skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many moats to businesses, often they are not dervied from tech. Most monopolies are operationally incumbent. Amazon (just the retail part) doesn't have any truly special tech, but reams of know how and operational competence with scale.
Regardless of their policies, they still want to store it themselves and put it on the Internet.

I am hoping that someday there will be a sequencing company that will mail me a drive containing the only copy and destroy the sample.

I'm not worried about a sophisticated attack on my individual sequence but I suspect most of these services are or will be targeted by advanced and persistent attackers.

Call me paranoid but I don't want my genome in an internet connected database (though I am very curious to see it).
Certainly in our own, private social spaces we are free to choose whomever we socialize with, but at work that option is less available. The example I gave happened during work hours over work communication, so there is always going to be social overlap that you can't simply opt out of (the age old 'what is culture fit' question applies here, and every co-worker contributes to company culture in some way).

And while a lot of content moderators do focus purely on clicking thru things, a lot of other ones still regularly interface with the company. I used to work at Discord, where content moderation of this level (and traumatic nature) was a constant concern. As engineers you may be staffed to work on a tool to help with moderation. Or you may be working on some fancy AI to help sort and tag unsafe content. And this is only from the product engineering perspective; content moderators will have to work with customer success to create content policy, or enforce bans for unsavory behavior. So I don't think they really are siloable away from the rest of the company, and I'm not even certain that that is a humane way to treat them.
Could this be used for drivers license and passport photos? these are both data sources for huge facial recognition databases
So you make an exception for essential services, and count health care as an essential service. Tune the lock down so that it makes sense.
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Ask HN: With all the remote work – are you relocating into cheaper areas?
With Covid-19 upon us it seems prudent to move away from overpriced SF/NY/etc hamster cages into fresher, cheaper, cleaner, greener, safer and less tax-y places. And pocket the difference.

Are you doing that?

If not, why not?
> Slack alleges that the way Microsoft bundles Teams into its distribution of Office—widely used enterprise software such as Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel—gives Microsoft an unfair advantage against the competition.

I'm _all_ for antitrust, but this seems like a dumb complaint to me. Shipping IE with Windows gave them a dominance in the browser world of something like 80-90% maybe more? It was a lot. And they were using it to slowly bring a non-proprietary technology (the web) in-house by breaking compatibility with non-IE browsers.

This situation seems more like saying if you make a printer and a fax machine you can't combine the two into a single product because it provides an anticompetitive advantage against companies that only sell a fax machine.

Maybe that is an anti-trust issue, that's up to your viewpoint, but it's not like slack isn't doing the same thing with shipping video and audio chat built into slack. Zoom might very well argue that it's anti-competitive of slack to do that.
No no, you misunderstand.

I didn't put that label on him. That was a description he chose for himself on his (intranet version of) social media profile.
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ah, I see what you wanted now (`max(col) > 10...` -> [true, false, true, ..]). seems like it would be pretty easy to use numerical transformations for the same thing, depending on how you were going to be using it: `select max(col) - 10 from meas group by time(1h)` will give you negative results wherever you would have "false" in the query you wanted to do. primarily I want the timeseries/metrics database I use to be FAST over featureful, it's a specialized tool, and of course you can always just pull the data out and do whatever you want with it in code. which is to say, maybe you would be better off with something else, but that isn't necessarily a knock on influx, you know?
Swift Package Manager at least is open source. Unfortunately, digging into the source to find out how to do some incredibly basic thing that any package manager obviously must support and they just haven't documented usually just reveals that they really haven't implemented it.
its an arms race, like alot of things
Oh no, the xckd.com/927 begins.

We had JSON5, now we have Ion. Google and Microsoft will probably run their own, too, soon.

Why the IT community always forks their standards and never merges baffles me since >20 years.
Very cool, thanks for the context refset! : )
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As someone who works in cybersecurity, it is perfectly clear to me that victims of attacks don't want to sound inept in their announcements so they ALWAYS say attacks are "sophisticated," "orchestrated," or "advanced." Nobody is going to say "we were hacked because we lack even basic security precautions." Instead, everything is an "APT."
I see, thanks for going deeper Jacob : )
Interesting! I get random password resets for Facebook, Instagram and some others... Probably some hackers using a script...

Then if people do that, wonder if they also try to signup people? That would explain things maybe... Like some sites don't verify emails for signups, had someone sign me up for Spotify on an email of mine, when I don't have an account using that email. Never verified the email but got login notification emails... I reset the password and deleted the account.

Then I get emails saying they are from Anna at Netflix wants to chat with me "If you’d like to chat before you start your subscription"... Idk if they like typed in my email and never finished signing up or what but creepy... I have heard some sites log uncompleted signups even if you never clicked submit.

Kinda makes me wonder if these people selling breach data sets would sign people up too then if it's a email someone used elsewhere, to bulk up the numbers of users in their so called breach by adding newly created accounts, along with valid email/passwords harvested from other breaches. Then probably an inflated number would make their dataset be worth more money to people trading the datasets on the dark web I'd guess.
Well hopefully not, however given that x86 and ARM are different CPUs API will likely change
Why would you give "them" ideas?
can you change a plot's background color without jumping through polygon-drawing hoops yet?
I moved from CA to NV and happy for multiple reasons!

My mortgage for 4 times nicer place is half of my previous rent in CA.

Plus no state income tax.
I'm a bit out of the Adobe Animate loop, but was a lot of functionality removed from it?
Presumably. However, if it was a PR drone who wrote that, it may or may not be accurate as to whether or not it was encoded/encrypted.

I would just assume that it has in fact been compromised though.
And the method by which you get root, which involves unlocking the bootloader and using a custom recovery to flash the su binary and an app to manage it, is in itself enough of a deterrent that only people who know exactly what they're doing do it. It's impossible to root accidentally, you have to install adb/fastboot on your computer and follow instructions. And then every time it boots there'll be a warning that the system has been modified.

Google though... I really hate their stance with SafetyNet. It's as if they're trying to say "your device can either be fully useful or fully under your control, but not both".

I still don't get why iPhones absolutely can't have unlockable bootloaders.
Most of the times when I face a problem on my Mac or iPhone I am surprised to find an official support article by Apple for that problem. But the answer is almost never in that article and then I have to anyway hunt for the answer on the Internet.
Comby seems more like "parenthesis matching + search" (they don't implement a full parser for the language, just some basic required constructs to make a basic AST. I imagine this limits the resolution of the search?

Semgrep uses an AST that's equivalent to the parser of the language itself so it's much higher resolution in terms of what you can match.
To give Amazon more money.

Oh you mean advantage to you? haha...well..
This is a _much_ higher level API - hypervisor.framework is documented here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/hypervisor
Impressive work!

Are there any plans to include C# or F#?
Most job requirements specify a suitable undergrad degree or equivalent work experience. At some point what degree you have doesn't make any difference any more. It's what experience you have, be it through research or on-the-job.

So either route is open to you. Do you have something particular in mind?
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Both are in bed with each other. If USA were strategic and had sound economic policies, the government would pass bipartisan laws that prevent an authoritarian regime from gaining the leverage that GP is talking about.

It is not too difficult to just look at the trade deficit with China.

Not just USA, China has a huge amount of leverage with every nation in the EU, Switzerland, Australia, India, vast APEC region, Korea, Japan and South America.

Just look around you and find out what's not made in China.
Oh thank you, sorry I didn't realise a similar story had been posted previously.
What is the impact of having your DNA known? As far as I can tell the worst case scenarios are finding out you have to pay child support or getting placed at the scene of a crime.

If those risks don't apply to you, who cares?
Every day we stray further from God's light.
They already said they were using the mac mini with A12Z for the whole presentation demo
caveat: I'm not familiar with the clickhouse codebase. however, usually "embedding" musl libc is about portability - it allows you to build an entirely static binary that can run on practically any box. is this different?

secondly, I don't get where you're coming from faulting a columnar database for using SIMD! why is memcpy better? it comes across as, 'they worked too hard making it fast'!
It amazes how everyone likes to hate on JVM and yet nearly every enterprise company uses it in the big data space....
I am also extremely dubious of this risk. At least in the US, a conspiracy of this sort would require hundreds of potentially-disgruntled employees to resist getting rich from whistleblower rewards.
> Was going by the information on rt.live regarding closing and re-opening for NY and CA, it shows the following dates (and may well be incorrect):

For California, that's definitely wrong. California moved into Stage 2 reopening on May 8.

> Agreed that NYC itself didn't re-open at the same rate up but my understanding is that it was similar in CA (county by county and the more populous counties such as the SF bay area did not re-open as much).

That's loosely, qualitatively, true, but even most of the more populated counties had reopened more than NYC, and several counties had variances to go ahead of the statewide reopening.
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> ... & COOP is a single header that can be deployed by the security team ...

I wish this was my experience with security teams. The teams I've worked with through the years are generally disconnected from any product teams and support a wide-ranging enterprise. So they simply don't have the resources or specific technical or product knowledge to do it. It would be awesome to have a security person on the team directly mitigate issues, understanding the product, and making everyone else more security knowledgeable. I've just never seen it happen though. But I digress.

I agree. These new sets of headers look useful and simple to get going, and even would be useful to deploy today. So it seems worth checking out!
Everyone likes to hate on COBOL, and plenty of enterprises use it in all kinds of spaces, too.
As a game developer it feels like _nothing_ has replaced flash; sure, there have been attempts to recreate the ease of creation, but the surrounding community was as much flash as the tech itself.
If you’ve got nothing to hide... then make it all public. Let’s start with your finances.
One can certainly write software that virtualizes another machine. Sure, performance might not be great. Sure, it's better if you have an implementation in silicon. But that doesn't prevent making a demo of a software VM running another kernel. What am I missing?
I agree, I think a lot of context is lost here by wordage that now has different meaning.
So, you create a problem... and then you create a solution. Windows 10 with Terminal, winget, WSL2 with soon X Window beats macOS as a development platform.
I would think that Instacart buying data obtained allegedly illegally -- even though it's allegedly their own data -- is likely a legal minefield.

In fact, my understanding is that generally buying a known ill-gotten item is illegal even in meatspace. Does it having originally been yours change that?
The motivations for wiz@Home platform is as follows:
1) Covid-19 will have permanent effects, and WFH trends will only continue to rise. Long-term WFH makes employees “free agents” to some extent. In this environment, it’s not enough to treat all employees uniformly and apply standard policies. A better approach would be to actively leverage the flexibility it offers and maximize the benefits.

2) Additionally, some companies seem to be engaged in the heavy-handed approach of covert monitoring and surveillance(https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/04/30/work-fr...) of WFH employees. Our platform takes the opposite approach of treating employees with respect, and enhances trust through tailored policies and employee "opt-in".
This is a variant of “the honest have nothing to hide” argument, which is just wrong.
The great Boeing Dreamliner false-positive hack
I was hoping to see a UUID type, since so many people choose either unreadable base64 or wasteful strings. It looks like 0x12341234_1234_1234_1234_123412341234 should convey the bits, but it won't pprint or validate the way a dedicated type would. Ditto for IPv6 addresses.
I think doing that can be framed in different ways, some more chaos inducing than others.

If you dive straight into poking holes, it might be chaotic. In the other hand if you frame it as "I'd like to ask some questions about why we made this decision the way we did to help me understand it and get me onto the same page as the rest of the team, when's a good time?" This makes it clear your goal is understanding the decision and not changing it.
Are people really surprised that shutting down the economy for four months has disastrous effects?
You seem to be confusing any exposure with constant exposure, and also type of gross/messed up. Nothing you listed compares to content moderation in severity and volume.

Fixing a sewer is gross. Extermination is gross, not traumatic, unless you have extreme empathy for small rodents and insects. Doctors deal with very few remotely bleeding anuses on the order of one a week/month maybe versus one a minute. None of these should be called real sickos, but none would be expected to develop PTSD either.

A significantly bigger portion of the population would be traumatized and develop PTSD by the level of exposure of content moderation. While not nearly all are sociopaths, they 100% will be represented higher even without factoring in selection bias. Hiring a department of them would not be inconceivable, putting the validity of that aside.

You also make the jump from sociopath to bad person, which many I'm sure would have some qualms with as a categorical.
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Shredding is absolutely fine. The modulating factor is the size of the pieces and total number of pieces that are shuffled. The problem scales with N^2 (?).

If the shredder shreds with 1mm particles, it will be pretty much impossible to piece it together and it will depend on how each page mixes with other particles. Even if the particle size is 100mm, if you throw those pieces in a pile of 500 tons of paper, and shuffle it sufficiently, then it will be impossible to piece together the original source.
From the abstract:

> We have been working for a number of years on time protection, the temporal equivalent of memory protection, as a systematic timing-channel prevention. Our experience on x86 and ARM processors is that they lack the mechanisms to do this completely. RISC-V presents an opportunity to get this right, and I will report on my experience working with the RISC-V Foundation's Security Standing Committee to get the required mechanisms into the processor specification.

Last I read, for ARM and x86 they were exploring page and cache coloring techniques for memory allocation. I'm curious if the mechanisms they'll recommend for RISC-V are in this vein (i.e. cache partitioning), or something else entirely.
I don’t think long hours are an advantage.

Honestly, it’s a cultural divide which probably won’t go away.

I know someone who works at a German owned branch for a manufacturer in Taiwan. The previous Taiwanese head guy got let go because for years they would be very behind schedule for deliveries. Like months behind.

So new big boss is a German. He gave a big talk to introduce himself to the factory. One of his main points was to reward productivity, KPI shouldn’t be the only metric, whatever. He recommended a book called The Lazy Project Manager and emphasized that this is the mindset he wants everyone to be in.

Funny thing is, the Taiwanese engineers kind of zoned out on everything he said but perked up at the word “lazy” in the book title. To cut to the chase, the factory thinks the new boss is lazy.

The hard working mentality is very deeply ingrained out here.
I believe quips that anti-vaxers are pro-polio are no longer insightfull or funny.

I think they are about cruelty.

Humans like to be cruel, and the current game is finding who we are allowed to be cruel to next.
Here's an interesting article that explains why that wouldn't work here: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-21/people...
> Does Postgres support column-oriented formats, like Parquet?

With an appropriate FDW, sure, and I'm pretty sure I've seen an FDW for parquet specifically, as well as other columnar formats.
Well, no. What’s the problem they created?
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iSH is actually pretty great, considering the compromises that must be made to get a local shell on an iPhone.

Just wish it was debian based
That's pretty much just feels like lawless invasion of cities for political purposes, with very light justification. It can't continue, but it is! Today expanding.
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You mean that the test physically caused a disorder in the patient because of a side effect, or that there was a problem in the patient’s attitude or emotional response? Because those are very different failure modes.

In one case the patient’s attitude about the test is not the determining consideration. A perfectly stoic and rational patient would be just as vulnerable to the side effects as anyone else.
If you want to talk about economic justice and helping tear down barriers that disadvantage the poor and underserved, having a national strategy that targets businesses like restaurants would be a good place to start. Along with other similar industries. Restaurants are a big driver of entry-level and family-supporting jobs. As you can see, they're also the most vulnerable to insolvency.

It would be better than Congress doing the mindless easy thing and promulgating untargeted subsidies that larger corporate entities are the most talented at cashing in on. By the way, the amount of paperwork and disorganization of these stimulus implementations doesn't help the most short-staffed family businesses. But I would guess doing things properly and strategically takes work and judgement that we don't have right now.
This is exactly what I thought.

I'm all for m$ getting hit with whatever legislation is related, but this isn't it.
Google has already protobuf for a long time.
Well, you could sue for breach of contract and have penalties in the contract. After all, you rely on other people to do their jobs in other critical aspects of your life
I wonder if this could be improved by extracting fixed strings from the pattern and only actually parsing the files that could possibly match. I think the major issue would be alias support but even that should be possible for most languages as your fixed-string extraction would notice the alias itself.
Ion predates JSON FYI. I heard Amazon invented it internally many years ago
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Sony Digital Paper is discontinued in the US
When we started to do something about machine learning, we read many papers, written by various background, who used totally different notations. It is a rather hard time to understand a same thing when my brain needs to frequently shift from a set of notation to another one. In addition, it is extremely hard to choose notations when we writing the paper even for simple concepts, such as sample number and neuron number.
When I listen to talks, it is really a burden to remember the notations.
Based on such experience, we do feel a suggestion of standard notation is necessary. This suggestion may be not complete and may have some conflicts at current time, but it is a good sign if the community are working hard towards a standard of notation usage.
I would consider that a fraudulent demo, since it is selling something different from what it is showing.
Well this is sad.

It seems to me that this should have been avoidable - along with others like airlines and cruise lines saying they're going to go bankrupt. Why is hitting "pause" for half a year such a death sentence? As an individual, while I don't have a lot of money and my income is 0 currently, I've reduced expenses and could live off my savings for the next couple years. Why can't businesses do a similar thing -- is there some competitive advantage, in better times, that motivates businesses to keep almost nothing in reserves?
Okay, so that's not all startups, as it turns out. Some of us are actually solving hard technical problems -- the FAANGs aren't actually solving all problems. Yes, it's different to raise a hard-tech seed, but let us please not pretend that just because you yourself don't do it, that those of us who do don't exist...
What are the benefits of you knowing? Seems like the only reason is mild curiosity.
Major FB games were all AS3, which was a very standard language. If you’re familiar with C# or Java you’d be totally unsurprised.

In fact, Adobe hoped it would become the new JavaScript. The history of ECMA 4 was fascinating[1].

1: https://auth0.com/blog/the-real-story-behind-es4/
Adobe actually has a pretty big marketing business as well, along with applications like file managers (think web based versions of Finder or Windows Explorer). Tables are one of our most complex components, and are quite commonly used in some of our products. Our table implementation is a work in progress right now. It supports keyboard navigation, sections, sticky columns, multiple selection, infinite loading, drag and drop, etc. Should be available in a month or so. We'll also support other collections like trees/grids/column views in the future, and possibly some charting stuff as well. Lots still left to build! :)