skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry yes. The standard was broken. The underlying crypto isn't broken by some measures, but the protocol as a whole was.
> In an extreme example, if someone says "There are extremists in the world, and I am not going to be one of them", I can quote that as "There are extremists in the world, and I am ... one of them", which is factually true, that is a portion of what was said. The interpretation is the polar opposite, but it is factually true.

Not so extreme considering this kind of editing is basically what led to Count Dankula's court case and conviction.
In terns of privacy, does it actually help with reducing IP based fingerprinting? I looked up Wireguard and Mullvad help pages, but could not find anything. Only thing I found was Mullvad saying [1] that it uses static IPs and it's not ideal :(

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/help/why-wireguard/
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As you stated, everyone is already shaping the narrative. But right now nearly all of the power to do so is highly centralized at a very short list of companies. You already mentioned some tech companies, but I'd certainly also add a bunch of classical media/news orgs like e.g. FOX and Disney.

We could now discuss if democracy can work with so much centralized power. But the result we'll see is those powers fighting each others. It might be more obvious than before thanks to our current polarized times and such simple to identify targets.
I don't think adding something the size of DO (which is not large) to AWS would materially impact anti-trust evaluation of Amazon.
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The generator we use in our paper is a form of restriction of 'direct' training data. You can think of it as a weird encoding for images.

PS: I'm the author of the GTN paper. Feel free to ask any questions
> since it looks so similar to the "there is no perfect security so why even try" line of arguing.

What does "misinformation and extremist content" mean? Because that is the first point. Remember that the GOP called out large companies for "silencing the right" when they enacted policies that reduced misinformation and extremist content in the past. "Misinformation and extremist content" is thus itself an illdefined thing as different people consider different things to fall under it.

The framing usually used is that "if the big companies are liable the content won't be there" which history has shown is only true in so far as "if the big companies are liable user made content won't be there" effectively as huge restrictive filters need to be put in place to avoid the liability.

> even though I actually do think we should carefully observe whether current online platforms / communication changes our societies and if in a favorable way

Feel free to talk about it, you are not trying to enact policy. AG Barr is involved in creating policy and thus should be careful about exactly what he suggests rather than invoking the same liability boogieman that hasn't served us in the past.
I wonder how it added $1B of revenue to Stripe's customers.
In the same article, the FBI quotes his private messages from his email account that same year.
That's basic game theory, and the game of Chicken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game)
Dr. Johnson gives both spellings in his Dictionary, along with relevant quotes from Milton and Dryden, which are all spelled "spelled" or "spell'd".
Unshortened URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376468

"The Wetware Crisis: The Dead Sea Effect"
If it's an extraordinary claim, it's backed by extraordinary evidence. Modern secure messengers make it difficult (or even impossible) to accidentally send a plaintext message. Meanwhile, plaintext replies to encrypted emails are such a widespread phenomenon that practically everyone who has used them at any kind of scale has witnessed them. The reason those opsec lapses aren't newsworthy is because the underlying messages are unimportant, so nobody cares. Which is why it's important that people understand that almost all encrypted mails are LARPsec.
There are compilers to native.

But this lawsuit isn't about the JVM. Its about the java sdk.
How does that even come close to solving the problems that a "GitHub for data" product would solve?
On Hacker News, we're pretty careful about dupes, but for different reasons and in a different way than on SE. Here the issue is that frontpage space is the scarcest resource that HN has (only 30 slots at a time). Since the site exists for intellectual curiosity, and curiosity withers under repetition, it's important not to have those slots taken up by stories that have had a significant recent discussion. (For example, the OP had a major thread yesterday.)

Reposts are allowed in the other cases. That is, if a story hasn't had significant attention yet, we don't treat a repost as a dupe. Similarly, if it has had a significant discussion but not recently, it's ok to resubmit it. That's because once enough time has gone by, the topic can gratify curiosity again. The cutoff is a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
They’ve been since Suez in 1956.
Either way, wherever the profit and or broader control lie.

I'm starting to think we should let/get someone to found Sirius Cybernetics and let them snap up the whole FAANG group, Oracle, etc just so they can be "first up against the wall when the revolution comes".
I think bedding is actually the thing that makes me most uneasy at hotels, you just don't have a choice. You can expect they wash the sheets with each new guest, but I don't think they do so with the comforter which grosses me out. Then there is the whole bed-bug situation...
Then they basically escaped. That is not solving a problem, it's giving up and pathetic.
What not to do at a growing startup?
Correct: in this particular problem domain, safety is the overwhelming priority, just like we don't care about the UX framework or the open source-ness of radiotherapy machines.
I'll throw out there that I am a Republican and I don't hate google, I don't hate it with a mindless passion and seeing red at the very mention of its name type of thing.

Honestly the more I am on HN the more I see that hating a company is pretty dumb, I work in a big org that big org has thousands of people making thousands of decisions, nobody has good information and half the people making decisions are incompetent or selfish, or both.

But Google, there are some things I like about it, they have some cool tech and based on what I've seen and heard the Google founders really were interested in making the world a better place to some extent. From a professional perspective I don't like them more lately because it seems like they've turned into Ballmer era M$ than a company interested in good tech and what not.

Now I don't agree with a lot of the vocal minority at Google that wants to turn everything into some sort of political issue and seems to have a blinding hatred of the very word Trump, but I also recognize that's probably a small vocal minority at the company, most of the people at Google are probably just regular people like me, who I might disagree with on politics but are still people, and most of them don't think that everyone who voted for Trump is a closet Neo Nazi that has Swastika hanging in their bedroom, and likewise I assume most of the people at Google aren't some sort of crazed SJW that believes that white people should be enslaved and men should all be denied the right to vote as some sort of mass justice.

My point which I admit wandered is that I think this typecasing of everyone who is X all hate Y or all worship Z is a problem that exceeds anything Trump, the SJWs, the Left the Oompa Loompas or anyone else in politics is doing. I am Republican I have strong opinions but I also recognize there are complicated issues to deal with and anyone who thinks they have the universal answer is either stupid, evil or both.

I admit I could be wrong though it could be that the entire world really is full mostly of people that want everyone who disagrees with them dead in a ditch and believes that they and their opinions are the one true solution to all problems, and are all justice looking to establish their own little totalitarian utopia, but maybe just maybe the majority of people in the world are mostly decent, reasonable, and are looking to do what they can to make the world a slightly better place.
Your last paragraph has absolutely no basis in US law at least.
The term you’re looking for is “Merkle tree”. Git and Bitcoin are both Merkle trees.
Raising $100M in debt is the same as borrowing $100M, right?
A company I talked to (Bought by National Cash Register), was using cameras software analysis to monitor employee theft.

felt very big brothery but it worked well enough to get bought out.

"The ScanItAll Checkout Vision Suite is a collection of StopLift’s video analytics technologies applied to inventory shrinkage at the checkout. ScanItAll automatically analyzes video from checkouts every moment to detect inventory shrinkage visually, even when it leaves no data trail.

ScanItAll detects Sweethearting, Self-Checkout Loss, Basket-Based Loss, Operational Error, etc.

https://www.stoplift.com/solutions/
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https://www.dolthub.com/docs/getting-started/introduction/

This is the correct link
Storing the icons in inode attributes is just one use of icons on Haiku; plenty of applications embed them as resources (i.e. in a data section of the binary), which is more or less what you are describing here.
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True. But tracking is so common and so widely abused that I think it's entirely reasonable to take the stance of blocking it all anyway.
It works as long as the current regime isn't overthrown or your country gets occupied.
Something will break the camels back. Can only pack so many straws.
As you have noticed, "Github for Data" is not what they're building. At all.

Our company is actually building Git for Data and Github for Data. We have an open source database called Dolt which combines the commit graph of git with the relational tables and SQL of MySQL:

https://github.com/liquidata-inc/dolt/

Then we have a DoltHub, which is Github for data:

https://www.dolthub.com/

Dolt lets you version, branch, and merge your dataset so that you can collaborate on it with others. Dolthub lets you share your dataset with the world, submit PRs, fork other people's repos, and lots of other analogous features to Github.
That's a reach.

Doing explicitly offensive things as satire and being selectively quoted aren't similar.
It's a holy grail. Like quite a few advanced technologies there is a gap between something the creator of the system finds comfortable to work with and something that other people can pick up and that is one reason why this tech hasn't diffused.

What do you think about tools like

http://www.clara-rules.org/

or

https://www.drools.org/

?
Wow I never thought about this
The issuing banks provide credit and insurance, and quite a lot of effort in the system goes to anti-fraud. Especially for online payments.
Yeah it's so stable..
My guess would be that a lot of coding is autodidactic, aka there is a lot of self-learning, trial and error, etc. This means you learn a lot of bad habits, or develop gaps that a formal training course would avoid.

So when you get to something that is complicated and has the potential for deep strategies and shortcuts for efficiency (e.g debugging), it's no surprise that experienced coders might want a refresher.

Impostor Syndrome may be a thing there, too.
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> And you lose the ability to quickly change settings in a text editor

There are plenty of SQL CLI/GUI clients that support SQLite.

But if you need end users to be able to change some configurations sure, move those to standalone files and parse them.
Haiku's goal is being a full-fledged desktop/laptop OS, not a "mobile" OS; and most laptops and desktops right now are all x86, so that's what we primarily target.

What's preventing you from running it on a laptop now?
I hate when the presenter reads back to me what is on the slide. The slides is context that the presenter should elaborate on. We can all read what is on the slide.
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The sleaze of the mattress industry is a major reason the mattress in a box business has done so well. I just love when these kinds of markets get disrupted because the disdain these companies have for their own customers is infuriating (see also taxi industry).

There's a great "Adam Ruins Everything" episode about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZOKfCial4

FWIW, I absolutely love my mattress in a box and the buying process was painless.
The important patents are long-expired.
Simple solution: run a POSIX-compliant OS on the frontend. All Linux distributions, all BSD distributions, modern macOS, and Windows Subsystem for Linux all support ':' in filenames.
Launch HN: App Brainstorm – Predesign Prototyping for Drafting Apps
HN,

I'm Eric from App Brainstorm (https://appbrainstorm.com).

This project got me motivated because when making apps I wanted to:

- Figure out the content, try flow alternatives, and edge cases at thinking pace.

- Test a prototype I could interact with, and not have to memorize it, the case with graphic mocks.

- Understand requirements without reading much.

I hope you find it useful, and tell your colleagues about it.

From time to time I'll blog about the app drafting subject, examples, reverse drafting, etc. If you have suggestions about those topics in general please let me know too.

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I think VCs are good for “gamble” companies where if you miss your medium term goals you can be happy chopping the assets up for parts.

If it’s a business you want to see through to the end, through thick and thin, then you basically need your VC’s to be founder-level personal compatibility. Which narrows the available pool of money A LOT.

You can also take VC if you can bootstrap through product market fit and only take money during the growth phase, and you can stop after one round. I.e. you are already profitable, you want to take debt to do capital expenditures, and you can turn off the CapEx and go back to profitability after you spend the VC money.

Patreon seems to have gotten addicted to financing very early, which is a very weak position to negotiate from, and hampers your ability to make decisions that benefit the long term health of the company.
:-) Actually CERN would get that $$$
Well, just to put the shoe on the other foot:

Should US AG Barr be liable for (or bound by) comments/tweets by President Trump?

This isn't as tight a parallel as I would like. But when I make a post on HN, say, it's my words and my opinion, and does not represent the opinion of HN (even though they moderate). I don't speak for HN; they don't speak for me.

In the same way, when Trump sends his tweets-of-the-day, that doesn't speak for AG Barr or the DOJ (despite Trump's idea that he is the chief law-enforcement official).

As I said, that isn't quite as tight as I would like it to be. But it's something that Barr should be able to understand at both an intellectual and an emotional level.
There's a complementary effect where the employers that are hiring tend to be poorer places to work, and the managers hiring within an organization tend to be the worst managers. Why? Because they're the ones driving off the best employees.

Good employers/managers tend to have little turnover and thus need relatively fewer hires. And when they do, they often hire via word-of-mouth rather than the front door.

This is yet another reason to grow your career network.
> while providing some library for "legacy app API translation".

Can they, after an Oracle victory?
10M Wow, that's cheap AF!
Haha yep. It's lovely when the filer of the lawsuit raises a great point on how to throw out their case and further citizen protection, isn't it?
Climate change may also drive the collapse of food webs globally in the oceans: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
The optimal provider in those cases is oneself, running the email on an disk encrypted server, using dane, dnssec, and strict dmarc policy to match (should be noted that the author of this article are also against some of those technologies, and if I recall right, also against people running their own email server).

Project like freedom box could make email encryption obsolete, but thats not because unencryption would be secure enough. It would be because the encryption would be moved away from the individual email and onto the whole server.
Thank you.

actual link : https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/tree/master/posthog
They've been vigilant in their testing and transparent in their results, and it's making their numbers look bad. It doesn't look like any other country will follow their lead.
Having listened to some of the conversations in my MBA class, I am genuinely not surprised.

The current consensus seems to be that cellphones spying on your every move is ok so logically it does make sense to just expand it. This had to be scaled back since people are not sufficiently conditioned yet.

Speaking from US perspective, Baxter has some ridiculous user monitoring tools in their call centers.
This is awesome and long overdue. We (I'm the Metabase founder) have been working on the Business Intelligence side of things, but have always struggled in our own usage with the ubiquity of closed source solutions for event collection (read: Google Analytics) and the relative lack of attention on this problem on the open source side.
How would it cause too many system-wide file writes...?

Most files on Haiku don't use custom icons, they just use the icon associated with the mimetype. Application binaries the primary consumer of the icons-in-attributes feature.
Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner on their 70-year friendship
LOL, is the CEO's office being monitored and played by the water cooler? It's only transparent if it goes all the way around.
What was the cost difference? Did the shrink reduction exceed the $3/hr raise in value but not by enough? Or was the raise not offset at all by the reduction?
How about the words "body fat" ?
I am pretty sure this will come back just slightly modified. And other companies will do the same. It will be really hard to stop the trend toward total surveillance. It gets cheaper and cheaper every year and more capable.
That sounds very different from what Uber is doing here, which is basically accelerating training with synthetic data to accelerate otherwise standard neural architecture search tools. The focus is on the data synthesis network.

Also, the system you describe sounds impractical for any of the complex learning tasks you suggest, especially if it hasn't even done much simpler things yet. Why would machine code be the right level of abstraction for a vision or robotics problem?
Please, please show me examples of 5k being run of the mill. That claim needs evidence.
No, I'm not suggesting company size should have anything to do with it.
A single example, but Apache Accumulo came from NSA.
I will believe it once the transparency goes both ways. So far it always goes only downward.
> give them a linkedin search, and tell them to add people to a spreadsheet for sourcers to reach out to

Maybe that practice is a big part of what makes LinkedIn so horrible. The constant spam from recruiters is what led me to delete my LinkedIn account.
It is transparency, it was always wrong to think that transparency is some universal good.
At work, my staff (20ish developers) usually clock in/out sharp bcoz of attendance, but they take 2+ hours lunch break and ~1hr for prayer breaks (2x within work hour), which I don't mind. But what frustrates me is their work is slow and low quality (not everyone), and I do thought about "short term" tracking like this. Thoughts?

(I just joined, so I "inherited" this)
Blockchains are highly inefficient for decentralized consensus as well.
Most of the top engineers would probably be contractors. The government pay scale pretty much forces you to become a manager if you want to move past GS-12. Including locality pay, GS-12 salary tops at a little over 100k a year[1].

I just looked at their website, and they don't mention anything about NSA, Amazon, or Google on the landing page, so I think it's just techcrunch adding it in as clickbait, even though the founders aren't going out of their way to advertise it.

https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2020
Alt+tab is mode change to an extent.
That thing where US schools are paid for by property taxes is so gross. Talk about a policy designed to maintain inequality.
Unless you have some clever storage mechanism (such as a column-oriented database or a separate table with a join), 200 extra bytes directly in each row of a frequently used table makes that table less efficiently use disk and memory caches. Consider if the entire rest of that row takes up 100 bytes, and now it takes up 300. You now can fit a third as many rows in each disk block or memory page.
Name a federated message tool that is more secure than signal for a user who is not a tech expert and whose life is potentially on the line.
I like this idea but the article doesn't do a great job of spitting out why it's valuable.

Consider a SAAS with 25,000 active customers and tons of structured (database) data.

You have a bunch of people that need to work on the dev system and the closer dev looks to prod the better you are.

- Contractors in another country

- A team working on basic compliance with GDPR and CCPA

- Sysadmin team trying to manage backups/restores

When the contractors pull a version of the DB it needs to not have any customer data (emails, addresses, etc.) so there's a process that wipes all those out and fills them in with fake data.

When the GDPR team gets a data deletion request ("Please delete all my data my email is X@y.com") on Monday and the Sysadmin team restores from a backup from Sunday what happens?

Right now both of these actions are one-off things done with a mish-mash of scripts, organizational knowledge, and half-remembered processes.

So wouldn't this be better with a service that could talk to your DB and you could fork out versions that "knew" the current DB structure, that you could mark as purged of sensitive data, that you could apply (and re-apply) transforms to for structure to data addition/removal.
Crunchbase estimates $500M-$1B range https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean#section...
The majority of the best engineers don't even work for a FAANG. FAANGs don't offer remote for the most part. How many of the best decided they wanted more. The world is a big place.

NSA engineers on average would be scary good.
You're lucky that you have that many options. You don't have to go too far into rural areas to find places where there isn't any coax on the poles.

24 million Americans don't have any options that the FCC considers as fixed broadband service (25/3mbps)
DigitalOcean has raised a total of $305.4M in funding over 11 rounds. Their latest funding was raised on Dec 27, 2018 from a Secondary Market round. [1]

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean#section...
ideally a platform with >n users or generating >m revenue would have to pick between publisher (editorial control and liability) or carrier (neither).
I had a great cron prank that I pulled on the only other linux user at my high school 2 years ago. It made a folder, took a screenshot of his background, moved all of his desktop into said folder, then changed the background to the screenshot. In retrospect, It was probably overkill, but at least he learned to use ctrl+alt+l when sharing a lunch period with another linux enthusiast.
There is a difference between deciding all transactions will be published and making them public by design constraint. Blockchains make transactions public by design, and this design cannot be easily subverted by the people running it.
I don’t see why they would except maybe to aquihire some talent.