skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t my see how it could have been faked back then, for the same reasons. Three radio telescopes were officially assigned to receive the video transmissions for the mission, but it was an unencrypted signal on a published frequency.

The Russians could certainly track the vehicle on radar, at least on the boost there and return trajectory, and pick up any of its signals. Jodderal Bank in the UK certainly did. There’s no way they could reasonably have fooled the entire global optical and radio astronomy community plus the Russians.

That’s all aside from the fact the limitations of video technology at the time would have made faking the video impossible because the tape tech to record a transmission that long didn’t exist for almost another decade. Or the fact thousands of people would have had to be in on the scam, many of them not even American.

Also since then, multiple Lunar observation missions have photographed the equipment and even the dust trails left by the lunar rovers. The Chinese would also certainly know by now, with their recent high resolution surveys and landings on the moon.
That article was a wild ride back to 2002. From the phrase "techno-profiling" to Amazon recommending "Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity" to Bezos during a public demonstration to WSJ writing "Netflix.com (netflix.com)" so the url was clear to anyone whose browser didn't convert case before making a request. In some ways technology has made a lot of progress and in some ways it really hasn't changed a bit.
I just noticed $3.50 as the fee to use the HIBPA...

https://www.troyhunt.com/authentication-and-the-have-i-been-...

"In choosing the $3.50 figure, I wanted to ensure it was a number that was inconsequential to a legitimate user of the service. That's about what a latte costs at my local coffee shop so spending a few bucks a month to search through billions of records seems like a pretty damn good deal, especially when that rate limit enables 57.6k requests per day."
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Related to your first point: I added the following to my hosts file 4 months ago and haven't looked back.

0.0.0.0 www.youtube.com

0.0.0.0 youtube.com

0.0.0.0 googlevideo.com

0.0.0.0 ytimg.l.google.com

0.0.0.0 ytimg.com

0.0.0.0 youtube-ui.l.google.com

0.0.0.0 ytstatic.l.google.com

0.0.0.0 youtubei.googleapis.com

0.0.0.0 youtu.be

0.0.0.0 l.google.com

0.0.0.0 m.youtube.com

If someone sends me something, I'll watch it on my phone and I have a timer to limit YouTube on my phone to half an hour a day. My mental health has improved dramatically as a result.
The exact torque measurement within a tolerance is what's recorded, which is different for each car. Less trivially, the vibrations, driving history, etc can be put on the digital twin.
Here's a great answer to that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Mu8qfVb5I
Thank you, you said it better than me. Any system where anyone can take someone's stuff without their consent, even for a price, would never work.
That crosses into personal attack. Please don't do that on Hacker News. We've had to ask you this before.

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I’ve reviewed OpenSSL code somewhat recently and agree that it’s vastly improved.

Though, if you want something based on Rustls with C bindings (I have no involvement in this project) there is: https://github.com/mesalock-linux/mesalink

That’s OpenSSL compatible bindings into Rustls.
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Emergency vehicles in some cities can emit a signal that changes lights from red to green. It's a felony to spoof those devices, but people still get caught doing it.

I'm sure a system can be made resilient to a single bad actor, but, yes, those attack vectors will have to be thought through.
At some point there needs to be a moral responsibility on the part of the people creating incentive systems. Including those of us in tech.
Equifax is currently worth about 16.6B. This takes into account the fine, so without the fine they'd presumably be worth 17.25B or so. So this was a fine of 3-4% of their market cap. Total costs associated with the breach were probably moderately higher than that.

That being said, it's important to understand that in the US, penalties are assessed based on the seriousness of the infraction, not on the ability of the perpetrator to pay.

And while it might be the opinion of lots of HN commenters that the equifax breach caused "incalculable" harms, demonstrating this level of harm in court would be tremendously difficult.
So no bailout, but suddenly Boeing gets a lot of new contracts courtesy of Uncle Sam.
Backups are NOT simple, especially when you have things like GDPR in play. I'd imagine companies can't afford to commission backup that is compliant with the regulations. If you spend on a backup system, your company goes down in debt, you don't - there is a chance you go down anyway.
That’s because the more radical writers are not really hired by the more establishment studios, so Netflix picks them up for cheap. My guess at least.
I don't understand how Facebook got a $5B fine, yet Equifax gets a ~$650m fine. The data breached in the Equifax case seems to cause far more direct harm, and affected many more Americans. It feels like the 10x difference should go the other way.

Can someone more educated in how these fines work teach me about how these numbers are calculated?
I personally would like to build more digital stuff for things/people/relationships already existing in the 3D world. I see digital technology as a way to make it more useful and convenient way for human beings to communicate, not a replacement for the full human experience.
There is the not so widely used SHA-512/256 for that case - the speed of the 64 bit variants with a 256 bit output.
I think the Moon is vastly easier to settle since Earth is just a few days away, as opposed to 1-2 years.

That beats every other consideration, ease-wise.
It's unfortunate that in this day and age we still have people who directly access and touch a production server at all, ever. There is zero need.
I learned that Honeycrisp is a great-grandchild of Golden Delicious, from a site linked elsewhere here: https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/honey-crisp
In all honesty, when to keep my mouth shut. This is really hard for me. I still see tons of bullshit, posturing, and nonsense, I'm just better at censoring myself.

It's useful but surprisingly stress-inducing.
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Even more objectionable when the government apparently doesn't have enough spectrum for actual public-service needs. Witness the hack that is our "next-gen" air-traffic system, ADS-B, which (if I remember correctly) is a hokey two-system, ground-dependent approach because of a lack of sufficient spectrum.
"No one will ever read your paper in entirety, so write for the skimmers."

Fantastic advice!
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People need to stop editing directly on servers. Vim's netrw can write out over scp, use your configured vim on your desktop to edit the files on the server.
I unsubscribed from Netflix because in Singapore too many of my searches for well known movies come up empty, and TV shows also catch up super late :(
Exactly. The whole TLD thing is a scam and, as you say, a disgrace.

Canned TLDs should be eliminated altogether. There's no reason a domain can't end in any string; we should simply be able to register any domain we want except the ones that are truly limited, like gov and edu.

We already have a mechanism to handle trademark infringement, so let's not raise that strawman.

ICANN't is a rip-off and does nothing but bicker. Spend some time as a member, and you'll be sickened by the traffic on the mailing list.

https://icann.blows
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Am I the only one that find Pink Lady having a bitter side taste?

Does this mean I have some weird genetic defect?
Hey, just like the government and the crack epidemic!
Excellent excellent excellent speech. Thank you so much for sharing that video!
God damn you RMS.

Just do this please:

https://twitter.com/thisbounty_com/status/115239073901339443...

https://twitter.com/thisbounty_com/status/115239756590162329...
Probably because FB is politically charged, disliked by both parties, consumers and the wider industry. The fine represents the public's anger at large.
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That being said, it's important to understand that in the US, penalties are assessed based on the seriousness of the infraction, not on the ability of the perpetrator to pay.

It's not about ability, it's about whether the fine is a suitable punishment and deterrent.
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> if they can deploy code to our frontend transparently without customers or devops having to spend time or even noticing it we'll happily pay them more than they're asking for in ransom.

Where should I send the resume?
The FB fine was due to violating a previously existing consent decree with the FTC due to previous violations. The "2nd offense" nature of the offense probably contributed significantly to the higher number.
More people forced into the black market, good job guys. I feel bad for people who get addicted but also feel personal responsibility and choice should be paramount. You should be able to decide for yourself.
" You're good, You're good, You're good, You're good, FUCK YOU IN PARTICULAR You're good, You're good, You're good,"
I learnt something most youg developers all ready know.
When having a program in Java and want to feed gui in Web, Spring Boot api is so simple, fast and nice to use.
Agreed — % of market cap is the only meaningful comparison.

% of revenue doesn’t work because some companies are high-revenue low-profit (supermarkets), others are low-revenue high-profit (luxury goods). % of profit doesn’t work because profit is fairly arbitrary (if a company reinvests everything, then zero profits). Cash on hand is even more arbitrary.

But % of market cap tells us exactly the impact on owners, it’s literally the amount their stock is going down and they’re therefore being penalized.
what's frustrated me about Netflix originals is the same thing that drove me away from a lot of traditional TV - some awesome shows being cancelled after 2-3 seasons. I had hoped that Netflix would at least give their own shows a good story arc, but nope. they're doing the same thing Fox/CBS/NBC do.

i still much prefer shows without commercials, though.
Facebook's market cap is $566B (common stock) and Equifax's is $16.6B.

The ratio of market cap differences is about 34:1. If Facebook's fine is adjusted to Equifax's it would be a $22.1B fine instead of $5B.

So, from a market cap perspective Equifax's fine is ~4x Facebook's.
I don't see what he did as being wrong. I think insurance providers should cover that. Prevents people from getting sick and actually heals.
ALWAYS make OFFLINE backup! USB USB USB!
I'll never forget meeting him practicing his lectures in building 32 at 5am. Every lecture he gave each year was a fresh one: he rewrote them every year.

I always looked forward to attending 034 lectures and learning from his STAR sub-lectures. Using a lot of those lessons now.

Not to mention the great contributions he's had in science and in developing some of the greatest scientist; Winston's flame will not burn out.

He used his talents wisely, lived a life that's an inspiration to us all who remain. May the Lord comfort his family and may his soul rest in peace. RIP fellow beaver
I don't move there...
Splitting the company would just mean selling the data (the only valuable asset they have) to somebody else, whoever would pay the most.
This happened to me as well but with a dentist. When I first moved to Boston I had never had any cavities but my new dentist kept remarking about how great my dental insurance was - I was in the insurance sweet spot of under 26 so I was covered by my mom's policy as primary and had secondary coverage through my dad's policy and my school's policy. Well wouldn't you know, I averaged two cavities a year during law school even though my brushing & flossing habits were unchanged.

When I finally graduated and switched to a dentist closer to my office I insisted to my new dentist that I had had six cavities filled and he insisted that I most definitely hadn't. There wasn't a single filling to be seen on my x-rays. Dentist #1 had been scheduling me to have a cavity drilled after every regular visit. Apparently he was just giving me a shot of lidocaine and pretending to drill in my mouth for an hour so he could bill my "great" insurance.
API versioning with query parameters is often an implementer nightmare.
I would imagine that Equifax was able to prove that they at least met the prudent man rule.

The prudent man rule which requires senior executives to take personal responsibility for ensuring the due care that ordinary, prudent individuals would exercise in the same situation. This rule, developed in the realm of fiscal responsibility, now applies to information security as well.

The intent was to patch the system but they experienced some sort of issue that prevented the timely action. From what I understand, you only have to show the courts that we tried to do the right thing and had the right intention.

Plus they aren't involved in any election scandals which certainly helps....

The one positive thing that came out of all this is that you can lock down your credit for free and open it again for free when you need to . Basically no one could ever open an account or credit card in your name if the offering party tries to run a credit report.
You can only watch so much content. Streaming platforms should pay the content creators based on what is actually watched. The fact that they chose to also produce content is irrelevant. That's a completely separate business and if they mixed their books that's their mistake and they have to deal with it.
The world is not planned like you think. All this is emergent behavior, motivated by the views and interests of the many players.

If you're a developer, you might try implementing a new feature. If you're a manager, you might encourage the developer because of his initiative and put it in. Some managers try to differentiate themselves think stuff up and have their folks do it. Marketing folks might come up with some hidden reason (learn more about our customers) and implement something extra just to collect more usage data.

The only place I've seen that discourages wild features is defense contractors. They strictly develop specifications for what will be created, then have requirement documents, then design documents tracking the requirements, then these are followed all the way through to delivery.
Very true. This just adds more fuel to the fire.
I can write about it on my personal website. Maybe I'll submit it here some time. I'm afraid it's not that interesting other than the emails of me trolling them.

I wish more people took them to court. It was not difficult to do and is quite an effective form of direct action because they have to spend quite a bit of money to fight it.
The intellectual property system in the USA has grown well beyond the constitutional motivation of increasing the public domain. Giving a copyright for life + 70 years hardly gives anyone the motivation to increase the size of the public domain, but it does give them the motivation to game the system to PREVENT CHANGE.
Many years ago, My TA in 6.034 for some reason gave me a C for the semester. This made no sense because I was 80% sure I was supposed to get an A. I was hesitant to get in touch with the head TA for the class because I wasn't the sort of student to complain about a grade, but I did it anyway. He told me to come in and talk to PHW himself.

I came in and he asked me why my TA would give me a C and I told him I had no idea. He asked me if I came into recitation, I said yes. He asked me if I participated in recitation and I said yes. He told me that they checked on my grades and indeed it was a mistake.

I thanked him for taking the time to review my grade, and that I've never complained about a grade before but it seemed very off in this case. The expression on his face suddenly firmed up from detached to grave and he looked me in the eye and said "Always speak up when you think something is wrong, if you've earned something don't let someone take it away from you."

It's hard to explain, but that instilled a permanent confidence in me. Whenever I've defended myself in my adult life since then, I've felt the confidence of PHW holding me up. It can't be understated how important little pieces of advice like this are for young people. RIP PHW
Sublime is really nice, I bought a license for V2. But after a lot of radio silence from the dev, I realized I never want to invest years building muscle memory and becoming dependent on specific plugins only to potentially have it disappear one day. Proprietary software is just not a good option for fundamental tools like a text editor.
Its a bit of a compromise from ARIN, because in order to sell it and be recognized by ARIN (able to update whois, get RKPI records, etc) the sellers must give ARIN authority over the sold netblock space.
I'm not sure I understand the difference between "being" and "existence"
i thought that as well, but there are still some hoops. or in the case of most of the apps for the Fire TV sticks, a new hurdle - unstoppable full screen video advertisements. i've noticed that releases of things like Popcorn Time have slowed down tremendously but Terrarium/cinema/etc for the fire sticks has picked up a lot. and they all have built-in ads now.

just interesting to me how the scene has changed.
Reached my Medium limit...
This sounds nice until you have to debug a crazy error that only happens in production.
Or maybe the Netflix Prize was just a PR/advertising exercise. $1M is cheap, all things considered.
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Plausible direction could be orbit around moon, no need to land and get back up
Am I the only person who actually finds Esc easier than C-[ or Caps Lock? Maybe it's just heavy muscle memory at this point, but I've been using Esc for years and every time I try to use anything else it just feels clunky.
In retrospect, many of the observations are good, even foresightfull.

I believe that VAX/VMS was based on some of these experiences plus careful reading of Structured Programming by Djikstra.

Unfortunately, DEC didn't grok the performance issue of microcoded CISC and Sun Sparc ate their lunch.

Lessons DEC learned:

. Combining engineering of hardware and software at the same time
. Networking as a medium of exchange including for storage (cluster interconnect, C I)
. Diverse software support, from C, PL/I, Cobol, etc
. VAXcluster as a means to converge management, storage, scalability, and so on

Novel tech:

. Software-supported coding, such as language-sensitive editing, w/o emacs
. A basic data architecture, based on Rdb. Weak, but sort of functional

Oopses:
. RISC. Eventually they made Alpha but FP sucked, even architecturally
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That being said, it's important to understand that in the US, penalties are assessed based on the seriousness of the infraction, not on whether the fine is a suitable punishment and deterrent.
Medium is now limiting the number of posts one can read before signing up with a Google or Facebook account.

Is there a reasonable workaround for this that doesn't require signing in?

EDIT: I suppose private browsing works well.
or your kid accidentally starts playing one of the "mock buster" movies. like the absolute garbage take off of Pacific Rim called "Atlantic Rim."

Now my feed is full of those. I wish Netflix would stop buying those movies.
"There is hardly ever lock contention, so I just ignored locks in my coding. It really sped up my deliveries and I got a good reputation for moving quickly. Sure there were some corner cases to clean up later, but by then I had moved onto another project where I moved fast and broke things!" - fictitious person we've all known
Of course we should question our political beliefs, I would never advocate for anything else. I like to employ a rhetorical device against myself sometimes to question my more hard-line stances: I ask myself "What evidence would convince me that I'm wrong?". It's quite an interesting question to ask, I think it helps you come to a better understand of your beliefs.

I disagree with your dismissal of my point, with your saying that "
Those are a lot of big conceptual ideas". These are big, but _important_ ideas. Abstract as they may be, they describe tangible concepts that have a lot of importance.
"I think at the end of the day people just want to know what will make their lives better" - Yes, therein lies the unfortunate complexity of politics.
As I said in my original post ( way up there ), I don't defend democracy because I believe that it best serves me ( I've felt for a long time that it serves other people's needs far better than mine ). I defend it because it's the best system I'm aware of for egalitarianism at scale.
What’s the story behind this idea? I’ve never looked into it so I don’t know if it’s a conspiracy theory or a well-documented event that is not common knowledge.

Edit: I also didn’t read the opioid article because I got paywall’d.
I'd say the tradeoffs are different rather than it never being a 'good option'. For me, paying for & using IntelliJ idea for most of my serious work has in practice been an excellent option for many years. It suits me & my working style in a way no open-source editors do. For that I'm trading the possibility that Jetbrains might die, or change its platform in a way I can't live with. In truth this has already paid off for me, regardless of what happens in the future. If I had to stop using it tomorrow it would have been well worth it.
Why..? Does it break through too many abstraction layers?
I’ve been waiting on JMAP to be published for years. Looking forward to its standardization.
Or maybe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion
Can you explain a bit why ES isn't a good solution for storing data itself?

I inherited a legacy Mongo solution, and all the data is duplicated and indexed in ES, so I've always wondered why we're using both. Mongo has none of the SQL capabilities that would make my life easier, and the types of queries allowed by Mongo could be done with ES.

What are the negatives of ES alone?