skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to say to which extend this "assessment" is honestly backed by solid evidence, or if it was written first and foremost for political reasons. The broad claims, apparent lack of factual evidence (only statements about what has been discovered), and rather overarching nature of the whole report, sure do suggest it could be the latter. Pure speculation on my own part, of course.

I have not gone through the full report (yet), but while reading just a few sections my sales-pitch-bullshit-meter went on full tilt, at least a few times.

The timing of this report is also peculiar, to say the least. Who is Finite State? What is their track record, to date? Who owns the company? What business relationships/interests do the company and its owners have?

Yes, I realize/know these are suggestive questions. Questions that should nonetheless have satisfying/assuring answers, in order take this report seriously.

There's a lot at stake here, so at least examining the validity of this report/summary isn't just a luxury.

Are the factual findings behind this report publicly available?
They also used the savings to acquire Mike Hampton (who later provided them with the compensation pick they used to draft David Wright.
It's waiting for a request to serve content over a network.

Sounds like a server, just using a different network configuration than you're used to, namely WebSocket listening in a browser's JS environment instead of raw TCP listening in a non-browser environment.
The bounty hunters of Fallout 76 will kill anyone you want, for a price
Yes, Eevee is a fast pbr renderer and can give very similar results to cycles with no effort, except there's some setup needed to do indirect lighting and reflections... and some tweaking needed for good lamp shadows in some cases, but the payoff is huge. I have a high resolution render that takes 12 minutes in cycles, 30 seconds in eevee with no grain... some features are not there line a shader bevel, but otherwise very similar, and there's workarounds for that.
This is not true. California does register and track all guns sold and transferred in the State.
The process and practice findings are the most damning in my opinion. This isn't a opps we were rushing to market, this is a problem with values and in my mind damns the whole organization.
I was wondering about how bad this was against industrial standards, considering they've been articles about TP-Link and other Internet-of-Trash devices that have a lot of unpatched issues.

The article seems to suggest Hawaii is exceptionally bad at patching or best practices in security.
They turned $5.9M into almost ~$30M. How is that they are paying out less? It's possible that via time value they could make more than an 8% return, but definitely not assured.
I don't accept this. This is shirking responsibility for what one has brought into the world. Technology has a moral component that can't be ignored in the name of progressive idealism.

It's both/and.
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I think the reference here is to the problem of fatal shooting of minorities by police in the US. The OP is attempting to draw attention to the problem by an exaggerated situation in which the former first daughters are involved in such an incodent.
That's strange. Maybe it depends on where? I have rented my entire life and never knew a neighbor. Recently bought a house and immediately not only met all my neighbors but one helped us clean up after a major wind storm came through the day we moved in. There are people & kids walking around our neighborhood constantly. I feel part of a community a lot more than I ever did before.
Background checks do not contain information about gun ownership. It is federally illegal to have a registry of gun ownership.
Yes, fox news even suggest it was part of a large coordinated censorship effort on the POTUS :D

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/twitter-suffers-widespread-outa...

quote from that url: "The outage came as President Trump was hosting a social media summit with right-wing personalities and tech industry critics who've accused Twitter and other websites of having an anti-conservative bias."
I am not sure why it is amusing? The interpretation is correct:

The background system is called NICS [1], and all information submitted to it is destroyed after 1 day. The system only outputs PROCEED or DENY to the FFL when someone is being checked for a firearms purchase.

1 - "Per Title 28, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 25.9(b)(1), (2), and (3), the NICS Section must destroy all identifying information on allowed transactions prior to the start of the next NICS operational day. If a potential purchaser is delayed or denied a firearm and successfully appeals the decision, the NICS Section cannot retain a record of the overturned appeal."

https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/nics/about-nics
I almost guarantee that these engineers have a very different value set than you. They could possibly see this as granting law enforcement legitimate and authorized access to collect evidence needed to prosecute real criminals. In their minds abuses of the technology they make is likely the illegal part not the existence of their tool itself.

Most of the responses I'm seeing here are about money and while that is probably a factor at some level, I like to believe that people need to have a lot of pressure put on them by society for other reasons to give up their personal morals in exchange for money.

"No one is the villain in their own story".
I remember they also tried something like this where fully paralyzed people controlled robot waiters with their eyes from a bed.
I’ve only heard that it is only used by people in the same neighborhood to talk about people “who don’t belong there”.
To bad, I wanted to sue Oracle for not hiring me.
If it's not a coherent sentence, that would tend to be a hint. There are other explanations, admittedly.
> Would you rather tech companies not be trying to help law enforcement or our military, and just leave them to their own devices?

Yes, I'd rather not aid law enforcement in spreading disinformation and targeting journalists, for example [1].

Though I do agree that it's not as cut and dry as "Palantir is evil".

[1] https://www.thetechherald.com/articles/Data-intelligence-fir...
I don’t think it negatively portrays any ideology. No one is alone in this world, and no one’s actions happen in a vacuum. The consequences can not be contained to those who commit the action, so while you might want to be left alone and free, the world you live in doesn’t allow for it. There are compromises to be had between freedom and lack of freedom for the benefit of the community.
> Julia is everything python could have been

The goals of Python were quite different from the goals of Julia.
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Those who can't innovate litigate.
Gmail didn’t depend on network effects beyond being able to send email to anyone.
Spotrac has the details of the payments: https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/new-york-mets/bobby-bonilla-1188...
I am guessing the parent is referring to the “Acquisitions and Dispositions” bound book, which up until recently had to be kept on paper. It is permissible to keep these records in software if of the last year or two.

These books are kept by firearms sellers (FFL) and must be present to the ATF upon request
I have an extension that clears any visible "sticky" element on the screen and I had to activate it THREE TIMES over the course of reading the article. Each time the removed element covered a portion of the article, preventing me from reading it. What a frustrating website to use.
I'm not sure what your first paragraph is about. Windows hasn't worked like that in a very long time, a user's default storage locations (Desktop, Documents, etc) are all held centrally and it is completely transparent to the user. This is handled by Folder Redirection and a GPO policy.

So no user education, desktop administration, or specific policies are required. You just need not to alter the defaults and you'll get a centrally managed set of user files perfectly suited to regular backups.

The only thing that remains a challenge is offsite users/traveling. But an edge case isn't a justification for why you wouldn't use folder redirection within a monolithic organization like a local government.

> That, and due to legal restrictions, local governments are rarely empowered to hire the right IT staff capable of making it happen.

What "legal restrictions" stop government from hiring IT Staff?
"I am innocent of this man's blood; see you to it."
Can someone explain how this is more powerful than someone use an Python/R based workflow? E.g., I currently use a combination .ipynb, python scripts, and RStudio and this feels like it covers everything I need for any data science project.
This is changing. I've seen a number of ISPs no longer have default passwords. Each router or modem has a random password string set to the device, it's printed out and pasted as a sticker on the modem (or some print directly to the plastic). A lot of big name devices do this now too.

Sure it's a password written on the device, but it's random, you need physical access to see it, and people who are security conscious can change it.

This bad practice isn't excusable, especially not by a company as big as Huawai, not if they want to be taken seriously.
Still, if someone crafts a knife and someone uses it to hurt another I'll blame the user, not the crafter.
Quite simply the belief that:

1) these efforts do not guarantee their safety and comfort (though others might, these don't) and

2) that even if they did, the ethical price of hunting down undocumented immigrants is inexcusably high. That in the same way that you wouldn't behead someone for speeding, you shouldn't separate families and cause people to live in the shadows simply for having the privilege of cleaning your hotel sheets.
When they burned down Lidice, people did not reply by being docile to the invaders. They joined the resistance.
They check against data for crime. How do you think background checks work?
Last I checked its 1500 a seat... a year.
I feel so ignorant that I didn't know such a company was behind tslint. I wonder what Palantir uses TS for specifically
Predictable result. I’ve never seen a protest go well for any company. You can win these protests and still lose the work.

The best case scenario is you win the protest and have to rebid the whole thing again. You’ll still probably end up losing. Now you walk away with more money spent, more exposure due to public court records, and a customer who’s pissed off.
They aren't defending it, they say people are using it. Which is a very different thing from Facebook being good.
I don't think it makes a lot of sense to say the tech industry isn't responsible. At least as engineers I think there should be some ethical considerations.

I think there is a difference between a truly neutral tool being used for harmful purposes, and a tool specifically made for harmful purposes.
/tech/ would love this
> As far as I can tell Access has nothing to do with making websites, so it’s unclear what Django or Rails has to do with anything.

You can make apps with Django and Rails. They're not just "websites". Web apps are also still useful even when they're not public facing.

> These are much harder for non-programmers to use than Access. With Access, almost completely non-technical people can set up their own database and make the queries they need to answer their own questions.

That's the thing. Access and FileMaker aren't typically run by non-technical people. Yes, they aren't initially programmers, but they're usually technical people. FileMaker & Access users, whether they realize it or not, become programmers. I feel that you're confusing Access & FileMaker users with users of Excel.

> With Postgres accessed from a general-purpose programming language, non-technical people need to hire someone to help them with every basic task.

A relational database is not a big leap from either Access or FileMaker.

I know all of this because I used to work closely with a team of these people, and at some points I've even helped maintain their code.
We have all the proof we need that MS is running an ad farm from the base windows experience. What proof do you have that he was infected with malware beyond that?
How far do you live from an Apple store?

How far do you live from a phone repair store?

Stop concern-trolling just because you're a snowflake who wants every phone to be bulkier, heavier, and have a few more failure modes.
I'm an American citizen who is happy to see the law enforced. I don't live in Atherton or Palo Alto. There were two Central American gang-related shootings near my family's home last week; there were two MS-13 murders in the broader area earlier this year. I grew up here, and it didn't used to be like this. I want to see those who come here illegally, or who have been denied refugee status as the result of due process, deported.

I don't care what race, nationality, or religion they are. I also want to see families and young kids kept together, and treated humanely. But at the end of the day, we [the U.S.] are a nation of laws, or we are not. I'm proud of Palantir's efforts to help enforce the (democratically-enacted, internationally-conventional) law of the land.
If you've owned one for decades that might make sense, but why would I buy a device that shows me what various media companies choose to provide at each given hour instead of watching what I want, when I want?

We're decades into the web.
I used to think the same. I now think that this reasoning is faulty.

Cars can be used for good or evil. For the most part we leave it up to the users to do the right thing, however we don't just leave it up to the users. If a modern car manufacturer were to make a vehicle with no safety features whatsoever, we would rightly call them out as a bad actor. Seat belts, air bags, bumpers, crumple zones, defoggers, windshield wipers, and on and on. We have laws that require a basic level of safety for these potentially dangerous machines.

There is no reason we shouldn't expect tech and software firms to include basic "safety" considerations of their own.

Remember all those companies that helped implement censorship and spying systems for authoritarian regimes? Still thing it should up to "the lawmakers"?
>If Obama's daughters (or Trump's if you are on the other side) were killed in some horrific racist incident, wouldn't you approve the usage of such software if it was the only hope of getting the perpetrator? Or would you say "as much as I am saddened, I cannot approve such massive invasion of privacy".

The latter, every time. The nature of principles is that they do not change with changing circumstances. I find your example extremely unpersuasive.
“abandon” is an interesting word choice. Moving isn’t always about moving away from something, sometimes it’s about moving towards a happy prospect. Your family could respect the action.
My favorite is the NBA agreeing to pay a percentage of TV revenue in perpetuity to the owners of the ABA team Spirits of St. Louis when the leagues merged. The NBA gave the other ABA teams that they weren't taking $3M but the Spirits held out. The NBA paid out $300M before finally buying them out for $500M in 2014.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/monteburke/2014/01/07/the-nba-f...
Anything could happen, but at this point we still allow horses and buggies to use the road. Once self-driving cars can adequately deal with unpredictable humans, most/all of the justification for banning manually driven cars goes away. Insurance may be more expensive, but at the high end it should not be any more expensive than it is today.
Only zero is false, everything else is true in C++
Good point. That helps, but it still strips about half of the lines of my code out for some reason. Specifically, this part: https://i.imgur.com/L117fYm.png
Yes, you've got a point about balance. In my younger, unattached days I'd spend quite a lot of time alone, and after about a week of not really being in contact with anybody else I'd start to feel a bit 'disconnected'. Though just an hour or so with somebody else would be enough to reset.
That doesn’t show the interest rates. But based on that it also looks like he got 5x yrs of $500k from the Orioles also starting in 2011. I’m guessing he signed a similar deal with them since he stopped playing in 2000…

This man makes smart financial decisions.
> he was simply an occupier

That's not the history, as you just admitted yourself: he abolished serfdom and started a period of unprecedented prosperity in Polish history (when the Polish city Łódź had gone from a village to become one of the main industrial centers in the whole of Europe), among many other things. The list could go on but the point is this: you pick statements that suit your feelings and therefore are not even close to serve as an objective description of a historical figure.

I would even argue, as a separate point, that he wasn't an “occupier” at all, much like Donald Trump is not an “occupier” of Native American lands.

I think there are grounds to be surprised and dissatisfied when the school curriculum teaches kids shallow, anti-intellectual ressentiments, instead of actual history, with all its shades of gray. And when it does that, it's awful for their future. Indeed, as one great Polish historian once said, false history is a mistress of false politics. Mistress in the old Shakespearean sense. Although the modern alternate meaning of the word gives the saying quite an appropriate twist…
State replication is well understood - if one's system(s) allow for data to travel outside of a 'cloud' (network resource), then there needs to be a compelling reason. Not saying that 100% of systems can be pushed up to a cloud - just having a hard time thinking of a particular use case at the moment.

Even banks are moving from vendor managed solutions to cloud based in-house supported software of late, and this group is the most difficult to change their ways (lot-o-hoops).

I do agree with you that many biz/org's might pay for a system and fail to understand the costs around maintaining/future upgrading - that's a management issue and should be dealt with via accountability/consequences.
The time has passed to blame the knife maker, unfortunately. I'd like to give him a piece of my mind. Kidding aside, I see where you're coming from. I'm not trying to excuse lawmakers or the people who fire the gun, operate the drone, etc. I'm just saying the knife inventor is a part of the chain, he or she is not a neutral party.
strcpy() - sure it is fairly often used unsafely, strlcpy() or snprintf() or similar should generally be used. But memcpy()? It takes an explicit length, which you have to calculate. What's the alternative? memcpy_s() does part of the check for you, but you end up writing more code around it. It's trying too hard and not achieving a net positive. I have seen "use of unsafe function memcpy()" show up in some dumb security scans recently, and it's a strange development. There is lots of C code where avoiding memcpy() would be quite awkward and really not help anything at all, it's just a fundamental operation.

Here's a dry technical report on how the new-ish _s variants are not really helpful: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1967.htm
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That’s not compelling. Knives have practical and constructive uses outside harming people. Palantir is being used as designed.
Insurance should go down, not up. The risk of an accident better be higher now than it will be with self-driving cars ruling the roads.
sure. but I sell you a knife and you come back and ask for a bunch of features that make it easier to hide, and a special curve to make it easier to get underneath the human ribcage, and a wider blade that makes wounds heal more slowly, etc....at some point you have to accept your complicity
Newest science myth: the 10k-step rule
It's has been long time since I heard ``xx a fast[est] yy" not implemented in Rust
You are ludicrously incorrect, just as everyone for the past 2 decades has been when they have predicted the year of the Linux Desktop. This trend will continue until Linux Desktop people stop underestimating what users actually do with computers.
AFAIK Facebook didn't restrict its user base by giving out limited invites but by only admitting certain groups (initially, Harvard students). That's a very different thing.

In any case, the world was quite different back then. Facebook didn't have take on Facebook. Still, "proven" is too strong a statement, this isn't mathematics.

> but you haven't made a case for that opinion at all.

Not everything is a statement of an opinion. Sometimes a question mark indicates a question.
My circa-2011 "gaming" laptop with a quad core i7 CPU, 4GB RAM, and discrete GPU ran PS2 games vi emulator at 10 FPS or so.

The state of emulation has come a long way since then, but still, that was a "desktop replacement" rig back in the day. I don't know how well a Pi can pull that off.

The PS2 architecture was famously a pain in the butt to program for, to boot.
There is a difference between crafting a knife and crafting a tool specifically for harmful purposes. The IBM engineers who helped Germany facilitate the holocaust are probably a bit more involved in evil than a knife crafter.
What if somebody discovers two feuding tribes in the jungle and decides to sell them deadly knives by advertising their killing ability?

Note: My comment is responding to the general idea of disclaiming responsibility. I don't know enough about this company to judge.
This is very cool; is there a similar tool (or map this one) to Slack?

I found this article about the concept (via different tool) applied to Slack.

> https://www.fastcompany.com/3061976/see-whats-really-going-o...
UV editing has a tab at the top now. There's a few things to keep track of to be successful with this tool and hook up with materials, but I don't think the difficulty is much different then similarly powerful tools. There's youtube tutorials that will walk you though it.
I see people talking about ad farming - but this seems like for whatever reason IE was opened - and it's default home page is MSN, which has ads.

Not saying that IE should've ever been opened in the first place but this doesn't sound very malicious? It is pretty sad how much resources pages like that take though.
Avoiding writing the orders down may reduce the literacy needs of the wait staff.
>The consequences can not be contained to those who >commit the action, so while you might want to be left >alone and free, the world you live in doesn’t allow for >it.

Also nobody does it all alone, with the possible exception of some rare frontiersman who chops down trees and builds his own house in some wilderness. People want to be left alone, but still use the benefits of society that suit them. People aren't as independent as they imagine but want to feel as such. I live amongst people who happily use services and comforts and infrastructure, but take every opportunity to attack the communal systems that create them as evil and have some idea it should be hundreds of millions of individuals doing what they want how they want.