skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think all this GDPR bullshit is just nonsense. The more acts like that we get, the worse for real users, and especially developers it will be. Just think about it for a second. Large companies have large departments full of lawyers responsible just for that kind of thing. Yes, they might be resistant to change, but if they're forced to change, they will either change or figure out a way to not change while still staying compliant. Law is usually full of loopholes and the bigger you are, the easier it is for you to abuse them. The more law restricting what tech companies can or can't do we get, the harder it will be to create a startup. Imagine being a twenty-something biologist and creating a startup that's going to sell some medicines you created in the garage because your grandma is sick and she can't afford the ones on the market. The idea just sounds ridiculous. The number of certifications, clinical trials, approvals and other regulatory hurdles you need to overcome is just too high for someone without a full fledged legal department. I think the same thing will happen in tech, eventually. There will be no more startups made by two roommates at college who have just thought about some revolutionary idea. If someone even tries, they will instantly shut him down for not complyying with this or that regulation in some foreign country he hasn't even visited. Wise founders might try to find a lawyer or two and make their startup compliant with one country's laws and then do georestrictions. Big companies, with their legal departments, however, will be able to navigate that tangled mess much more easily. As a result, we will get big companies tracking us anyway and no way for small startups to rival them, much slower progress in countries with overly paranoid privacy regulations, which will cause economic development of such countries to be slower, and a worse quality of life for citizens in general.
it gave me perspective and a broader visibility into other fields and in tech. 7 years later i still visit several times every day.
==news is itself a currency that can be traded, hoarded and deployed to accumulate and wield power. Twitter is one of several welcome checks and balances against that practice, with hopefully more to follow.==

Except Twitter can be used to accumulate and wield power just the same. There are clearly bots on the platform trying to push certain narratives and bury others.

==Twitter has admitted that more than 50,000 Russia-linked accounts used its service to post automated material about the 2016 US election== [1]

How is that better?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/19/twitter-a...
I know it's not the main theme of the article, but I'm really interested in Buffer's laptop policies. How do you handle it if a laptop needs repair? or is stolen? What if the breakage is the employees fault, but they are not a repeat offender, so to speak? I'm curious how Buffer handles these things that I've seen problematic at other companies.
Sigh. They'll gladly welcome anything self-driving it seems, but refuse to budge on headlight laws.

https://www.wired.com/2017/01/bad-audis-swanky-new-headlight...
> The problem with this is that it's built in the backs of brands who were at one point well recognized brands on Amazon. Amazon took their sales data, determined it was a good market to move into, created specifications and reached out to their hundreds of sellers for a "private label opportunity".

I believe Costco (Kirkland brand) and likely Amazon also contract with one of the major brands (e.g., Tide detergent) to make a store-label parallel product with perhaps slightly different formulation, but often the exact same formulation. The name brand saves on their marketing costs and sells at higher margin, Costco gets a great product they can sell to customers for less than the competition, and customers willing to trust the Costco "Kirkland" brand save a lot of money ... it's a three-way win.

From https://www.wideopeneats.com/store-brand-vs-name-brand-why-k... ...

>> It’s a common misconception that the generic is made from a cheaper brand.
>> Sometimes the generic is made overseas with inferior products, but a lot
>> of Kirkland Signature products are actually the exact same product as the
>> name brand product. ... Sometimes, they’re even manufactured in the
>> same facility!

I've bought a few Amazon-brand products, e.g., USB cables, backpacks. The Amazon Basic backpack is quite good quality, seems very similar to the Targus brand backpack designs, and handles some decent abuse.

EDIT: backpack experience
This is a BIOS setting, and even while the BMC's working over the primary NIC, it retains its independent MAC and IP address (and VLAN if you set it up). Also, even if the NIC is shared with the BMC and the OS, you cannot see the NIC of the BMC on the PCI bus. They are isolated at the hardware level.

I manage lots of these servers for a long time, and this is my firsthand experience. :)
I'm curious if, when PostgreSQL 11 makes it to Amazon Aurora, autoprewarm will be available. Currently, when replicas spin up they are cold but having them automatically warm themselves would be fantastic.
> However automatically detecting copyrighted materials is relatively straightforward

Sure, that's easy: everything is copyrighted. The difficult part is determining whether the uploader can legally share the copyrighted material, which is just as likely to prove impossible to automate with accuracy and precision as the detection of personal information.
As was installing Linux on the unused secondary 2GB partition on every lab machine and enabling dual-boot so that you could come into the lab in the evening and launch a real operating system for the night's work and entertainment.
I don't have references - but I remember reading that the gently sloped roofs of desert buildings would channel breezes, and that would be combined with narrow passages between buildings to create a more shaded and cool environment. I also remember reading that when Rome extended its control to warmer regions the buildings they built always included a basement for use during the warmer months.
I sometimes wonder if a lack of inspired building codes has undermined our entire society. In my mind I imagine buildings created to foster community and encourage good use of resources such as heating, cooling, and food production.
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PC Load Letter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_LOAD_LETTER
Third party APK installation implies piracy?
This is something I will need to keep an eye on. I've come to depend on OneNote pretty heavily.

On the plus side, Office 365 is quite cheap considering you get 1TB of OneDrive storage for the price. Since you're a Linux user that might not be useful to you though.
As technological scrap paper, I admit it can be useful.

But as soon as your "fast analysis" is done, you need to be hardening whatever process it is you are creating. After all, that is what your analysis is about, right? Building some sort of repeatable, often auditable, transparent process.
From what I've read, the time after the World Wars was an aberration and we are now returning to the norm.
How do they know it's not a red herring?

If you run an org with that level of security, you'd want to obfuscate public databases with some fake details.
Normal people got access to the internet. It all went downhill from there.
From what I can find and I believe it pretty much all custom right now. I would guess it has ether MSC or OSC to receive key cues from QLab or other show control, but actually being run by custom software.
same, consoles for games, linux for everything else
Excel would be fine if people didn't keep creating spreadsheets with it.
> Amazon offers the exact same product for the exact same cost, I don't see the problem.

It's not much of a problem, but not much of an advantage either.

So, the question I'm confronted with is: why pay the same for a worse experience? The Amazon route forces me to pay more (Prime) to get it within 2-5 days, or even more to get it faster. Then there are the AMZL_US delivery hassles on top of that. The Home Depot route costs me 25 cents of gas and a 20-40 min of time to get it now-now.

> Do you have any examples where Amazon is selling a product for "outrageously higher"?

Not offhand, but I specifically recall seeing outrageously higher prices for some grocery/drugstore type items. Stuff like a $2 item selling for $6.
Administrator of a Facebook fan page is considered 'controller' (prelim. ruling)
http://archive.is/HkCDe
The Colossus of Prora
I’m curious how many cores they’ll put in. Intel’s cores are 10x the size. Let’s say they fit 4x cores into a high TDP package. That would mean a 24 core Macbook Pro cpu and an 64 core iMac Pro cpu.
If the BMC has write access to host memory it could surely use that access to create a side channel using the host's network interfaces.

Having said that, it would be nice if networks were segmented in the way you describe. I've been appalled at the lack of segmentation I've seen in companies of all sizes that I've had gigs for.
It lets me discover things I would have never discovered.

All in all I am finding myself spending a lot of times on Hacker News
Yes, as a news feed it's been interesting, especially to get a pulse of the tech community. The discussions, not so much, sometimes there's a useful link or quote but the back and forth is a bit strained and there's a severe lack of a sense of humor. I don't want it to turn into reddit but there are too many narrow-minded commenters.
sorry if not 100% clear : I much prefer PG communication and its ecosystem. They both bring a lot of information that builds more trust and is simply enjoyable to hear about.
> HN's weird relationship with the news media is worthy of comment

If I had said something about trusting Bloomberg or the media then sure. But that’s a completely different topic that’s not even remotely related to whether Apple’s denials on potential NSL issues are reliable.
http://archive.is/wpmBz
Easy to say if they cleaned up the evidence. What's convenient about recalling servers is that they're all neatly lined up in racks in datacenters, making them easy to pull out and replace. Supermicro would have lists of affected serial numbers, allowing them to take them back and make sure there aren't any samples lingering around for independent analysis.
This doesn’t make any sense. Imagine you have the 7,000 best employees and your ops are smooth. You are told that #7,001 will net improve the business. Are you delusional to hire that person? Or do you think that a profitable 7001th person does not exist?
Nice read. And a related reading is "how we impersonate users" [1] by eager.io (not related to them). I particularly like their sudo-button--smart

[1] https://eager.io/blog/how-we-impersonate-users/
Know your pain, I know how to use grep/awk/sed/..., now I am "logs investigation" expert too often, ugh..
Except opening communication and productivity apps is what people usually do when using their phones, not running CPU benchmarks. That Apple is so far behind and has been for years makes using iOS a laggy experience for anyone used to Android's speed.
Even with all its faults, it's pretty much the best predictor I can still find of what I find interesting at any point in time. The breadth of 'interesting' that I can find here is exceptional — I can probably say it made me a much more well rounded human being.

It's funny, when I first created an account 7 years ago, most of the discussion was way, way above my head, or so I felt. I don't feel that way any longer.

It might be life experience, or it might also be that all our filters and shields are up much higher than it used to be. Or we've all grown up together and became curmudgeonly together as well so that the glove still fits.

(But yes, the quality of discussion in HN has taken a sharp dive starting about 1-2 years ago, in my opinion.)
Shouldn't I, the creator, be able to say "consent to having cookies or don't use my site?"

No, especially not if you're a monolopoly like Facebook or Google. For non - monopolistic sites the GDPR encourages other monetization business models such as subscriptions instead of collecting and then profiling user data.
That's true but right now I can think of at least three options where that wouldn't be relevant:

1. The implant can use the host network interface before the host OS starts
2. The implementation depends on VLAN tagging and the implant simply uses configures its network interface to use the same tag as the host interface
3. The implant can compromise the host OS when it loads and use its networking stack after it loads
Yeah I use notmuch with Emacs and it's the same. If you try to search, refresh search results, or read email while the index process is running you get an error. It's not a big deal for me, because I download and index my mail from the command line, so I'll never be reading or sending email at the same time.
Wow that is a long time.

Congrat man.
If "pro mode" is optional, it would be no more effective than the existing "pro mode" of simply taking your hand off the mouse.
The attacker could just pull the text from a dictionary and bypass this check. Also as another commenter noted there could be legitimate traffic that is in another language.
If you drive downtown in a major US city - it may be a reasonable claim that the turn signals are useless.
Oh, I think I must have mis-parsed "That makes Oracle dull. That heighten the trust I have into it." then. I thought you meant you trust Oracle more because it's dull?
I've always wondered: these clunky Excel sheets are used at billion-dollar companies. Why don't they invest in building a sane web application (or similar) that can do all the validation and calculations in a much better looking interface that is suited for the job / application?
> Ali Express is overrun with sellers with identical listings, but the quality may vary greatly between them. You will only know when you receive the item. It's not uncommon to receive something that looks totally different than the listing images.

I see comments complaining about this and similar all the time on Amazon, and on products with very high ratings. The strategy seems to be, sell good quality cheap stuff for a while to get a good rating, the change the listing completely to a low-quality expensive product. The high ratings stick around, resulting in more sales than it otherwise would have, and more resilience to new low ratings.
Note that Alex Gian is porting SICM to Racket. Check the Racket mailing list for SICM posts.
Which is what he was comparing. The iPhone XS camera is worse than top of the line Android cameras, and top of the line iPhones have had worse cameras than top of the line Android phones for years.
As far as I can tell, when 2FA is enabled app passwords are the only non-2FA way to use your account. I have an app password in my .authinfo.gpg that I use for authorizing offlineimap and SMTP through Emacs. Obviously this isn't as secure as 2FA, but since the password is PGP encrypted I don't worry about it ever being comprised.
The difference being that an object's "mass" has very broad implications for all the theories that incorporate the notion of an object's "mass", all of which have been tested to high precision. (In tests that range from being contrived to not at all.) You can't say this for "intelligence" in anywhere close to the same way.

But it seems more HNers are dead set on believing that there is a genetic factor that can make certain people more "superior" than others, to justify existing social hierarchy.
> IMO nuclear is the only realistic alternative to coal to provide reliable, zero-emission "base load" power generation. Wind and solar could make sense in some use cases but not in general.

How much heat energy does a reactor with n meters of concrete around it, located on a water supply in order to use water in an open closed loop, protected with national security resources, waste into the environment?

I'd be interested to see which power sources the authors of this study would choose as a control for these just sensational stats.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17806589 :

> Canada (2030), France (2021), and the UK (2025) are all working to entirely phase out coal-fired power plants for very good reasons (such as neonatal health).

Would you burn a charcoal grill in an enclosed space like a garage? No.
I heard this on NPR [1] and thought it was interesting and hadn't seen it in these articles on HN:

> When [Bloomberg] asked China's foreign ministry for a response, a lot of times they'll say things like, you're crazy; we know nothing about this. Their response was a little more nuanced and contextual in the environment we're in now. Basically they said, we are a victim of these kinds of attacks, too. And, you know, they're right. The U.S. government - it's very, very good at these kinds of hardware attacks.

Supporting evidence for Bloomberg's claim: NSA interdiction of US export shipments [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654518383/bloomberg-reporter-...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwal...
Yeah, at least the R code only goes up and down, line by line. Most non-trivial excel code will have different bits of code going right and left (formulas sit in a row,column pair). One you get into extra tabs/sheets that's yet another dimension.
The article gives the hypothetical example of redacting a table row

{zip: 85535, age: 79}

to

{zip: 85xxx, age: 79}

on the grounds that there are fewer than k (for some tunable constant k, larger = more anonymity) 79-year-olds in zip code 85535, but many more in zip 85xxx. However. If I see the second record, because it has been redacted, I also know that whatever zip code the person actually had, there were fewer than k 79-year olds in it! This may narrow the set of candidates considerably.

So it doesn't seem sufficient to count the mere number of people a redacted row could possibly match. You have to consider the meta-level information that knowing the row had to be redacted gives the attacker.
This is like trying to argue that your Toyota Corolla is a superior car when compared to a Mercedes. It's a very narrow utilitarian way of thinking that only appeals to ascetics.
7 years ago I joined HN and it's been extremely helpful at keeping my finger on the pulse of tech. I have learned about new tech/libraries/languages/etc here on HN and been able to take what I've learned and use it for work and personal projects. Can HN be a procrastinators dream of a time-sink? Absolutely, if I had a dollar for every time I closed an HN tab and then pressed "Command+T" then "n" then "Enter" to pull up HN again I'd be rich. I need to cut down on some of that time spent on HN but overall it's been a net positive.
It’s worse than the bad usenet because social media curated the content you engage with into a self-reinforcing positive feedback loop.

Eg, my twitter feed shows me tweets of similar themes to those that I recently engage with. The more I engage the more that theme dominates my feed.

So it’s easy to see that someone who engages with tweets of any partisan political commentary can easily get pulled deeper and deeper into that murk with an echo chamber that filters out the opposing viewpoints.

Besides politics the same can happen with conspiracy theories and religious zealotry.
It's interesting that you say this would be unthinkable a couple decades ago when it seems, on the face of it, that it's pretty similar to the Clarence Thomas confirmation process in 1991. Do you see them as distinctly different?
Does it get in the way of your real job? Or is that your real job?

edit: by real, I mean the main duty of your job / what you were hired for. No implication meant haha
One difference between your experiences as an educator and the parent's experiences as an Office Excel Guy is that educators have a position of authority, and there is generally an ethos of paying attention and trying to remember what they're telling you!
Totally. I read HN and often get routed to interesting articles, technical discussions, and arguments I normally wouldn't see from my other sources of content (work conversation, FB, reddit). I like the highly technical nature of the posts here. I distinctly remember reading some article about B-Tree implementation in Rust that went mostly over my head, but gave me a great understanding of what developing a standard library looks like. I've never used rust nor have I built a standard library, but I got something out of that article & discussion.

I also make heavy use of the job threads, my company gets great candidates out of the WhoisHiring monthly post.

Also, HN introduced me to YCombinator. I eventually applied and got into the fellowship, which definitely brought something of value to my life... I found out about HN through a link someone sent me early on to a discussion.
I wouldn't. iOS spies even more by default (no way to disable AGPS vs. opt in on Android) and doesn't allow using privacy-enabling apps by default (system-wide ad/tracker blocker, real Firefox, Signal, local maps, etc.) unless you hack your phone. Worse, it doesn't let you develop for your own phone without rebuilding weekly or paying a yearly fee for the privilege.
> Stand and you are a red hat conservative promoting police brutality and the Private Prison Complex.

Nobody is saying this
It's true that many BMCs use the same physical network interface but that doesn't help an attacker hit it with a remote exploit. It could be relevant in the question of what could be done after compromise but for preventing that initial attack it's pretty effective.
Create a realtime chess games with React and Chatkit
I can chime in. Lot of SF Bay Area startups just go with someone like Silicon Valley Bank. Their sign up process is antiquated and painful. Their integrations with services such as QuickBooks or Xero is often unreliable. We had to put down a large sum in a collateral to simply be able to open a card. The online banking interfaces are super dysfunctional and slow. Corporate card rewards programs often suck. Customer support is super slow.

Signing up for Brex was super fast. Took like just a few mins. They integrate with accounting software pretty well. (Warning, still some bugs they have to work out.) We didn't need to put a collateral deposit to open a Brex card as it's a charge card, not a credit card. Their web dashboard is still very "v1" but it's already better than most banks I've used and it's getting better unlike most banks. Brex offers 4x points on ridesharing, 3x on restaurants, 2x on travel, 2x Recurring Software (SaaS), etc. Support? They respond to me on live chat even at 9 PM on a Friday in like 30 seconds. It's awesome.
> Apple is about to take the single thread performance crown from Intel

I believe they already have that crown have for mobile/low-power, but for desktop/servers nop... not even close considering the microarchitecture their processor are being designed they won't even be close to what intel already does with a single instruction.
Researchers Created 'Quantum Artificial Life' for the First Time
not being allowed to admit it due to national security reasons

Came here to say this. When I read Amazon’s rebuttal my gut said “what if these folks had to respond but weren’t allowed to tell the truth?”. If the allegations went unanswered it could be damaging to Amazon and tip the hand of the spooks. If they answered and said they did find the devices the story could run away from them, the internet mob is good at writing articles with “problematic” in the title.

Still I think this was a calculated leak. Why? Probably to put pressure on China in negotiations.
But can't they take advantage of the vulnerability created by the chips, without caring about who put them there?
But the safety features that would prevent a collision (lane control, adaptive cruise control, blind spot monitoring) are still not prevalent in mainstream vehicles though.

Seems that most cars' safety packages are built around mitigating a crash - better bumpers, more airbags.
Could they say if they were?