skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the other hand, being admin on a system is not that different. Sure, you don't have users' passwords, but you can still do arbitrary stuff in their name. Very large organizations will have some sort of system that logs this stuff and that you can't tamper with, but in a lot of places you could easily cover your tracks.
If you haven't you should check out https://distill.pub/ it's mainly machine learning focussed but I really like the idea.
Silicon valley (TV show not place)?.
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I would avoid doing that, invariably they end up in dumps with your name and email next to them.

One of the more interesting things about reused "unique" passwords is they can serve as a fingerprint to link accounts you may not otherwise be able to attribute to the same account/individual.
> Scientists have greatly oversold the degree of their knowledge in most fields.

My impression is that the people doing the overselling were very much not the scientists in almost all cases.
"China is now a nightmare dictatorship"

I don't know if has not been in the recent past? It's certainly been nightbarish and a dictatorship for quite while.
Why would they need to verify you when they call your phone? When I got theses calls personnaly it was a robot voice that was simply asking if a few of my transactions were done by me. It only happened twice, and I feel they make sure to include both actual transactions and a few fake ones to verify your truthfulness because in both case I had one that was clearly wrong that I never saw in my transaction log and they didn't replace my card.
I can't flag comments for some reason. Is there JS I need to load?
The edits might not even be from China. Somehow CCP has managed to even get many Chinese abroad to attach part of their identity to the Chinese government so negative things about the government are personally insulting.
I would say Thanks for the call. I'm hanging up now to call my bank to verify this.
Hah, I used a modded iPod Mini as well! I was awesome, especially playlist handling. And playing Doom on it.
but booking with Airbnb was great at one point and it degraded greatly IMHO.

I couldn't agree more. I'm traveling pretty often but in the last year I have to say that I ended up hating Airbnb for their high fees, lack of customer support,and the plenty flaws in their system. Lately, I'm using booking.com just because are more professional and they even offer discounts after various bookings. A big minus with booking would be the small hotel rooms with no kitchen (not so cozy).
>e.g., if "j9^vl4JO" is wrong, what is the correct password?

Shouldn't that remain utterly trivial to brute though? If we're assuming all the standard face keys+shifted, I think that's 94 characters. If it's fully unknown then search space is 94^8 or about 6E15, not good but if it's an adaptive hash sizable. But if it's only a one character error, wouldn't you just brute through each of the 8 one by one with only 94 each? That'd reduce it to just 752 possibilities at worst which is so low someone determined could even do it by hand, even ignoring any obvious psychology like the likelihood that the special character isn't the mistake and probably the only special character too.

Certainly not quibbling that it's an awful idea. I don't even like "password hints" so many systems still seem to have, they should be random!
You often had to share your password in the real world. I've worked on systems where you were only allowed to login at one terminal at a time. If you are back and forth from your desk to the lab it is nice to know another password when you forget to logout in one location.
I'm in the process of ripping a system like this out of our main onboarding application. The idea sounded so great: "Just add another object to an array and the form field will magically appear with validation, persistence, etc". The reality is that business requirements turned it into a ton of special case "if" statements. I'm going to avoid that for the next go-round.
They said an exhaustive 7-bit search would take that long.

Edit: That would be 128^8 =~ 72 quadrillion DES hashes.
It is interesting to see the kind of messed up stuff that China does just by being a potential world power, imagine the indiscriminate killing and concentration camps that they will build on foreign soil when they reach a point where there is no one that can fight back.
I’ve lived in London for 15 years and I’ve never experienced that. I suspect it’s something of an urban myth.
I'm pretty sure colocation is cheaper if you know what you're doing (what to buy, where to colocate, what kind of bandwidth required, etc). I'm also pretty sure a good portion of cloud customers don't know or don't want to risk it.
Twitter is as well.

We can imagine the following dialogue:

Chinese patriot: I’m really angry about what the NBA said on Twitter about China!

Chinese secret police: We admire your patriotism Comrade... but how are you using Twitter?
Very easy to type as well
> It's not heroic and means nothing to Blizzard

On the contrary, I suspect that canceling a subscription is the only thing that means something to them.
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Food in general is a massively inefficient way to convert solar energy into muscular exertion. If you compare all the steps that occur from farming all the way to getting the food on your table, and then add in how inefficient our bodies are at converting food energy into mechanical energy, the results of the comparison becomes a lot less surprising. Electrical transmission, batteries, and electric motors are all very efficient by comparison.
In chess the beginning of the game is called opening.
Its a set of pre-calculated/analyzed moves that lead game into different type of positions (styles of play).

It would be madness to call people who use 'openings' lazy etc.

It's literally how the skill levels of given game are improved. If something works, use it, then improve it/evolve it and lift the skill cap of the game up.
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I don't understand how step 4 was achieved. How did they get a list of recent transactions? Or does the password reset functionality ask you to verify certain transactions?
This is a really smart strategy, and probably much more effective than a simple boycott. If the HK supporters do manage to get Overwatch banned by Chinese censors that will send an incredibly strong message to companies that they risk losing their entire China market if they oppose Hong Kong. However, I worry that the censors are smart enough to understand that this is a ploy.
A potential ethical difference is that self-driving cars are more likely to kill non-drivers than medicines are likely to kill non-patients. The well-publicized pedestrian fatality involving Uber's self driving suite is an example of the externalized risks inherent in self driving vehicles: the side effects were fatal for someone who did not consent to the risks of self driving cars.
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"China is Taiwan's largest trading partner."

This seems like even more coercion opportunity on the part of China onto Taiwan, tbh. I doubt Taiwan has similar leverage over China to asswert its independence.
So in a way, these guys are the fathers of the modern cell phone.
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Especially when you have a fairly steep up-front cost discouraging new players from trying it out, plus the promise of a lot more cash sinks if you want to keep playing.

IMHO Valve priced itself right out of the market. Multiplayer games require a critical mass of players to stay alive but Valve was running it like a niche hobby.
I just unblocked and followed you.

Thanks for the respect, much appreciated. ;-)
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Thanks for the responsive.

> I don't think this proliferation of linguistic communities is a bad thing. I just think it's interesting how different the articles they produce are.

Fully agree.
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Mechanically it's more or less unavoidable that call circuits are opened by the caller and can't close until the caller is disconnected with a Strowger exchange (electro-mechanical, pulse dialled). Once they moved to System X (the first digital exchanges, which introduced tone dialling though they can still interpret pulses) it becomes a matter of software engineering in the face of two conflicting considerations

1. Users do not expect the call to drop if for some reason the connection to the recipient momentarily is interrupted - there doesn't seem to be any obvious reason it should be right? Remember users don't understand how any of this actually works.

2. But, when they hang up, which to you as the exchange looks essentially the same as the connection being interrupted, they expected the call to end.

As an extreme example of (1) suppose you have a rotary telephone and idly while talking on a call you put a finger in the dial and dial a '4'. What do you expect to happen? Nothing right? Maybe it makes some click noises, and you apologise to the person at the other end. But those click noises are the same - for a fraction of a second - as hanging up. So if we just naively code the system to drop calls whenever it thinks anybody has hung up, the call drops. You can bet customers will not be happy.

So the providers would pick a plausible delay. OK, let's say after two minutes with the call recipient showing as closed we'll give up and end the call, the caller can always just call back if that's a mistake anyway.

Well this fraud comes into the picture, adding a third consideration to the balancing act. Most UK providers would go in and choose a new smaller timeout. One second seems to cause false positives. How about five seconds?

So there's going to have been a window, and it will vary depending on where you live. System X was definitely not everywhere in the 1980s. It will also depend how you tested. If you tried waiting 5 minutes and the timer was set for 30 seconds then your test seems fine, but a victim who hangs up, counts to five and then tries their bank will get stung.
>West funneled ridiculous amounts of money to oil exporters, which are predominantly authoritarian nations

The countries in question are authoritarian specifically because of the single dominant source of income (the oil exports). A specialized economy that relies on foreign sales is pretty easy to put under governmental control - and the arrangement is also convenient for the buyer. For non-authoritarian setup, you want diversified economy that's largely self-sufficient and trade-balanced; in such economy the government is mostly just an arbiter between roughly equal businesses and consumers.

>outsourcing manufacturing to China and them using the money to buy Western companies and real estate

The single biggest failure of the several recent US administrations: allowing the Chinese supply chain to become dominant; even "too big to fail". So big that there's a persistent narrative "we can't tariff chinese imports because it would hit the US consumers hard.". It is indeed similar to how the problem of oil imports used to be[1].

There's no fixing it other than slowly but surely shifting the bulk of imports away from China and towards multiple alternative sources[2]. Once there are several major sources of import competing[3], putting a tariff or two on China won't move the prices all that much, thus making the tariffs a practical tool of trade negotiations again.

--

[1] big props up to both Obama and Trump for helping domestic US oil extraction expand & provide a counterbalance to the foreign exports

[2] India is a particularly good candidate for a major trading partner, with compatible culture, existing economic ties, and already growing industry

[3] diversity
The issue isn't the use of technical words or trying to make the papers accessible to a general audience, it's that more and more publications are writing in an awful style and using unnecessary language to try and sound more scientific.
Often trying to cover up the fact their paper isn't very interesting or novel, but if it sounds really complicated it must be good, right?
Netdecking isn't really about learning from other players. It's like calling someone a script-kiddy rather than a hacker. Someone netdecking would not be able to craft that deck on their own, and is not looking to learn the skills to do so from it. They just want something with a stable winrate that someone else has researched.
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It sounds terrible, I feel truly sorry anyone has to live with so much air pollution. You're right I haven't seen any coverage of Kazakhstan in the media I read.
This story was first submitted 4 days ago, but not many were paying attention at that time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21164775
One area I've heard of this being used is when companies buy lists of email addresses of people in certain industries (which is usually not illegal per se) and then upload them to Facebook's advertising platform to do targeting (rather than spamming them directly).
Wouldn't it be expected that companies who are targeted by PE are more likely to go bankrupt, independent of any actions by the PE firm? They say they're targeting poorly run companies, after all. (Not to disagree with your larger point, but want to correct any mistakes in my understanding.)
I wrote a few posts on this topic that may be helpful: http://btorpey.github.io/blog/categories/static-analysis/
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This is starting to feel like a homework question.

Why do you want to know, and what have you already learned from reading the articles I provided?
In a few years those "clean" diesel cars will be sold on the used market in Eastern Europe / Africa / Middle East. At which point the new owners will disable all the pollution control systems to eliminate maintenance hassles.
I'm not criticizing any philosophy, just describing how people in some communities write. It's a matter of form and conventions, not content.
Uphill! Both ways!

How many fewer calories do I burn when typing on a low-travel keyboard rather than an old mainframe keyboard?
Whoa - its possible to have dental care and go to the doctor for most things, and not cost $20K per year.

So, healthcare/insurance is not really a priority for people - until it is. Until something major/fixable but very expensive occurs. Then its a priority.

So forgive people for being a little blind on the subject. Its insurance after all - you're betting the other guy your house will burn down, and hoping they win. Very strange issue, and not entirely obvious what the best solution might be.

If we could pay for everybody's unlimited medical care, maybe we'd do that. But it might not be affordable. So what kind of 'rationing' do we concede to? Because that's where the issue ends up.
It's also a rogue-lite, which are the most streamable types of games.

Games where you're winning up until the point of losing (Slay the spire, Fortnite) are easy for a person watching to answer, "Is this person winning?" because they answer is always yes.

Tuning into someone playing Dota, CSGO or a cardgame that is harder to answer, because they have to know enough about the current game-state (often both visible and hidden) including past states to make that judgement.

Slay the spire has fun amounts of randomness with a seriously challenging top-end difficulty. (The world's best have a ~30% win rate against A20 hearts).

But STS is also single player, and it's not really a card game in the pure sense. The player is playing cards but critically, and this is key to the balance and fun of STS, the opponent is not.

The computer never tries to play cards, which means it never tries and fails to be good at playing cards. The enemies movesets have almost nothing to do with card playing which has leant the developers the freedom to explore some really unique and fun enemies such as the reptomancer which spawns more and more minions or the spaghetti monster which can add curses (negative cards) to the player deck permanently, or the transient smoke monster where you're not supposed to kill it's 999hp because it runs away after a few turns anyway.

That wouldn't be possible in a game where the enemies were designed to use the actual cards, because it would risk that power creeping into the player, which would inevitably eventually win.

This form of deck-builder where it's only the player playing a card game is the real breakthrough that STS made, it breaks all the rules of deck builders but still works.

That combined with the streambility means that it supports a few streamers who stream almost uniquely slay the spire.
We're dancing around the point here.

Point being, that we cannot always determine the effects of continuously repeating small, seemingly benign actions. Taking tens of thousands of tons of salt from one place on Earth and dumping it on another where salt is relatively scarce has unknown side effects.

Hand-waving over it with "eh, but it probably won't hurt anything" misses the point of the discussion. That is the attitude that tends to get us trouble.

Smoking: "eh, that's probably not what's causing you to get sick"
Climate change: "eh, it's probably not us"
etc.
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Maybe this is because the Great Firewall doesn't apply in China's special administrative regions (Hong Kong; Macau), yet there are many Chinese speakers there. I'd expect this is the main audience for Chinese-language Wikipedia articles, and the PRC would want to control the narrative seen by them.
I hear all these thoughts and feelings on RMS lately. For some reason not as many on Free Software.

Wonder what it will be like in, say, 5 years.
I guess you mean the price at the pump?

Can't say I've noticed because I try to drive our diesel as little as possible. The difference in road tax between diesel and benzine is pretty large though. I can't wait to get rid of our diesel car.
Yes - it’s local to the point that air quality can vary significantly within a matter of feet along large or congested roads and walking closer to buildings/further from the road in these areas is a surprisingly simple thing you can do to improve the quality of air you breath.
Possibly a conflicting interest: Wikipedia.com/trump_towers_istanbul
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Just another diesel smear article.
"One American decided to move home to spare his family."

Oh the irony. This tones sounds like FUD quite a lot.

The overall mortality rate in US is much higher.
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I mean, today you have a functional democracy building your hardware/software while allowing others such as South Korea and Japan to fight toe to toe in the tech environment. In the future you will have a foreign authoritarian dictatorship stealing yours and everyone's IP making sure that India and others can never compete with their interests. You will be using cameras and other IT tools with backdoor ensuring that they can keep tabs on every Indian so that they can use that data to blackmail and exert power on your government. Yesterday it was the Hun under Mao, then Tibet, today it is the Uighurs, tomorrow it is their own population and yours.
If you can find a good link about why algebraic notation is better, it would make an excellent HN post of its own today.
>The part where anyone thinks it's a credible threat?

50% of people in Taiwan believe that China will invade if they declare independence.

So yes half of the country thinks it's a credible threat. [1, 2]

And only 6% think their situation has improved over this time last year. So "everyone's getting richer" certain isn't the perception in Taiwan.

1. Survey http://www.taiwansecurity.org/app/news.php?Sn=15761

2. Summary
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/what-latest-opinion-pol...
OK, so firstly:

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Secondly, I can't parse the title as presented.

So, can anyone provide some insight?
Number 1 rule of banking and other services, they NEVER ask for your password or other authentication code. Usually I don't even think they would contact you by email or by phone.

If they really suspect a fraud, they would block your account, and eventually ask for a meeting.
What is the problem people have with the ICE? I think most people would agree that it is important to have a department to handle immigration, and they are deporting significantly fewer people now that during the Obama administration.
I don't believe I've seen anyone say that they're against deplatforming, while being for deplatforming.

What I think instead is that people who were against previous de-platforming (whatever their reason) want to use this situation, which is obviously egregious and cowardly on the part of Blizzard, to muddy the water.
Sure, but like all the 0.99+ correlations, that one is just two lines moving in the same direction.
But then he would have a more easily crackable password
I understand that the majority of equity is coming from LPs but that's not the point I was making. The way the author framed it sounded like the deals were 90% debt and 10% equity which is not the case.

It depends on the size of manager and I've seen GP commits range from 1% to 10%. The largest dollar commitment I've seen is in the ~$500m ballpark....either way what matters is whether the GP commit is meaningful in terms of their own net worth due to alignment of interest. Again this is not a black and white issue....some GPs do have skin in the game.

Most people do not understand debt including the author...at the moment, debt is so darn cheap, tax-effecient and covenant-lite that it's almost free money.... I would rather be on the equity side of the equation then be a lender....whether that would be a bank or high yield/junk bond investor.

I would argue that raising a PE fund is asymmetric for the manager since heads: I earn plenty of carried interest....tails: I get fat from the management fees and hold onto the portfolio companies for as long as I can (~10 years).

Which segment of the PE market are you refering to? What do you mean by financial engineering? I've spent a lot of my time in the US LMM and I see plenty of value creation/professionalization of small businesses. That said, I appreciate the fact that that kind of work is harder to do at the larger end...and it's more about the leverage, buying right with the right secular trends etc. Again not black and white....

For example on job creation:

"We find that the real-side effects of buyouts on target firms and their workers vary greatly by deal type and market conditions... This conclusion cast doubts on the efficacy of 'one-size-fits-all' policy prescriptions for private equity."

If I was to use an analogy with regards to the article, its as if someone tried describing the entire software industry to an outsider by only refering to Microsoft, Google and IBM...what about the rest of the industry?

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In no way does Hinduism contrast that. And Yoga is not a religion.

Eternal recurrence is also a Hindu concept. The Eternal part is a little iffy at times though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_return
More specifically, pointing out someone else's stupidity is rarely welcome.
I agree. In those cases, sell those customer separate products and expectations and price it accordingly.
I'd bet civilian/recreational players are also a tiny minority. Depends upon where you are of course. But hard to reconcile the 'obese American' with the image of a nation of sportspeople, for instance.