skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, let's grant for the sake of argument that Taylor Lorenz is overly focused on Andreessen blocking her on Clubhouse.

(1) You leapt from "Taylor Lorenz did this" to "The New York Times sends out agents to harass and stalk perceived enemies"; those two things are not the same, and I suspect if we were talking about entities you had more positive feelings about, you wouldn't conflate the two. (This is not to say that what an NYT reporter does on their own time can't reflect on the Times, but that the NYT is not automatically responsible for it.)

(2) "Going so far as to spread demonstrable lies about them" is... not how I would be comfortable describing what happened in this case. Again, Taylor Lorenz's Twitter account is not the same as a bylined article in the NYT, and you seem to be conflating them. Furthermore, there's no compelling evidence that her original accusation about Andreessen was made in bad faith. "She tried real hard to get into those private chats" may be a demonstration of nosiness, but not automatically one of ill intent.

(3) "Stasi seems only mildly hyperbolic": Sorry, but I'm going to insist that comparing four decades of what's widely considered to be one of the most oppressive state security agencies that ever existed and a reporter falsely tweeting "Marc Andreessen called somebody a retard in a private chat" is more than mildly hyperbolic.
Shades of LURGI...
Well-worded sage advice, now of only the right people (read everyone) would read this and follow through.
Steve Blank OpEd: The FAA and SpaceX
Not sure what you're talking about, but she hasn't been terminated. She just made her twitter private because she was getting harangued.
Two UK leave supporting ministers have written letters to counterparts in the EU over the last few days complaining about not being consulted about EU actions that affect British business.

Not sure these ministers understand the difference between the concepts of inside and outside.
Would be cool to see what your code looked like. I have the same question as the start of the thread.

That is, I can see how the derivative can help optimise a simulation, but I'm not clear on how using an auto derivative really helps.

Edit: note that I also see a difference in being able to get the derivative of a function, versus writing in a sense where any function can be moved to its derivative.
Reminds me of a Louis CK bit where he says that when you say "n-word" you're not saying the n-word but you're making ME say it in my head.
This hits really hard, thank you! Will invest in myself.
> Should they have said, "No we don't have that, you should probably just use AWS"?

Yes? If you can't trust your rep to give accurate recommendations, then what's the point of even having one?
Outages occur all the time. What difference does it make where exactly they're originating from if the end result is the same, from the end user's POV? You give them the same message in either case: "we're experiencing a temporary outage and are working on a remediation." I suppose you'll also be compensated according to contract SLAs, and if the hypothetical becomes actual, you can tune your contract renewal based on your observed losses in revenue accordingly.

Best case scenario, there's healthy competition in the space, providing more alternatives and allowing you to end your contract with them if the service sucks. Worst case scenario I guess is that the company implodes taking all its data with it, affecting untold amounts of businesses. A GDPR-like regulation stipulating the ability to export that data (so, user databases) would go a long way towards mitigating prolonged outages in that worst case, and in the best case of the worst case, their competitors are able to import the exports. And/or tools that can spin up a $database instance in $cloud.
from https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1358868187656388611:

I can't immediately verify the veracity of the claims made by the sheriff but,
the fact that the authorities *set up* a public-facing and/or remotely
accessible system that allowed someone to change the water chemical levels is by
far the bigger issue here.
You missed the joke. It's trying to be exclusive, so it gives a 500 error to all visitors the first time they come. Refresh, and you'll... almost get in.
Maybe the hacker deleted the article too :^)
Just to add: 30 years ago there was nearly as much hand-wringing about pork-barrel politics as there is today about our insane partisanship. It led to its fair share of sub optimal decisions...
Sorry, our science dictates that we are.
tl;dr: The Big Hack (2021)
Yes, those AI systems surely create garbage results right now, and worse, once they are trained perfectly, they will provide perfect cover to codify existing hiring biases:

1. Take existing employee base, hired through biased process.

2. Use resumes to train multi-million parameter machine learning model.

3. System will replicate biases, while the process is completely opaque to review by even the people who created it.

But then again, existing hiring practices are just as bad, e.g. hiring European engineers only if they graduated from Oxford, Cambridge, or the University of Bucharest: https://twitter.com/shaft/status/1355696154990628864

Or the still widespread practice in Switzerland to demand hand written job applications for executive positions, in order to have the applications evaluated by graphologists…
https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1358867424171425799 has a link to a Youtube video if you want to watch the press conference.
The work of shielding my hypothetical team from useless meetings sounds just as miserable as the useless meetings themselves. Now that I think about it, my own boss shields us from these meetings primarily by taking the meeting himself.
> "I do have many questions about the about sail handling and rigging. Stowed and raising these things are non-trivial! Telescopic mechanisms can have all sorts of issues, especially when loaded - like in a building storm!"

I had some downtime while living on a marina for a bit, so I read a bunch of the research literature. Freestanding wingsails that can fully rotate like this have the neat property that they can "weathervane" with very little drag. In fact a bare mast on a traditional sailboat with the sail down generates a lot more drag than the wing, due to turbulence vs laminar flow.

It's not clear from these renders, and I'm not motivated enough to dig into it, but most designs I read about in this category are self trimming. Saildrone is a good example, where it uses a 2nd smaller wing on a boom to control the overall angle of attack of the wing. Change the setting on the "tail" to change the angle of attack. The wing will follow the direction of the wind no matter how it shifts. So controlling these boils down to a small electric actuator, which is easy to make controllable via a screen, software, or what have you.

In fact one of the motivations for people experimenting with this stuff at more modest scale is it could be huge for adaptive sailors, because it makes sail handling so trivial.
Says they’ll do a background check. For a million bucks you bet they’ll figure it out.
> "But at about 1:30 p.m. the same day, Gualtieri said, someone accessed the system again. This time, he said, the operator watched as someone took control of the mouse, directed it to the software that controls water treatment, worked inside it for three to five minutes and increased the amount of sodium hydroxide from 100 parts per million to 11,100 parts per million."

who wants to bet this might have been as simple as improper usage/implementation of Teamviewer gone wrong?

when dealing with persons/organizations who are not focused on infosec/netsec issues, given the opportunity and ability to do so, never underestimate the workarounds and kludges that people will install to "make their job easier", such as putting teamviewer on control system PCs running water systems.
It continues to baffle me that people actively want Silicon Valley to choose what they think.
I guess open-source implementations of various algorithms that had been demonstrated effective, if produced by a not-for-profit maybe, could be very disruptive to this 'industry'.
They are incredible. I keep coming back to their blog to be fascinated with their life and work.
Cloudflare doesn't offer a WAF in the free plan, only a DDoS attack mitigation service. This means it doesn't go into the application level (i.e. no SQL Injection protection or XSS). They do, however, offer a filtering capability.
You can see more in the Cloudflare page [1], they explain well what it is. None of the features they talk about come in the free version.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/web-applic...
Drone successfully delivers at-home Covid-19 test in Northern Nevada
Galaxies aren't always cohesive, they can collide, split apart, etc - so the answer is "no".
Wifi routers have this notorious problem with the nvram. Sometimes some state in the nvram is corrupted and the routers would stop working. Turning off and on again won't work. A factory-reset to wipe everything out is the only way to get out of the corrupted state.
Tell that to my boots. The snow is rock solid. Thier treds dont cut in. Whereas a week ago i could walk, now i am sliding between biuldings. I walked about 500m between biuldings at -42 today. My boots were hardening. By the end it felt like walking in ski boots. Very slippery.
Well... simply, it was allowed to happen. Specifically to build support for new draconian domestic terror laws. The government is incredibly paranoid about a domestic uprising so they collectively start drooling when an opportunity to pass laws like this presents itself.
Aave vs. Compound: The battle of the DeFi lending giants
It's interesting to me how Bloom Filters avoid the uncanny valley between probably correct and definitely correct. I don't know if this is a technological difference between problem domains or a purely ideology/mindset.

Dividing a problem by 10 should get notice. By 100 (eg, Bloom Filters) respect. By 1000, accolades. Dividing a problem by infinity should be recognized for what it is: a logic error, not an accomplishment.

Most times when I'm trying to learn someone else's process instead of dictating my own, I'm creating lists of situations where the outcomes are not good. When I have a 'class', I run it up the chain, with a counter-proposal of a different solution, which hopefully becomes the new policy. Usually, that new policy has a probationary period, and then it sticks. Unless it's unpopular, and then it gets stuck in permanent probation. I may have to formally justify my recommendation, repeatedly. In the meantime I have a lot of information queued up waiting for a tweak to the decision tree. We don't seem to be mimicking that model with automated systems, which I think is a huge mistake that is now verging on self-inflicted wound.

Perhaps stated another way, classifying a piece of data should result in many more actions than are visible to the customer, and only a few classifications should result in a fully automated action. The rest should be organizing the data in a way to expedite a human intervention, either by priority or bucket. I could have someone spend tuesday afternoons granting final dispensations on credit card fraud, and every morning looking at threats of legal action (priority and bucket).
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_star

Also interesting: "The hypothesis that stars exist only in galaxies was disproven in 1997 with the discovery of intergalactic stars."
> superconducting computer can still beat a conventional computer in terms of ops/Watt, even when the power consumption of the cooling equipment is included

But likely not when the energy cost of manufacturing the cryocooler (which has a limited working life) is included.

If you count dollars instead of joules the answer is a definite "no". The manufacturing cost per joule of the cryocooler, amortized over its usable life, far exceeds the value of the energy saved.
This is great. Do you have plans to provide any native mobile (iOS/android) support?
It might strain your imagination, but go look at everything available in ports, and also the linux compatibility layer.

I wouldn't call it a universal drop-in replacement, you can indeed do a whole lot with FreeBSD that you can do with a linux box.
I don't see it as a net increase in complexity. Buildpacks pay their freight and then some.
Well, all functions that use finite precision arithmetic deal with approximations. Errors of 1/2 ulp like trig functions are rather the exception. And machine learning is keen on using low precision floating point type, so errors are relatively large.
Probably because you're accessing the website from the EU and they don't want to bother with the GDPR.
Feels like you’re cutting that a bit thin.

In any case, my experience (and - probably - the context of my cultural upbringing) was that the word was used to both denigrate people with developmental disabilities and to degrade those who did not. This wasn’t calling someone a “loser”. This was using an immutable characteristic of someone’s personhood against them and attacking others by asserting a resemblance.
We use Mumble for audio and Matrix for chat.
This is a modern version of the 1975 Caltech Sweepstakes caper. I think that was the first use of a computer to enter a sweepstakes.

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_caltech_sweepstakes_...
Would describe Stadia 4k to be inline with native 1080p, at least when playing stadia in a browser. Stadia 4k may look better using a chromecast ultra, but I haven't tried that.

And It is weird how resolutions are the focus in streaming when the most important thing is bitrate, feel like we need some kind of standard, because bitrate means nothing to most people.
OP needs a "grease the bouncer" button and an "upload selfie" button to let wealthy and attractive people skip the line.
or, you could just do passwordless email auth and not have any security issues whatsoever.
Nothing was stolen.

He sold a put, and that put was exercised. He didn't have the cash to pay for it, so he was margin called and his portfolio was liquidated accordingly. Until the liquidation happened, he still owed the cash.

This is the way these products are supposed to work.

These are complex products that arent for everyone, thats why you have to take a test and swear you're aware of the risks involved.

He took the test and passed, he also executed the strategy correctly.

The problem is not robinhood here. Its not even the money.

The problem is the parents are looking for someone to blame because of something that hurt them.
Here you are, from last month:
https://domainnamewire.com/2021/01/17/godaddy-explains-ar15-...

And by 'seizure', I think it is pretty clear that I mean 'revoking access to', in the same way as in the OP Google has revoked access to the given Google account.
Few things I dont get:

- Who is your customer type ? Individual developers ? IT of companies ?

- What do you bring in addition to Google G Suite ?

- Why is that important to have beautiful UI ?

- Why would I use your service to power auth of my service, as it would probably take more time to integrate your apis, and configure your frontend to my branding than do it from scratch ?
I'm guessing on Windows it added 0A after every 0D?

I guess you could find all instances of 0D 0A, and then for each position, program the FTP client to download 2 bytes at byte $POS, and fix the file that way... Obviously you'll need to reduce 1 byte from all the next positions if there wasn't an 0A in the remote version.

Easier said than done, of course. I doubt I'd be able to do this at the age where RedHat 3 was around. And on Windows on top of that!
Have you looked at the Interfaces files?

You did the right thing by scraping the data. That is the more clever way. Scraping is not illegal. Google does it every second of every day.
I suppose that speaks positively of the recruiter's ability to find the right person for the job!
I agree, for my own piece of mind. But I am also certain that it would have made no difference in our current predicament with a third of the country thinking the election was stolen.

It has been shown to us time and time again that no actual evidence is required to get people to believe what they want to believe.

And the more technical the evidence (i.e. source code), the less helpful.
It's even worse than that, for a drag force proportional to the square of the speed, the power is proportional to the cube of the speed. As for the transatlantic voyage in 12 days vs 8 or 6 I don't know on what they based it. Maybe ships don't always go at the nominal speed as it may not be economical to do so. 8 days is 15-16 knots, so this corresponds to a more economical slow steamer. As they pitch an environmentally friendlier solution, a comparison to the next best thing (slow steaming) may be more apt. Using the cube-law, ~2/3 the speed ~= 0.3 the power. And only 1/8 if you compare 10 to 20!
The easy git repo is what I was hoping for, that's awesome. Ty for the comment, I'll check it out.
Remote Hacker Caught Poisoning Florida City Water Supply
Ask HN: Anyone still using enterprise architecture?
Recently I’ve been task to develop an EA for our company, but the more a read about it the more I see it as gimmick. Even the software is so complicated.
What startup is moving so fast they don’t even have time to write their own user management features and instead outsource it to a third party SaaS in perpetuity?
Very excited to see what the James Webb telescope will show us if the launch happens this year as planned
> which in practice covers basically all bans except for Age restriction or non-payment based bans.

Google avoid this EU restriction by suspending accounts/app indefinitely instead of banning them.

You can see a Google employee explaining this here : https://github.com/moneytoo/Player/issues/37#issuecomment-76...
Same, congrats.
"Yes, that middle zone (that most of us probably live in) is terrifying"

More terrifying than the bottom where you got nothing to loose? I doubt it. Otherwise, why be afraid of it?
This reminds me once more of a piece of the puzzle which we're still missing. Markdown + git is great, but leaving your blog up on Github is just another central point of failure; Github feels like a fact of nature right now, but it's just a website at end of day.

Most broadly, it's called content-centric networking. Bittorrent is a piece of that puzzle, but too static, with no obvious way to connect disparate hashes together into a single entity. IPFS and Secure Scuttlebutt are groping in the right direction.

There was a project called gittorrent which, as you might guess, was trying to be 'bittorrent for git'. It never really went anywhere, the crew at https://radicle.xyz are looking to revive it and I wish them the best of luck.

What I want is a single handle, such that, if there are still copies of the data I'm looking for, out there on the network, I can retrieve them with that handle. And also, any forks, extensions, and so on, of that root data, with some tools to try and reconcile them, even though that may not always be possible.

That would be really powerful. It would made information more durable and resilient, and has the potential to change the way we interact with it. Like I find typos in documents sometimes, it would be nice to be able to generate a patch, sign it so it has a provenance, and release it out into the world.

When I browse old blogs which still exist, I routinely hit links to other blogs, video, and the like, which are just gone. Sometimes Wayback Machine helps, often it doesn't. This problem can't be fixed completely, when data is gone, it's gone, but we could do a lot more to mitigate it than what we're doing now.
There has been for quite a while a big concern that industrial control systems are accessible, often poorly hardened (and by that I mean to the extent of having default passwords), and quite vulnerable to attack.

The only thing surprising about this is that we don't hear about it tenfold more.
The counterargument is always that at some point in future the energy consumption problem will be solved, but isn't the rate of computation a or the main factor against 50%+ attacks? Else the solutions proposed seemed to relay on centralized services that don't actually play on the blockchain to reduce the actual amount of transactions and load, also then avoiding the delays - but then re-adding the supposed main issue of having a "trustless" blockchain.
Typically MAU means "users that logged at some point during that billing month".

That is, when you are billed based on MAU you don't pay for the number of users in your database, only for the ones that actually use your app/service/whatever.
I think I am with you on your first sentence being a way forward. Substack is pretty interesting in that regard.

I run into some issues with your use of Taibbi as a good anecdote though for unbiased reporting, and I won't touch your MSM comment.

I think Taibbi is a competent, honest, and candid reporter. That said, I was around during his coverage of GS in the Rolling Stone in '08-'09.

Is he good at speaking truth to power and creating compelling narratives? Yes. But he's biased in his coverage in the same way that Greenwald is. I don't necessarily agree with blurring* the line between OpEd and reporting is the direction that solves the disconnect.

Additionally, honest, citizen journalists with independent funding can misunderstand tech the same way a NYT reporter can. It's still a complex field only getting more complex.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_star

Such stars have been observed to exist. The common thought is that they formed within galaxies but ejected from them through gravitational forces.
Nothing is going to change until this software convicts a 10M net worth dude for something he didn't do.