skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if Huawei plan to open source this? That they make it publicly available makes it seem like they don't plan to monetise it, so the next step would be to open source it, unless patents or third-party code prevent that.
Finding proof of the existence of God would not change anyone's lives materially, but you know why it would be important.
And all of it is free no matter how large the herd of cattle grows right?

That narrative time and again has proved to be bullshit as things scale.

The larger the scale the larger the problems. No free lunch. Just a matter of time.

The only people who cling to the free scale narrative are people who personally benefit from it at the expense of everyone else.
Sure; but politicians don’t know anything about technology. They usually don’t even decide what’s right and wrong. They take what culture has decided is right and wrong and codify it in law. The law is a trailing, not a leading indicator of ethical practice.

Do you think planes were falling out of the sky left and right before those air safety laws came into effect? No. The engineers at some companies pushed for sane, safe practices first. Later they were adopted by the industry and later still they were enshrined in law. Before those laws were passed, airlines still had a duty of care to their passengers, ethically and (I think) legally.

Likewise it’s up to us to decide what sane, secure software engineering looks like. Not politicians. Not management. It has to be us. Nobody else is qualified to make those choices. At some point those ideas might be codified in law; but we need to figure out what that looks like first. (And to be clear what you’re arguing for - imagine the reverse. Imagine if inventing security best practices was outsourced to politicians!)

The idea that management should feel free to steamroll over their own employees’ judgement for the sake of the initiative of the day is toxic. And that’s exactly the sort of work culture which creates global security issues like this one. Of course a balance has to be reached, but you don’t do anyone any favours by being management (and the law’s) highly paid keyboard.
> My coworkers would talk about tax payers in a demeaning tone - as if they rightfully owed us something.

But... they do? Tax payers use public services every day.

I get what you’re saying but if someone opted to not pay taxes surely it wouldn’t be fair for them to drive on public roads, or use public transit? Or drink water provided by city-maintained pipes? How on earth would you enforce that? If someone wished to live a life where they used absolutely zero tax payer funded things how would they even start?

> I encourage anyone working for their “public sector” and especially tax departments to think about the morality of your work

Many years ago I worked for a local government authority. It’s honestly some of the most rewarding work I’ve done before or since. I created pages and backend tools for people to look up trash collection, how to vote, what’s going on at their local recreation centres, so on. All of those things played a part in creating community. And yes, they were paid for by taxes. Which meant no ads, no up sell, no invasive tracking, no monetisation to worry about. I could just make a tool that served people.

The tools I created are probably already long gone, but the community still exists. When I’m old I don’t think I’ll have the slightest regret about the work I did. The two years I spent at a startup, burning myself out to create a product that failed and has since vanished from the earth? I’ll regret that more.
Nice pt. This is common as merger deals typically have MACs that carve out specific events like failure to get antitrust approval...
Plaid doesn’t seem very secure reading this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25753935
> Well, he did take two rapid tests, which both produced false negatives.

That wasn't the impression I got; I understood him to say he took the same test twice. "Same test brand", as you put it.
Correlation between Core Web Vitals and web characteristics
I agree mostly but at the same time we elect the government and facebook influences our vote. We influence the gov and the gov influences us.
The Inca – Cities in the Cloud
Another great episode from Paul Cooper's "Fall of Civilizations" podcast
> If you moderate 99.999% of your content is it reasonable for you to be blacklisted for the 0.001%?

This sounds like you're trying to get us to pretend along that Parler had a moderation policy that was in any way effective, equally applied, or not just pandering to the crowd it was trying to entice.
I'm not exactly surprised. Plaid is the worst of both worlds, a janky ass tech that's just waiting for the first major security breach to cause a huge problem for their users combined with the fact that they're the only real choice in the space.

I do 90% of my transactions through CC partially because Visa/Mastercards tech is at least within the last decade (ex: Visa rails) as opposed to the debit networks. That combined with the added consumer protections you get from using CC over debit makes it a no brainer.
And that’s to say nothing of the endless number of hypocrisies with Silicon Valley giants feigning opposition to violent rhetoric or political extremism. Amazon, for instance, is one of the CIA’s most profitable partners, with a $600 million contract to provide services to the agency, and it is constantly bidding for more. On Facebook and Twitter, one finds official accounts from the most repressive and violent regimes on earth, including Saudi Arabia, and pages devoted to propaganda on behalf of the Egyptian regime. Does anyone think these tech giants have a genuine concern about violence and extremism?

This is the single most powerful paragraph that shows the hypocrisy. However, you can't even talk about this openly anymore.

My Chinese peers are saying how much this reminds them of the Cultural Revolution.
* atrophying

But yes, and this is a taste of what's to come. FB, GOOG, AMZN... watch out.
Man arrested after axe attack on New Zealand parliament
But is there such third party owned code in the NT kernel? Open sourcing the kernel would bring the most benefit both for security and publicity.
I think I'm not a gambling man, and I run strictly on trust but verify. My idealistic view of the world has gotten me burnt/played way too many times.

Both points are moot though, because having felt out the both sides of the aisle, I don't see a peaceful resolution moving forward without a lot of transparency, and a lot less "just trust us" out of authorities and a lot less belligerance all around. We are not in a good spot as a country at the moment. This is leagues and above the worst and most divided anyone amongst the folks I know have ever seen the country in their lives, and I've stopped doubting that Murphy will find a way.
Distributing Mac apps outside the App Store, a quick start guide
The irony about people who complain about FB being evil is that half the complainers think they don't do enough to censor "bad" content and the other half think they censor too aggressively.

If you can't even agree on "why" Facebook is evil, then maybe their supposed evilness is subjective and not as obvious and incontrovertible as so many seem to pretend it is? Maybe there is nothing they can do that will morally satisfy everyone, since moving in any direction to appease one faction will anger another?
I posted that link before I saw yours.

Thanks for beating me to it.

While it's a shame when the HN crowd takes down a site due to us mobbing it, given the number of folks who are seriously confused about Section 230 I wouldn't mind if techdirt took that hit.

It would save me (and you) from having to post that link every 25 minutes or so.
You can use auto-increment IDs as your internal keys, but don't expose them as external identifiers.
Special in that their technical approach is horrible, but viable because who they let you talk to are worse.

They're going to have a breach at some point and it'll be legendary.
Microsoft does do that already. They do both, so dropping the licensing revenue would strictly be a decrease in revenue.

Offering support contracts for open source code is an extremely difficult business model. It happens to be one of the few that actually can work, but the margins are just not great compared to the proprietary software industry. 90% of the kinds of customers who really "should" be paying you simply won't do so if they think they can scrape by without doing so.
German authorities have taken down the dark web’s largest illegal marketplace
That's not correct. Amazon advised them that they were encouraging violence, and had already reached out to them about this issue. They had responded that they would use volunteers to moderate their content, but Amazon (IMO quite reasonably!) saw that they had not moved fast enough, and were skeptical that it would work anyway.

Then the violence erupted in the Capitol, and Amazon's hand was forced. They had been violating Amazon's terms of service, and they did not do enough to resolve the issue, in a timely enough manner. Therefore they no longer got to use the service.
Whatever information really is. We know it's physical, but not why it's being "computed" by the Universe. The properties of matter allow DNA, and computers, because fundamental particles are doing a lower level form of "computation" (in quotes because it serves more of an analogy, computers are leveraging this property of the universe, by using electrons and its properties).
This. I mean I get that there are various different chat or chat/email hybrid solutions nowadays that are competing with each other.

Personally though I have nothing to complain about with slack. It has threading. It only has one level threading but that might actually be a good thing because we slack with non tech people too. One thread is sometimes hard for them to grasp. Make that a regular threading model and they will utterly get lost. You can see how that completely breaks down with emails in most places.

We use slack both for synchronous and asynchronous communication. It's all about the culture and what people expect. Not really different from email. Remember the people that send you another email if you didn't answer their first one after 5 minutes?

Group chats you can just link to in a ticket instead of having to paste and reformat from a large email conversation? Priceless!

Markdown is not necessarily required. Most good email clients supported something like it, like actually displaying something like _this_ as italics or * bolded *. It's like saying "but your app doesn't do XML". Yeah well but it does JSON.
Also something like: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-01/msg00...

rms deliberately making GCC (and by extension, Emacs) less useful to "prevent misuse". The entire thread is ... ugh.

The funniest part is that it doesn't even matter, because now everyone and their mother has switched to llvm/clang for these kind of things, just as people in that thread predicted.
Their lawyers bailing gave me pause. Suggests things are substantially more serious than Amazon, Apple, Google, and Twilio suddenly finding a paying customer distasteful.
You can extract the public key from the signature. This public key is E2C73BC53B9118A0.

If you want to have a go at it yourself, run gpg -vv and paste the entire message, it will give you the public key.
They are very similar. Both situations leave you in a situation where you are unable to respond quickly enough and can cause massive financial damage. Just because the situations are not identical does not mean they are not similar and that rules from one can't be moved over to the other.

I don't think google should be able to simply lock people out of their accounts and data without any notice for them to take their data out. I was hit by this personally when google docs locked on of the documents I was working on for school at a time I critically needed it. Their given reason was simply "tos violations" despite nothing in the document being a violation and they unlocked the document 2 days later.
Why did things have to go so wrong?
Too bad this will never ship in a US-bound product. Samsung is so terrified of Qualcomm's patent library that their US destined products all use Qualcomm SoCs instead of Exynos.
The Normalization of the Post-9/11 Regime
I am an honest tax payer. I report all my crypto transactions. It's not worth being audited.
No. The cash helped develop a vaccine this fast, but further application comes with the recent innovation in the lipid nano particles for delivery. That was done before the pandemic.
Covid unlocked the power of RNA vaccines
We were experimenting with this a couple years ago and were very impressed but it didn’t quite fit into our workflow at the time (mostly our fault). Really cool to see how far this has progressed, it’s a really helpful tool that should standardize all sorts of necessary data checks especially in gnarly, human entered datasets.
Ask HN: Boutique Architecture Consultancy or Contract?
I’m an architect and if you see my previous submissions it’s clear I’m looking for change to start my own thing and make more money (honesty policy)

I’ve many years in architecture and tech in private and public sector and looking at starting something or getting out of bureaucracy of Gov (current).

contracting is ok if I make the green and stop the daily noise of other nonsense floating into my work queue.

So how do I start a boutique, can I do this between cities, internationally / remotely? Is there market for EA, solution architecture, cloud, transformation via remote? Do you have an idea how to start? I was thinking if reaching to local recruiters to ask about Part time contracts, small gigs or sub contracting. I can reach out to my network locally.
I'd probably think about it occasionally and smile.

It would change our science fiction.

Children would learn about it in school from a very young age, or at home in books even younger. They'd grow up knowing Earth life isn't the only life.

Religions would slowly adapt to be more palatable to children who grew up this way, or lose favor among the next generation.
Mailing lists is the answer.

- Achievable

- Searchable

- Linkable

- Asynchronous

- Accessible

I like using Slack and we use it heavily with my team, but I agree it has issues.

Meanwhile, we've been using mailing lists for established open source projects for years for all of these reasons.
VPN providers have to be neutral or whats the point. Mozilla, increasingly, is quite vocal about a non-neutral network based on deplatforming, exclusion, and purity tests. So they're one of the last orgs I would trust as a VPN provider.

Brendan Eich had the last laugh. Brave is everything Mozilla should have been.
Don't minimize the current threat by thinking it isn't as dangerous.
TD should force a password reset every time a login occurs from Plaid on behalf of a user.
Looks like it is a duplicate indeed
In a few seconds? Wow. I'm a very fast reader and probably need at least 15 seconds to wade through a busy Stack Overflow page.

I've found that Slack's discoverability is severely limited because it seems to prioritize low-effort input. Here's what I mean: in a busy channel, Slack makes it so easy to reply in a linear chain. Unrelated messages get interleaved. Following a train of discussion can be difficult.

In contrast, I very much like how Zulip organizes threads. It allows content to be organized both up-front (at posting time) and over time. This feels very natural to me.
More people have access to social media than to clean water,

you might be on to something...
I can't tell why I would want this based on a quick skim:

- Why check `expect_column_values_to_not_be_null` rather than setting the column `not null`?

- Why check `expect_column_values_to_match_strftime_format` rather than making the column a datetime?

- `expect_column_values_to_be_unique`? Really?

As far as I can tell all of the expectations can be implemented as constraints or (at worst) super-performant triggers. Sounds like a band-aid on terrible database design.
One can also use the sql SUBSTRING function to actually draw horizontal ASCII-art bar-charts in order to eyeball anomalies. Use a WITH sub-query to find the minimum and maximum range to normalize bar width range.

For larger data-sets you can group them, such as finding the min, max, and average for each given month, and then graph them using different bar symbols: M=min, X=max, A=average. Once you spot an odd month, you use the original detail version to study that month further. (Make sure you display the bars using a fixed-width font, such as Courier.)

2020-01 MMMMMMMM
2020-01 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2020-01 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
2020-02 MM
2020-02 AAAAAAAAAAA
2020-02 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
2020-03 MMMMM
2020-03 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
2020-03 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Etc...
Its more that nothing they do can overcome the fact that everyone has blacklisted them. You can't run a site on the internet without having ISPs and DNS registers on your side at least. Even if they rehost somewhere else they will just be hit with the next level of blocks and have wasted the money rehosting.
It’s worth pointing out that Tardigrades aren’t bacteria and couldn’t wipe them all out.

They are animals, vastly larger than bacteria that require a diet of plants and even smaller animals to survive.

Edit: plants not planets.
And nothing of value was lost.

Won't even be a blip on AWS's radar. Aside from rightwingers self hosting, nothing will really change in an impactful way.

Eye of sauron? Dramatic, much? It's not hard: Don't host incitement of violence, i.e. Incitement to Imminent Lawless Action. It's not hard. But for these radical right wingers, it apparently is. Sad.
I only have data points for two different testing orgs, but in my area, GoHealth charges $250 for a rapid test, and Color charges $110 for a PCR test[0]. So it seems like that's flipped from what you're suggesting?

The Color tests can even come back in 8 hours or so, if you're not too far from a lab and the lab isn't overloaded. Not as fast as 15 minutes, and certainly higher variance, but much more useful than 72 hours people normally assume.

Regarding false negative rate, Hawaii is accepting some of the rapid tests (like the aforementioned GoHealth test) for pre-travel screening, which is concerning.

[0] These are both without involving insurance at all. It's possible, though, that the Color tests are partially subsidised by Google?
I noticed that this doesn't include a compilers course. I've seen others recommend the Stanford Compilers course on EDX[0] but it looks like audit access is going away this month. Does anyone have recommendations for free, quality compilers courses?

[0] https://www.edx.org/course/compilers
No. You apparently don't.

There is no distinction between "platform" and "publisher" in Section 230.

And you can't "lose" your section 230 protections. Section 230 protects every person and every device in the US. There are no limitations to that.

Because Section 230 isn't what you think it is. The important part says (paraphrase):

"You can't be sued for something another person says." Full stop.

That other person can be sued.

If you personally engage in illegal or tortious activity, you can be prosecuted or sued.

But you can't be prosecuted or sued for what someone else says.

That's Section 230. That's it. Full stop.
So, this was not a nation state hack?
That's an impressively detailed response. Did you happen to track all these kinds of quotes routinely for your own research, or are you that good at finding this info that quickly.
I haven't seen a bigger bunch of hypocrites! Lost all respect for US after seeing how it embraced Censorship as a way to resolve issues. America the "land of the free". Yeah right!
Parler should have deployed a multi-cloud strategy, even using OpenStack perhaps. They should have better prepared.
Information is scary to some...
It's not just Apple that was rather miffed with gcc around that time; and it really wasn't just because of the license. See e.g. https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070915195203#p...
> Where does it end from there?

That escalated quickly!

Given that being “censored” by sites like Twitter is also a big complaint of the far left (because it has happened a lot), my hope is that splintering to alternative sites won’t be so binary. Having 40 Twitter clones seems better to me than having just one or two.
Interesting tidbit: This "dns by proxy" service was founded by The Pirate Bay founder, Peter Sunde.
Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
Yes. BioNTech are already into phase 1s and phase 2s with several others. My wife works on one of the programs targeting cancer, which has years of development and trials behind it.
It was people with guns and lead pipes, not lies, that hurt and killed people.

The principle of free speech is the idea that open discussion and debate is sufficient to resolve conflicts of ideas. Using force to end discussion is not free expression.

Of course there are limitations when fraud, slander, threats, and the like. But those should be considered in trials by peers or judges as decided in a fair court with due process. Again, words, ideas, and fair institutions are the rule, not decisions by the involved parties who happen to have enough power to get their way.

At least that's the principle.
0% in India seems like you must have mistyped, or something.

India's infection rates are not comparable to the island nations that have successfully contained the virus.
I hadnt even heard of it before it was banned. Dismissing one of the few genuine voices on the left because of a misperception is supercilious.

Edit:
It looks like Greenwald wasnt even wrong about what he said, people are just accusing him of lying for some reason

https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1349097133186707457?s=2...

Edit: Has the left accomplished all of its goals? No? Then it needs to figure out what its doing wrong.
Yeah Greenwald has transformed into a conspiracy-nut / troll since leaving the Intercept and starting his substack.
Exactly.

Soon people will understand why it was taken down.
handing out your login credentials is like giving a blanko check with your signature on it already.

> What bank in the U.S. wont reverse fraudulent ACH debits?

If you admit to handing out signed blank checks, I would hope that most if not all banks would at least have a discussion with you about how you may be not the customer they are looking for.
Slight offtopic: anyone else annoyed by the darwins crappy support for static linking and general extreme lack of documentation? E.g lack of -Bstatic option and similar?
How do you know this? Have you looked at the 78TB of data available already?