skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that it's irrelevant. Have more data? Need more auditing. Any system which touches sensitive data is subject to security review. Yes, FB systems are massive. They should have massive oversight as well. You may as well be defending a nuclear meltdown because desiging nuclear power plants is hard.

>Ensuring that sensitive data isn’t logged takes more than some occasional greps.

Right; it requires investment into process, requirements, testing, and oversight. Most importantly, it requires a company wide, top down mentality that your customer's privacy and protection is more important than your margins.

If you can't (won't) dedicate the resources required to ensure your customers data is protected then you have no business operating at such a scale.
Key takeaway for me:

> In short, the Way to Wealth, if you desire it, [...] depends chiefly on two Words, Industry and Frugality; i.e. Waste neither Time nor Money, but make the best Use of both.
The majority of these robocalls companies are fly by night operations engaging in illegal sales tactics. They aren't going out of their way to avoid members of congress.

Even if they wanted to, it's not like there is a list of personal phone numbers of important people to avoid calling.

>From robocalls to health insurance to the credit reporting agencies to comcast, these folks encounter none of the problems regular folks hit.

Sure some companies go out of their way to cater to them, and most of them (ab)use their position to make some problems go away. But most of the time people don't even know who they are. There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, and sizeable fraction changes every 2 years.

The majority of them aren't individually important enough to warrant that kind of extreme deference from every company.
> an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data

what sort of indication would they be looking for? presumably it wouldn't be hard for an employee to have made a copy for themselves without leaving a trace of evidence.
I would imagine it's stepper motors and rotary encoders turning the pulleys, with perhaps some solenoids or servos to push the tops of the cans.
> I think we need to draw a few clear lines. Some websites are inherently tied to one medium and don't make sense beyond it, others should be viewed as a piece of art, just like a drawing or a piece of music.

Agree there, and it's very hard to draw these lines. Similarly to whether or not it's OK for software you publish to be a buggy mess, somewhere between your one-weekend lisp implementation you pushed to github and home security camera firmware lines need to be drawn.
> "Legitimate addresses" can still send spam

It seems clear from the description above that poster is someone recipient wants mail from.

As for the ignorant users using spam button I've seen that once since I started working.
I'll take economic umbrage at "don't sit with the cattle". When I traveled from Chicago to SF on the California Zephyr (40-ish hours), a seat was $100 and a sleeper car was over $1,000; for reference, a flight between the two is about $200. Being able to afford such a sleeper car is the sort of luxurious expense that most vacationers will likely prefer to spend on going to a more exotic destination by plane.

(I do recommend the California Zephyr, and second the parent's suggestion of spending the whole of it in the observation car, but skip the part of the route between Chicago and Denver; Denver and onward is where the real action's at.)
On the contrary, I'd think that a remaster would give them a reason to charge all those streaming services more for the shows. No reason to hold exclusivity over a twenty year old show.
Do you know how hard it is to get tenure? You have to work extremely hard for a decade and beat the best. If you don't manage to get tenure then you're left with nothing. In fields like computer science this isn't so bad, because there are good opportunities in industry. But in the arts, pursuing a career in academia means taking a big risk.

I'm not saying that building a business is easy. But neither is building a career in academia. It takes many of the same skills.
Yeah I made sure the video was in 1080p mode and it was mostly subtle at best. Not only that there were several places where it wasn't subtle, but the up-rezzed faces had a super fake photo-retouched/cgi look to them. They had crossed the uncanny-valley and didn't look like real humans.
The solution is trivial: a watchdog. Have a watchdog log into a dummy account with a "well-known" password and then inspect logs for that well-known password.
The bold move of starting a company, obviously, rather than working for someone else, like most regular people usually do.
> I don’t believe you have any idea what you are speaking about.

You are gatekeeping based on irrelevant details when my point is that prior entrants had higher or untenable costs and Google might not, which I think you agreed on.

Google's advantage is that it doesn't need a dedicated hardware play, has saturation in relevant markets in their existing hardware plays, and has existing capacity in their large compute infrastructure. Whether consumers care is another story, but they can throw more money at things to make them care without having other untenable overhead costs as a distraction.
>Changing DNS will break notjing. Neither will blocking referrals, blocking trackers, blocking ads. In the rare case it does,

>break notjing

>In the rare case it does,

Aside from the obvious contradiction in those two sentences, there's also the issue that adblockers work so well that most people won't think of it when stuff's broken. This problem's only exacerbated by the other addons such as httpseverywhere (known to break sites and show scary warnings).
Wolfers Blames MMT for Orthodox Economists’ Ignorance of MMT
Overlapping Experiment Infrastructure (2010) [pdf]
>Maybe, but Python is still quite easy to pick, the only one that can do Deep Learning and Machine Learning well, etc.

This is such a terrible state of affairs. There are so many times I've wanted to generate synthetic training data efficiently and iterate in a tight training loop where I've gone back and forth endlessly between trying to get Python to be fast and trying to get the training part to work in another language.
Does Cloudflare Registrar support U2F authentication yet? I don't trust any service with mission-critical stuff that doesn't have U2F. Domains are way too valuable to keep them in registrars without U2F.
That assumes the land was available for wildlife before the site was constructed. In the UK our solar sites are on farmland, and provide a far superior habitat to intense agriculture. Wildflowers can grow under the solar panels which is fantastic for bees and butterflys. Also, it is common to do surveys to model the risk to birds and avoid important populations and migrating species.

Also, deaths during construction tend to be workers who have signed up to the risk. That isn't OK, but it is a lot less bad than risk to random members of the public who have not consented. And it is a vast improvement on the deaths caused by fossil fuels.
Security Overview of AWS Lambda: An In-Depth Look at Lambda Security [pdf]
On the one hand I'd love to see them remastered and touched up, but on the other hand, I originally watched them on a ~27 inch, old mid 90's TV....so the visuals aren't really the part which hits my nostalgia nerve.
I agree. Train were so much more fun as I can recall from my childhood memories. Now I rarely see someone traveling via train, and those who do are trying to save some money(train fares are cheaper in other countries).

I guess time that's available to people has shortened so much that they can't afford to engage in fun once in a while. Even the damn vacation feels so hectic and stressful. I guess that's because most people's idea of vacation is going to new country/city that they have never visited(totally unfamiliar with things there) and try to cover all of it in 1-2 weeks(all they get in a year).
Looks like it crawls up and down wires
Approval of the Preferred Majority required to ... including a Company Sale.

However, that is a Series A term sheet. When you turned down YC, wasn't that at the seed stage? You would have still retained control until you converted later.

But are you saying that even only accepting a SAFE puts you on an inevitable path?
Updates from the team themselves:

https://twitter.com/HoCpetitions/status/1108666678718681088
AMD's Vega is better documented IMO: https://developer.amd.com/wp-content/resources/Vega_Shader_I...

NVidia doesn't go into the same assembly-level detail as AMD, but NVidia's high-level documentation is also superior: https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/parallel-thread-execution/index...

NVidia offers latency / throughput tables on the PTX instructions. So NVidia has very well-documented PTX, but not necessarily the assembly-language level details.

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Intel's documentation is still a bit high-level. But I expect Intel to release additional documentation on their architecture. Gen11 is still unreleased, so they have time.

Basically, Intel has only released the equivalent of NVidia's architecture overview... such as: https://www.nvidia.com/content/dam/en-zz/Solutions/design-vi...
Sounds intriguing. What's your experience with AI Gigapixel so far?
Well, this would result in them losing a lot of income, being fined heavily, losing all their European staff, capital writeoffs from their European datacentres, and would absolutely guarantee replacement European services appearing.
Planes most likely benefit from the economies of scale, simply for the huge number of riders they service in comparison with trains for longer stretches.

The complicated area of railroad tracks probably doesn't help either. Someone is paying for them and the maintenance is frequent judging by the business my friends working on the railroads get.
From my perspective--as somebody who slings this stuff a lot--what you describe as a "pitfall" is what I describe as "how to make things work."

I don't find that Chef cookbooks are all that onerous to debug at all. Cleanly-written Ruby (and you can write Chef cookbooks in very clean Ruby, it really isn't that big of an ask) isn't hard to trace and in the extreme case--and this has happened twice in my career--I just install Pry and drop a breakpoint into the Chef cookbook, then proceed to poke around, isolate the problem, and move on with my day.

This, contrasted with Ansible's flinging around of Jinja templates and trying to turn YAML into a bad programming language, is a relief, and when I was a consultant I charged a premium for Ansible first because it frustrated me but second because it was generally harder for me to find out what was actually going on due to the verbosity, the commonplace copy-pasting, the relatively poor method of inventorying, and the "strap in, it's gonna get bad" anytime somebody decided to break out of the YAML mines and go write their own module.

There remains a very awkward sysadmin/developer divide in the devops world, and I think that criticisms like the one you describe generally tend to hail from the former. As a developer whose output on occasion happens to be configured systems (when it isn't web pages, etc.), I'd rather a predictable programming environment over a "configuration language" every day (and it's one of the reasons I really wish that Noah's attempt to turn cookbooks into gems paid off; having them be a completely separate artifact from a Ruby gem is just silly).
It's hard to fully appreciate this story without you naming names. Any reason why not to ?
You might be interested in these shortcuts http://jontelang.com/blog/2016/01/12/xcode-shortcuts-for-sma...

It basically maps cmd+123 to left/bottom/right panels. Even after upgrading to a bigger screen I keep using them.
It is not the government which will intervene but the thousand of companies relying on the cloud vendors. Europe is in average 10% of the world market (just by people).
That's a good point in favor of less hacking things together and more engineering - Facebooks seems to have not embraced strict engineering processes which are the only way to tackle these things. Facebook has to change it's own principles to succeed long term.
A 90 day exercise window after leaving a company is the most common situation I've seen
It's super cool that Amtrak does a residency for writers[0].

Now if only open-source writers could fall under that umbrella!

[0] https://www.arts.gov/audio/writing-rails-amtrak-residency-wr...
Oh no, poor successful people. Let's never think critically about our economic system, where most people have stagnant wages and a few people are wealthy beyond measure.

The blind worship of "entrepreneurship" and capitalism in general on HN and other sites is far more worrying to me than those wiley (((academics))) writing an article.
The thing is, none of the neighbors actually care about the staircase with no handrail. They just want what they consider to be an eyesore to go away, and they're using code/law as a tool to get that.

It may well be that the owner has some real safety issues, etc, and I think it's great to fix those. But it's a dick move to use those as leverage to get rid of an "ugly" house.
Interesting. I just hope the resulting software is less buggy than the one for army wages...
There are several reasons why flying can be so cheap in Europe:

1. The discount airlines have become masters at turnaround times. When the planes are sitting at the gate, they're not making money. They slashed these as much as they could.

2. They only fly one model of airplane (typically either the 373 or a320) to simplify maintenance.

3. Most major airports in Europe are privatised. One of the effects of this is that they've become giant malls that want to get people through them, so landing fees have steadily gone down (there are edge cases where the airports pay the airlines to go to them, but those are rather rare exceptions).

4. Some airlines (more specifically Ryanair) fly to cheaper/more outlier airports. If you take a Ryanair flight to Paris, you're landing in Beauvais Airport, which is almost halfway to the english channel. You'll then have to take a bus. When in europe, I usually prefer Easyjet for the reason that though they're more expensive, you're landing at an airport with decent transit to the city you're visiting.

5. There's no frills at all. If you're just flying with no luggage, you won't believe how cheap it can be (I flew from madrid to london for 25 euros). But the fills aren't cheap. Checked baggage is more than the cost of the flight, food is a rip off, etc.

Also, trains in europe are still often state-owned (not the case everywhere, I know), so they're forced to run uneconomical lines for political purposes, etc.
The article indicates it was searchable and used for something by employees, so most of these comments to the effect of ‘they must have been doing this accidentally because Facebook is just so big therefore they are excused’ are invalid. Some group of people did this on purpose and knew it was happening.
> ways to tax US internet giants as much as they can

Er, no. Just to tax them at all. US companies have been completely dodging paying taxes in Europe (effective tax rates of <1% on billions of profits).
Along with some kind of Z-axis calibration to validate height (GPS or barometer based) since drift due to slippage or weight changes is quite possible
>If anything, Zoox used the information allegedly taken from Tesla as an example of what not to do logistically, and trade secrets law doesn't let you sue for that.

Any other lawyer want to sound off on if this is right? Because it doesn't seem right. If I'm using stolen trade secrets to decide what not to do, I'm still making very good use of that information.

Edit: added "other" to first sentence since original commenter is a lawyer
By Bitcoin we should mean only the Bitcoin Cash fork of the original code base.

The addition of SegWit and RBF pivoted Core away from Bitcoin's titular claim to fame, Peer-to-Peer Digital Cash.
Is there any evidence for this? Showing bad 480p DVD rips alongside 1080p upresed video isn't really a fair comparison -- comparing it to a real TV upscaler's output would be fairer. And honestly, even the unfair comparsion doesn't show a whole lot of benefits to me.
Exactly. It's one thing not to have enough controls in place to catch something like this on the forum for your warcraft guild. It's another thing entirely when you operate at the scale of Facebook.
Raster lines, nothing special.
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>Ad-blockers have a bigger market share than most browsers!

Browsers adhere to standards. Meanwhile, there are hundreds/thousands of filter subscription combinations that people use, along with several adblocking extensions.
My only remark is that changing dns to an external server is detrimental to privacy, speed, and arguably security. I'll focus on privacy because that's the article's focus.

The power of tracking comes from a central organisation being able to follow almost everyone. Having a birthday calendar on your toilet that your friends can also look at is not creepy, but a worldwide central birthday database might be creepy depending on how private you consider the information. Similarly, changing all our DNSes to 1.1.1.1 is giving Cloudflare, the NSA, and anyone who hacked Cloudflare or any intermediate router (such as your ISP's internal routers and backbone Internet routers), the ability to track our dns requests. If you leave it set to the default, probably your ISP, then someone would have to hack all ISPs on the planet to track all of it.

Furthermore, if you're not paying for it... I'm paying my ISP, but not Cloudflare. Unlike XS4ALL, the ISP I have a contract with, I have no legal guarantees regarding what happens to the data from Cloudflare.
The main reason that plants are actually built is to generate energy and the resulting revenue. Other issues like CO2, safety, emissions are the responsibility of regulators. If an investor can't get a return on a nuclear power station then arn't going to build it.
this seems a little extreme
Have not we done that in the past :)
Yeah I agree this is pretty much inexcusable. I'm not sure why the pass.
There is more to it than that.

There are many giveaways than an algorithm can pick up. All intricate details of cheating detection algorithms aren't revealed for obvious reasons. But some of this stuff is fairly well known. For example it's about the time spent on moves. Cheaters will tend to make their moves at a fairly constant pace (because how long it takes them to check the position with the chess engine is constant). They come up with brilliant moves quickly, but take a bit longer for obvious or forced moves that a human would do without thinking. Cheaters generally don't premove, nor do they ever make moves real fast - which humans often do in time trouble. It's for the exact same reason.

There's also a thing such as blur rate - how often someone switches away from the game window. And certain other heuristics too (hold alert).

Obviously a cheater can avoid triggering some of the alarms, some of them are quite easy to beat (eg. for the blur, just have your chess engine run on a separate device), but in the long run it's difficult for them not to raise various other red flags at the same time. A smart person might figure out how to do it - online cheaters aren't that smart though, and unsurprisingly so, given that online cheating is essentially an exercise in futility.

This doesn't mean smart people don't cheat at chess at all. They do; at actual chess tournaments, where there's something at stake, be it prize money or real titles.
We don't have to--you can generate the markup language with a scripting language and end up with something that is quite a lot cleaner. I've been toying around with Starlark as a yaml generator for Docker Compose, CloudFormation, and Kubernetes. This ends up working out a lot more nicely in practice than Helm's templating solution or CloudFormation's nested stacks.
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> C library everywhere ( network, serialization ... )

I view this as a strong benefit in python. Write your app, and if you need to really squeeze performance in some critical area, writing a C/C++ extension is simple enough.
Over 20k Facebook employees had access to 600M user passwords
Opting in to that experience is one thing. I would hate it if someone I couldn't get away from started a sing-along.
This sparked a lot of memories. I really enjoyed it.
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I think it's important, in this particular case, to note that Duke's "innovation" was clever and malicious rent-seeking. While there was some technical innovation in terms of the forming of the corporation in order to secure exclusive rights to the best cigarette rolling machine, this innovation was not Duke's but in fact his predecessor.

I, too, am strongly against the throwing out of babies. But in this case is seems clear that the celebrated entrepreneur is being misrepresented.

In my opinion, innovation is an important part of the economy. It is also my feeling that this innovation is all to often mistakenly paired with a fabled "entrepreneur", one who is taking a lot of credit for others people work. In this sense, this story about Duke seems like just another example of this common (and erroneous) trope.
U.S. specific, but this is what the patent system was originally designed to solve, and is a power given to the U.S. government.

“To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.“
I would add two things to this argument for building a normal business:

* You can make something lasting

* If you dislike authority, and like independence, this is the way to go
IoT elevates my user interaction design for connected toys
That's absolutely true. However, there is one thing that isn't mentioned nearly enough - not all European countries (markets?) get the same levels of service.

For example, there is still no iTunes store in my country or Amazon Prime delivery. I can't even sell apps on the Google Play store because my country is not supported. And those are just the examples I can think of off the top of my head.
I know they're rescanning a few scenes in HD for the DS9 documentary. It'd be pretty interesting to compare the ML-upscaled version with it.

One of the other interesting things is that while CBS may not have all of the source files for most of the VFX shots: The original artists do have many of them, and would likely offer them up in a heartbeat. The original 3D models and scenes for DS9 and Voyager are incredibly detailed, and would be more than adequate in HD. In many cases, it'd just be a matter of loading up the files, changing the output resolution, and mashing the "render" button.
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> I think Europe is dead set on legislating itself into digital irrelevancy.

> What should _really_ concern the powers that be is that Europe has become a place to sell things, not make them.

Has China legislated itself into digital irrelevancy? Is China just a place to sell things but not make them? It's internet policies are objectively bad in many ways, but they've proven that you don't need to cater to FAANG to have a thriving tech ecosystem.
>It should also figure out a way to foster local competition for all that large tech companies.

This would require a radical, top-to-bottom reorganization of the entire European political structure. Not gonna happen.
In the US, you only need certifications and testing for a "professional engineer". Most electrical, chemical, mechanical, or civil engineers are not certified PEs. Yet I don't think anyone is claiming they aren't engineers.
Someone had to write the code and then use the logs. Individuals, like any company. Then the article says it was actually searchable and used for something by employees. Why does the entire company’s scale make this excusable?