skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of your credit card transactions leak more and more of your PII data to the world. CC also sell all of your financial transactions to third parties. Have you factored in the cost of identity theft that results from you paying with a credit card to the value of being able to reverse that $20 ticket? Unless your identity (and the time spent rectifying it) is worth less the total aggregate of all the reversible transactions, you shouldn't be using a credit card (rationally speaking)
SEC sue Tesla's Musk for fraud, seek to bar him as officer
Interesting that you can't simply spin one up on your own; you have to contact AWS to get the process started. Maybe it's simply because of the amount of money you're committing to spend, but I find the possibility that they're now offering an instance type that requires them to physically provision it for you intriguing.
Duh. But also, how do you actually test objectively for this without introducing bias? And how do you insure you're not creating a monoculture that will eventually harden into navel-gazing and dogma? I'm really of two minds on this topic.

Give them a simplified version of a class that represents what you do everyday with failing unit tests. Have them pair program with another developer to make the unit tests pass.

Then once they do that...

Give them another set of unit tests for the same set of problems and add more requirements. They have to make the second set pass without breaking the first set.

It’s realistic, you can see how they think through a problem, and you can see how well they work with others.
The Little Ion Engine That Could
Tells you a thing or two about the social nature of applied sciences.
Why didn't they? He was committing a federal crime.
Python lambda expressions have the same problem that Fortran statement functions have, that's why Fortran statement functions were abandoned a few decades back. Not much new here.
What about DNS spoofing[1] at the local network level?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_spoofing
Apple produces better products than google and microsoft, get over it. The market decided.
>That's what off-chain solutions are supposed to fix, although they come with their own caveats.

L1-enforceable L2 bitcoin transactions have risks for the recipients. If you're the sender, you don't care.
Brian Acton turned down way more than this guy ever made, so I say he is already pretty cool.
> most major european car makers survived the great recession just fine

Most of the European (Mercedes/BMW) engineering and product people have power. Even Honda for a long time engineers/product people drove most of the decisions and power structures. American car companies not so much, most MBA / bizdev lead over engineering and product people. Germany is unique in that engineering and the product quality is highly respected over short term gains only.

Additionally, BMW/Mercedes/etc cars also target the upper classes that weren't as affected by the Great Recession so they didn't have the pressures as much as the US car companies that needed bailouts. American industries targeting consumers in upper class and wealth didn't suffer as much.
Rustcast #10 – Test README examples with skeptic crate in Rust
Not to worry. Trump would never sign such redundant regulations.
> The battery and solar operations side of TSLA are critical to spaceX's mission to Mars.

What stops them from buying off-the-shelf commodities? Why the NIH? Didn't they, to much nerd fanfare, famously make all of TSLA's patents public two years ago? What stops them from sourcing these components from someone else?
Furthermore, the state co-oping capital sources and becoming both the primary financer and customer.

In that environment, it's a logical business choice to do as the state requests.

Ma's a smart man to get out.
That's an excellent article you link - to paraphrase the conclusion: digital rectal examination should not be performed routinely for abdominal pain, but should be considered an investigation to consider when diagnosis is unclear.
As you've discovered, the reported property had a different name in python2. The repl doesn't report a property, it asks the object to give a representative string (__repr__() function) and prints that. Other languages wanting to expose something like this would maybe hide it deeper in the interpreter or build it into each tool separately, Python chooses to make everything accessible from the language itself.

You've bitten onto a more or less internal detail (I've TA'ed a bunch of undergrad courses in Python, and it's firmly in the land of things students don't know if they don't discover it on their own) and use that and seemingly quite little grasp of how Python works to argue that it isn't simple, while of course languages you are more familiar with are better.
Swiss Tables and absl::Hash
People don't fully power off their computers or take their laptops home where you work, huh?
I've been trying to find a registrar with more-than-normal security without much luck. I want a registrar that will stand up to a sophisticated social engineering attack using leaked documents and personal information etc. The big names like MarkMonitor start at like $50k, mid-range ones like CSC leave me with an uneasy feeling given they do so many things with a clunky web UI and over email. I don't really even know any other options in this space.

One option that could scale well with the standard service is allowing customers to upload photo ID / business registration etc and locking down the account so that customer support can never touch anything. Should the customer lose their password / 2FA etc, then they would need to physically go to an office location for ID verification (and a $xxx inconvenience fee). I've had some limited success implementing this system with conventional registrars but I would be more comfortable if it were an actual product offering.
> Mars soil isn't as bad, but some of it you don't want in your living space either.

It's probably worse, since Martian soil has perchlorates, which are toxic and cause thyroid problems at low concentrations.
I am actually personally acquainted with Dr. Charlton, former editor of MH. He has some legit concerns about the epistemic effects of peer review (as well as the "business" of science---obtaining grants, etc.).

I'm torn, because on the one hand I wish everything from MH came with a giant "UNPROVEN AND DOES NOT FIT YOUR SCHEMA OF AN ACADEMIC PAPER" disclaimer, and that that would pass through when adapted to other media (like, say, this press release). On the other hand I basically share concerns about the peer review process and the stranglehold it can have on research.
I have a number of domains with Namecheap and these comments are worrying me. Thinking about moving over but is there an easy way to port all records? Some of domains have multiple txt and mx records associated with them and a bunch of other values that would be a pain to manually rezone.
I love financial irony
We need this nationally in the USA, _right now_.
The spoofer wouldn’t be able to obtain a valid certificate for the spoofed site, though.
Humanitarian Highlight 9/27: Acknowledgement – Oak Tree Business Systems, Inc
just googled - you were 9 years too early :)

https://www.businessinsider.com/oklahoma-city-bombing-ammoni...

" the new legislation will require anyone buying more than 25 pounds to register, be screened against a known terrorist list, and require any thefts to be reported within 24 hours. "
You assume that "IP" is a real thing. It is an invented concept. Those who insist on its reality do so for their own benefit. Those who deny it, do so for their own. How are disinterested parties to decide? Well, they might examine how genuine the two positions are...

There is a difference between "I can do this bad thing, because you have already done it" and "this thing is not bad, otherwise you wouldn't have done it". Tu quoque addresses the former situation, not the latter.
So Facebook doesn't care about people's privacy and people themselves don't care about their own privacy. This is pretty demoralizing.
Also worth watching: "The Crimson Permanent Assurance"
Apple rejects update to basecamp app due to links to help pages on paid version
Be Bold is no longer the mantra? Aren't they pretty bold all the time? ;-)
I think the term "passion" has been abused a lot to mean being excited and loudly proclaiming "I am so passionate. I love it.". I am not likely that and I dont expect to be like that. With passion I mean the desire to learn and do a good job just because it makes life more interesting. I work around 40 hours a week and I try to make this time as interesting and enjoyable as possible. To me that means to do a good job and improve as much as possible. Once I am on my way home I don't think about work anymore.
Could affect their ability to get government contracts if he's convicted.
I wonder if he was high when he wrote the tweet?
> Anyone, even low-income earners, can put small amounts into Bitcoin and it will retain value in the longer term.

Will it? The one thing that Bitcoin has not been noted for is keeping a stable value. Even that's fine, as long as the value doesn't go down - nobody complains that the value isn't stable if the value keeps going up. And, Bitcoin has... um... had been doing fine on that front. Now it's not. And I don't see evidence that it will be a good store of value in the future. I hear argument, but the available evidence is not for Bitcoin being a stable store of value.
it might redirect to a malicious web page, but https would still prevent a problem. perhaps read the article you posted.
Why would a quad require training and not an RC heli?
I expected click fraud, but if the description is accurate (and I don't have much of a reason to believe it isn't, since it describes pretty shady activity if you read between the lines), they're using the accounts to post shady ads that Facebook doesn't allow (and bans accounts for) until the account gets banned.

Also, the participant is supposed to get paid after they send the Raspberry Pi back after the account got banned, i.e. once the user has absolutely zero value for the scammer... I don't see why the scammer would pay... (although it may be chump change compared to the money they make from getting a percentage of the ad spend, so maybe it's worth paying that to get a better reputation).
> How is putting an electric motor in a slightly different shape of car a more important accomplishment than making it run for 300 miles on a charge? The end-game car might look like a Chevy Volt on the outside, but under the hood it'll look more like a Tesla.

The Model 3 has more range because it has a much bigger and more expensive battery pack, and accordingly a much higher price tag (starting at $30,000 versus starting at $50,000). There is nothing to suggest that Tesla is going to be able to scale down to a mainstream price faster than Nissan, Chevy, etc., improve the performance of their offerings which sre already much closer to a mainstream price point. Tesla’s persistent inability to sell the promised base Model 3 suggests the opposite.
I think, it was an example of intentional hostile design (say, see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWZLB8CyPbM for what I mean). All, seemingly for the sake of that "only-one-way-to-do-things" goal.

EDIT: (Van Rossum's own explanation of why he thinks lambda's design is okay: https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358 )
>Bitcoin in contrast takes 10 minutes to clear and settle a single transaction vs. Ethereum that takes 15 seconds.”

This is a misconception in the cryptocurrency space. There is no such thing as a irreversible payment only variance of the reversibility given the number of confirmations it has. The only criteria that governs if a transaction is safe is if it costs more to reorg it than the transaction is worth. 0 conf transactions are trivial to "reorg" or double spend. The time between blocks doesn't change this (why ethereum or other chains marketing on high block frequency is a scam).

See the double spend costs of various chains here:

https://www.crypto51.app/

e.g. any payment on ethereum that is more than $745 [1] is at risk at one block. Conversely, on bitcoin any payment below $78,000 is at risk at one block. The analogy to use is: Ethereum seats you at the restaurant faster but takes 100X longer to bring you the bill.

Ethereum is no better than paypal because (practically) no one can run a node that determines if a transaction has completed, because their blockchain is so poorly designed to make it onerous. Their entire marketplace is reliant on trusted third parties to verify transactions.

[1] 179e3/60/4
[2] 470e3/6
Which brings the interesting question: what kind of entity would pay Amazon $800K upfront for 3 years of using a single (massive) machine?
I wonder what the average time the user will disconnect it after they don't get paid?

It may be worth it to just sacrifice it after a month. I am sure it is profitable, but as people become more aware, it will be harder for them to do this.
I think it is and should come down to either reinvestment of returns and growth, or dividends... both grow the economy, provide value and/or increase share value. What doesn't do that is parking capital in other countries as tax havens. I'm okay with the former two.

I do think shareholders are more than happy to see 10-20% in dividend returns annually. They're able to buy more stocks or diversify accordingly. I'm also okay with growth and reinvestment internally in a company (that tends to grow stock value). And it isn't an either/or issue.

What I don't think is reasonable is to see a given company try to get consistent growth in saturated markets they heavily control. It doesn't work, and trying to do so leads to horrible decision making in the longer term.
One Reason for Slow Wage Growth? More Benefits
He's not being an asshole. He's probably stressed out and doesn't know how to cope well.

Life is stressful, work is stressful. My manager and his manager are reasonable people but after my second assignment, they said I missed a requirement and that it was a “big f’ up”. Guess what? I found that refreshing after dealing with managers that beat around the bush and you had to constantly try to figure out what they were thinking - or even worse, they didn’t tell you anything until your review.

I’ve had to whiteboard architecture in front of CxOs, be interviewed by potential investors, etc. It’s when things get stressful that you really need people who can keep their wits about themselves.
But I assure you there are dozens of things you do every day that would make a subject matter expert's hairs fall out: that's not how you're supposed to brush your teeth ... you have to wait for the engine to cool before measuring oil ...

I don't even have 10,000 visitors each day watching me measure the oil in my car or brush my teeth. Neither are they /all/ paying extra in electricity and battery life and wasted time watching me do it badly.

What in my everyday life do I do so badly that is also an externalised cost on thousands to millions of other people, which I profit a lot more by doing badly?
* Mechanical: pull over and wait for a service truck. Not much different from what happens now. Likely fewer issues overall as these trucks will probably be electric.

* Route planning isn't that hard of a problem; design the system such that running out of gas/battery is a whatever-sigma chance. Automation means lots and lots of data about the roads to base this on.
He made pretty okay art and cared about the suffering of animals.
I made this tool on my free time late last year. It has gained some traction, but is still far from being the preferred tool among users for this particular job (although, I argue, it has the best feature set). I have faced challenges getting it to market in a quantifiably successful manner, but I try and spread the word as best I can. I love making hobbies like this easier and more accessible for people. That's what this tool represents. I value usability and attention to detail. Seeing the reactions so far has been extremely gratifying.
Nothing prevents you from taking that 10% and buying more shares, or diversifying.
If you want deck building mechanic, wouldn't programming the game be the natural suggestion?
I'd argue that Toys R'us was more of a victim of changing times and overambition. Their performance since the buyout was at best mediocre thanks to both Amazon and a shrinking customer base.

If you are looking for an example of maliciously planned LBO, look up Dick Smith Electronics.
Is SAP HANA any good?

I don't have any experience with it but it's the one single example that's always used in every vendor post about high-memory machines.
Apple produces better products than google and microsoft, get over it.

It sounds like you're the one who needs to get over something.

For the record, I've been an iPhone user since the 2nd iPhone. I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro, and I bought the 1st unibody Macbook. I've developed iPhone apps and I've been an Apple user since 1980.

Yes, Apple produces better products for now. However, as the years pass, those products might remain recognizably luxury, but become increasingly irrelevant, like a watch fob. Apple now is to Apple in the several years before Steve Jobs died as Pixar now is to Pixar in the days when they came out with Toy Story and Up.

The market decided. Here's the thing. It never stops deciding.
That's misleading. They removed the records of one site. Not "sites". And they did it because that site was claiming that CloudFlare providing them services meant that CloudFlare secretly supported their (hate-based) ideology.

And it's also worth pointing out that CloudFlare wasn't the only company terminating services for Storm Front. GoDaddy dropped them, then Google dropped them (and their YouTube account), then Tucows dropped them after just a few hours, and then finally CloudFlare dropped them.

Or to put it another way, CloudFlare has dropped one single site. Pretty much any other competing service will have dropped numerous sites. CloudFlare's dropping of The Daily Stormer is really only interesting in that it was a violation of CloudFlare's previously-stated policies of only dropping clients that are breaking the law.
Is sea water unsuitable?
That's 8 nodes with 1 CPU each.
So let me get this straight: you're shifting from arguing that the US bears responsibility for the Venezuelan crisis by a supposed embargo that did not exist to implying that were at fault because we don't impose enough embargoes? Look, the world is complicated and no one ever claimed the US was a shining beacon of morality. The issue is a distortion of the obvious and we'll understood proximate causes of misery in that otherwise oil rich country, which should be as prosperous as Norway.
I've started to think Apple is more competitive on laptops than it looks from the price.

Every time I've priced out a laptop with similar configuration to my MBP (including a good-quality display, NvME SSD, good battery life), it always ends up costing about the same as an MBP. And then Apple's customer service definitely tips in their favor (I've been spoiled by fast, convenient, competent repair service at the Apple store).

So either everyone is making big margins on well-configured laptops, or the perception of over-priced MBP's is misplaced.
It could use something like bdfproxy[1] to intercept HTTP-downloaded EXE files, then add some persistent malware in _addition_ to whatever the EXE was doing. This has been done before, over Tor[2].

The malware doesn't have to add a new root certificate, either, though that's completely possible. The Zeus trojan [3] does "man-in-the-browser" to intercept banking information, for example.

[1] https://github.com/secretsquirrel/BDFProxy

[2] https://www.pcworld.com/article/2839152/tor-project-flags-ru...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus_(malware)
So nice of you to decide that is it ok for you to endanger my life because you think that something is harmless. Thanks. Your quad will break my windscreen on short final (since i am doing 80 knots or so), distract me, and possibly make me crash on landing.
Well the most obvious way is if they are dumb enough to actually say so.

But even without that, it's possible to recognize weasel words that people are using to rule them out that have more to do with skin color, nationality, or anything other than skill and personality. And even personality can be iffy, depending on what they decide isn't acceptable.
For more info, I've written a small piece about Beadifier here: https://medium.com/@mikaelsbjrnsson/how-beadifier-makes-real...
Musk can easily bring in process people and metric focused people to help. Removing the product/engineering focused CEO that is part of the product innovation and success is a very bad idea.

You do need a focused innovative leader to run innovative companies that are competing with big players, if you get a metrics guy as the CEO or one calling the shots they will fade away.

Taking away the founder/creator is like how Python is without Guido and Linux kernel without Linus, they will eventually run out of momentum and get convoluted with many directions trying to take the lead for short term needs, similar to how node went for a long time or Microsoft under Ballmer or Apple under John Sculley (they thought an exec guy from Pepsi could run a technology company).

The typical process only focused metric MBA guys should come in when the innovating is done and it is time to focus on short term revenues over product, which eventually runs out everytime as it is milked and research and development is killed.

There is a reason Amazon is so successful still, Bezos is an engineer/product guy first that is laser focused on taking profits and putting them back into R&D, hard to beat that as you can see.
My problem is how easy it is to "fake" advertising. As in I go to website browse and buy then I get ads after about said product. Is that counted as evidence of a successful add sale?
Except that Cloudflare terminated Daily Stormer after allowing terrorist groups to operate under the guise of "free speech":

https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/cloudflare-and-...
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18088099
> OMFG so if I can build a thing within
> these constraints I can fly it?

Yes. You need not even build it yourself, you can buy it. eg: powered paragliders
That whole article was really straightforward for zizek, I love hearing him talk because he's never boring but his train of thought veers all over the place when he speaks live.
Robert Fink interview, designer of Foundry, Palantir’s open data platform
You will pay me to give you fake information and a free Raspberry Pi Nano?
Technology Loans: Is Your Credit Union Ready?
Ah, those are great.

I can't find it now but some daredevil wrote a Lisp interpreter in a single Python expression. A work of art.
Few months back I read that an article about children of refugees in Europe going into a coma like state. Could this be related?
Can we get a (2015) tag on this?
So.. the system learns what the subject of a sentence is over time. It's since learned "please" is not a subject, so I imagine that's what's dropped them in the results.

Still appear first for YCombinator, because that's the links they constantly post