skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only Pollyanna if you do nothing about it. Decentralization is more than an idea. There are many technologies developing privacy as an integrated feature on their platform. There is enough of an appetite to support it more widely than it has been.
Can't both be attributed to ignorance? You could store passwords in plaintext in a database because you didn't know better. You can store plaintext passwords in logs because you don't know better. If I store passwords in plaintext am I being purposeful or am I being ignorant of best practises?

I think people are drawing a distinction where one doesn't really exist.
There needs to be a shift in how proprietary technologies that have universal benefits for our society are viewed.

It may be normal for a company to withold information to keep a competitive edge in a nascent industry, but it will also mean that their press releases lauding reduced death rates in their products will be double edged swords, unless they make the ethical decision to share their improvements with other players and reduce death rates across the industry.
> Maybe because I have a friend working on a video game as a solo developer, and putting a /lot/ of energy/money/time into art--I really see the potential in this (type of thing).

For that usage Nvidia's thing was way more interesting: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2019/03/18/gaugan-photorealist...

That gets you usable texture assets super quickly, which is probably what your solo developer friend spends the most time on. That or models. Neither of which Stadia's style transfer helps with. They probably aren't spending much time tweaking a shader-applied post-process effect, but hey, maybe they are, and this style transfer ML thing is useful. Very, very unlikely, but maybe.
I had a cousin in CA worried about Fukushima defend her concern by saying that she had a Ukrainian friend whose family was affected by Chernobyl. Two guesses as to how effective it was to tell her that Chernobyl was freaking IN Ukraine and that CA is as far from Fukushima as New York is from Chernobyl.

Most people make decisions based on a hazy blur of random exposure to flashy stories, not anything remotely resembling rational adult thought. I don't know what the solution is to nuclear's PR and political problems, but I know that it isn't anything that requires a third grader's level of critical thinking ability.
Can't wait for ads to be inserted into games with this...
I am not now nor have I ever been Carl.
I made the same decision. My daughter is now 5, no social media pictures of her. I do share pictures of her to a few family members over Google Photos, and I keep track of her life in a private email account that I will give to her when she turns 13.
I'd disagree, for R&D of novel technology there is a lot to be said for casual contributions. If ML was open source, the state of the industry would almost assuredly be better than the current state of things.
Do you have any examples of games that worked well with Parsec? I have a super fast home internet but don't want to invest in a high-end rig.
I find it pretty shocking that other commenters are looking at this as excusable. I mean, is that OK/excusable at your company? Logging payloads/bodies of sensitive requests in plain text - 0 obfuscation. That's ok? Wow. Other commenters are saying "it's logging so it's a forgivable mistake". Is it though? Obviously the world won't end because of these decisions, but holy hell I can't believe this wasn't caught/brought up in some type of code review. This seems pretty 101-ish
Astronomers Turn to AI to Track Galaxies as New Telescopes Come Online
I'm not sure that is the right comparison. Let's take a New York to Los Angeles trip.

That would be 3 days on Amtrak, or about 6 hours by plane.

I'd guess that for most cases flying instead of taking the train doesn't mean we spend the 6 days that we would have spent on the train (round trip) in a Los Angeles hotel eating expensive restaurant meals. I think most people would simply leave home later and leave Los Angeles earlier if flying, so that the time difference is spent at home eating whatever they normally eat.
If nothing else, see if you can get him to sit down and tell YOU the stories while you record them on your phone or a handheld audio recorder. Much lower barrier to entry.

It's not widely appreciated that Feynman didn't write either of his famous books ("Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman" and "What do you care what people think?"). Both were compiled by his friend Ralph Leyton from audio recordings of Feynman sitting around telling stories.
It happens at fortune 5 medical companies. When you sign up to Facebook you know you’re signing up to Facebook. When you go to the doctors office you are probably completely unaware that your PHI is being shared with a couple dozen other companies often intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. If you are a human in the United States there is a high probability your PHI is sitting in a log file on a server owned by some company you’ve never even heard of.

Fwiw none of this is necessarily a breach of hipaa laws.
Hashing the the lowercase version of the password string is not the same as what they’re doing. What you’re suggesting greatly reduces the security of the password, what they’re doing only divides the search space by 3 (which is nothing).
I can't help wonder how much better YAML would've been with minimal delimiters instead of significant-whitespace. The big feature (X/YA)ML has over JSON is distinction between properties and children; which I think is pretty cool for many use-cases. Lack of comments is also a big limitation of JSON, and of course there's the huge legacy ecosystem behind XML. But I've never seen significant whitespace be a good thing; this alone makes YAML decidedly not "human readable", speaking as someone who doesn't work with it very often.
Speaking as a Stat TA, literally over 90% of the students taking the class will conduct 1 experiment, not 100, which gives you 1 CI, not 100, & then say that particular CI has a 95% chance of containing the population mean! Then when I tell them the mean is either in that CI or not ( either 100% in, or 0% in ), they google the CI definition & point me to that. That's why I said that definition doesn't work for the masses. It can be interpreted as - "if you conduct a 100 experiments & get 100 CI's then roughly 95 of those will contain true mean", but then nobody ever conducts 100 experiments, so from their pov its an absurd definition.

Its imperative to understand that these definitions are written not for the average user of statistics, but for a trained statistician. Unfortunately, the average stat consumer vastly outnumbers the professional. Papers are littered with statements like p value proves H0, or proves H1. I have had numerous conversations with scientists ( not statisticians, but pharma/epidem/engg people who show up to the stat lab for consult ) that their p value doesn't prove H0 or H1. "What do you mean you can't prove H1 ? Oh you mean it only rejects H0 ? Ok but isn't that same as prove H1 ? It isn't ?! Well in my field if I just state it rejects H1 it won't be well understood so I am going to instead say H1 has been proved!" So there's little the statistician can do.

Regards overlap, I meant total/exact overlap, as in no two CIs will be identical on any conti dist.
Not true:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/11/25/congress-mak...

> "The problems have frustrated Markey as they have worsened over the years. He’s been known to pick up spam calls to his office, just to see what he can find out about who placed them."
Pytype checks and infers types for your Python code
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The canvas and referrer plugins are new to me. This is great. I always wondered why canvas is enabled by default. The ratio of useful to tracking uses has to be 1:10.
I think the more interesting applications will come when you get tools like this used by visual artists, complementing handmade design. The demo is cool but uses style transfer very bluntly, applying one style to the whole image with high intensity. I imagine the future of this is something more like neural "shaders", able to apply real-time pixel alterations to scenes or objects within scenes. Used carefully, they could increase the range of creative choices a visual artist can make.
On Linux it simply flies. macOS is known to have issues with GPU performance
So you can expect thousands to learn English because of your one website, but it's immoral that some disabled people will just have to miss out on your website because you can't be bothered to spend countless hours on accessibility?

Honestly, that statement is about as dumb as saying "Blindness can be overcome with science, all those blind people should just start working on artificial eyes".
All of Google is built on Linux. Without Linux Google would not exist. Neither would Facebook. They would all run Microsoft stack, pay Microsoft billions for licensing... and then probably be bought by Microsoft.
Can anyone tell if they offer privacy? I'll move all of my parked domains here in a heartbeat if that's included.

(I'd move my other domains here if I could use non-Cloudflare nameservers, even temporarily. I don't want downtime or other interruption.)
It sounds like we should let Canada shoulder the brunt of the research and then build commercial MSRs once Canada has mastered the tech....in 50 years or so.
Rally, nice use of CSS transitions
This is exactly how Zuck was able to steal login information in his stories about founding facebook.

I find it hard to believe this is accidental.
Collaboration without constraints: RealtimeBoard is now Miro
Is anyone else concerned this will be yet another Google product that goes by the wayside in a few years? This has essentially become my biggest fear now with any new product they announce/release.
Facebook admits it stored ‘hundreds of millions’ of passwords in plaintext
Linux is innovative and shows how all innovation doesn't have to come from capitalism.

That being said the iPhone is arguably just as innovative if not more so and that has been proven nearly impossible to compete with outside of capitalism due to the need for massive coordinated investment to create the whole thing.

Also, Linux is Unix for commodity hardware. That hardware definitely was not created via open source or free collaboration. It was created at a scale only possible by corporations or possibly nation states (chip fabs...).
This should be subtitled, why Greg Maxwell is an idiot.

The Core Team from day one has pushed to reduce on chain usage of Bitcoin, and the only explanation is that it was sabotage.
This is what I heard from every single person who took a train long distance somewhere (>300mi)... some said it was an "experience" but they would never do it again, and flying is just as cheap, faster, better, less hassle.
> You have the problematic application: com.qualcomm.qti.autoregistration

Could you explain why this is problematic?
But the frequentist answer is only different when the frequentist can't use common sense. If you use min(D) as the frequentist estimator, you would get a very different confidence interval, as it would have the form [min(D) - constant, min(D)]. The CDF of the truncated exponential is F(x) = 1-exp(theta-x), and the CDF of the minimum of three samples is 1-(1-F(x))^3. I get that the frequentist 95% CI is [9.00142, 10], which for all intents and purposes is the same as the credible interval the author computes.

I agree that credible intervals and confidence intervals answer different questions. I don't think that it's obvious that the confidence interval approach is wrong, and the example in the blog post is definitely not evidence towards this.
That’s why i said if they are alone. No one ever get asked if they are with a western person.
These fines are a scam targeting American companies.
I've taken Amtrak cross-country (CA <--> Chicago via California Zephyr / SW Chief) about a dozen times in my life. If you're not in a hurry to get from A to B, there's no better way to travel IMO. Sure, the trains are outdated and a bit stanky, but it's just a perfect cross-section of American life (both people and landscapes).

It's a perfect place to zen out and burrow into a book / creative project for a few days. Plus, you can just show up right before the train arrives and you're on your way (perfect for people who run on wizard time, like me).

You definitely have to prepare a bit if you want to get a decent night of sleep in coach, though. Here's a short survival kit:
-Tylenol PM / Benadryl (or your preferred sleep aid of choice)
-Warm clothes / travel blanket (it can get cold)
-Pillow/neck pillow/some way to keep your head immobilized
-Earplugs + noise cancelling headphones
-Eyemask
-Patience/equanimity
I'm not sure how that follows. Most big open-source projects are in practice owned and controlled by a single company/entity, and the processes don't differ much from what you'd see in-house. What you're describing sounds more like how standardisation bodies work than the realities of functioning software projects.
Thanks! This is helpful.
Is it even possible for this to be the result of negligence when Facebook has some of the best programming talent in the world? Maybe, but I don't think so. I think this was INTENTIONAL. The question at least is why? IDK. Some FB employees probably didn't mind because it gave them unbelievable spying powers. Another thing to consider is how the NSA had a strong relationship with FB for years and the odds of them not knowing about FB's clear text practices is zero. They knew. People within law enforcement probably knew as well. Given how nothing happens at FB without Zuck's apporoval there's no doubt he knew as well.
The Next Generation also had its visual effects shot on video, this was a major hurdle for their remastering efforts. They had to recreate all of the effects so it was a slow an expensive process. On the positive side, the effects end up looking much better since this isn't the 80s and we can throw a lot of CPU power at creating them.
I don't know about France but in the U.S. nuclear plants are required to put money aside for decommissioning. They were also required to pay into a fund for long-term waste storage, but since the government shut down its long-term waste facility and companies have to store waste on site, a court decided they shouldn't also have to pay into a fund that's not doing anything.

Regarding Chernobyl, I'll just mention it was used both for power and weapons production, and lacked basic safety features including a containment dome.
It's unfortunate that "shell scripts" represent the imperative solution. Shell scripting is loaded with incidental complexity and footguns that other scripting languages (like Starlark) lack. The latter would be entirely appropriate for this sort of advanced configuration.
You would be better served spending that time and money building your own project and applying to YC.
We do - all whois information is redacted by default for every domain on Cloudflare Registrar.
Okay, sure. But the innovation wasn't a myth or illusion. Apple didn't invent the MP3 player either.
Privacy rights, including personal medical information. Additionally, counting how many people are affected by a particular accessibility barrier too often leads to ignoring them because the numbers tend to be small.

> gross process involving lots of trial-and-error.

That can be reduced through developer education and changes in processes but doesn't that also describe browser and device testing; it's part of the job.
How about 1960s, with 2001: A Space Odyssey.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/did-st...
I don't sell any. I just went back to school for Physics and am finishing up first course on EM. I'd like to simulate and build motors from scratch.
> No one would be dumb enough to spend $300/month+ on a high bandwidth connection so that they can stream games to potato hardware.

I'm paying $80/mo for nominally gigabit (usually tests out at 700+Mbit from the router, a bit lower for WiFi clients) with no bandwidth cap, and not in a market with much (or any) competition for really high-speed connections. What are people paying $300+/mo for, and is even remotely needed for something like this?
Just because something is possible you shouldn't go around expecting it from anybody. Learning a language just for a website is dumb and nobody is going to do it, so the website is essentially just as unaccessible to someone who doesn't speak the language as someone who's blind.
Feels like this falls ln the infosec team. Our team has a scanner that parses all* logs for passwords and PII.

We know that the infosec team at Facebook was a second class citizen. So, its no surprise that this got through.

*sampling on large sets
The "web rings" that he references existed because discovery has always been horrible on the web. If you want to go back to the old web, you basically have to take the bad with the good.
> Telling the population the border is safe knowing it's not and then they get cancer is quite factual.

It's not so clear cut. Thyroid cancer rates started increasing dramatically almost everywhere in the world in the mid 80's. Diagnosis rates in the US for example have tripled since 1980, in South Korea they have gone up 13x since 1993. Meanwhile the mortality rate has been completely flat. The most likely cause of this is increase in both screening and the sensitivity of testing [1]. There is also a current debate about if we should be screening / treating thyroid cancer the way we are, i.e. it seems like we're detecting a lot of innocuous thyroid cancers and then operating without need resulting in unnecessary life long complications for the person.

This is why there is a lot of research out there indicating that the vast majority of the increase in thyroid cancer diagnosis in areas like France is unrelated to Chernobyl.

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i5745
>those babies were being passively euthanized. Starved to death

This breaks my heart. Doubly so, given that I have similar cases[1] in recent memory[2] where the medical staff and even the even parents were forbade and forcibly prevented from feeding the kids.

Thank you for writing the article, Janet, however painful it must have been for you. It's better that we know, and can act upon the knowledge.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Evans_case

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Gard_case#Outcome
I'm talking about biological sex (which implies gender, there isn't anything 'gender' in biology).

The vast majority of cases you see today with people claiming to be the sex they're not are psychological, not physical. They're men with XY chromosomes wanting to be women, or the opposite, women with XX chromosomes wanting to be men. The other cases (e.g. XXY and XYY) are very small in comparison.
Among many of YC's advantages, they do signal boost your company in a lot of important ways. But if you don't make something people want, no accelerator in the world will save your company from dying.
Agreed, hopefully ini files have lost the Windows stigma enough to be used everywhere.
Anyone compared this with MadVR?
a lot of international investors don't even rent them out, they just purchase them and leave them vacant while they continue to appreciate
hi brother, I do not know anyone who has a volk fi but I really want to test this network and the cell phone, can you send me an invitation?
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I remember when staying with relatives when I was younger and calling long distance home for a minute to tell my mom to call my back on her cell so the family could talk for cheaper. I'd wait around until it was late enough in the evening that nighttime rates for her cell were cheaper than the long distance rate.
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I'm not disagreeing with you at all really (not sure I agree completely, either), which is why I see the need to approach cases like this (self-driving software sharing, not the specific theft of IP case at hand) a bit more specially. I don't have the solution, I just know that lives could potentially be at risk and if the only reason is profit motive, it kinda sucks. I know this happens in other places, too, but it's my opinion that the best safety should be the standard, not a premium.

EDIT: Lorkki's comment explains part of my thoughts on it well. Other companies subsidize open source project that exist at the core of their business. Is there a difference here other than scale? If so, what, and how would it change the situation?
Yes absolutely.
That's true. Kerbs article says:

> My Facebook insider said access logs showed some 2,000 engineers or developers made approximately nine million internal queries for data elements that contained plain text user passwords.
There's a difference between not doing business in a country and sabotaging a country because it fined you.
So while obviously a bit data UI wise are CPAN's config script and/or the "make menuconfig" script for compiling a Linux kernel good examples of what you're talking about?

While I haven't run menuconfig since the 90's I find myself setting up CPAN on just about every server I manage. Although a bit dated like I said above it's still very easy to use and provides clear instructions on why you should or should not choose certain options based on the environment you are setting up.

Just wondering if these are good examples or not. If not, do you have any other examples of good config programs you can point to?
If you run your own recursing DNS server, your "upstream" is ICANN and the various registries that run the top level domains.
I am in a similar boat, but instead of a generic CS degree, I am looking to get a degree in a narrower field - data science and blockchain hold my interest currently. Any course recommendations?
So Long, MSDN Blog
Endless studies could be written about it, since the topic is very complex and outcomes are pretty much impossible to predict. No wonder economists have such a bad reputation about forecasts :D. It's almost a question of religion. My gut feeling is the following...

Same thing could be said of questions of software methodology. Most decisions are made on the basis of "gut feelings."
So... Two planes falling out of the sky, killing 400 shouldn't be taken as proving anything?

Or how about 1 stupid decision by a radiotherapy machine? Ever heard of THERAC-25?

In each case, it was just 1 stupid decision by a machine.

The entire reason Engineering as a practice is a thing is because when you implement the capacity for a stupid decision into a system that is then mass produced, dire consequences can result.

I look down on any thought process that doesn't discriminate between the difference between 0 and 1.

If the system provably worked, that decision would not have happened (0). The stupid decision happened (1), however, which means it can happen again at a poorly understood confluence of circumstances.

To err is human, and we forgive each other every day for it.

To err as a machine is a condemnation to the refuse bucket, repair shop, or back to the drawing board.

To err so egregiously as a machine to cause an operator and those around them to lose their life is willful and moral negligence on the part of the system's designer. Slack is cut when good faith is demonstrated, but liability is unambiguous. The hazard would not be there if you hadn't put it there.
For someone who is a little lost when somebody just says "API" ... Is this like flask but without jinja-templating?