skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is blog spam. They publish this exact same article about different companies every time one of them reports earnings.
I still think we should be moving cities off of prime arable land and moving to deserts.
> it seems the finding is about a technicality that could be a genuine mistake (1 day after GDPR Google's TOS didn't mention Google Ireland yet)

To clarify, the fine is due to the consent mechanism in Android. The fact that the action was led by the French regulator rather than the Irish one is due to this technicality and others (no DPO in Google Ireland for instance)
The stolen Equifax data has never been found, and experts suspect a spy scheme
I do agree they should have disclosed this at the top.

They promoted the thing and it could be argued hold some responsibility for the failure.
Not just for Tor.

I use Firefox with a few basic extensions (Privacy badger, uBlock, Google Container) yet every time I am presented with having to pick out traffic lights over and over and over again. I usually have about 5 or 6 "challenges" before I give up and use another site.

My timezone has not changed, my IP address and rough location has not changed, my screensize has not changed, my broadband speed has not changed, and my general computer dexterity has not changed, yet I am relentlessly targeted. On chrome I never saw these challenges, but on firefox with the privacy plug-ins I am always always always challenged.

At this stage I think the only signal it is using is "is there a google cookie in this browser? and if so has the google cookie got some 'normal' looking activity logged against it?" I.e. they are checking their server-side logs for a given cookie ID and seeing if that looks normal or not (i.e. seen on google search, seen on youtube, seen ads from a variety of third parties on various different sites, mixed up with time of day and speed of viewing etc etc).

Since I have got Google in a container in Firefox, I am guessing that my google cookie is not present when the captcha loads (due to the containers and privacy badger et al) so there is no identity back in the mothership to compare me against.
Holding politicians accountable for their actions is very difficult in practice. Occasionally someone pulls it off though, from a book depository window.
It's the uncanny valley in action! About 80% of these faces look a bit off to me but some of the others I find really hard to tell it's a fake.
Prettier has a clear API.

That’s my point: there by definition cannot be backwards-compatible changes to the output format.
Cattle, in particular are raised and harvested in far more humane conditions than in a state of nature. My friends raise cattle and pride themselves on giving them a happy healthy life until they are sent off to the stockyards. In contrast I just watched a video about two hunters freeing a buck that was entangled in the horns of another buck which was dead. The other buck had died from coyotes eating it, starting on its hind legs and hind end, in what must have been a gruesome, prolonged death. In the past I've seen animals which lie down to give birth killed the same way by coyotes.
I have multiple beater cars. What class does that put me in?
Pass the Hash attack explained
Same argument can be made for how humans have and still do treat other humans who they decided to label sub-human and thereby less worthy of living a suffering-free existence. The trend is when humans have too much power over literally anything, they almost always tend to abuse it.
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This is objectively untrue. The wealthiest corporations and people overwhelmingly pay the LEAST share of taxes.

Your shifting of the playing field smells like an excuse.

1) Whereas the federal budget has not been reduced.

2) Whereas the large monopolies and billionaires pay less (see: the $1.5 trillion tax cut for the top, and how it's hoarded rather than invested) tax

therefore we are compensating for Amazon and Netflix etc paying less tax.

Corporate taxes should grow with the size of the corporation. We should encourage small businesses as they spur innovation, mostly fail, and are the backbone of a stable economy, vs slave labor for globalized zombie corps like Amazon.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresaghilarducci/2018/09/28/wh...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/now-we-know-how-major-corpor...

by all accounts, the opposite of an economic "pump" is when you give a tax cut to the already filthy rich.

The tax base has been shifted to the middle and lower class. Plain and simple.
Quick response. Instead of shutting it down, we significantly reduced compute resources for the project (reducing CPU count, RAM, and API request quotas). So now it only costs us about $50/month to maintain, previously it was $200/month. We're maintaining it primarily for historical purposes.
Time has value. And interviews only give you a partial view of your ultimate working situation. But you and I are looking at this from totally different perspectives, I have no interest in convincing you I’m right. My experience is that if money is really what you want, you should start a business. As a owner you will earn more but must deal with instability. If it’s stability you want, you get a job. That’s the trade off I and many other entrepreneurs often consider. So job hopping to make a few extra K is a waste of time. Why job hop when you can do your own thing and double your income? Seems like someone that’s afraid to commit either way.
I don't understand your reasoning here. I've given amazon money for products and/or services, and I've paid my share of taxes on those transactions.

It's not like they've ensured my roads are safe, my food is safe, my healthcare is taken care of, and that laws are enforced. Also, I'm not so selfish to think I'm the only one who should be helped here. The greater good of society matters more than me as an individual.

Why shouldn't amazon pay their share of taxes for those things, (some) of which they're undoubtedly taking advantage?
How to Detect Pass-The-Hash Attacks
I’ve only seen the Netflix one. Although nobody looks good in the documentary, the involvement of one of the parties in the production is certainly troubling. There is no way to make it even seem objective if they were involved. I’m discounted.
>thousands of lines of JS

Yuck. Not to diminish the experiment, of course. Just seems impractical to do anything remotely interesting in.
Every documentary that's not just raw livestream footage has a narrative. It is inherently inextricable to the work of editing and storytelling.
Would you care to expand on what pushed you to do that? Was it purely reliability, or were there other factors involved?
Plastic pollution factoids and myths
FCC threatens carriers with 'regulatory intervention' over robocalls
It's not that absurd; remember the SOPA protests of 2012? It prevented the US from enacting retarded legislation, no reason it couldn't work against EU too.
well, it was a third party, they probably sent some sort of request to reddit, and they certainly wanted some user data :)
Well you see actually Python packaging is extremely simple, people just don’t get it. You just use pip! Well actually distutils is what you use not pip, except don’t use distutils use setuptools instead, distutils is outdated, but not really because setuptools uses distutils internally... but anyways you should use setuptools is what I mean. Anyway you just set up a setup.py file with all the details of your package, except don’t do that, instead use a minimalistic setup.py and write your metadata in setup.cfg, except that’s silly instead put your version in the module, and your description in a file and use hooks in the setup.cfg to get them. Except actually you should maybe use pipenv instead, or poetry actually or what was it this week again? Err so where were we. Ohh yea, python packaging is really simple, people just don’t get it. But wait we haven’t really touched on virtual environments and dependency management yet....

My favorite vote for “Completely break backwards compatibility in python4” is packaging. Tear it all out in one go and completely forget it then start fresh with one and only one way to do it, under completely new names kill pip, setup.py and everything connected to them and let the Phoenix rise again under a new name. Google is a graveyard of the last 6 different “the new way of doing it” and everyone learns by doing it “wrong” 3-4 different ways before they get even close to what’s considered “the right way” this quarter... and then they bikeshed their own “fix” over that and share it on their blog to confuse everyone else. It’s frustrating to no end.

All that and we havn’t even touched on distributing projects that mix in c++/c, or just pure python projects that need to be compiled to an executable pyinstaller works great for that though! Until it doesn’t for some obscure unknown reason you’ll then have to figure out.

Building c++ projects is an absolute breeze compared to the hell that is Python.
True, but from the perspective of an org like CloudFlare, that doesn't matter. They don't know (or care) about the user breakdown coming from Tor; they just know that the vast majority of traffic coming from it is malicious. And since part of the point of Tor is to make it hard to determine who's who, the good traffic gets binned with the bad.
Reminds me of global dimming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming
Those are good points.

But the more important issue will be context.

For example, in order for sentiment to be 'racist' - the ethnic nature of the participants may have to be known.

So it's not about 'analyzing a statement' so much as it is understanding so much about people, individuals, current thresholds for tolerance, current events. Etc. etc..

It's impossible to look at a 'post' in total isolation, it has to be put in the context of the real world which is way beyond AI today.

So it's not possible to 'train' AI simply by putting 'sentiment' as an input parameter. You'd have to 'train' NN's with inputs that include the entirety of CNN, Wikipedia and pop culture!
This is a good question. I don't have a full answer.

The proposed gene drive causes male mosquitoes to produce sperm that, when it fertilizes egg cells, will lead to only make offspring. After several generations of this spreading, eventually all offspring will be male, and that will be the last generation.

The gene drive does this by attacking the genes in the mosquito sex determination system called doublesex. I guess, no-one has discovered a similar vulnerable mechanism in the malaria plasmodium sex determination genes. The malaria plasmodium is a single-celled organism, and it goes through both asexual and sexual reproductive phases in its life cycle. But it does go through the sexual phase, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublesex
Sure, but how does that benefit the people of the U.S.?
Yep, I love how Java bashers get to deploy micro-services at scale, using Docker containers, managed via Kubernetes, with DSLs written via Terraform APIs.
I can see that a little. It is a good article regardless what you drew from it. I found it more of a lossy set membership test that used packed cache lines to help in performance (over chaining), but I don't really know what his use case was. Good write up none the less.
I don't think anyone is concluding that.
This is one of the reasons SpaceX uses supercooled fuel and oxydizer (and one of the reasons for going methalox in the first place) - the tanks self-pressurize, so they can skip the Helium system.

Pumps are still good because you really don't want the tanks to pressurize at the same pressure as the combustion chamber. If you do, you'll see a rapid disassembly, but your claim on it being unscheduled will be questioned.
100.0000% the latter.
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Clearly, you won't leave me along after my previous hints. My only conclusion is you probably want something from me. Lemme be direct about it: What do you want from me?

I know one thing you want: you want to talk about assembly language / various low level details. Unfortunately, I don't want to do that with you in this thread. So I will NOT give you that. Is there anything else you might want from me?

As for what I want: I want to say goodbye to you, at least for now. Perhaps you and I will have a more pleasant discussion in the future. But this current discussion was poisoned from the start and I do not wish for this discussion to continue.
This seems just like either a ridiculous cry for attention, or else another philosopher that is lost in relativism.

There are many good arguments for saying vegetarianism is ethically not strong enough (e.g. the amount of critters killed in modern agriculture) but this ain't one.

And even then - if vegetarianism in his world is not ethically defensible then eating animals would be even less defensible. Settle on the smaller evil and you're good to go from the position of most ethical systems.
Detecting Pass-The-hash with Honeypots
Yeah right, Chromium is not the same thing as Chrome.
Program synthesis [1] can be used for a variety of applications, including superoptimizers [2] and programming by example [3].

[1] https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3208071

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04422

[3] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
I want to talk about the article and I'm the one not staying on topic?

Sorry, but you're just upset I made a good point (Amazon didn't lobby for this tax law), and are trying to deflect. Not going to work.
Amazon's money is a subset of Amazon, it doesn't change the statement.
I always feels it's disingenuous to say you don't take equity if you ask for warrants or other % of the upside - it's essentially a proxy for equity. When you factor in a 3-5X cap, PLUS warrants - this doesn't seem like a better deal than something like Lighter Capital which has a smaller cap and zero warrants.
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im wondering how well that would demonstrate the point. It would definitely be noticed if EU was cut off from US based services before this directive even sees legislative review and voting.
I saw the Netflix Fyre doc, and neither the festival nor the documentary struck me as a scam.

The festival seemed like it was a tragic project run spectacularly into the ground by a sociopath with serious psychological issues. I mean, if it were "a scam" there would have been a "take-the-money-and-run" attempt. A scam is an intentional deception in order to gain profit at someone else's expense-- this wasn't that.

Instead, things just crashed horribly around him, a lot of people got stiffed, the concert goers ended up at an expensive vacation from hell but the promoters didn't make money (though they did get some beach time with super-models before the horrific project-death-march started).
Two possible answers

1. When the business is too early stage to get a bank loan

2. When the business is highly risky and the founder doesn’t want the debt burden (not sure if Earnest would fund this either)
Ask HN: What internal tools does your company have?
Hey HN,

The recent Stripe article about their internal directory tool [1] got me interested in internal software tools in larger companies. Would love to discover more examples!

[1] https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-home
I’m against it if it’s an active investigation. Otherwise obfuscate the account name.
That's like saying the quoted definition of a word or concept is being paid by corporations to "write" whatever the definition is being quoted in.

Industry experts know more about the space that's getting regulated than the lawmakers, so the lawmakers ask for help. Saying "corporations write the law" (by proxy or otherwise) completely misrepresents how laws are actually written.
For Dell’s Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich Is a Joke
https://snoopsnoo.com/
It's like the opinion editor versus the daily beat editor. One is writing arguments and defending them, the other is trying to just present the facts of what happened.

Both are journalists, just different types.
It's a testament to the engineering excellence happening at NASA.
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Those old green screen apps (CICs etc) supported enormous key stroke rates all right, with nary a mouse in sight.

But productivity was not as high as a rosy colored view of the past might suggest.

Operators had to be highly skilled. Entering a record for the East coast sales team would require remembering the code ESALES03. There were no helpful UI affordances of the modern age, e.g. fuzzy or free form searching.
Does this include watching videos on https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/?
There's enough material in both documents that a trim and merge of both would feel very comprehensive. My main complaint with both documentaries is that I would've liked to see more footage/interviews -- basically, more of a tick-tock recounting -- about the feeling of impending doom in the days, hours, minutes before the festival's date drew nearer and nearer. I've had some horrible all-nighters before deadlines in my life, but not on the scale of having just 48 hours to find food, housing, bathrooms, security, etc. for thousands of fans flying into a remote island.
I like Jerry's work a lot but come to a different conclusion. My basic thesis is that we're in the deployment age of the internet/web/mobile era and there is a whole new wave of a lot lower risk and a bit less reward opportunities for companies to bring the "peace dividend" of the software areas into markets that are not winner-take-all. The upside is these businesses are much more capital efficient, can scale and potentially produce much higher returns than SMBs from previous eras. The downside is they have no collateral and are thus completely unbankable for traditional small business lending. We need a new default form of capital for entrepreneurs and we are trying to build it: https://tylertringas.com/a-new-default-funding-for-tech-comp...
Totally anecdotal: Back when I was using a vpn and would see this recaptcha more often, I found that the recaptcha would often declare me a bot (and give me a second chance) if I clicked the boxes too quickly. Like, the storefronts would load and I'd immediately click+click+click+click then submit. But if I slowed down and staggered my clicks, it would realize I'm just another inefficient human who needs time to move a mouse and make decisions.
I think what OP is talking about is Cloudflare not Google's decision. Google provides the CATCHPA API but Cloudflare decides to flag nearly all Tor traffic and make it go through the CATCHPA.
I don't disagree, but I also feel like the current climate in the digital space, including in the "cloud", has significantly put the brakes on the whole notion of placing your business in the hands of some self-righteous tech company full of fanatics that wield their company's power like tyrants that could role the dice one day and all the sudden what you do and did for years is now "evil" and must be remove from their infrastructure at short or no notice.
Yes it was, and fortunately celebrities are now speaking out against FuckJerry's rampant plagiarism (stealing jokes) on their main Instagram account, which will hopefully pressure advertisers to stop working with them.
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Also a testament to the value of under-promising. :)
Same, but my understanding is that in the Netflix doc, some of the people on the agency side were claiming that they had no knowledge or involvement, which is in question because they could have made the doc to distance themselves from the mess.
I would love it if the government would spend money on that.

Instead they spend money on wars, the military, corn subsidies, their own pensions, etc.

Until they fix their SPENDING problem, I don't trust them with my tax money.
They advertised luxury accommodations, knowing full well that people would be placed in FEMA tents. That, along with many other facts the lied about or failed to disclose, qualifies it as a scam.
Those are not complains, but enough in my opinions that they should be classified as "infotainments" (as was said in another comment below).

The key things I see for being an infotainment:

- A predefined narrative that sometimes disregards facts (or more precisely nitpicks facts to fit the narrative)

- Focusing on extreme emotions and entertainment with shock pictures and statements.

Simply said, look at actual documentaries of historical events or on some scientific//geographical//political topics. The difference is huge.
What denotes a luxury car for the most part is the cabin interior quality, and that will stick around in the EV era too.

Toyota has a bunch of somewhat related experience with the Prius, so they might still come out on top in the end of these EV wars?
> What specifically disqualifies something from being a “documentary”?

Not the OP, but it seems like the same type of thing that disqualifies an article from being a news report (and places it in the category of persuasive opinion piece).
The typical person making a purchase decision doesn't know what the app does in any detail. So if he sees less information on screen he thinks it's easier to use, as compared to more information on screen. Of course the opposite is normally true, which is where the trouble starts. It also looks similar to simple consumer apps that the decision-maker is used to. Finally the UX designer says magic words like "clean" and "simple" and "focused" and "beautiful" and the sale is made.

The lesson here is to find way to counteract this. User engagement metrics would be the last line of defense. Earlier than that maybe small focus groups.

But something is already lost by the time we got here - we're not on the same page wrt what is important and what are the criteria. I'm open to suggestions here.
What type of documentary doesn't have a narrative?
Russia isn’t doing this just because they believe an agency is watching them. It’s more about censorship and controlling the Russian people than spying. Same with China.
It will be interesting to see how this kind of thing plays out. Neflix made a deal with the folks behind Goop... they're basically anti science hucksters.

Where documentary that honestly approach's its subject with some sense of objectivity, and pure salesmanship starts and ends is an interesting question.

I always assumed documentations sometimes have a point of view, I mean we all do. But there are some that straight up are on a fundamental level, BS, straight advertising.
And, with 31 engines instead of 4, you get a massive increase in redundancy. If you lose one SLS SSME, you can push the others extra hard (they won't be reused anyway) and still make it to orbit (or land in the Atlantic). You'd need to lose 7 Raptors to be in the same bad position.
Except the notion of safe harbor will die in the EU. Google is then directly liable for any content it hosts all the time. User content is basically impossible in the EU after this.
Yes it can, as any chemist or rocket enginet desinger could tell you, you just dont understand the engineering.
I'm not sure how the supposed duration of the mission relates to AI? Also, how would AI help with the time lag?
OK let's go with your definition. You're saying that "endpoints" may pin their dependencies, but any package that is depended upon by some other package should not in turn pin its own dependencies. ITT, I don't see support for this proposition. 'rigaspapas observed that the problems described in TFA could have been avoided through pinning. Presumably you're thinking of other problems that could be caused by pinning, but why would you think those problems are any worse than causing the program to completely fail to accomplish anything?