skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but as long as they don't install a trusted root as well damage is still far more limited. Still a major privacy issue (and huge shout out to you for passing this knowledge on to my generation, sadly many of us really don't care) though. With this, however, the possibilities are really limitless. For example, the simple act of filling out a job application online, common for students to do, gives FB your SSN and enough info to open a line of credit.

How was this data stored? Who at Facebook had access to the SSNs and nude photos and the like that was certainly collected with a program like this of any scale? Were the procedures to delete it? How were the systems secured? And while I doubt even FB would do this, a truly lawless bad actor could use those logins without tripping security alerts because you would have used one of their IPs to sign in before. Or an external actor, having access the data dumps, could sign up as a user and then make use of the VPN to easily pawn everyone's account.

The more I think about this, the more outrageous it is. They may as well put cameras in your house and photocopy all your papers.
That's quite a provocative claim, but it sounds like a lot of hubris to me. Any biologists or MDs able to debunk this claim, or put context around it?
Bot operators apparently ignore that.

https://art19.com/shows/today-explained/episodes/deb6329e-ad...
And particularly, the results of any damage to an air tube -- cold, opaque water rushing in.

Which sounds like a great recipe for panic and death.

And if you're protecting for that (e.g. by walking through the tube with breathing equipment), you're just making the situation more difficult and less like anything anyone has experience with.
I recently installed RoboKiller on my phone and the number of spam calls on my phone has dropped to zero
At my school, they have default "teacher" for external events that use school facilities, usernames and passwords based on each school code that bypass all filters, but somehow no one has found it leading to insane workarounds. Sadly, people used to use web.archive.org as a workaround (like dude, just go home and look stuff up?) so they blocked it, which breaks a lot of research and sources on Wikipedia.
fixed, test it
You can't use 10TFlops of compute on a GPU if you can't even feed it data quickly enough. The state of the art for throughput is Nvidia's NVLink and you're capped to a theoretical max of 160GB/sec. Given how trivial most analytics workloads are (computing ratios, reductions like sums, means, and variances, etc.) there's simply no way you're going to effectively max out the compute available on a GPU.

Searching sorted arrays is actually very common in these workloads. Why? Analytics workloads typically operate on timestamped data stored in a sorted fashion where you have perfect or near perfect temporal and spatial locality. Thus even joins tend to be cheap.

With Skylake and AMD Epyc nearing in on 300GB/sec and much better cost efficiency per GB of memory vs. GPU memory the case for GPUs in this application seems dubious.

I will grant you that GPUs have a place in more complex operations like sorts and joins with table scans. They also blow past CPUs when it comes to expensive computations on a dataset (where prefetching can mask latencies nicely).
tipping culture has died in part of the country. As another comment pointed out, most people don't tip in San Francisco.
Snackwell effect
James, your service looks interesting but your data plans seem very low (in size, not price). 1, 2, 4GB plans with $5/0.5GB overage costs?
You've never made a change in advance of an upcoming problem that accidentally broke something else? Lucky...
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OK - at this point, for traffic cases he only does DUIs. If that's your situation, reach out to him.
Generation Z and even some millennials are starting to ditch Facebook. The company is desperate to know what the kids are into now. This is what growth-at-all-costs gets you.
It's about time tipping died, that's the bottom line. There never was a good outcome to opaque pricing.
Process & systems development.
>First, Apple did not even acknowledge the report to the initial finder.

That is strange. I worked with some folks who interacted with researchers and their reports.

Half the battle with them was getting back to the researcher and getting their cooperation about keeping quiet + assuring them they're working on it, and working with them if additional data is needed. And at the same time fending off internal folks who have poor instincts and want to push back against, blame, or even punish the researcher (this was surprisingly common at companies who even should know better).

It's not the hardest part but developing that trust can be a big difference between a possible PR nightmare or not, and the initial contacts are a big deal.

Also researcher's who you get along with sometimes come back with better data, additional bugs,etc.
Buy an android phone. Go to settings -> sound -> do not disturb -> exceptions/calls.

Click on allow calls and select "from contacts only".
Also depends - in which country you are using it. If you are using this in India/240V this has been there for ages.
This argument relies on that it is impossible to stop rich people from successfully evading tax.

I find it hard to believe in the age of tracking that we live in now that banks and consumer transactions that it wouldn't be hard to implement proper tax evasion tracking across borders. This is purely an issue of there being no political will to do this.

It would be even easier to just cut off the tax havens from the global economy - make it illegal for banks to conduct transactions with those banks / branches located in those havens, strand those assets from the global economy destroying the value of those bank accounts.
At least at this point, antitrust regulation hasn't prevented Apple from removing apps from its store that violate its policies. I don't see how it would be any different if they created a penalty short of removal that's only applied to bad actors with a history of needing it. This is needed for more than just Facebook's stuff, it could also apply to trojan privacy invaders like the Weather Channel app.

They could slow walk updates as they do unusually thorough privacy audits, and perhaps even apply extra access restrictions (e.g. skewing location, forbid use of certain permissions, etc).
It's on my pixel 3 xl, if you turn on "do not disturb" you can allow calls from anyone, contacts, starred contacts, or nobody.
You started this trollish tangent and posted like a dozen comments in it, which is effectively trolling whether you meant to or not. Could you please not do that on HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I'm on a Mac. I'm looking for something that has low system performance impact.
Shame on them.

The gig economy has so many problems like this it is silly.
I usually don't comment on these threads but felt the need to jump in. While I totally understand and agree that ANY business needs to turn a profit in order to stay in the market. I fundamentally disagree with the distribution of work vs risk in proportion to profit in a traditional consultancy model.

The assumption that seems to be present throughout this thread is that there is an owner/s (not necessarily the same person as the operator) present who needs to take a percentage from the bill rate. This model is inherently extractive and sets up a really bad set of incentives for the people doing the productive work. (productive in this case is actually writing code/solving client problems and maybe not doing the marketing, administrative, or sales work of the business.)

I know someone is going to raise the point that there has to be an owner to put up the capital/bear the initial risk of starting up, which is totally valid! This will always be true I just think that there should be a route/way for the productive worker to work towards a piece of that ownership pie.

Also, the fact that the bill rate vs pay rate is transparent is actually great. I know many staffing firms/employment agencies that keep that information hidden from thier employees. (Full disclosure I am a member-owner at a worker cooperative staffing startup staffing.coop, so I am biased towards employee ownership in general! )
Dover's excellent 'An Introduction to Information Theory' by John Pierce is dedicated to Claude and Betty Shannon.
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I just use Twitter. The only data you have to give it are a made-up username and a continual stream of nihilist jokes. It's great.
30 seconds later I'd get the transcribed message. What irks me is when people claim "it's really important", but don't leave a voice message.
There's a guy on my team (of 12 people) in Apple that literally does nothing but screen bugs. I think he screened 100 bugs last week and there are still hundreds more unscreened. It's really hard to keep track of.
Flown = Takeoff, flight, landing, emergencies handling.

What pilots usually do during emergency is to go through the checklist. There is not much room for improvisation.

Vehicles - it is a completely different level of problem. If you try to drive with dGPS alone, you will collide almost immediately. Even on the empty road, because dGPS is not good enough. And actually, it is almost AGI-complete problem, as you need to model and interact with other traffic participants.
Formula for shaking the money tree add large org:

1. management reads about idea/tech in mag or internet article

2. gets report from expensive research firm showing its the next big thing

3. hires big named consultation firm to prove its the right direction(which usually is just repackaging the existing employees work)

4. gets board approval

5. big checks fall from the sky

Also, if your hired to do "Analysis" understand what your role is and the real goal. Or a lot of people will get pissed when your report comes back saying how much money could be saved using open source software and the other features aren't really that important for what they're trying to do. People at big orgs don't think like small businesses and/or consumers.

I thought I was doing what they wanted. How was I supposed to know they wanted to justify a big purchase. It wasn't until I saw it happen for a 20M purchase at a much larger company that I realized the game.
To be fair, "the licensing isn't completely miserable like their other product" isn't exactly a selling point.

My two cents from what I've seen (note mainly see GSuite sie of things).. You can get much more productivity & actual collaboration with G Suite, dependent on a few factors.

One, there has to be total buy-in @ the executive level because you most likely need to completely re-think how work gets done across every function. Often, we do what we've been doing and don't see the full picture because of that existing perspective.

So that requires a legit G Suite partner to help execute change management as for O365 I imagine. It's not so much a risk unless you do it for the wrong reasons; They've done it enough times to have a proven migration formula. Saving licensing costs for example should be on the bottom of your considerations because that more or less evens out and becomes irrelevant.
I disagree with this. Intuition is powerful evolved trait in humans, and often times has valuable information. Many believes furthermore, can only be evidenced by intuition. Logic in western countries has really dominated the culture for a long time now, and their are disastrous effects I think on the west because of it. You need logic and intuition to be whole, and you need beliefs based in facts and in feeling, not just one.

I also have to say, that their are some things that believing in without evidence makes your life significantly better. Believing in a meaning of life even though there is no evidence at all to support it is one example, and I don't know how anyone would function without that belief.
Yes, minimum wage for servers is lower than for people who don't get tips. But it's still illegal to lower a person's wage below what was advertised because the person got a tip.
How does one charge a customer then out of curiosity? I always thought it was impossible without some middle man. Can one send request directly to visa, master card ect.... How does one do that then?
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Don't do any of these things until someone wants to pay you for what you are selling.
That's akin to saying businesses have trouble updating to Windows 10 because the ISO is hidden in the clunky support website. The install rate is purely driven by the businesses apathy to upgrading and has nothing to do with spending an extra minute to get the download link.
What sense of "obligation" are you referring to? If it is obligatory then it definitely should be outlawed, because it becomes false advertisement of prices.
I've not really understood the point of grocery delivery other than in cities where car ownership is uncommon. And even there, you can rent a Zipcar once a quarter to stock up on bulky or heavy items (toiler paper, bags of rice or flour etc.) That's what I did when I was a car-less student. For other groceries, especially produce, I prefer to pick stuff out myself. And going to the store myself often exposes me to new products that I would not otherwise have learned about.
I've read that similar happens in Guitar Center.

Basically, all floor employees salary is commission based. If you don't get enough commission, they will pay you minimal wage but will get rid of you in several months, otherwise your sale commission kind of "fills" your salary until it gets to minimal wage, and only then starts to increase your wage.

Won't be surprised if most of retail works in similar way.
Query whether this needle can't be threaded by allowing the board to waive liquidation preferences, so long as the investor board member(s) approve. I agree with you that a certain level of investor protection is needed to prevent fraud (obviously there's the threat of a lawsuit for breach of fiduciary duty, but there are many reasons why that would not be a reasonable substitute for a liquidation preference).

The question I have is when the founders have acted in good faith and the company goes downhill, should the founders bear all the downside risk there?

I can see someone saying yes - if the company goes south, everyone should get the money they invested as shareholders back. But that's a different argument.

An additional question I'd ask - is some method of waiving liquidation preferences by the board (again, including the investor board member) a good idea from the perspective of aligning incentives?

Let's say the company has seen a downturn where there are two options at play: a sale at a value that would give the founders nothing, after the liquidation preference is exercised OR a risky (but legally defensible) Hail Mary business plan to bring the company back from the brink.

If the founders get nothing out of the sale, aren't they incentivized to choose the Hail Mary option? (Obviously there are other opportunity costs for the founders.) If the liquidation preference could be waived by the board, then that would give the founders an incentive to approve an "efficient" sale.

Note: I am suggesting the idea of the board approving the waiver, as opposed to the preferred shareholders, so that the waiver applied across the board to all preferred shareholders. And the investor board member would have to vote in the best interests of the company when voting in the role as a board member, as opposed to in their own self interest, which they do as a preferred shareholder.

All that being said, I don't think liquidation preferences are the place to focus on making "standard" term sheets more company friendly. I could write a lot about that...

This term sheet is a fair distillation of fairly standard terms. I think what adventured is looking for is something that moves the Overton Window as to what's "standard." I don't think YC was purporting to play that role here.

With organizations like the NVCA playing such a pivotal role in the terms of VC financings, I think it is critically important that thought be given on the founder side towards advocating more founder-friendly "standards."
Xerox Parc had early personal computers and developed GUI/mouse driven software with email, word processor and paint programs and an IDE meant for kids to be able to learn and use. But it was some college dropouts in their garages that brought it to the masses.
(Not OP) Oatly's process is patented, so you can look up what they do. That places some restrictions on using it in the same markets, of course. I think it's this one:

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...

If you can get the right enzymes, you could get the same breakdown. It looks like a sort of oat autolyse, to borrow a baking term.
Santa Rosa, CA here.

You have no idea how hard those PG&E workers busted their ass up here in Nor Cal during and after the Tubbs fire - a lot of them lost their own homes, and they were still out doing their jobs before the firefighters were even allowed to start doing their jobs 24 hrs in.

On the gas side, they went to every house in the city - thousands of houses - and turned off gas, and then did the same thing to turn it back on. An army of workers went neighborhood to neighborhood just to make sure we didn't explode.

Factor in that there were no hotel vacancies, and the PG&E workers were willing to live in their trucks with 4 other dudes for 2 weeks straight, and yeah - I think they should be compensated.
That's a good rule of thumb to have as a guideline. I wonder as a start-up that obviously has to balance trade-offs, but how do you prioritize hiring customer success folks vs hiring sales folks.

Especially with enterprise customers - ultimately, each can be as productive a pipeline, even moreso long-term, than an individual salesperson.
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My take was that the plan is to come up with a plan. Not the first time I hear of that regarding URIs.
He brought it up a year earlier as well. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Boisjoly
Look man, you don't get it. The GPU case is half the cost, but it's also twelve times faster.

Oh, wait...
There's literally a team of people that send bugs to the appropriate group, where there are other people to do secondary screening…
Also worth remembering Bob Ebeling, another Thiokol engineer
who was wracked with guilt for 30 years, thinking he should've done more to stop the launch. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/02/25/466555217...
ClickHouse is interesting - it's also an apache project. I am suprised Uber didn't build AresDB on it. The stigma, unfortunately, of coming from Russia makes it hard for the project to gain mindshare in the Valley.
I mean it depends on what you mean by "possible". I'm pretty sure Apple has the technical capability to delete apps over the air. The more interesting question is what they're willing to do: are they willing to pull FB from every iPhone? I don't think so.
This is only good news for sociopaths looking for ways to engineer more effective reinforcement disorders on a civilisational scale.

Key takeaway: don't be proud of hijacking consumer irrationality.
Disagree completely. A good project manager sees themselves as a peer to devs, with a goal of shielding their team from dumb administrative stuff (like requests from upper management that are clearly out of touch with how the product actually works).

To do so, they must see themselves as a peer. Anyone with an ego who wants to boss people around will be a terrible PM. A good PM enables their team and is altruistically driven.

Once you work with someone like this, you'll understand how amazing PMs can be.
It was greatly reduced. Higher rates mean it becomes profitable to invest in crummier shelters. Lower rates means the shelters have to be much better.

It goes back to do you want wealthier people to invest in improving the economy, or shuffling money around in marginal investments?

I.e. do you want them investing in SpaceX, or some offshore shell game?

Besides, something like half of the government tax money comes from very wealthy people.
Yea when you start with a low IQ premise like this (AGI, etc...) you’re going to get a low IQ result. It would probably be more entertaining for the YC partners to fly themselves to Colorado and watch a couple TED talks. Or they could actually do some cursory reading on these fields and attempt to educate themselves.
Yeah folks at Google want their search engine to be the entry point for the web - not the url.

We need to find (and promote) alternatives to Google (and Facebook). They are making the world a WORST place.
All words and rhetoric unless and until someone makes a complaint to the regulatory agency.

I'm merely in the US; I'm not sure what agency would even protect my own friends and family from clear abuse.
This is exactly how it works in italy.
I for one wasn't aware of a no-tip culture in San Francisco. I would totally not do it provided I was absolutely sure that this culture was a thing.
I don't trust them either, but the move itself is impressive.
Flagged for title, which is straight up wrong. (Sina's fault.)

Parliament expressed approval for a deal that is not the one May negotiated and is unlikely to be negotiated.
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You might find the information bottleneck interesting.

https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0004057
People wrote letters. For urgent matters you paid a visit. Imagine that.
They're optimizing for people who are good at storytelling. Storytelling is emphasized on at Ivy league admissions and MBA admissions. So that's the type of people they'll get.
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Ok let's just wait a year then. Good luck to you sir. Hope you succeed
Apple has a dedicated team that triages incoming security vulnerability reports. If you search for how to report a security issue to Apple, you would find their e-mail address.

The weird thing to me is that the NYT article says that she tried "faxing Apple’s security team." Having some familiarity with the team and the process of reporting security vulnerabilities to them, I do not recall them ever claiming to have a fax machine. The idea of Apple asking you to fax in a bug report is ludicrous.
From the article:

> Morad claims in the Post that AEBi has used its cancer treatment to inhibit human cancer cell growth in mice without affecting the animals’ healthy cells at all. The company has also completed several in-vitro trials and will soon begin clinical trials, according to Morad. Those could wrap up within a few years, said AEBi’s CEO, after which the treatment could be available in specific cases.

They still don't have clinical test. It's just a promising idea with some initial tests. Moreover in other article he says https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/A-cure-for-cancer-Israe...

> Morad said that so far,the company has concluded its first exploratory mice experiment, which inhibited human cancer cell growth and had no effect at all on healthy mice cells, in addition to several in-vitro trials.

So they don't even have conclusive experiments in animals.

Also, the time to make the clinical test to confirm that this is useful is long. The part about a "cure" within "a year" is ridiculous.
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> Well, this is the final straw for me. Facebook has been so repugnant lately that it's time to delete my account.

Don't delete your account. Just delete all your posts and change your profile pic to something that tells everyone you've ditched Facebook. It'll continually remind everyone you've left and make Facebook seem more like a dying community to those who are still on it.

Then finally delete your account once it's as dead as MySpace.
More so that there should be redundancy if it's a critical system.
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