skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this excruciatingly long and boring article we are meant to learn that since James B. Duke gamed the regulatory system for cigarettes over a hundred years ago, Joseph Schumpeter's concept of "creative destruction" is wrong.

I'll leave that standing as it is, but it's worth noting that "libertarian" economist Schumpeter predicted the demise of capitalism in unison with the concept of "creative destruction":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism,_Socialism_and_Demo...?
Facebook posted a response with the title "How we secure passwords".

The euphemism of company press releases always make me laugh.
> Keep blocking, never respond. At some point they will stop.

First of all, directly messaging someone doesn't encompass the universe of harassment. Harassers do things like post your schedule, your whereabouts, and your address, e-mail and phone number. They'll clone your persona and act as you online, trying to put words in your mouth. They'll contact your friends and family and spread lies about you. Blocking someone does nothing to solve this.

> What ? How is that even possible...

https://voice.google.com/u/0/signup

This was several years ago, but today it's even easier using a variety of platforms. Haven't you noticed an up-tick in robo-calls recently? Harassers use the same techniques to DOS your phone. My wife couldn't get legitimate calls because she was receiving a constant stream of automated texts and phone calls from her ex.

> Wins ? What exactly ?

The goal of the harasser is to control you and make you miserable. Forcing you off of platforms you enjoy gives them a feeling that they control you. It empowers them. Even if they do stop harassing you, they still move on to another victim. To suggest that the harassee should just run away and the problem is solved does nothing to curb the general atmosphere of harassment; it just creates another victim, and empowers more harassers.

> From my experience they lose a victim and move on to an other one.

Exactly. Victims get marginalized and forced off platforms, harassers are allowed to reign free and continue to victimize. It's no surprise then we have an Internet full of empowered harassers and a growing list of victims with no end in sight.

> Unless ofc they have access to you IRL...

Which they often attempt.

From your responses, I'm getting the impression you haven't been the victim of any serious harassment. This is more than just simple trolling I'm talking about here.
The popularity of lobster is generally attributed to it being canned and served on the railroads (thinking that they could get away with serving cheap meat to customers in the midwest unfamiliar with it) and then people developing a taste for it.
I wouldn't mind that, more responsibility on the software developer means more leverage to push back. I guarantee you I'm not rushing for a deadline if I think I'm compromising security that may put a black marge on my career.
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Just the deflationary nature of a currency isn't enough to destabilize cycles. Cycles run on credit-worthiness, or how likely is someone to return x% return in the future on an investment made today.

Compared to the Fed, which makes arbitrary (non-cyclical) adjustments to the "cost of money", Bitcoin's more predictable deflationary attributes might lead to more predictability in financial cycles.

This is of course, assuming the hundreds of other problems with Bitcoin as a currency, or credit-instrument have been solved.
>If we had 300mph bullet trains going across the country, it would make some sense because you'd get there a lot faster while still seeing the sights

You should take a TGV, you'll realize that at 300kph you don't see the sights.
I see this differently. If someone stores passwords in plaintext in the database, they’re idiots that don’t know any better.

If someone logs your password in plaintext but has it encrypted in the database that’s grossly negligent.
Context on the recent media coverage of robocalls:

"I Get a Robocall While Making a Video About Robocalls" by Vlogbrothers: https://youtu.be/mNIgh3JMDcQ

"Robocalls" by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: https://youtu.be/FO0iG_P0P6M
No, they didn't.

They did fractional reserve with gold-denominated currencies.

Sure, you could create a bitcoin-denominated currency (a terrible idea, but let's entertain it) and perform fractional-reserve banking on it. But at that point, bitcoins become irrelevant.
Perfectly valid point. I still think vergence/accommodation needs to be solved as an important key step in VR dev for more comfortable experiences. Its harder to do than just upping frame rates.

You need foveated rendering to start with but im sure you know the rest. If you want VR, well you need actual VR. Its not enough to trick your vision superficially. You have trick the whole system. I digress.
If people sudddenly hoard money, they're essentially reducing the supply of money, which means the value of money will go up (as there's less of it), effectively acting as a transfer of purchasing power to the people who are actually spending it at that time. Imagine for instance I do something that generates a lot of value (money), then burn that money (or hide it under my mattress 'til I die of old age). This essentially means I gave "value" to society for free, as I created "value" but did not consume any "value" in return, leaving that "value" I could have consumed with my money to be consumed by others.
I like logging and at our company we blanket log all GET parameters on every request, similarly I think it's a Good Idea™ to never log POST parameters, but there are some pages where we've started logging some whitelisted ones because they can help diagnose some errors we run across, but, in an environment where all data is coming into the server in JSON blobs attached in request bodies then it can be a bit harder to make any sort of blanket whitelist.
This shouldn't be an option in the first place.
It all depends on if one can prove negligence.
Not really - the only trains taking longer than 24 hours in Europe are the sleepers to Moscow, and the longest of those (Nice-Moscow) only takes 48 hours. There are then much longer trains from Moscow into Asia though, up to the famous Trans-Siberian (6 days).

I went London-Japan overland but my longest single segment was two and a half days (Moscow-Shymkent), and that was about right - time to relax and do nothing for a bit, but by the third morning I had definitely spent enough time in the same compartment, as nice as it was.
Exactly! It's nearly certain that at least one of them had an enemy, ex, etc, that he/she wanted to exploit.
> A thought experiment: how would an economy run solely on a Bitcoin-like currency behave? And how would it respond to business cycles?

A perhaps better comparison would be to "cryptocurrencies" instead of Bitcoin itself.

Bitcoin is, by design, deflationary, but not all cryptocurrencies have to be, and once the infrastructure for widespread Bitcoin use is in place, it will be quite easy to support other cryptocurrencies. I'd be more interested in what an economy would look like when people can choose which currency to hold and spend while payment processors abstract away the rough edges (e.g. price anchoring, conversion) around accepting different cryptocurrencies.

For example, if virtually all PoS systems in the US could handle both USD and Bitcoin, would virtually everyone choose to stick with USD? Or not? What if they also accepted Ethereum, Litecoin, Nano, and other crypto? And how would that economy behave during a boom/bust cycle? Or during hyperinflation like in Venezuela?
How does switching to a third party DNS increase privacy? might as well use your ISP's server since they already know what sites that you visit (unless you use a VPN and this article doesn't talk about that)
Sweden is really long for a "small" country, but if you look at a map, all the major cities are in the south and not very far from each other. There's some small cities like Umea (population a little over 100k) farther north, but no major metro areas.
Still two options:

1. The CEO was being inattentive and discourteous to the interviewer and the entire live audience, by not silencing or ignoring incoming call notifications from every source prior to taking the stage.

2. The call notification was intentionally staged to occur during the interview.

Either way, it does not reflect well upon AT&T, in my opinion. A live interview is a performance, of sorts, and the pre-performance preparations were either incompetently negligent, or cynically manipulative.
The major difference is that we don't have standard patterns for protecting against one attack, vs the other.

With password storage everyone knows the patterns, or we expect them to.

With everything between the request and password storage, we don't.

This type of attack could easily be prevented. When secrets come in, immediately store them (ideally at the web framework level) in a type that overrides print/debug formatting. Then add a "get_raw" to it, and you can now grep for that being used anywhere outside of storage to a DB (and your DB libs should take the Secret type too). Or don't use a `get_raw` and instead use a `hash` method that returns a safely hashed version of it.

Further, your secret type could at the very least add a round of SHA256, maybe even with a pepper?, just to be sure.

This isn't hard, I've done it before. The problem is that it isn't something that people feel embarrassed not to do, vs storing plaintext creds.

Impact is the same - creds are plaintext in a DB. Attackers always expect sensitive data in logs, so it isn't as if you'd get lucky and they'd miss this.
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Regarding caller ID spoofing part of these robocalls... I would think the telco knows the number of each connected phone line, why can't they overwrite whatever number the caller supplies?
Google should revoke their use of the AndroidOne trademark over these shenanigans.
This is how professional software engineering and infrastructure implementation is done, and I appreciate you pointing it out so forcefully.
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I'm talking about as the proprietor: creating the business online is a lot easier than creating a physical one.

Even so:

> As a customer the access is quite different, to the point of comparing apples to oranges.

> To access a place of business you simply need to physically get there

> To access an app or website, you need to have a phone or computer

> To me they are not comparable.

What lack of overlap do you see between people who can physically go to a building and people who can use a computer?
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Looks great; been searching for something to rewrite a 6yo side-project with and this looks just about perfect.

Small wrinkle: I spotted a broken link on the "deployment" page - "Bigger applications with multiple files" doesn't link to the right place (in fact it links nowhere, the `href` attribute has no value).
The french government provides a similar tool, from what I've understood of the indian model. It is of course open source.

https://mycompanyinfrance.fr/social-security/salaried
Politicians are paid to push the laws that they do, and not by taxpayers.
> Just the deflationary nature of a currency isn't enough to destabilize cycles.

No need for cycles: a deflationary currency means that you're better off holding it than investing it.

This is disastrous for the economy.

> Compared to the Fed, which makes arbitrary (non-cyclical) adjustments to the "cost of money", Bitcoin's more predictable deflationary attributes might lead to more predictability in financial cycles.

Quite the opposite. The money supply wouldn't adapt dynamically to the demand for money, leading to harsher crises.
There is nothing more Googley than building something that's technically impressive with absolutely no - or even antithetical - market fit
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What that quote is saying is that the logs that contained the passwords were accessed by 2,000 engineers. Most of those engineers would only be looking at data relevant to their job, only a security engineer would be in a position to notice the passwords, which is what happened.
Purely intuitively, the 'scarrig' seems to limit the state space for this 51-qubit quantum system.

So it is not clear why the authors believe this development will lead to better quantum computers.
Yes. Consider this not-unlikely scenario: The people who implemented the logging did it as a feature of a generic API proxy (there’s no way Facebook implements logging separately for each of their bazillion services!), and no doubt put in a provison for masking sensitive data. They tested it and it worked fine.

Then some devs miles and years away didn’t use that feature properly and accidentally failed to not log passwords in an incoming request. They may not even have been looking at those request logs because that’s not the request they were testing.

Then that feature went into production and this oversight was magnified millions of times.

At large scale you don’t just tail the production log firehose and look for stuff. You have to search for specifics to find anything st all. So if nobody was debugging this thing in production it’s quite plausible nobody saw the passwords in the log.

One way to catch this sort of thing is sentinel data — in this case, have a unique value for a test account’s password and test every service with it, then search everywhere you can think of for that value.
I appreciate your sources and depth of knowledge. Thanks for the reply.

Perhaps it would also be worthwhile to go in the opposite direction: because of the design limitations of TeX, LaTeX has almost completely replaced TeX as the input language. In that sense, even TeX82 proved to be just a step on the way to a usable-by-people document system.
I'm already excited to see what Microsoft will show at E3 with Xcloud streaming service that they have been working on for a couple of years- lots of great progress in that area right now.
You need to have both full screened on a 1080p screen to actually compare the two. Also video quality is difficult to determine from still frames. Video compression is more about how it moves from 1 frame to another. You would want to watch an actual clip of both to see the difference better.
Interesting. I thought Baidu and Alibaba are supposed to be leading AI companies. If so, why would XiaoPeng not partner with them?
>It makes it sound like VCs make fat salaries on the backs of other people

B..but that's what they're doing

They're betting with demands
>Page 31: Same co-pilot "mais je suis à fond à cabrer depuis tout à l’heure " (But I've pulling back completely for a while), and this while the cockpit is screaming "Dual Input" (so this means that the other pilot was inputting as well, thus "unbeknownst" in my original comment).

Perhaps you didn't notice this, but immediately after the point in the transcript you refer to, there's an exchange between the pilots where they establish who's in control (see "vas-y tu as les commandes" at 2 h 13 min 46,0). There is no way to be sure, but it seems probable that this exchange was prompted by the dual input warnings.

>They didn't trust the plane with the information it was providing, which is probably why they ignored these warnings.

There is no indication that they ignored the dual input warnings.

Linking the control sticks doesn't magically resolve problems caused by a breakdown in cockpit discipline. If both pilots are going for the controls at the same time, you're going to have problems. The warning system seems to have done its job, insofar as it prompted the pilots to figure out who was in control.
Consensus in this thread seems to be that this is a neat gimmick but nothing else.

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).

This is not really for the player's benefit to put on whatever mods they want.

This is for fast iteration for artists and creators to automate a huge (sometimes necessary evil) burden.
If the supply of money is constant but the demand for it (due to economic growth) is growing, the value of money will always increase, and the prices of things will always decrease.

This is trivial.

And the consequence is that everyone is better off holding currency than investing it. Which is disastrous for the economy.
I did a search on the thread and didn't see it, so here's a shoutout to the USA Rail Pass (15/30/45 days of travel on Amtrak; while not unlimited, it functionally is in practice): https://www.amtrak.com/take-the-trains-across-america-with-u...

I spent 45 days traveling the US about a decade ago, during a transitionary period from work to grad school. Visited a bunch of friends in different states and really had a great time.

The clientelle for multiday Amtrak trips falls closer with travel backpackers and RVers - people who really care about the journey over the destination (since air is far superior to get you from A->B fast and reliably). Lots of interesting folks who also are doing this for whatever-their-own-reasons.

Not-sure-if-obsolete tip: I snagged my rail pass from a retiree on Craigslist for half price. Turns out Amtrak employees get friends-and-family rail passes as perks and a few of them end up on the resale market.
What? Everything is sharper in the 1080p version, the effect is far from subtle. Is it possible you did not load the 1080p version of the Youtube video?
Our building has 2 T1V Thinkhubs. They are basically large touchscreen panels. We don't do a lot of video conferencing currently, but we use a polycom phone for audio. Remote users can login and view the screen and share their screens with everyone. It's a pretty cool setup. Everyone is wowed by it when they first see it. The setup consists of 6 screens wide and 2 tall. Each panel is 55". But, you can use the same system on a single panel setup.

Also, this is all controlled by a Crestron unit to control lights and shades as well as switch between TV, apple TV, Music and T1V.
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Correct. One example of literally thousands: https://reportcheatingonline.com/aaron-jacob-greenspan-owns-...

"Protected" by Cloudflare against "attack."

See also https://www.plainsite.org/dockets/3a4l9qm45/superior-court-o....

See also https://splinternews.com/at-home-with-a-revenge-porn-mogul-1....

See also https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/10/web-giant-clou....
Step 1: Full-on civil war and overthrowing the federal government. People are kidding themselves thinking it will demand anything less.
It really is fun when the journey is the whole point. Last year I took the train from Adelaide to Melbourne, a trip I took frequently as a kid before the plane became primary. Back then it was exciting but there was not much to do: whole family in a sleeper cabin; a stop at the border to change crews, and that's it.

Now it's a twice-weekly tourist service. I was sad at the thought that train service had fallen so low, but discovered instead that I really enjoyed the change of landscape as we traveled and spent most of the 11 hours looking through the window. I was sorry to see all the now-closed country stations we went through (including my own: I had to drive into Adelaide to get the train and then 45 minutes later pass through my starting point) as the trains really did knit the little towns together in ways cars have not.

I also spent a lot of my childhood traveling on (steam!) trains in India, probably because of cost.

I think that's why a friend and I took the trans Siberia express in the 1980s when we were in our 20s. It was super fun but the opposite of what I wrote above: USSR was so huge that the view outside the window was largely monotonous, but the action on the train was fun (everyone was super friendly).
The question is whether it is even possible to get to the initiation of new proceedings from where we are now. I doubt it. Any restart in the near future would imply that the preceding withdrawal was unlawful.
Very surprised to see such in detail description being public.

I know that Intel's fab people are the only ones in the industry who are public about their current process in academic publications.

TSMC's process engineers, on other hand, jokingly call the famously paranoid TSMC's NDA an "omerta"
>> Another reason pacemakers are not comparable is that pacemakers do not present anything like the potential threat to third parties that self-driving cars do.

Unless the person wearing pacemaker is driving a non-self-driving car.
Can someone explain why water towers on each building are required in a first-world city? I genuinely don't understand. Is the public water supply so unreliable that you need to have a buffer?
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I don't own any, but I do have a 3rd party wireless headset. For me, ditching the cable means avoiding the inexplicable and over-the-top rage I experience when wired earphones/headphones get suddenly yanked on the occasion they catch on something. Once in a while I'll meet somebody else that has this type of reaction. It's weird.
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Can also recommend. All of them were changed.
I had this kind of issue, a sloppy logging tool, when I had <100 customers. It was fixed before we got to 200.

Early FB (c2005) could get the excuse, new team, just getting started. But, no excuse after the first round of funding
"It was sixteen years ago now, and I've thankfully forgotten a lot of it."

Sorry you've had such crap tenants. 16 Years is a long time, and the laws could have changed on this in this time. So there is a good chance you are both right!
The irony is that Schumpeter would probably agree that what drives a lot of entrepreneurship is in fact rent-seeking.

However, to get to point where you can seek rent, you have to be genuinely innovative first. Rent-seeking is a competitive field!
> Europe could soon pass new digital copyright laws.

If they mean Article 13, that law benefits big companies, and big companies only.

A good overview:

- https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/eu-copyright-final-text/

- https://juliareda.eu/2019/02/article-13-worse/
This is interesting, but it's still not the same as a proper remaster. You can't get information out of SD video that wasn't there before with upscaling, so the algorithm is just interpolating. It's too bad that Paramount is so fan-hostile; they could just get the original film footage (assuming it was shot that way; ST:TOS and ST:TNG were, which is why we have excellent remastered versions today), scan it in as raw video, let the fans have at it, and they'd make the high-def FX for free.
If it happens to a company with the best engineers, focus on security and almost endless budget...
I'm a big fan of using Lua for this. You can put all the configurations you want in a fairly readable format and then if you need to, custom Lua code to get process for the hard parts. The receiving end has the ability to decide if it wants to run the custom code or not for security reasons.

I saw the comment that Helm is going to include Lua, but not getting the advantage that Helm brings over base Lua.
One factor for Teams (vs Slack or others) may be regulatory requirements (eg HIPAA). A quick perusal came down to "Slack Enterprise can be made HIPAA compliant" where I got the impression that Teams was a lot closer out of the box.
I honestly really don't see the difference beyond that.