skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook is likely handing all that biometric data over to the US Government, but at least American's have some say in what the US government does.

We don't have to speculate that TikTok is handing all data over to the CCP, it's a certainty.

American's have zero say in how the CCP conducts itself, even Chinese citizens have effectively zero say in how the CCP conducts itself. So there is a perfectly logical reason why people would be more concerned about the CCP having the data instead of the US Government.
They are fundamentally the same in a lot of important ways. Any fuzz test is almost certainly (if not entirely certainly) a property test.

In Rust the driver for property and fuzz testing can be shared, which is nice[0].

https://docs.rs/arbitrary/1.0.1/arbitrary/trait.Arbitrary.ht...

By describing my data with arbitrary I've written programs that had traditional property testing and fuzz-testing as well, without any additional effort.

It's only really post-AFL where fuzzing has suddenly become synonymous with instrumentation guided data generation, which is a totally fine distinction to make, but they're still fundamentally equivalent. The first fuzzers were virtually identical to prop test frameworks today.

I'd be fine with dropping the "fuzzing" name entirely and instead just having us use the term property testing, with "data generation" being the thing we start differentiating ie: "random prop testing" or "instrumentation guided prop testing" or "type based prop testing" etc.
facebook has a profile for you even if you don't have a facebook account
I don't use Facebook, but his Instagram definitely showed a blank "this user has been suspended" page before.
But progress was made in months on eg SARS1 and MERS, identifying intermediary species, etc.

What do we have for COVID19? Nothing at all. After more than a year of surely much more intense search.
Mendeley seems to do that but some papers are very tedious to find the information for, especially those that are older or in small conferences, thanks!
Facebook is a public company and can do whatever it feels right to do as long as its legal. The concentration of power here is worrying. The bias in their corrective action should worry us more, as should the possible extension of these type of actions to other groups.

EU leaders expressed concern over these policies because even they could see that this problematic intervention into the politics of a country is a line that need not be crossed. This extended ban isn't just FB, since other tech platform will likely fall in line.

It will be interesting to see if this will increase Trump's popularity when he does return to social platforms since his fanbase has been starved of his attention.

EDIT - since I'm being downvoted. The bias being referred to isn't strictly left/right leanings in America since FB is a global platform.
Yup. I’ve been wrong for years.
"Burn it all down" as a solution — inevitably applied to cultures, systems or industries viewed from the outside — is also a plague of laziness.
Are you sure it's random bytes? Some fuzzers start with a given input and then mutate it to increase coverage of the code under test.
When are we just going to admit that "flat design," while looking great in UX designer portfolio screenshots, is really a usability/accessibility nightmare?
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Turning on Google phone screen (if you're on Android) has been helpful for me. It doesn't block everything, but a decent number of spam calls get picked up by the Google bot and then hang up.
In the UK - Yes currently, though that may well diverge as it was incorporated into UK Data Protection laws.

Better explained here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/dp-at-the-end-of-the-tr...
I love simple-looking software that has nifty features hidden away behind the scenes where you’d never expect it.

I pointed a non-tech recruiter of ours to HN the other day and she said “that’s a weird looking site”. Yes, yes it is and I like it.
I'm not sure what political value there would be in something like a pardon or such.
It's indirect. Employers use one of many firms that do background checks, and those firms pay for access to the data.
cloud-init is in my list of "terrible technologies that make the world worse". Poorly documented, buggy, and integrated into a critical step in the boot process.
Games also use this because it's a straightforward way to almost guarantee a physical ordering of the files in the VFS, which is/was a common optimization strategy in the days of CDs and hard drives (profile what order the game needs files, then put them in the archive in exactly that order = tada, loading 4000 files behaves like a sequential read).

Another reason is that certain operating systems originating in the state of Washington have performance problems when you access small files or directories containing many files.
Future is powershell
from a previous article I read on this, the executives were based in the US. I don't have a link
If enough people end their own interaction with it it ceases to exist, right?

If nobody gave their data to services that sell it on or use it for profit then there is no data economy.
Warning: it's paid and requires sign-up with github/google even for a test.
Could the entire core of a planet get cold enough to superconduct... and if so could it interact in odd ways with the parent star's magnetic field?
Anyone engaged in the collection and sale of data should be required to maintain a list of their customers. Upon the sale of data, the customer should be required to provide their list to the broker. At the point of collection/consent, the list should be made available to the consumer.

For example:
You want to vote in an online poll by company A. Company A collects data about you and sells it, so you must agree to their privacy policy. Company A's privacy policy discloses that they sell your data to Companies B, C and D. Companies B, C and D have provided a list of its customers to Company A, and Company A includes those lists as well. In addition, the customers of those companies provide lists (as all data brokers would be required to do).

If its seems like it could get overly complicated with huge lists of data brokers for a simple online poll, that's the idea. You shouldn't have to wonder how many entities you're giving access to your information when, for example, you want to vote for MLB All-stars. MLB wants your name, address, email, phone number, and they disclose they'll "share it with partners" but they don't say who those partners are, how many exist, and if they have their own "partners". Vote for your favorite player and you could be getting a phone call for life insurance 15 minutes later after your number has been passed through 5 different companies.
Investigative tactics are pretty brutal. They talk with you so that you incriminate yourself but are very affirmative during most of the conversation but then start confronting you.

The mental fatigue makes a lot of people just admit the crime they committed.
> Working class shoppers. Sure, it’s elitist, but people like shopping alongside people in their own stratum.

Not going to comment on the ethics/politics of it, but if people like shopping alongside people in their own stratum, then they have to accept that they have to pay a premium for it (i.e. shop at Whole Foods). You can't really say "I want to shop at the discount store but I also want only other wealthy people to be there".

If you accept that premise, then perhaps Walmart doesn't have an image problem, it's simply the fact that it's the cheapest place to shop in the neighborhood, so lower income folks will more likely shop there.
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Unfortunately those three of this kind of people didn't manage to find fourth for a game of bridge.
Amazon thinks otherwise. This is their Earn Trust Leadership Principal:

"Leaders listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully. They are vocally self-critical, even when doing so is awkward or embarrassing. Leaders do not believe their or their team’s body odor smells of perfume. They benchmark themselves and their teams against the best." [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles
it's funny - in the banking world, at least with bonds, 'M' is 1000 and 'MM' is 1 million

then you have fox news who uses "G" for 1000, as in 1 grand.
> As a senior developer one of the most important things you can do, once you have credibility, is to say out loud when you don't understand something.

Yeah. Sometimes when I say I don't know or don't understand, I'm talking for others, not just for myself. But I have the standing or the self-confidence (or both) to admit that I don't know something without feeling bad about myself.
Am I misreading something here?

> Namely, you can’t write a query whose result updates every time the underlying data change

Yeah, you can. With triggers. Or just a plain old view.
I wonder which other world leaders and government entities will be suspended from Facebook, with the same reasoning.

For example, maybe Israel's leadership should be banned for their frequent propaganda there on why it's actually really great to kill Palestinian civilians because they're all secretly Hamas operatives, somehow.

Though, I expect Facebook singled Trump out as a special case. As awful as he was, there are world leaders out there saying and doing far worse. Perhaps it only counts if it's the USA?
I get the image, but I have to scroll some, and click on "Show more" even though there is only one row of results at a time...
we should end this category of journalism.
I don't know about Instagram, I don't really use it, but the FB page was definitely locked, not removed.
There's no censorship here. A large account broke their contract with a service provider, who is now choosing to suspend (not terminate) their account in response. Seems like a perfectly free and legal exchange to me.
"Some 5.8 million euros in shares and cash went to CEO Glenn Fogel, and 2.8 million euros went to Peter Millones, the vice president. Nearly 20 million euros, mostly in shares, went to CFO David Goulden, according to company documents reviewed by NRC"

All 3 are Americans.

https://nltimes.nl/2021/05/28/bookingcom-gives-eu28m-bonuses...
> From all over the world renowned scientists, doctors, politicians, lawyers, noble price winners, and many more, are being totally silenced and criminalized.

This sentence literally tells me nothing. Which specific people are being "criminalized" and by whom?
There are actually consequences to what you choose to do with/to the land. Its not just about personal preference.
It might be a cliche but there's a reason people say "Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity". If you're turning over 30k without profit you're basically running a charity not a business.
It exists at every one of the small sized tech businesses I am familiar with. Some of these situations blow up at the larger well known tech business, but the small ones don't want the fight, agree to the DEI committee, put up the occasional BLM/trans/etc social media support messages, and generally avoid the conflict. The employees of these companies pushing the changes feel their employers are bigoted for not pushing harder for change, but the minimum attempts to placate them are enough to keep the peace. However, these people talk to eachother, occasionally make the scary slack general chat message about doing better, and make a really eggshell feeling work environment.
That is not what that comment is saying. It discusses effects, it does not ascribe motivation.
I was responding to a comment that was referring to racism against white men. I was not responding to a comment about the Google diversity officer’s language.
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Very good point. This is similar to stiff you do in business school, where you sure can talk about why BetaMax, but you can't experience it. Similarly you can be told that it's a good idea to think about your abstractions when coding, but if you don't get enough time to build a ball of spaghetti, you might not get it straight away.

I think a lot of uni stuff is like this actually.
You jumped from wealth to race. Who is the racist here?
Most vendors license based on students served, not public that pays taxes. If a university is licensing content based on the number of students or faculty at the university, it's likely that they are not allowed to offer it to tax payers. I understand your point is that you are paying, but that will not mean you can walk into a university and demand access. They would need to renegotiate with the vendor.
There are a lot of grave injustices in this world and this was probably not even remotely close to the worst but I am still really bitter about what happened to Aaron after all these years. I remember how upset I was to hear of his suicide and the things that lead up to them. Maybe it was because he was one of "us" or maybe because his works have improved the lives of so many of us. People like him who make that kind of impact usually ends up becoming rich, etc. Instead he was persecuted until he committed suicide for wanting to make knowledge more accessible. The new SCOTUS ruling helps but I'm still quite sad over what happened.
That's an inaccurate and incendiary paraphrase. It would be just as accurate to say "the truth" should not be sought only to hurt people's feelings, and I think that applies to more people than your formulation, but neither is really the point. The fact is that we're never going to get a definitive answer. If it was a lab leak, there have been too many opportunities to destroy the evidence necessary for a firm conclusion. If it wasn't, then no such evidence ever existed. The most conclusive evidence we could find for any theory is an intermediate host, but even that would show it could have happened that way and not that it did.

Pursuing the lab-leak theory more aggressively will not improve the state of scientific knowledge. It might improve the state of scientific practice (e.g. lab safety protocol or advisability of gain-of-function research), but given how much the spotlight has already been on these issues regardless of virus origin I'm skeptical of that too. The only thing driving this is politics, either classic geopolitics or the politics that exist between pathological contrarians and any kind of established experts. It's the latter we're seeing here, day after day after day, and TBH it's a very ugly thing.
I have the same, but every so often I write something that covers a different niche and I have to import a bunch of papers (and make sure that the others haven't changed). I haven't tried bibtool though, I just have a massive bibtex with everything
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This is such a bad take. It's embarrassing to (still) see this on HN after all these years.

It has any of several face-palmingly obvious flaws:

* Extremely aggressive federal prosecution is not known for its mental health benefits;

* It desperately tries to avoid a conversation about how unjust the prosecution was and what their motives were in the case by loading all of the fault for the tragic outcome at Aaron's feet now that he's not around to defend himself;

* It is indistinguishable from arguments that people with severe health problems who become ill with covid-19, and die, didn't die of covid-19 but of their health problems;

* It is ignorant of modern understandings or sensitivities towards mental health;

* It argues from the least nuanced and informed view of his situation possible -- it's a knee-jerk reaction from people with a particular moral framework.

It's such a seriously dull-witted argument, it should be confined to screenshots of Facebook.
>Taxes are practically irrelevant in the US. The gov just goes to the Fed and and increases it's balance.

Even under MMT you need some sort of taxes to take back money, otherwise the money you print turns into inflation.
> Caches are a good thing that can significantly reduce your hosting costs.

Sometimes. Sometimes they are a bad thing because your hosting costs are nil and the customers gets more benefit than expected from the one call without paying for it.

Years ago there was a company that decided to save on costs by buying just one subscription to some trade magazine and share it between the 7 people who needed it. Problem was the magazine was very niche and so the lost of 6 subscribers was 10% of the total subscriber base and the magazine couldn't afford to run at all anymore.

If your result can be cached and reused then you need to figure out if that caching fits into your plan.
Is that the case?

Have we seen mass prosecutions under the CFAA at the behest of corporate interests?

I don't think that's the case, tons of people are violating various policies all the time and they're not being prosecuted.

SCOTUS was right in narrowing the focus, but I'm not sure the CCFA really was some corporate conspiracy, if it was ... they didn't make much use of it outside of some terrible, but still isolated incidents.

Even things like the abuse of arbitration agreements I think more likely stem from creative lawyers using existing laws to their advantage, not as much direct legislating as is often claimed.
Do you remember the image hosting site? If so, you could narrow down your search in Algolia to an approximate time frame, looking only for comments with a link to that site.
Yeah, I don't have a facebook account either, yet I'm concerned about censorship on facebook, because facebook has enough users in my country to swing any election.
I just confirmed it's automated by testing it https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=omni
I want someone, *anyone*, to knock Amazon down. So here’s some free advice to Walmart.

Consider Walmart’s weaknesses and how other companies address them.

- manually stocked shelves

Consider Costco’s model of placing pallets of product on the floor. Most Walmart’s have the vertical space to go up. Obviously redesigning their store experience is expensive and difficult with a stagnating industry and a lot of staff that don’t like tech or change. But these are not hard problems. For large items like boxes of soda and cereal, this is simple, just add some flimsy cardboard shelves holding the rows together. For beauty products and small items like that keep the system and layout the same to keep things simple, but start working with manufacturers on palletized displays that satisfy their in store image requirements.

- poor buy online pickup at store experience, both online and in store.

Make it easier to shop a particular local Walmart for pickup and only the stock in that store. The same goes for shopping online for shipping and only those products sold by Walmart. Having three different experiences is good for consumers, but make it easier for the customer to specify which one they want.

- the notorious Walmart experience, and the notorious people of Walmart

This is a tough one that I don’t have a good answer for besides look to target and Trader Joe’s for inspiration while hiring sociologists and the advertising company behind fidget spinners.

- online purchase, in store pickup experience

In years past it made sense to force customers to walk through the entire store to do some annoying task. These days? I pay more, sometimes a lot, to not have to enter a store, or speak to underpaid and overworked staff there. Punch some new doors on the side of the the building, put in a few reefer fridges, some more shelves, and have the in house developers crank out a contactless pickup web app. Include

- innovate

For things I buy all the time, I’m not time sensitive. Hook customers on something addictively convenient like weekly grocery delivery of their staples with Walmart’s plus subscription. Stuff like milk, eggs, bread, cheese, deli meat, etc. also, if I know I’m having a big party in two weeks and don’t want to deal with the groceries I’d love a reliable way to 60 fresh avocados, 10 cases of beer, 20 bags of chips, and 30 pounds of meat without going to multiple stores. Right now the only way I can do this is by ringing the manager of the store and placing a special order. It shouldn’t even be that hard to logistically handle the ebbs and flow of demand. Problem is can someone build such a system profitably? If Walmart can’t, I doubt anyone could.
Descended from royalty people generally are not wealthy.
Yeah, that's definitely the main issue. A winner of a competition used lasers to heat the solar cells on a robot causing it to climb a ribbon. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18122-space-elevator-...

But as you astutely mention, how do we construct such a ribbon? ... Great question.
When I saw the headline I had to check to make sure this wasn't the USCD p-system coming back.
Oh, well looks like I'll need to delve into editing the browser's .css now to adjust it to my liking.
People are not immutable. It would set a bad precedent to make the ban permanent, versus revisiting and re-evaluating the decision in the future.

This person likely won’t change, but the process should still be reasonable depending on it’s expected lifecycle and the variety of folks who are going to be evaluated by it.
> re-assess if further ban is necessary.

What will be the new factors in 2 years that aren't present now.

Current ban is based on "violated Facebook’s Community Standards and Instagram’s Community Guidelines"

I don't see what they can possibly re-assess if he isn't on their platform in the first place.

They will monitor his behavior outside of their platform and deem him worthy or not?
Useful in these days when everybody are doing podcasts or vids.
to expand on just how small comparatively that number is... 100,000 seconds is a little over 1 day worth of seconds... 5 billion seconds is a little bit over 158 years of seconds.
I think it's a mistake to assume that 'offshoring' as understood for the last few decades and 'wfh' as currently understood are fundamentally the same thing.

I'm not sure what will happen, but it's quite plausible that the dynamic has changed.
>I don't understand why it took COVID to make companies realize that "hey, a large part of your clientele don't want to wander your aisles."

Because making shoppers wander the aisles leads them to buy more things than they intended to. There's a reason best-selling items are always placed at eye level.
"Company X got state aid and paid Y in bonuses" seems to be one of those cookie cutter news reports that pop up several times per day the past year. The titles seem to imply that state aid directly went to a few senior executives. Outrage, right?

But why not look past the knee jerk reaction?

1) In most cases I'm aware of, after digging deeper, you find out that the state aid is not for the company - it's for the employees. Running a business is no charity and if you have employees that are superfluous due to current market situation you lay them off unless the cost of retraining future employees is higher than paying operating expenses to have employees around that are not working as much as they used to. State aid can affect the decision by offloading expenses to the state, for employment safety.

2) Bonus payouts may be for last year performance and not related to either covid or the state aid at all. Just because you have two large numbers within the same order of magnitude doesn't mean they are related. Bonuses may have been paid of regardless of state aid.
Does anybody know if targeted ads based on tracking even work? Are they worth all the extra cost and complexity compared to traditional ads? It doesn’t seem like it. Half the time I see a super-targeted ad, it’s for a product I already purchased.

Also, what ever happened to showing ads to people who aren’t already interested in your product to expand your brand and maybe bring in new customers? The current ad model feels overfitted to me.