skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building software with lots of opensource libraries is effectively giving shell access to the authors of those libraries. They can stick whatever they like in those build scripts, and there's so many thousands of them I bet you don't check all of them by hand.

Given that, I'd prefer they had shell access as a low privilege user than be able to read my ssh keys from RAM...

Obviously if you compile software as your regular linux user account like most users, you're already a sitting duck, so might as well throw in a few more vulnerabilities.
> The thing is I am not sure a large percentage of advertisers are aware of such things and adjust their expectations.

True. Advertiser education is a big challenge for platforms, agencies and marketing employees. Every time I go to a new company I have to educate people on the nuts and bolts so they understand how it works. By and large, they get it and the value gets proven in no uncertain terms.

> Facebook and their ilk encourage you to believe their numbers even though they are mostly phony

The tests I refer to get around that. If you spend $X on ads to one group and they come in the door and spend more money, how is that phony? And where are there actual ads stats on a campaign a company has purchased that are phony by FB? They've had issues around their marketing of ad statistics externally, but after well into the mid nine figures spent there in my career I've never seen a single phony ad stat, only mistakes we made ourselves that inflated/compressed our numbers.

> I mean how many people do you know that haven't block ads that actually click on them without them making their ui so confusing that you do it by accident?

You're thinking of content ads on low quality publisher that are trying to stuff as many ways to monetize on their site at the cost of customer experience. Those are total crap most of the time and, yes, often are not incremental.

And of course, there's a population of people with ad blockers. But they still search, they still click affiliate links and they are still affected by larger brand advertising in the end. It is pervasive.

> The market is overhyped

Definitely not going to disagree there!
> until the day that product updates and analyses reveal otherwise.

The product (and their poor installer practice) has been updated several times in the past few months alone, and each move has made Zoom a more secure product, with the vast majority of the hubbub having been addressed. So are you simply ignoring that, or are you setting your own personal goalposts?
Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto
I think the matter at hand is much less trivial than tabs v. spaces.
In this case there would be no problem whatsoever, since USA doesn't wage wars on the their own territory.
Does anyone know what is the transparent container with white contents in the second picture of the wiki page? [0] It is mounted under the typing terminal.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norsk_Data#/media/File:Norsk_D...
Articles with names like "X as Y in Z" are almost invariably awful, but this was actually super interesting, and made me want to read some of those primary source documents from the 13th century.
PCI Express cards based on NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 are available new for <40 EUR. Presumably there's a large clearance and used market with much lower prices. None of that is an option?
Android Espresso Test Recorder and common modifications
Unregulated capital dominance is current at the historical peak in US. And funny thing is people can not do anything about it. Considering the time where AT&T (which is much more benevolent in today's term) can be broken up, today is just money game and money game.
Exactly. Same reason you shouldn't upload your private keys to a popular, centralized entity.
There have been journalists & researchers who covered these debt collectors at court. When defendants showed up, organised, they usually won.

The debt collectors' lawyers didn't arrive prepared to win, because most people didn't show up. If you can win 85% of cases just by showing up, why bother.

A court system that allows these dynamics to dominate isn't serving well.
It has its advantages, but it doesn't do much for consumers, except in some pretty extreme circumstances or dense areas. (Stadiums are a popular example, which, okay. I lived across the water from a stadium and my 3G phone signal sucked when there was something going on there. This got way better as my carrier got less bad and technology improved and the stadium added free wifi, but it's definitely a good problem to solve). It'll help other things more. Someone pointed out 5G could be a big thing for flying drones, in a near-future alternate universe where those are prolific, and there's quite a bit of interest in those. Trouble is a use case like that needs the infrastructure. So, everyone else is going to subsidize it by buying vastly overspecced phones, but that's the mobile industry in a nutshell.
To be clear, you are asking for examples of historical companies that were profit motivated?
>>Rather than defunding epidemiology, how about giving them enough money to hire professional programmers?

See "Moral Hazard". We should not expect integrity issues to be solved by throwing money at the perpetrators. It's more reasonable to suppose they would spend extra funding on hookers and crack cocaine, or some similar academic/bureaucratic equivalent.

If you have money/time/skills to throw at the problem, I implore you to take up a clean room open source effort to reproduce the model.
Thanks Dang, my search did not yield this submission!
So "whistleblower" complaints have now been watered down to the point where they are just people complaining about internal department policy?

Wow, America is really screwed if months of hearings and investigations can be triggered by a single disgruntled bureaucrat and a hostile Congress.

I greatly look forward to Trump winning again in 2020 and the Democrats losing the House.
Since nobody's mentioned Wire, it's not a 1:1 alternative but it's close in terms of chat. I don't think any 1:1 alternative to KeyBase will rise up anytime soon, hosting git and files will be a bit to build up to.

Website:

https://wire.com/en/

Their backend is open source unlike KeyBase:

https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server
Sadly, that's typical with static analyzers todays...
Not just psychological, but also economic (halal mortages and hawala), sociological (their biggest strength is gathering people IMHO), parasocial (all the little morality plays/stories in them), interpersonal (various golden rules), historical (often muddled with myth), sometimes physical (yogas), and on and on with all the different dimensions of the human experience.

As I'm sure you understand every religion is (among other things) an attempt at distillation of important perspectives and wisdom to help coming generations. So, I would not say "sad" by any means, well, except when misused.

I don't know much about the Protestant / Catholicism schism, but it sounds pretty heated. Though, as an outsider, I'd peg them as sects rather than separate religions. Heck, I'd lump all the Abrahamic religions together into a single clade as they share some bits of the same holy books.
Linking to this is evidence that you don't understand the entire value of Keybase.

PGP sucks.
If you have a job, the things you have and the food on your table are conditional on the will and whim of your employer, which in the US, at least, can be far more capricious than any government welfare program.

The only people who actually have personal security are the independently wealthy - everyone else lives and dies at the mercy of some greater system, a state or an employer.
It's really hard to glean from the article, which is I guess just designed to get 500+ ad impressions by spreading the information over 33 pages. This comparison of the same data is a little more informative:

https://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/2589?vs=2250

That's a $199 Intel 6-core part against a $120 AMD 4-core part. Anandtech hasn't bothered to benchmark a 4-core 9th-generation Intel CPU yet, despite the fact that they hit retail a year ago.
While it's a cool tool, what exactly was the (commercial) potential Keybase had? I could never tell.
To be honest that surprised me. I think the Tesla motor is slightly misleading. If you've ever seen a 3hp industrial motor you'll see where I'm coming from, they are about the same size as the Tesla's motor and probably weigh twice as much. I appreciate that the tech in those motors is very old compared to the Tesla, but if they are that far out you'd think there would be profit somewhere in improving them.
Yes default settings. The code we’re talking about is a hand rolled LZF decompressor originally written on the Ryzen 9 (so not intentionally Intel optimized).

Spectre doesn’t make much difference since its not making syscalls.

If you can somehow keep the CPU fed it becomes obvious there is more oomph behind the Intel device. That said how often are you running hand rolled assembly routines?

As an additional datapoint liblzf is faster on the Ryzen. But its limited by pipeline stalls so doesn’t get to take advantage of the extra resources.
These worried me. Then the airdrop panicked me! :)
Retargetting is the name for what you're seeing. The idea is that you were looking at their products, but didn't buy, and a reminder might help close the sale.

The ROI on these seems to be pretty high, so the bid prices are higher than a lot of other ads you might see. Especially for larger dollar items (if you look at cars, you're going to see way more car ads than normal for about 3-6 months, regardless of if you bought a car or just stopped looking ... the ad networks don't know if you converted).
Used to be higher. Lots of historical data.
Someone else just posted this, thought it might be relevant:
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-...

Maybe focus on the brand/scale, this is a unique time in history and monetize low for now, this could be the new normal. Profit when they’re hooked and not worrying about rent. Perhaps find sponsor/partner to fund backend scaling/adverts.

Multilanguage support for markets you think might be most related.
So you can exhaust the monthly high-speed data cap in 5 minutes instead of 5 days?
I learned programming on a Nord-10 in high school. Me and two friends wrote a chess playing program in Nord-PL.

It wasn't very good, but we learned a lot, and all 3 of us made a career in software.
I feel like his choices by using a device that is for work ... kinda automatically makes me question what if anything we can learn from a technical perspective.

If his judgment is that bad on a basic level, how bad must it be on a technical level?
So why not just use the first 8192 bytes of Pi?
Two years is nothing when it comes with planning and development in the US, unfortunately.

A little anecdote, here in Cincinnati I was peripherally involved with a local nonprofit taking over management of an abandoned bit of city part to build new multi-use trails. It took 20 years for the park board to even listen, then once an agreement was reached it took another /year and a half/ to get the paperwork to the point where they would officially sign it. Just for a group to build trails, with no money needed from the city, no permits, etc.

Projects like what sidewalk labs was trying to accomplish frequently take 5-10 years+ to get anywhere. Planning in the US is absolute garbage. It is a big part of the reason SF and other large US cities are so expensive. Luckily there are some groups like YIMBY making headway here.
Keys.pub – Cryptographic key management, user identities, signing, encryption
First guess: private equity?

Neiman Marcus, laden with debt after a private equity takeover,

Yup.
Amazing that you can be both so right and so wrong at the same time.

That central thesis is true - WW1 and WW2 were devastating to the economies of the nations involved (many of which didn't survive as ongoing political organizations). He just underestimated the extent to which humanity is irrational, short-sighted, and self-destructive.
Empty studio sets: BBC backgrounds for your video calls
Looking at the categories of warnings it produces, I'm not surprised. When I've used similar tools trying to detect the same things, I also saw false positives. It's probably not an easy set of problems, otherwise we'd have it built-in to more tools and enabled by default.
Peer pressure and lack of confidence. It doesn’t really matter how obvious, in hindsight, or how wonderful some decision is. Moving against the tide or investing in something original scares the shit out of most people.
While that's true, a presidential recommendation for something, based on sound reasoning and solid evidence, backed by experts, would be very convincing.
I isolate for this by cutting spend to zero occasionally.

"Would have bought anyway" only applies to household brands, retail distribution, and earned traffic.

If your average search position for an important query is 36 and you're not running any other ads, it's pretty easy to track sales.

Where mistakes pile up is when companies want to try everything, all at once.
Ah source code at MS. Always amusing to me. VSS [1] (Visual Source Safe) was terrible and I always wondered how "real" companies could use it. From what I heard, MS never did use it, they bought it and sold licenses. That's it.

That being said, Microsoft actually moved Windows to Git [2] years and years ago. Presumably they did the same with everything else. Team Foundation Server (TFS) supports Git, so they probably have the critical stuff on that TFS still, rather than GitHub. Especially since those repo's are huge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_SourceSafe
[2] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/micro...
Surprised they took the path of acquiring Keybase and hiring Alex Stamos (ex FB CISO) vs. hiring Moxie Marlinspike and other respectable professionals. Keybase's reputation has become eroded with their recent crypto currency signing nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike
> communication company that has its entire dev team in China

citation needed

Also, what are you trying to imply by this assertion?
Should the Europeans ban American equipment?

We know the NSA intercepts shipments and tampers with network equipment, on top of everything else they do. We also know a foreign agent (with considerable Chinese debt who was elected with the help of Russian intelligence) is now in the White House.

I know it’s fashionable to shit on China (China China China), but it’s not like they’re doing something new and unique. How can you count on the US, or any other country, to be a reliable partner?

The POTUS is openly inviting Russian interference in US affairs ffs.
I can. https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-connect/ https://www.jamf.com/products/jamf-protect/
> Science is never unfair, never has an agenda, never backward

That’s the ideal of course. But History shows otherwise. Personal biases often influence research. This isn’t a knock against science, as you mentioned it’s ultimately a tool to understand the world. Human judgements, prior beliefs and reasoning is the issue here.
5G is a very broad term, which is supposed to offer 10x performance in all metrics over 4G.

This seems to be the same issue when they were called Light Squared. The L-band was to be used for terrestrial base stations with very high power transmitters. The issue is that, even though several MHz away, from the GPS carrier, the transmissions will compress the LNA on GPS receivers with poor or little filtering, desensitizing the GPS receiver.

Most civilian stuff now has decent filtering prior to the LNA so it can co-exist with all the other wireless crap crammed in your phone.

I’m an RF EE and do a lot with GPS.
If most users had your attitude we would have far fewer open source/free softwares. The author has already spent a significant amount of time making the tool, criticizing him for not spending more time/energy for something that can easily be done by the reporter seems, well, counter-productive.

In most cases, feedback is not worth much, depending on your goal. E.g.: I've made some software that satisfies my requirements. Should I be grateful for feedback that, in essence, requires more free work from me? What's the thinking here?

For these reasons I consider the author's attitude most appropriate, considering he could have said "the software is free, send a patch", or just "works for me, take a walk – I don't owe you anything".
No idea. But the trend (avalanche) is to bring them back and automate. That's what we prepare for.
But at this point, why not simply run Arch Linux?
Yes and also there is a ton of hand-wavy, without any merit bullcrap floating on HN. Without any in-depth analysis, numbers, apple-to-apple comparisons. AWS and Azure would not exist if moving to the cloud was a bad move. There are so many companies whose primary business is not to build data centers, yet they require some computational resources. These are the companies that are the primary users of cloud computing. Based on my experience, most of the financial companies fall into this category, including banks. Other industries that I have experience with include, travel, gaming, pharmaceutical, logistics, and a few more. Microsoft is doing a great job to get the most enterprise customers, while AWS has stronger offerings. The biggest winners with cloud migrations are the companies who can start to auto-scale while previously was impossible because the on-prem datacenter had no such features, even if they had, they could not sell the extra capacity to other companies like AWS. Other great cost optimization opportunities include the option to try to run the workload on different node types and find the best fit. Also not an option with most on-prem DCs. S3 itself can solve problems that are very hard to solve. For example, you have different security zones and you need to copy data around in your DC. This becomes not necessary anymore with S3, just give different users different access level and you do not need to copy the data around anymore. This was one of the big selling points for one of your customers. I could go on and on. In the last 5 years, we have saved several millions of EURs for our clients and made businesses possible that was impossible using on-prem resources. But some HN knows better and they argue that all of these companies which are rolling on AWS are morons and they should have built they own DCs because it is cheaper while AWS became a ~10 billion income business unit. There is some irony in this, I guess.
There are currently a bunch of this articles (and videos) out there.

Other do compare against that CPUs and it's still much better to buy the Ryzen then the Intel ones (at least if you go headless or if you will put one a dedicated GPU anyway).
They all seem to have decided on a "market expansion at the expense of brand dilution" strategy. Ditto most of the formerly-consistently-good clothing brands. I'm not really sure which stores/brands replace the ones that have done this, these days.

[EDIT] I suspect part of this is because the cost of actually-good clothes hasn't dropped like shitty-clothes costs have, because (this is further speculation on my part) a good bit of the "savings" from internationalization, by the time it reaches consumers, is actually making many categories of goods worse and eliminating mid-tier stuff (formerly bottom-tier) outright so the gulf between lower-end luxury (paying for quality, not name) and plain ol' low-end has grown, putting pressure on luxury brands to cut prices... but they can't with their current products, because internationalization hasn't actually dropped the price of producing decent goods by very much, so instead they cut quality.
>they universally believe that immunity is real and at least moderately long-lasting

I haven't seen a single publication to this effect and there's no way to no for sure until enough time has elapsed to verify. Viral immunity varies widely and though it is in the coronavirus family it is still a novel pathogen.
Tesla Solar Roof: Elon Musk outlines plan to reach 1k homes per week
Secure filesharing and chat, for starters. Secure digital wallets tied to identity. It was a wallet platform I'd actually be interested in.
I like Anandtech. They have some really great deep dive articles on CPUs and system architecture. Which is why this type of 'test' is just weird. None of the CPUs they compare seem to be in the same price bracket. Many aren't even from the same generation. 7700K? 8086K? 4900HS? Yes, sometimes you have to work with what you have, but c'mon - at least one somewhat comparable CPU would've been nice for reference (i3 8100 or i5 9400F).
This is really annoying when building a NAS too. Great value CPUs with ECC support make the configurations great and then you need to spend 50-100€ to just get boot graphics even though the machine will be headless 99% of the time. Buying something second hand or from aliexpress defeats the purpose of trying to build something reliable. The market for low-end discrete GPUs has all but vanished thanks to Intel integrated GPUs. AMD should add a very basic GPU to every CPU part just good enough for boot graphics and consoles. All the motherboards already include the outputs themselves so only a little bit of silicon in the CPU is missing.
I've been using a BT keyboard & mouse (Logitech Keys & MX Master 3) with my iPad since they announced the proper mouse support. Combined with the USB-C to HDMI multi-port adapter (which provides a USB-C pass-through port, USB-A port, and an HDMI port), it's close to using a desktop.

I'm used to coding over a terminal, so I use the app Blink Shell to do anything like that since it fully supports external displays (most apps and the iPad interface will display windowboxed). Blink is open-source, and they provide instructions on their github repo, but you can also fund the project by buying it via the App Store.
Google Sibling Abandons Ambitious City of the Future in Toronto
So GN looked at it, the lack of the IGPU basically killed the i3-9100F in premiere pro as did the lower base clock; even compared to the 3100. The i5 parts seem to do better particularly the 9600K (I don't see the 9400F which again would be hampered by the lack of an IGPU).

https://youtu.be/V4nQpXVTh0g?t=1195
I want 5G. I’ve always wanted the latest and greatest tech, so why stop now?
Thanks for clarifying that, and yes, Zoom's s-1 writers did a good job of laying it out. The risks are real, and presenting them in an incorrect way makes it easy for people to dismiss the risks when they shouldn't. If the times comes because they're a Chinese company, and you check and see that they're a delaware c corp founded by a US citizen headquartered in the US, that would lead you to discount that risk. Clarifying that the risk comes from the development team being in a country where the government is in a contentious trade relationship with the US with an authoritarian regime (especially if the dev team isn't in one of the special economic zones) helps highlight what the risk is and confirm that it is a real threat.
That is not going to happen soon anyways.
Wow, why don't people wise up to this PE trick? Seems like creditors would learn their lesson after so many examples...
>>Implication of Response: Where is the evidence that this is inferior to industry?

A meta implication is that expert models were insufficient to inform decisions.
I had never put my finger on this before but you're right.

Also it's a total crap shoot on manufacturing quality.
This is hyperbolic, and just bad advice.

The metrics from Google and FB are essential to understanding what's going on, the key, like everything, is to really understand them.

"run tests that make sense" - as opposed to one's that dont?

"Measuring in dollars" yes, but there's a lot of indirection in ads, there are other metrics that are useful.
Another key part would be if a college charged 500$ per credit hour, can they now charge $750?