skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn’t say moral choice but watching these types of issues crop up again and again even when the original vulnerable code has been written and reviewed by people with impeccable credentials and with the best intentions should give pause to those who wish to pursue new development with fundamentally vulnerable technologies, especially when there are alternatives that exist where these problems are much less likely to happen.
In my best Wipro-excuse voice: "... see, thing is:..."
... they have a process for everything. It's just a very convoluted, silo'd, circuitous process that takes several days to get anything done, with several steps including: throw a support ticket over the wall, and let a subprocess pick it up. On and on we go, until we have a lax process that is impossible to fix, on to which, all we can do is pump more, cheap, low skilled talent. But hey, it's creating a middle class somewhere.
- user accessible backups. WhatsApp backs up to your Google Drive account but you can't access it directly. Only WhatsApp may do that (f_ck you Google for contributing to WhatsApp's lock-in). Local backups are encrypted so you can't read them. Exports are incomplete (for example, on one chat it would give me the last month or so when I could scroll back more than a year). WhatsApp discards old messages at its discretion without letting you configure otherwise. I lost a ton of very important texts from the last months of my now-deceased mother. I f_cking had to scrape what was left from WhatsApp Web.

- open protocol and open source clients and servers, with network working independent of any particular provider to be able to ditch any misbehaving one.

- no expiration on software versions. Why are we being forced to update versions to view old messages?

Damn is software becoming user hostile.
It's a cynical view but certainly not 1-dimensional. Money for tips isn't an issue here.
This happens occasionally for new versions of 7-zip and more often for niche open source tools which offer installers or executables for windows. You should have a bad taste for antivirus. It's never really worked.
True, but in this case the buggy code had to explicitly write "base::Unretained" because the callback system (base::BindOnce) performs additional checks.
It was disrespectful because donald, the self-proclaimed expert on all the things, doesn't understand what he is suggesting, and doesn't understand that what he is suggesting is not helping anyone/anything except his ego.
The definition implied by Khan & Lu is incoherent. It refers back to Larry Harris (Trading & Exchanges most definitely does not define frontrunning this way!) to suggest that, in attempting to execute trades for large blocks, traders might expose their orders and "create an opportunity for frontrunning". But that's basically the fundamental challenge of shopping a large block; it implies that essentially all of institutional trading is "about" frontrunning. That can't be right.

But if 51% of Wikipedians believe otherwise, who am I to argue?

I read the whole paper before I commented, but really wasn't remarking on the paper so much as this subthread. If I was going to pick nits, it'd be with the title of the paper and the allusion to _Flash Boys_, which is just a terrible book.

Late edit:

If you want to bring this back to computer science, I think it's helpful to think about this stuff in terms of the CAP theorem; according to our science, the opportunity to arbitrage latency in a continuous market basically has to exist.
It's a shame that a private citizen has do this. Reflects poorly on our country that the economically disadvantaged really do not have a choice or a voice.

And these are not people who choose to be poor or incapable. They really don't have any other option.
Reminds me of the term "sneakernet." I wonder if "front running" was a thing back in the days of manually moving changes onto a source control server located in-office. I can imagine a mad dash to get code in first on a Friday afternoon.
I mean that Notre Dame, while certainly still a cathedral, is not very active. I've been to daily Mass in Notre Dame, and it was completely underpopulated, when compared to other, poorer cathedrals I've been to, including in my own state.

I've been to many Catholic locales, and there are many poor Catholic artisans who would be willing to create beautiful Catholic art if they had resources. I'd rather they get the resources, than some secular artisan simply trying to copy Catholic art.

I would rather see resources go to actual Catholics to be used in an actual Catholic place of worship that is frequented and populated than to non-Catholic artisans attempting to mimick Catholic beauty to restore a building that is not actually used.

The fact is that the well-loved parish stands a chance of becoming a Notre Dame of the future, whereas, Notre Dame itself is likely to fade away and become a museum, unless the people of France actually decide to become Catholic again.

The truth is that, it was the underlying belief in the Catholic world view that made Notre Dame the legend it is today (the constant creation of beauty, the grandeur, the preservation through the ages). No amount of money to secular authorities can possibly recreate that exact mythos, whereas it could if sent to another diocese that still practiced.

EDIT: perhaps I'm wrong and Notre dame is more active than I thought and I just visited at a bad time, but from what I've read, there's not many actual Catholics in France, at least when compared to California.
This is such a frustrating article because the kernel of the idea is _really_ interesting. It reads like the writer jumbled up a bunch of recent events into a column and called it a day.

There are real-life examples of this phenomenon. The best I can think of is the 'Children Overboard' scandal in Aus [0] that fabricated an 'illegal immigration crisis' that only they could solve. Thus changing the political landscape around refugees for decades

[0] Prepare to be depressed : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair
>all about having high capacity pipes that can see an order come in

I don't understand how they can see the order come in. Is this something that only happens in decentralized exchanges?
I did a lot of research and apparently its impossible because if different database formats the messages are saved on two platforms. At least that's what I understood on some random forum.
Yes, just my own opinions.
"We're fielding all their strokes, running a lot of them out,
and pretty consistently knocking them for six. I'd say they're nearly out of the game."
I always thought that the phrase refers to doing a lot of small upside, but high probability of profit trades like selling far out of the money options for pennies. One bad trade is enough to wipe you out including hundreds of successful trades.
There is always a continuum of risk. By your argument, anyone who traveled to go view a historic monument is "just stupid", since there is a non-zero risk that they will die in a car accident along the way.

If entering a burning building (which isn't actually _that_ risky) to salvage one-of-a-kind historic artifacts isn't something you would chose to do, that's fine. Don't label the actions of those that make a different choice "stupid".
> Labeling students with disabilities and claiming they don't have enough services to support them is very common. Unequal punishment leading to expulsion is another.

This happens at public schools, too. My family recently had a huge tussle with the public school our kids attend because one of our children there was being punished for behavior stemming from his condition (autism). They kept pushing back on our requests for resources because of how strapped they are for cash and staff and all that. The length we had to go to get a public school in a well-funded Bay Area district to just obey the law was astounding. I have the deepest sympathy for parents in districts without the means ours has.
Or may law be changed to make executives get electric chair or lethal injection and then shutdown the company? Or you still think it is just slap on wrist?
I guess it depends on what scale you are talking about. I used GCP at a previous employer, a small saas startup, that was dealing with thousands of api requests per second, and lots of big(ish) data processes on the back-end. We made use of GKE, Bigquery, Pubsub, Stackdriver, GCS, Compute, Dataproc, Cloud functions, Data studio and Cloud SQL mostly.

I had a really positive experience with GCP - I think for every one of those services, the workflow and developer experience was far more pleasant and easy going than my experiences have been on AWS. GCP just clicks with me more, for some reason. To me, it feels like they put more thought into their suite of offerings and how they all work together.

Lots of the services on AWS have a great deal of overlap. That alone can waste a surprising amount of time, just figuring out which you ought to use for your use case - which is not always easy to discover. I'm constantly underwhelmed and disappointed by most AWS services, and keep finding that I'm better off just using AWS as a glorified ec2 VM hosting service.
Caching the db connection may not work depending on your DB driver. A possible scenario is:

* Cold start, connection is established.

* Code runs and returns.

* Lambda stops the process entirely but retains the container.

* DB detects the socket is closed and kills the connection.

* Warm start.

* Code runs and fails because the connection is invalid.
Help me understand what you're trying to say with that middle paragraph, about how "shocking" it is that people on Wall St. are reluctant to have behavior called out? To what behavior are you referring?

I'll add: on Twitter you noted that virtually every HFT trader, lawyer, and quant pushed back (either to your definition or to your allusion to Lewis's unfortunate book). You seem to think that's added credibility for your argument. Isn't a near-universal rejection of that argument from subject matter experts sort of damning for the position you're trying to take?
We don't tear down every building when we update the building code. We just improve how we build the new ones.
Man altered bank contract and the bank signed it
I find it so interesting that whenever there is a HN post about VS Code nobody mentions Atom but it's guaranteed that the top post for any Atom HN post references how Microsoft own s both.

It really shows how far VS Code has come in terms of developer mindshare.
People paying taxes, in theory at least, get a benefit (to them or society).

Isn't it more like paying off mobsters, or just having someone steal a fraction of a penny from everyone?
A correction to what I said - they are not common carrier for mobile data. They are common carriers for mobile voice communications.

There is a whole series of FTC v AT&T lawsuits which outline this argument and the extent to which they are subject to FTC regulation, if you're interested.
Yes they are but it also doesn't have anything to do with this attack vector where the ISP/backbone is the point of compromise.
That's a pretty common method of attaching large metal objects with cargo ships too. Fast and a very strong connection.
Pick as broad a range of news outlets as you can. That includes Western outlets (BBC, Guardian,ABC, NewsCorp), Russian outlets (RT), Middle Eastern outlets(Al Jazeera, Press TV), Asian outlets (Asia Times, Global Times).

With such a broad coverage, the biases tend to cancel out and you get a better perspective on the real news.

Nothing is perfect however, but eventually you get a 'feel' for which outlets are generally more truthful, more often, than others.
Maybe, they could pay market price than? Oh, the only target is to be cheap.. Okay then
I don't believe it's been edited (or I haven't noticed such an edit). However on a subsequent re-read, I can see the author's usage of the term "exploit" is more specific to his example below (the Google Maps attack demo).

While I'd still argue it's "working as intended" (for better or worse), he is at least calling this specific demonstration an exploit rather than the feature as a whole. So I'll step back from that position, at least part way.

Thank you for the clarification on that point.
> "After showing the astronauts in orbit a video of the foam strike and discussing with them what they thought they knew, mission managers concluded that it was a non-issue and posed no threat to the crew's safe return.

> ...

> "Although the circumstances of the tragedy have been well documented, and Hale insists there was "never any debate about what to tell the crew", his revelation brings new insight to the mindset of some Nasa employees at the time."

The crew knew.
Thanks for the heads up. I can see the 4 Star from my doorstep, and I somehow missed this completely.
eBikes can be quite fun compared to other modes of transit, its Louis's choice whether he wants to risk biking (or doing anything for that matter).

Our streets should be safer for pedestrians and bicyclists, cars get free reign and little in the way of fines or charges when a pedestrian or cyclist are hit and injured.
Yes, as both incidents are part of the political climate of the time, and are a part of history. They are not the proudest moments, but it is doubtful if, without the spectre of Communism or the USSR, the US would have tried to land on the moon.
SpaceX is not the only commercial space company, you know this right? There are others, and hopefully with this launch plane there will be even more.
This expanded definition --- of the possibility of "frontrunning" when in possession of confidential information --- is the context of the Khan & Lu paper the paper coauthor cites below to justify his use of the term in this Ethereum paper, and, of course, does not really apply here.

It's of course worth mentioning that in the US, "insider trading" is itself defined largely in terms of fiduciary duty.
There's nothing wrong with developing and exploiting proprietary sources of tradable information; in fact, as Matt Levine points out, that's kind of the point of a market (to aggregate information and discover prices). What's really problematic is when you're given access to private information in confidence and then use that information to trade against the owners of that information.

(I imagine this is not new to you; just for the thread).
Press freedom index methodology:

The report is partly based on a questionnaire[3] which asks questions about pluralism, media independence, environment and self-censorship, legislative framework, transparency, and infrastructure. The questionnaire takes account of the legal framework for the media (including penalties for press offences, the existence of a state monopoly for certain kinds of media and how the media are regulated) and the level of independence of the public media.

--Presumably the evaluation 'downvotes' the independence and self-censorship of US media?
> Neurotypicals have a hard time with this kind of contradiction ...

Wat.

The problem with Jupyter notebooks and version control is that Jupyter notebooks encapsulate temporality. You see this in the little [N] boxes on the left of each cell.

I suppose this is what you mean by "data"? Its use is a little atypical.

I have a slightly different workflow. I observed that the top of my Jupyter notebooks are generally more or less static when compared to the lower parts of it. This allows the top parts to slowly coalesce into a proper program over git commits.

I also try to have a linear notion of variables (i.e. a variable is defined exactly once and used exactly once - permitting construction of values in loops of course).

This style of development helps with version control as well. Restart the kernel and clear output, then run each cell exactly once before a git commit.
Mathematical theorems (especially no-go theorems, one of the most powerful tools in physics) are at least as much of a fact as an experimental measurement. I can concede that a pop-sci outlet should be clear about what is an experiment and what is a mathematical theorem, but was it really not clear in this case?

This is a sincere question, and I care to hear your opinion: do you believe that a reader of phys.org would need more than a glance at the article to know this is a discovery about the mathematics of general relativity, not an engineering breakthrough in the creation of a scifi-like hyperdrive?
How long is his commute home?
Nothing. There is no overhead charge for Fargate.
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It's not inconvenient, it's broken. The issue I described above is not the only misbehavior to which I'm frequently subjected. Another example: messages are delayed, often.

Recently I failed to reply to an urgent text about a medical diagnosis from my fiance due to Signal failing to push the message to my phone. This is unacceptable behavior from a critical application.

Do I get on a soapbox about how surveillance is terrible and miss being there for her by insisting on using Signal? No! I want her to be able to get in contact with me if there's an emergency, and that's the #1 priority.
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I'm going to guess around 99% of bloggers don't want to think at all about site creation and hosting. They want to buy/pick a theme, modify it a little, and focus on the reason they're there in the first place.
Some people value other things above rationality.

What a crazy world it would be if people acted morally even when not being watched by "nanny-state big government"; such government might be entirely unnecessary then.
The Bat Men Before Batman
This exists, in Aurora Serverless. It is a shame they haven't opened it up to the other RDS databases.
Follow the cite from the Wikipedia definition you just quoted and you'll find, in the linked paper, that it goes right back to Flash Boys.
It's interesting how fearful nuclear energy makes people. The worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy, Chernobyl, will over the full course of time cause 4,000 premature deaths as estimated by the IAEA. This figure includes first responders sent in by the USSR with inadequate protections.

"A United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) study estimates the final total of premature deaths associated with the disaster will be around 4,000 mostly from an estimated 3% increase in cancers, which are already common causes of death in the region." Interestingly, the most common cancer it caused was thyroid (due to the Iodine-131 released), which has a 98% survival rate. [1, 3]

Whereas, currently, burning of fossil fuels is killing 7.3 million (1825 Chernobyls -- 4x the total number of civil nuclear reactors on Earth) per year.

"According to the World Health Organization in 2012, urban outdoor air pollution, from the burning of fossil fuels and biomass is estimated to cause 3 million deaths worldwide per year and indoor air pollution from biomass and fossil fuel burning is estimated to cause approximately 4.3 million premature deaths."

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents

[3] https://www.cancer.net/cancer-types/thyroid-cancer/statistic...
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Global measles cases up 300 percent from last year
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It's a 11' thin and light laptop, it is easy to abuse of the portability and ending up using it in places such as on bed, sofa, moving it around the house, etc...

Not saying that OP shouldn't be more careful with such an expensive piece of hardware, but accidents happen, and some people are more careless than others (I'm one of them and a smartphone or tablet of mine doesn't even get out of the box withouth a matching protective cover).
Tangential comment: When I first learned how long ML has been around I was really surprised. Markov chains were invented more than a hundred years ago. The perceptron was invented in the late 50s - and it's clear now that just a simple perceptron can do a lot of fairly impressive things. Backprop was first worked on in the late 60s. RNNs have been around since the 80s.

It feels like ML is such a recent thing, but it's really just that we've only recently gotten to the levels of hardware and data needed to make these algorithms work smoothly. It makes me wonder what other interesting theories are still gated by hardware limitations. I think astronomy has had similar situations where things have been figured out long before they were actually observed.
What do you mean? No content other than what your users generate will be hosted on your instance.
If he actually said that, it’s fucking unconscionable. It’s not his decision to make (or shouldn’t be), it’s the crews’.

What kind of morality underlies such thinking?
Yeah I didn't really know where I ended up once I finished the response. I suppose I partly agree with you. If the developer was able to learn the React ecosystem, they'll be able to learn the more advanced parts of dealing with a pure HTML/CSS project if they need to. I think the form of a middle-out approach to learning is better than working from "fundamentals" you may not even need. There's so much to learn in the web ecosystem, a lot of it being optional. I think starting with React and working backwards and forwards is a just-fine strategy.
Right, but if your Twitter account links to your HN account then you've proven ownership both ways. If you don't want the n^2 problem then just have a list of all your accounts on one site and link there. Say, for example, your Mastadon account.
Snoozing Emails
The Framing of Notre-Dame de Paris
Or just picking one of the accounts as the master and linking the others there.
>So that's it, then? Some thing, say, a million light years away from another thing is in practice entirely inaccessible to civilizations existing on that other thing, requiring a minimum of a million years to reach?

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." -- H.P. Lovecraft, 'Call of Cthulhu'

We're just a random species of ape too smart for its own good, only here to ponder the universe at all because an asteroid happened to wipe out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. The universe doesn't owe us anything.

At least we have telescopes and science fiction, though. The dinosaurs didn't have either.
So a new browser?
Not sure whether to upvote for useful information or downvote due to the unnecessary insult tacked on the end. :/
Your right, in modern times tourism has at least given something back economically. But it's the "10% they invested in other means" I think about too.
banks are often also market makers
I also think a bit about improving education.

What are the best things from your thoughts/research someone or society as a whole could do to improve education?
Of course it was going to be a success. Most other approaches that approached intergenerational poverty via the three pronged approach of better child care, housing, and economic opportunity has work to great success.

The school doesn't try to solve all 3 at once, but the approach to child care makes the other much easier to manage for parents.
Including anyone who signs up to be a firefighter...
All of the things gained that you mention could have been achieved without the massive & economically draining cathedral structures though.
There are huge variations in what each state requires of “charter schools”. Where I am they’re nonprofit, take all kids, and seem to work well to let invested parents get their kids out of broken districts—with little interest from functional districts.

In other states, they’re private for-profit schools, like U Phoenix for kindergarteners.