skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incentive for a company to say "No" when the FBI offers to "fix" the problem quietly either by going up the chain of command internally to get answers and stop a blown attack on a US owned and operated business or use contacts within the US security infrastructure to stop the foreign criminal or state adversary.

Most of these attacks never leave the room at corporate HQ where they are discovered unless an engineer wants to permanently screw themselves out of a career.

I once tried to leave a linkedin recommendation for a friend I'd worked with on a high profile project where he discovered Chinese state actors performing corporate espionage and we stopped it. The FBI came in and carted off the servers, we switched data centers, re-deployed, and that was that. We would never have been the wiser if he weren't closely monitoring network characteristics. 3 years and 2 job changes later he messaged me back to say, "Thank you for the rec. but don't mention that shit!"
> Any thoughts? Would this burden parsing or serialization?

It's solving a problem we don't have.

> Of course, it's simple to add a "name" or "type" field. However, the name of the object ought to be denoted differently than its contents, IMHO.

Why?
EnterpriseReady Podcast, from the creators of enterpriseready.io
"cynical": "believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity."

Believing Google dropped out due to moral considerations is by definition, the idealistic interpretation. At this point, I'm not sure we're even speaking the same language anymore, so lets end it here.
Russia's aging military hardware is an asset in this case, as it's not as vulnerable to electronic intrusion as a result of having little to intrude.
/s/buy photoshop/subscribe to Creative Suite/g and you’re right, IMO.
I'm so happy for you that you are able to do this transition.

I used to envy EB1s a lot (I'm from India, lived here in US for a good amount of time), then got to know what a hassle it is to go through the process, even after an I-140 is approved, until they get a GC. With current processing delays for the associated renewals (adjustment of status and h1b)often, the EB1 applicant (and the family) cannot travel out of the US for most of the year. Being immigrants, this puts a lot of stress on you and your family.

Since you were good for EB1, and are in research field, I hope there's enough research funding/activity in Canada in the field you specialize in. I know a few post docs who are too tired to go through the EB1 process in the US, while they have no funding for their research in Canada!
That's a good point about Amazon, I added it. Amazon has an incredible amount of data about my purchase history. I'll also add Amex, Visa, and MasterCard.

Netflix - I am conflicted between the choice of giving up my privacy to provide better suggestions. How about I actively go research for a particular movie on my own? Why do I need AI telling me what to watch. Word of mouth is a fantastic way to get recommendations. On the other hand, I would have not found interesting music on Spotify if it wasn't for their recommendation system / radio.
...Can you show proof that Murdoch properties didn't cover Facebook and Equifax breaches?

(hint: you can't, because they covered them extensively)
> But isn't the whole point of this discussion is that the destructor of fs::File (and probably any other buffered IO writer) can and does fail in some cases?

And the choices to handle such failed destructors are: blockingly retry until the problem goes away or just plain ignore it. Either way you can't rely on destructors for persistence/durability in case of a crash or power loss.
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Based on my first-hand experience as a solider in the US Army, talking to 4-5 low-ranked sailors is unlikely to give a meaningful picture of the whole system. I don't have specific experience with Navy systems to judge the technical details of
komali2's post, but I would caution against taking a summary of second-hand accounts from operators as fact.
DApp DAUs are not DAUs
Maybe the recent open source efforts and GitHub thing: if devs aren’t paying..
There are US laws against sharing out what shows people are watching. So kinda nips that model in the bud.
Someone is wagging the dog
The construction shown on the page makes me think of this as if the three fluids are infinitely mixed, if that makes any sense.
what makes iMessage better than Facebook Messenger or Snapchat or Whatsapp? The fact that it can only communicate with most people? The fact that it doesnt work from a web browser while you are away from devices you own?

If I own an iPhone but a Windows PC, iMessage is only a fraction as powerful as something cross platform.

Youre nitpicking a conceptual example. Alexa, Roku, and Android are currently built to let ME have the power to set defaults and mix and integrate services between providers. On iOS either I use the Apple service if I want full integration, or my access to said services is locked into only the app for that service itself and apples extremely limited share menu.
but the NSA has been performing backdoors on hardware for years

PRISM

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/08/backdoors_in_...

> Juniper has confirmed that an initial analysis of malware linked to the National Security Agency appears to affect its firewalls.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/juniper-confirms-leaked-nsa-ex...
Samsung is still sticking with headphones jacks in their phones, and Nokia has them in many of their phones as well. It's not a completely lost cause.
Noise cancelling cannot cancel out voices. It's designed to cancel out predictable lower frequency sounds such as fans, A/C system fans, engine rumbles and jet engine noise.

The noise cancelling system has an inherent delay in processing the sound it's listening to output an opposing waveform. Since voices are not predictable, outputting a waveform after a slight delay will just cause it to be out of sync and cancel out nothing. Maybe some ML system could do this in the future, but it would have to be absolutely perfect to not sound distractingly strange at times.

Fans on the other hand are predictable, so you can output an opposing waveform despite the processing delay because you can predict how the waveform will act after your processing delay and keep them in phase.
Buddhist thinking does give people narratives/rituals/methods to detach, that are without doubt of great value in today's hyperconnected world. And hyper connection does make us all vulnerable indeed.

But on the other end of the spectrum, Sugata Mitra, the educator, likes to say humanity has just uncovered the ability to murmurate like starlings, thanks to the hyperconnectivity the internet enable. It's still early days and pretty chaotic and mad, but just like a crowd has some magical self organizing ability to synchronize their clapping, who knows whether this hyper connectivity is on the verge of producing the same. I'd like to think we will get there, and are just going through a temporary bumping into each other phase. The talk for anyone interested - https://youtu.be/upg8LlJZtas?t=3567
Maybe? I somewhat doubt it, since I work for a company that has a couple of DOD IT products that are in fairly widespread use, and I don't know that we have done any security compliance to speak of over the past seven or eight years. In that time period we haven't done a ton of work, but we have had to make some changes to move from a really ancient JRE version to a slightly less ancient one.
Let's assume it's true: Does Apple have a choice other than cover-up?

Let's say this was the first they're hearing about it, and it turns out to be true.

Can they publicly state the truth, point the finger at China in the process, and risk having to immediately uproot their entire supply chain?

Is there a course of action that's better than outright public denial?
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I've been one of those people who have had the unfortunate luck to have a computer with parental- or time controls. It pretty much only shifted my screen usage to other devices e.g. TV and got me into cybersec because I wanted a way around those restrictions.
Try something like the 5 minute journal to help you become cognizant of your goals and to keep them at the front of your mind. The Pomodoro technique is another method to try if you feel yourself procrastinating.
This is exactly my experience.

It probably helped that I did just enough game design to be acutely aware of even less-obvious time sink mechanisms, but I don't think it was an essential feature of what changed. Even simple puzzle games and other things that aren't manipulative started to pale in the face of the realization that "hey, I could go fix a broken shelf or read a book or exercise and get a lasting benefit".

It's not a sense of duty or anything else people would describe as "not being lazy", doing something fruitful just started feeling better. I still play games, and I'm happy with that, but the set of games has shrunk to things with ongoing interest and no grind, and the timing to stretches where I'm tired, stuck (e.g. at an airport), or playing with friends.

I don't doubt that addictiveness is a real factor, but I think lots of horror stories about gaming and tech addiction grab the wrong end of the stick. I've seen a half dozen people take "young men now work fewer hours, and game for a similar number more hours" and say "obviously, games destroyed their will to work!" Meanwhile, half my friends have gamed heavily when they had crap jobs, short-term rented apartments, etc, and then stopped as soon as they got bored and found opportunities for lasting improvements. Games are a fantastic way to kill a lot of time comfortably, but that doesn't mean they override all our other impulses.
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Tons of major cities have been wiped out from fire in the early 1900's. But you have to consider how ill-equipped they were to handle fire, not to mention a total lack of research. Modern cities have working fire hydrants and buildings can have multiple fire suppression systems. Most of this is due to those massive fires happening.

Here is NIST's report on fire resistance of timber structures (https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/el/fire_r...). It includes guidelines that help increase the fire safety of wood buildings. This page (https://www.firechief.com/2017/03/14/are-wood-frame-high-ris...) shows CLT has had testing to approve it for use in 6+ storey buildings in multiple countries.
This story doesn't make any sense. An FTC-mandated E&Y "Privacy Audit" isn't a software security assessment and would never have been expected to either (a) uncover subtle application security flaws or (b) metabolize internal reports of subtle, fixed flaws. Nor, for that matter, is the internal discovery of a software security flaw a "breach": routine internal discovery of vulnerabilities is what good security teams do.

The reporting on this G+ story has been startlingly bad. There's apparently some juice to the narrative that Google is running headlong into a collision with the Trump administration, and so reporters seem to be starting with a public policy conclusion and working their way back. Somebody needs to start informing these people how professional software security works.

In any audit situation --- PCI, HITECH, SOC-2, you name it --- there is neither a norm nor a duty to notify auditors of internally discovered security problems. Nor would any such norm be productive: it would warp internal incentives, both to discover and to properly handle vulnerabilities.

If the auditors discover a security problem, that problem gets documented, just like it (typically) does with external reporters (researchers, bug bounty claimants). When that happens, you have an indication that your internal software security controls failed. But when your team finds a bug in its own code? That's a sign that the team is doing things right.
The "thing" on the right is a reference to the aliens in the movie Arrival where the main character (a linguistics professor) communicates with tentacled smoke beings by holding up white board messages.
I have not been asked to switch Bluetooth off specifically on any flight. They ask that you enter flight safe mode. After that provided flight safe mode is on they don’t give any further instruction. On an iPhone at least you can enable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and remain in flight safe mode. Many flight have Wi-Fi now, considerably more powerful than Bluetooth....how do they work safely?
Maybe you just haven't tried the right headphones yet?

https://www.whathifi.com/sony/wh-1000xm3/review

Android 8.0+ is arguably better for wireless audio than iOS since it supports the LDAC codec.
Are there ANY noise cancelling headphones that could be said to have REALLY high quality sound? I didn't full appreciate the difference until I got HD280Pros for at home (I don't need noise cancelling in my house) and realized how much better they sound then my QC 25s I use at work.
Google+ Flaw Sparks German Privacy Probe
> decentralized social networks

I'm sorry but what would the point of this be? A social network is only as useful as it's centralization.
The article is a clunky representation of the original material. I would highly recommend listening to the podcast that is being quoted from [0]. It is only 20 minutes long, and both the interviewer and the named source Joe Fitzpatrick have thoughtful commentary on the matter.

[0] https://risky.biz/RB517_feature/
What I'm still not clear on is in these "Dark Kitchens" are the chef's provided by the restaurants or Deliveroo? As in does McDonalds (for lack of a better example) send a chef to one of these kitchens or is a chef trained on McDonalds practices work there?
A more interesting puzzle is to prove or disprove whether every algebraic, irrational number is normal (in some base).
> + I wonder how well they will handle a serious medical cost. One person with an autoimmune disease will easily wipe out their cash on hand - as will a chainsaw accident.

And BINGO! You just discovered why healthcare is so expensive. How are you supposed to get people to work for slave wages at Amazon without the looming threat of hospital bills?
Insurer knocked down about 2/3 of that, leaving about $600k for two kids. I doubt there's any insurance company offering coverage at the $686.82/year rate cited in the article, so it seems likely they're just pooling money and paying costs out-of-pocket, which'll probably mean they're paying full rate. (There are a few religious organizations doing this formally - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/1-million-americans-pool...)
> people would rather buy last year's (or the year before!) flagship at a discount than a brand new budget model.

Hmmm... then why the iPhoneXR?
The thing is called "personal weblogs", or "blogs" for short.
In context I was speaking of health-related companies, that generally are scrutinized more - you can't create a medication and just start giving it to everyone, and you can't claim a medicine does something it hasn't been proven to do in studies, etc.

And once again, Facebook et al, ties into health as social is health. Facebook did some experiments/research specifically to see the impact of showing more positive or more negative posts to people, on a large scale, and without people expressly knowing or asking to participate. They should have gotten into huge trouble for this. How would you prevent this otherwise than having good whistler-blower laws, along with substantial rewards for doing so? Is the best option have someone else notice the problems and develop competition that is a better solution? It's difficult of course to compete with things like network effect and economies of scale, so then it will take more effort, more ambition, more passion, and perhaps more resources and time to reach the same scale - if that scale is even healthy.
It seems architects often do it to so they can put that technology on their resume to find a higher-paying job. Your org is their school, and you are stuck with their convoluted buzzword-filled "training" stack when they hop away for a bigger company or project using their fluffed up resume.
That's my recollection as well.
If the claims are to be believed, the story was 1 year in the making and used 100 separate interviews and it was worked on by a team of journalists.

I can easily imagine ONE journalist getting key facts wrong in a typical story which had to be pumped out before a deadline. I've seen it myself.

BUT this is a very major story by elite journalists with a lot to lose if they screw up. They're not "dumb" but they might have been deceived deliberately.

Whatever the case, I expect a very ugly truth will shake out eventually.
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I'm not the parent commenter. Ask him.

If you want to justify the claim, "future generations will look at modern medical procedure X and remark at how primitive and pointless X is," you don't need to show that all medical procedures are bunk.

Indeed, in Washington's time, not all medical procedures were bunk. Doctors helped people, sometimes. If doctors in Washinton's time never helped people, the average person would notice that, and stop calling for a doctor. Were some of those procedures harmful to patients? Sure, but not obviously so.
Thank you google for not releasing any interesting product and wasting my money.
Learn Prolog Now! is a decent starting place.

http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pageid=online
I look at Patreon profiles for pretty popular YouTube channels, and rarely do I see them pulling in more than a few hundred bucks a month.

I can only assume they earn most of their money via YT Monetization or with their own ads in video.
Its pretty widely believed that the Chinese government can and has accessed Chinese Citizens' iCloud accounts before [1]. (I work at Google).

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587304/apple-icloud-chi...
In relation to the article posted, there is a conjecture which states all algebraic, irrational numbers are normal.
What a terrible live event. The presenters were awful. Okay not everyone is a natural presenter so if you don't have such people in your product management team just hire some!

As for the products. Groan. What is there to be excited about exactly? The new tablet (slate?) goes up to $1600(!) and doesn't even include a keyboard (an extra $200 for that). The videos of it seem to show it as a laggy mess as well. Hopefully it isn't like that on release.

The Home Hub does not interest me. At all. At least it doesn't have a camera though.

But the real let down is the new Pixel 3 is just so meh. A bizarrely large notch yet a large chin still? Two front facing cameras but still a single rear. Why? Are super selfie takes the biggest buyers for Pixel phones? I take a few selfies now and then but I would much rather a second 2x camera for proper zoom and not some fancy digital zoom powered by AI from my hand tremors.

I can't see any reason to replace my Pixel 2 XL if I am honest, especially at those prices.

Also what happened to the whole "you think you know" social media trolling Google was doing? Turns out yes we did know. Literally everything leaked. So bizarre.
This story is so weird as Bloomberg doubles down with their reputation. What if the boards were compromised, but by the USA rather than China?
I've been wondering if Google and Google Cloud is affected by this? Does anyone know who Google uses to build the custom motherboards that they use? Also how does something like the Titan Chip [0] help protect against such attack?

I'm curious to understand if theres anything that can protect against this?

[0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/titan-in-depth-se...
I think what you’re missing is that you’re no longer the target of these companies. Second world countries like India and China are still coming online, have billions of potential users, having increasingly more wealth to spend on products, and have a different relationship with privacy and entitlement than those of us in North America and Europe. Right now the challenge is getting these people connected and dealing with the fact that they don’t have access to the best hardware. Many of them are also not past the point of requiring free service. So yeah, I think your view and predictions are comming from a narrow viewpoint that probably most people on HN see as the obvious majority when In reality you’re a shrinking user base in a changing global dynamic.
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect

I'd argue that all this backlash is justification for why we don't typically have to worry about the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. When something is egregiously wrong in the news, people talk about it, and we learn. As long as you're reading about something that will critical and knowledgeable people also reading it, then you should feel comfortable knowing that no backlash means it's probably fine.
> infrequent ads could bring in enough revenue to keep it running.

I think you'd have a hard time finding people that would believe that infrequent ads would remain infrequent.
It would be nice to benchmark the text extraction to a baseline method, say with Apache Tika (https://tika.apache.org/).

I would expect the deep learning approach to outperform traditional approaches in terms of accuracy, but it would be good to see accuracy vs. CPU / memory used, etc.
People become stronger in death if they are practiced. You can let them fade out too.
browser script: one that shows me duckduckgo "bangs" for any site I'm on (search keywords that forward directly to a 3rd party search)

browser script for work (web stuff): auto fill for creating test accounts, indicating which server I'm on, injecting little shortcut links here and there.

With help the windows utility shareX I can paste markdown via a shortcut and get a sharable link with html on my server back in to the clipboard.

not mine but great: I saw someone having readmes and todos in project folders and than aggregating them
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As a startup, we got a one-year, $15,000 AWS promotional credit, and we used it to build our product on it. As we are reaching the one-year deadline, and we still have no funding/customers, I contacted the AWS team and asked for an extension. They responded with: "it's not possible to extend credit at this time."
I was wondering if anyone knows of any way we can extend the deadline, or get a new one.
Thanks!
Answering a call from an attacker could compromise WhatsApp
The modern DoD is based around the Asst Sec Defs and business processes put in place by Robert McNamara, who came from Ford. It's all stats and businees. Engineers and scientists are generally considered a sideshow, a workforce to quantitate.
I meant that trendy economic theories spread thanks to ignorance about reality, there's no deep thinking when they become the norm.
Perhaps I should've written "the following" - I just meant the list that I provided in the rest of the sentence.

I believe you covered more in-depth content that could be filed under "buy the government time to investigate/respond appropriately."
Agree. When did Murdoch start with his vendetta towards Google?
Yup. Or the nicotine patch.
Right now I'm writing a Scheme interpreter from scratch. It's quite a rabbit hole and I'm loving it so far. Planning to dive into the world of compilers next.
You could say maybe they’re bad at startups but good at growing established products.
It appears you've misunderstood the comment you're replying to. The notch is considered premium because Apple did it and imitator are only doing it because Apple did, not because they need to for the same reasons that Apple did.