skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every insider I've spoken to said any FTC fine on Facebook under $10 billion would be seen as a massive win, showing firm won't face serious consequences for privacy violations. Wall St. seems to agree in response to news of $3-$5b settlement [$FB up 4% after hours]

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1121148735818358784
Which words seem absurd and word soup to you? "Paradoxical"? "Sagacity"? "Manifestation"? "Resolution" Perhaps because Spanish is my first language, none of those seem purple prose or difficult to me. They are very straightforward, with the possible exception of "paradoxical": most people who don't read books don't know what it means. For example "sagaz" (someone who displays sagacity) is a very common word to us; Samwise Gamgee from Lord of the Rings is called Samsagaz in the Spanish translation.

Now if you're going to argue all Latin-based and Romance languages are less straightforward than English, that's a riskier (and dismissive!) proposition.
The opposite extreme -- belief in "tabula rasa", and how biology doesn't matter for the New Soviet Man -- was also used in the history, also with bad results.

(And similarly, this doesn't prove that everything is genetic. You can't get science by merely doing the opposite of other people's prejudices.)

The belief that nothing is genetic can also be used to oppress people. For example, you can dismiss highly intelligent people from poor families by insisting that high intelligence doesn't really exist and everything comes from universities, and then pointing out how poor people usually don't come from the best universities.

Any kind of incorrect belief can be strategically used to hurt someone.
That is certainly another plausible explanation - and a less culture-war infused one, too. Thanks!
Here is an answer for them, all mainstream languages in use today are at least 20 years old.

And their beloved C is reaching 50 years old.
It's mostly just that the feature is always useful (that's why it's present so often in interpreted langauges), but muuuuuch harder to do for non-interpreted languages. Notably, a subsequent goal for the Nim feature is indeed to add a full-blown REPL to Nim too, I believe. Also, worth to note that some non-interpreted languages do also have REPLs, e.g.: Haskell, OCaml, C++ (! — see CLING).
> and I really can never get used to the cmd key placement :D

The first thing I do when setting up a new Mac is swap the option and command keys.
Open the developer tools in your browser, go to the styles and unselect the element(s) causing you problems.
Reading this medium piece https://medium.com/revotic/streaming-with-ipfs-2145e6df5a4e

You'd use normal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

And merely use IPFS urls for each file piece. Whether its that simple in practice...
You have to have an amazon account to use Alexa, so you've already established a relationship with Amazon that would include your name, email address, IP address(location).
Isn't that just like 1 month's worth of revenue? That amounts to absolutely nothing in today's world, not even an incentive to reduce the bad behavior.

Jail time for lawbreaking executives needs to happen. The financial penalties do not dissuade bad behavior or act as a deterrent, so the same crimes will continue to be committed.

Are there any peer-reviewed studies looking at deterrence of financial/tech/privacy crimes in the modern era? I would expect that in every case the penalty is lower than the profit, making it a continued incentive to break the law.

The only thing these people value truly is their time on this Earth to be free and breathe fresh air. If they risk jail time when breaking these laws, I think we would see a reduction in intentional and repeated lawbreaking by large corporations.
If another CEO could do better, which company has come out with a consumer electronics product as successful as the Apple Watch since 2011?
It's a shame that I only learned when they added the ads and not when they removed them.

Merci
> more than mid FAANG compensation.

Do FAANG do remote? If so... what's that compensation like?
I want my clothes to be practical. Some people want this and want everyone else to know it, so they buy really ugly clothes just to prove that they don’t care about aesthetics.

You seem to think that it’s impossible for prose to be aesthetically pleasing and comprehensible at the same time. But in fact, the quoted text is both. If it had been written in a plainer style, I probably wouldn't have bothered reading all of it. So no trade off in this instance.
Which, like Gtk 3 to Gtk 2, is also backwards incompatible so using Gtk 3 also wont be future proof (and Gtk4 wont be either, for that matter, unless the Gtk developers stop breaking their library every major version and decide to provide a stable API people can target - but considering they cant even decide on a stable way to make themes, i have little hope for that).
Every time I read that sentence I can't help but picture some huckster standing on a soap box at an intersection in an impoverished neighborhood in the 30s. It's so clearly crafted to impress rather than inform that I can't help but feel a sales pitch is coming.
That's a real stretch. Not only are there a number of countries where English is sometimes/often spoken but isn't the dominant cultural heritage (India, S. Africa, Liberia just to name a few) but we're on a programming language website with a truly global audience. We should not assume a eurocentric view of history in any case.
The NYT shouldnt need to be involved in the discussion, they are simply making the free speech of an author available to more people. A bit more complicated megaphone.

Someone working for a super PAC how ever isnt spending his own money.
Throwing my own project's hat in the ring, Pachyderm[0] is opensource, written in Go and built on Docker and Kubernetes. It versions controls your data, makes modifications atomic and tracks data lineage. You implement your pipelines in containers, so any tool you can put in a container can be used (and horizontally scaled) on Pachyderm.

[0] https://github.com/pachyderm/pachyderm
Does Caddy (still) need to run as root?
I think seeing negatives vs. positives might make sense from an evolutionary psych perspective. Pessimistic and cynical people can be good at pointing out flaws in ideas/plans/practices while optimistic people can be good at rationalizing beneficial practices and plans. This applies in both prehistoric tribal society and now in the corporate sphere.

Not sure if there is a genetic basis to pessimism vs. optimism but I don't think any is more or less valid than the other
Agreed. This small of a fine comes off as a cost of doing business for a company as large as Facebook.
Thanks for replying, I found that link myself and it seems quite usable, however that raises another question, are there some plans to add support for translating URIs transparently (ipfs://mydomai.in) into the IPFS content addresses or I have to just keep writing something like "This link is IPFS-only: https://sub.mydomai.in"?
There's a way, but it relies on DNS, so it's not decentralized like the rest of IPFS and is susceptible to the usual DNS hijack attacks (or taken down by government entities, etc.) https://docs.ipfs.io/guides/concepts/dnslink/

It'll be in the format /ipns/mydoma.in
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Ask HN: Opensourcing Www?
All, I want to get rally our company to open source our www public facing website. My motivation is, most of our code used to create www is opensource and I'd like to make it available to the community as an example of how we use Vue and other libraries within it.

My question is, what are some common things to think about before releasing your public facing codebase as opensource?

One specific question is, how should things like Company Logo that is apart of the codebase be handled?
"Only a few bits of each nonce are known for around 100 signatures", This is the challenge that we can't.
> The basic fact is Apple pays a huge tranche of taxes to governments all over the world, more than any other single tax payer.

Source please? And more than any single tax payer where? Are you claiming Apple is the largest tax payer in every tax regime of the world?

> Picking at little threads round the edges of their tax practices doesn't change that fact.

OK Mr. Fanboy, nice work diminishing a tax avoidance as "picking at little threads". Sorry I insulted your idol.

Getting fined by the EC doesn't make it sound like what they did were legal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_illegal_State_aid_case_agai... . Of course, if the government says it's legal it might as well be legal, it doesn't mean it's morally correct, no wonder the populists hate the technocratic governments who are in bed with the corporations.

I guess in your books "they paid enough" is good enough to make them the good guys.
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Why are we using pilots anyway. Autonomous aircraft is a far easier puzzle to solve than cars as the airspace is controlled and drones are mostly doing it already.
This would be awesome if it applied to security breaches as well. Not sure how you would fine OPM, but there are a ton of consumer companies that have leaked data like a sieve.
Thanks—since the paper is paywalled and HN tends to prefer the best popular article on such a topic, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1119-1.

A pdf of the paper itself is linked from elsewhere in this thread.
I find it neither. I find the phrasing off-putting and the content low for the number of words.
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1 month of revenue is how many months of profit?
Small question: how can they know that it's a mispredicted branch that is being executed (so that they can set the poison appropriately)? If they have this knowledge, couldn't they simply drop the execution since it's a misprediction?
Boeing 737 Max MCAS comes to mind...
> Win32 API was released in 90s, not 80s.

Yeah, well, kinda... technically you are correct but Win32 is 99.998% backwards compatible (as an API, not ABI) with Win16 which was first released in the 80s.
Without new laws affecting the rest of us? Sounds good. More bad-company enforcement is better than more internet legislation on these issues at this time.
> but that's mostly meaningless and these works hold virtually no cultural value compared to works we can actually read and engage with.

You've basically defined away the problem. If its lost then we can't read and engage with it and therefore has no cultural value.

I mean sure, things we don't have by definition can't contribute to culture today. But that is a useless tautology when talking about lost works.
Having worked for the federal government as an employee and a contractor, my experience is that while there are certainly people leaning on their shovels all day collecting a paycheck for doing almost nothing, the vast, vast majority of people are ethical and honest and trying to do the right thing.
More information on how to get access to Remote Build Execution for Bazel on GCP: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/remote-execution.ht...

(Disclaimer: I'm a engineer on the Bazel team)
Ask HN: Why don't FAANG have a larger remote work force?
Am I misinformed that most FAANG engineers do not work remotely?

Is that a bad sign for remote work? If the top companies do not do it, why should the smaller companies?
As devs, we know in theory Stripe and PayPal are roughly equivalent in terms of protecting a card number. But the streamlined Stripe UI with the subtle branding doesn't drive home to the customer that Stripe is keeping your card number safe vs. random merchant storing all 16 digits in a hackable database somewhere.

The friction in the PayPal UI of making you log in to PayPal to make the payment is a pretty big trust signal IMO.
That's simplified history at best. Greek texts were much (much) better preserved in the Byzantine empire, and were lost to the West mostly because people forgot Greek and copies decayed.
Facebook will not acknowledge any wrongdoing as part of the settlement....Which is what I expect the script to read.

If the settlement happens, I imagine this would provide some weight behind any class action lawsuit.
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You cannot fine companies for being technically incompetent.
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I have been following this case for some time in various sources, and there is essentially no way to spin this as other than a determined and long-running attempt to pervert justice. Deliberately falsely imprisoning someone is the moral equivalent of kidnapping in my book.
No program needs to run as root. What are you referring to?
If you can't comprehend it, how have you managed to determine that the content is low for the number of words?
They are fairly high margin relative to most industries, so probably less than 2 months of profit would be my guess.
Ask HN: How do you fight back against censorship?
Saturated market and personally something that has never worked for me -- I'll try one out for a week, forget about it for a few months, and then try a different one before continuing the cycle. I suspect my experience is not unique and that if your implementation of a ubiquitous product is going to succeed it has to bring something innovative to the table.
Most white collar crime isn’t even prosecuted let alone punished.
Writing game logic, I run into this all the time. Many classic algorithms were written when data locality wasn't nearly as big an issue.

It's not just specific algorithms, but entire methods of problem solving. Graph traversal is so incredibly slow because of data locality.
To my knowledge it never had to run as root. On Linux you just give it permission to bind to low ports: https://stackoverflow.com/a/414258
Facebook Expected to Be Hit with Up to $5B FTC Fine Amid Privacy Concerns
This is pocket change for them. Reminds me of how they fine oil companies $50,000 and another $450,000 for violations. When they are making billions off of violating user privacy and will continue to keep using that user data for future business, this fine is nothing to them. It's like I manipulatively steal $10 from a million people and only lose a few bucks. They still profited.
This might not be a great way to build neural networks (as other commenters have said regarding performance). But, it could be a great way to learn about neural networks. I always find the command line a great way to understand a pipeline of information.
Before this thread becomes a Facebook bashing session, please keep in mind that Equifax leaked all your SSN data along with names and addresses and got away with no fines.
For python guys - pyspark is now also installable from pip as a package (it include some .jars so it is ~100Mb size python package). So my team for local unit tests installs pyspark as a package.
Whilst naked short selling can be an offence, in this case the insider trading is the of the short selling before the news came out. The fact its naked happens to be irrelevant to the insider trading case.
Well, according to them:

> Modern guest operating systems that host cloud workloads run on virtual hardware platforms that do not require any legacy hardware. Additonally modern CPUs used in data centers have advanced virtualization features that have eliminated the need for most CPU emulation.

> There currently is no open source hypervisor solutions with a clear and narrow focus on running cloud specific workloads on modern CPUs. All available solutions have evolved over time and try to be fairly generic. They attempt to support a wide range of virtual hardware architectures and run on hardware that has varying degree of hardware virtualization support. This results in a need to provide a large set of legacy platforms and device models requiring CPU, device and platform emulation. As a consequence they are built on top of large and complex code bases.

> NEMU on the other hand aims to leverage KVM, be narrow focused on exclusively running modern, cloud native workloads, on top of a limited set of hardware architectures and platforms. It assumes fairly recent CPUs and KVM allowing for the the elimination of most emulation logic.

> This will allow for smaller code base, lower complexity and a reduced attack surface compared to existing solutions. It also gives more space for providing cloud specific optimizations and building a more performant hypervisor for the cloud. Reducing the size and complexity of the code allows for easier review, fuzz testing, modularization and future innovation.
I'm not aware of it needing root unless somebody else can fill me in?

Ports under 1024, of course, need either root or setcap but that's not specific to caddy.

https://gist.github.com/kennwhite/bcb9e7a5726a74102cc8cae570...
Surely you can - that could amount to criminal negligence which is definitely a crime.
Those insiders may just be lowering expectations, preparing their audience to consider rather bad news as a “massive win”.

After all, the insiders most familiar with the matter are those deciding how much to set aside for its eventual resolution. There are rules for how to account for the inherent uncertainty, and massively underestimating the loss would just set them up for new trouble, i. e. a shareholder lawsuit.
Thank you, hope your build goes well!
That is not an excuse. Imagine not fining people for reckless driving.
Ok but "fume events" are reported all the time; I'm not sure what exactly you're disputing. Maybe it sounds conspiracy-theory like to you, that there is this not often discussed risk in flying due to supplying cabin air from the jet engine directly, but the FAA has recently shown that their corporate relations trump public safety, and there are clearly major financial interests to downplay the risk and keep out of the mainstream. Folks should use their own judgment.
> Credit cards aren't really a thing in Europe.

It is country dependant. The UK is majority credit card.
Isn't having livestocks out on pastures also something the same group of people advocates?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess there's some Panopticlick/Recaptcha style human detection / fraud prevention going on in the JS.
I, like you, am quite curious about it. I've given OpenBSD a few tries and it runs quite well in a VM, but I've never managed to get it running properly with wifi. I guess it's time to give it a new go, considering there's a bunch of wifi-improvements listed.
The Mueller Report as a Blueprint for Impeachment
And yet another problem with hydrogen is that unlike helium it is reactive, including with some metals. And those metals tend to become brittle fall apart after a while: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
IANAL, but not that high, actually, esp. if the feds want to get involved and can find a legit way. Any attorney general could be a serious problem but if the feds involved, I'd not want to be their legal rep.
Leaking this data wasn't an intrinsic part of their business model.
That article might lead a reader towards a wrong conclusion. A first-class medical is required for all air carrier operations. (That they bothered to report that both pilots had a "class 1" medical would be seen as odd to anyone in aviation.)

In rough terms, second-class medicals are good for commercial but not air-carrier operations, and third-class medicals (or now, BasicMed) for private aviation.
That misses the point: it's effectively a (cheap) speeding ticket for bad behavior over the life of the company. It would be a bargain at twice the price from their point of view.
Notice his 'loss' isn't even a demotion. It's just the negation of a promotion.

I'll re-post the text as the egrecious stuff was mixed in with other non egregious stuff by pnutjam, who stated this case is 'standard for white collar crime' in private enterprise:

>> Abuse of Position and BriberyA military service Captain used his official position as a reservist to obtain contracts for private sector companies with which he had an affiliation. In addition, the Captain accepted a “finder’s fee” (i.e., kickbacks) from one company for his efforts in helping the company obtain government contract work. For his significant ethical failure, the Captain was “allowed” to retire at the grade of Commander, though he had been selected to be an Admiral.

No fees. No restitution. No jail. No charges even.

He had to endure the 'horrors' of retirement with full benefits. Though he was 'severely punish' with not getting his promotion.
This bump in the road aside, it's another $blowout$ quarter. Pretty impressive.
what? ofcourse you can.

just look at any industry that puts people in danger when people make technically incompetent mistakes.

even the most basic electrician is held to a higher standard then facebook in this regard...
> will not acknowledge any wrongdoing as part of the settlement

This bugs the heck out of me (in general, not specific to this case). What is point of letting them claim innocence? How does this benefit the consumer?

I can see occasional exceptions where it's clearly a case of misunderstandings so you don't want to bring down the full hammer...but I honestly can't remember more than one such case where someone DID acknowledge wrongdoing.
Thank you!

There is a documentation team, I am the lead, and I tend to write the posts on the blog. This one was significantly written by Niko as well.
Slight derailing again.

1997-1999 GM EV1 Gen 1 & 2 (leased for 1 year at a time with 3 different cars), 2001 Ford Ranger EV, 2003 Toyota Rav4 EV, 2010 Nissan Leaf, 2011 Chevy Volt, and 2017 Chevy Bolt. These vehicles were owned in the household I was living in at some point.

With this being said, I've ridden in a Model 3. It is by far one of the noisiest electric vehicles I've seen.

For anyone curious, the GM EV1 was by far my favorite. Those were years ahead of their time.
I'd say "Sagacity" is definitely a very rare word in English, certainly less common than "paradoxical". It is often the case in English that a Romance loan is considerably more high-brow than its Germanic synonym ("wisdom" in this case).

(I'm not a native speaker either, though.)
How the boeing 737 max disaster looks to a software developer
Plenty of people, and I mean plenty, like many (I can back up with citations if that is really helpful)

a) own their content 100% that they make on their own sites
b) definitely rely on social networking / media applications for driving a fanbase.
PG’s essay is good advice for modern American culture when addressing what it is explicitly framed as being for: maximizing the number of people who will read through your writing.

It may not be ideal for other goals, including maximizing utility of your work (or persuasiveness z for persuasive writing) to people who do read it. Different forms of expression between writing and speech, which differences are also different by purposes and intended audience of the writing, have evolved for real reasons.
just -> jump, right?
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