skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not talking about a miner. I'm talking about a wallet or some utility module. You'd wait until you have a big installed base then change your module to silently steal coinbase credentials. Wait a few weeks until you have enough of them and then own all the accounts at once. Something like that. The Bitcoin aspect of the module is just to target effectively.
As another sibling said it's fairly usual in the US for put down between 3.5%-5% for a house. Additionally, There are a ton of assistance programs for low-income people to get cash grants or loan assistance.

If the only way to purchase a home was with cash I suspect that nearly every home would be owned by a real estate investment company. Who else would have the cash to purchase a home? You already are seeing this happen on the west coast. I'm very skeptical that consolidating ownership of land into even larger businesses would be accompanied by fair and equitable renter's rights. I believe that the entire stock of housing in cities being owned by large, far away entities would have a negative impact on living standards and mobility.
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If it rains it gets wet outside. But if it's wet outside does not mean it's rained. This is an example of a recurring case where snakeoil and dishonest companies use this seemingly obvious logic puzzle, because people in general are bad at logic.

To answer your question directly. TLS encryption from your phone to apple's servers means they terminate encryption at the other end when they receive your data. This means "they decrypt the information that was in transit". Then they explicitly apply another encryption to the received and decrypted data before storing it on disk. Since these are two separate steps, you have no protection what-so-ever since apple will have a registry of all decryption keys for the disk backups that they'll happily use for whatever reason when they want to get hold of your data.

The only thing their disk encryption protects against is if someone were to walk away with the physical disks. It protects squat against the threats customers actually care about (unauthorized access to the data by someone other than the customer owning that data).

And seeing as they run on AWS, physical security means that the only way metal leaves the data center is if it's in millimeter sized shredded metal grain. So the threat model of concern here is exactly what apple has decided not to provide customers any protection against.
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This is really cool. Would love to know more about the restoration process and if there is any way to contribute to the project as a developer
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Is there definitively a better service than Sendgrid? I've been a little frustrated with it lately and perused Mailchimp and Mailgun sites, but would really appreciate any opinions of those who have tried multiple services or feel strongly about a service. Thank you!
> VPNs do help maintain one small level of privacy (namely from your ISP)

I never really saw that as a VPN's main purpose. Far from cutting out the ISP, you now have 2 ISPs. One that can see "everything" and another that can make inferences about your habits by analyzing your encrypted traffic.

The job a VPN actually does really well is hide your IP from sites and services that you visit which reduces the information they have available with which to track you.
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How about the bronzes of Sanxingdui?
The boundary was initially imported from US Census Bureau data, which frequently does attempt to follow actual administrative boundaries.

The source data tends to not be incredibly accurate.
I sort of agree... but I do think its worthwhile thinking about best practices around ethics and writing them down somewhere for all to see.

The GDPR does a decent job in this regard around privacy and data use. Can we write a similar document to GDPR around other ethical concerns?
> Every time local backups get brought up people say, "but not everyone has a computer" which reenforces the focus on cloud backups.

Which is why I would like to see the focus on migrating this functionality to their non-“computer” devices. Or add a separate device specifically to add this feature.

Also the iTunes/Finder backup only works locally, can’t be used when I buy a new device to configure it while in the shop.
Once nice thing about Fortran's evolution is that when you lag behind the bleeding edge, you make fewer mistakes. If you like C++ that's great; you might notice that everyone else doesn't agree that it's the future.
How about a leaderboard? You get points for each breach that you were in and how much of your data was exposed. Each data point could score different points: your name is 5 points, social security number 10 points etc.

Then the you can see that you're 880654th out of 1.1B people on the leaderboard and maybe feel slightly better.. or worse.
That's some malware-like behavior..
Ask HN: How is predictive suggestion possible on encrypted services like Gmail?
Even if it's done locally on device, where would they get the training data set for it to work so well?

Same goes for reply response, follow-up reminders and other new features that if offers.
Do you have an adblocker enabled? If so, that may be the issue here.
> Support for the Firefox web browser is planned for a later date.
> It will not crash. There maybe a temporary double digit dip in prices described in hyperbolic "end of the world crash" terms to demand government intervention to prop up prices.

This is probably true. In the short-medium term housing will not be allowed to crash for the simple reason that homeowners vote. The soundness of the economy in general will be sacrificed to pump house prices.

This feeds a feedback loop that makes housing an even more attractive place to park capital, further driving up housing costs.

Of course eventually this gets so unbelievably ridiculous that we have some kind of revolution. Look for $2m starter homes before that happens.
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I don't think that's true? Increasing build security is about limited the number of folks who can modify the process. That's orthogonal to auditability.
> You should learn something different...

OK.

> ... which Java is.

True, but so are many other languages. Why Java in particular?

One possible answer: You'll learn the most from Java. I doubt this answer.

Another possible answer: There are a lot of Java jobs. This was definitely true 5/10 years ago. Is it still true?
While I agree that I haven't found any 100% good companies, I have yet to see a company where any low-level engineer has any real input at all and can actually make any kind of difference as far as ethics. If you work up into management, sure, but then you're no longer an engineer.
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I don't think I've ever run more than 5 or 6 devices on an I2C bus without running into rise time, bus contention, or address collision issues. Some devices scoop tons of addresses, and most only allow re-assignment to a few alternate addresses.

I agree it's still lower pin count than SPI, but realistically you don't get anywhere near 127 devices.
There are entire scientific fields where Fortran is extremely popular. But mostly not ones that involve easy insecurities.
Don't know where to begin with this one.

Yes, "informal" isn't "logical", hence the italics specifying as much.

No, my response wasn't a counterargument because what I was responding to wasn't an argument to begin with. There was nothing to defend because nothing of substance was produced.

No, my original argument is not flawed because your counterargument has nothing to do with the concept we've been discussing in this sub-thread.

Allow me to summarize: Mozilla sucks and yes, students should consider ethics in their job search which means they should probably not work for Mozilla.
That seems counterintuitive to me. I'd expect only having one or two walls exposed to the outside (maybe 3 if I'm on the top corner) would reduce the amount of energy I lose to the environment compared to a house with 5 sides exposed. Plus a skyscraper can use a larger and more efficient system than a single family home.
That would be the opposite of paying your loan.
I'm telling you that the estimate of 11 Million is not even close, and it's probably more like 20M-30M. The 11 million is based on the census from 10 year ago, and (you probably heard something about this in the news recently), we're not even allowed to ask them if they're citizens, so they use other ways to guess it. How many illegal immigrants do you think even answer a census, lol?

And 2% of overstays is a misleading number as that includes all those who enter on legitimate short term tourist visas which we don't hand out easily to countries with a high level of visa overstays, such as Venezuela or Sierra Leone. The people who do generally overstay their visas are those who come on short term work visas like L1, or former students who are no longer enrolled and the Opt 1 expired. Or family members 'visiting' their relatives, who never leave.

> In the U.S., visa overstays have exceeded illegal border crossings in each of the past seven years. In 2016, about 515,000 people arrived in the United States illegally, the Center for Migration Studies said in a report. Of these, 320,000, more than three-fifths, overstayed their visas, and the rest crossed a land border illegally. But tracking people who enter the U.S. legally until they leave is difficult. The Department of Homeland Security conducted its own analysis for fiscal year 2017, and its estimate was 702,000 overstayers. (To be clear, that number is a small fraction, 1.33 percent, of the more than 50 million people who arrive in the U.S. each year on valid visas.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/re...
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It hasn't reached that level of nonsense again. In 2006, the median price of a house was 5.1 times the median income. Today it's 4.4 times median income, which is high compared to most of recent history, but is actually lower than it was in 1955.

Nobody thinks SPY is going to keep increasing forever. The conventional wisdom is we're looking at a recession in the next 1-2 years.
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The entire problem with Nvidia's drivers is that they aren't in the kernel, and the kernel driver API/ABI isn't stable, so potentially any kernel update could break the drivers.

That's not true for AMD on Linux. The drivers are in the kernel itself so any changes made to the kernel interfaces will include changes to the drivers that use them.

It's not the case for either vendor on Windows because Windows has stable driver APIs.

Basically, if you're on Linux and your hardware has mainlined kernel support you are not likely to ever have that kind of problem.
"...multithreading in mind..." - Easy and efficiency are 2 different things. Java synchronization primitives and it's ability to flip bits incur heavy performance penalty when compared to native ones. You might not care about it but I do.

You are also free to point me to a good DirectX framework in Java and/or the one that let's you write Directshow and Media Foundation filters and graphs as well.

Besides your logic reads like this: since language A does the same as language B and you happen to like language A then nobody needs B. Sorry but it works both ways.

When I was doing enterprise stuff Java provided more value to me in that particular situation. Windows desktop: sorry I'll choose Delphi any time.
https://github.com/actix/actix-web/issues/1289
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Im not going to pretend most people probably dont want chrome, but lets not ignore all the dark patterns and confusing language they used to get installed and take their market share in the first place.
Hmm, could you show a screenshot? When I toggle the rightmost green bit, it doubles the value as expected.

Note that float toy doesn't actually show the mantissa value, only the final value. So if the value goes from 6.709679e-39 to 1.8464622e-38, then it was doubled.

EDIT: Oh! I see what you mean. I was wrong; obviously it does show the mantissa.

Yes, that seems like a bug. Shouldn't the mantissa always be in the range [0.0 .. 1.0)?

On the other hand, maybe it behaves differently when the exponent is negative. If you don't understand how IEEE754 works, then apparently I don't either, so thanks for pointing that out.

EDIT2: Ok, comparing with https://float.exposed/0x40490fdb makes me more certain that both sites are wrong.

On float.exposed, the exponent can’t ever go negative, which is clearly bogus. Exponent “128” should read “1”. It’s showing the raw binary unsigned value, which is misleading, since you want to know the int8 signed value.

But toggling the exponent bits should never affect the mantissa. That’s also bogus.

I think float toy is the superior visualization, and they should fix the bug. I wonder if there’s anywhere to report it....
I took one of those courses; it wasn't intellectually stimulating and it felt like a condescending, corporate-mandated seminar. Even the professor was just going through the motions. But it doesn't have to be that way, that's just how it tends to play out.

What we need are not "ethics in tech" courses, but for people in tech to get more exposure to general humanities education. Require everyone getting a degree at your university - computer science majors included - to read and discuss classic literature, history, and philosophy. Exercise the parts of their brain that deal with questions whose answers can't be reduced to code. Ethics cannot be covered by a pamphlet of tech-specific rules; to act ethically, a person needs perspective on human nature and on what it means to be a member of society.
>because public transit tends to increase nearby property values

Do you have references? my impression is the opposite.

Do you think having a bus stop out front would make the average suburbanite want to pay more or less for their house? My guess is quite a bit less, but I also don't have references to back up my impression.

(I mean, I think this is changing in the most urban areas. But I think that in the case of the homes of a majority of Americans, nearby transit lowers the sale value of a home rather than raising it.)
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Is it that stupid? Infiltration organizations at the IT layer can be pretty effective. See sting operations such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childs_Play_(website)
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That was an option initially for Model S. Two backwards facing jump seats for kids. They don't appear to offer that anymore, probably hoping you'll by an X instead. X has 2 regular forward facing seats in the third row.
It's particularly egregious to see a thread mourning the death of a famous comedian on a forum that where humor is mercilessly stamped out and popular culture is often condemned as infantile and a cancer to the intellect.
I use a 40" 4K Samsung 'smart TV' as my monitor and it has support for Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, etc. That said, if internet streaming is that big of a deal why not use a bootable USB with Mint or Sling TV gizmo (I have a new one Sling TV sent me that I'll never use -- I'll ship it to you if you're in the US).
It's not encrypted e2e. Google sees the plaintext and operates on it.
I like it when some of my colleagues use Fortran, because their code in other languages is even more horrible.

BTW, the 'non-programmer' you seem to not think much of probably used an RPN calculator. Food for thought.
Of course some information will be omitted, that is the entire purpose of this tool. What’s your point?
This sounds like an uber-liberal comment, from the mentality that no one should be blamed and no one should be made to change their behavior because it's not their fault. By that logic we would never be able to have any regulations at all.

There are objective health and safety standards that countries need to impose to move their development forward. As the other commenter stated below, when it affects others internationally is one such time when the need becomes painfully obvious. People will deal, and move forward. You underestimate how people will deal with it.

China overnight banned gasoline powered motorcycles and mopeds, in the name of public health. Show me how that destroyed the lives of millions of people.

Sometimes you can't live with all the excuses why it can't be done, and just do it and see why it can.
If it's your first project, stick with common 0.1" headers unless you need something very specific (small, high pin count, etc). You can buy locking versions if needed.
I cannot say if it is definitively better or not, but I've been happily using Postmark for 2+ years

https://postmarkapp.com/compare/sendgrid-alternative
Your projects are awesome anvaka! Please continue doing those!
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I sometimes think R is just a fronted for Fortran. For the packages I install I always seem to be waiting for Fortran code to compile.
You can set it up so that Google can do this. It's a bit involved, but a few tutorials exist if you search for them.
The data is coming from OpenStreetMap, via http://overpass-api.de/

It's kind of overwhelming, but there's all sorts of tools that can take OSM data and do something with it.
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> except for the fat bankers

QE has been horrific for banks. Net interest income has collapsed. it's less pronounced in the US, but in Europe where central banks have taken rates to 0 (or below) bank profits have all but been wiped out. Take a look at the share price of any European bank since 2008
The thing is it has never been in that position to begin with. Out of hand quackery is a relatively new phenomenon.

Even just 20 years ago, "TCM" was still considered something only lunatical old people do.

But then China opened, and new wave of weird novelties deluged the society: "new age" cults, antivaxers, hipsters, gurus, psychodelics, psychics, antiscience and other stuff like that.

The contemporary brand of quackery has gotten into mainland China from... Hongkong out of all places.

Back in times when just anything Honkongese was considered super cool in the mainland, quack pharmacies that were treated like jokes in HK somehow managed to slip in, and became the new fascination of Chinese nouveau riche, and a token sign for their "sophistication"

And then over the time, it turned to out into what it is now, now being believed in quite seriously
https://blog.geocities.institute/ has been doing analyses of Geocities images, page design, character encoding etc.
Is your generator hand rolled or do you use something in particular? We’re working towards a similar solution where we want to layer/compose different tech choices based on what’s mandated by project requirements!
I don't even use Rust and I reacted like the bitconnect guy, "Mmmm No no no".
In a nation where the majority of bankruptcies are medical in whole or in part its horrible that if you lose your job including due to medical issues you likely won't get another.
I got the same email, and I agree with what you said - I'd really like to know if this is even personally relevant, and if it is, I'd really like to know precisely what information is relevant. I'm in the EU, so I guess I could ask under the GDPR, but I wouldn't even know who to ask, and with such a large organisation, I can only imagine there would be a lot of run-arpund, requiring a lot of follow-ups from me :/
Right, but your family home is likely insulated to at least R-13 in the walls and R-38 or better in the attic while an all-glass skyscraper is probably something like R-2. A tall & thin skyscraper also has an uncompelling surface to volume ratio.
Did you compare to a regular old canvas doing path calls?

Or SVG?

Most web browsers these days should GPU accelerate line drawing, making the whole lot one single openGL/directX/vulkan api call.

If it doesn't perform equivalently, it's really a browser bug, and ought to be fixed.
These sites really bother me sometimes. I just registered on Dehashed and it requires me to pay for a subscription... to see my own stolen data. I reject that on principle alone.
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Oh! This one is fun :)!
When simulation is CPU-heavy, it will never scale. Though I admit that event-based concurrency might work better in many cases (like where communication overhead is greater than computation), but in some environments you would need real parallelism using many CPU cores. This library also lacks benchmark.
If I'm that special type of business client that is actually using Microsoft Search, cool, maybe I want an easy option to change the default engine. But that should be opt-in. Because Microsoft Search is also opt-in. They are deploying this to all O365 customers, regardless.
> For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau of China

15k years ago is a pretty small window in our evolution. My baseless assumption would be that we've seen something like it before. And, being "never seen before" could mean that all of the animal life that we know now is completely immune, eradicating it long ago.

I'd be more worried of present/future virus and bacteria that have evolved with us.
Also worth looking out for the Great Map Mystery - 4 eps where Jones retraces the path of the first road atlas and wonders why it would have been drawn at all, comes up with some very interesting history along the way. Looks like it might be available on Amazon Prime in some countries, could also be on YT but it's geoblocked for me in New Zealand.
>Or perhaps people would avoid working at places with such laws, as they tend to do currently with other economies that have strict laws that make it hard to do business.

I have no problem with that. Let them leave.

Suppose we set a maximum compensation cap of $10M/year in the US. So executives can no longer earn more than $10M/year in total compensation (salary, bonus, golden parachute, etc.).

So a bunch of overpaid execs leave the US. Where exactly are they going to go where they'll 1) be paid more than $10M/year, and 2) actually be able to do these super-high-paying executive jobs effectively (i.e., they need to know the local language, etc.)?
Wasn't aware of any of this.It looks like it's as bad as fire retardants used in furniture ( California,if I recall correctly, alows selling furniture without them). In the UK, about 30 or so deaths a year happen because furniture gets set on fire( I suppose drinking + smoking is the main reason).Because of this, everything,from chairs all the way to sofas are soaked in chemicals that cause cancer and many other issues to humans.I'm sure chemical industry is lobbying as hell for this to continue, however the bastards themselves end up using the same harmful products.
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Where does the part about corruption come into it?
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Correct. It is still the language used for official documents by the Holy See (though it is not the official language of the Vatican).

That said, Latin was certainly considered a dead language before Vatican II.
Indeed. You're not the first to recommend that one. I've got it on my bookshelf. Haven't had a chance to read it yet.
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Could be worse... Matlab?
Export to something printable would be really neat. The export to PNG is cute but it's 2K wide, not useful for anything but potentially a desktop background.