skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no, all I did was spread bullshit conspiracy theories, I wonder why I’m being downvoted!!!!
On Who We Think We Are
Strange the article doesn't mention CALEA[0] for the United States. This is what actual local/state/federal law enforcement uses (with a court order) for data/voice intercept.

What's interesting about CALEA is it (essentially) requires compliance via devices with "LI" (lawful intercept) functionality and/or third party providers to provide "tap/trace" functionality in such a way that it's not even visible/detectable to the network provider, network admins, etc.

This LI functionality is typically implemented at the network device/operating system level as defined by an ETSI standard[1]. I've never implemented it personally but from what I understand it basically allows for an LI provider to siphon off tap/trace data with something like a VPN back to the LI provider, who is also the contact for response to warrants, etc.

So what happens is the LI provider gets a warrant for something like "give us everything to/from this device or phone number". The provider verifies the legality of the warrant, uses the ETSI standard to one or more devices on the provider network, receives the data, and then provides it to law enforcement (in real time). The network provider isn't even aware of the court order.

The old trope in Mafia movies of "I got a guy inside the phone company to tip us off" hasn't been accurate since CALEA came into effect in 1995.

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/public-safety-and-homeland-security/poli...

[1] https://www.etsi.org/technologies/lawful-interception
It’s even crazier we’re not considering natural immunity. A lot of these healthcare workers already put themselves at risk and caught covid. And now they’re being forced out.
I understand that you probably don't have the power to directly change anything about this, but what does it even mean when a company says they're "improving how they work with businesses in situations like these".

Every time some big tech company makes promises like these, nothing really ends up changing. The emails always remain vague templates without details from a seemingly anonymous source. Companies end up changing the wording of their email templates, but that's about the only noticeable difference.

I have no doubt that a real human verified the problem and decided to send the email, but I've never seen any big company that swore their dedication to better communication actually change their policies to not make these emails look so... auto-generated. When you're ending a business relationship, even for good reason, you shouldn't come off as a robot.

Such comments on public websites always feel like damage control to me. I'm not claiming your comment is part of some specific damage control operation or anything, but I do wonder if adding that line does much for the credibility of the rest of the post. In my opinion, it adds a layer of corporate pixie dust on top of the rest of your words.

That being said, responding in public, especially in a place like HN, is a pretty brave thing to do, especially with all the other negative threads from others here, so I definitely appreciate the effort you put into this!
Id encourage you to try recording them yourself. The results can vary depending on your system, how much concurrent tasks it can make parallel, if scheduling resources are being used elsewhere, etc. The zig code contains an example of using timers + the spawning and joining is in quickSort() function so it should hopefully be easy to add the timing logic. I can answer questions regarding it if you hop on the IRC or Discord.

In regards to the overflow queue, yes some pathologica tasks may see long delyas but this is true for any mostly-FIFO or sharded queue scenario. Both Golang and Tokio overflow from their local buffer into a shared lock-protected linked list (tokio is a bit more eager in this regard) so they can suffer similar fates. They actually do an optimization which is to check the shared queue before the local buffer every few local scheduling ticks (% 61 or 64 for each task run iirc) to decrease the change of local starvation. Could try adding that to Zig's thread pool after the timing logic and see if that helps tail latencies. I'm curious about the outcome either way, but I may not have time to work on that.
> I think big companies tend to do this by accident, more out of incompetence than malice.

They have bots deciding the future of their users. And when the bots make some kind of mistake they don't give support for the costumer or neither check if the user got wrongly banned. It's some kind of sick blind trust they place on automated systems. Nothing wrong against these systems, but they should have a system in place to check wether these made a mistake or not.
Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID‐19 vaccines worsening clinical disease

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7645850/
Great point. This does seem like an important vulnerability.

I think one method of protection would be using Stripes Radar service to screen transactions for malicious patterns.

While it probably won’t catch all fraudulent charges, it’ll catch a bunch. You can use that increase in rejected transactions as a canary to take a closer look at the other transactions coming through.

Does anyone else have ideas on how you can protect yourself from this kind of attack?

Edit: thinking about this more, it would be a pretty expensive attack to attempt. Stolen credit cards aren't cheap, like email addresses are. You'd need a lot of them to attempt the attack and you likely wouldn't succeed.

I think you'd need 1% of the target merchant's transactions to be chargebacks in order to get them kicked off. I'd assume at least 50% of your attempts would get caught before the chargeback even happens, so you'd need at least 2% of their transactions.

Seems like you'd need a large number of cards. Anyone know the value of a stolen card?
Python News: What's New from August 2021?
Because the division line is shifted, the term "party" means something entirely different. So, yes, in one party state there are still groups within it, with different beliefs about things, and they work toward consensus using voting. Street protests are just one of the forms of democracy (and they are often organised by party).

As for privacy in the western sense - does this include USA, with no personal data protection at all?
With parallel construction the FBI doesn't need to burn anything.
https://archive.is/egPlc

“The research that we’ve seen is that using social apps to connect with other people can have positive mental-health benefits,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a congressional hearing...

“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues.
“Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,” said another slide. “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”

From what researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook’s internal message board.
Dear Future Person
You want to tip people on Twitter with BTC and have your address exposed to everyone? You want people to be able to trace how much you have in that wallet? Why not let people see the transactions going through your checking account? You got nothing to hide, right?
stop posting unfounded claims and conspiracy theory trash blogs
The context of this post is that companies are having difficulty hiring and are having to increase wages. Which is what is being hypothesised to lead to price increases. Which would suggest that wage increases would come first in this instance.
Assuming this [0] is true, then this was the case for 7 days, and Travis ignored the issue for 3 of them.

[0]: https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/143764611870017536...
Like, neither of us know what FB's ranking model actually optimises for. I suspect that it's engagement rates, but that's just from a user perspective.

> The problem you cite could be addressed in many ways.

Can you suggest some?
It really isn't because the AFA doesn't impact hackers. It's about basically operating a cartel where a single company controls the products of a large number of other companies and illegally binds them for making their own business decisions.

Google held/holds the ability to allow or disallow all product releases Android manufacturers release, including products which do not use Google Play Services.

Tizen became critical to Samsung because Samsung couldn't release a smart fridge with Android in the background without Google's permission, even if they had no intent on it having a traditional app store... because it might constitute a fork of Android.
Given that we don't know how sentience works, I like to think that you could achieve true teleportation if it turns out that the "you" are not the connections of your brain, but something else that exists in a fourth dimension.
I know. Or at least that's how I interpreted various remarks during the show.

Direct matter synthesis doesn't make sense in this context, but I've seen a lot of people on the Internet assume this is what happens. The way they talk about it on the show could lead you to either theory, for both replicators and transporters.

But to the extent we're discussing it as technology we could potentially have, and/or may want to make happen, I feel it's worth pointing out that transforming feedstock is a better design, doesn't require mastery of bulk antimatter processing, and is perhaps closer to possibility than one would otherwise assume.

Hell, I'd go as far as saying that there are problems with reasonable "attacks"[0] on the road to a replicator - engineering, chemical and biotech problems we could be working on right now.

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[0] - In the Hamming sense, see https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html.
I had the same thing happen to our church. I do not believe this is an "Accident". You can read the blow by blow at https://www.jbschirtzinger.com/post/stripe/

You can see very clearly that I also thought this was an automated issue, but turned out not to be.
Bought the hardback book from bitmap books definitively recommend it.
> Will nobody rid us of a corrupt collusion between government and corporation?

You need, Idunno, maybe a bothersome cleric.
>sounds like something eaten by a quarterback

More like the quarterbacks boyfriend.
very interesting, thanks for sharing! I am pretty much bought into the Apple ecosystem, but I have never tried their cloud collaboration tools.

What do you use for mail/calendar and file sharing? O365?
don't use stripe, they withhold your funds and customer funds.
Previous submission of the paper itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28050699

We know that various features visible in medical images correlate with race, eg breast density, bone density, etc. Most likely the network is just learning a classifier on top of these features.

This is trivially verifiable but conspicuously absent from the paper.
> Only if you ignore mining the stuff, storing the waste and decommissioning old plants.

Coal mining, owing to the volumes involved, is significantly more damaging (entire regions remain visibly devastated despite not having had any coal in a century).

Storing the waste has only ever been a NIMBY issue, the volumes are basically non-existent — unlike the tailings and terrils from coal mining.

Decommissioning old plants is also pretty much a joke.

> Nuclear power is somewhat greener than coal, but not that much and has different problems.

Nuclear power is orders of magnitude greener and safer than coal, and we now know that in the worst case scenario it gets greener because turns out human activity is observably worse for wildlife than increased background radiation.
I haven't heard much about them in a long time either but even if I had I wouldn't be expecting anything significant. Meltdown affected Intel, IBM, and ARM processors while spectre affected any processor that used branch prediction up until that point. Both were patched the best they could be on all target platforms via combinations of microcode and kernel patches.

Significant class action suits tend to result from intentionally hidden and operated longstanding fraud or discrimination such as Enron or the tobacco settlements or Volkswagen. Even if Intel and every other manufacturer were found negligent for some part of spectre/meltdown it wasn't industry wide multi decade conspiracy to defraud.
We are amidst a deep shift in the social, cultural and legislative background in the post-Covid world. The mass movement of people is declining, economies are getting more localised. Not all of it is bad per se, but we probably need another 10 years to assess and compare the "pre-" and "post-" Covid world.
I'm with you on sklearn, the DL libraries and Numpy, but Pandas and Matplotlib are poor, poor relations of the tools available in the R ecosystem (dplyr/ggplot etc).
While I agree that Scrapy is a great tool for beginner tutorials and easy entry into scraping, it's becoming difficult to use it in real world scenarios because almost all the large players now employ some anti-bot or anti-scraping protection.

A great example above all is Cloudflare. You simply can't convince Cloudflare you're a human with Scrapy alone. Scrapy has only experimental support of HTTP2 and does not support proxies over HTTP2 (https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/issues/5213). Yet, all browsers use HTTP2 now, which means all normal users use HTTP2... You get the point.

What we use now is Got Scraping (https://github.com/apify/got-scraping). It's a special purpose extension of Got (HTTP client with 18 mil weekly downloads) that masks its HTTP communication as if it was coming from a real browser. Of course, this will not get you as far as Puppeteer or Playwright (headless browsers), but it improved our scraping tremendously. If you need a full crawling library, see the Apify SDK (https://sdk.apify.com) which uses Got Scraping under the hood.
It's not all bad. Google Analytics has definitely helped to get really useful insights. However, I've often struggled to do much with those insights, to know why visitors leave.
For those who (like me) didn't get the "toothpaste company" reference - it seems to be a reference to Intel trying to squeeze every last bit of performance out of an old architecture (as one would squeeze every bit of toothpaste out of a tube), rather than innovating with new architectures and technologies.

It's hard to figure out exactly where the toothpaste reference originated, but at least one source makes it sound like it was a mis-translation of materials published by AMD. See https://www.hardwaretimes.com/amd-takes-a-jab-at-intel-we-do...
The simplest explanation is that APP mutations cause some other dysfunctions which then causes Alzheimer's. It's these other dysfunctions we should be looking for.
I completely agree with you. I tried Go a few months ago and I was really surprised by its performance, build sizes and how easy is to write concurrent stuff, but the syntax really did throw me away. It's probably something a bit superfluous, but coming from Rust it's hard to enjoy Go's syntax.
Open Source is Not About you - https://gist.github.com/richhickey/1563cddea1002958f96e7ba95...
The green party is part of the government here in Sweden and the current energy plan is to use renewables when weather conditions is optimal and then to use in non-optimal weather conditions:

Subsidized gas and oil under the umbrella term "Reserve energy plan".

Import energy from coal, gas an oil power plants from neighboring countries and expand the capacity to import more during periods of high demand.

It only been months since the last public debate between the green party spoke person and the opposition, and in that they reiterated that the plan for the future is to use fossil fuels as the only economical viable option compared to nuclear for periods of non-optimal weather conditions. Nuclear is too expensive compared to fossil fuels. In some later debate articles they further expanded that the plan is to use fossil fuels until the technology to create green hydrogen has been made cheap enough to be economical viable (date undetermined). If I remember right they cited the German green party as inspiration, through I could be wrong on that part.
What tangible benefits are you getting from choosing AMD now? Honest question as I'm curious if there's another benefit besides price (which Intel is fighting now).
Could you email me at edwin@stripe.com and I can dig into what happened here?
It was, and still proves that a company marketing it with $500M didn't happen. Are you also going to say the same about python, or can we end this discussion?
There should be a term for things we know on an instinctive level that we can use to guide our decision making.
> We know that various features visible in medical images correlate with race, eg breast density, bone density, etc.

That can still be picked out when pixellated down to 8x8 as illustrated in the article? That seems unlikely.

I wonder if the AI is just cheating, as they sometimes inadvertently do. https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/31/this-clever-ai-hid-data-fr...

> In some early results, the agent was doing well — suspiciously well. What tipped the team off was that, when the agent reconstructed aerial photographs from its street maps, there were lots of details that didn’t seem to be on the latter at all. For instance, skylights on a roof that were eliminated in the process of creating the street map would magically reappear when they asked the agent to do the reverse process...
I find the latter more difficult because you’re carrying numbers to different places and have to reason about the whole number. In the former you can cheat by just halving (doubling, yeah it’s a little counterintuitive) the denominator (ignoring the integer in both examples, since that’s easy in both).

But I will grant you, converting between denominators makes my head hurt in the imperial system. Overall I do still think metric is easier as a whole.
The perception partly comes about because putting the boot into the government is Australia's national sport. When Australians repeatedly rip into their government the Internet eventually starts to believe what they say. Ironically the fact that we do rip into our government is probably a sign the the fundamentals of Australian democracy are doing okay.

Mind you, the Morrison government deserves every kick it gets, especially if it's a kick up the bum at the next Federal election.
The meme of people sticking themselves with every needle they can get ahold of is real?

I think this is a bad idea, to make this booster decision on your own. Talk to your doctor first.
Water can also cause death, in high enough doses.

Sola dosis facit venenum.
>Like publicly confirming deliveries when your competition is announcing delays.

Sorry but that is nonsense. When in spring 2021 AZ had big delays, everyone was nervous that the same might happen to BNT. So politics, the public and the press asked them about it. At this time we had almost daily reports on deliveries because it was THE news item in spring.

BNT deliveries were rock solid and mostly on time in the EU in spring 2021, while AZ had plenty of delays. And you are now holding this against BNT?
This post reminds me of when the same thing happened to me about 5 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28085706

It feels like there should just be a better process. Shut down payments to protect yourselves sure, but spare a real life person to email the customer and give them a chance to explain or at least understand why.
covid recovered here. The denial of natural immunity is unbearable. unscientific and erodes trust.
If you are continually exposed to COVID-19, wouldn’t you effectively be “re-upping” your immune system every time there is additional exposure?
I try to use this but I reliably end up getting the wrong word, which leads to some strange swypo typos. Here's a quick test, what I wanted to type on top and what came out on bottom:

"I'm a good singer"

"In a good dinner"
The hard part is not necessarily finding the programming mistake so much as figuring out a way to reliably exploit them. Back in the day before ASLR and other mitigations it was really straightforward, but modern OSs have much more sophisticated countermeasures to prevent buffer overflows and user-after free bugs to enable RCE.
UPDATE from Justuseapp.com: Stripe has reached out to us and working together, we have resolved this issue and our account has been re-enabled.

I cannot thank Hacker News enough.

Running a business all these years has been hard and full of Ups and downs. I do not recommend it for the faint-hearted. Until this morning, I had almost given up hope that our business was dead.

Thanks for bringing us back from the dead HN.
Must be nice to have that much faith.
Ah wow, that's super interesting. Yeah I definitely noticed the lack of reticule and the effect it had on aiming.
The sarcasm didn't make sense. The conference was started way, way later, by community organizers from all companies. This completely disproves that it was a major money push from one company.
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If you're doing data science aren't sklearn, DL, and numpy getting you 90% of the way there anyway? Even if R has better "versions" of pandas/matplotlib (not conceding that point) it's not exactly central to the job of data science.
please stay a startup, pc !!!
Doing foo()? is equivalent to:

err := foo()
if err != nil {
return err
}
Lovin' it
This is really an analysis of the use of biased language in news articles, which is interesting but only one dimension of potential bias.

It is very possible to use non "charged" language, but still report a topic with a strong bias. For example, Slate is left leaning by most measures, but the below landscape chart from the study has them dead center. Maybe they are better at using neutral terms?

https://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/phrasebias.jpg
Your AI is the problem, not using stripe for any type of business.
Yup. The current intellectual property regime pretty much shuts down any dream of replicator-driven utopia, even if a 24th century starship suddenly showed up in orbit and beamed down working replicators along with full specs.

It's not really a theoretical consideration - as we get better at turning information into matter, intellectual property laws literally centralize the means of production away from the people!
What's your recommended way to get in touch with humans? Previously we had a manufacturing business + online store rejected because we mentioned that some of our customers may eventually be drop-shippers (i.e. an online store cannot prevent people from buying on behalf of other people) and there seemed to be no recourse other than "start a different business."