skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I originally read about it on HN, but don't recall where. I found this Bloomberg article about the issue:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...

(I originally didn't want to mention the name of the company since you always get very aggressive comments when you post about this company on HN)
Of course, people use their apps for all sorts of important things, and it would be disruptive to accidentally delete their accounts from many of them. This issue can be mitigated through confirmation dialogs and other measures.

So Apple’s new pro-consumer policy applies to everyone but Apple. Interesting, but not unexpected.
Doesn't change the fact they tried. More then most other companies usually do.
She just put out a great tweet tonight about meme stocks and their effect on the markets.
What are your requirements?

It seems like you don't need ACID transactions or joins.
Also, consumers may not understand backtraces but they generally understand how to Google them or ask other people what they mean, or tell you about them.

Technical errors are way better than just "I'm sorry we couldn't process that right now."
Can confirm from multiple sites, Gatsby with CSS modules runs like lightning
This is somewhat tongue in cheek, but refinancing a 30 year mortgage and taking out the equity every 5 - 10 years and putting it anywhere else sounds awfully reasonable when the loans are so cheap.

It feels *weird*.
In general, I'm quite sure that a broadly-defensible ML model or security rule generating a false positive is not going to support an anti-trust case.
I know you’re asking just to be contrarian, but here’s how:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208504
This is exactly why there are so many companies who still want to use open-source (or source available) so end users (companies) can modify but are moving toward non "open source" licenses.

2 decades back people built things for fun and learning. We wanted to have the freedoms and pass it on. Now anything that has any commercial value gets most attention from developers whose day job does not encourage tinkering. They use your code, ask for more and pay nothing.

This is not sustainable.
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If you download and open up the html file, it contains, what is essentially, a screenshot with explanations. (A very simple screenshot, but one you can extrapolate from.)
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Here is the system I am aware of:

https://youtu.be/1DXpPmpmcak?t=365 (watch this entire video for air defense against saturation attacks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV3jfR-FUFc
Neat idea! TBH, I had no idea windows had security features like SRP.
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Again, "normal" people are welcome to continue using the browsers they're currently using.
I think that occasionally, but then I talk to young people and realize people like stuff like restaurants, entertainment, travel, etc. Sure, some people are coming out of the pandemic realizing they're hermits(myself included), but even more people are coming out remembering how much they like malls, sporting events, nightlife, etc.

I have no doubt that a significant portion of city dwellers will flee to the country, and that a good portion of that might even stay, but the cities will keep on thriving. If nothing else, you can't beat the efficiency and wealth generating capacity of the cities in the long term. Want your kids and the country they live in to be able to compete on the world stage? You're going to be drawn to the cities, even if you only make it as far as a suburb.
yeah not a good rebuttal

>Successful companies induce enormous tax receipts for governments at all levels (corporate taxes, income taxes, property taxes, payroll taxes, headcount taxes, etc). If Bezos is paying less percentage-wise today because he's holding his Amazon stock, where said holding makes Amazon more valuable, that's a good net deal. The alternative world where he’s routinely trimming his shares and thus reducing his economic stake in Amazon's future isn’t really ideal for anyone.

I think my being allowed to pay 0-3% taxes and holdng on to more of the cash I earn would make the world better too and is a good deal. Try using the same logic as this author does with the IRS and see how far it gets you.
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You gave an example of monopoly, one of which is definitively not a monopoly.

This entirely new example you are giving is an example of partisan posturing, not evidence of a monopoly. Look at the political affiliation of every single person who signed the letter, and look how many days it was filed before the last federal election.

Again, being popular doesn't make something a monopoly, neither does being a popular target for Republicans.
That's interesting, are they relatively affordable? Farmland in the US is not cheap at all, at least everywhere I've looked at.
Formal methods could be used to prevent side channel attacks.
However preventing each type of attack requires specifying properties which needs to be proven to assure it is is not possible. I am not very famililiar with TLA+, but I think in general it is not guaranteed to provide side channel attacks, such as based on timing, CPU state, etc.
Yes, just to be clear, it’s a website.
smart targeting is clearly crucial, yes. but the objective of warfare is not to wreak (or wreck, heh) terrible destruction; it is to break the enemy's will to resist. by themselves, drones don't tell you who to target or where they are; they just gather surveillance data and deliver munitions, very precisely and in a way that is very difficult to stop. in combination with things like facebook data and cellphone subscriber data, that's an extremely powerful capability

keep in mind that what is happening today is not what will happen tomorrow or what can happen in five years

you are rejecting the possibility because of its unfamiliarity, much as the navy rejected the possibility of a surprise attack on pearl harbor
I used to have an automatic google search-domain blocker. It was just front-end though so if a page would have website domains that were useless, it would only have 1 or 2 results on it unfortunately. Something a little better integrated would be nicer.
Agreed. If you need general "self-serve" reporting that's basically a glorified pivot table aimed at business users, Metabase is top-notch.

If you're an analyst looking for more control and don't foresee business users "self-serving", a tool like Superset has more breadth and allows for greater customization and "wow" factor.

I much prefer Metabase, and so have my non-technical business users that use it daily to pull data. If you design your reports well, a huge amount of value can be extracted with simple filter/group/aggregate pivot table mechanics.
Relevant text under 5.1.1 (v):

> (v) Account Sign-In: If your app doesn’t include significant account-based features, let people use it without a login. If your app supports account creation, you must also offer account deletion within the app. Apps may not require users to enter personal information to function, except when directly relevant to the core functionality of the app or required by law. If your core app functionality is not related to a specific social network (e.g. Facebook, WeChat, Weibo, Twitter, etc.), you must provide access without a login or via another mechanism. Pulling basic profile information, sharing to the social network, or inviting friends to use the app are not considered core app functionality. The app must also include a mechanism to revoke social network credentials and disable data access between the app and social network from within the app. An app may not store credentials or tokens to social networks off of the device and may only use such credentials or tokens to directly connect to the social network from the app itself while the app is in use.
Zero Trust is not really applicable here. ZT is about not implicitly allowing someone elevated access just because they have access to network and requiring explicit grant based on the identity and other rules.

Fastly's downtime seems to be caused by an automatically generated config that got deployed in production as a result of change requested by a legitimate customer.

This happened to CF in its early days and I really doubt that ZT had anything to do with the fact that they do not have this kind of problem anymore. It's probably some sanity checks before they deploy updated lua scripts to their fleet of nginx's if anything.
As an amateur chess player and a software developer that has made some chess side projects in the past, I thoroughly enjoyed this post. Thank you for writing this up.

I too have a friend that has way more chess ability than me, I’m trying to beat him the old fashioned way but I’ll also take a crack at it using this approach, for fun.
> However, it would most probably not be worth using such an approach because of the prohibitive computational cost.

Looking at the current state of the art (Transformer etc), computational cost certainly is not the main issue.
Zero trust has little to do with individual clients and more to do with the idea of the internal "corp" network not being trusted. That is, there isn't a conventional network you VPN into at which point all traffic is trusted.

The generic topic your looking for is probably something like "customer isolation" ("service isolation" might also be relevant, but is used also in the context of "tenant isolation" which isn't really what you want). See this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25237836 for some talk about how AWS does "cellularization" which is a form of workload/service isolation/partitioning.

In general I don't think there's much discussion of this issue on the wider web.
This is great on Apple’s part for enforcing this for every account based app, now if only HN offered account deletion…
Hi Kindiana! If you happen to see this, I sent a message on Keybase. Nothing important, just saying hello.

This is absolutely wonderful work, and I'm really happy to see you've released it. Congrats!!

It's also awesome that Eleuther is hosting an API for it. Nice work, Elecrew. No idea who did that part, but it's pretty cool. It's easy to underestimate how hard something like that can be.

Good luck with your future research projects. I'm certain your name will be popping up everywhere before long. :) (I'll be taking another stab at swarm training now that TPU SSH is finally released; thanks for brainstorming random ideas with me, it was lots of fun.)

EDIT: Oh, sorry for posting this without context. Kindiana’s the submitter, and also the person who wrote most of the code. (Getting Jax working on TPUs is no small feat, let alone writing and training a gpt implementation.) Been following this work a long time; excited to see it released.

Anyway, we used to hang out and talk about random ML ideas. It’s been awhile, so I was just saying hello.
What kind of proof could establish that something has been deleted?
She's great. I'm sad I only heard about her recently. Really level-headed analysis.
It would be interesting to have domain-free personal email addresses.

The domain is useful to signify membership in an organization. But for individuals, why should our addresses have hotmail or gmail or yahoo or anything else appended to it?
The point is that iCloud is not an app. The account you are referring to is a phone account, not app account. You are comparing apples to oranges.
Let's say the government spends $250b.

Even considering all the blatant tax evasion in the private sector... some of that money will be spent on payroll. And each one of those salaries pay income tax.

Then, each person will go and stuff with their salary, stuff that pays sales tax. And they will also be paying taxes in various ways.

So, tl;dr: some of those $250b will become tax revenue.

Let's hope those $250b won't become stock buybacks, executive bonuses and other forms of corporate welfare.
That’s just it though, drugs don’t make “every” thought return 0. Psychedelics often reveal the recursive or “loop-y” nature of our thought processes.
Respectfully disagree. Being an experienced Python dev, and a total JavaScript noob, I feel exactly the same with npm.

It's ultimately just a matter of experience I guess
It would be great for this to be reestablished as the norm for online services.

I think some might argue that being able to intercept a user at account deletion via support gives them the opportunity to either solve a misunderstanding in the product or better understand why the user is leaving but I think there are much better ways to accomplish this. I’m more convinced this is done as a dark pattern to add friction to the deletion process.

A notable example was having to contact support to delete a Starbucks account.
1. Two points: a) The capital flight argument is silly. The US has a global tax on tax residents already, alongside an onerous reporting scheme. b) So what? Again, I don’t understand your argument, which seems to be “this is just how it works—taxes on unrealized gains are rare.” Indeed they are rare, but isn’t that the entire point of the ProPublica piece?

2) No, it’s illustrating the consequences of current tax policy. I read (or misread?) your argument as “effective tax rates on total wealth is the wrong metric” (and you go on to suggest that looking at such a metric puts one as an ignorant). Why is this the wrong metric? Economists like Piketty and Milanovic—going back to Kuznets—have looked at returns on capital vs labor. Effective tax rates on capital are one such component. Why is it disingenuous to look at such a metric?

3) Really? I dunno. https://www.oyez.org/cases/1970/1873?
This will be interesting for companies who have a combined account for multiple applications.

How do you clearly explain to a user that if they delete their account on app X, apps Y and Z will also have all of their account data deleted?
A framework to find out whether a startup will thrive
Or just fly near the ground so that air defense will kill the target of the drone...
Ahh compete instead of cooperate. The single dumbest idea that is still perpetuated to this day.
I was curious if it knew anything about me (slim chances) and it does not seem to. It generated a thorough bio that has nothing to do with me. However it’s pretty funny. The prompt is in quotes and the output follows:

“Taylor Alexander is a robotics engineer and “

one of the founders of Transcend, a research lab. Alexander specializes in both manufacturing and consumer applications of robotics. He is also a former roboticist at Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied robotics and human-computer interaction. In that capacity, he worked on a research program funded by DARPA to design a mobile manipulator for soldiers.

The team tested the robotic arm in a variety of physical simulations for landing, handling, and carrying heavy loads like a military bomb. They tested the design on both operating systems—Linux and Windows.

“We built this to test the machine on the two dominant operating systems that we thought might be useful in the future,” says Alexander. “But it actually worked on everything. We saw the same kind of accuracy in the process on all of the different operating systems.”

The team decided to make the arm multi-platform after seeing the arm working so well on Linux and Windows. They were very impressed with the portability. The arm was light enough to pick up a relatively heavy base and, with just a slight rotation, it could hold the base up in the air. The weight didn’t matter to the arm at all.

Since the arm works on Linux, the
It’s insane how fast a barebones linux desktop system feels these days. Even an rPi 4 can be really snappy with the right desktop environment and window manager. It makes one realize how slow and inefficient all these modern web technologies have become in practice.

It’s been happening for decades, but while computers get orders of magnitude faster, software gets slower at a faster rate, consuming all of the gains and then some.

Edit: here’s an interesting example just looking at input latency: https://danluu.com/input-lag/ if you take the browser into account as part of the system as well, I’m sure it’s much, much worse.
It’s a centralised system disguised as a currency (Bitcoin) and designed to be a pyramid scheme.

Blockchain is just another buzzword that isn’t actually useful.
(Bosch employee for three years)

The Bosch family is not involved. I only notice them via public news essentially.

It is nice to know that a big part of our profits goes into a charitable foundation instead of faceless stock holders.

Not being a public company means nobody cares about quarterly results. There is rather a yearly rhythm. The downside is that Bosch cannot get big cash infusions quickly. In case of a pandemic, this is an additional risk. Worked out though.
or simply not allow them to login via iOS lol instead of deleting anything on the backend
> Not if the larger states want to benefit from the research without legalizing it themselves.

If the larger states wants to benefit from research without legalizing it...they’ll just do it covertly, without legalizing it. The reason to not want to legalize it is to prevent other people from exploiting it, which is definitely going to extend to anti-authoritsrian seasteaders and their other potential customers.

And if they did want to tolerate an external third-party for deniable benefit doing something the major state felt the need to keep illegal...well, historically (even when the minor partner has the resources of a traditional nation-state) that’s often a transitory relationship that ends poorly for the minor party. Ask Manuel Noriega—or Saddam Hussein—about it sometime.

> Guantanamo for research. Or Project Paperclip.

Yeah, Guatanamo-for-Anything and Operation Paperclip are the kinds of things states (even if they involve things the state wants to pretend to prohibit) really want to keep tight, direct control over.
>So maybe drone swarms will work even against current CIWS.

Sure, but current drone swarms wouldn't.
It did well. It did well. I think it did well. Because it did well, it will do well.
No they don’t, they “limit” the way people can use Android devices.
Discussion from 2 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21287736
ANOM Sting Operation (FBI Backdoor)
I think some of your points are valid.*

However, if people are to wear masks until covid is truly gone, you may be asking people to wear masks forever. I think once covid is less of a population risk than a bad flu, all mandates should be dropped.

You should also disregard anti-vaxers* from the stats. If they want to die, fine. So at this point we have anti-vaxers, kids under 12, and some very rare medical cases left in the US now. With community spread where it is (low and dropping), the flu is genuinely scarier for kids under 12, and likely to kill more.

There is no quantitative reason for any restrictions at this point.

* I'll note the first thing that should have been prioritized is un-banning vaccines.
*Anti vaxers in this context means anyone who at this point has had months to get a free vaccine and still hasn't, they have now earned the label.
Why the hell would you dodge at tree top height? That makes absolutely no sense. Just fly a few centimeters off the ground without dodging and no air defense is going to hit you in a civilian area.
Interesting. I haven't heard of anyone actually being asked for this.

Perhaps it's because they're so big now that they get a lot of fraudulent applications, so they reserve the right to check that people have really done what they say they've done. I.e., it's just to ward off bullshitters.

It may also be needed for applicants proposing ideas based on deep tech and/or bleeding-edge research, in which it would be hard for the YC interviewers to be sure the applicant really knows enough about the field to deliver what they claim they can.

Given that the thing YC was being dunked on over last week was for not doing enough due diligence on a startup trying to build an "MMO metaverse" [1] that has been unable to deliver, I guess there are still cases where they need to verify capabilities to some degree.

That said, it's still very much part of the YC ethos that founders who are self-motivated to work on interesting and ambitious projects in their own time is the best indicator of potential. They'd never make a funding decision based substantially on someone's academic record.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27319457
“Nevermind the fire, who dialed 911?”
> comparing apples to oranges.

Great pun. :-D
Amen :)
What actual benefit will anyone derive from this?
The Mother of All ‘Abandoned’ Airports (2015)
Weird how these integrity precautions are being championed by Apple and not the EU or US, democracy is dead, long live corpocracy
ProPublica said that these billionaires were avoiding taxes because their unrealized gains weren't being taxed, and implied that they should be in a direct sense for fairness.

(Note that ProPublica mentions wealth taxes at the end, and then immediately dismisses them. Their object here really was/is gains taxation in a direct sense.)

My point was that this isn't tax avoidance, that there are reasons we don't tax unrealized gains directly, and that virtually no countries do it that way.

It's true that a few (and very much declining) number of countries have some form of wealth tax that includes some amount of unrealized gains. The Netherlands, for example, marks-to-market on Jan 1st of the tax year then doesn't actually track gains/losses over the next 364 days. So that obviously isn't a direct tax on gains. But it's certainly adjacent, and I said in the parent comment here.
This year I experimented a little with a Lisp transpiling to Lua and it was really surprising to me how well Lua fits this purpose. It can treat e.g. if statements as expressions and supports higher order functions as well as tail call optimisation, so mostly you can just map S-Expressions and a couple other basic features 1:1 to Lua code, and while it might not be super readable it will just work.
This is probably a dumb question, but isn't a backtrace likely to reveal some sensitive information from a security perspective?
> Calling out a completely immoral business idea isn’t hostile. It’s moral.

That’s fine, but it’s not what you seemed to be doing.
This is a giant list of strawmen. I'm not arguing for a mask mandate, I'm saying that masks as mitigation have been and continue to be good strategies (and in particular very cheap ones) and that we want to continue to use them until the pandemic is actually controlled (vs. just shrinking) and not incessantly mock people who continue to use effective means of disease control.