skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here we go with the "bad apples" again.

Let's face it. It was all fun and games until silicon valley was the underdog. Now this place makes and inevitably breaks the world. As is natural, places of power will attract people of malice. It will bring out selfishness and pride from a fraction of any random group of people that are given this opportunity.

The undoing of any rebellion is the flawed belief that the rebels will continue to be the good guys because (a) they're young, (b) they are the oppressed or (c) because they stick to logical rational thought. This all works as long as they're the rebels. Once they're the power-weilders, the same people become the problem they tried to solve. Because lust for power, money and fame is inherent in most of us. What's happening in SV now is demonstration number N of this.
When I worked at Google, Rob came and gave a talk to our team about NgRx.

Based on my experience at Google and having worked extensively with front end technologies there I am not surprised that someone as talented as Rob was forced to quit. The Angular project and how it relates to other front end technologies within Google is unbelievably political and it almost seems as though the Angular team takes pleasure in suppressing superior technologies and solutions.

An example of this is that the Angular team also owns support for Typescript within Google (not organizationally, but it's the same people). They turned off support for .tsx despite many protests from many, many different teams within Google and the motive was very clearly to dissuade the use of React.
I am in Nashville, and lost 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 completely. Also one of my sites went down according to statuscake, but not all of them.
Half of Oklahoma Is “Indian Country.” What If All Native Treaties Were Upheld?
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The KyoAni I Felt: The kind touch of K-On and the studio behind it
Something I put together about 10 years ago:
https://www.pdfernhout.net/to-james-randi-on-skepticism-abou...
"Here are some related broad quotes on social problems in science, some of which relate to competition for funding. ..."

See especially from Marcia Angell:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2009/jan/15/drug-co...
"The problems I've discussed are not limited to psychiatry, although they reach their most florid form there. Similar conflicts of interest and biases exist in virtually every field of medicine, particularly those that rely heavily on drugs or devices. It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine."

And, from the 1990s, from David Goodstein, who was Vice Provost of Caltech then, here is part of why thing have gotten that way:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html
"Peer review is usually quite a good way to identify valid science. Of course, a referee will occasionally fail to appreciate a truly visionary or revolutionary idea, but by and large, peer review works pretty well so long as scientific validity is the only issue at stake. However, it is not at all suited to arbitrate an intense competition for research funds or for editorial space in prestigious journals. There are many reasons for this, not the least being the fact that the referees have an obvious conflict of interest, since they are themselves competitors for the same resources. This point seems to be another one of those relativistic anomalies, obvious to any outside observer, but invisible to those of us who are falling into the black hole. It would take impossibly high ethical standards for referees to avoid taking advantage of their privileged anonymity to advance their own interests, but as time goes on, more and more referees have their ethical standards eroded as a consequence of having themselves been victimized by unfair reviews when they were authors. Peer review is thus one among many examples of practices that were well suited to the time of exponential expansion, but will become increasingly dysfunctional in the difficult future we face."
you mean the ads for bicycles after i just bought one?
I guess in some games there are many loops within loops within loops.

E.g. in "slay the spire", a game i am very fond of, the smallest loop could be "you draw a hand of cards from your deck and decide which card to play on what target" - usually taking a few seconds to decide or perhaps a few minutes if you are in a very tricky situation where you might win or lose unless you make a carefully considered move. The next loop up could be fighting an encounter, where you repeatedly draw and play cards until the encounter ends, and gain a small reward after completing the encounter successfully (improve your deck of cards). Then the next loop up could be charting a course through a short sequence of encounters & shopping opportunities & boss fights, where you're making a sequence of longer-term planning decisions to improve your deck according to a particular strategy you have in mind and also trying to best exploit the opportunities or unfortunate situations you are presented with. Then the next loop up would be a "run" taking a few minutes (for an early failure) to one or two hours (for a win) where you start the game with a new character and you repeatedly chart a course across 1-2-3 small levels until you either win the run or your character dies in an encounter ending the run -- but in both cases unlocking some meta progression reward. Then the next loop up being unlockable meta progression and actual skill/experienced-based progression repeatedly playing "runs" and losing or winning while unlocking content and also getting better at playing the game.

I'm not sure which of the loops above to think about as the core loop!
No Bleach and Dirty Rags: How Some Janitors Are Asked to Keep You Virus-Free
Could not have happened to a more ethical company.
Or, and this is a really crazy theory, they were studying it in China because it was a local virus that they were worried might one day infect humans. Maybe they were studying which changes would make it most dangerous because they wanted to be ready if those changes happened naturally. Honest hard work can sometimes look like evil plans, and not every coincidence is the result of conspiracy.
I’d be more concerned about other stuff, which a vpn doesn’t solve. Look up SMB relay attacks, netbios, and Responder. An average win10 laptop will disclose creds to anyone
Research settlements are funky, funding agencies and scientists would be quite interested in understanding the geology dynamics on a tectonically dead world. Biologists will want to understand why mars never developed life. Medical researchers will want to understand the effects of isolation, and low-g. Donors, and funding agencies interested in these fields will want to fund expeditions. The expeditions will need infrastructure. The infrastructure's existence will motivate a few entrepreneurial expeditions.

Once the transit economics are understood, The Moon and Mars can both provide accessible surface deposits of water, iron, copper, and other commodities to orbit for less energy than earth. A number of activities for resource procurement for commercial space industries will be a tad easier when attached to a big low-g rock where an extra green house can simply be dug out. The relative lack of environmental externalities from mining and other activities may be a resource unto itself in the next few decades.

On a longer timeline - Mars could be given a tolerable atmospheric pressure and liquid water for <100 trillion dollars. Barring a change in global growth rates that would be ~3% of annual global GDP by 2120, and .1% by 2220.
This is an astute observation and well demonstrates how challenging moral decisions can be.
While I don't think Levandowski is a good guy (he did take a bunch of files, even if I think it's unlikely they were used in any real way), I think the way Google pursued him hinders skilled individuals from switching between companies and spreading innovation.

Here's an excerpt from a New Yorker article about the case:

> The judge, William Alsup, quickly tired of such distractions. “Despite the excellent quality of the lawyers here, I cannot trust what they say,” he announced in court. The documents he was being shown, he said, included “a lot of half-truth” and arguments that were “not quite accurate.” Alsup clearly thought that something unseemly had occurred, writing in one ruling that Levandowski had resigned from Waymo “under highly suspicious circumstances,” and that the “14,000-plus purloined files likely contain at least some trade secrets.” He also noted that “it would strain credulity to imagine that Levandowski plundered Waymo’s vault the way he did with no intent to make use of the downloaded trove.” Yet Alsup wasn’t sure if Waymo had demonstrated that any of its information had been used in an illegal manner. “If you can’t prove that Uber got these trade secrets, then maybe you’re in a world of trouble,” he told Waymo’s lawyers.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/22/did-uber-steal...

Faced with a weak case, Google settled quietly for 0.33% of Uber's stock, which is no tiny amount, but definitely not a landmark settlement.

The more concerning part is that:

1. Google pursued Lewandowski with the help of federal prosecutors, using the threat of criminal trade secret charges and

2. He was essentially abandoned by both his former employer and his current employer. The former attacked him to punish him for wrongdoing and to set an example. Uber abandoned him because he became too risky now that he became a weak point that could be exploited in court.

This feels like too much leverage for a former employer to have, regardless of whether you were truly guilty or not. In fact, I think the outcome would have been similar had Lewandowski stolen nothing at all.
I created Sharesecret (https://sharesecret.co) to protect against exactly these kinds of attacks.

Most company Slacks are a ticking timebomb of sensitive artifacts waiting to be discovered. Whether it's passwords or just general internal info you wouldn't want to be public, it's wild how much sensitive info is sitting in like 4 systems (Slack, Gmail, Notion, Dropbox).

Protect y'selves people.
Often the bankruptcy court has to approve executive compensation as a part of the process.

Not sure if that’s a require for every bankruptcy or not.
Adding Font Fallback to Revery
.docx files don't have macros, only .docm files do. Though I still viewed it using Google Drive's preview.
Here's our blog post detailing what happened today and the mitigations we've put in place to ensure it doesn't happen again in the future: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage-on-july-17-202...
5 Awesome Interactive AI Apps for you to try
Kind of a weird headline, the vision-based RL this article dubs 'powerful AI' could already easily be trained on a single (pretty expensive) computer. They say as much in terms of the speed ups they provide:

"Using a single machine equipped with a 36-core CPU and one GPU, the researchers were able to process roughly 140,000 frames per second while training on Atari videogames and Doom, or double the next best approach. On the 3D training environment DeepMind Lab, they clocked 40,000 frames per second—about 15 percent better than second place."

So, not massive this-is-now-doable speedup.
No argument there. But at least he's a "smart engineer". Holmes wasn't even that.
to what extent is this Smalltalk all the way down ? Can I replace the drivers with Smalltalk code ?
Clearly you know the answer to these questions. Why even ask. Just be confident say what you feel.
This is quite brilliant from an artistic perspective. The world bending to fit in with the tree.

Whenever I walk around I look at old gnarled trees (the few remaining) I try and imagine what they were bending away fr and trying to imagine how their gnarls and bends were created. They have quite interesting stories to tell when you focus in on them individually.
Show HN: Apache Solr Reference Guide Re-Design
There's a good example (heh) of feynman explaining an idea here, and it's great reading too:

http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine...
Copy and pasted to a plain text sharing site.

https://rentry.co/7hzab
>Pharmaceutical companies already produce everything you could imagine and more.

Such as Cocaine: http://www.mallinckrodt.com/products/generics/compounding-po...

Methamphetamine: https://www.rxlist.com/desoxyn-drug.htm

Ketamine: https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr...

And obviously the dozens of opiates more potent than heroin.

Funny aside, the company that Mallinckrodt gets its coca from is the same company that Coca-Cola gets its de-coca'd leaves from.
Your leadership will view the situation from a Risk-Reward lens. They know the reward which is the revenue it brings in. They will ask you what is the worst that can happen and then they will decide to continue or shut it down.

I personally think that lifting and shifting to Azure is a good thing. Next you should get Microsoft Premier Support/Premier Field Engineering to analyze what you have. They will give you plan on how to improve reliability and probably reduce your costs as well. You take that plan and explain to your client the good news/bad news. The bad news is that Microsoft says we should perform the following to improve reliability; the good news is that your company will not charge the client extra; you will improve reliability for "free". As reliability improves, your company can direct the senior devs to start designing version 2.0 (maybe).
The entire ecosystem got a bit too crazy for me as well, but there are a few sane places if you go looking. I settled on the Elm ecosystem after a long period of consideration. Probably the only good thing to come out of having too many options is the higher probability of finding one that suits your perspective.
> yet we still see the same awful JS-heavy applications.

Isn't Google's AMP just a bunch of Javascript too? So even their "fix" is just perpetuating the issue
kiki camarena
What’s the advantage over just giving someone access to the repo?
Lewandowski still apparently took massive amounts of proprietary data from his employer. Even if he was smart enough to not put that data on his new companies systems we all know he had a way to reference it when necessary.
Azure can even configure mutual authentication between the LB & the underlying servers, which would cause any direct server access to result in a 401[0].

0 - For API servers. I'm not sure if you could configure this with services like Elasticsearch.
So a private school
E.g. Don't steal what's not yours if you don't want to be pursued and have that action leveraged against you..
Sadly, none of the big rockets we hoped to see fly in 2020 will
So they quit, and someone hungrier + lower on the ladder gets a chance to prove themselves by turning the company around, rewarded by staying in the position when it's cushy again.
If tracking wasn't useful nobody would do it.
From the opb report it sounds like they were essentially just little badges that say "police".

There is no federal "police" department. There's a number of federal agencies that do "law" enforcement and similar, but none of them are police. US Police departments are a part of incorporated cities. Outside of such cities, you get sheriffs. Between states you get the FBI, Treasury, Marshalls, etc.

These people were being taken to a federal courthouse, implying that they were federal agents, the only groups in Portland at the moment are ICE and the US Marshall service. The former has a fairly terrible human and constitutional rights record so I would guess it was probably them, but who knows - we know that they've had people "arrested" but have no record of the arrest. Which means it was an abduction by the federal gov with the intent to terrorise and escalate the conflict.
That still kind of making my point. The right product at the wrong time is the wrong product. Post 1997 Apple, there was Jobs, Cook, Schiller, Ive and Forstall among others that actually focused on shipping products instead of letting the “smart people” run wild.

All indications is that they balanced each other out as leaders.
Which sane well intentioned employee takes the company's files with them when they leave?
Err, thanks. I meant the ones in Antarctica, or did I get that wrong?
To elaborate on this a bit:

* You only need two VPNs assuming you just want to protect against either of them linking your browsing history back to your identity and selling that information.

* The second one must be paid for in a reasonably anonymous manner (ex Bitcoin) and only ever accessed via the first VPN in the chain.

* You're fine to pay the first one in a more traditional manner.

* The two providers must be completely unrelated.

* It is highly preferable that the two providers be in different legal jurisdictions (both from each other and yourself).

* This won't protect against a highly motivated criminal investigation.
Promote internally. That's what generally happens in the military under similar conditions.

Xenophon wrote about the march of the 10,000 Greek mercenaries whose officers were murdered by the Persians, inside Persia. They elected new officers, swearing to obey their orders, and fought their way out of Persia, returning the survivors to Greece.
>pivot to another black market

They're already doing that with the avocado trade.
This is very cool, thank you.

Smalltalk is my favorite language that I will never ship a product in. :-/
I understand that that's what's necessary to keep executives around. What's less clear is whether this why everyone else, especially the shareholders, want the executives to stick around.
They are required to tell you that they're arresting you (it's unclear if they were actually saying that), they're required to tell you who is arresting you, they're required to have probably cause, they're required to document it.
The Sicilian Mafia has gone mostly “legit,” in the sense that they operate in legal industries, e.g. olive oil. They just use criminal means to extract hugely excessive rents from those industries.
I mean this in only a slightly judgemental way: What kind of change management/testing is going on over there at CF? This is not the first time that someone at CF has made a hasty config change that brought down a significant part of the network.

Now I'll admit that proper change management won't catch every issue, but the issue described in this post seems like something that should have been caught. It's a little worrisome that a company that so much of the internet relies on is apparently playing fast and loose with major config changes. The changes you describe in the post-mortem sound like they will fix the immediate problem and possibly prevent future occurrences of this exact same problem, but what about making broader changes about how you deploy these things?

Not only that, but this single config change not only brought down the CDN, but brought down both 1.1.1.1 and the secondary 1.0.0.1. Was this type of failure never tested, or...? What's the point in having both if they both go down at the same time?
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POF was also run by a single dude until he sold it for some 600 million dollars!
> they were studying it in China because it was a local virus that they were worried might one day infect humans. Maybe they were studying which changes would make it most dangerous because they wanted to be ready if those changes happened naturally.

The person you're responding to didn't say anything different to what you've said.

> Honest hard work can sometimes look like evil plans, and not every coincidence is the result of conspiracy.

Why did you say that? It certainly isn't stated or even implied by the person you're replying to.
I love your transparent communication and how quickly you guys respond with an explanation of what actually went wrong and how to mitigate these issues in the future. Such things happen.
I think the plea deal actually debunked the idea that he took docs. Govt could only "get him" on a meeting minutes doc. And the trade secrets that were found at Uber were software brought over by software engineers that haven't been charged.
The odds of having a particular order in a deck of cards is very low, but the cards have one of them anyway. I think you are looking at the odds from the wrong place.

Could have been a pandemic with a simpler virus, too.
Those tasks are handled by people that report into the CxO’s.

The executives set broader directions and hire people to keep the lights on.

Use the money that would have been executive bonuses for retention packages that make sure the lights stay on.

Honestly, even a juicy bonus isn’t going to keep many executives at a sinking ship unless they’re not able to find another job.
No, a badge that says "police" is not a police badge.

Police badges have the name of the police department, and the badge number. These are clearly toys.

And if you were to say "this is reasonably interpreted as police" then you have federal agents committing a felony - pretending to be police officers.
Birds, Planes, and Covid’s Chokepoint
Yes, if that's how it's implemented... Gmail doesn't. They wrap your email address text in a button thing. Others prefer semicolons, or was it commas, or was it both?

Its just yet another thing I shouldn't have to think about
Is it really so difficult to not make massive archives shortly before quitting your current employer? The GS programmer had the same problem. Somehow unable to simply walk away without making a backup of everything.
True.
But I don't think it is just that.
can you share a link?
What I have read about charter schools in NY was very positive
> You can say wait two weeks, but we've been waiting two weeks on AZ, FL, and GA, for about 6 weeks now.

> Cases have gone up but deaths have not.

You seem to have a severe misunderstanding of the virus. The reason why people say to wait two weeks is because there's a massive lag time. Not only is there a long incubation period but there's also a massive period of time between exhibiting symptoms and death. People who exhibit symptoms will die around two to eight weeks afterwards.

When you see cases go up, that means we can expect any deaths to follow within the next month or so. That's exactly what we're seeing in Texas right now with a huge spike in cases and many of our hospitals overwhelmed.

NY/NJ/CT have had the worst outcome so far because they got hit the hardest early on. They've already passed over the death hump assuming there isn't a second wave. For us in Texas though? Just wait and see. In fact I'm going to favorite your post and get back to you when it starts getting really bad.
I have never heard anyone associate Silicon Valley with integrity and decency (pursuing startup endeavors).

Not saying they aren't, I just never really heard it explicitly said so. Is this a common self perception within that region? What makes it so? Beyond a baseline of that most people consider themselves having integrity and decency.
1. DNS trust is more than just privacy. Also, you want to trust that the results are good quality.

2. Cloudflare supports DoH
>So they quit

I doubt most of the executives see themselves as personally responsible for the financial situations of their companies, especially during an unprecedented global economic shutdown. Not because they are any different from you or me or any of these other self righteous commenters, but because they are the same.

If American culture were more like ancient samurai culture, perhaps they could commit seppuku to restore their honor. But I would prefer to restore proper incentives instead, and weaken the power of chapter 11 so this isn't a problem in the first place.