skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, because we know of one rare instance in which a hammer started a fire, we now have to change all the hammers?

This is the kind of bumblefuck thinking that leaves us in a state of constant emerging disasters, because the details of the incident ruin the perception of the principle at work.

What you've just suggested is that, since we know a recent winner of the Mega Bazillions Ultra Lotto used mom's birthday for the winning numbers, we should figure out which mom's have the right birthdays for the next lotto drawings, to know who the winners will be, and tell them to buy tickets for their winning numbers.

The reality is that a wide array of strategies can be employed to win a lottery, and most of them will amount to chasing superstitions. Your suggestion amounts to a superstition about metal claw hammers, and since because the sparking is possible, due to the metallurgy and composition of the materials used upon them, well then that nugget of factoids must verify an essential truth at the core of the superstition.

Not really, pal. Not quite. Not at all.

To secure the money at play in the lotto, stop gambling, and change the game to one of active donation (maybe a strategy of selective burns). This will dispell the gamblers paradox, that tempts us to bet even harder on the claw hammers being the root of all fires at least one (and maybe more) time(s).
I am having a hard time imagining how the system can be made to understand whether a user is under pressure to reveal data.

Perhaps a spoken phrase from the user that initiates the lock within the lock?
Will check that one out. I only have a rough idea of what a red team is (abstract, some books, etc), but no practical experience with it.
>my _guess_ would be that they have Apple logos because they ‘fell of a truck’ near the factory that makes them for Apple, making them either “100% original counterfeit” or “didn’t _quite_ pass quality checks counterfeit”)

While we are making shit up, I think they probably came from space.
I think the claimed conflict is fundamental, not coincidental. When people talk about employee board representation, the central example of the representative they're talking about is someone paid to be involved in day-to-day, on-the-ground operations. Someone on the board of a large company would be worse than useless without dedicating a decent amount of time with understanding the complexities of the company's operation, which means they won't have time to be spending on the factory floor (or whatever) like a regular Joe.

This isn't insurmountable, as none of these constraints are inherent to the concept of employee representation. But it does require some more detail, or you end up with a decidedly non-central case like the one described elsethread, where Sundar Pichai counts as employee representation.
"Database" seems like the wrong word for the headline. Did they delete the training data (the photos and labels)? The models trained on the data? Both? The article only appears to talk about the training set.

If they only deleted the training data, but not the ML models generated from them, then you get the worst of both worlds (people still using the models to do things, and no way to validate or improve the fairness of said models by adding or removing labelled training data).
There's a difference between simply being exposed to radiation and consuming radioactive substances since they get absorbed into your organs where they deal more direct damage.

Taking this into account, I would like to know how the "same low-level radioactive effects as" claim was calculated.
I'd love to have that as a web-app that I could run in the background on the large TVs at work.
Not an FB employee but like many HN members with assets in tech stocks, a sizable portion of my portfolio consists of FB stock from the days when it was around $50.

FB has made me good money, and I don’t get shaken by what I see on the news. At the end of the day, FB still does more good things than bad, and I am more likely to take them seriously when they set out on a new venture.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20125354.
Podcasts are a great place to advertise! No tracking available there.

I would suggest looking at communities and websites that are targeting fantasy novels and Tabletop RPGs. You're headed in the right direction.

Unfortunately that solution doesn't exist yet.
I see "break" ALL THE TIME where "brake" should be used.

rouge -> rogue
loose -> lose
lose -> loose
break -> brake

And many more that I can't recall at the moment... In my youth I spent an absolutely obscene amount of energy correcting these people, bit now I just automatically lower the veracity of what they're saying each time I see some literacy problem.

That isn't fair to those people because not everyone speaks English as a first language, and phones autocorrect a lot of things that should not be corrected.
"Being a witness" doesn't only apply during trial. Witnesses might participate in pre-trial proceedings and give testimony that may or may not be used later at trial. The Fifth Amendment protects that. But the act of granting access to a location where evidence might be found is not "being a witness."

If it was a corporate phone, and the company IT guy gave the police the password, would you call the IT guy a "witness?" Generally, you wouldn't. The password is not evidence--it doesn't matter to the case whether it's "123" or "ABC." Neither does knowledge of the password tend to prove innocence or guilt. For the same reason, forcing someone to disclose their password is not compelling them to be a witness.

Now, the IT guy might be a witness if, for example, there is a dispute about who owns a phone (say it was found at the scene of the crime), and the IT guy testifies that the company issued the accused that phone. That goes to the substance of the case--it links the crime scene to the accused. That is being a witness. In that circumstance, the Fifth Amendment should protect an accused from having to disclose that same information.
To be fair, this industry has always been full of sycophants, although I think over the last decade it's been overlapping more and more with tech-evaneglists, get rich quick gurus, and other such snake oil. Facebook is a greater epitome of those combined things than even Google because it's personified in one dude. I've known people who practically want to lick the ground he walks on just to taste of the success of a coder who made it big.

I also believe that Facebook has just made it more obvious how many borderline sociopaths exist in the world of software engineering. I suspect that there are tones of engineers who spent most of their young lives cooped up in front of a computer and had parents too distracted to instill much morality in them, so they grow up to work for slimy advertising firms disguised as "tech" and come up with rationalizations like wanting to make the world "more connected" to distract from the fact they are making obscene profits off the ignorance of the masses. These people have always been around, but it took a period of time for tech-thats-not-tech companies to see massive growth for their behavior to become more obvious.
>And the way the whole Rubin story has been handled is also indicative of very real problems, to be sure.

Maybe Google has gotten worse, but the way the employees reacted to this "scandal" leads me to believe that they're acting entitled. Rubin was accused of harassment and asked to leave. That's all that should matter from an employee's perspective. The $90 million payout was a hedge to ensure that Rubin doesn't sue Google and cause negative publicity. It's not coming out of the employee's paycheck, so it's none of their business.
The way you've phrased it, it sounds like you think what you're saying is obvious, but it's not obvious to me. What are you saying?
I agree. That's why https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine has some pretty shitty assets, and a Python-based asset generator: https://github.com/klaussilveira/qengine/tree/master/src/too...

This way, devs can run the engine with base assets and I can even add some e2e tests to make refactoring easier.
"Understood as senior: Legacy code that I wrote myself is hard to read."

Your comment came at the perfect time. I just finished debugging a "high urgency" problem with a program I developed and maintained for the past 10 years.

The program started simple with a small list of rules to apply against data sets. Over time the list became a tree of rules that expanded in both breadth and depth. It was refactored once to get the design in line with the rules of the time.

The "high urgency" issue turned out to be the program working correctly. But, the functional user wasn't able to keep in mind some of the rules he set. It took me a half hour, with lots of "why did I do that", to explain it again to the user.
Good luck running some distributed AI algorithm on it.
And here I thought that the zuccoins in the last FacebookCTF was an obvious joke.
Sure, but isn’t that the nature of the beast? If propaganda works on everyone, and people get to vote, then what is the meaningful difference between propaganda and campaigning?

I really don’t see how this isn’t a system working as intended. Freedom of expression is freedom to spread propaganda.

Either the electorate is to be respected and their opinions held as valid regardless of their media consumption, or propaganda is too dangerous and effective and elections are just a farce. I’m not sure you can have it both ways.
Why use Stellar for consensus? Why not something like Tendermint via the Cosmos SDK? Wouldn't you want your token to be used for node membership through a PoS model? I just don't see what advantages federated byzantine agreement has over BFT through PoS.
Fair point.

Also note that my argument was trying to argue within someone else's viewpoint, and it's not a viewpoint that I agree with.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here on hacker news.

But when CFAA makes all hacking criminal, the only hackers left are criminals.

Ethically motivated hackers should have the same protections as whistle blowers - The day that happens, the world becomes more safe and transparent.

But transparency is not what everyone wants, obviously.

I wish I was more surprised that mainstream media fails to mention this important part of the state of cyber security in the US.
> Actually, you likely do.

Well sure everyone does, to some degree. But I thought dyarosla's clarification was quite sound, particularly this part: I admit to understanding positions that are premised on different values.

In my experience, a lot of people are completely ignorant of this important idea, that values (or axioms) are a crucially important part of disagreements, that someone may be approaching the same general topic from a very different perspective than you. Not only do some people not know/appreciate this, I've encountered several people who completely reject this idea if you point it out to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq6fDa9JrzQ

Every generation or so, new Chicken Littles flail their
wings as they discover new "science" that proves the sky is falling, or imminently set to. We who have seen this same scenario play out over and over about every subject under the sun are naturally skeptical.

Indeed, it is lucky we're on our way out because Idiocracy is halfway here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
Things I've learned:
I'll never be a senior programmer.
‘It’s so crazy:’ Lowell teacher docked pay while undergoing liver transplant
Which is basically my "regulatory loophole" comment.
This is something I've noticed early on even as a junior engineer (maybe it's my general upbringing that highlighted this well known fact of life). It becomes obvious quite quickly how little your knowledge and work matters. You can be incredibly smart and come up with wonderful solutions but it won't mean a thing if your boss(es) doesn't like you.

For a profession that has frequently professed meritocracy - it is certainly not. It's unfortunate.
What do you think of Keras in this space ? Because TF 2.0 is entirely keras based.

https://medium.com/tensorflow/standardizing-on-keras-guidanc...
Things like this make me scratch my head.

License servers exist. Surely it is cheaper for them to license from someone who does license servers, or use a client's existing license servers than it is for them to develop and support their own server.
Public accountability is a slippery slope. How do you accomplish that? Legislation? New legislation pitched as a solution to a problem tends to be a rat's nest of rules that no one understands, that doesn't often have the intended impact, that can have unintended consequences, and, after some public shaming of the offender, lets them conduct business as usual.

Not sure employee representation on the board is a solution to anything. Not that I think it's necessarily a bad thing either. It's just that if you're looking to that as a solution to the problem of big companies that are too big I think you will be disappointed. Employees on the board can be as corrupt and unaccountable as anyone else.

The solution to Google is to stop using their products. Stop using Android, stop using search, stop using Chrome, ditch as much of the ecosystem as possible. It makes a difference even if you can't get away from them completely and it starts with the individual.

There are too many people bitching about Google and still using their products. Hit them where it hurts because it's the only way they will learn. Before Google was evil Microsoft was evil. Antitrust largely failed against them. It took the early adopters being completely fed up with them and using other products to make a difference. Microsoft missed out on mobile, nearly missed out on cloud, ceded a massive chunk of the server market to Linux, saw a resurgence of Mac on the desktop, had their own failures in the OS market and were basically washed up before they finally decided to do something different. Frankly, they are doing a pretty darn good job lately. They are making good products and embracing interoperability.

I think Microsoft is a better company today than they would have been had the antitrust case been more "successful". We put up with their crap for as long as we did only because there weren't very good alternatives for much of that time. Ironically, the rise of Google helped break the stranglehold. Google doesn't have the same invincibility that Microsoft did. There are alternatives for every product they have. If we want them to change then it's time to start using these alternatives.
I thought for Snap, any investor can only buy non-voting share? For Google, you (or I during the open window) can buy GOOGL and have voting share?

Disc: Googler.
From the article:

His lawyer, Per Harald Gjerstad, said that the screens Huseby imported were made of both original Apple parts and refurbished, non-Apple parts. The glass, for example, is aftermarket.

So largely Apple parts, likely scavenged from broken phones, remanufactured into working spares but using non-Apple parts. Doesn't sound like counterfeit to me.
Some people already experience this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion
> Why doesn't the government stops with QE already ?

Without QE many people's retirement saving would have been wiped out, along with jobs.

You would have a period of large scale joblessness and homelessness.

In early part of this decade Ben Bernanke said that he would continue QE until unemployment rate dropped below 6.5% or inflation rose above 2%.

I agree that the easiest solution would have been a jobs guarantee or better yet print money and send everybody a cheque.

But that would have been outside the Fed's mandate.

It's not clear how the situation resolves, currently inflation is low and joblessness is also low ; so the fed seem to have done their job.

The questions you raise can only be solved through a political process, not monetary policy.
https://spacenews.com/nasa-budget-proposal-plans-of-nasa-fun...

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2013/08/bringing-down-iss-pl...
The fees are not primarily to pay for payment processing and app delivery, they're for access to the customers. A direct, transactional relationship with customers is the most valuable thing in business. And Apple has the best, most lucrative customers around. As a point of reference, by the way, I sell products on Amazon and Amazon charges 10-15% simply for originating transactions. They would charge more if they could, but retail is low margin and 3rd parties wouldn't be able to sell on their platform if they charged more.
You do realize that total emissions are a function of emissions per capita, yes?
They're also a U.S. company and subject to U.S. laws.

A large portion of Google's implicit argument (that they'll never make to the public, but are probably making to the Trump administration) is that it's better for the dominant mobile phone operating system to be written by an American company with American values, subject to U.S. laws, than have Huawei fork it and potentially end up with the dominant mobile operating system controlled by a Chinese company with Chinese values and subject to Chinese laws.
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You just compile your own from source. Python plays nice with older versions of itself. Use Gnu Stow as a secondary package manager to make it easier to remove or replace.
I am not convinced.
Note that your adversary has a huge ML capability and approaching nation state resources. Careful with the terms easily & simple.
I was not talking about "outdated" versions of IE (although IE9 supports HTML5 and CSS3 to some degree so it is not so outdated as one might think). Also, it is a built-in browser.

I meant Webkit-based browsers and Firefoxes that are over 3-5 years old. What about Android phones with firmware without updates? What about smart TVs?

> I'm not sure why we are all trained to think that anything we build has to be compatible with old browsers

Because compatibility was one of the ideas behind HTML. Because there are less developers than users so it is easier to solve compatibility problems at their side.
I don't think so. Which apparatus is a nasa supposed to be ?

edit: a laser, a scuba, a modem I can picture but what's a nasa ?
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A Guide to Blockchain Privacy
I have no idea... I just wanted to share something fun I did around 25 years ago.
I thought the only way you could use contempt citations to compel testimony was to immunize the subject. Has this guy been immunize for any crimes that may be revealed by the testimony, ie telling his password, that he may give?
The US Government stopped QE in 2014.

The ECB continues QE because Europe's economy never really recovered.

The Bank of England restarted QE when Brexit was announced.
"I forgot the password".

What is the court going to do? Lock him up indefinitely?
Thats what I was thinking too. If the metaverse is sufficiently programmable and live-editable then games will naturally arise rather than needing to be a first-class concern. Look at the things people are able to do with Dreams on the PS4.
That sounds like a Spotify and Netflix problem, not an Apple problem. It's not Apple's job to solve Spotify's business model problem. You'll notice, btw, that Neflix is not complaining about anything. And that's because they realized a long time ago that they needed to create original content in order to not end up where Spotify is now.
So true. And interesting that the title of the actual article is also very long, "Book subtitles are getting ridiculously long. What is going on?".
close, Bub. if you observe these posts just a little more carefully, you might work out it has already happened to you. namaste
I would provide links for several of the claims you make because they just seem not true. You have a very biased perspective, of course you're going to blame the giant platforms if you work in the ad industry.
Exim 4.87 to 4.91: possible remote exploit
Yeah, macOS doesn't support the MTP protocol, and the Android File Transfer app has been broken for ages now.
All of this can be possible again. The author just needs to take proactive and bold steps in limiting his use of tech.

Cal Newport for instance recommends removing everything for a few days and then slowly re-adding only the routines that are actually necessary to your life, and only in a limited time frame each week.[0] You can also take intermediate baby steps such as switching to greyscale.

Ultimately you have to figure out what works for yourself on your own, but be honest and be prepared to blast out of your comfort zone. Consider what your habits mean when stretched across many years. Or whether some of your consumption patterns are worthwhile to begin with.[1] It is no exaggeration to say that your entire lifeblood may be at stake: as demonstrated by the article, the tech not only determines how you spend your time but also how you perceive the rest of your activities.

[0] http://www.calnewport.com/blog/2019/05/31/on-the-pleasures-a...

[1] www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
Looking forward to hearing about your journey. Good luck!
These series are great, very well-written
Smart contracts, and distributed value networks in general are the gateway to this vision. It will be attained once one of these contracts/DAO/AI/whatever becomes self-sustaining.

The DAO will "employ" people in exchange for cryptocurrency, interact with other DAOs, and influence the lives of millions of humans. All the while most individual participants will have no agency against the Dao. We're already used to this with the government-citizen relationship so the transition shouldn't be too painful. The crucial difference will be that, for trust purposes, no human will have absolute control over the DAO.

Some humans will be incentivized to accomplish primary tasks for the DAOs, other humans will keep watch and make sure the reported results are correct (oracles).
The best feeling for me is when I come across old code and then re-write it to make it [simpler | faster | clearer | better] .. It is tangible proof to me that I have improved in my craft.
No fee, it's BYOO
From what I can tell this woman wasn't even an engineer, yet somehow she was able to cause all sorts of HR issues and still jump from one cushy position to another.

What is she complaining about, anyway? Didn't it just come to light that Google pays its women more than men?

How many 'women of color' do they expect to work at Google when it's only a tiny majority who are getting CS degrees? And let's be honest, many of them are going to be less talented than similar men who aren't now being 'nudged through' the glass ceiling for social justice reasons.

Hey Google - if you're listening: Plenty of guys like me out there who will gladly work there for $250K and equity. We actually have engineering degrees, won't complain about social justice all day, won't get pregnant and bail for months on end at your cost, won't cry at work, and will just get work done without the drama.
An easy mechanism is have two passwords. The real password that displays unredacted data, and a contingency password that only reveals benign information.
Yes, check out TinySeed [1], Earnest Capital [2], and Startup Chile [3]. There's also Indie.vc [4] for companies that are a bit further along.

[1] https://tinyseed.com

[2] https://earnestcapital.com

[3] http://www.startupchile.org

[4] https://www.indie.vc
Github.com/Meefik/Linuxdeploy [GitHub]
> we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation

... to make people click ads.