skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As Amazon continues their vertical integration, it's not clear whether this problem will be addressed or not.

Amazon might make things a lot worse. The “recommended by amazon” windows 10 keys are mostly fake ripoffs at this point with pages of complaints in the reviews

Edit: added quote
Racial Bias in AI Isn’t Getting Better and Neither Are Researchers’ Excuses
Sorry, it is actually called Simultaneous multithreading (SMT).
I bet they didn't have sprints and OKR like increasing the number of active users by 50% in one quarter. Nethack is a product of love to rogues and hobby software development.
Reporting.

For example, we use mastery-based progression, where students don't move on to the next unit until they've demonstrated mastery in the unit they're currently in, even if it takes longer. It's super expensive to do, but incredibly, incredibly effective.

When a student repeats a week we call that a "flex."

Regulators ask us how long a course is and what exactly the curriculum is for every week. As you can imagine, building in mastery-based progression into the program wasn't on anyone's mind when they created all the regulations.
I have a question about the political purposes of some of these responses. The article notes that China sortied J-11 multiple times. But the J-11 (which is just a licensed Su-27) doesn't carry anti-ship missiles, or even laser-guided bombs. Why use that aircraft against a cruiser? I suppose it would be a threat to the Seahawks, but in a real conflict the cruiser would be more than capable of defending them. I mean I get that this isn't a real military conflict so that doesn't matter, but is that communicating some sort of message? Maybe that the PLA isn't able to produce lots of ASuW sorties on demand, or maybe the PLA is trying to demonstrate they aren't really concerned about a cruiser? I feel like the actions in these sorts of maneuvers speak volumes, but I'm just not able to pick up the meaning.
Just because something works for you, it doesn't mean it works for everyone else, or that everyone else would even find it tolerable.

I have a lot of difficulty falling asleep (exacerbated by even the most comfortable of earplugs), and a decent amount of difficulty staying asleep once I do. It is absolutely not unreasonable to expect that people adhere to low noise levels at night. If you want to stay in a place where people are exploding things outside your house, knock yourself out. You are certainly in the minority.
Kind of like the AT&T "hack" wherein just changing the url leaked other customers info.

They were still successfully prosecuted though. And AT&T received no punishment.

When a company says jump the USG asks how high.
Misconfigured WAF - see my comment elsewhere here.

Correction: according to the complaint, the defendant is alleged to have assumed an IAM role in the context of Capital One's account whose policy provided access to the S3 bucket in question. So it wasn't that the S3 bucket was public, but rather, that there was some vulnerability she took advantage of by which she obtained indirect credentials to it.

(Complaint, page 6, lines 14-27.)
Well, the main cloud Capital One uses is Amazon as far as I know.

If you think about the attack vectors here, it was most definitely the virtual server that got attacked. If it was the cloud provider (Amazon), there are a lot of safeguards that these banks use to make sure that any data that touches the shared server persistent storage is encrypted. And when I say safeguards, I mean automation to make sure that this sort of scenario shouldn't ever happen.

This is a huge blow for the public cloud and financial services companies, unfortunately.

Edit: Seemingly a WAF firewall issue. I wonder what happened. These rules should be applied automatically for Capital One using Cloud Custodian [0], so a config issue definitely occurred somewhere.

Final edit: A leaked account with access to IAM permissions. Good lord was occam's razor correct here.

[0] https://github.com/cloud-custodian/cloud-custodian
intrusion occurred through a misconfigured web application firewall

The affidavit states “exfiltrating and stealing information, including credit card applications and other documents”.

She used a particular role to exfill from an S3 bucket. Not sure how she got the creds for the role she used to execute List Buckets, etc...

Affidavit shows the accused was an employee at the unnamed cloud vendor (clearly AWS at this point) from 2015 - 2016.
Tornado, a python web framework. I doubt it is still popular today. But reading the source code is a pleasure. Its naming conveys clearly; its encapsulation allows extensibility; its documentation teaches me how to write an industry-level library.

https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado/blob/master/tornado/io...
That's definitely a possibility and I agree that it will be the likely outcome but I don't think that this should be the take away from the OP.

I think the take away from the OP should be that there are other possibilities. We shouldn't think that the current state of YouTube is somehow optimal or the peak of video sharing simply because it is owned by a behemoth like Alphabet. Too often people assume that because Alphabet employs a lot of highly educated people who often happen to be very intelligent that the products they produce must be the pinnacle of creation but they're not. Their products are often just good enough or designed in such a way to make switching difficult.

You've correctly identified the underlying issue here -- misaligned incentives. As the dominant player in this field YouTube can no longer increase user count so they instead want to maximize per user revenue and the ways to go about are that produce a sub-optimal user and content creator experience.

Tik-Tok and Youtube before it are guilty of a common thing today which is basically business model bait and switch. Cool, Hip tech companies offer one thing to entice new users and once they get established they switch to a model that locks you in.

The solution isn't to just tweak content selection algorithms it's to move to a decentralized content distribution system so that we can't be lured into these kinds of bait and switch traps again.
Finding Fibonacci Numbers Using Lambda Calculus
No, I mean really Pittsburg/Philadelphia, like Minneapolis/St. Paul, Seattle/Tacoma, or Raleigh/Durham.

Yes, the distance between respective city centers is farther than those others, but that makes it more inclusive.
They probably can't be regulated as a utility by any government in particular without fragmenting the namespace.
Ha! Not really. I've sustained enough blunt force trauma to the head that I have to work really hard to maintain enough focus to cross the street without falling over...
"It" referred to this earlier hypothetical:

> I have no idea what happens if two non-romantic roomates buy a couch together, and one of them moves out though.

I'd certainly hope the couch would fall under the $10,000 limit for small claims.
But that just isn't the way science works. That's why a probabilistic way of viewing it makes more sense than simple falsification. No serious theory in science is ever going to be overturned with "just one test". At most, one's estimate of the theory's truth is going to be slightly reduced when a counterexample is found, as every scientific theory is just a model of the world, and obviously can't cover every minor exception. If it turns out that many exceptions are found, then yes, the theory has a problem and needs to be fixed.
Where do you go to get lab stones?
If the Seattle "Paige T." is the person with a public Linkedin profile, their recent job history includes "Systems Engineer" at AWS. That could be connected with the breach.
I can’t make any sense of this comment
Just being as simple as "suppliers must offer the same terms to all parties" might be sufficient, though I suppose the loophole is just making the terms insanely complicated in that case.
I know your comment is meant as a potshot, but it actually points out an interesting side-point: safer than putting in a natural gas plant.

In California, the Puente gas plant made headlines last year because they found it was cheaper to create battery storage than an equivalently-sized gas peaker plant. A large part was permitting and land rights. People don't want an emissions-spewing gas plant in their backyard, but an array of batteries in what looks like every other industrial warehouse is much more palatable. (Time-to-go-live was another factor: battery arrays are modular and can be distributed across multiple sites to further minimize risk, a gas plant is a massive multi-year centralized organizational challenge with all the associated costs and all-or-nothing risks)

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/sce-picks-major...
I'll have you know that my phone is at least eight inches away from my head at night.
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I can't really agree with 'promising'. A tower that can lift 100 tons 50 meters is not exactly cheap, and only stores 13.6 kilowatt hours.
> [Lithium] is a recyclable component.

But lithium is only 5%* of the value of a battery, so it's the other 95% of the impact of battery production that matters.

* the market for mined lithium raw material may be worth $20 billion, compared with $43 billion for refined products and $424 billion for battery cells - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-28/the-lithi...
Read this sentence as "600+ major markets, internationally".

A "major market" is basically a city/metro.
Not sure why the downvotes. If a news provider can’t promise to try to tell the truth in a legally binding way, but just claims to be editorializing, it’s no wonder there is so much public distrust of the news.
UFOs, Religion and Technology
If I came across an s3 bucket with my credit application details and I could delete it, I would probably do it and then report to their security team. It’s MY data security they’re being casual with.

It occurs to me now that if I did that it would likely be a crime because of the harm to the company. The irony.
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"AW: I much preferred implementing and coding in LISP, but once I was dealing with big data sets and then having to do fairly simple calculations, APL just seemed to have the better vocabulary. It had to come up one level. Common LISP even then had about 2,000 primitives. I didn’t like that. What I liked was the original LISP, which had car, cdr, cons, and cond, but that was too little. Common LISP was way too big, but a strippeddown version of APL was in the middle with about 50 operations."

I wonder why he didn't try Scheme. That should have fit the bill, and have been much closer to Lisp than APL.
You're comparing two different things though. Not everyone can have the closest parking space, but couldn't everyone attend the meeting remotely?

If you add the capability to do it then I can give you a thousand reasons why someone should need it. They could be photosensitive and need to avoid sunlight, or agoraphobic, or have children they can't leave home alone, or follow a religion that requires them not to look upon an uncovered woman who is not their wife. They could be poor and unable to afford the travel, or live far away from the meeting place.

By the time I'm done listing reasons, there won't be anybody left without one.

The same is true for parking spaces, but giving everyone the closest parking space is not an option. How is allowing anyone to attend remotely not an option?
Sounds less like intrusion and more like accidental exposure by Capital One.
It looks like Liftbridge occupies a nice little niche between full-blown, durable Kafka and lightweight, ephemeral NATS.

Additional reading: https://bravenewgeek.com/introducing-liftbridge-lightweight-...
Obvious failure modes of "equal treatment to everyone" include six year olds joining the army.
What are you gaining from removing disabled people from "everyone"? You're against protections for these people because it's not fair to you? Ever consider that your way is not fair to them and potentially any other arbitrarily defined group of people?
Climate Change is a funny way to say farmers are using all the water to irrigate what is naturally an arid desert.
Apple asks.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/15983291/united-states-...
It's not a measure though, lower prices are the target.

That law only applies when the ultimate desired goal is different from the target. When the target is the goal then using it as a measure works perfectly.
You could have omitted the “private” and it would still be just as true.
This was SOP for me when I worked as the receiver in a supermarket from ~2007-2011.

It’s a shame, I must have thrown thousands and thousands of books away, instead of donating them to a library or something.

But then again, I guess the library would only accept so many copies of the same nascar-themed trashy romance novel.
You have the same right to accommodation when/if you are ever disabled as anyone else. If you aren't disabled and don't need the accommodation to function normally or without medical complications then you aren't being deprived of anything.
Who cares if it has your data in it or not. Just report it to authorities and the guy who runs haveibeenpwned.

Plus what are you going to do with credit card applications anyway? Sell them to a marketing company with some phony story? Or the 'sell them on the darknet to fraudsters in Russia' angle? Unless you're already involved in some dirty business already this isn't very valuable.
Everyone enjoys the right that if you are unable to fulfill your job due to a disability, and a reasonable accommodation could be provided which would allow you to fulfill your job, you’re entitled to the accommodation.
Either that or an open MongoDB with default credentials. Again.
It'd effectively make insurers (and everyone else who pays for healthcare) one big negotiating block. The weakest payer gets the benefits of scale of the largest. One might hope that would push prices down.

(for the record I personally just want the simplest thing that's very likely to work—single payer—rather than any complicated poke-the-market-and-pray solutions, but I think that's the idea of such a measure)
>Step 3 is equivalent to step 1 now, except that instead of "statements" and "expressions" you have "events" and "yields". It's still "the code" for any meaningful definition.

Sure. The author doesn't communicate their idea their well, but it's an interesting suggestion (even if not practical at large). It's not far to what some protocols/systems do (though they do it at a higher abstraction that the code level).

>Obvious to whom? What is to prevent some future maintainer from breaking that requirement when they bolt on their change?

Nothing. What is to prevent some future maintainer from breaking that requirement when they bolt on their change on any other codebase? As long as one has access to source, they can break any and all kinds of contracts and requirements trivially.

>There was clearly a previous requirement to have the water jump to cold by three units. Is that requirement null and void?

That requirement (or function) never went anywhere. As the post explains, the new functionality is only triggered when the water level is low (and the old is untouched).

"The b-thread from before remains untouched. We added a new one to the right. For now there’s nothing surprising. The behavior of this program (compromised of these 2 b-threads) is that whenever “waterLevelLow” happens, we add hot 3 times and then add cold 3 times."
Dear "Seattle Woman": while you're in there, please dump Capital One's junk mail database, and set their address label printer on fire.

Sincerely, another Seattle resident with a mailbox.
The same thing has been true of mobile games for a while. A lot of the ad inventory displayed in free games is ads for more free games -- sure, there's some real revenue from in-app purchases, but there's also a lot of money getting passed from hand to hand for ads.
...Autobidder, Tesla’s machine-learning platform for automated energy trading. Tesla customers have already used Autobidder to dispatch more than 100 GWh of energy in global electricity markets."

Tesla is in Enron's business?
Actually, now I am all spun around. The kenel configuration I was thinking of is indeed SMP [1] or Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP)

[1] https://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_kernel/kernel_...

I will correct my typo above and expand the TLA (I can't edit my original post. Sorry for the confusion)
I had an impression that they hired lots of people at very high salaries to build fast and establish a presence all over the world.

Now that they have something nice built and are all over the world, it's a great time to cut costs. A lot of the people they've hired probably have some equity and so they're probably just fine getting laid off after the IPO.
Banks know what you spend + where.

Your smartphone knows what photos you send to who.

People put their voting preferences on their lawn + bumper sticker in America. I never knew voting was secretive?
I don't think it's a strawman, because I think laws like the UK one come from a motivation or principle which is not going away. That is: to make laws that sound appealing to enough of the population, which make life ruinously and cruelly as harsh as possible for a minority.

The principle being "if we make life unbearable they will somehow find a way to leave, we don't care how as it's not our problem, and we don't care if it's so unbearable that the quality of life is significantly worse than the minimum our human rights principles theoretically guarantee".

Essentially, they are already supposed to survive on magic or starve and die, even though no minister would admit that. (And some of them _are_ dying.)

It seems clear that the government which instituted those laws does not seriously consider the wellbeing of that minority, as if they aren't people at all. Political statements like "making a country for the good of all" are meant to gloss over the fact that said minority is not part of the "all".

I think it's this principle which is in play on an ongoing basis, not the laws of the day.

So in a cashless economy, I think the principle of "as harsh as possible and we don't care about their wellbeing or basic human rights" will continue, and due to system side effects (rather than intentionally), the consequences will become progressively more severe for a minority.

For people to not be excluded in a near-future cashless economy, the driving principle would have to actively change, to make sure everyone has some access to the cashless economy, and at the moment, I see no sign that popular governments would implement something like that.
I’d be very interested in that as well, and I agree it seems verbose simply for the sake of maintaining a one-one func-contract correspondence.

Maybe there’s some trade-off I’m not seeing here, though.
Hang on a sec, you're assuming that the water is smoothly accelerating at 9.81ms^2 for the entire 2km way down.

You forgot to subtract energy losses due to drag which cancel out your exponential advantage.
I'm not convinced about the editorialized "may spell the death". It just means that if Facebook wants their Like buttons to be used by companies serving the EU, they will need to take steps that those companies are confident that they obey the law. Assuming that Facebook benefit from the arrangement, why wouldn't they do this?
"When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity — y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:
music,
movies,
microcode (software),
high-speed pizza delivery"
Woah man.

You could be costing some unfortunate woman her job here man. Kind of like when that lady cop broke into that black guy's apartment and blew him away. Then all these people on social media started posting pictures of his coworker on social media and almost cost the woman her position at PwC.

We should try to be a little more responsible than that.
Like the author, FORTRAN was my first language in the mid nineties.
Thank you for the link, interesting read! The article is available in english as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superph%C3%A9nix

My executive summary: construction began in 1976 and the plant was decomissioned in 1997. It never operated satisfactorily and had a couple of incidents. It produced electricity in the value of about 1,85 billion francs, at the expense of about 60 billion francs until today (producing even more costs until its ultimate deconstruction until 2027), leaving 650 fuel rods in temporary storage pools. It was the last reactor of this type (fissile breeding?) that was built in Europe.

I do not believe, this is the type of "reactor with advanced technology, that can actually reprocess tons of old fuel", that user "bifrost" mentioned above?
Ok but what if I don't want to watch random videos that may or may not be good?
I built http://sublim.nl/crxviewer/ to do exactly that -- load in an extension and view the source, including doing a search through all files.
Unikernels are more a glimpse of the future than a mirage, they're maybe not ready for general-purpose use but they are certainly quite real.
It's a wild ride. Who hacks in via Tor and then posts the data to a GitLab account under their own name?
iPhone 7 is $449 on Apple's website.
Why, exactly, did she "post[ed] on the information sharing site GitHub about her theft of information from the servers storing Capital One data" ?

That seems... unwise. Anyone have a pointer to the github post? Would be interesting to see if it was a "Haha! Look what I did!" kind of thing, or a "Crap, CapOne has an open S3 bucket" kind of post.
We do not have details of this anomaly, but I hope you understand that some situations must be simulated, flying into them is difficult, maybe not possible, or downright unsafe.

I don't know how much about planes do you know (I'm starting to feel not much since excessive, maintained pitch during flare didn't tell you anything). But the context explained here is rare and obviously more manageable than "one of three redundant sensors failed and an aircraft went out of the sky without giving the crew even a possibility to save their lives".

EDIT:
Found new details. The pilot has to keep the excessive pitch although AWARE that he is stalling the aircraft.
Oh oh oh. Can I play?

Everyone is entitled to enter a restroom or no one is. I can get behind that. No more multi-toilet rooms with stall gaps.
These specs are really impressive. I'm actually in the market for a phone upgrade, and the $700 price is not an objection, given what I'd be supporting.

What does concern me is the apparent lack of a verified boot option for the phone. I'm not sure, but it appears there's no trusted boot option to use signed firmware and OS. Android and iPhone have had verified boot for years now. Given Librem's focus on privacy and security, and assuming my understanding of the phone's current capabilities is correct, I'm surprised that Librem wasn't able to come up
with some solution, particularly given their innovative approaches to firmware security in laptops.

And I jumping to the wrong conclusion? Did they end up implementing a verified boot feature? Last I checked, it wasn't looking very likely. They had pretty much ruled out TPM.

Regardless, a big congratulation to librem. They've accomplished a very difficult goal. I'm guessing that if they don't have a verified boot currently, they're working on it for future versions of the phone.
Can you please share where this place is, it's name and what's good?