skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The two major ones were:

A Bitcoin theft via the Linode Manager interface in 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3654110

and a second Linode Manager compromise in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845170

In both cases, if you dig into the context a bit, the story turned out that Linode wasn't fully disclosing the breaches to their customers until they were forced to do so when the news about them reached a certain volume. They also may have been -- almost certainly were -- dishonest about the extent of the damage and how it may have impacted their other customers.

At the time, their Manager interface was a ColdFusion application, which tends to be a big pile of bad juju. They started writing a new one from scratch after, I think, the second compromise.

The really bad thing here is that they got soundly spanked for being less than truthful the first time, and then four years later -- when they'd had ample time to learn from that mistake -- they did it again.

So there's a nonzero chance at any given time that Linode's infrastructure has been compromised and they know it and have decided not to tell you about it.

That's what prompted me to start exploring DigitalOcean more. Unfortunately, I've found that there's a far greater chance that I'll experience actual trouble exacerbated by poor support than that I'll be impacted by an upstream breach, so about half my stuff still lives on in Linode.
I wonder how many parasites Bear Grylls has? He always seemed to enjoy eating slugs and bugs in his Man Vs. Wild show.
> Any elite school will be much cheaper than a state school (possibly free) if you don’t have very wealthy parents.

This was not at all true in my situation.

Over ten years later, I imagine some things are different, and I know some very rich schools have shifted certain policies since then.
> We need to end off label use. Saying a drug is approved for one diagnosis and then allowing it for any other diagnosis is, in the modern age, simply crazy. One might as well not have fda approval.

Everyday in England 30,000 people with learning disability take a psychotropic medication when they don't have the condition that the medication is licensed for.

NHS England has a programme to stop this misuse of medication. It's called STOMP - STop Over Medicating People with LD. https://www.england.nhs.uk/learning-disabilities/improving-h...

This medication is often off-label use of anti-psychotic medication, used for a "sedative" effect.

People with learning disability are at increased risk of constipation (sensory issues around food; reduced range of food being eaten; not much say about what they eat; reduced access to exercise; etc etc), and these meds often have constipation as a side effect.

This combination causes harm. It sometimes kills people.

There's variable awareness of constipation as a side effect of clozapine. Most doctors know about agranularcytosis, and they're aware constipation can be a problem. But there are some doctors who don't know that the constipation side effect kills more people than agranularcytosis.

I agree. It's really important to stop misuse of medication.
Giant logged long ago but not forgotten (2011)
Huawei’s Inroads into South Asia Could Offset Pushback Elsewhere
If it allows the school to accurately identify the most promising students it's worth it. How many kids with potential fall through the cracks now?
This is appalling. I worked as a L1 ticket tech for an old LAMP host back in the day where probably half of the tickets required nothing more than a password reset or a IP removal from our firewall, very easy stuff, and was proud if I got over 60 responses out in a 8 hour shift. And that time was spent mostly just typing a response to the customer. I really expected higher standards out of DO.
His answer to that is he completely refuses to do anything at all in that case. Grades be damned. Now what?
something's not clear: are you talking from direct experience ?
The US Supreme Court absolutely does enact things. For example, "tests" to interpret some other law or policy, which then gain the force of law. Or sometimes directly, as in "it would be discriminatory not to do X", and then everyone needs to do X.

It would be more proper to say they can't enact something except in the furtherance of another compelling interest.
The CEO is the CEO because he makes profitable decisions. You have to replace her with someone / something that makes at least equally good decisions.
If it's posted publicly, it's public. They can't really do anything about that.
> No, let's not.

Honest question. Why are we so focused on making sure we rebuild/preserve just as it was in the past. If I am not wrong, this building has been through many such efforts in history, the building was rebuilt everytime with the influences of that time. Why are we as a civilization so focussed on preserving history as-is as opposed to creating history in accordance with our time.

I am neither strongly for nor strongly against this, just curious about what seems to be the general concern and consensus.
You’re looking for context to the content. That’s normal in a distrustful media landscape.
Warhammer 40,000 Tournament Just Eight Guys Throwing Cash at Each Other

Hardtimes satire.
That proposal basically lowers the value of an Indian Ph. D. If you already have one and had to publish, you should be upset at a proposal to have your existing credentials blemished in this manner.
I honestly can't think of any complex electronics I own that are more durable than my iPhone. Nothing else is waterproof, for starters. And the phone has survived some pretty gnarly drops and falls.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but you're saying your only issue here is consent? Surely you could just not use the sites and services that evade your consent then?

I'm sympathetic to the fact that "don't use services that track you" is easier said than done, but all the same, you do have that option.
> but rather a shortage of good ideas or ideas we are willing to invest money in.

We have no shortage of good ideas or socially useful things to do. What we have is a problem with getting funding for these useful pursuits.
You have few, if any, fundamental rights at or near the US border. It is why PR releases from the ALCU call it a "Constitution Free Zone".
Schrems is a citizen of Austria, in Austria you would have to pay the legal fees of your opponent, too, if you lose.
>> How is basketball different from indoor volleyball?

Because one is about putting the ball through a basket and the other is about bouncing it over a net?

>> Is a hamburger a sandwich?

Yes, actually.

But, a very special kind of sandwich.
> Propranolol for anxiety.

Is that off-label?

https://bnf.nice.org.uk/drug/propranolol-hydrochloride.html
Not really.

People are already discouraged from driving private vehicles in London during the week with the £10 congestion charge, which along with parking prices, makes it too expensive to drive to work in Central London for the vast majority of workers.

In other words, I don't believe removing buses would increase cars. So our problem is really the buses, and they are very dirty (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38157860).
In some StarLink thread on /r/spacex, someone was mentioning that you can't do IR/optical light interferometry without being able to measure the phase of light, and someone else said we're pretty close to being able to.

If you're able to deploy orbital observatories with a StarLink sort of cadence (keep throwing up cheap satellites as quickly as possible), would you think we'd reach more mature observation tech faster? Maybe observing from Earth is dead long term if you drive innovation up and costs down with the observing systems and the supporting data transport networks.

TLDR How do we make decades of progress in years instead?
The effects of Facebook on our society have been extreme, often negative, and for the most part unforeseen until more recently. People consider it to have precipitated a crisis.

Is there any plausible argument that LinkedIn has contributed to the decline of society? Because it’s at least arguable that Facebook has.
You can buy a plot of land in the middle of nowhere for $500. Have fun!
US universities seem to do fine without a government-mandated Ph.D. publication requirement.

However, helping grad students publish and present their work in a high-quality, peer-reviewed context is one of the most important things that graduate advisors can and should do. I am certainly OK with institutions making that a requirement for advisors.
If I can't store and play my own digital files, I'm throwing all my devices in the trash, and never paying a dime for content again.
'Internet' replaced the permanent record' and now kids who act up enough to get news coverage end up with a permanent record of whatever they did.
Phenylephrine's efficacy as a decongestant when taken orally is dubious. Still, it doesn't mean it's a useless drug. IV phenylephrine is a standard drug used during anesthesia to counteract the hypotensive effects of opioids and sedatives.
‘reasonable’
I found the article to be poorly written and confusing, at least in that it failed to answer the most simple question I had: "What is MMT?"

The Wikipedia article seems far more useful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory

To quote the intro:

"MMT advocates argue that the government should use fiscal policy to achieve full employment, creating new money to fund government purchases. The primary risk once the economy reaches full employment is inflation, which can be addressed by raising taxes and issuing bonds, to remove excess money from the system.[3] MMT is controversial, with active debate[4] about its policy effectiveness and risks."
Pentagon seeks funds to reduce U.S. reliance on China's rare earth metals
A good read on QE is Currency Wars by James Rickards. It isn't written as a dry traditional economic book while covering the monetary history of last 2 centuries. I suspect the book is not mentioned often being published in 2012 it predicted the destruction of the dollar by the QE policies. The predictions of the book can still become reality because QE is a monetary experiment which increases the supply of money at unprecedented level.
Creating money out of thin air and holding more than 4 trillion dollar [0] on assets is not a healthy situation for the FED. [0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/fredgraph.png?g=lFm1
Always secure your localhost servers
> So what is the purpose of the massive level of redundancy that you are already paying for when you store a file on S3?

...

> > "fire, water, theft"

i'm sure you could add a few more things to the list.

> I don’t think it’s terribly common for even medium sized companies to have a multi tier1 cloud backup strategy.

not terribly common to understand risk.
From one of their papers the DSL is geared towards non programmers: "The target user base of Obsidian is business professionals who will use the language to write smart contracts, and its design is thus oriented towards this domain. Obsidian programs consist of contracts – similar to classes in Java – which contain fields, states, and transactions – similar to methods."

"We will target business students and business analysts with limited programming experience, in order to collect data from the intended user base of Obsidian."
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~NatProg/papers/barnaby17%20-%20Obsidi...

In another paper they reveal they're also writing an IDE for this, overseen by some PhDs in 'human-computer interaction' so it should be simple to use though I find piles of complexity added by classes/methods the exact opposite of simple.
This is maybe a little bit (in a contorted way) similar to "Parable of the broken window"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window

In this case there are probably some highly skilled people involved who were able to increase their know-how (doing research to make the car somehow be xxM$ worth) thanks to being funded by whoever bought the car, but the whole exercise generates probably very little intellectual value outside of this context.
That's great advice and I appreciate it. I'm actually a fairly experienced cook, and cooked for myself and my roommates for years. Then I moved into a studio by myself, in a neighborhood with copious food trucks and restaurants, and I just kind of stopped doing it regularly.

I still enjoy doing Thanksgiving and cooking for parties, but that's usually at someone else's place.
You're correct. But there are also unicorns that don't follow this rule. It's just that their compute activity would never trigger a false-positive, so everyone (except their ops team) is blissfully unaware of their fragility.
> I, for one, welcome the end of our Moore's Law overlords.

I think if you fully understood the implications of this, you wouldn't be so sanguine.

We're already seeing the effects of a stalling out of process improvements.

Starting a couple years ago, there were articles by enthusiast PC builders who were buying used Xeon processors on eBay, and building new gaming PCs around them, with comparable performance to the i7's available at the time. Just to put some round numbers on that, you had people spending $100 or so on a used CPU (none of that money goes directly to Intel) vs. spending nearly $1000 on a brand new i7.

You can find other instances where a company is competing with their own older, used products... it isn't fun for the company in question.

What's going to happen to Intel's stock price when that sort of thing becomes more common? The price of their stock (and all other tech companies) is based on future value, rather than other companies that pay dividends but otherwise aren't expected to expand significantly.

If investors come to accept the fact that Intel can't really make a chip next year (that will drive hardware and software sales for the entire PC industry), better than last year's chip, their stock will crash. As will all the others in the tech industry.

New hardware (with more capabilities at a reasonable price) drives new software / new applications. If next year's phone isn't better than last year's phone (assuming you can replace the battery that is losing capacity), that will kill valuations in the mobile segment.

Some tech like stacking higher in 3-D on the chip will help applications like NAND Flash storage that aren't heat-dissipation limited. But even there the cost per bit stored will won't be going down at nearly the rate like we're used to seeing.

A tech crash across the board will tank the entire world economy as well, because much of the productivity improvements are based on computer technology.

This is a massive, massive upheaval we're looking at. Unless we switch to new technology that can keep the productivity party going for a while...
Inflation moves money from citizens (who have X amount of money) to the government (who can print money).
> MMT argues that governments in control of their own currencies, like the U.S. and Japan, aren’t constrained in the ways standard economics says they are. They may risk stoking inflation or running out of resources if they spend too much -- but they can’t go broke.

I'm a bit confused. My impression is that this is overwhelmingly the dominant view in mainstream political discourse. My impression is that, at least in the United States, it's considered fairly radical to talk seriously about significant spending cuts, balancing the budget, or even having the slightest concern at all about budget deficits or national debt.
Medium's signup process is a #darkpattern
I live in a studio, so it gets used as a general purpose workspace for all kinds of stuff.
I think one could do something interesting along these lines with machine translation dataset.
It would definitely involve lifestyle changes, but de-carbonizing our society really wouldn't cost much more than the 5% you mention. Estimates are it would cost between 1-4% of GDP by 2030, and 2-6% by 2050[1].

I think the main reason it's cast as expensive is that there are corporations that would basically have to shut down, e.g. oil & gas, mining companies. They are telling everyone who will listen how expensive dealing with climate change will be - see the latest Australian election for example. In a way, they are right - they are going to lose all their revenue when we finally get them to stop extracting fossil fuels for burning. But society has a whole won't notice that much - I remember reading somewhere that switching to flushing toilets and sewer systems cost about the same amount in terms of GDP.

[1] http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/faqs/how-much-will-it...
A Group of Students Built and Launched a Rocket to Space
It's easy to think your data is safe when your cloud provider advertises 11 9's of durability. But three replicas of your data doesn't protect against things like this. Even in the cloud age, offsite backups are important: Different provider, different region, different payment method.

Unfortunately it doesn't help that cloud egress bandwidth is criminally expensive.
Area nearly twice the size of England to become “Blue Belt” of protected waters
Do nonresidents that are not presently in the United States have constitutional rights?
A plausible story is that Lockport is the county seat of Niagara County, NY, which has three land (bridge) crossings with Canada, and therefore has significant USCIS presence throughout the county. I can imagine a joint task force involving county law enforcement and USCIS. Most schools in NY State have armed police (“school resource officer”) present. They probably all go to the same sporting events, drink at the same pubs.

Nothing like a refreshing beverage and discussing pervasive surveillance technology for the youth of America.
I'd like to see more professional, terminal (doctorate) degrees that aren't PhDs. Run them in parallel. For instance, I feel there should be an M.Eng. equivalent for comp sci that requires mastery of existing theory instead of development of new theory.
A PhD in a scientific or engineering discipline is a certification that you know how to conduct research and communicate the research you conducted. Papers are the evidence people use to assess that ability. Graduating without them makes it unclear what was accomplished and if the necessary skills were acquired. Informally, most top programs in the US have students produce 2-6 original papers to graduate, which varies per discipline. Without publications, it will be very hard for graduates to get a job doing research, which is the main career door that a PhD opens.

I assume that thought process was what motivated the policy forcing people to publish to graduate. However, very low quality publications are equally useless and do not showcase one's ability to do research, so just requiring publications isn't sufficient. A PhD student's committee is supposed to assess if they have demonstrated the ability to do good research and add to humanity's knowledge. It doesn't sound like that is happening appropriately.
I hope this doesn't provide ammunition for the people pushing making autistic children drink bleach or giving them bleach enemas as a "cure" for autism. Yes, there are such people, and yes, there are parents stupid enough to take their advice and do that to their kids.

Since killing bacteria is one of the legitimate functions of bleach, I can see them claiming that their bleach therapy will work by killing off that bad, autism-linked gut bacteria.
Scala is probably as far as I’ll get when it comes to FP.
I don't like acronyms in specs: QHD+
Some may have an availability dependency on those services, but if they don't have a full BC and DR plan ready to go within a few hours of losing those service they're not going to be a big enterprise for long.
Yeah, but a VM with virtualized hardware running a whole OS is so overkill for this use case.
Law is meant to be interpretive. Inflexible technical requirement that become law is what foments issues like South Korea's ActiveX requirements of 1996.
Hey, author here. Happy to hear any comments or answer any questions.

Runnable code from the article: https://repl.it/@vzhou842/A-CNN-from-scratch-Part-2
They should print more
This is literally survivorship bias.

The people who were suicidal and who took psycadelics that didn't work for them can't comment here. They're dead.
Only the citizens who like to keep inert piles of cash buried in their back yard.
For in-house design documents: or you're not a team player. You've done a bad job. This will screw up something, somewhere, at some point, costing people time and money.
I don't understand comments like this. I see this sentiment adopted, and echoed by so many really smart people who should know better. They talk about FAANG like they're essential services, like the food supply, or water. Almost as if it's not a real option for ANY business to fail or be overtaken by a competitor. Regardless of their current size and scope, if they all disappeared over the course of a month, do you honestly think nothing would rise up to take their places almost immediately? I mean, I would definitely move a product or two to market and attempt fill some of the demand left in their wake. Wouldn't you?
Or take current notebooks for example. Thinner and lighter devices in the same form factors were the trend for years, but now that that's hit the point where thin compromises every other feature, there are designs being shown, especially in high-end gaming notebooks, that do more radical things: shift the keyboard downwards for thermal efficiency or to add a second screen; or a screen that detaches and elevates for better ergonomics.

There's a lot of room for electronics to become better physical objects, and for the software to mature with those objects. Moore's law also meant that the software got replaced with new software every four years or so.
It also hurts people who have more cash assets more than those who have the ability/knowledge to invest their savings is stocks (which typically adjust for inflation).
No one will bother. Because this does not affect citizens.

Let's see how many will call their congressmen about this because it violates rights of non US citizens.
Does this suggest anything about the likelihood of near term interest rates hikes/cuts in the 30 year mortgage retail market?
I personally found a lot of new information and/or well-argued arguments on the linked comment thread.
Open Source -- as in Source Code. GPL protects source. The stuff you actually fork when you type 'git clone'. You really think Richard Stallman would be opposed to someone cleanroom re-implementing a GNU GPL'ed software from scratch that has a compatible API? Stallman called Android a major step forward, and if anything, his problems had nothing to do with subsetting Oracle's API, but issues surrounding Tivoization and binary blobs.

java.io, java.util, java.lang are re-mixes of every other OO runtime going back to smalltalk. I'm not buying this idea that reimplementing List, Map, Set, InputStream, et al, without copying source needs protection.

Moreover, the fact that oodles of subsets of the Java APIs existed for a decade, and Sun never once took any of them to court, buttresses the argument that the CREATORS of the API were not interested in protecting against reimplementation. Even GNU Classpath wasn't a proper fully compatible version of the Java APIs, it could not pass the TCKs, but Sun did not threaten it.

Yes, Google likely chose Java because hundreds of thousands of developers already spoke it. Just like Objective-C choose C and Smalltalk, because so many people already spoke it. What's wrong with building a system that will have a low learning curve and easy to transition to if it is very similar to what people already know? C# was created by Microsoft to resemble Java for similar reasons.

I'm really befuddled by your position.