skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you loose access to your email, you may just be out of luck. a good service will not allow you to change your registered email address without verifying that you own the old one
It sounds like it may have just been the billing system that was hacked, not the infrastructure.

I've seen similar patterns and so I was surprised by this.
Is it just me or the angle being played here is a bit weird?

I want to like the article, but the anti-semitism argument is an old refrain and not particularly on topic.

It's possible I'm reading too much into it, though, especially due to recent events. I don't mean to be inflammatory.

Speaking of which, the title really needs to say (2014).
I'm a lot less educated on the subject and my views are diametrically opposed to yours. Commentary like yours is mostly what has kept me hanging around HN all these years.

I'm surprised that a researcher wouldn't be enthusiastic about being able to do science directly on the planet's surface. Sure, an extended human presence there will require a lot of supporting infrastructure, and sure, that will all have a direct effect on whatever might already be there -- or might not be, and in either case, changing that environment might not be desirable.

But even at the current faster speed of remote exploration of the planet, you can expect, what, like 3 more robotic missions to Mars before you retire? And each one will be an iterative improvement over the last.

There must be so many questions you have about the planet that just won't be answered in your lifetime unless we go there and have a look around. What's your position on that?
Including after vaccination? If no, why is that different than infection?
Rich people always get the best stuff. I could maybe use a few images before spending 14 million, but I like the presentation style.
Are people's medical records private?
As someone who had the distinct pleasure of some long bus rides in college:

I would rather staple myself to the bottom of a semi than ride a bus between 2 cities. I’d rather hitchhike, end up temporarily imprisoned in a grain silo, and fight free using my wits and a corn cob than ride a bus again. If my choice was a bus or simply never traveling again: well welcome to my cloister.

https://www.news-gazette.com/news/suburban-express-shuts-dow...
> You think this is a political conflict? It's religious, always has been

People aren't that much religious in Palestine, at least not the younger generations. Things change, generations come and go.

But I can understand if you think people are, because of so much silly things to read on Facebook etc.

However a 2-3 hours bus trip to get to the University (can be in total 4-5 h in the bus, per day), when normally it'd been 20? minutes by train (on a railroad that hasn't yet been built), doesn't make Israel and the checkpoints popular.
America has a really outsized impact on western culture and has previously leveraged that (through DoD partnerships and public funding) to reinforce its view of what western culture should be like. I think it's reasonable for a country that could easily be eclipsed by the culture of their southern neighbors to make some effort to fund the preservation of things that differentiate it. The Canadian government tends to be pretty bullish on supporting cultural festivals (hence JFL Montreal being a world-wide event) and supporting independent creators through CanCon laws is just another limb of that strategy.
That's pretty harsh, and makes an ungrounded assumption that turns out to be not just uncharitable, but false.

The OP commented in a different thread around the same time as your rant:

> "I should probably say that my primary reason for signing up to a stem cell donor registry is to actually be a donor! This data is generated as a byproduct of signing up and is also quite interesting on a personal level.

I was thinking that framing it in a way to also find out interesting things about yourself might be a good way to encourage people who might not have thought about it to sign up for the first time, and this would be far more cost-effective than a traditional in-person donor recruitment drive, but let me know what you think!"
I guess Facebook won't ever be able to recover from it's image, not until Zuck resigns or they really start loosing money. Before that - they just gonna come up with worse and worse ways to gather data.

Also, who cares about public WiFi these days? Even when travelling it become such a tiny cost it's basically penny pinching (or malicious use). Also - in my experience it tends to be something like 5-10x slower than 4G.
I spent most of my career on Neoxam and Filenet. I'm in AWS now, but the work is shit.
> because I pay attention to what my kids consume

and I'm sure you can pay attention to make sure they don't sideload apps. Much like how you currently need to pay attention to make sure they don't sideload videos.

I don't see the problem here on what makes this a "safety issue" if you claim to already be monitoring your kids. Even if IOS allowed adult content, this is already covered with the 18+ toggle. Because sex isn't the only thing not appropriate for kids, as you can imagine.

If you don't trust that toggle: well, you probably already have issues with monitoring your kid's content.
It couldn't because of the nature of this technology.

Their post processing can only start after the full image has been rendered, so whatever photorealism filter they apply will necessarily delay the image until the process is finished.
(Caveats for this post: First, my experience is largely in rapidly growing startups, so take with a grain of salt if you are not in a high-growth environment. Second, I'm going to be using you as an example, but this post isn't really necessarily for you, it's for anyone else who happens to read it and can maybe take something away from this.)

I've been managing engineers for the last 6 years, and I just want to put it out there that this is a perfectly acceptable thing to say as far as I'm concerned. It's refreshing to have someone who knows exactly what they want out of things. If you want to stay at a company for 4-6 years and then move on to another one and do the same thing, this is a great strategy.

But from a managerial perspective, there are reasons why people don't want to hire people like this. The most obvious one is money. (Note: I'm going to use nice round (and unrealistic) numbers to illustrate the point. It's not the specifics that matter, but the overall pattern.)

Let's say you make 100K, and your company has a generous 10% merit increase each year. Let's also postulate that you can do 1000 scrum points worth of work per year with your current set of responsibilities. As far as a compensation efficiency ratio goes, you're basically making $100 per point worth of work. In Year 2, you get a 10% raise, so now you're at 110K. Based on your statement of "I am happy where I am", that suggests that you aren't interested in additional responsibility (I.e., promotions or management). Due to that, your output is still somewhere around 1000 points. Now you're making $110 per point of efficiency. In effect, it's costing the company 10% more for you to do the same work! Year 3, you're at 110K + 10% = 121K. Year 4 at 133K. Now the company is spending 33% more for the same amount of work.

Rough numbers, take with a huge grain of salt. But the point remains: generally speaking, management wants engineers that are ambitious and willing to take on more responsibility and grow. From the business perspective, this means that you're getting more done with fewer resources. (After all, it's cheaper to pay you 10-20% more than to hire a second engineer.)

All of that said, if you are happy doing what you're doing and earning the compensation that you earn and getting the benefits that you get, then I, as a manager, think that's fantastic. But the "business" will most likely eventually decide that's not enough. I personally manage three engineers whose answer to "Where do you see your career in 5 years?" is "Doing exactly what I'm doing now, 9-5. I enjoy coding, but my true passions are elsewhere." All three are great engineers, and I would hire them again if I move to a new company.

Just my two cents. I'm glad you're happy and I hope you continue to be happy in your role. To me, that's the most important bit about your job! Keep it up.
The Gatekeepers Who Get to Decide What Food Is “Disgusting”
What????
Why would France not want paternity tests? Did they just watch 'Maury' to much and descide to nope out on this or something?

Because it, naively perhaps, seems to me like paternity test are a good thing on a societal level. Makes it easy to hold deadbeat fathers accountable. Proof of paternity can be used to for single mothers to demand child support. and in cases divorce due to infidelity can be prevent men from having to pay for other mens children.
1. I think the author knows that “never” is an exaggeration, having cited cases to the contrary.

2. I think the intended audience is more likely to experience this as a limiting factor than the people who experience the contrary.

3. Yes, rapidly growing startups notoriously throw all kinds of titles and promotions around. They also notoriously do so extremely unevenly... because they don’t do so methodically. This is part of the point I think that part of the article is making.
From my experience. They will hire you but they won't pay your invoice until net-270
I know this sounds very Reddit-like, but

> created: October 15, 2012

nice :D
Six Common Ways People Justify Unethical Behavior
> The “toxic” part of the soil, perchlorates, are easy to process and remove.

On a planetary scale? How?
This was the error yeah.
Isn't remote a disadvantage in that case as the pool is larger?

If I'm the employer I don't need to hire everyone.

I just need to hire a small subset of people, relative to the overall population in the pool who meets the qualifications of the job, who are also willing to work for X.

The bigger the pool the bigger the competition and the easier it is to find the matching subset, no?
Not necessarily. You just depend on their generosity.
Well, a lot of what you describe as meta (e.g. "this page is unreadable") is explicitly against the site guidelines, and much of the rest is more-or-less implicitly against the guidelines (ie, HN is for discussions which gratify intellectual curiosity).

The right thing to do is to downvote it. If you can't downvote comments yet, well, they'll usually get downvoted by others soon enough. IMO, the nice thing about HN is that for all that it's imperfect, compared to most of the internet the community moderation (and official moderation) works very well!

There are also comments that are perhaps not exactly related to the story, but are adjacent enough to be on-topic or arise naturally from conversation. It's natural for conversations to move between topics, and many of these discussions are super interesting!
Re. this group doing its research: one of my past employers got hit by a patent troll C&D demand, threatening to sue. It was clearly bogus but also clearly enough of a hassle that the company didn’t want to pick the fight if one could be avoided. Our clients were actually throwing their support behind us fighting it, offering their legal resources. But at the end of the day what the higher ups told us is that this patent troll was “very professional. They did their research on us and know exactly how much we can afford or pay them without going out of business.” So we ended up paying and I guess it all worked out ok from there.
I don't think most people think of that as negative. I believe most people would read that Wikipedia article, and think "great, law enforcement sometimes gets hamstrung in how it can collect evidence, and this lets them get the bad guys even when the legal process makes it difficult".

The bit that you seem to have missed in the parent post is that most people will not consider something bad unless that bad thing has directly negatively impacted them. Some people will go further and make excuses for the bad thing, even when it has negatively impacted them: "yeah, it's really bad that I got falsely accused because of this bad thing, but I think it's still a useful tool, and law enforcement just needs to be more careful using it so they only snare the real bad guys".

Most people seem to have no opinion on mass surveillance, or a positive one. They've done nothing bad, so they have nothing to hide, right? And even when someone gets caught up in it by mistake, the error rate is low enough such that we'll never get mass denouncements from regular people.
I vowed never to watch CNN again after exclaiming how excited they were to be going back to Iraq for the 2nd war.
Tails: A fast, minimal Forth-like interpreter core in C++ with no assembly
Wow! I'm a lemonade customer and the fact that leadership twice mentions that leaking customer data is by design, is mind-boggling to me. What product owner would suggest such a feature!?

Any recommendations for a replacement?
If you have strong convictions about not having children, why would you be offended by an email which targets a large audience which in general the majority would.

Being offended here is a personal choice, it's a message about children traveling safely on trains. Yes, you may not fall into that group but that doesn't mean you're a victim unless you want to act like one.
I'd agree. But I would be surprised to see that level of action. At least for the next while. Considering the payment time on an invoice is averaging 270 days now. I would be surprised if they moved on this.
> Just look up what happens when you drop a 10ton tungsten rod from outer-space. Thanks to gravity, when it hits the ground it has the same impact of a small nuclear device.

Is that actually true? I mean, you could hoist two and a half of those tungsten rods into LEO with a single Falcon 9 expendable launch, and if we're just looking at kinetic energy, you can't get more out than you put in. So, the tungsten rod's re-entry wouldn't create any more energy than it took to lift it into orbit in the first place (assuming tungsten doesn't do anything weird like combust), and there'd be a lot of energy lost in the process. I wouldn't consider a Falcon 9 launch to be "equivalent to a small nuclear device" in terms of energy.

Another way to look at is is that a 10,000 kg mass at a height of 1,000 km above a planet with gravity of 9.8 m/s^2, is 10,000 * 9.8 * 1,000,000 = 9.8 * 10^10 joules. 1 kilowatt hour is 3.6 megajoules, so that comes out to 27,222 kilowatt hours of energy. A kiloton is (according to a google search) equal to 1,162,200 kilowatt hours, so that comes out to about 0.023 kiloton TNT equivalent. With some of that energy lost as atmospheric heating.

That isn't to say that dropping tungsten rods from orbit isn't a serious threat, or that you couldn't impart a lot more energy by flinging them at the Earth with much greater velocity. I just don't think the comparison to nukes is quite right.
Off topic, but I'm curious: What do you want to build and why can't you start building it now?
Er, no. OP, in another thread:

"I should probably say that my primary reason for signing up to a stem cell donor registry is to actually be a donor! This data is generated as a byproduct of signing up and is also quite interesting on a personal level.
I was thinking that framing it in a way to also find out interesting things about yourself might be a good way to encourage people who might not have thought about it to sign up for the first time, and this would be far more cost-effective than a traditional in-person donor recruitment drive, but let me know what you think!
> I was a bit surprised that I didn't see something like "we're working with Facebook to delete any copies of the data Facebook may be storing".

The email they sent to affected users says this:

> Facebook is obligated to only process information based on our instructions and we have instructed them to not further process this data and to delete it.

I still think it's sketchy that they used the Google code at all, and I think they should have immediately deleted that from all their pages.
Back in the day we had to cut O's in half to make our own parenthesis.
I don't agree with this. Scientists are people too, and science is a human endeavor after all.

I really, really dislike when Hollywood portrays scientists and science as fundamentally blind and cold, and that what will really save you is The Power of Love. The good old "leave your cold facts and numbers and follow your heart" trope, which tends to triumph in movies because Hollywood thinks audiences are uninterested in science (which becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy).

In Interstellar this is manifested in that the "logical" choice of planet (i.e. the one we would have wanted this group of people to pick, were this a real situation) was wrong (because obviously a scientist lied), and the right choice was following your heart all along.

As for xenomorphs: I utterly love Alien and Aliens (a pity they never made any sequels, right?) but they aren't examples of realistic movies, and the characters often make movie-logic decisions, and that's fine: these are horror-scifi and action-scifi movies, respectively, and don't try to be anything else.

> I would really like a scientific paper that showed instances where intuition, common sense and "love" don't mislead you, and sometimes you don't have to follow the more methodical procedure and check your blindspots.

Those exist. Unlike with movies often ridiculing science and scientists, science doesn't downplay the usefulness of emotions and intuition.
I expected this issue to get more attention yesterday, people don't seem interested though. Their stock even went up a little bit yesterday. Strange.
I think Musk has much more staying power. His twitter account is the biggest and most relevant and closely followed of anyone alive now, even more so than Biden, and more so than it has ever been.

If you think he is a big deal now, wait until Tesla stock gets above $1,000, or if bitcoin goes to $100k , or if there is another crisis/pandemic, or a mars or moon space-x mission, etc.. He is only limited by the fact he cannot run for president.

I wish there were a way to bet on this.
Uh, for most of these "obscure tokens" you can't get that kind of leverage. SHIB or SAFEMOON or w/e was worth billions before it was ever even listed on Binance.
Jobs are less cookie cutter than your post implies though, especially at the higher levels.

Personal example - my last job (hedge fund) really wanted me. It took them forever to find someone of my profile - a mix of background, technical skills, domain knowledge, and personality so they wanted to have me. The way they set my salary was like this: they looked at what I was making and added enough on top that I couldn't refuse.

The first and last conversation we had about money was at the end of the interview process when they made me a really good offer. I didn't bother negotiating.

If I asked them during the 1st call what the salary was, they wouldn't be able to say because the salary was based on how much they wanted me and my circumstances. You can think that's inequitable and that's valid, but from a persona standpoint I'd be a fool if I had ended the conversation at that time.
I'm not sure I'd accept the family's statement at face value. In fact that's the statement I'd expect out of them completely orthogonally to it's veracity.

Additionally I don't find the subsequent argument compelling. 'Sure Nixon hated hippies and blacks, but it wasn't an effective policy until workshopped by subsequent presidents, so targetting those groups couldn't have been the point" doesn't really hold a lot of weight for me.

On top of all of that, corroborating quotes seem to keep being removed from that wikipage, with an edit note that doesn't match the edit, pointing to brigading.
Caution wake turbulence, paper airplane on a 3 foot final.

Super cool video!
Your point 1 seems wrong. SHA-512 is constant time for any reasonable password length and any reasonable implementation. It hashes 1024-bit blocks in constant time, as it only uses 64-bit word operations such as add, shift, xor etc in a fixed order with fixed constants. There are no input data-dependent lookups, or other variable-time operations.

If you are considering the string copy that happens when the unhashed password is copied into the block to be variable time, probably you shouldn't count that against SHA-512 because there will be variable-length string operations before bcrypt starts its hashing too. Not to mention parsing it out of HTTP parameters or reading it from a GUI control. (If you really care about timing observations, perhaps you'd pre-hash the password on the client so what is transmitted is fixed-length).

Point 2 is of course a real problem. Though to be honest I've always regarded the NUL check and (sometimes, implementation-dependent) maximum length as unnecessary, arbitrary flaws in bcrypt - so bcrypt gets the blame. On grounds of purity and doing the right thing, I refuse to use raw bcrypt, and in fact I use: SHA-512 -> Base64 -> bcrypt when password hashing.

Does that make me wrong? Only if Dropbox is wrong (I hope they just forgot to mention Base64 in their old security article.)
And in reverse - can GCP users utilise Starlink's low latency connectivity?
That list didn’t have “don’t be a dick”, so not sure what you’re talking about. You can be collaborative and still ensure your own work gets its due credit. The way i interpret “if it’s a collaboration don’t do more than 50%” as making sure that any collaborative project where you’re sharing credit equally, ensure that the work is originally planned itself equally as well.

If you are not a team player who helps each other out and still manages to get promoted then that’s a problem to be in such an org.
>Disney and Marvel for instance made billions of dollars of profits year after year for almost a decade.

For a US company.

Canada has long had laws making sure content in Canadian isn't drown out by external cultures and to keep some business at home. It's not exactly a complicated motivation, nor is "just out-compete the entire planet" a reasonable suggestion for that goal.
I thought this was known for a while?

But speaking of, does the website know if you do have MetaMask installed right away (without prompting you for anything)? Because that would be a real concern if it did.
Yeah, I don't buy this either. China builds thousands of kilometers of new high speed rail every year.
> we can also change humans to be more adapted to Mars

Good luck changing a mammal to something that can breathe something near to vacuum, and live without eating anything.
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There were no system specific functions in 01960 because there was only one system, which is to say, one implementation of LISP. EVAL was dynamically scoped. And good luck getting any FEXPR-based code from 01960 to run!
I fear that arguments like this lead to people devaluing what freedoms they have, since hey, we're already in a military dictatorship, so there's nothing left to lose.

I understand why you're saying this, but I think it's profoundly dismissive of those who have fought for what we have.
Not to get too meta, but this guideline has repeatedly led to me significantly misunderstanding the nature of a post, and either opening things that seemed interesting but weren’t, or skipping things that seemed uninteresting but quite caught my attention elsewhere with the title intact. It’s also worth noting that in practice these title croppings quite often run counter to one of the examples, cropping off a leading “How” which can significantly change the meaning of a title.
Well good. The Russian Witch Hunt was an illegal spying against an American president, who is also an American citizen. While it's not the best look I guess, at some point, I guess the president himself will need to be affected by this shit before they finally get rid of it.
Old trick and demo doesn't work :)