skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Challenges Emerge for In-Memory Computing
I never said it was. I said it implicated JIT'd code and the complex GC subsystem. The context is a JavaScript ArrayBuffer, the very type of object that JIT engines are built to optimize access to, and thus it's reasonable to infer that there may be some sort of cross-runtime scoping aspect at play. Such code by definition not only bypasses language protections, most relevant to this case it implicates interfaces that, in the parlance of Rust, could only ever be implemented using unsafe{} blocks. Without knowing more we can't meaningfully perform root cause analysis.

Imagine passing a pointer to the backing store for Rust or Go arrays across an interface boundary. Imagine a JavaScript implementation also written in either of those languages, but where the entry point interfaces prevent the language (caller or callee) from tracking and ensuring lifetime invariants across the boundary (certainly not statically, nor dynamically because we're not using a unified abstract VM like the JVM or CLR). Correct memory management necessarily relies on the programmer explicitly and manually synchronizing liveness between those distinct environments. If they get it wrong it's not Rust or Go's fault, nor can you squarely lay blame on either side of the interface boundary; it's the programmer's fault and/or poor interface design; and the likelihood of such a bug is equally likely in Rust, Go, or C++.

JIT also comes into play because even if the entirety of Chrome or Mozilla were nominally implemented in Rust or Go, the compilers and runtimes of either language could not ensure correctness of the generated JIT'd code nor track dependencies across native Rust/Go code and the generated JIT'd code--particularly for JavaScript code where the norm is object lifetimes escaping function scope. JIT'd native code effectively, if not formally, results in two distinct, disjoint runtime environments. Correctness, again, would be predicated on correct use of interfaces that might look suspiciously like malloc/free. The better interfaces would expose and emphasize the semantics of anchoring and referencing binding directly, but such interfaces are difficult to design and implement--after all, if they were then the argument that safe C++ is too difficult in practice wouldn't have such weight.

There are entirely interpreted JavaScript engines. Rhino is a obvious example for Java. Duktape is a nice, embeddable interpreter written in C. Theoretically it could be rewritten in Rust, but that wouldn't make it any more likely to displace implementations like V8. And that's my point. In reality the fundamental problem isn't that we're not using a Rust-written Duktape (it's manifestly not a realistic expectation, not in the domain of JavaScript engines), it's that we don't invest enough attention in integration across inevitable language boundaries.
Chrome DevTools is so good.
Exchanges are more useful when many users use them. By necessity, this needs to be centralized. Can't buy when there are no sellers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing_range#Humans
Curious how much a job like this pays? Seems like a fun job
> Now, to my point: The average person does not care about privacy, just the illusion of privacy (I suspect people reading this site intuitively know this. At some level, nearly everyone is in different ways, it turns out.)

>Instagram provides that illusion by not injecting opinionated content into your feed (The most obvious example: you aren't seeing injected news stories in your Instagram feed, generally its only ads and people you follow, and the ads are marked)

I think you're right about the content that people like being missing, namely shared video and images, but wrong about the underlying reason people prefer that stuff being gone. The content is vastly different on Instagram 90% of the stuff I see is at least tangentally the life/art/activities of the people I follow. It may be a heavily edited near fake version but it's not the 100th 5 minute craft video or a reshared news story from that (more than) slightly kooky uncle.

I think the general lack of a share button (there are ways to 'reinsta' [I believe that's the term] but from the people I follow that's fairly rare and it's mostly sharing art) leads to a materially different type of content. Maybe this is just a byproduct of the different groups in both though Facebook is the older platform for me so there's a lot of people I don't particularly care about anymore on there and Instagram being newer (and not positioned to me as the primary social hub so there's less pressure to follow everyone) I have a more curated list of followers.

Finally Instagram is just much easier to consume to me since it's mostly just the visual snapshot of some activity with less generic shared content and much less video.

TL;DR: I'm not sure it's the privacy differences (perceived or real) between Facebook and Instagram rather than the content differences. ie more things directly related to the people/groups I follow.
As someone who works in the field, I agree with the general premise: first everyone tried to collect all the data and now they're trying to figure out what to do. However, his supporting arguments are laughable especially where the author compares bytes per hz. A typical low-quality piece from forbes.
I really like YaCy (I run a node), but a big problem with it that will prevent it from ever competing with Google/Bing is the lack of a verifiable link graph for ranking results. Right now it basically just uses full text search and a local link graph which is problematic.
Right? You literally have to go OUT OF YOUR WAY to not be exposed to hasing/salting - every framework does it, most tutorials include it, for most environments its a simple library import/api.

I have to wonder how they sourced their developers. I don't think researchers would be motivated to do much more then post a low bidding ad on craigslist, meaning the quality of the developers will be commiserate.
> let alone (what I'd expect to be) comparatively loud work coming from academia.

The US was able to use their lead in computers to design stealth aircraft based on Soviet mathematics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Ufimtsev
Google does buy data for sure. One example: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/google-an...
Good God, running your code on a CPU with other people's code is turning into a very bad idea
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you're just talking about a garden variety data race on any interface value in shared memory right? If that's the case, I don't see what it has to do with interface{} in particular (or interfaces at all) as any multiword value in shared memory is susceptible to this, which is the unfortunate price you pay when your language supports shared memory concurrency but doesn't have any allowances for it in its type system.

Of course, data races are usually race conditions too, meaning that even if the memory corruption were prevented, there would probably still be a correctness bug to worry about, so I can understand why the Go authors chose the tradeoffs that they did.

Edit: Reread your comment and I get the part that is specific to interfaces now. This seems harder to exploit than, for example, a read of a slice header being... sliced... resulting in an out of bounds access.
Not at all. Those states already collect their tax through other means (property, sales, etc). They would continue to do so. And the Feds would take a cut of that.
Why is US pretending to be friend with an enemy that is out to steal anything in US that isn’t locked down? Least of which, an enemy that is a dictatorship that has oppressed religion, democracy, free speech, and free will in its domain?
Which HN app are you using? Materialistic (Android) and Hackers (iOS) have worked for me with no CAPTCHA issues, even with a VPN.

https://github.com/hidroh/materialistic

https://github.com/weiran/Hackers
So you can truly gain the benefits of crypto if you make your life as inconvenient as a drug dealer stashing wads of bills in random locations to dodge taxes?

I hope people who do this have either a great memory or a great filing system.
Sounds more like a Chinese agent trying to steal American secrets.
Does radicale support note sync?
Are y'all still keeping all your assets on only one planet? Wow, that's risky.
That web site is all flashy presentation, I couldn't tell if there was any actual information hidden amongst the animations.

TLDR anyone?
Demographics and Behavior (2014)
I think focusing only on privacy is a mistake. Every single person I’ve talked to that has deleted Facebook has done so because it did not improve or enrich their lives whatsoever, in fact, they saw it as a net negative. Why do people feel the need to endlessly browse pictures and statements by loose connections? Not one person I’ve talked to has mentioned privacy.

Yes, many of those people are on Instagram, but some of those have also left IG because they’re seeing the exact same strategy they saw executed on Facebook now being used on Instagram.

I’ve actually seen more people using private iCloud photo shares. I think FB as a whole has exaggerated how many people actually want to share and connect with random people or loose connections.
> So people who die in war don't benefit from the war... and?

And therefore your claim that everyone here has benefited from it suffers from significant survivor bias.

> It can be entirely negative or partially positive, just like many other things.

Sure. But we've seen way too many examples of people selling how wonderful a war would be (and you're flirting dangerously close to that). War's not wonderful. It's horrible. Only fight it when the alternative is even more horrible (which is not never).
Because business, the US business interest developed China for making a profit -- you have a billion smart people that work long hours for peanuts to exploit. But those people saw that as an opportunity to rule. The new strategy however seems to be one of containment by automating and moving manufacturing back to the mainland... What do you expect China to do with a billion people that have gotten used to a $6,000 average yearly wage. It's going to do everything it can to survive and grow... and the Chinese are as smart as Americans. Man vs. Man.
I put it on my desktop. I back it up to the server. Over the next few weeks/months, I connect an external drive to the server, update, and swap with the other 2. The work laptop drive gets updated from the server over rsync/SSH when I want to listen to my new stuff (almost right away).
Isn't China's recent law requiring all companies to comply with government data requests enough? What if Huawei (willingly or not) put in a backdoor tomorrow? Are we supposed to be prepared to rip out all telecom equipment nationwide and replace it overnight to accommodate Huawei?
Do you want to make money or help people? If the former, I'd shy away from this, as it isn't directly tied to take people with money tend to care about.

If the latter, go ahead! I'd probably be interested in it.
Good point re: PostgresSQL foreign data wrappers (aka "linked tables"). I've used this with data in an Oracle database, and it worked well.
My son is a big fan of the Infinite Flight sim, which recently integrated with ForeFlight. He's really going to be bummed out if Boeing decides to stop supporting that link.
I thought about starting something like this for new moms. There's plenty of content out there in the niche, but nothing centralized that I found.
Big fan of ForeFlight, as are my favorite pilot YouTubers Matthew Guthmiller(N367HP) and Stevo1kinevo (N851TB). Hopefully Boeing keeps the wind in the sails of the ForeFlight team.
The NSA is working to actively improve security- for the US government. The NSA should not give security secrets to our enemies abroad...
Yeah, totally. I'm not saying they shouldn't use C++ (though I think they could probably save a ton of money if they did). I'm saying that they spend a lot of money on security, they do an incredible job, and stuff like this can still slip through, which I find really interesting.
Yes, cryptocurrency can't fail, it can only be failed.

If 99.9% of people are using a technology "wrong", then I would suggest it's bad technology. If we aren't making a technology with actual users in mind, then we're just doing some sort of high-concept performance art.
I like the learning aspect of this. Before i was all in, now i know, this new thing is not for me.
OR... the Internet and eBay have made watch collecting accessible and broken down a lot of the barriers to entry that used to exist, and were jealously guarded by gatekeepers. Yes, the likelihood is that most collectible watches now cost more, but the prices are probably much closer to a far value for the seller as well as the buyer due to the lessening of the huge information asymmetry that used to exist. Now, the watch you found in grandpa's attic when looking through his estate after he died can be researched and priced accurately using the Internet, and it becomes much harder for unscrupulous dealers to obtain it for peanuts.

> "Oh, these Rolex Milgauss watches with a certificate showing it was presented to your grandpa while he worked at CERN? [0] Yeah, there are loads and loads of them floating about, sorry, they're really common. If it was new, could be worth about five or six thousand pounds [1] but this is old, used and pretty well worn so probably only worth a couple of thousand quid, but I'll take it off your hands for GBP 2500.00 just to be nice, ok?"

0. https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/christies-watches-online-... - Estimate was from 10K to 14K and sold for GBP 17000.00

1. https://www.rolex.com/watches/milgauss/m116400gv-0002.html - Brand new from Rolex is GBP 6300.00
But how else can I be a disruptive hacker if I don't buy $800 cameras for $200?
Thanks! I was guessing what it could have been from the Polish translation. I was wrong and it seems translators took some liberty here.
Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging
Nestle Finally Admit Milo Isn't Healthy
Yes the same goes for the US and its equipment and companies operating in other countries. Moving forward the only way to be secure is for your country to have its own equipment which is open source based.
Off topic but relevant: I posted this story today morning at around 9 am EST. It was flagged within 5 minutes and never got any visibility. This is a repost because that submission is effectively dead.
End to End Encryption in Go with Pusher Channels
What are the hard parts and what does ForeFlight get right?
I don't think the migration is caused by privacy concerns. Facebook has become ridiculously bloated with all kinds of features up to the point where it starts resembling enterprise software rather than an online consumer service. Even I, a techie, sometimes have hard times understanding how to do this or that in Facebook.

On the other hand, Instagram is plain simple and understandable.
Can you name any other overrated factually incorrect self-aggrandizing racists whose articles don't get criticized and downvoted as much as Eric S Raymond's?
> Like, seriously, update your Chrome installs… like right this minute.

If so serious, remove the 2 likes from the sentence.
Apart from reasons already mentioned (business), I suspect another large contributor is that the these types of articles only reach a relatively small audience in the US (albeit an audience that has outsize influence on FP matters). If these articles reach 10% of the population, I tend to believe the other 90% is probably far more worried about whatever domestic outrage storm (left or right) happens to be occurring on Twitter that day and probably has no idea why they should care about China one iota or how China will affect them. (They do know that China = marginally lower prices though)

I believe this is a tragic mistake that will be looked on with regret in 20-30 years (or maybe less), but it is what it is.
Yeah its a shame. Most multinationals have already diversified out of China (usually less than 30% of capacity is left in China now). It’s the middle sized and small sized businesses that were too stupid not to diversify out of China, and now have to beg and plead for mercy from a malevolent Chinese government. And drag the US down with them. I hope the current administration can stand up against them.
Elsewhere he talks about how subsamples are chosen because they take but seconds to run instead of minutes. If a sample is small enough that you're saving that much time, and analysis is that cheap, you can still do five-fold or ten-fold cross validation in less time than the full data set analysis and get a very good idea on if your subsample is representative of the data or not.
Yes, Yahoo's independent search index was phased out over a decade ago.
Mark Zuckerberg says he'll reorient the company toward encryption and privacy
Patience, grasshopper: https://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=blockchain
I've created a new issue (https://github.com/asleepysamurai/socketwrench/issues/2) to track this. If it get's enough votes from other users, I'll add it.
In the US, most go from BS to PhD, not BS to MS to PhD. A MS is 2 years, so your deadline would be 6 years if it was the same system.
Meaning not only motivates us – it impacts everyday technical decisions as well
The so-called "Sandwich Thesis" is the default in my field. At this point, doing something else is genuinely strange.
Following Your Curiosity and Detachment from Work-Identity
The amount Elon has delivered so far this year alone at Tesla and SpaceX is tremendous then you see a headline where he landed a 50+ million tunneling deal on the side because why not. Staggering.
The region became known for fake deaths when the news started implying that it was known for fake deaths. That's how facts are born.
> In the long run this will either be solved one way or another, and all these online surveillance capitalism companies will crash and burn.

I sincerely hope that happens without causing more harm to people. It also seems to be a long way away.
I love doing this occasionally, its just really interesting seeing the internal tools.

Is there any videos/screenshots of PurpleRestore and similar tools? I've searched and can only find a single picture and descriptions.
Not really. It's a private problem only if it stays within the confines of the participants. But when it reaches a scale like this, the harm is wider.

I think the most important societal issue is that it damages investor and consumer confidence.

As a parallel, consider food regulation. When I go into a store or restaurant, the food I buy is very likely to be safe, because there are a lot of regulators making sure it happens. If they weren't operating, then I'd have to exert a lot more effort to make sure that each thing I eat is safe. Not only would this be a giant waste of effort, but it would significantly reduce the opportunity for innovation and cost reduction, because people would be reluctant to try new products and new restaurants.

Market confidence is even more important for finance, because it's much harder for individuals to know if a given company is really working. It would be a huge problem for society if everybody went back to keeping their money in mattresses and physically moving it everywhere.
Do you have a source for any of this? Because my career as a securities regulation & banking attorney tells me the truth is actually the exact opposite of literally everything you’ve asserted.
Swift/OwnershipManifesto.md at master · apple/swift
They monetize the data though?

They monetize the heck out of the data. Why not just use something that doesn't? Be the change you want to see.
Here’s the thing with HIPAA consultants and training: it’s mostly bullshit but people pay for it because they’re afraid. Afraid of what? Who knows.

Remember The Simpsons episode where Homer wants to pay Lisa for her magic rock because it keeps tigers away — “You don’t see any tigers here, so it must work, right?” — that’s HIPAA training and consulting in a nutshell.

There’s no point offering HIPAA consulting/training for anything but exorbitant prices. Get people scared enough and they’ll pay it.

Are you a giant research university or a hospital that’s also a household name? If not, you’ll never have a problem with HIPAA unless you royally fuck up or piss someone off who has the time and energy to follow through on a complaint. Even if you do invest in HIPAA compliance and pay through the nose to become 100% compliant, ask another HIPAA consultant and they’ll find a million more problems you need to fix.
The US doesn't have a Huawei equivalent. Nokia and Ericsson are the Western counterparts in telecom iirc, and neither is American. The leading US smartphone seller is Apple, and there's nobody seriously comparing Apple to Huawei in data privacy.

There are other differences as well. US companies can and do successfully push back against US government data requests (see Apple and the backdoor). The US government, despite its many flaws, is also far less aggressive and has a far more laissez-faire approach to governance in general than the CCP. This is true both domestically and in foreign affairs.
Adjusted for inflation, that is probably just a day worth of peanuts for Pan Am.

It's also far less than the cost of having Bill Clinton give a speech in Moscow to bankers who are lobbying his wife in the State Department. That happened.
This style of editorial is becoming more common, and IMO is almost useless. Saying that "Advisors should take care of their students' well-being." doesn't account for the fact that incentives are for advisors to overpromise to funding agencies and drive their students hard to make up the difference. They control funding/compensation, graduation, and paper piblication/author order, and are set to personally benefit from faster results at higher difficulties.

In my advisor's lab, this was done by encouraging competition between students. If a student didn't make experimental progress in a month, a second student was told to work on the same problem. If that didn't work, he would collaborate with postdocs in other labs, sharing ideas and results to get high impact publications quickly. Students needed to publish results as first authors to graduate, so becoming a mere coauthor on someone else's publication after a year of work was a huge setback. One (independemtly wealthy) student was desperate to graduate and published as a first author through another lab with our advisor as a coauthor, and was told that the paper would not be counted. I don't know a single student who graduated without having a breakdown on the way, but the professor in question has become quite famous and received many awards and fellowships in professional organizations for their high-impact work, the department is becoming famous in that field, and the funding agencies have extended funding to pay for five more years with 50% more students.

These hand-wringing editorials suggest nothing that will change incentives or hold ruthless PIs accountable.
This is the most reliable, highest utility app I have ever used. It’s worth every penny.
If Instagram doesn't heavily customize the ads or the news feed, then how does it extract any value from the data it collects?
They already do, at least here in SF
New 'Spoiler' vulnerability in all Intel Core processors exposed by researchers
How much time does it take you to drop in bcrypt?