skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's some amazing scenery at the Urumqi end. E.g. I took this photo somewhere around there: https://www.amazon.co.uk/photos/share/m3Wh2REpqnPIjHxe5FKNZQ...
They aren't necessarily so trivial. I don't know about Lichess, but (commercial and much better funded) Chess.com employs very advanced, and continuously improved cheating detection mechanisms.
I live in the USA and it happened in the USA. Studied abroad in UK and thought the term was fitting :)
Fun, but nobody will ever do it for more than 5 seconds before getting a headache and turning it off again.
I have to make a plug for the project I'm working on as it seems like you guys are the target market:

https://getpolarized.io/

Polar allows students and researchers to keep all their research in one place, take notes, highlights, annotations, etc.

You can tag your books and suspend resume reading without losing your place.

It also supports sync with Anki which is rather nice.

The one caveat is that I don't (yet) support math as well as I would like.

Latex is supported by summernote but I haven't enabled the module yet. I usually wait for enough people to complain but math is definitely something I want to support.
Nice self-reply, dork.
This really just comes across as being ignorant of the harassment mobs that currently form on social media. It's impossible to block hundreds or thousands of different accounts spamming you with harassment and many, many people have been forced off of social media because of these sustained attacks.

You can say people shouldn't care about getting off social media but people form communities and connections that can be incredibly important to them. Telling them to just suck it up or leave is not a solution to harassment.
They need to show something shiny to hide the fact that the system has 100ms of latency on a test environment.

I wonder how much lag the style transfer would add
this can potentially be a "mod" play... where individual gamers can change game "skin" and stream videos on youtube...
I've been working in VR and AR for nearly a decade. I've even built my own headsets. The experiences that make people sick are always low framerate. I've put people through experiences pegged at 90FPS for hours at a time with no nausea.
We already have the equivalent of a central bank for cryptocurrency, it's called Maker and it controls the "price" of Ethereum via interest rates.
I think you underestimate how popular the move is.

> Do citizens have the same constitutional protections there as they do here w.r.t. gun ownership?

I don't believe we ever needed or wanted such protection.
Why big tech should fear Europe
A mistake that should have been found very quickly, given the eyes. Not for years without ever apparently being known (I find that hard to believe)
I do not read my statement to imply uniform distribution.

What I meant was "there is no reason to prefer values at the center more than values at the boundary" based on the CI (there may be external reasons, though). To me, this is equivalent to your:

>there is nothing that can be said about the likelihood of each value
"people are distinguishing between extreme vs people trying to do their jobs"

Those things are in no way exclusive. Storing passwords in plaintext is awful practise. Including the contents of form submissions in logging is a similarly awful practise. I really don't see what the difference is.
Do you genuinely think you "work harder" than a migrant laborer who spends 14 hours a day picking fruit in the hot sun? "Hard work" is not closely linked to success.
Climate Change Claims Its First Mammal Extinction
> So in this ONE case, someone was calling and he had to take out his phone?

Watch the 19 second video. He didn't take out his phone, it was a notification on his smartwatch.
S.2155 Affects Your Credit Union
I would have been much more interested in using deep learning to make human faces more realistic. Somebody was experimenting with it in the past quite successfully IIRC, but I'd love to try it on a real game.
Newmail: Generating random email aliases on OpenSMPTD
I have recently come to a very inconfortable truth (I mean it was always there, but it hit my brain recently): we owe the Enlightenment to useless parasites. Nobility and monks whose free time allowed them to tinker and pursue intellectual curiosity.
By extending this logic, a car manufacturer should be blamed for not designing proper brakes for their car. But if a worker then accidentally installs the breaks wrong they are not responsible?

Imho, a company (especially as big as facebook) should have the right process and procedures to prevent these kind of problems and ensure developers have proper training to make them aware of the consequences of their actions.
Google Unlocked: remove censorship from Google search results
>The one attempt at actually attempting to take a first step to fix scaling issues collapsed due to governance issues.

what attempt?

We have a fix for scaling issues, it's called lightning and it hasn't failed.
I'm pretty sure that Google have paid lawyer to check if the trademark was free before using it. If they are using it, they are confident about any attacks on their use. Good luck.
Why Is There More Matter Than Antimatter?
People can and did do fractional reserve banking with gold. Notes for deposits was a much later innovation. Nothing stops you from lending out physical specie from your vault as long as you can give depositors their money with high probability when they demand it.
On the Spectre and Meltdown Processor Security Vulnerabilities
I don’t think “pretty much”, it’s just inexcusable.
Linux is the first thing that comes to my mind when I think innovation. Not necessarily because it is the top of class, but because of what it's technology and licensing allowed in the rest of the world. Or, I think of NIH and all of the medical technology that it produces.

I don't think that corporations are particularly innovative, nor can they necessarily be, as they are actually hamstrung by the profit requirement, and by the fact that we externalize far too much when it comes to economics: for example, we would probably innovate far more with battery technology, nuclear tech and renewable energy if the true ecological costs of burning fossil fuels were born by the industry.

I simply think that true innovation arises from the scientific method, and that we should start applying that to the administrative and management structures that run our corporations, as I think that people in those spaces are overpaid to guess about how to run a company. Corporate innovations that arise primarily from marketing and a shiny exterior are anything but, and are a dark pattern for me.
A few minutes ago, my ad blocker broke the login form of my cellphone provider. A non-technical user would probably not think to turn off the ad-blocker, and would assume that the website is broken. Not being able to log into your phone provider (or bank) is a pretty serious inconvenience which should not be taken lightly.
I'd still understand being frustrated with $8. We're asking you to trust us with your domain's registration and that starts with handling the charges for it in the right way. We're going to fix that.
There are still lots of "organic posts" on Reddit threads about Facebook's fuck ups implying that the "anti-facebook narrative" is a "Soros conspiracy", which leads me to believe Facebook is still working with the "Definers".
You may find the original blog post from the creator here:

https://captrobau.blogspot.com/2019/03/remastering-star-trek...
How Programmers Can Adapt to Increased Money in Software
I haven't looked, but I am fairly certain that Google has trademarked "Stadia" for the gaming space. You could try trademarking "Stadia" for the mapping space, but that wouldn't prevent Google from using "Stadia" in gaming.

If you have several hundred dollars you're willing to place on a long shot bet, you could talk to a trademark lawyer.
It might be depressing, but I think it's true. What do you think?
Hugged to death?
Judging by the maturity level of the discourse on teamblind this precisely what happened.
No. It would be nice if this was the case but browser sadly just send the password to the servers instead of using something like SCRAM which only requires you send the password when setting it and not on every authentication.
> Continuing the thought experiment, consider what goods and services people would continue to spend money on, in spite of the expected increase in the value of money.

Sorry, but you didn't understand how capital accumulation works.

People work and so on, get paid and so on. Then they spend part of it on their living expenses and save part of it (that's the domestic savings rate).

The money saved doesn't just sit under a mattress, it becomes the stock of capital in a country (plus and minus capital imports and exports and so on), which is then invested in projects (startups, infrastructure, etc.) that need capital.

Banks are the intermediaries in this market, taking capital from savers and providing investments and loans to projects that need capital. That's why so many emerging countries are desperate to get people into the banking system and to move their savings to the banks (the US did it by Executive Order 6102 for example).

Without this stock of capital, it is impossible to start a business, or to fund large infrastructure projects. It is a key and necessary component of a healthy economy.

And bitcoin kills it completely.
Another approach is to change technology.

Volvo has keys with a built-in breathalyzer:
https://accessories.volvocars.com/en-us/C30/Accessories/Docu...

And of course, autonomous vehicles could make drinking a non-issue for getting around, just like trains and buses do today.
This is what IronPython was invented for.
That's interesting, I have always seen the three dots as the first line in a YAML file, my exposure to YAML being almost exclusively Ansible configurations.
Ask HN: Why can't the UK Gov petition site scale to use?
So throughout the day, there has been a huge rush on the petition to stop UK exiting the EU, and we've seen a lot of gateway 503 errors (the default nginx page), and "down for maintenance" pages - and I was wondering if anyone could shed any light as to how it has been so hard for them to cope with scaling...

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

Article about the crashes:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-petition-revoke-article-50-theresa-may-deal-extension-a8832851.html

Traffic has been about 2000 users / minute I believe, and users each get sent an email, and then have to click a confirmation link - and you can see the current number of signatories so I guess they are probably looking at more like 4 - 5000 users peak across a minute so hundreds of thousands an hour roughly.

They also have JSON api that various people are querying `curl https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584/count.json`

What I really want to know is, why could they not just "turn up the juice"?
How is this in any way better or more excusable? Calling it a 'minor oversight' could also apply to the DB being in plaintext.

Storing passwords in a plaintext DB heppes in the same manner-a dev is lazy or ignorant of the security reprocussions. Which is what happened here; barring evidence this was done maliciously we can assume that this was accidental. But that doesn't make it any more excusable, since it should be clear that logs can also contain sensitive data that needs to be protected/anonymized.

Considering how selective FB is for hiring, I would hope we could expect a higher standard.
Moreover, recent events seem to indicate that it is precisely conservatives who are interested in using state power to silence speech:
https://medium.com/s/oversight/devin-nunes-has-a-cow-and-fre...
I worked (for a short time) at the Norwegian Rocket Range.

While it was never boring as such, there is no denying being around actual rocket science soon became commonplace and nothing to be particularly excited about.

The notable exception being the actual launches, but the old hands claimed one eventually became quite blasé about those, too.
I dislike Namecheap for a few reasons. They don't let you log in with a _valid_ username and password if you are using a VPN. Their UI is pretty bad, too. If you have an adblocker, you don't see "Submit" buttons on a lot of forms (editing WHOIS information, etc.)... lots of small annoyances with their service.
No you're misrepresenting what (probably) happened. They had some system that logged API requests (fine and normal). Some API requests include plaintext passwords (also fine and normal).

The issue is presumably that they had no exclusion to the logging for sensitive information like passwords, which is honestly very easy to overlook.

So two thousand Facebook employees were not "retrieving passwords". They were looking at the API logs, which is a normal thing to do.
All of my comment equally applies to people wearing Apple Watches on air. I have never seen anyone receive a call on one, or look at one and take some action. It’s still staged.
As evidenced by the current college admissions scandals. Success in a capitalist culture does not arrive from good intentions, merit or luck. Wealth affords favorable PR.
We're never going to have a decentralized and alternative web until we figure out the economic model behind it.
Can you share the why of those two tips? I'm not from the US so I have no experience with those but it sounds like you have some interesting stories about it :)
> Bitcoin is by design deflationary

I keep hearing this. Saying that Bitcoin is deflationary is exactly equivalent to saying that the value of Bitcoin will always go up. In a Bitcoin economy, the value of Bitcoin would vary over time in response to various factors; technological innovation causing actually cheaper goods, and credit markets that allow people to trade on the future vs. the present value of money.
Whenever I come across one of those articles promoting "use Firefox instead of Chrome" I wonder if I'm the only one having those huge performance issues with Firefox on macOS. I seriously tried to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox a few times in the recent years because of all the dark patterns Google is pushing upon its userbase with Chrome, version after version. But Firefox feels significantly slower, makes the MBP fans go crazy and drains the battery like hell.

I've come to the conclusion that at this point it's no option for me to make the final switch to Firefox, as much as I'd like to. But I try to cut off Google's prying eyes from my browsing behaviour as much as possible:

- uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger is all you need to block the most nasty privacy invaders, seriously.

- I don't use the sync feature.

- I don't use Gmail, so there's no reason to login to my Google account, ever.

- I used Youtube's thumbs-up button as sort of bookmarks for my favorite videos, now I have a bookmarks folder for Youtube videos, which is ok for me, but might not be for everybody.

- automatically clear browsing data after quitting Chrome.

My dream browser would be Firefox with Chromium under the hood, but that's not very likely to happen...
HOCON is a very nice configuration format that should be preferred to JSON and YAML - it really deserves more adoption. I always reach for Lightbend Config on non-Spring projects.
It could be that they are throwing it out so that the community try to find a practical application of it. It is obvious that they understand that what they are demoing is not the end product so to speak, but just the best way to represent general idea.
Show HN: ReactION – React Component Visualizer for vs. Code
In short, yes. See also the Declaration of Independence, etc
Toward a Framework for Misinformation Campaigns
Sensors, Networks Enable Precision Agriculture
> But get a sleeper compartment, don't sit with the cattle

But then you have to ask why the train is stopped in the middle of a crossing, rather than just knowing it's so the train police could remove the dude a few seats over.

If I were going with a partner, a sleeper seems compelling. But alone, the back is more than fine.
Yeah, it's not like you can lose your domains, get kicked off of the vast majority of web hosts and demoted in google search just for having the wrong opinions
The script is dead simple – you could have written it yourself – and that’s the beauty of composable systems (like OpenBSD and other Unices).
I think they are indeed the same outcome but I'd count plain-text DB passwords as grossly negligent while as this was merely negligent. Clearly both are terrible and deserve a shaming, but not hashing passwords going into a DB is a decision that someone pretty much necessarily had to have the full scope of and made a bad decision on. This logging issue could potentially be attributed to a mistake in team communication (i.e. the people we hired to auto-log requests didn't realize that `/login` should be blacklisted for logging and for some reason we never explicitly told them to do so).

So I agree that these actions are indeed same but different.

They ultimately speak to a failure at Facebook, but it doesn't speak to utter incompetence at Facebook.
Better push for fast adoption.
This video does a pretty good job of explaining it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA
I think those are probably separate groups of people. In fact, the ones that argue the first point tend to not actually have kids/interact with children in general
I'm not talking about spending, I'm talking about savings, capital accumulation and re-investment. Your entire point (and your parent's) isn't even wrong.

And no, the federal reserve doesn't control the supply of money by any means.

It influences it, sure, but it doesn't control.
The paper precisely argues that the proliferation of BTC as a currency is a factor in their assertion about the value.
You assume that storing passwords in plaintext is intent as opposed to gross negligence. In many past instances it’s been intentional and gross negligence because the people making all the design and implementation choices were not knowledgeable about best practices.
I really don’t know about this. Encrypting our log information was literally one of the first things we did when starting our latest product.

We store maybe a few million customer records without any significant PII.

Now there is Facebook which apparently hasn’t even bothered? And is logging the full body of requests somewhere? That’s a major WTF, even for Facebook.
Interesting, I wonder if we could create a web-based system where people could upload videos and get 4k footage back...

Edit: Okay, new plan, anyone wanna make a cli for AI Gigapixel?
I came across this while Googling, "do humans increase entropy". The crux of this article is the theoretical generalization by Jeremy England (MIT physicist) that life exists because it increases entropy. And, arguably, that Darwinian evolution is driven by mutations that increase the rate of entropy generation.
Gold standard != using gold as currency.
> Would beat a 6AM flight (so up at 4:30)

Agreed. When the option exists, it's so much nicer than flying.

At one point in my career I traveled from Amsterdam to various other European cities for 3-5 day work trips fairly frequently. Where direct overnight train connections existed, I would try and use those rather than get up for a 6am flight. For example Amsterdam - Copenhagen used to exist as an direct overnight connection. The cost for a private sleeper cabin with shower and breakfast was, I think, about €500 -- less than a flight + an extra hotel night. The trouble was getting my company to reimburse it, because it didn't fit neatly in their travel reimbursement policy's categories and rules.
>What, short of making flying much more expensive, would make a new attempt at introducing them successful, you think?

More onerous security procedures at airports, including pat-downs, extremely long lines, needing to show up 3-4 hours early, etc.?

Also, smaller and smaller seats on planes might encourage more use of trains. How do people from the Netherlands (tallest in the world on average) handle flying these days?
I don't see a huge difference between the two. Mostly the Ferengi forehead creases are sharper I guess, but unclear that the overall effect is much of an improvement. Cool proof of concept though!
Nothing innovative about being a self-serving chode. Lying, cheating and stealing all require effort, while refraining from those does not. People choose to be dicks, and that's nothing to celebrate.
If government regulates away personal sovereignty, you just tell a hundred million people they have personal sovereignty, and watch them decide if it's worth it to impede.
So long as fuel is reasonably priced, planes can take more people farther, faster it is simple economics. Trains are still preferable for local trips and even some medium range trips, but to go all the way across Europe by train would be terribly expensive compared to taking a cheap flight.
Depends on the locality and when you got in - in the real estate cycle.

The goal is to have a property pad off by tenants in 20-30 years so you have a nice nest egg to add to your 401K.

Best investment are certain multi-unit properties - thats where the math works the best.
We had the same arguments for decades, and we are still here. Whenever we hit a snag, like oil or food running out, we think of solutions, like changing energy sources to renewables or improving agricultural efficiency. Progress is made by unreasonable people.

As I said, you're free to do as you please, and I'm free to say that I'll do differently.
Presumably by hiding the origin server. But that can be done by other technologies too, so it's not unique to CF. But I'd like more details from thinkcomp.
Way to spoil the conversation with a false dichotomy. I'd guess that even if we accept that good servers make good tips and favor tipping and that bad servers make bad tips and don't favor tipping, most people who have an opinion on this issue are neither, because most people aren't servers.

I'm not a server and I'm not in favor of tipping because of the psychological effect cited, which might as well be a bait and switch. Menu price being the bait and paying 20% over that the switch. Reduced perception of value equivalent to saying the market would adjust when consumers are informed of the true cost of the product.

But never mind all that, industries must always grow, even if it's wasteful and the community taken as a whole is worse off for it. And evidently because some servers like tips. Aces.
Smart companies typically overload loggers to do tokenization over many types of requests automatically to avoid this kind of inadvertent exposure.
But you don't need to write every time, only on occasion, so you can actually use a read write lock and in the nominal case many threads can read just fine.

That said, it's probably still better to avoid this unless it's absolutely necessary to modify the underlying structure sometimes, I recently had to do this for an LRU cache.
I always assumed Mozilla has too much of a little brother relationship with Google to trust that they are truly independent.

I use Brave and it's good enough for my browser expectations.
Yes, I would like to be able to arrange displays with a 3rd dimension. Rather than have simply a 2d grid for arrangement. For example, have lesser used workspaces placed somewhere in the distance, but still visible and readily available to be brought front and center.
I guess I’m just a grump who doesn’t like being subjected to music no matter how good they think they are.
Did someone say that it happened because Facebook believes in transparency?
Plaintext Password Storage is a Sev:Low (2009)