skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering if this was going to continue. I listened to the episodes about two lovers split up by the war and the one about the militia operating out of an old Amazon warehouse. I liked them both but the lovers one was really good. Trying to piece together what the Program was doing and how it worked along with a really relatable story of two people separated by chance.
Snowbrawl [video]
> workflow DynamoDbUserStore
> = 4 . (3 (2 1))

> workflow UsernameLetterCountPublisher
> = 5 (4 (3 (2 1)))

The workflow notation seems a little rough for readability even though its functional meaning fairly clear as you pretty much have to read a specific invocation of a workflow in context to confirm what's happening since the functions in a workflow could be anything and the workflow declaration is so generic.

On the other hand, when you see the named picture versions it's very clear. And I can't think of anything to address my minor criticism doesn't just make the notation worse.
Everyone is bugging themselves.
> encryption so middleboxes can’t see what you’re looking at
> guarantee (via the PKI) that the server you’re about to send your banking credentials to is using a cert that belongs to the domain name in the address bar that you trust sending your credentials to.

The purpose of SXG is to allow publisher signing of edge-cache accelerated public content - i.e. it's read-only - not to encrypt private information like credentials in transport. Https still handles encrypted transport independently of SXG.

Also, why or how would someone create a system that accepted private info or credentials via signed SXG anyways? There's literally no mechanism in it to achieve that. If you tried to build a password entry field for your bank website and distributed it via SXG, it wouldn't even work in the first place.
Right, that's the problem IMO, the usual way processes are segregated on Linux harks back to the day of UNIX mainframes shared across dozens of users. It still makes some sense on servers where you want to isolate, say, the database from the web server from postfix from sshd but it's almost entirely inadequate for single-user desktop computers.

On my desktop root doesn't really matter, if my user gets compromised it's already game over. I have a lot more to lose if by browser gets backdoored that if my /etc/shadow gets leaked.
How I Made Redux a Pleasure to Use with Hooks-for-Redux (H4R)
Global Poll Shows 71% Support Regulation of Tech Giants to Protect Data Privacy
Seed and Series A is investment in the people always. They assume if the product doesn't work the team will pivot until they find something that does. It sounds to me like your friend failed to pivot when needed.
I'm glad I saw this... I've had the old feed in my reader all this time, waiting for a new episode that never came. If you still have the old feed up it might be worth publishing a small announcement ep to add the new feed?

Anyway, good luck and I can't wait to listen to the new eps!
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Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

I believe that I did "actually describe a scenario where it was well functioning but ran out of money."

From my essay:

"Nothing can grow forever. Sooner or later, something is going to happen that causes the donations to decline instead of increase. It could be a scandal (real or perceived). It could be the WMF taking a political position that offends many donors. Or it could be a recession, leaving people with less money to give. It might even be a lawsuit that forces the WMF to pay out a judgement that is larger than the reserve. Whatever the reason is, it will happen. It would be naïve to think that the WMF, which up to this point has never seriously considered any sort of spending limits, will suddenly discover fiscal prudence when the revenues start to decline. It is far more likely that the WMF will not react to a drop in donations by decreasing spending, but instead will ramp up fund-raising efforts while burning through our reserves and our endowment."
It stops this shit over time. So, in other words, the people that would be heisting are now in jail, had ring been popular 10 years ago. If, indeed that doesn't change anything, then the blame would at least be on the police or our laws or something.
Precisely. Most of the controversy about Ring is the risk that the data is being accessed without user consent by parties hostile to the user's best interests, not that the device collects the data at all.

In general, people bought the device to collect this data (for their own use).
That unit test would be just as easily implemented with dynamic typing.
On Duckduckgo there's a switch to turn on Region just below the search-field, or even choose Region manually. It helps alot!
On your fourth point, a downturn is widely anticipated and aircraft manufacturers would be particularly affected.
Segmentio/encoding: optimized drop-in replacement for Go's encoding/JSON package
> signed by our computers using our private keys before delivery to you

Please try to explain that to an everyday grandma.

I still dont' see how it's an improvement. The file can be masqueraded by an arbitrary server god knows where and still be served as valid to me. Anyone who has the file can intercept the form data from that page now - a complete phishing attack. There are so many things that can go horribly wrong it just makes one wonder what's wrong with googlers these days: https://blog.intelx.io/2019/04/15/a-new-type-of-http-client-...
IoT is susceptible to the same "cloud / personal" tradeoff as most computing these days.

You can roll your own home server and home network, but then you're responsible for maintaining and upgrading (and, most importantly, securing) it.
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Yeah, this act was wildly indiscriminate. Russia could easily have limited the propagation of NotPetya to Ukraine only, but chose not to. That makes the act irresponsible and comparable to distributing an infectious biological agent via randomly addressed mail bombs that were posted in Kiev.

An appropriate response needs to arise from a cooperative authority like the UN or Interpol, and needs a policy suited to address future events before they arise.
People don't care as much about a camera outside the house. They'd rather catch package thieves and car break-ins
yes, intellij for java will also rename all local variables and all mentions of the class in comments.
> You're not going to cut your lines of code by an order of magnitude by switching from Java or C# to JavaScript or Python

Why not? I can easily see reducing SLOC 10-50x by switching from Java to JavaScript.

> if essential complexity took 1M lines of Java to flesh out

I very much doubt that in a 1M SLOC Java codebase - at least in pre-Java 8 codebase - the essential complexity is any more than 1% of that. My work experience with Java suggests that the language and the surrounding ecosystem and practices promote extreme proliferation of accidental complexity.
Oh, I remember being hit by this. Agree that it's not well documented; I think it's there to prevent "signing services" from spring up (not that it does a great job…)
> for Airbus there is this where it looks like problems were swept under the rug

Or this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qantas_Flight_72

This is the same basic design flaw that Boeing's MCAS has (allowing a single AoA sensor failure to cause the airplane to do unexpected and dangerous things), but unlike MCAS, it wasn't an ad hoc addition to deal with an issue in a redesign of an old airplane, it was designed into all Airbus fly-by-wire aircraft from the start.
This is going to get confusing with the OpenRepos.net package repository, which is completely unrelated.
Not everyone, just those who publicly associate with known criminals in the (very slow-motion) process of fleeing prosecution.
The modern products sold under the Norton brand are a slur on the name of Peter Norton, a real dude who made some excellent software products and wrote some important books back in the day.

https://www.technologizer.com/2014/06/05/where-have-you-gone...

I guess there's a lesson here: if you sell your name, eventually it will be used for something that will tarnish it.
If your CCTV camera setup has no live off site backups, someone burglaring the property could just take or destroy the recorder on-site and delete the record of them breaking into the property.
> That attitude just doesn't scale.

Well, yes, it is scale-variant. Inaction matters a lot more for powerful groups (like governments or large corporations) that actually could take actions that would meaningfully change outcomes.
I have outdoor camera's because my house was broken into a few years ago. Call it a corporate botnet if you want, but if it help deter people from breaking into my home again then it's worth it to me.
I empathize completely with this team because my company was in a very similar situation in 2018. We had two very technical computer vision products, had found traction and a growing enterprise user base but revenues didn't grow fast enough and all of the major companies were entering the market.

We were lucky enough to find an acquisition off ramp last year but all of the feels are the same.

The big takeaway I learned is, if your differentiating product/service could be classified as a feature (which most ML or CV products are) inside a platform or application, you'll be run over by the major platforms who rebuild your product/services inside their platform.

Your only hope is that your team/data/IP is so far ahead and the acquiring company can't build what you're doing in-house more cheaply than what you're willing to sell for. Unfortunately it seems like there are fewer and fewer cases where major players can't rebuild your work more cheaply.

Second, it's excruciatingly difficult to prove the value of your product/service to a potential acquirer because you don't know their metrics, and if you do, you don't know their acquisition strategy. We did an intensive integration of our product with a Fortune 50 retailer, and based on their own numbers showed (using their own A/B tests) that our service provided a statistically significant lift in a core metric that they cared about, in this case paid conversions. Their CEO even talked about it at a public summit. However their acquisitions strategy didn't include small companies that aren't major strategic partners (Only >$200M+ acquisitions).

The worst part here is that, the founders (like I was) are absolutely in love with the technology and how amazing it is. The problem is, from a business perspective, that basically doesn't matter. You could be doing the most amazing work in NLP token inference, but if the product doesn't fit perfectly as an acquisition and it's not so compelling as to build a huge platform around, it's probably going to fail.

I wish it weren't the case, but it leaves me questioning what the value of doing really hard technology is as a startup. It seems clear that the most financially successful startups aren't solving fundamentally hard technology problems until they get to scaling something with broad product market fit.
I'm sorry, but where did I advocate for "lowering the bar"?

A simple example of what I'm trying to describe: the treatment of POC by the police. For example, stop and frisk laws. The ACLU does not look favorably upon them: https://www.nyclu.org/en/stop-and-frisk-data

Please explain to me how the example given is not an example of social injustice that should not be tolerated by an enlightened society.
Could you point out specific use cases? Are you referring to lisp-like macros? Constructs like Higher Kinded Types?

I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from.
>But imprisoning people for extended periods of time in unsanitary conditions

Trump has asked for additional funding for supplies including beds and toothbrushes. Trump as the head of the executive branch is in charge of ICE. So ICE has effectively asked for additional supplies. Congress hasn't done anything about that. It is not ICE's fault.

>entrapping legally-resident students into violating their visa conditions by setting up a fake university

This was started under Obama. Surely if this was a big issue then Github shouldn't have gotten into the contract in the first place.
Can you elaborate what the long-term prognosis is?
> My entire life.

Mine, too, and I'm in my 40's now.
"Storage providers have not yet put together what I would consider an auditable data protection capability where you can restore a full folder, disk volume, or complete system to a point-in-time snapshot of the data with specific retention periods"

I hope it will be useful and interesting to point out that rsync.net, built on the ZFS filesystem, allows customers to create arbitrary snapshot schedules that are live and browseable.

Thousands of our customers do exactly what you just described when they set up day/week/month/quarter/year snapshots and then browse right in with any old SFTP client[1] and retrieve arbitrary files and directories (or VM images, whatever) as they existed on those dates.

These ZFS snapshots are immutable (read only) and immune to attacks like ransomware or a rogue employee.

[1] https://www.rsync.net/products/sftp.html
> For that matter, isn't there a reasonable systematic way to catch out typosquatters simply based on text analysis?

You could probably write one using Python & jellyfish.
> Maybe I'm being naïve here, but isn't it kind of crazy to raise 3.5M in funds for a business that has no plan but to be acquired by someone else?

Not exactly. A lot of startups can function as R&D for larger tech companies: Big tech companies have lots of money but aren't great at innovation. They might spend 10s of millions of dollars just to get a lesser quality version of what they could own if they just bought the best startup in the space. This is why companies with $0.00 revenue get acquired all the time. It's a simple calculation: will it be cheaper to buy or build this tech? For many companies it's cheaper to buy.

That being said, Chicisimo is in a very tough situation. The problem with their strategy is:

1. They have to be acquired or they'll go out of business. This is a terrible negotiating position to start from. There is no walk away power. If I was an interested buyer, why wouldn't I offer an insultingly low price? How does $100k to cover legal costs and a nice signing bonus to your employees sound? Do you have a better option?

2. They need a buyer who needs their experimental technology. This is what's called a "strategic acquisition". And they are almost impossible to engineer from the startup's position. The chances of a finding company with a lot of cash with an exec who wants experimental tech enough to spend a decent amount of money on it are almost certainly zero. If they haven't attracted the attention of a buyer by now, it's unlikely that they'll become more attractive now that they're about to fail.

Having been in this situation myself, it is so helpful to have some revenue to fall back on. That way you can demonstrate that the business is worth something.

I wish them the best of luck. Hopefully they pull something out here but the chances are low.
Full disclosure: I am the author of the Wikipedia essay "Wikipedia has cancer".

Calling out concrete examples of waste also has a downside. It usually results in the discussion going off into the weeds about whether individual expenditures are justified. There are many people who focus on individual examples of waste. I chose to focus on the big picture -- overall spending growth.
MyPy requests permission to write data to the hard drive. MyPy writes malicious payload to a file and then execs it. MyPy never wrote a damn thing to a socket, netcat did through a bash/ash shell. (Windows named pipes may be a little trickier to work with but can yield similar results)

Sandboxing libraries specifically seems like a fools errand.
> When asked what could be done, Schindler suggests Apple implement a bypass that would allow certified recyclers and refurbishers to unlock donated devices if they’re not reported lost or stolen.

> In cases when a device is lost or stolen, Schindler says he’s more than happy to hand it off to law enforcement in order to find the owner, but that’s a rare occurrence.

Huh, yeah, because that could never be abused, and all refurbishers are ethical and not incentivized to claim willful ignorance in order to profit from the sale of stolen goods, right?
carbonite -> backup solutions, similar to Veeam.
OpenText -> Enterprise Document Management system (with all the governance stuff big co's want and then some)
In theory, sure. But according to most of my domain WHOIS records, the technical contact is somebody named asdflkj_34890f@privacyprotection.com.
Can't answer fully your question but in 2015 OpenText acquired Actuate a BI and analytics company. It was of interest to me because Actuate at the time was the main contributor to BIRT[0] an Eclipse Foundation project for creating reports. IMHO the best Open Source reporting application. Anyway BIRT has been around for ages and does not seem to have been affected by acquisition. Not much happening there but it was already a mature product.

[0]https://www.eclipse.org/birt/
I suspect your misunderstanding comes from your mistaken belief that these devices provide very little value for their users.
> Exactly. Tax the capital that those other bastards have. My house? Oh, that’s totally different.

So, progressive taxation, basically?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not against abstract interfaces where they make sense. What I'm against is using underqualified names for stuff that has a statically resolveable implementation.

In other words, don't make it look complicated before it actually is.
Extremely relevant to Wikipedia's finances, since my framing was why I am not contributing to Wikipedia anymore. People deserve to know what they are funding.

Also not helping your cause, you had to try to negate my argument with a false assertion: Philip Cross HAS NOT, in fact, been been banned, and just last month made 49 edits to James LeMesurier's page (clearly a post 1978 British political figure):

https://archive.ph/2019.11.14-204004/https://en.wikipedia.or...

Although you may not agree, this is holistically part and parcel of Wikipedia's ongoing funding saga. Plenty of people have tried to appeal to Wikipedia about this, so it is disingenuous to state that option while dismissing the topic here. We are on HN, not Wikipedia, so one man's 'hijacking' is another person's 'information.'
I think the expectation was the part of the MIT license which says:

> keep the license text and copyrights intact

It sounds like the Zen project removed/moved license text itself. Is it ok to fork a project and rename a LICENSE file to ACKNOWLEDGMENTS and then add your own LICENSE file? Or does the MIT imply that you must retain the original license text in the LICENSE file?

IANAL so I have no clue as to the legality of that aspect in particular, but it sure /seems/ a bit unsavory, even if it may be legally ok.
Carbonite has been a legit backup service, at times very competitive with its pricing.

Never heard of OpenText. It's a Canadian enterprise information management (EIM) company. Apparently the largest software company in Canada.
> None of these points are being contested or purported in the "line of thinking" you mention (the letter I linked I assume?)

These points are being purported/contested here:

"There is nothing worth celebrating about a world where inequality is so extreme that 58% of people are in poverty, while a few dozen billionaires have more than all of their wealth combined"
Sometimes this has unintended consequences. For example, not being able to make cars and sell them directly as created a system that doesn't necessarily benefit consumers.
That's already been happening. Basically ever since it started, there has been the same disclosure that you get in a standard print publication, i.e. it says 'advertisement' at the top. Doesn't stop anyone from complaining!
It's part of my overall security solution. I also have an alarm system among other things. After being the victim of a $30k heist, I learned not to rely on just 1 method of detection/prevention.
Indeed, it is the argmax of the likelihood, but the likelihood is not invariant under coordinate transformations. The quantity p(x)dx is invariant, not p(x). By picking a suitable coordinate transformation you can put the MLE on any value where the likelihood is not zero.
The mfgr must have negotiated something with one of the cellular carriers to give them unlimited access for a fee, with the stipulation that it's only used for these occasional OTA updates which really don't use much data.

However, I must point out that a satnav device's occasional updates, as I said, don't use much data: just a multi-megabyte download every few months at most. But streaming constant surveillance data from a TV to the "mother ship" is going to require far more data than that. Multiply this by an average of 1-3 TVs per household, and this seems like a big load on the cellular system.
Not even. I'm seeing seed and series As/Bs on unproven teams of recent graduates with no experience in the field where the "start up" operates. No business plan, no prototype, huge regulatory walls to climb.

It is worst than tulip mania.
I'd say veeam mostly (not affiliated with them in anyway shape or form) then druva/code42 and others (many others)
No, it doesn't, because it is licenced under CC BY-SA.
Darn! I just got through converting my Mozy backup to Carbonite.

Carbonite failed to port any of my Mozy backup settings. They were backing up the useless "\Users" folder, not the important stuff which I had configured in Mozy.

Instead of notifying me from the "mozy.com" domain, they notified me from a carbonite.com email domain, which was not whitelisted and therefore never reached me.

Ostie de Tabarnak!
Drinking out of toilets was not accurate. There was a pipe that went to a drinking fountain and the drain of the drinking fountain went into the input pipe of the toilet. The toilet had drinking water. The drinking water was not toilet water.
Umm... does that mean that those Macs can't be repaired in 3rd party shops either now? Since if I remember correctly, on iPhones the repairers can't replace the secure bonded components anymore.
> Go seems to have much less boilerplate than Java

Maybe if you compare to Java from 10y ago. Have you ever tried to print a map in an alphabetical order of its keys?

The only thing more verbose in Java are getters/setters which hopefully will disappear once records are available.
I see what you mean now

The vector could still be monitored it just wasn't where people looked
What a boring dystopia we've come to inhabit.
This mouse would make some bucks if it had a Twitch channel with ads
Agreed. For the vast majority of cases, a Lambda function is easier to ship and maintain, and most likely dramatically cheaper. I really only think the value of using Fargate kicks in compared to Lambda at around 5M+ invocations/month. YMMV based on workflow and workload.
Australia has media policy like this in regard to newspaper TV and radio in Metro areas. Didn't stop Rupert Murdoch centralised ownership of media but kind of kept it at bay. Also banking.