skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@fake_twitter_account_212_111_xxxx w/ a phonebook contact list of "212-111-0000" => "212-111-9999". Lather, rinse, repeat. You'd need ~10M accounts w/ ~1000 phone numbers in each, and that can be reduced by some percentage if you know how U.S. phone numbers are assigned (ie: don't check for xxx_555_xxxx numbers, prefer highly populated prefixes, etc.)

Good thing they SUSPENDED those accounts! /s
I don’t know if it is or not. By its very nature, it’s possible that neither do you. That’s the issue with delusions, they are indistinguishable from reality.

You should suffer no harm by seeking a professional opinion on the matter.
> The disadvantages of C are many and well known.

Which, in a way, is an advantage. I know (much of) what to look out for. There are tools that can help me with some of those issues. There are techniques that avoid some of them, and there are people who are expert in many of them.

But if I pick some other language, it won't have those problems. It will have other problems. (There is no language that does not have problems.) I won't know what to avoid doing. There may not be tooling to help with them. The techniques for avoiding them may not be widely known. I may not be able to find people who know how to handle them.

To me, "well known problems" may be better than "not well known problems". More predictable, at least. The "not well known" problems have to be significantly better to be worth it. They probably have to be proven significantly better. That means either that someone else has to prove them better, or else I have to have a project that doesn't matter much that I can use as a testbed.
> are they sharing Google accounts, photo albums, or were the photos shared in the same whatsapp group?

None of these. They don't share any accounts. I don't share any account with my father either. Me and my wife use the shared galley feature. The photos that ended up on my fathers phone were shared by me and my wife with each other on whatsapp. I suspect either mine or my wife's gallery somehow "leaked" into my fathers even though none of the accounts have any connections AFAICT. Probably we clicked some share button somewhere accidentally but I couldn't find any shared galleries on any of our phones.
A copy of this article is available on professor Matthias Felleisen's website: https://felleisen.org/matthias/Articles/loyalty.pdf
Uh, Mint is written Crystal.
The Menace of Untested, Privately Owned, Election Technology
I've been on government sites (ny.gov, IIRC) that use google-provided captchas for form submissions

sucks but not sure it's immoral -- submission fraud is a hard problem to deal with and if captchas help, .gov should use them
Scala is interesting in this sense; I'd consider it to be an ML-like language. It attempts to unify object systems and module systems, and they are fairly first class in Scala. Modules (objects) can be used as normal values; you can encode functors as functions or classes as needed; signatures (traits) are usable as values to some degree, too.

>Furthermore, path-dependent types allow Scala to unify modules and objects, so that the same language constructs can be used to specify the overall structure of a program as well as its implementation details. The unification of the module and term languages is witnessed by the following comparison with the ML module system: Scala objects correspond to ML modules, classes to functors, and interfaces to signatures [Odersky and Zenger 2005].

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.07298.pdf
Yep. Russia (now: Ukraine, Belorussia, and small western part of Russian Federation) got it name from vikings, which are from "Russia" town (now: "Old Russa", but town moved up by river, so original town is at other place down the river).
>"I think the CoreOS Container OS will live on inside GCP as the customized container os as the default distro used on GKE (managed Kubernetes)."

I found this interesting. Does anyone have any insights how or why Google ended up choosing CoreoS for their GKE offering?
They know us better: how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading
No I don't think that is the question. The questions (plural) are whether you need detailed explanations or intuitively understandable explanations or explanations at all, as well as whether you have to build a detailed causal model or an intuitive causal model or establish causation at all.

Aircraft designers are happy to test something in a wind tunnel and establish that the change in shape caused a change in performance. But they knew to try that particular new shape that because of all the physical (causal) models at various levels of intuitive understandability.
>Open Digital Democracy Services Inc.

Fails the acronym test. ODDS or ODDSInc (pronounced like odd-sink).

Still much better than Shadow though. I'd probably have just gone with something like "Crier", "Political Systems Awareness", or even "Total Internal Communications and iNfrastructure Services.

Crier is harmless because all you're doing is shouting the results from the rooftops to anyone who'll listen.

Everybody can respect a metrics communication implemented by that PSA company.

A little contrived and maybe a bit dated imagery-wise, but an IT company that's whose name degenerates to TIN-CANS (with a string in the middle of course) is refreshingly on the nose, and most importantly, way more appropriate than Shadow.

Naming is an art best approached with at least some level of care. Not trying to legitimize most marketing-wank, but you do prime the discourse through your decision with regards to what you call yourself.
Didn’t know GLE bade OS was based on CoreOS. Is this documented somewhere?
What's the difference betwen fear mongering and educating about risks?
Is ML used in industry? If so, what would be the scenarios/use cases?
The university of California Davis, though it would apply to any corporation, for profit or not.
That’s equivalent of someone saying they can’t afford time off for kids because they already spend all their money... when it turns out they just don’t want to give up some luxuries: it’s just setting priorities.

Here’s some economic comparisons:
https://countryeconomy.com/countries/compare/finland/usa

GDP per capita Finland 49,738$ US 65,462$

Average Wage Finland 52,890$ US 54,951$

Debt Per Capita Finland 29,624$ US 65,545$

Annual Vehicles / 1,000 p. Finland 23.68 US 53.85

CO2 Tons per capita Finland 8.80 US 16.14

Also Finland has a similar population to Oregon - although it would be more fun to compare it against say Texas for purposes of oil production and the point being made!
The billion dollar figure, at the end of the day, is brand recognition. The actual cost for someone to re-implement all the code, if someone wanted to, is probably $10M? Even then, however it will be a fly-by-night never heard of again project like... rkt.

http://eliot-jones.com:5690/Home/Trend?id=rkt&allwords=true

http://eliot-jones.com:5690/Home/Trend?id=docker&allwords=tr...

I mean heck, here we are 137 comments into a thread about an alternative to docker and I was the first to mention rkt.
Yes, they did. It is argued that they were early rulers of "the Kievan Rus": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27
There's been some recent reporting by ABC News that Wexner also handed Epstein billions of dollars in stock in L Brands with essentially no strings attached. It is crazy that Wexner is not being investigated. There should have been a no-knock raid on his Albany mansion months ago.
Justice Dept. ramps up Google probe, with heavy focus on ad tools
http://archive.is/q4OP0
Morocco and Bermuda are pretty naive guesses. Her mother was a "holocaust expert" and her father was not merely an agent for the Mossad but some sort of hero in the organization. She's practically Israeli royalty
I think you are missing the point. There's no difference between the water separation and a shattered glass. Both are based on physical laws that, on a molecular scale, will run backwards just as well as they run forwards. But in practice entropic processes only run one way.
Thanks HN from Watsi
Eight years ago, we posted Watsi (watsi.org) as a show HN. The support we received from this community helped turn a small volunteer-run crowdfunding platform into an organization that has funded over 20,000 surgeries. I’m in the process of transitioning out of my day-to-day role at Watsi, but before I pass the baton to Mackinnon, our new Executive Director, I wanted to say thank you.

More info on the transition here: https://blog.watsi.org/the-next-ten-years/
I don't know anyone with firsthand direct knowledge of the Iowa Caucuses who believes that, and am reading lots of people with that knowledge pushing back on that as misinformation. Obviously, I'm not going to use the name "Shadow" as evidence one way or the other in a message board argument, because that argument is silly.
Slightly OT, but if you can't afford the XPS line or want something which you can easily upgrade, I'd recommend looking for refurbed Dell Latitude series laptops. I've been using an E7270 for the past few months with Ubuntu Mate and it's been flawless (uptime goes usually goes in 30-40 days).

No port scarcity, adding extra RAM is just popping open the back panel and sticking it in there. It even has physical trackpad buttons which I like very much. Got it for less than $300, upgraded the RAM to 32GB DDR4 for another $100 and now I have a beast of machine for $400 that can easily handle anything.

The only gripe I would have against this machine is there is only one slot for a NVMe drive. And the screen has some really chunky bezels but personally I don't mind that at all ;)
Agreed. I wish we could make the Slate Star Codex piece "Against Murderism" required reading before anyone makes a social media account.
i personally know the CPO who just left would have handled your concern seriously. she really helped me and another person whom I know confided in her too.
I swear I saw someone mention this a month or two ago in HN comments. They said that they believed Twitter's API was being used to unmask accounts by state actors. I can't find the original article now.
(FYI, the author, Abigail Thompson, is a woman.)
Video shows Marine Corps’ newest amphibious vehicle test
I don't think there's any need to sealion the author on this.

To your first question: JS's warts are well understood. You must already acknowledge this if you're a TS fan.

To your second: TS isn't 'actually' safe, to the extent something like Elm is (i.e. very small chance of runtime errors). This is also no secret - there are lots of examples out there if you care to search for them.
That seems pretty aggressive for just 100k users unless they mean concurrent users (in which case they should say so).

Let's say that maybe 10% of your users are on at any given time and they each may make 1 request a minute. That's under 200 QPS which a single server running a half-decent stack should be able to handle fine.
Wow, your writing is fantastic. Thanks for the writeup!
Kinda suggests Epstein somehow had an ability to evade the normal rules and laws of society, doesn't it?
> of course, the government could be the "unprincipled in charge" you referred to

Not specifically, but I suppose I wouldn't say that politicians are more or less principled than corporate executives. I know some would argue otherwise, but I'm too black pilled at this point to have faith in any "public servant".

Nevertheless, government regulation is probably the way to actually address these issues. Government may lock competence or will, but at least it provides us some leverage, little it may be.
The Implications of Brexit for the UK Economy
And _The Mint_ the bar in San Francisco

https://themint.net/
It's really dead. rkt never got much adoption and now Red Hat is promoting Podman instead.
You're being a little myopic. This applies in all industries. Content creation is only one example.

You can have the best car in the world, but if all cars are bought in carmazon.com and they ban you, you're fucked. Sure, you can make your own outlet but you just lost billions in investment and you wont recover from it. All because someone clicked a checkbox in an amazon monkey moderation center.

Also, you're showing a ridiculous bias against content creators. They're a completely legitimate and respectable profession.
Yes, sell your soul to Google.
(Former CoreOS/Red Hat)

I am 99% sure that this offering is only similar in nature, not a fork or using any bits from Container Linux
Does anyone know if this was the vulnerability used to hack into Bezos' phone?
I agree. It is jarring each time I see it. Might be able to get use to it but definitely question the choice.
I'm not sure I understand the question, but for sure we don't care whether the comments that break the site guidelines are for or against any particular side.

I'd never claim we do a perfect job of being unbiased, because most bias is unconscious, but what I can say is (a) we have many years of conscious practice at it, which must count for something, and (b) most of the time when people interpret moderation as picking on their side, it's a mechanical response (similar to how sports fans feel the refs pick on their favorites) that's not grounded in what we actually do, and doesn't see the cases where the 'other side' got moderated the same way. Does that make sense?
Any tests on progress? I'm going on Postgress because of Bson support and no-sql with sql duplicate fields for search.

Using .net core also.

In general: I agree, there's rarely a case for really using the cloud. Page loads of my E-commerce project are 8ms for basket, I'm wondering what should kill it first on a big load, even without caching. Probably the database, not sure yet.
Seems it’s at least trending towards dead. Hashicorp Nomad recently deprecated the rkt driver for lack of adoption.
Will Banning Cryptography Keep the Country Safe?
Money Is the Megaphone of Identity
I do offensive security. My direct experience, in my audit workload of web applications, which I've had pretty steadily (with some short gaps) since 2005, is that XSS vulnerabilities are far rarer in React applications (regardless of backend) than they are in Rails apps. It's not hard to see why: Rails begs you to disable XSS protection to get anything interesting done in HTML (basically, any time you dip out of Erb or Haml), there aren't a similar number of use cases for overriding React's control of the DOM (because the whole point of React is to give you safe control of the DOM), and when you do, in React, you do it (almost all of the time) with "dangerouslySetInnerHtml" (though this holds just as true with Vue and "v-html".

It's not my argument that there's no XSS in React apps. I've definitely found React XSS. But I assume any Rails app I test will have it somewhere, and, based on experience, I do not have that assumption about React applications.
It's a phone number, not your bank account.

It's public information.

Do you want to sue the phone telcos for publishing the phone book?
We listened to you guys - here's the new landing page
Replace your child with a full grown adult and you BET I'm ignoring someone trying to chat me up while I'm hustling to work in the morning :)

Just saying, don't take other adults not interacting with your child as some overarching statement about gender in society.
GDS are bringing them together, slowly... I recently applied for Personal Independence Payments (PIP). And despite being a new 'system' plus the assessments are carried out by two large IT outsourcing companies (Capita & Atos). It is entirely paper-based (drive.google is blocked, they don't take emails...). If you request a copy of the report they photocopy the physical file and post it. They are so backwards it is unreal.

Plus there's no provisions for an alternative format to the 30 page paper form. Not very independent if handwriting is an issue (the target demographic is people with disabilities).

Don't get me started on the actual assessment/ assessor. (it's been a long day going through this stuff).
What’s in that bag marked ‘Bag Full of Drugs,’ sir?
I give all of my variables and functions and files good names. Does that mean I anthropomorphize them? (I do, but that's beside the point!)
Looks really solid! Can this easily be used in a more compact view? For example in the compose view for an email client, I don't imagine having a full screen with splits.

Is there a way to make it small, hide some things? On Slate, there's a way to type markdown and have it auto rendered. Is there such a mode?
New challenge gets people out and off their phones by using their phones
Yea, a lot of people are used to large vendors over promising on tech that doesn't work. As soon as they find issues with it, they don't fiddle with it to make it work, they move on to something else that seems more stable.

In 1996 I was weary of anything Microsoft made, let alone something that wouldn't even compile. The fact that they distributed a CD with missing files which made it 100% defective re-affirms why people were weary of their products. They didn't even bother doing ANY testing of how it was distributed.
Because the CPO is gone. GitLabbers - don't trust the CLO. She told us not to talk to the CPO the week she left, which is very odd too and makes us think something went wrong.
I was wondering about this as well, but I'd suspect any signal would get lost in the noise. People getting sick and sleeping more, people working from home, people checking online for news about the virus, the government shutting down internet access to prevent the spread of panic, etc. are all things that would drastically change internet usage patterns, but wouldn't necessarily be indicative of anybody dying.

Not necessarily saying any of those things (e.g., shutting off internet access) have or will occur - I'm pretty ignorant of the situation on the ground. I'm just saying that from a statistical perspective, I'm afraid it'd be a needle/haystack situation.
Why batteries are holding up tech breakthroughs – and whats happening now (2018)
Check out wgpu (https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu-rs) the Rust implementation of the WebGPU standard.

WebGPU is a nice API, Rust is amazing too. It's the stack of the near future. You can use it on the desktop. WebGPU a fast API on top of the underlying platforms. And it supports spirv, fuck glsl or hlsl.

There's also a dedicated wgpu channel on matrix if you want to join. https://matrix.to/#/%23wgpu:matrix.org
This research is a complete fraud. What is was about was to get funding for exhibition about Islam & Sweden, it was not qualified research.

What the researcher Annika Larsson did was to take a piece of Viking cloth, made a cut & folded it 90 degrees & matched it together from the original cut & then read some ornaments backwards to get the word Allah. This is the equivalent of seeing Jesus' face in a toast.
You are making assumptions about me that are simply invalid. In fact, I have deep concerns about the sort of culture originally denominated by "political correctness", especially its effect on freedom of thought within the academy. I am merely pointing out that the term has been coopted by people who use it maliciously and in bad faith, to the point that I don't think it makes sense to use it anymore.
It's enough to drain few thousands per sucker with scam this automated.

It will be pushed immediately to a temporary account and forwarded in non-repayable way to the scammer, leaving bank or credit card company to take the fall and a big headache to the user.
What's your phone number?

I might call you and check- and check for VOIP numbers, too, so no fakes.
That's the obvious and vivid example, but more broadly and tellingly are people's stated preferences and the outcomes of realignments, where people are oscillating between progressive and moderate candidates. I see no evidence that Iowa voters are "high-information"; I think most of them see participatory politics as a sport, just like voters in every other state.
How this article can exist without a reference to Catch-22 re: "The Great Loyalty Oath Crusade"!

excerpt: https://epic-site.com/catch-22-loyalty-oaths/
In Mexico? A lot of them do.
Perhaps it should be 'All it takes is someone in the right place who is willing to take a stand and say "wait, none of this makes any sense".'

Didn't communism last until 1989 in Bulgaria?
AWS seems like it would be expensive long term.

Between my issues with AWS currently and the exterior look of Amazon, I'm skeptical AWS is a good solution.
That would suggest that men are working like dogs all the time, should not we try to improve their lives too?
I wouldn't even say I'm bitter. I just think of the average person and average people in groups as forces is nature. You don't get deeply upset when there's a rainstorm, why get upset when you see horrible people acting horribly? Accepting the reality lets you try and avoid/shelter yourself from its excesses. In this case, that means trying to fill your life and your time with decent people, uncommon as they are; expecting as a baseline basically-evil behavior from large groups of people (govt, social movements) unless the institutions are well-designed; avoiding things like politics where the final judgment is people's unaccountable opinions; and understanding how this manifests in individual behavior when you do have to deal with the average person (eg I have no real interest in fashion, but I dress well because I've noticed how incredibly differently people treat you, a fact that's backed up by what studies have been done).

Regarding your "loathsome vs less loathsome" statement: The key point here is that I know people that are very, very decent, and I've had some success in limiting my close friend group to only people like that.
Ask HN: What do I do with competitor pricing data?
I have designed, engineered and put into production an extensive database of competitor pricing data in a financial commodity product (e.g. credit cards, loans, other consumer financial space).

Other than simple competitive intelligence/reporting (for exanple this competitor price is trending up/down, competitors of this segment are behaving in a given way) how can this data be best utilised?

For more detail, it is extremely granular data with an ability to aggregate making it possible to identify prices for very small segments of consumers (state, product variation) as well as incredibly large (national).

This data could be a goldmine if leveraged properly and I think the HN community might have a better idea than I do.

Thanks in advance.
It's in my nature to treat everyone as acting in good faith, by default. So when someone would cast a judgement, even a broad one about a demographic, that I couldn't clearly acquit myself of, I would internalize that judgement and direct it towards myself.

This has proven to be totally unsustainable, at least on the internet. Still, I don't think most people make bad judgements out of fundamental malice, but out of a) lack of critical thought, and b) the phenomenon described in the original post where judgement towards others becomes a defense mechanism.

So what I try to do now is neither internalize nor outright dismiss others' vitriol, but to accept that it's probably a) rooted in something real and valid, and b) unrefined by critical thinking and also warped by social pressures to a point where it can't be taken at face value.
Django is my go-to framework for 2020
Which I am happy to blow off when he's writing about random corporations but less sanguine about when his supposed authority on a political topic is the basis for a partisan political debate --- one rooted in conspiracy theories, no less --- on HN.