skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If Google Docs is not approved for company use, how does the security team identify SSNs in Google Docs?

Part of my argument is that Google Docs is popular and widely used by users, so IT should support it.

Then there’s training on how to use unsupported stuff (ie don’t email ssns, don’t upload ssns, etc).

Then there’s DLP as the source file was a PowerPoint on the partner’s laptop. Back then, I don’t know what products existed but today I have implemented DLP that if a file has a social it is flagged for review immediately and will present visual cues to the user for sensitivity and it is blocked from lots of different transfer methods. This helps prevent users who don’t know the file is sensitive (most of the potential breaches I’ve encountered) but users can get around it (screenshot, phone, etc) if they are really determined.

My point is mostly about rules being better rather than rigid. The best rules fit into a mental model and should be easy to follow. The “Just say no” style rules work just as well for security as for drugs and smoking.

Usability is really important, I think, in security.
The FAQ says that a small number of reposts is ok if an article hasn't had attention yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. 6 is probably too many. 2 or 3 would be ok.
For what it's worth, I currently have the top comment in the thread defending the point of computer science. I'm an undergrad studying in India.

My exams in college have not been about rote memorization. I've written quite a bit of code, and taken down quite a bit of notes for them. It totally depends on where someone studies in India. I do concede that the vast majority of college in India outside the "top 20" or so do seem to rely heavily on rote memorization.

- My notes taken for university: https://github.com/bollu/notes

- Code I wrote for university: https://github.com/bollu/IIIT-H-Code

> Stuff like the atom bomb are entrepreneurial triumphs by people who happened to be academics.

This seems like an odd position to defend. The mathematics that was necessary to even begin this line of investigation was worked out in academia by pure mathematicians and theoretical physicists. The "steelman" version of your argument I would phrase as thus:

> Academia does not have the incentive and funding structure to pull of projects such as the Manhattan project, and thus had to occur as a government project with unlimited funding.

I will gladly accept this. Unfortunately, it's not just academia that suffers from this. I don't think a lot of startups do useful research either. Most of the "original research" that I am aware of occurs at extremely well funded government labs, or lately the large tech companies that are pouring billions into AI.
> I should also mention that commercial E-beam machines are pretty expensive (something like 1-Mil) but that I dont think it would be that difficult to engineer one for a mere fraction of that price.

I'm not sure where it was, but I remember a seeing a project where someone made a rudimentary homebrew electron microscope by chemically etching the tungsten filament from a light bulb (to get the tip sharp enough) and attaching it to a piezo buzzer that was scored to separate it into four quadrants. The filament could be moved by applying various combinations of voltage to the piezo quadrants.

I didn't find the one I was thinking of (which I think was ca. 2002 and so maybe just vanished by now), but search results suggest that variations of this have been done by several people.
The reporter wasn't stupid, they were hoping for some kind of reaction.

It's not too dissimilar to taunting someone hoping they'll do something you can latch onto.

The lack of reaction / dodging was clearly enough to drive up a shitstorm. Any attempt to acknowledge and answer the question, even in deflecting it, was going to cause more trouble.

> it shows how great power China has over international bodies and it is scary.

It shows how much power China has in general.

Look at Hong Kong. Most countries are doing nothing except making vague statements for peace, at most some are offering refuge for some who want to escape.
Honestly it does not matter how many conditions need to be met, there is simply no reason for a web browser to be able to do this under any circumstance.

You might argue about a video surveillance app which you install and which you explicitly grant the permission of filming while the lock screen is on, for example with an old device which you want to use as a security camera, but that is a completely different use case.
Vietnam came out right at the start with a significant fine for not wearing a mask in public.
I immediately recognized the reference. There's no law that says pop culture references need to be to something with X amount of popularity. Chill.
Somewhat in the book The Man who Loved Only Numbers[1], it's a biography of Paul Erdos who was mostly homeless and spent his life travelling around other mathematicians' homes staying with them a few days at a time, and Ron Graham did a lot of looking after him and his life, pay, bureacracy, etc, so gets quite a few mentions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Loved_Only_Numbers
This article doesn't go beyond the title but I assume like any AWS funding you have to show the ARR (Annual reoccurring revenue) potential for the future. I know for a fact that they'll dish out $1m+ but it has to eventually lead to revenue for them.
For work hours, maybe because many Japanese women works as "part time job" due to discrimination and some tax/insurance system. Statistics by gender maybe reflects it.
In other words: you can rearchitect it from scratch, but you probably can’t extract the die.
Not surprising, HN loves Claire and her Murrayan novelists.

Here you go[0].

Out of the links I shared[parent], the former link takes a deep dive into Quillette authors (one of whom wrote the article I cite below), the latter delves into the actual arguments they make in advancement of "neophrenology".

To reiterate my initial comment (I am not here to make a value judgement on phrenology), this does not seem like a publication the OP would like to submit to.

[0] http://archive.is/6okTx

:EDIT: minor clarifications
Normie Epistemologists Hate Him! One Weird Trick for Glory and Riches
> lots of old and relatively few young. Politicians want to get re-elected and cater to the largest, most influential voter group (old people) and disregard younger voters agendas.

I really don't follow your argument. Do you believe young voters are totally indifferent to the idea of seeing their parents and grandparents die?
Another excellent analysis of what Trends on YouTube [0]

"Is the trending tab rigged against creators? Is late night dominating the charts? Why does it feel your favorite controversial creator never trends. All of that and more, in the first ever data-driven look at the trending tab."

What 40,000 Videos Tell Us About The Trending Tab:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDqBeXJ8Zx8
They could certainly be smaller. If they were 50% smaller, which 50% of their current content do you think they should get rid of? Anything smaller or with more moderation will have less content. I suspect what we have now is the best that we can have.
The fundamental problem is that our beliefs become part of our identity, and thus most of the time we're not actually seeking the "truth". This is obviously true when it comes to religion, and almost as bad when it comes to politics. And these days, a lot of "science" has become hyper political: race, climate, gender, evolution. Forget changing anyone's mind on those topics, no matter what facts you have in your arsenal.
Nice work! Had a go at modifying an existing library to display bathymetry data a little while ago, tried writing about it. https://vulkd.com/articles/3d-underwater-maps/ Some hyperlinks there which could be of interest.

It should be fairly simple to display a linestring from a gpx file or similar to the map, just write a method to convert x/y/z coords to lng/lat/alt
This is really great - and kudos for providing methodological details and code! I love seeing this kind of large-scale descriptive research, it's a real bummer that YouTube is starting to close up access to their API. We did a similar kind of analysis looking at videos posted by popular channels last year, including some analysis of keywords that boosted views - figure you might find it interesting (and I'd love to see if our findings hold up with your dataset!) https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/07/25/a-week-in-th...
I'm not sure what the process is now, but previously it seemed if you were part of any accelerator, or raised money from a VC both AWS/GCP would give you 100k.

Here's a link I found from Google (not sure how up to date it is): https://www.joinffl.com/cloud-credits
IMO Most Japanese tech geeks laughs why MacBook Air is advertised as "light" laptop. There are more lighter and more functional laptops available in Japan.
Actually, I don't pay for hardly any SaaS or Apps. Microsoft Office is the only exception, and the only thing I really need there is OneNote. (I use Word and Excel, but only because I've already paid for them to get OneNote - neither is essential.) Other than that, the only thing I pay for is storage for backups in S3. I also have a recent copy of CorelDraw Suite, but they've gone subscription now, so I'll have to find an alternative. Other than those, it's all open source.
Wow! That looks awful.
How widespread are those changes though?

The Wikipedia article on Sex Differences in Humans uses the terms man/woman and male/female interchangeably[1]. What little I've seen of the scientific literature follows this convention as well.

It's my experience that, across a broad swath of American society, that many people follow the old convention as well.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_humans
> unless you propose to make more radical changes to society. How many thousands of people could we have saved from car accidents in 2019 by banning nonessential driving?

I'm pretty sure that mandating driver's license to be able to drive, and passing laws and regulations to enforce the use and adoption of safety systems such as seat belts, air bags, and helmets, not to mention criminalizing wreck less driving, is a pretty radical change to society.

With covid19 all people is asked to do is wear a mask and practice social distancing.
Love this website. Wish more people made sites like this.
Automata allow us to rigorously argue about computation based on the simplest machines we can conceive of. If you can not make strong claims about automata, then you have no chance of making strong claims on "real world" (whatever that is) machines.
Ugliness aside, there are some things that don't work very well in a plain spreadsheet vs a UI. For example large paragraphs and images.

Part of conveying information should be about making the information easy to digest. Sometimes a spreadsheet fits that bill. Other times a crafted UI works better.
> Web browser shouldn't be doing it tho.

Exactly.

An app which requests the appropriate permissions and gets them granted is really welcome to display this behavior, but not a web browser.
It's reasonable to me that these are discounted?

Terry Crews expressed a concern. A bunch of people popped up to say they didn't think the concern was present. Great! Like saying "Let's make sure the boat isn't leaking", and then people pop up and say, "yeah, the boat's not leaking".

The SlowToWrite examples are heavily based on the Bible. That's only going to be relevant for other people who also hold the Bible as a source of truth. Like saying "We don't have a problem with the sails on this boat"; that's only relevant to the other people on the same boat. I'd need to see where they're being discounted to see more, and I'd have to go look at where he's been called a slur to see what's going on there, too.
No. Those are "reaction to COVID" deaths or just normal deaths.

If you order an island evacuated because of an impending natural disaster and some people die in the evacuation they died from the evacuation, not the disaster. Just because your actions are lowering the overall body count doesn't mean the deaths are the fault of whatever disaster the people died avoiding.
I won't discount your experience, but this made me think of radio personalities I've known but not seen for years. Never thought of them as less than normal folks. Just a thought that, perhaps not seeing the person wasn't the primary problem.

Personally I don't link social media accounts with coworkers until I've known them for years. Github doesn't have my picture either.
Performance comparison of VVC(H.266), AV1 and EVC
They have an open source version of Dune here: https://github.com/OpenDUNE/OpenDUNE

For those who miss the Dune gameplay and don't want to pirate the Genesis ROM.
> Why should facts exert only a slow, painstaking generational force on belief if people are actually rational? Surely it should have immediate effect?

Kind of like Bayesian inference. You have a prior and the different evidence moves the probability.

And it works a lot. For example, if you see a magician levitating, the evidence of your eyes seems to suggest that they are actually levititating. However, your priors tell you that the chance of that is still pretty low even with the new evidence. So this way, you don’t go run across a street magician and suddenly believe humans can levitate.
Over 5,600 fossil fuel companies have taken at least $3bn in US Covid-19 aid
ICOs are very expensive and the exchanges extort via listing fees, requiring market makers that want the issuer to post liquidity in both their token and multiple negotiable assets, continually, and then the market makers passing commission costs from the exchanges onto the ICO team.

This is continued because nobody can talk about it as they will immediately get delisted, the community will point fingers at the project team, AND the regulators will view the issuer as promising liquidity which further moves their asset into unregistered securities land, opening them to sanctions for the sale and promotion.

Ultimately the token traders and critics have no clue what's going on and think the founders have to be married to a software project with a runway that lasts forever because software development shouldn't be that expensive.

Yes selling tokens is a viable revenue event, but not a recurring revenue event for that project. So launching new projects is the only way to do that, and prior experience is more important to the actual investors providing the bankroll who make a lot of money putting these together. Many people are buying them for the wrong reasons, and there totally could be a market of the same size of people buying them without an expectation of profit.

It is an entirely viable business to make a website with one button that says "purchase button tokens to vote on the CSS color of this button by staking!", which I think should be recognized.

Even the concept of "failed" is misaligned and more often related to exchange rates and volume of the token, more than whether the team did anything.

There is a whole other market of investors bankrolling the parent organizations that are churning out ICOs, because all they see are highly scalable revenues and a multiple of that.

The people buying them need to be more discerning if they want a different result. Token issuance is primarily a game of entertainment and placating a community, and it should be put in that category. Or the community should be an active participant in making the token more useful and valuable.

They certainly do have employees and would be eligible for PPP. If they lied and are in a game of chronic fraud, now featuring the US Treasury, that's pretty risky!
Tesla's price seems crazy, but it's not. In the coming few years the market for ev's is going to skyrocket, and the market for ice's is going to start to collapse.

There are several reasons this will happen. For one, global climate change will continue to get worse, so governments are going to keep pushing harder promoting ev's. Secondly, the number of available public charging stations is going to continue to go up. Thirdly people will become more familiar with ev's and realize a lot the ideas about them they have been fed by ice promoters are false.

Finally there is cost. Ev's are already cheaper in overall operating expense. In the next few years falling battery prices will start to make them as cheap in sticker price.

So there is a technological revolution coming. In the last year or so many of the legacy auto manufacturers have realize this, and have gone into high gear working on ev's. A flood of new models is coming onto the market.

The problem is demand is going to outrun production for many years, partly due to battery shortages, and so the companies like Tesla that have lots of ev production place are going to prosper, and those that don't are going to go out of business.

Beyond that, Tesla is also in solar and energy storage, and it is about to get into li-ion cell production. Now there is no way to be sure how things are going to go, but Tesla is clearly one of the companies to bet on.
Some enterprise still likes CD than USB drive because they believe it's less risk for contaminating malware.
Well it's not information that's collected by Harvard
> I feel that in this thread people are quite stubborn about interpreting things literally, or misinterpreting them all together.

That's my impression about the Internet as a whole these days...
Obviously one would need to make any accessibility accommodations necessary including potentially a translator/someone to vocalize his words written in front of him. But we should be hearing from the man himself, present in the room, not his PR people.
Well... not if it was travel related.
Is cloudflare at a scale where it would be possible for them to provide cheap enough prices on video hosting and bandwidth to enable someone to build a profitable YouTube alternative on top of that? Assuming that a youtube competitor can get to similar scale and make similar revenue.
Python is surprisingly bad at managing subprocesses, though. Read the subprocess docs closely, it's quite easy to get deadlocks if you try to compose operations the way you can in bash.
Where did the virus come from? How did it arise? Is it deadlier than we realize? Will it remain what we see now? Does it target specific populations? Do children have unexpected long terms side effects of having it? Will it wipe out the entirety of the elderly if we allow it to circulate? Will people get reinfected by it after a short time or long time? How rapidly will it mutate to become deadlier? How rapidly less so? How many will die in the meantime?

There too much unknown to dismiss what this disease can do.
A hot new startup called “Google” (1999)
It Is Time to Address Airborne Transmission of Covid-19 [CID]
It's valid now.
Argh, meant to say "I think there was plenty of evidence that racially segregated schools wasn't best for social harmony, even in that moment."
You contract a probability of being affected by someone’s bad driving every time you choose to go on the road
This is how retirement communities work
Thanks for the update, I haven't looked at it for a while, these were my bookmarked sources from that time:

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3904054

https://news.yahoo.com/taiwan-accuses-failing-heed-warning-1...

'The officials said doctors in Taiwan had learned from their colleagues in mainland China that medical staff were falling ill from the as-yet unnamed coronavirus, a sign of human-to-human transmission that Taiwan says it passed on to the WHO and Chinese authorities on December 31. However, the WHO did not communicate the information with other nations.'

So I guess it comes down to semantics; whether a mention of atypical cases and request for confirmation is effectively a warning - or not.

Whatever the interpretation, it seems like the lack of response from the WHO to that email indicates the WHO were in the dark at the time, or not willing to share what they had. If the former then the email could be said to have formed a warning of some kind.

>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/18/caught-in-a-su...

I love how The Guardian tries to twist the facts in the service of an anti Trump screed. Personally I feel the report from Reuters was far more balanced (it doesn't even mention Trump)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan...

(curious about the downvotes btw...)
> The minimum number of views a video had when it first became trending was 53,796 views.

How does that happen?
How much do you think they would have to charge for that service? And how much would you be willing to pay?
Which is what always happens when the company aims to build an "engineering playground" full of microservices and other moving parts without a clear technical justification and balancing the pros & cons and why I personally don't like working on such projects - it makes me feel uneasy not having a good understanding of the entire system.

To be fair to Slack, at their scale, lots of moving parts might make sense, but I see a lot of companies (including startups with very few customers) going down the microservices route and exposing themselves to such a risk when there is no major upside beyond giving engineers lots of toys to play with and slapping the "microservices" and related buzzwords on their careers page.
But companies will still prefer candidates with computer science degrees, or even outright require a CS degree, even for simple programming jobs that really don't need one.

I haven’t seen any corporate dev jobs that care about formal computer science during an interview. I only see that from BigTech and BigTech wannabes that think they need “smart people” (tm).
I think an angle missed here is that the government is trying to fend off deflation through fiscal stimulus. Individuals and small businesses have a propensity to spend, which gives forward pressure to what was then a rapidly declining velocity of money. The Fed's ability to act unilaterally is more limited, being executed through bond buying programs.

This money needed to be added to the economy, and really still does. I think PPP was one such reasonable approach (though much more is needed to save small/medium businesses).
In can’t tell if it has Exchange support. I assume not. To get into many of the Fortune 500, you’ll need O365 and Exchange.
Also, the X1 uses an ancient A57. To enumerate, since then, we've had A72,A73, A74, A75, A76, A77, and the announced A78 and (interesting named) X1.

That's 7 major generations behind the curve.
Doesn't Android require the camera permissions in order to use the microphone? I mean, it makes sense to keep a webrtc connection alive even if you lock the screen (if you're on a voip ball for example)
> They just don't have to operate on the same scale.

If Google can't operate at scale, then maybe it just needs to be shut down so maybe someone who can will take their place.

Google simply doesn't WANT to operate at scale because that will impact profits.