skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with this and I built wandb (wandb.com) to solve this problem. We try to do this in as lightweight a way as possible - for example we can do keras tracking with a single line (https://www.wandb.com/articles/visualize-keras-models-with-o...) and pytorch with just a couple lines (https://www.wandb.com/articles/monitor-your-pytorch-models-w...). Would love any feedback on it.
It's how it's used. Like how when Epic decided Fortnite should skip the Google Play Store and it's 30% cut, Project Zero suddenly was interested in checking the security of games (which you rarely if ever see), so they could find a vulnerability in it and feed it out to Google's favored press outlets with a constructed story about how Epic is compromising everyone's security by not using the Play Store. (Don't mind all the stories about malware in the Play Store, of course.)

As soon as a company slighted Google, it was immediately a Project Zero target, and that should tell you everything you need to know about why people are annoyed with them.
>What a hilarious spin on this. Are you implying they signed a contract or something? The fault is on the men who were stupid enough to send money to begin with.

Agreed. They fell for her... trick. Why do you believe the two are mutually exclusive?
I would assume that Netflix has data that shows hours watched is directly correlated with retention.

Think of hours watched as a leading indicator for retention. You don't want to only track retention because by the time it drops, it's too late.
I read she literally posted stolen data to github. Might as well have called up the FBI herself
Do you mind rephrasing that to make Google seem eviler? I have s confirmation bias to fulfill
> There are few organizations that have so much code they break available source control solutions but simultaneously don't have the technical expertise to manage a monorepo that large.

Facebook's Mononoke (https://github.com/facebookexperimental/mononoke) pretty much removes that argument. They outgrew their current source control, and that's their path forward for the next couple orders of magnitude.
> Just go full giggle at that point.

Well it's not as if you can just break into any old gun store or rural home and find a select-fire weapon.
It must be better/simpler than the centralized web or it will fail.
I tend to mainly use const, let only when necessary. I never use var and set linter to scream about it at me. IE11 supports it, so unless you develop application for IE compatibility mode (my condolences) I don't see a reason to use var. On the other hand var mainly bites you when declaring closures inside loops, also hoisting is just plain weird.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines. Could you please stop creating accounts to do that with?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I assume most people won’t sign up with their work or personal email or otherwise put revealing info on a porn site, so is this really an issue?
I would really disagree, the 2.5–2.7 UI was excellent. It was fast, efficient and extremely customisable to match the style of popular alternatives. The 2.4 era UI was a very different beast however.

The main issues new users have are often related to management of the deliberately non-modal UI which allows you to split the main window up in any way you like, kinda like tmux. With 2.80 tool sidebars now have big clear icons instead of rows of buttons with sometimes impenetrable words written on them.

Ultimately the 2.80 UI is much the same as the 2.79 UI with a more fashionable dark UI and a reworking of some idiosyncratic design choices (changing from right click select to left click select etc).
Hey Lukas! Love your work on wandb and very keen to find ways to integrate/collaborate :)
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Saying that one shouldn't behave in some way is not the same as claiming they have no right to behave in that way.
Perhaps it's simplest to refer to the comment I replied to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20565292
If you have a popular product then criminals will study the patches and reverse engineer the vulns. If you ship a patch then the vuln is known regardless of a post about it. Refusing to disclose patched issues does not improve security.
Highly doubtful. They were (mainly) “just” a telecommunications hardware/electronics company up until their purchase of Columbia Pictures in 1989; they wouldn’t have had an incentive to defend the entertainment sector in 1975 when Betamax was introduced.
Some other evidence was on GitLab too...

Lots of crumbs left all over social media.
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> What’s your idea?

How do I know that I won't be cheated if my project doesn't get chosen but my idea gets stolen by someone else instead?

I don't think I can trust ANY site to build my idea for free. That is far too much of a risk for it to be stolen by another person to implement it as a side-project if I don't get chosen.

The idea of 'Facebook' being 'stolen' by another person is an example of this.
I doubt people use personal email or put other revealing info on those sites anyway. Would this be an issue if you didn’t?
Why hours watched? Because Netflix wants as much of your time as you're willing to give. The more ingrained they are in your life, the less elastic your demand. We've seen them raise prices and remove just about all of the worthwhile content, and they have more subscribers than ever. Stay tuned for more of this.
> Another bill will mandate that websites display a banner if the user has been there for too long

Why wait? From Ars's writeup of the same bill[0]:

> As described in the text, social media companies would have to limit users to 30 minutes of use per day by default. Users would be allowed to choose their own time limits for daily and weekly use, but companies would have to reset that time limit to half an hour every single month, as well as providing "conspicuous pop-up" displays at least once every 30 minutes showing how much time you have spent using a service in the past day, across all devices.

This is just political grandstanding. (I hope) nobody would ever actually vote for this.

[0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/proposed-us-law-...
Someone already mentioned this. See my reply there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20567923
Depends entirely on how you use it. But for many many things it is already used professionally.

I used Maya as a 3D freelancer for some while and switched to Blender when Cycles got introduced. I never really regreted that decision. Odly enough the one point that I liked the most about Blender was its user interface – yeah it was weird, but it was consistent. If "g" moves things in the 3D window it moves things also in a timeline and in a compositor.

What does Blender need? I think 2.80 has done a lot of what the industry needs, especially in terms of 2D animation and performance improvements. My major caveat is, that Compositing with video sources is just slow.
There's still an information asymmetry that's powerful. If everyone knows that everyone is cheating on their spouse, it's ineffective. If the Stasi knows that everyone is cheating on their spouse, and isn't stupid enough to share quite all of that information with everyone, it's another story.

And with porn it's so multifaceted. Everybody breaches some taboo or other, but they're all different taboos. Not to mention that every social taboo immediately gets sexualized.

If the conspiracy theory was true though, they would have never let Tumblr go down. Tumblr was the mecca of weird, fringe, taboo porn. And they could even take down the people who made it.
Oh no, if you want the cynical view of capitalism it's that the already rich create a rigged system in which they are able to exert disproportionate influence on the government and regulators that affect their ability to create and preserve their own wealth. They then use this influence to push weaker competitors out of the marketplace, eventually creating a single monopoly on an industry. Allowed to go to its conclusion, you replace political empires with financial rule.

That's just the short version. "free for all" is actually the optimistic view in my opinion. At least in a "free for all" metaphor you have the assumption of equal standing and "the strongest" winning.
I recently started trying to learn c++ and I'd say I've got the basics down.

Sometimes I'll watch a talk by Scott Meyers or Jason Turner and realize how little I know, and how deeply complicated things can get. Then I go back to my code base and continue being productive writing useful code. I know it's probably not perfect, but it's still satisfying.

As for reaching perfection or mastery, that's an enjoyable journey, even knowing that the final destination is likely unreachable.
Check and make sure it's the same fingerprint across multiple runs.

I installed CanvasBlocker, and one of the things it does is fake results for a handful of API calls. So while Panopticlick reports a unique fingerprint each time, it looks (to me, based on their results) like a different browser each time.

In particular, the two most specific categories they track are canvas and webgl hashes. Those are changing every time, which I believe makes them less useful as tracking information; the next-most-specific thing is a list of fonts, which is almost two orders of magnitude less specific.
And iPhones have dedicated hardware for cellular, video decoding, decryption, a dedicated GPU, motion detection, face detection, etc....
That is why I said that I am not sure about the precise terminology. But it still does not change the fact that an object placed in the vacuum of outer space will eventually reach the temperature of the cosmic microwave background, i.e. the temperature of the electromagnetic radiation filling outer space. Also not that I am not talking about any vacuum, I am specifically talking about vacuum of outer space.
I apologize for making a comment with regard to politics, but I can't help feeling frustrated by the narrative around curbing "addictive behavior" coming from the political party that consistently extols the virtues of "personal responsibility" and regularly characterizes the desire to regulate harmful behavior as the machinations of a "nanny state". I find it especially frustrating in this case because the specifics of this proposal seem to be pretty poorly reasoned from a technical perspective.
How long do you think GDPR has been around for? Why do you think it was passed?
To each their own, but a lack of math skills has rarely hurt me in my career. I guess I could be getting paid even more money as an ML specialist if I had more math knowledge. But you can make absurd amounts of money as a skilled generalist, so that only hurts you if you really find meaning in that type of work above what you'd do as a generalist programmer. And if that's where you're at, you can always study the math now.
My agrument is not the article's premise applies equally to everyone in severity. My argument is that people are never who they present themselves to be. This is due a variety of things, a mix of intentional avoidance of topics and impossibility to completely share a lifetime experience with another, atomic human mind.

That you assume this claim is itself a deceptive act is an easy cognitive shortcut from parsing that I could be potentially as honest as you in my viewpoint. Why do that?
Yes, I'm trolling and I'm glad I see this day. I was an early Minolta adopter and always complained about Canon's and Nikon's arrogance, abusive pricing and limited/incompetent feature set. The day of reckoning is here!
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Most Fortune 500 companies are built on spreadsheets, so I’d say it’s pretty common ...

But honestly it also shows how unimportant tech stacks can be vs. the almighty product/market fit.
Mix of C++ and Python. They're both kind of awful in their own way, but well-supported and stable.
There is no trick without some mutual agreement on what will be given in return. And there wasn't any agreement.

Your reasoning is the same as this: a guy takes a girl out to an expensive dinner, expecting sex in return. And then he yells foul when she declines, even though there was never any agreement on her end. "But she tricked me into thinking she would!"

You are parroting the same bullshit, chauvinist reasoning that is so pervasive in the tech community.
I don't feel the subject of the article is a woman. I don't care. The rest of my post still stands. Stop focusing on useless stuff.
iOS users tend to be relatively quick about upgrades. Plus, the publication of the announcement contributes to word-of-mouth dissemination of the existence of the vulnerability and prompts those who haven't updated yet to do so.
The format library is a pre-existing library which is being standardized. String interpolation cannot be implemented in a library, and requires language extensions. Perhaps they should have done that instead, but that's a significantly more complicated task than merely adopting something that's already well tested and proven (and even that was far from trivial).
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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/bad-copyright-bill-mov...
I’m an expert user of Illustrator and I found Blender’s core UI choices weird and clumsy in a way that paid 3D programs weren’t. Blender fundamentally feels like it’s designed by someone who’s never used another art program in their life.
There have been HN threads on Chuck Moore's work and on GreenArrays, but specifically about ColorForth all I could find was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8219730 from 2014. Plenty of scattered comments though: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=colorforth&sort=byDate&dateRan...
Go here: https://www.netflix.com/HdToggle and then read from step 6, or...

go to: https://www.netflix.com/HdToggle#bxid_autoplay_true so you can move straight to step 7, or...

1. Select your profile

2. Hover mouse pointer over your avatar in upper right corner

3. Click "Account"

4. Scroll to "MY PROFILE" section

5. Click "Playback settings"

6. Scroll to "Auto-Play" section

7. Uncheck "Play next episode automatically"

8. Click "Save"
Consider if you upload a book to Amazon to sell they are taking anywhere from 30% to 65% of the sale. Or if you rent a movie from YouTube i'm sure they are taking some percentage in that ballpark and sending the rest to the movie studio.

My point is that all of these digital platforms are taking a percentage that is in that range. Apple probably gets called out the most because it's open to anyone, popular and it's fees are transparent but it's really the same across most digital platforms. I'm not saying the percentage isn't high but Apple isn't an outlier when it comes to the fees.
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One of the worst interview questions I have had was "Rate your C++ knowledge from 1 - 10".

I had just finished my second year of college, and although I felt fairly confident in my C++ abilities I had no idea how to answer. I thought it would be best to be honest and said "4" based on the subset of the huge language I knew (honestly this rating was probably too high at the time!).

One of the interviewers was obviously unhappy with the answer, and was unpleasant the rest of the interview. I have always wondered what they expected from such an vague question.
> Regarding transpilation surely it's not as standard as you make it out to be? It's popular to be sure but handwritten javascript is not that rare nowadays, is it?

I'd say for the last 5 years 90% of my browser JS projects used Webpack and Babel.
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They surely have a degree in some form of enginnering and are far beyond those that call themselves engineer without having put a foot into an university.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie#Personal_life_a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Harvard_Unive...
That's why vulns have been reported in all sorts of products that have nothing to do with Google's offerings and also in Google's own products, right?
How is the local religion ? does it include visible deities ? Maybe those become part of inner worlds of children inn SE Asia ?
Assume again. It’s probably safe to assume (I know, right?) people are more cautious with websites used to arrange cheating for married individuals than with the typical porn site, and yet as the Ashley Madison disaster revealed, people are just plain stupid when it comes to online privacy.
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Apple can't win.

Threre are two mobs... one of "They changed it, now it sucks" and on the other "They didn't change it, and now it sucks".
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People who are upgrading to new Macs aren't doing it to get a new version of macOS, they're doing it to get the new hardware bits.
Foundry's Mari [1] is pretty heavily used in bigger VFX houses for texturing and it is also available for Linux. Likewise, Allegorithmic's (now owned by Adobe) Substance is available for Linux [2].

1. https://www.foundry.com/products/mari/requirements

2. https://www.substance3d.com/products/tech-specs
Here's a nice video by OSP on him - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRLkjBUgB2o
What software suites are these companies using? I know some of these huge companies have their own in-house stuff but are the big commercial modelling products supporting linux now? I wasn't aware there were really options aside from blender. Also kind of surprises me that artists would be happy on a platform where you can't fire up Photoshop to muck around with a texture map.
Let's assume without proof that Glibc developers are good. Similarly, kernel.org developers are good as are the gcc.gnu.org people.

Should glibc, gcc and the kernel be in a monorepo?

(Cue laugh track ...)
Early adopter was pretty much anyone before y2k.
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I agree. I once worked with a Russian guy (it seems the communists were really good at teaching math) and he could often synthesize super elegant solutions because he knew how to express them in math. They were much shorter and more concise than my solutions which are often very much brute force.

On the other hand I have worked with physicists and mathematicians who were great at math but got nothing done in code. Applying math to coding seems a very special niche.
Does anyone here do Microservices well? And keep them in a monorepo?
Seems like the disconnect between you and others is your assumption there is some time gap of knowledge about the exploit after the patch is released.

Others have stated that almost immediately after patches are released they are reverse engineered to discover the exploits. So at that time, motivating people to upgrade to the patch is all benefit no?

If they're wrong about their assumptions, you might have a point. If you're wrong, what's the dispute?
Apple fucked up and created a buggy program and then they fucked up again because their automatic update doesn't actually update automatically as soon as the update is live, instead it does so at its own convenience days or weeks later. Oh and they also fucked up at fixing one of the bugs apparently.
Google then makes the exploits public with the end result that there are many devices which are vulnerable.

I see you've included the old, tired but still favorite excuses of security community that the exploits were probably already known by those other bad actors and if not we should anyway be grateful that those bug hunters aren't selling exploits to the global intelligence community...

Except the security community and Google inclusive have no freaking clue who or what has discovered those exploits. And now they're available to everyone.

Why exactly should anyone using iOS be grateful towards Apple or Google here? We're pawns in a stupid game between these companies. In this day and age all software companies should be forbidden by law to release any software that they can't prove secure. And if that means no releases for the next 10 years, too bad.
> because someone might discover it someday?

because many people will discover it immediately by looking at the patch.
So 100% of the team is composed by foreign workers? Given that US doesn't do certification of engineering degrees.

Can you please prove that to this audience.

Lets assume that is the case just to make you happy.

Then it is certainly a prof that the learnings weren't taken into consideration when setting up the quality certification chain of the iMesssages development process.
I am not sure if the self-driving software weights scenarios based on casualties. It should just follow what it has been trained for... mimicking human driving that have been labelled as correct.
To go back to your 1st scenario, as a human, seeing a family jumping in front of my car, in a split second, I would have probably try to avoid them, even if as a result it would have kill myself. Now, someone reviewing my driving, could decide in the insight that it was not the right decision and not train the self-driving with my sacrificial driving.
But at the end, it would just be one brain ("self-driving AI") that would make split-second decisions, for the better or worse... hopefully statistically better than human in general.
If cars talk to each other (again assuming trust, and that cars do not lie to each other), it could be used as one extra input for the car's self driving brain. Indirectly, you could consider that as controlling a car's self driving brain, if you know for sure how the car is going to react. Each car would make its own decisions, and adjust according to the consequences.
One person's vanity is another's identity. Dressing up like Bronie can be just a fulfilling as singing a hymn.

If you want everyone to stand tall with you, try meeting them where they are instead of pushing your world view as supreme.
Coordinates are required, and the results are limited by a square radius or by a postal code (hence, "starb" around one set of coordinates would return different results when centering around a different set). Let me know if that does not answer your question (API docs at https://www.nettoolkit.com/docs/autocomplete).
int foo() { bar(); } is a perfectly well-formed function as long as bar() never returns. Allowing this without requiring bar() to be annotated as noreturn is generally considered a mistake, but correcting it would break existing valid programs.
Apple’s future iPhone might add a time-of-flight camera
go LSF! are y'all attending SmallSat this year? the Kubos team would love to meet up if so :))
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> Humes Problem of Induction, for instance, is exactly an example of philosophical practice grappling with these unanswerables.

Hume's problem of induction is arguably the last substantial thought on the subject, right up through Popper's bridge problem.
Perhaps the roughly $700B defense budget could make up those cuts?

:)