automatic way. The repo includes three components: a python cli to search The Beatles song by title, and shows vocals and year information; a BitBar plugin that uses the python cli to display track info in menubar; an alfred workflow to search the songs quickly through alfred. Now I'm listening to these beautiful songs all day long, with the singer's naming on my eys, just like they are always there with me :)
Health, like beauty, is averages. If you take a group of people and average them, the resulting person is very likely considered pretty and healthy.

https://leadingpersonality.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/avera...

https://leadingpersonality.wordpress.com/2013/09/30/average-...

There are evolutionary reasons for preferring averages. And the further you deviate from average behavior, the bigger the risk you run.
I'm on a team at Google, am 30s, and the second youngest on the team. Pretty sure.

I definitely got that vibe 5+ years ago, but it's changed.
Not much to add, aside from: this is a cool business
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I worked for the largest merchant acquirer ~11 years ago, and we were collecting SKU-level data for Wal-mart at that time.
And then, of course, there is the book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007JKSHZ4
Nissan Leaf and a Scion xB, both ordered, both paid at the time of delivery, not before. No way I'd pay upfront for something I haven't even driven.
I'm not sure how Kraken trading to themselves would indicate that Tether is not backed. Kraken is not associated with tether and their volume is not large and contributes very little to the market.

And how does someone trading to themselves have any effect on price whatsoever? If there was real liquidity on Kraken and the price actually hit 1.10, then Bitfinex/Tether could simply print tether and arbitrage the difference themselves, essentially creating the tether out of all the money they made arbitraging, meaning it is fully backed.

If the accusation is wash trading I just don't see how that would matter.
There were a lot of people cruising around the Pacific coast.

In terms of Spanish names, there are also:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Blanco_(Oregon)

* Heceta Head - named for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_de_Heceta

The Russians had forts as far south as California.
> Hard to grasp why the protocols weren't followed in this specific instance

My ignorant guess, someone who could have made an active decision instead vaguely thought "we're not that interesting, who would even know we exist, it would take time and money to learn how or find someone who knows ... squirrel!"
There was an attempt to be more relatable to the lay person.

40 trillion trillion trillion packs of butter.
If by "backup plan", you mean your videos being accessible, sure. But usually, when people talk about diversifying, they are talking about revenue. In this case, PeerTube isn't really bringing revenue so I'm not sure it helps much. What would help is getting a Patreon or streaming on Twitch. Those are different sources of income, PeerTube isn't really unless you get hit like Blender did.
P3P; which Microsoft still puts into IE, and they were the only ones to use the 'standard.'

Just like many 'standards,' each company has their own, and follow it, though nobody outside of them do.
Part of a CFO's job is finding the cheapest capital source for the companies growth, sometimes that raising private equity and sometimes that is raising public equity (from IPOs).

Also, being public is a resource drain on the organization. You have to comply with SEC guidelines, employees have to be watched for insider trading, all of your company financials and other details are now public for the world to see. Sometimes the burden doesn't make sense for a high growth company.
Yeah. I’m not a god or smth, but I’m ashamed of “experts” that work(ed?) there.

At the very least it’s a pity that even good people make _mistakes_ like that.

Untill that day, whatever I do that is at least robust, diesn’t require mainatance each 2-3 months etc. not even fast, just decent.

In short while our idustry features stuff like that I will be angry, sad etc. But boy I will always have money, I might have a lot fun at least for some definition of fun!
My lease has one.
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> Software development should strive to be a proper, rational, engineering discipline.

Well, to use an analogy from civil engineering, I don't think choosing a programming language is always as critical as which type of concrete you choose and how it's reinforced. While it's true you wouldn't choose just any language, there is more room for preference here. Especially because you can switch languages for a project, but practically can't switch the material used in the foundation of a building.

> I just wouldn't want to try to argue to management that using it is in the company's best interest.

In some companies you don't need to argue with management about that decision. Also, a language being less popular or obscure doesn't mean you can't evaluate it's stability and feel comfortable enough with where it's at to use it. I'm glad people do because otherwise we wouldn't even see any language as popular as it is.
they could also use a large dish to funnel it to the mothball drive reactor.
the whole thing would be self lubricating.
"plus codes" [1] are a far better approach:

- no language involved, only ASCII chars and + signs

- open source algorithm to derive location codes

- works completely offline, as codes are generated on-the-fly

- no central DB of statically defined keywords needed

- no dependency on a company which might go bankrupt at some point or change licensing terms at will

W3W looks to me more like a strategic sell-out - implementing an already existing idea, hype it up, cooperate with some big brands (e.g. Daimler/Mercedes-Benz [2]), sell it for profit…

[1] https://plus.codes/

[2] https://blog.daimler.com/en/2018/03/28/what3words-mercedes-b...
Cool!

When I read Hawkins's book _On Intelligence_ back in the mid-2000s I had thought it'd be cool to generate music by having the system predict what was novel and what was familiar. By mixing some novel and familiar notes/rhythm/tempo/timbre/percussion into the stream I should be able to make new music from scratch. I was annoyed that so many systems trained blindly on existing music instead of using first principles to generate something (although existing music seems useful for seeding the novelty/familiarity parameters). For games especially it would be nice to turn up or down different types of novelty to match what the player is doing.

However, as often happens, I got distracted before I got there. I learned Pure Data, and then got into audio synthesis, and then got into signal processing, and that led to procedural map generation … :)
Seems like virtual machines will be able to run flash for a long long time.
I'm not generally afraid of snakes, but while hiking at dusk one time I jumped in the air, and THEN realized there was a snake in the path.
Prince renders HTML somewhat different than browsers and doesn't support the latest HTML + CSS standards, why choose it for new stuff over headless chrome and/or puppeteer?
I’ve been using crystal for moderately sized personal projects for a few months now - I’ve never experienced any unreasonable compilation times. If you tried crystal a long time ago, I’d recommend giving it another shot!
Since he's charging the customer I doubt he will give that information up.

https://apex.sh/ping/#pricing

But the business idea is simple so I am sure it would be easy to calculate a rough idea.
Between Equifax and today Exactis both leaking 300M+ records it's not really a question of if, but rather how many times have I been pwned...
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There are many reasons why they are not converted. For one, the business with Tether started when Bitfinex was hacked.

Secondly, AFAIK many exchanges including Bitfinex had trouble letting people withdraw USD. I am not entirely sure if that has changed recently.

So, in both cases Tether acts as a counterparty to BTC trades. In most cases, the BTC/USD pair is not actual USD but TUSD.
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New Tethers are not supposed to be issued if the price reaches $1.1, I believe the article got that part wrong.

Tether should only be issued based on the amount of USD that Tether has in its bank account / vaults (they have released a 'audit' by a law firm but not by an official auditor). Since each Tether represents exactly $1, market forces should handle the pegging. Assuming people trust that Tether does have the USD, then any price < or > $1 represents an arbitrage opportunity.

The demand for Tether comes from the fact that many exchanges are not licensed to operate in USD. Tether is used in place of USD on those exchanges, and the counterparty risk you mention is likely balanced by arbitrage opportunity.
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I said "all else being equal" for a reason. All your points stem from the fact you ommitted that from the quotation ;)

For example, built-in features are usually better quality than libraries due to survivorship bias, caused by the difficulties I listed. Libraries can also undergo scrutiny, need for buy-in, etc. and I claim that if those are equally rigorous for both a language feature and a library, then the library would be preferable.

Likewise, rather than relying on the language designers to pick a consistent set of features, we could instead rely on some other external entity to pick a consistent set of features in the form of libraries. I claim that if those two groups are equally competent, recognised, etc. then the set of libraries would be preferable.

And so on.

As an aside, regarding your preference to have exceptions baked into a language: I personally think that exceptions are dangerous and confusing-inducing (compared to Maybe, continuations, etc.). If they were a library, I could ignore them; baking them into a language makes me less inclined to use that language ;)
Relying solely on security by obscurity is an extremely sub-optimal method of guarding sensitive data. It's better to be safe than sorry in every instance when it comes to private information imo.
There's something called a "betrayal of trust" and when you betray someone's trust, good luck getting it back.
>this also seems to suggest that a ship in an Alcubierre bubble would be blind and unable to actually steer. I don't know if the bubble itself would decay (possible due to collisions with interstellar matter or some inherent instability) or would have to be collapsed from the outside. If the latter, then you need an existing infrastructure of stargate-like things already in place (either moved by conventional means or constructed) and just have to hope they're working and where you're aiming when you set off.

I'm not sure even having stargates/mass relays would be enough if the bit about collected stray particles turning into omni-directional death-rays upon exiting the bubble is true. You'd need to somehow actually carve a clear path in space-time between any two points.

Alternatively, you might be able to create some sort of limiter and only do "short" hops that limit how much energy gets ejected upon exiting. If you're building up energy inside the bubble though, wouldn't it be putting some kind of strain or pressure on whatever has to maintain the bubble? Seems like that alone would create an upper limit on how much you can "charge" it up.
A number of B&M vendors that used to be cash-only now accept credit cards. Definitely an impact, there.
That is not a very good take. There have been dozens if not hundreds of similar leaks from people who thought they could handle the backend and used more traditional technologies. There's precious little evidence that I'm aware of that these apps are systemically less secure than apps that use bespoke backends.
Yep. And 3b1b seems to agree: https://youtu.be/VcgJro0sTiM
Yep. Not to mention the fact that there is a tether usd market on Bittrex, and a tether/trueusd market. As well as a Tether/TrueUSD market on Binance. TrueUSD is a US-based company with properly audited reserves.

There is zero chance that all of these markets are manipulated.
It's Newtonian Physics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8537390
I wasn't talking about business-related data - that is indeed public already.

I'm talking about revealing the same kind of data their companies collect on us, which is way more personal and could contain embarrassing stuff.
but does that extend to complex molecules too

Yes, there is a whole field of organic infrared spectroscopy. Before we had more powerful instruments like NMR, it was one of the key ways molecular structures were elucidated.

You can get a good sense as to what functional groups are on a molecule with IR alone.
Golf and Pool already exist. In fact VR mini golf does very well (top 10) in VR arcades.
Dollars have to be sent through a bank, and too many of the exchanges have been cut off from the banking system. They exist to let money circulate between those exchanges and the few real USD exit points of the system.

It's not clear if tether can really be "redeemed".
Have I Been Pwned already considers data breaches in scope - it surprised me a bit that it reported things where my password wasn't at risk at all but my data was leaked and there was nothing I could do about it. (In particular there was one breach of data scraped from publicly available data from GitHub, where there was neither anything I could do about it nor anything I wanted to do about it.)

I think it's still keyed on email address though.
I don't understand why there isn't more hype around the DAI stablecoin. It's an ERC-20 token that is pegged to USD through known collateral and economic incentives in a smart contract. It doesn't have any of the problems with Tether of the collateral not being transparent or not fully knowing how the price is staying pegged.

https://makerdao.com/
That doesn't separate us from other living things, or even natural processes, in any way. Many things appear to sew order in the universe on the local scale, but the math is pretty clear that this isn't actually fighting entropy at all.

The Last Question is a work of fiction. All works of fact seem to support the concept that it is not possible. That isn't to say that we will never discover properties of the universe that open new possibilities, but A) I think eternity is just a different kind of ending anyway, and B) stubbornly grasping to such a concept seems a desperate attempt to deny one's own mortality.

I'm not advocating for forgetting things for the sake of it, I'm advocating against the idea that everything must be preserved. Certainly we should try to keep in mind the lessons of our past, but we should also be willing to let go of things that haven't given us good reason to keep them around.
From what I remember, Dwarf Fortress was born out of an obsession for procedural fantasy world generation. Plate tectonics, extremely accurate weather modeling, in-depth socioeconomic simulations that give the world a life of it's own, extremely detailed life & death scenarios that play out in real time. It's awe inspiring.

As for your question, check here: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/List_of_Dwarf_Fortres...

I'm not sure if they've ever truly gone into detail regarding their methods, but they've done high-level overviews here and there that I've seen.
You'd have to reach a very high salary before you can buy a presidential election or gun control laws (stuff I think GP was alluding to in their post)
That’s actually the one thing I throw out immediately when I use this for precisely that reason.
That's a pet peeve of mine. Space isn't full of anything with mass. Space is remarkably empty.
> We would probably have a much different view of Jobs if he was in his prime in the social media era.

...which one could take to mean that a lot of these peoples' problems today are self-created (see: not knowing when to shut up)
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Does anyone know of good resources for studying machine learning or data science given a strong mathematical background? I'm transitioning careers from pure math research into industry. I know very little about machine learning, but I know the crap out of linear algebra and real analysis (and other, less relevant fields). It'd be great to have some sources that leverage that without assuming much prior CS knowledge.
No, it's really not a high number. It's right on the money for 3 years in-the-trenches experience making the move into consultancy -- around $130-140/hr billable, which is what I was billed out at in the mid 2000s as a .NET consultant.
> For an example of how this can really matter: an acquaintance is embroiled in a legal dispute with an ex-employer. Thanks to Apple's sane implementation of IMAP Mail on iOS, she still has access to all her company communications there to use as evidence. Unlike on her PC, where she was just using webmail the entire time and has nothing.

I agree this is an issue, but just thought it was worth pointing out that (cloud + offline) is better than just offline.

I'm a bit of a digital packrat. Despite carefully preserving and porting my data from system to system, I lost years of email archives in the aughts because Outlook Express would prompt me to archive old mail, but I didn't realize it was over-writing the old archive until I went looking for a message and couldn't find it (when it was too late). The lost email covered all but the last few months of my undergraduate degree.
The compiler takes about 30 seconds or a bit more to compile, and it has around 50000 lines of code. Do you have the few hundred lines that took you 30+s to compile?
They are all behind Tesla in cost per kwh for batteries.
But surely they (or most of them) value being able to trust their data?

I agree that we shouldn't ask them to be professional software developers, but then we need to provide them with access to professional developers if we want there to be such a thing as science that uses data and computing.

It's ridiculous to ask untrained people to write data processing scripts if you want to be able to rely on the output.

And then people wonder why we have a reproducibility crisis.
Tether, in theory, actually has a real use case. It can be used as a stable intermediary between exchanges that do not support USD and exchanges that do.

But in practice I don’t know enough to be confident that a tether is always going to be $1.
* My God, it's full of grease! *

(Sorry... couldn't resist...)
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