skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consult a dictionary, eg.,

> pointing indirectly towards someone's guilt but not conclusively proving it.

You are correct that within a technical legal context most evidence is circumstantial. But that isnt the only meaning of the word, and indeed, largely not what is meant.
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I'm American. What you say isn't wrong for most people I know. I don't know too many non-Americans well enough to say if it expands past our little country.
Well, yeah, but it's 20 accounts over a period of 7 to 10 years, which represents 2 accounts per year.

That basically represents the idea customer for a bank.
For the most part a very good thing.

Wonder what that means for third-party HN client apps though, since HN accounts cannot be deleted.
> We don’t forbid private entities from paying for policing because we’re ultra flush and don’t need the money — we forbid it because once allowed it is inevitable that corruption will occur.

We don't forbid private entities from paying for policing at all. In my town, and many other places I've lived [0 for example}, you can contact the police department and hire a "paid detail" consisting of off-duty uniformed officers for any e.g. event where a police presence is beneficial.

[0] http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/public_informatio...
Also depends on what we're doing. Lots of computational tasks in engineering will take as many flops as you've got and produce a more accurate simulation. The hope would be that the end result would be a somehow better device (better fluid dynamics -> more aerodynamic car). On the other hand, we have things like advertisement which are more of a zero sum competition, don't produce anything useful for society as a whole, and don't really need to be optimized overall. Somewhere in between you have stuff like analysis for investing, which is mostly about beating the other guy, but does in some nebulous way apparently help allocate resources more efficiently...
I truly believe that most people who dismiss the founding fathers as an obsession or otherwise irrelevant to modern day are also the same people who have never read any of the well-documented and freely available discussions they had about governance in general. Excluding technological and other scientific advancement, they really did think of almost everything. Even the oft-cited claim that the country was founded upon "Judeo-Christian values" is argued to death in their correspondence and shows that they were ultimately neutral and fantastically "tolerant"... so long as you take their words for their meanings at the time of their writing and not by modern renditions.
Every Twitch Developer has 2FA even 3rd party developers are required to have 2FA I also think, but don't know, that this applies to Twitch Broadcaster Partners as well in order to have their tax information in the system.

Luckily iirc from a conversation with a senior Twitch engineer the Tax information backend has been migrated to Amazon. So hopefully that did not leak... Because that would be full legal name and addresses of a ton of streamers that likely have stalkers.
> Facebook and subsequently Instagram thrive on interaction. The company is only profitable if it keeps you on its platform and it will do anything to keep you there, even at the cost of your own health.
This is great news, and again evidence of Apple pushing the privacy envelope forward for their customers. For many users, deleting an account by visiting an obscure flow on a web property is simply a bridge too far (assuming the service even offers an automated way of account deletion, which often is not the case).
Apparently, "Copy To" no longer works on Windows 7 and higher. The button is greyed out for all user profiles except the "Default" profile.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e4cd5a0c-b...
I'm surprised it's that few
It’s not known if those are fundamental limits.

However the idea that space time is discrete is a reasonable hypothesis to test, we don’t currently have any ways to probe at those resolutions, though.
I don't even have a Mastodon account and I can explore servers remotely just fine.

https://mastodon.social/explore

I might misunderstand what you mean by explore.
From what I've seen/read, it seems like many serial killers have a consistent urge/voices telling them/impulse to kill that they are able to resist for a time, lose control, kill, and then repeat the cycle.
I was going to say the same thing! They are the WORST. I had to cancel my subscription and the process was like a legal battle with the customer representative. He fought me so hard and it took so long. I lost all respect for the times after that.
Well, we have to contend ourselves with the Java/Kotlin, JavaScript and Dart flavours, of which Android is probably the closest, although quite twisted implementation.

However I do like the idea, either a Goberon or Ginferno version of Go's influences, but that is above all just nostalgia, they wouldn't be the same, and the time has pasted when their ideas were new.
What hooks people like us (whatever that means) isn’t necessarily what hooks normal people (ditto).

Facebook has a massive training set at its disposal, claiming more monthly active users than humans have lifetime heartbeats. If FB isn’t chronically addictive for normal people with that sample size, then either (0) A/B testing isn’t as capable as we like to think it is, or (1) FB isn’t even trying anymore.
The tradeoffs for any individual piece of data are different from the tradeoffs of a company-wide policy. Siloing off one little thing (e.g. credit card info) usually doesn't inconvenience very many people, but at the same time it only provides marginal security. No front page headline has ever read "At Least The Credit Card Info Was Safe". On the other hand, a company-wide policy of siloing everything can have more of a security impact, but it also inconveniences everyone frequently. That's the tradeoff that many tech companies don't want to make.
Nicotine patches and Wellbutrin; I can be around 100 smokers and not give a shit
Amazon is buoying the ecosystem.

Amazon Prime used to include (and maybe still includes) Amazon Prime Gaming (https://gaming.amazon.com/intro). One of the perks:

> Use your free channel subscription ($4.99 value) every month to support your favorite streamers

There are over 100M prime subscribers, and let's suppose 3% of them use the benefit to support streamers. That's at least $15M/mo Amazon is throwing into the ecosystem. Given a pareto distribution of revenue, it's no surprise that 1000 streamers are clearing 10K/mo
This is mostly an internet meme, I subscribed and cancelled from the NYT many times without an issue with their online chat.
If there isn't a legal basis for those arrests the headline should read: "Police violently commit extra judicial action against peaceful protestors".

If I got a mob of angry people and stood them in front of your place of work and I incited them to rush towards it, when would you like the police to take action?
Yes basically. In networking everybody except for people living on a CSP buy bandwith/ports not bits moved. AWS egress is fabulously profitable specifically because they’re ripping you off vs even a very expensive colo.
Is the password ncc1701e?

I just googled it and found https://hashtoolkit.com/decrypt-sha1-hash/b85ffa7dae2cbed04e... along with other results.
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It's a valid point that ITER will not produce net power, but it's still a big step forward.

Years ago I worked for a brilliant physicist who believed (usually correctly) that any factor less than an order of magnitude was just an "engineering problem".
Why do you need to know how much money a random streamer makes?
It's not inevitable it is corruption.
Is there any support for the claims on various reddit threads that the figures represent maybe half or less of actual earnings? Not sure if maybe it's only subs not tips, or only ad revenue not subs....
The salt is usually stored next to the password. The point of a salt is just to make the hash unique to prevent the use of rainbow tables, it's not a separate secret.
CS107E[0] might be an interesting course for those interested in bare metal programming.

Enrollment is over for it as of now, so better luck next semester!

[0] http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs107e/
The way I think about it is that there are a number of conditions that can cause serious depression, some of which are known and have a straight-forward treatment, for instance, thyroid and hormonal issues, certain sleeping disorders, and certain nutrition issues.

If the cause of the mental issues is unknown, you're left with treating the symptoms, which is certainly better than nothing, but often inexact and trial and error. Thus it makes sense to knock out any probable known causes when starting treatment before assuming an unknown cause.

My personal experience was when I was first diagnosed is that I had my vitamin levels checked, thyroid checked, had some sleep labs, and everyone recommended losing weight and exercise.
This case didn’t only inspire documentaries but also inspired the song “Dire Wolf” by the Grateful Dead.
The FBI says it is related, the local PD says it is not, and to ask the FBI. The local PD is also refusing to do DNA tests which would resolve the issue.
It's likely lots of bubble gum and chicken wire. I'm sure in the video ingest and transcode side of things there are some really interesting bits though. When you're owned by Amazon you don't need to optimize too much to achieve web scale... just leverage AWS services. It's not like you're going to get a bill.
What I noticed about my son’s peer group is that FB just doesn’t occupy their mind share. It’s mostly Roblox, Minecraft, Netflix, YouTube or some other game.

FB may well be an addictive space now but I suspect its growth has just about peaked. I keep hearing kids say that FB is something adults use and hence isn’t cool or trendy.
Cool thing about finalizers is that there's no straightforward way to delete them from the CLI, you need to explicitly patch the object to delete the finalizer so that goes a long way towards preventing instant mass deletion, they really do help a lot here.

The additional protection we have is via admission controllers which hook all API calls to prevent mistakes, of course, you have to foresee those mistakes and come up with a validation that prevents it. But even something as simple as "only 5 pods are allowed to be terminating at once" can help.

I absolutely agree about people claiming kubernetes is easy. It is easy to throw some helm chart at the kube API and suddenly have an app running with all it's databses configured. It is hard to keep them all running.

The pattern of operators seeks to solve this. Instead of a helm chart creating a MySQL statefulset, it creates a MySQLCluster that gets managed by a well-written operator following the best practices and correctly implementing all the hooks. The ecosystem is starting to converge on this finally and the beauty is that the sum of the industry's operational knowledge can be coded into these operators and we'll finally arrive at nearly fully self managing databases with backups and all.

The industry isn't there quite yet though, and so at least for stateful workloads you need significant operational experience. For background: I am the Tech Lead of our team that runs the kubernetes clusters and we provide all of the primitives our users need and control access. Each database type then has dedicated teams operating them and codifying operations into operators. There is a lot of work being done. But prior to kubernetes, all of these teams separately were coding against the EC2 API with no standardization, no unified view, ad-hoc failure detection, ad-hoc auditing, etc. Kubernetes is a very substantial improvement over that, but 90% of companies never reach a scale where this is necessary. But once extremely solid open source operators exist we may truly hit the dream of just applying some self managing operator manifest to an EKS or GKE cluster and getting an actually production grade database setup.

Version control is an interesting topic because it's hard to express transitive dependencies in that code. For example, the MySQL operator creating a StatefulSet and the Statefulset creating pods. It doesn't make sense to commit those lower level resources to git, they're not fully independent. However, for top level things, our build system produces artifacts from git and the deploy system creates them in the cluster. With this setup, only admins could directly apply them, which really helps with keeping things in sync with git.
The entire system of credit card tie-ins is based on predatory debt practices. It's ingrained in US culture, but a lot of people on HN probably see it as a problem that shouldn't even have to be addressed in the first place. Facilitating the growth of the credit card ecosystem sounds like asking for trouble.
I suggest you find a smaller instance to join to have a more cultivated feed.

I'm the only user on my instance so everything I see is there because I subscribed to it.
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The other issue is that people are constantly telling others crap. People are constantly giving bad advice, making wrong predictions, etc. Sometimes these people are very accredited, very smart, and well-intentioned, they just happen to be wrong.

So when people receive advice, predictions, etc. they won't just accept, they use their own judgement. Which is also often wrong. But either way can be wrong, and people almost always trust themselves more than others.

The best thing you can do to convince a skeptic is show them very clearly or move on. The best thing a manager/lead can do to convince a skeptical employee of their business/design plan is show them very clearly or fire them if they don't follow the plan.
The problem is that Apple has absolutely no way to enforce the deletion. An app can say "your account is deleted" but not actually delete any data off their servers.

What would really give users the control they deserve is the ability to restrict what data can be sent off the device by an app in the first place.

Apple should make it possible to deny internet access to an app entirely, and they should provide an API that allows apps to upload very specific kinds of data that a user has approved of, but nothing else. Of course, some apps need to be able to request unrestricted internet access.

Permitting apps to collect private data and have unrestricted internet access, by default, was always a terrible decision in terms of user privacy. Apple owes it to their users to fix the problem they created.
Why is getting access to prod, or prod data, considered a perk, exactly?
I do not believe that America has annexed Quebec. Yet.
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It only applies to apps that let you create an account from within the app, so third-party client apps like this could just not handle the account signup. (I think they already tend not to handle it.)
Not a meme, I had the experience first hand. It's very much real.
How was morale internally? Did the whole thing feel disingenuous? Were people cynical about it?
How about using this same forensic team to determine the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto :-)
"A typical elementary student in counties where Chinese characters are used (mainly China and Japan) learns 1,000 to 2,000 characters by the time they reach the sixth grade."

I'm guessing that the author is trying to say that it is easy enough for a 12 year old to accomplish.

But the children don't learn those 1000-2000 characters when they are 12. If they started learning characters from 5 years old (kindergarten), then it takes a few hours a day over 7 years, during the time of life one is typically a language sponge, to pick up NeuralMorse.

Also, if I were to do this, I would make the distance between each of the notes a different number of steps. This would help facilitate remembering words based on their "song" while making it impossible to accidentally transpose. For example, abab should not be the same intervals as cdcd.

The author mentioned that the number of notes was constrained because too many notes would require perfect pitch. I'd say the same goes when there is not enough variation of intervals. In the case the shared ab and cd interval is missing out on an opportunity for clarity.

When all the intervals are different, perfect pitch isn't necessary to determine whether an incoming message is starting on ab or dc. You just need to hear any other note to figure it out.

A useful side effect is that the actual starting pitch is then made irrelevant, making it less prone to doppler effects... just keep the intervals intact.
Apple... Now protecting people's privacy much faster than the government... 0-60 real quick.

But on the other hand, I think they should also carefully disclose the info they collect at their OS level...

Just another case of that old CYA.
I think it is (lifetime wise at least), this is only from August 2019 to October 2021.
official release about it:

https://www.who.int/news/item/06-10-2021-who-recommends-grou...
In the hearing she recommended against censorship (content moderation really), on the basis that it’s futile and ineffective (she claimed algorithms can only flag 10% av what they look for). Instead she recommends softer actions, such as requiring users to actually click a link before sharing, which apparently has shown to an be effective dampener on the spread of disinformation.
Having spent a fair amount of time in internet cafes in my youth I can tell you certainly I have seen my fair share of people who have neglected sleep as well as sustenance and some fairly other fundamental drives to consume digital media for at times days without pause.
Broken on mobile Safari :( I see the balloon for a second and then the screen goes black
I'm pretty sure a company of Twitch's size uses on-premise GitHub.
If it helps, Rowy has dark mode :)
2.4w? My led bulbs use 4w - I doubt you could mine much bitcoin with that low a power?
They have a lot of good will to make up for the image detection they tried to push.
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The same thing is happening in Pennsylvania: environmental crimes; hiring armed muscle to keep civilians from observing drilling sites from afar (I've been harassed myself) even though these sites pass through little league fields, apartment complexes etc; some shenanigans getting classed as a public utility with eminent domain rights; and some FOIA shenanigans (there should be no secrets here). Highlights:

* thugs: https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio/articles/news/more-scrut...

* charges: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/10/05/pennsylvania-pi...

* FOIA: https://www.chescoplanning.org/pic/PDF/ME2-092421.pdf

etc. If you think there has been miscarriage of justice, consider letting Sunoco know how you feel.
I think what's surprising is how small these optimizations are. A few proposal sped up Python a lot, but were partially incompatible. Meanwhile OCaml is removing the GIL from the language, adding multicore and added stuff like Flambda in the last decade, all of that while mostly keeping backwards compatibility and not sacrificing single-core performance. All of that while having way less people working on it than Python.
From the article: "...all apps that allow for account creation..."
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A corporation and a personal home are different, and again, I'm not challenging the police's ability to act, I am challenging the magnitude of response given the context of the situation.

If I have a mob outside of my home, I'm going to assume I will be dead and fight to the best of my abilities or run. These people were trespassing on property, not entering into a private home, so still not really addressing the concern I have.

For my own opinion: I absolutely value individual private human life over replaceable corporate property. I find it unacceptable that our police force isn't trained to respond peacefully to a nonviolent threat of minimal immediate danger.
I remember that roughly 5 or 6 years ago, when I wanted them to delete my apple id, I had to call them. On the phone. And the guy told me, "if we delete your apple id, you will not be able to sign up with this mail again".

I only realized after hanging up how little sense this makes.
Feels to me like public pressure is on Apple to actually justify their argument that their App Store policies are for the benefit of their customers. If that results in more policies like this that really do improve customer experiences, that's not the worst outcome.
API First diagram web app for developers
I have been thinking about developing a diagram web app that has a focus on integrations with an API first mindset, since this would benefit me to be able to automatically document my cloud infrastructure and its dependencies.

What do you guys think about this idea, is it something you would want to use as well?
If you can easily migrate to Scandinavia from America, then you are almost certainly a well educated, talented, wealthy American who will not be subject to any of the vagaries of life that poor Americans may need to deal with. Healthcare, education, housing, and lifestyle are all top notch for the set of Americans that can easily emigrate to other first-world countries.

In fact, you will find that it is much more common for people with high levels of education or marketable skills to migrate to the US, versus those people migrating from the US to whatever country.
Exactly. Perhaps they went with the 8 card limit because they didn't expect that it'll be as popular in the US, and you don't hear that many complaints about it because:

* People in Europe who use contactless all the time rarely have as many cards as some Americans.

* Americans who have that many cards rarely use contactless.

Perhaps I am an outlier for actually using all my cards contactless.
Commonwealth Fusion expects to start commercialization in 2025. They say it will put power onto the grid.
Firetable is now Rowy but bigger and better :)
Great point! It's definitely a step in the right direction, but my immediate thought was "what about all the sites that don't actually delete anything?"

Hopefully apple makes a more user-friendly announcement about this that will introduce people of the concept of data retention and how "deleting" an account isn't really deleting anything.
Isn’t having to have an online chat an unnecessary artificial barrier? Why not a button like most other sites.
In that regard, SIWA with relay emails is already saving folks a big headache.
You don't brute force it, you find the password for accounts with the same e-mail in leaks from other sites and try only those.
Numberphile made a video about "highly composite numbers" / "anti-primes", which are numbers that have more factors than all smaller numbers. https://youtu.be/2JM2oImb9Qg

There is an oeis sequence of them that starts "1, 2, 4, 6, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 120, 180, 240, 360, 720, 840...", which notably does not include 480. https://oeis.org/A002182
Curious about thought on using something totally different like column oriented db, like ClickHouse, would've suited a block data oriented app like Notion better?

Does anyone with experience have any thoughts in favour or against such implementation?
The biggest performance problems with python involve the GIL, highly dynamic runtime and an extension API that exposes internals.

I believe moving python towards a more static type system, functional programming and transpilation to other languages is a good direction.
Towards Automating Code-Reuse Attacks Using Synthesized Gadget Chains [pdf]
CloudFlare has a good blog post on this, but effectively they pay for megabit/s capability.
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