skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not like the money's a gift... you have various metrics presumably that you have to hit once you raise money, especially once you're past the angel/seed stages.
The tech giants seem to pay no taxes at all in Europe, due to some loopholes they exploit with Ireland. Closing those loopholes seems reasonable, so they can pay their fair taxes as any other business has to do.
It's hard to know what to think of these things with the past strange comments about "saboteurs" and Elon's own strange legal choices related to the SEC.

Is this real or more of a sort of blame game strange conspiracy theory thing?
Recently been working on a rails app and been forced to use nano for editing one a remote server and it's now that I really see the niceness of YAML. I always like YAML with ruby but I think a lot of the great features are subtle and hard to appreciate. Inheritance! What a great idea for a configuration language. Greatly missed in JSON.
I always find it baffling that the problem is drunk _driving_. Where I'm from (Northern Europe), the young people drank way too much at home parties but certainly did not drive under influence.
Better be a legit suit otherwise there goes any legitimate engineering prospects.
That’s hardly a best practice and if followed consistently just means that the hash is your actual password, which means if someone steals the hash from a log file they can still impersonate you.

Unless you actually mean some sort of challenge response scheme which is rather uncommon to see, e.g. http “digest” authentication or SRP.
My statement was conditioned on getting into YC, which is really hard to do if your product sucks or has no traction.

Even with a weak product you'll be in a much better position because you'll able to meet with a lot of other founders/potential customers and get valuable feedback.
Well, hopefully none of Google's stakeholders live or own anything in Europe if they were planning to do that.
Fentanyl deaths skyrocketed more than 1,000% over six years in the US
Why should I use this instead of Falcon?
Imagine a game where you step into a portrait and are suddenly in the art style of the image. You suddenly walk into a countryside that feels american-gothic style, and then time-jump to 1940s New York in the style of Nighthawks.

(different) Stylization as a medium in games isn't that explored, and the opportunity for indie devs to play with that is, IMO, really cool.
This will be abused by governments and people who dont want something published. For example, here in Spain one of the past presidents wanted to make an anti-meme law as everyone was making fun of him[1]. Luckily we laughed, and he was replaced, but the kind of thing WILL happen now that they have a tool.

[1] https://www.rt.com/news/366642-spain-meme-ban-backlash/

Edit: spelling
From your own article:

"However, some economists think that the worker bears almost the entire burden of the tax because the employer passes the tax on in the form of lower wages. The tax incidence is thus said to fall on the employee."

This is much closer to reality than the contrary
When you're FB, Google, ADP, a bank, whatever, you have failed if this sort of thing is "an easy mistake to make." Responsibility should never fall on a single dev or team to begin with. This was going on for _years_.

It's either ametuer hour over there or the organization simply doesn't care enough to invest heavily in the protection of their users.
> I'm talking about biological sex (which implies gender,

No, it doesn't. Gender (which is distinct from both sex and gender identity, though there is an increasingly popular modern view that gender should be ascribed based on gender identity) is a socially ascribed trait, and different societies have recognized different numbers of genders and used different methods of ascribing them.

> The vast majority of cases you see today with people claiming to be the sex they're not are psychological, not physical.

The idea that there is such a thing as “psychological, not physical” is mystical woo that has no place in fact-based discussion, and divergences between gender identity and gender ascribed based on sex determined by chromosome counting has an observed correlation with other physical divergences from typical traits for the assigned sex.
And the lower bounds of confidence too.

A lot of people I've encountered are quite scared of computers, and experience a significant amount of anxiety when asked to use a computer in front of someone. What to us is as natural as reaching for something, is to them a task to be feared, anticipated with dread, embarrassment and shame.

All IT related people should spend time with such folks, as you did. It would definitely help the industry if we were all a lot more open and sympathetic to people who are mystified, scared, or angered by computers and software.
>So why not ban them?

Because some students are using them to take notes, and banning electronics harms the learning of those students.
That’s a pretty interesting article—I can think of a site where you can share that, people might like it.
True, but thankfully service meshes like Istio are increasingly used which encrypt the traffic between each service.
> Most software engineers aren’t.

"Software Engineer" is just a job title.

> Engineering requires licensing and exams through a governing body.

"Software Engineering" doesn't, it's just a job title.

> Can’t have the prestige of the title without the responsibility.

There is no real-world prestige associated with having "Software Engineer" as a job title (as opposed to "Software Developer").

> Software developers want to have their cake and eat it too (power and respect with no oversight and governance).

"Power and respect" is not actually something that is commonly associated with a guy sitting at a desk for a salary.

> Pile on the regulation (GDPR for starts, more PII protection to follow up, extremely painful fine for failures).

You just learned that Facebook stored passwords in plaintext for years and nothing bad happened. In fact, it's hard to conceive that anything particularly disastrous could have happened. Yet, you call for more regulation that will drive up costs for everything. Whole industries could become unprofitable and those high-paid "Software Engineers" would become redundant.

I have the opposite opinion: The fact that computer security is generally poor teaches people how to properly use computers. They need to assume that there are no secrets, because that is the plain reality. No amount of regulation will make computers secure. No certification or best-practice encryption scheme will prevent users from writing their password on post-it notes, or from opening "sexy.jpg.exe", or from answering that call from the "Microsoft Service Center".
This is a wire robot but operating in a plane (or curved plane on the side of the water tower).

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/A-spatial-wire-robot-a-C...

I would use a single pivot at the top and two wheels in contact with the plane, the path of the robot would then be an arc around that pivot point. The rest of the mechanism is analogous to an ink-jet printer.

The other option would be to construct a large https://reprap.org/wiki/CoreXY like mechanism, forming a large etch-a-sketch. I have also seen devices that used venturi suction to drive on vertical surfaces. Or suction cups mounted on pivoting arms that could walk across the surface.
Presumably some sort of pragmatic balance between protecting children from child labor and war on the one hand, and having enough young people in the society to keep the economy going and military staffed.
To be fair, if there was no Linux, Google/Facebook would definitely have ran either Sun or HP boxes.

But Sun wouldn't have been bought by Oracle, which would have been nice.
Funny what happens when you have stupid amounts of institutional money pour into a sector for 15 years.
Political will exists when the projects are on a smaller scale, a scale that would span countries in continental Europe. See the high speed plans in California as an example, even with the recent reduction in scope.

Trains are extensive in Europe in part because each country was able to make (relatively) smaller investments in their own networks. As time went by over the decades, these grew and were able to connect with each other. That type of gradual growth wasn't possible in the use where small incremental changes weren't useful. Decades ago, and still today, many routes that would be useful would need to span hundred of miles where there are no intervening points of interest. Meaning a massive investment would be required for a single point to point route.

It's too simplistic to point toward a single variable for something of this sort. Many variables come together to reach this point. Political will is only part of it, but even then, you have to ask why isn't there political will? It often has as much to do with economic and geographic realities, not a general unwillingness to invest in infrastructure. See our build out of the US interstate system beginning in the 50's as a counterexample to our lack of build out for trains.
One Iowan to another: you didn't ride a train in Minneapolis. You rode a streetcar (tram in British).
And yes, only the southeast corner of Iowa is served at all by passenger rail. Would be nice if they extended the Hawkeye Express to CR, or better yet, Amtrak service from Davenport to IC to DSM. Alas, not enough $$$ to make it worth doing.
Well, then I guess it’s not “the fastest way to end robocalls forever“, is it?
>FB employees were retrieving user passwords? Around two thousand FB employees?

This sounds to me like they were writing it into some log analysis tool, and people happened to pull it up.

I have no knowledge of FB internals, but as an example let's say they have Splunk, which is a popular distributed log analysis tool (or some custom equivalent, because FB is huge). Splunk makes it very easy to pull up tons of logging for any app - that's what it's for. So write a poorly-constrained query and you can get millions of log lines from many different apps.

It's also feasible that everyone (or nearly so) in the company has access to Splunk.

So if somebody, somewhere accidentally writes passwords into a logfile, and it gets indexed into Splunk, a ton of people might theoretically see it, but just skim past it because it's not what they were looking for. Picture trying to hunt down an error, and wading through many screens full of logging from different apps - if there's a password in there you could easily not notice if you're not looking for it.

That's all speculation, but it's also entirely plausible. All it takes is accidentally logging out those passwords to somewhere that Splunk can see.

Also not trying to say this is in any way OK or acceptable, just that I can understand how a seemingly-small mistake could quickly result in thousands of people having access to passwords.
oh sorry, I wasn't clear. I was talking about hotels asking for your ID. It is also true that Japan checks ID for alcohol less often (it would be hard to check more often than the U.S.), but that might just mean they're more comfortable going by looks / gut, and that carrying identification (when walking) doesn't have the same norms or laws either.
Random Thought on Culture
Somewhat less breathless coverage for the moderate storm forecast here https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-watch-effect-23-m...
That's what SPF does.

It allows the owner of a domain to specify which mail servers are authorized to send mail from the domain.
I... What? This is so disconnected from any experience I've ever had searching anything I don't even know how to approach it. What on Earth do viral memes have to do with anything? What does "banned" even mean in this context? There's no such thing as a ban from Google search.

And if I were to hazard a guess I think you dramatically overestimate the role of neural networks in search in general.
Vanishing Violence
Just because it's not five paragraphs doesn't mean it doesn't have substance
Because storing plain-text passwords in DB is a sign of pure incompetence, while accidentally logging a password is a huge screw up, but unintentional one
- and frankly a type of mistake that is not unimaginable to happen to any of us. You need to log a full requests to urgently debug some issue, and in all this mess you forget to remove the logger afterwards... and boom, you've got yourself a log full of passwords, credit cards, and all other kinds of secrets. In real world it's just like that, humans make errors, that's why your logs should always be heavily protected and regularly audited.
Classic Remainer logic. If Leave had won 61/39 it'd have become "for such an important decision it should have been 75/25 to pass".

The reason decisions like elections use a simple majority is that otherwise it'd be a small minority of people oppressing the will of the majority, which is unstable, and otherwise known as dictatorship.
One reason is just that China is getting more creative when it comes to stealing foreign intellectual property.
Good point. The comments at the top of the file say what's handled and what's not, and HRA is not.

About basic, yes, that's a pain.
It’s not a gift, but if they fail, they have lost nothing but time - if they are paying themselves a salary.
It's just an ink jet printer, scaled really large. The print head moves via motors and pulleys in steps along two dimensions. Unless there are patents that specifically apply I think just about anybody could do it.

Their dedication to art vs. advertising seems doomed to failure once somebody replicates the device.
> Reflector based solar plants and wind plants are causing so much ecological damage that their initial designers and proponents are now advocating against their use. At the same time these plants are consuming huge amounts of land that must be cleared of native flora and fauna. The guys building the Ivanpah solar plant have been walking off their jobs because of the wildlife destruction they were causing[1].

I've lived in places with massive wind farms and the turbines don't take up very much space. Each one displaces a small amount of corn or soybeans, perhaps enough to feed a family of 4 when considering the small perimeter and dirt driving paths (stupid trade wars notwithstanding). And each turbine creates enough energy to power 200 homes or so, which to me is a great tradeoff.

I encourage everyone to watch the 3 minute, 11 second video linked that presumably supports the claim that wind energy is causing massive ecological damage. You'll find that wind energy isn't even discussed in the video, which is about a solar reflection plant that boils water to power a turbine. The project designers moved, according to the video, roughly 173 tortoises, to another location. And quoting the video, they found "no significant difference in the survival or mortality" of those tortoises.

The strongest statement against this clean energy plant was a claim that in the 1940s or 1950s, there were lots of tortoises in that area. Was the plant created in the 1950s? Did the plant cause the tortoises to die or go somewhere else? I don't know when the plant was created but I'm guessing it was recent, and if so, it would be dishonest to blame it for a change that sounds like it started in the 1950s.

I started supporting wind energy in 1992, and am a bigger supporter today.

I'm not against nuclear energy; I think we need more of it. That said, nuclear proponents will probably have better luck comparing nuclear to coal than by attacking clean renewable energy like wind and solar. Wind and solar are here, they're good, and they're part of the future.
I'm almost 100% sure he's referencing Articles 11 and 13.
So in short, European flights have doggedly cut all ancillary costs while rail has not done so quite as heavily/aggressively?
What’s the psychology of that, though? How does ‘this’ attract more clicks than ‘a’?
I remember when a friend and I were planning a trip from SF to Chicago and looked in to taking a train. Turns out, the train takes longer than driving and costs more the flying. Which really made me wonder... who is taking these trains?
Who is "we" in this scenario? Governing bodies do. Engineers I've worked with in health care do, as do our PM's, security officers, etc.

I designed a clinical testing platform a couple of years ago. Our initial requirements stated very clearly that PHI and PII were not to appear in logs. This is basic stuff for anyone who actually works at this scale / level of sensitivity.
This is worth your 8 minutes of time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbEfzuCLoAQ
I love trains, but the economics of rail travel in the USA can't be overcome. Until robot trains.
I would argue that an organization the scale of Facebook is the most likely place for this mistake to happen.

Log in and sign up pages -- especially on mobile web -- are being constantly iterated on by "growth" and "emerging markets" teams whose first priority is getting graphs to go up and to the right, not making sure the pages are secure. Their entire mission is to make things work with yesterday's technology (feature phones, old Android tablets, and so forth).

On the other hand, the dedicated security folks are focusing on ensuring there are multiple factors protecting high-profile targets, so they're working on SMS as a second factor, Login Codes, Security Keys, and primarily focused on Desktop Web, iOS, and Android. Or they're doing fuzzing, or building robots to chase down engineers for buffer overflows and the like.
I'm curious what philosophical school you are referring to... Who's principle are you referring to?
> why is there not a single European company in the top 15 internet companies?

I'm curious about that too. Anyone have a good answer as to why there isn't at least 1 by now?
While it's fun for the kids it's also important for them to get used to and respect trains. I've found that kids who grow up in places where trains aren't as popular don't develop a healthy fear of them. When my son saw train tracks for the first time at 2 yrs old his first reaction was to run towards them. So trips like these can teach kids how to properly act at a train station.
Download the trial and upscale a photo. Its pretty cool, it seems a little better than old fractile upscale/sharpening techniques.

I changed the exposure too, but this is what i was able to achieve using both their JPEG to RAW and their Gigapixel, along with some color correction. (theres still a tiny bit of blocking id like to clean up, but its not bad for a test run.)

http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/132311

If anyone has used Photoshops Match Color feature before, I do expect a day where I can open some textures and apply them to similar low rez textures in a photo, and use the samples to repaint the picture. Similar in end result to how texture packs work for games.

I also think by taking HDR footage and compressing it to 6-8bit color space, and training a model to reproduce the original, that AI will be pretty good at upconverting older footage into high color depths.
Exactly, and the difference of trying to do FRB with bitcoin or gold is that the new currency being created isn't the original currency.

In the case of USD, for example, a USD created by a bank is indistinguishable from one you deposited on the bank.

You could say that being able to double spend in certain conditions is a feature of modern currencies, and largely necessary for a stable economy, which is impossible under bitcoin.
And yet you use the phrase "useless parasites". Keep meditating!
It seems obvious once you think about it that at the federal level taxes don't pay for spending. The fed can print as much money as it wants. Taxes only serve to remove excess cash from the economy and keep inflation down.
No, that's (arguably - but I'd say yes) one of the rare good ideas. It's stuff like the VAT directive and the new Copyright directive that are the problems.

The Copyright directive in particular - we Europeans often found some comfort in the fact that corporate lobbies don't have nearly as much power in the EU as they do in the US. Sadly, if that directive passes, we won't even have that.
I'm assuming you mean how can you encode the output of the nvidia card to a memory buffer using an API?

The NVENC API allows you to do this on your commodity NVidia card. If you have the good stuff from NVidia, you can likely use the Capture SDK, which is a bit more scalable. If you use AMD there is AMF. And if you're cheap, you can just use QuickSync from Intel. All of the encoding API's will likely be unified with an industry wide API a la opengl at some point in the future, but it won't be implemented by everyone in a timely fashion, so you have to pick your poison right now.

One gotcha though, you can only do this if your game engine's license allows. Which means anyone who uses Unity is out of luck. Unreal and other engines? I don't know, I think you can talk to the companies and they'll probably? give you permission? (At least I'd hope they would give you permission until they go into the cloud gaming business.)

Your best shot though is just to take an open source engine, like Godot, and "NVENC it up" so to speak. It'll take maybe a couple of hours and it'll save you a lot of headache.
Similar to GPS
Well its citizens are not for sale.
How much of an effort was it to get MacOS in there? Did you follow a tutorial?
Loaning gold isn't performing FRB on gold.
It is not true in my experience. It may seem true to the typical CRUD app web dev, but do they really know what it's like to be a custodian of so much sensitive information?
It's pretty much a certainty with this project, in my opinion. Until everybody somehow has gigabit lines to their home and to their phones, I don't see this becoming popular. Like most Google projects, their actual success period is most likely 10+ years away, and the project will be axed long before then.
This is a company that had enough spare parts laying around that they could build an entirely new assembly line out of them[1]. They are also notorious for making customers wait months for replacement parts [2]. Tesla has a lot of successes and a lot of valuable IP that competitors might want to steal. Logistics might be the last thing on my list of things worth stealing. Although I guess that doesn't necessarily mean that no one would try.

[1] - https://www.chicagotribune.com/classified/automotive/ct-tesl...

[2] - https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/tesla-replacement-part...
The Xbox One is x86/64, so emulation shouldn't be necessary for the MCC. The remaining questions are how much it is a "port" from what was released on the Xbox One.

- Supposedly the early Xbox One games used a fork/version of DirectX that wasn't ever quite released in that form in Windows 10. Rumors are that has been corrected in the upcoming April Release.

- Also, the early Xbox One games used very different Microsoft Store asset servers/etc. The State of Decay Insider tests seem to indicate that April Release of Windows 10's Microsoft Store can now speak to Xbox asset servers/etc directly. (Indications that the State of Decay game installed from possibly the exact same assets in the April Release as it would on an Xbox One.)

- Finally, early Xbox One games sometimes made assumptions that they ran in lightweight VMs with almost no multitasking (except for Kinect-related restrictions when that was mandatory) and some very specific performance characteristics versus the wild west of available PC hardware. Rumors abound that Hyper-V improvements in Windows 10 solve some of the VM/multitasking issues. Leaving only, perhaps, the need to test on a variety of PC hardware configurations.

Obviously, a lot of speculation there. Presumably a lot more information will surface as the April Release happens and as E3 approaches.
Really enjoyed reading this! Seems like a fascinating journey, I'd love to make the trip some day.
Not only C: even CP!
London buses tracked user smartphones via WiFi beacons in 2018