skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Long story short: FBI let one of weleakinfo’s domains expire that they used for the emails/payments,” pompompurin wrote. “I registered that domain, & was able to [password] reset the stripe.com account & get all the Data. [It’s] only from people that used stripe.com to checkout. If you used paypal or [bitcoin] ur all good.”

That’s the gist of the whole story.

No credit card numbers were leaked, i wouldn’t count the partial numbers... it’s probably last 4 digits.
Thanks for the brain food! Will check it out and be in touch if it sparks questions!
There's different storage tiers, with different redundancy. So if anyone has an anecdote, would be curious to know which storage tier was used (e.g. single availability zone)
Do they de-dupe at all?
>Someone please correct me If I'm wrong but I thought If your systems are all E2E encrypted, then you as the service provider have no way of seeing what your users are discussing on your platform.

In the past the issue has been did the company intentionally develop and market the product for drug trafficking. For instance did they send sales reps to contact criminal organizations and offer their products as a way to do crimes.

One company produced electronic devices for the purposes of evading wiretaps and then visited various mafia owned bars to meet criminals and sold those devices to members of those syndicates [citation needed] specifically for the purposes of evading wiretaps. You might have heard of that company, it later became Apple Computer.

>"Somehow, despite the fact that many of their blue boxes had been seized by law enforcement, and there were definitely indicators that they were all made by the same outfit, the boxes were never linked back to Woz and Jobs." - [0]

Edit: I can't find anything to back up my memories that Woz talks about selling blue boxes at a bar. I may have misremembered. I have added a [citation need]

[0]: Concerning Steve Wozniak’s Blue Boxes https://512pixels.net/2018/03/woz-blue-box/
Not to mention, the programmer's imagination is bounded by caloric intake and grey matter.
It's possible that someone who thinks that Hacker News was "a bit better earlier on" favours that, especially as (as pointed out elsewhere in this very discussion) those are noticeably lacking from the page at hand. So let's see what the answer to my question is.
>Current UI/UX dogma is tainted, to put it bluntly.

I would agree with this statement but only outside of academia. UI/UX dogma in academia is still about proper user experience design and it's simply being taken advantage of by companies looking to cash in on users. That doesn't make the dogma flawed but I can see how that would make you say it's tainted.
I don't think that holds any weight. See this example I just picked off a search:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/958535/Software-Engi...
Thanks for your feedback!

1) I'll try to make that more obvious

2) Working on it :)

3) Code and dependencies are bundled in the browser

4) Check out settings/themes!
The Reverse Engineer's Toolkit
I think the implication is that he sows conflict between nations, or just sows conflict in general.

I know nothing of the Rassemblement National or how that would help them. I have heard accusations that Russia intentionally creates conflicts to destabilize opponents and draw attention away from their own dealings. Perhaps that is the implied link with Russia.

I don't really see anything here to support that. Personally, I think the guy just doesn't particularly care if conflict arises in the course of him pursuing what he thinks is right. That's not really a heinous characteristic; it's often considered admirable.
I am really getting afraid of this centralization of data.
I'll add Wordpress to the list too.
> ARM can't unilaterally revoke a contract (and even if they tried, it'd end up in court; your production lines wouldn't just suddenly stop working one day)

And the only reason Google can do that in this case is because the terms were specified as such, and ARM Holdings could do that too.

> and there's plenty of ways to distribute games to users on PCs other than Steam.

And there is also a plenty of ways to distribute Android software other than the Google Play Store, but the effect in both cases is that one's business will likely die being denied access by either.
I understood that but you can have several instances of the same asset on a single immutable chain, for example Ethereum.
I've never been in an organization that needs this sort of model, but my assumption was it was more about what not to do. Don't second guess yourself endlessly, don't panic, don't reminisce about what could have been, don't blindly repeat your last action, don't freeze, etc. In high stress situations people tend to do dumb things, this sounds to me like an attempt to say "don't do that" without saying the word "don't" or specifying the "that".
I think the world is going into a more layered approach, where it's the job of the driver API (Vulkan etc) to expose the power of the hardware fairly directly, and it's the job of higher levels to express the actual rendering in terms of those lower level primitives. Raytracing is an exception because you do need hardware support to do it well.

Whether there's hardware that can make 2D rendering work better is an intriguing question. The NV path rendering stuff (mentioned elsethread) was an attempt (though I think it may be more driver/API than hardware), but I believe my research direction is better, in that it will be higher quality, faster, and more flexible with respect to the imaging model on standard compute shaders than an approach using the NV path rendering primitives. Obviously I have to back that up with empirical measurements, which is not yet done :)
That's exactly the point. Ireland is only larger country in the EU with native English speakers.
Seconded - I particularly enjoyed the references to how OODA was applied by Dominic Cummings in the Brexit vote campaign - but also how that same thinking is flawed when faced with everyday running of government.
>ranked using only votes from early users

The ranking, not the submissions, are from the old timers.

I would love to know why downvotes happen as well.
These things invariably report misleading results just because the author can't be bothered to learn to write idiomatic code in most of the languages.

Nobody is obliged to learn that many languages well, but truth demands scruples. If you are not interested in truth, what is the point of publishing one of these?

The result is predictable: whichever language the author already knows best wins.

In this one, for example, we get:

"There’s obviously a lot more pushing you could do with C++. However, I suspect it would end up getting more and more low-level and more C-like"

which is just wholly false.

There are reasons why the people who are the most serious about performance use C++: you can get C++ code as fast as the machine can physically do without giving up any abstraction or readability, and without avoiding powerful features. That is the core value proposition of the language: abstraction without penalty. It delivers, and not by accident.

To get top performance does require awareness of what operations are inherently slow for machines, and not writing code to require such operations. But that doesn't mean giving anything up.

Code that looks like C is no faster than C. Hence, to make code faster than C, you must make it look less like C.

Really, we don't expect an article like this to reveal all about how to write the best code in all languages.

Just don't report lazy falsehoods.
Would the answer to that question be a fair analysis? A great deal has changed about the country between the successive governments - not just the political power structure. Population figures, human development, the march of technology etc, all affect energy demands.

The most optimistic view would be that an energy company that operates without blackouts in an apartheid state should not be applauded for its performance under artificially-depressed demand.
>They can keep you off their platform, nothing more.
Why? Because you believe corporations are people?

>And you think this would be less censored?
By law, in the USA, it would have to be less censored. They could only censor constitutionally unprotected speech.

>> in social media individuals earn their own audience

>So ... individuals got all those people to sign up to twitter?

Is this honestly how you interpreted the OP comment? Without people posting to Twitter nobody would be following Twitter. They are nothing without the content creators since they don't create any content.
Techcrunch called it the dual PhD problem. One example is if you understand the traditional finance, you'll have an easier time when building a DeFi application on top of Ethereum.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/19/the-dual-phd-problem-of-to...
A DRL Library for Automated Stock Trading in FinTech
Do you have the same exact hardware that the article is using? Otherwise, we can't say one way or another on that with the data you've provided.

I'm also pretty certain the article is benchmarking against the 10x copy file for the actual benchmarks.

See this example command in the article:

time $PROGRAM <kjvbible_x10.txt >/dev/null

So, even if you had the exact same hardware, I'm pretty sure your program would only be a bit faster than the unoptimized C# version. However, it's possible that your machine is a lot slower than what's used in the article, and your program is actually pretty fast -- but without more points of comparison, we just don't know. You haven't run the other benchmark programs on your hardware and posted the results.
In the past, accounting was the most important aspect of running a business.

Now that is secondary to IT.
It looks like this is all about prebuilts, and IMO unless you are going to nitpick on $/performance and whatever case they give you, all the prebuilts are more or less interchangeable, especially if you are playing on 1080p.

What you really need to consider, and where this Ars guide falls short, is on the vendor's support after you buy. Although I did not find an easy summary screen while scrubbing through the video and I am too lazy to compile one myself, the gulf between good and bad is is almost absurd. Definitely check out Linus Tech Tip's video where they buy a prebuilt system from a variety of vendors and put their support agents through a live fire support call for a routine shipping issue (memory falling out of the slot). Also quite telling is that this is the second time they have done it, and not many of the vendors have bothered to improve their process from the first go around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ViO0ETvfEc
> if you're using Facebook you've basically agreed to personalised ads on some level

Yes, but no. Someone who joined Facebook in 2007 would have had very different expectations than someone joining in 2017. And there's a difference between "sure, send me personalized ads" and "sell everything you know about to me malicious actors"
For sure ;) but I also imagine that the number of objects with a public-read ACL (potentially mis-configured) would still dwarf Alexandria.
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339
Of course if you do nothing and everyone live in a shelter for 5 years the pandemic will be stopped.

But that's not possible so you have to find a middle ground. A LOT of people including myself consider it's an exaggerated middle ground to shut down an entire economy for something that's not more lethal than going in the street for 2/3 of the population. You may disagree but you have to understand that it's largely in the interest of the government to act as the "most scared people" want to, because they are usually the loudest and it's the best way not to be criticized during reelection.

So to me opening a plant an having a similar (and actually less because people actually wear mask at work) infection rate than in the general population is a better middle ground. Maybe an even better middle ground would have been to let the choice to people to come or not... I'm not sure we'll ever agree if you are on the uber-cautious side.

same reasoning goes for the self-driving. basically it's a trade of between risk and reward. it's the same for medicine: there's no drug development without human testing and sometimes... human death.
Do you need tools to steal a cat? Just offer it a pile of food and a warm soft place to sleep.
I think a lot of the comments think this is the algorithm that HN uses for its primary page. It's not obvious the link goes to "/classic"
Literally decades of trying to explain this to people and yet Google suggests that this is very thread is the first significant time that the pixel-art term "pillow shading" has been explicitly linked to the acronym "VGA".

That's weird because it's the defining characteristic of the cheap art of the VGA era.

Epic Games was big into pillow shading. Jill of the Jungle, Solar Winds, Jazz Jackrabbit...

They'd define seven hues, 8 shades of each hue, reserve the last 8 shades for monochrome, and then just paint things in from the side of the object.

The pillow-shading aesthetic stuck after we moved on to 16.7 million colors and there was no reason to think about color that way anymore.

A frustrating legacy.
I grew up in Germany but my parents subscribed to multiple US magazines to help us learn English. "Mad" was the one we always fought over. I didn't get a lot of the cultural references but still loved it.
SpeechBrain: A PyTorch Powered Speech Toolkit
This would be easy to prove if SE are disproportionately represented as CEOs in non software companies. My bet is this is not the case.
Vivarium: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor
Why can't we have a fixed preference in the browser? (The do-not-track header field failed, but it still seems like the best solution)
I agree with everything you just said, but why can't it be both? It seems to me like a knee-jerk reaction to disparage small, symbolic changes like this because there's more important change that should happen instead. This implies that there's some kind of zero sum game at play where people's tolerance for change is somehow depleted by small changes, making larger changes harder. I guess the jury's out on that one, I don't know of any experiments made that can indicate one way or the other, but I don't believe that's the case. In fact, I believe disparaging small changes can be harmful to larger changes, because it accuses people that engage in trying to make positive change happen of wasting their time, because they're not focusing on the changes that you personally feel are more important.

Having been an activist for many years, albeit in union related issues and not what's generally called "civil rights", I can certify that the main issue with any kind of social change or activism is that people are not engaging in it in the first place. Because of this, I'm firmly convinced that even "meaningless" change is at least change, and that denigrating it will turn people off on attempting change at all.
Presumably because the comments are mostly spam or other noise? If they cleaned that up, more people would read the comments, maybe?
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272084
A big part of this is that urban planning in the US is suburb centric which is devastating not only for the environment, but also for the economy. City centers have higher density and more tax dollars and they subsidize the infrastructure of the suburbs. Basically, the suburbs tax income can't sustain their own infrastructure so American cities rely on growth in order to fund new developments and infrastructure maintenance. It's essentially a ponzi where the music stops when the growth stops. So not only are American cities terrible for the environment, but they are incentivized to continue to grow in order to fund legacy infrastrucure, which inevitably places a strain on the environment.

The car model of a city is what is destroying our environment. North America needs better urban planning if we have any chance at all in making a dent in global climate change.
Agreed. Blaming a remote work culture is a complete non sequitur.
> he failed to bust the door open and just shot a white passerby

> a pretty good example how gun control saves lives.

It sounds like the door saved lives. He was still able to shoot people. It doesn't sound like gun control laws saved any lives; maybe the building codes did.
For those curious: the root cause for the incident is, ultimately, degraded statistics on a table.

There are a set of high frequency (very frequently run queries) that are quite sensible to plan flipping (they normally run with a given execution plan; if the plan changes to a worse one, effects can be dramatic, given their frequency).

That leads to a lot of query timeouts (GitLab's database limit query execution time to prevent further damage), which are visualized as database errors. This in turn leads to partial or complete downtime (effectively, if the database is running few effective --non timed out-- traffic).

Some of these queries depend on a particular Postgres planner way of working that is less than ideal (in PG11, it is improved in PG12), and may lead to plan flipping. Which in turn, happens when table statistics degrade. In GitLab's case, they are normally close to the threshold, and slight statistics degradation caused a plan change, which in turn lead to many queries time out and excessive load on the fleet.

At the end of the day, the fix is quite simple, however: update the table statistics (running ANALYZE). For more information: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/3...
So is this blog designed to offend the eyes of the reader?
How to Manage ML Teams
I got a lot of value reading through The Little Schemer and How to Design Programs to learn FP "thinking". I'm sure those two books are gathering dust over at your university library. I was unbelievably unexposed to FP in any meaningful way in my BS and MS in CS programs.

I like projects but discovered that I actually learned quite a bit just from working through short problems at Hackerrank.
U.S. Has 1,000 More Troops in Afghanistan Than It Disclosed
Unfortunately yes. I really do wish we had more options.

I guess the other option is WebKit which is now independent from Chrome so has influence over the direction of the web.
The Digitization of Ownership
oops, I think you found their secret sauce for cost control and economies of scale.
Lightbulbs are visible light and infrared. It heats the surface of your skin.

Microwaves penetrate your skin and even your skull. It's heating your brain like cooking food in a microwave. Yes, it's non-ionizing, but there's a relationship between heating, inflammation and cancer. And it's wrong to ignore it.

Just take simple precautions like not sitting right in front of a 100W space antenna, but instead mount it on your roof.
Nobody will ever fix any dysfunctional system (in any sector!) -- until and unless they first realize that someone's "dysfunctional" system -- is someone else's "highly functional" (and desired!) system...

Simple example: Rent.

To a tennant, rent is a "dysfunctional system" -- something highly dysfunctional about the world that needs "change".

But to a landlord, rent is a highy functional system(!) -- something to be desired and preserved!

It's the same way with Debt.

It's the same way with Laws.

It's the same way with Taxes.

It's the same way with Corporations.

In fact, a person (should they decide to look objectively, which is difficult for many to do) -- will find this same pattern true in any number of so-called "dysfunctional" systems -- that exist in the world today...

That any given system is "dysfunctional" and needs "change" -- will 99% of the time be found to be in the "eye of the beholder".

If anyone wants to change any "dysfunctional" system in the world, the two primary, most fundamental steps (and there are many more!) to doing so are:

1) Realize that most "dysfunctional" systems -- are actually highly functional -- but only to a select group of people that preserve and protect and promote those systems...

2) Live life (and/or learn to see things) from that group's perspective... Would you be so inclined to change things if you received benefits from that system? If not, then what does this say about human nature? Would you honestly be inclined to change a system that currently benefits you, if other people, other people you don't know, are incovenienced by it? You might say you would, but can you really know this without walking a mile in someone else's shoes?

There is, of course, a whole lot more to this... that's the tip of the proverbial iceberg...

(Note to Future Self: Write a longer essay about this... there's a whole lot more to this simple but profound understanding...)
Express your own cellular automata without writing 100s of lines of boiler plate.

The famous conway game of life can be expressed as:

```
{
"InitialCondition": "1 0.2",
"0": [
"CountAdjacent eq 1 3 1"
],
"1": [
"CountAdjacent lt 1 2 0",
"CountAdjacent gt 1 3 0"
]
}
```

Entirely browser based.
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