skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> your data is your data and the server knows nothing because it is just trying to deliver encrypted events on behalf of other people

Yes I'm sure that is the feature on paper. There's no way to know (unless there's a leak or something) but I'm willing to bet this isn't really the case and there are backdoor keys to this encryption, if anything to comply with whatever government wants, as has been the case with Apple and iPhone encryption in the past already.

The email model was just an example of how, in my opinion, it should be simple and straight forward. We're just talking about people sending text to other people, just like email. The only difference is on the client side, so how fast it happens and what kind of interface is presented with features to interact with the data. Ideally like owning your own email server, you would control not just the interface but the database with the data as well. This could mean some redundant messaging if the other server decides to send it again, but that isn't really a problem.
I am convinced that the issue can be fixed, but that too many people on the inside profiting from it. Robocallers cause financial ruin on the vulnerable and tie up critical infrastructure. They are literal terrorist and should be treated like it. I guarantee that they'll have a hard time finding people to handle those calls when they realize there are serious consequences, like having a drone drop a missle into your call center.
If dark energy is driven by a new light degree of freedom coupled to matter and photons then dark energy quanta are predicted to be produced in the Sun.”

This seems very interesting but I do not understand it. This seems to be saying that dark energy is produced by the sun, and.. exists alongside baryonic matter? What is “new light degree of freedom”?
Most of these started out as speculation and jokes. Maybe we have a stupidity (i.e. critical thinking) problem rather than a misinformation problem. Only two of these (angle grinders and access to the offices) can really be considered lies or mistakes by an otherwise reputable source (the NYT) and one of those doesn't seem to have been refuted or retracted yet.
For context, I'm an expat who has traveled extensively in Asia and currently lives in Taiwan. I have spent time in China, and had personal and business dealings with Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indonesians, Filipinos, Koreans, etc. while living in the region. So I think I probably have a more informed perspective about the region than people who haven't spent any time here.

My comment is straightforward: in China, it would not be surprising if an "incident" was the result of negligence (Google search "chabuduo") or sabotage, or if sabotage was used as an excuse to "save face" (Google it).

Since nothing in my comment called China "the most evil bogeyman in the world", your hyperbolic response is curious to me. In China, at a certain level of business, the state in some form is omnipresent. Feel free to not explore the implications of that and make value judgements, but this is a simple fact that you'd know if you spent any time here.
Also curious about the green part.
"cool s3 bucket names..." okay that is enough internet for me for one day.
To be clear- many of the cases of serious injury or death were people taking wildly high doses of ivermectin, beyond any reasonable dosage. Ivermectin does have some safe use cases for human prescription: there is no acceptable evidence that it is effective in the least for treating or preventing Covid.

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-100956/v4

Much of the buzz was generated by the above preprint study, now retracted for some serious concerns that large portions were plagiarized and cherry-picked, and in some instances fabricated completely.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/9365...

One of the problems with ivermectin is that it is widely available and cheap. This is great if you are trying to treat river blindness or prevent your horse from contracting worms, but terrible when a deeply flawed (yet widely cited) purports it to be a miracle cure.
You can manually configure the browser to point it at the BeyondCorp proxy
Every government has some level of "de facto" control over companies through legislation and whatnot. Sure that control may be more direct in China (and that's a big maybe in my opinion because I doubt a huge country with complex interactions can be handwavely summarized as that) but I just don't see the need to bring that up whenever anything happens in China.
> ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED

Yeah. Not sure I want to read that "advice" today.
You're responding to a power efficiency result by citing a pair of raw performance results. That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially when discussing mobile hardware. Differences in power efficiency usually matter a lot more to mobile hardware than differences in raw performance.
Do you assume that neither Tesla nor the court did due diligence in confirming the allegations before bringing this to court?
There are a lot of comments promoting the idea here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28751224

Some of them seem to actually say it's likely, not just possible.
> We also have no evidence that user data was compromised as a result of this downtime.

I am not sure why they had to mention this specifically. This makes it sound like an external attack.
> Even if I never use it again

I reckon it would make a good solar panel mount. Maybe with a bit of weather-proofing.
Washington Post is saying it's $6.9M in emotional damages and $130M in punitive damages.

US Gov case info is here: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-cand-3_17-cv-06...
Calling people sheep in this context is uncalled for.
It is supposed to have a couple of emulations on it: Macintosh Application Environment and the WABI thing.

Waaaay back then I don't ever remember getting the MAE working and double clicking the icon just gets you a dead windows with a static watch icon.

WABI I can't even remember where to start looking for that. It should be able to run 16 bit versions of Excel although back then I was sure we had alternatives, Lotus 1-2-3 and maybe something called WingZ which I think came from the mac but was ported to Solaris and was hideously expensive. I might be misremembering that.
Yes, and it's not just calculations. It's things like, "if section F line 27 is greater than the total in section B line 12, subtract the amount in section z line 127 from this total and multiply the result by the appropriate tax rate (see long form instructions for form 478B and fill out Worksheet 12C to calculate your appropriate tax rate).

This is not a verbatim quote, but solar to what you have to do now to calculate health care insurance subsidies.
I think you mean repeated uncritically by NYT. It doesn't even make sense, as reported. Yes, maybe to get into the cage in a shared DC, but not individual servers, and it turns out neither was necessary. That's a rehash of an old Google story.

Another bit of misreporting (e.g. The Verge) is that this was "one of its main US data centers in California" when there's no such thing. The seriously big heaps of hardware are elsewhere and they're not shared, so there are no cages to force entry into. I've been in one; no cages in sight. I know which facility they're talking about, and its only distinguishing characteristic is that it's close to where relevant people live.
Something related to privacy.
Why do you think it's sad?
Yes, and I agree it is fascinating!

As for “why” 4-dimensional geometry is somehow special, I couldn’t tell you, but here’s a whole MO thread about it: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/47569/what-makes-four-dim...
We could change the system with a focus on making it easier to file, process, and confirm.

OR… Intuit can keep shoveling
money into campaign funds. We know what it’ll be.
thc+cbd (where %cbd>%thc) works wonders
That is the US story. It has less to do with facebook and more to do with the US political system. There are plenty of countries who have very different systems that have not followed the same path in recent years. Tech companies are part of the problem but should not be made scapegoat to avoid the deeper issues within the American political system, issues that existed long before the internet was a thing.
I dunno, maybe the niches are just narrower.
Sure but then if they can do it a robocaller can do it?
Probably because most people don't care if they get hacked. They've never had major consequences from it. They think that someone will always be there to hold there hand. I am confident in my security. My biggest concern is making sure I have a solid dead man's switch in place before I die or get dementia.
Simply receiving an inheritance does not qualify as success, IMO.
Down from, like, two at the best of times. It's always either them or us, which is likely part of the problem
There's a joke here somewhere about how bad the final season was
>My fingers bled

Dangerous. Q.E.D.
Don't be so sure
>letting 10 of them at a time in the man trap before opening the other door
The man trap I've used in a data center was a cylinder that allowed only one person in. Think the new security machine in the airport where it goes back and forth around you, EXCEPT it's about a third of the area.
Really really small.
The story of ReadyReturn in California is a pretty clear example.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/521132960
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On the upside, several billion people saw their mental health improve briefly.
Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users
sure. Looks like we need to mildly inconvenience personal-phone-for-work users then? All in favor say "aye"

Aye
> I can’t help but think all of the Apple execs have had “best for the consumer” drilled into them for the purposes of the antitrust issues

Oh, I'm sure every talking head is trained for newspeak until they start to believe it.
I find it both amusing and worrying that MS has been able to get this narrative going that they got better and that we should forgive them for their past mistakes.
That's single-core/thread performance, which isn't quite the same as per-core performance, because you usually won't get N times the score by running N copies of the workload across N cores.
I used TurboTax online last year and was pretty happy with it's ability to import 1099 data from several companies I use like vanguard and Ameritrade. So the PDFs aren't standardized but many providers have apis to pull the data. In fact, they may be using something like Plaid that consolidates all the APIs into one.
Reminds me of when I was working at a startup we DOSed ourselves. We had devices that monitored power minute by minute. A load balancer was mis configured and we went down for a some hours. We came back up and the devices all saw that and flooded us with all the data they’d been storing since we were down.. down again… bring it up and down again…. we needed a better fix. I was up till 2 am with the other developer coding a fix.. the next morning we talked to the CEO (CTO was on vacation)who told us upgrading the was database was going to be too expensive… good times. We did get a firmware fix ( to be honest we were running out of cash..)

I can’t imagine trying to restart something as big as facebook…
But what about people that have already engaged and benefited from that risk? For many of those people, the vaccine risk is not so negligible compared to the additional benefit they gain from any (much smaller) immune boost they might get. Also, how is policy making "following _the_ science" if it doesn't even acknowledge the superiority of natural immunity. The least they could do is own their disregard and say - we're ignoring some science for [reasons] instead of simply demonizing a large fraction of the population as bigoted selfish backward uneducated scum - which is my interpretation of POTUS declaring war on 20% of Americans - a so called "pandemic of the unvaccinated" in his own words (or whoever wrote the speech).
> Surely this is being done?

Probably every major retail registrar was rumored to do this at some point. Add to your calculation that even some heavyweights like GoDaddy (IIRC) tend to run ads on domains that don't have IPs specified.
Not gonna lie, the URL frightens me :-)
You can "just start typing" in Clojure too. Eg:

$ echo '(def foo 1)' > /tmp/foo.clj
$ clj
Clojure 1.10.x
user=> (load-file "/tmp/foo.clj")
#'user/foo
user=> foo
1
There were rumors early in the downtime that it was the responsibility of various outside groups. Saying, "no, your data was not impacted" is pretty standard in light of those rumors, even if they weren't the main ones spreading around after the initial reports.
Agreed with edge cases. Last year I tried using free (as in beer) and even cheap softwares, and they couldn't or wouldn't process for Americans abroad or have the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion exemption which meant they were all no-gos for me. Seems like the tax system should be drastically simpler.

Most countries don't tax expatriated citizens. Even with exemptions you still owe for social security and Medicare. It sounds good since many people will want pension in retirement, but Medicare offers vouchers or exemptions abroad. This was likely the precedence used for “historically, we do not offer any healthcare services to those abroad” when asked if overseas Americans would get access to the COVID-19 vaccine.
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The IRS has to program all the rules into their system anyway. If they could simply standardize those rules into a git controlled Yaml file or something better suited, keeping software updated could be made rather easy for open source projects.
I think 'social grease' is a good term. Grease is multipurpose: alcohol serves to lubricate a social setting, abd removes the inhibitions that can prevent people from letting their guards down and opening themselves up. In different contexts, however, it can cause one to easily fall into darker emotional patterns, resort to violence, or lead to someone being taken advantage of.

We will never be rid of alcohol, in my opinion. It's too simple and effective, and too deeply engrained in our society. What we can do is work to better educate and support society so that alcohol can exist in a safer atmosphere. Addicts don't get addicted just due to chemical means: there are deep social implications.
Oh, I didn't mean that sarcasm and derision is how the Microsoft developers interpreted the phrase. I was speaking to the notion that the question was necessarily innocent and could only be interpreted thusly.

I would say that incredulity falls within the range between "completely inoffensive" and "outright hostile", and very much toward the former side of the scale. It can be hard to distinguish from feigned incredulity, which (while still far from "sarcastic and derisive") makes its way toward the other side somewhat.
For those who like drone dystopia nightmare fuel, this video made me think of this disturbing modern weapon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STM_Kargu

:/
Eh, I could see myself doing development in that type of environment if the tools were get better. I've worked remote for the past 6 years, so it wouldn't quite be the same as in an office environment though.
Alcohol is implicated in something like 50% of all homicides.

Perhaps, but P(A|B) is drastically different from P(B|A). In other words, what percentage of consumed drinks of alcohol are associated with a homicide?

Beyond that, could alcohol use be prevalent enough that alcohol could be implicated in 50% of everything? It's sort of like how "excessive speed" is a factor in most car accidents, but that's because posted speed limits are too low and everybody speeds at least sometimes.
> the major phone companies profit from spam

Back in the day, but I assume most people have essentially unlimited voice and texts, so is this still the case?
> but unfortunately in C the warning is more likely to be "99.99% of the time this code is a buffer overflow, so, you probably don't mean that"

In my experience it is more likely that 0.01% of the time this signed to unsigned conversion (the one in the if block checking value ranges) can cause issues, please explicitly cast it to silence the warning.
There are a lot of old toys which cannot be find in the modern world. Apollo Domain OS for example. Or DEC OSF/1. Or VMS.
Not only that, this should be one of the most bipartisan causes for lawmakers to rally around.
T-Mobile used to have some kind of international roaming deal...
PayPal raises fees for most domestic transaction types to 3.49% + $0.49
I agree it's absurd - which is why I wasn't sure why it sounded like you were making it. So since we established natural immunity is superior - why is it being ignored? Apparently it's not part of _the_ science.
>to make sure there's some diversity at the leadership level and that it's not a bunch of people who look exactly the same.

Let's be honest here. You're looking for a specific demographic, and you're not actually concerned with the composition of the talent pool from which they were hired. It's an increasingly popular de facto anti-meritocratic movement and I don't think trading some amount of competence for diversity at social scales will actually be good for society in the medium to long term.
Well, TurboTax happens to be the most widely used large commercial tax software, and the brokers you mentioned are also quite large and popular. Whatever integration has been done is almost certainly proprietary and not freely reusable.

Hypothetically, even if an API existed, building the integration in your own app also costs FTE hours that are likely drawn away to higher priority tasks.
https://archive.is/ZpVNt
> The medication itself is safe

Upon what dosage do you base that on? And particularly is it safe for covid patients, or does it increase mortality?

Many doctors are in the US pushing Ivermectin and HCQ as "safe and effective" even though the #1 call to many poison control centers in the US concern Ivermectin poisoning.

> Because going overboard on accusations isn’t helping anyone nor adding to any scientific discussion.

Giving false hope (or false cures) is by far worse -- and that appears to be the case as to what happened in Brazil. Politicians were pushing Ivermectin as a way to reopen the economy. It's snake oil at it's worst form, and reduces trust between patients and doctors.
How I explained this to friends and family: Imagine that the only way to get to Los Angeles is to use a GPS enabled device. All of the maps know how to get there from anywhere. But imagine that every GPS took Los Angeles off the map. Los Angeles is still there, but nobody knows how to get there. That's what happened to Facebook. We don't yet know why, however.
I build a spread sheet for all the forms and worksheets that require calculations. FreeFillableForms does some of the calculations for you, and does not have any worksheets. Excel has formulas for everything I have encountered paying taxes, and I have a joint account with stock options and several rental property LLCs.

As a bonus, the spreadsheets are generally reusable, after checking to make sure there are no changes.
I'm confused. Isn't the problem here that networking is too fragile and we really need to look at fixing the bottom of the internet?
New type of neat mathematical fractals. Use ASDW keys and arrow keys to navigate, change the census selection to "cool examples" and check out different manifolds (I like the looks of s776).

Further info here: https://github.com/henryseg/cohomology_fractals
CDE is alive, well, not so. Some things do not work. But it is slowly getting better.
The pants example is wrong. Pants are equivalent to a disk with two holes, when you circle the two holes in a disk you get 3 separated areas you cannot move between. Topologically valid transformations of surfaces doesn't alter this property. The pants with connected legs however lets you circle two holes without separating any areas at all, you can move between any two points on the pants without crossing the lines just by circling the 8 they collapsed the connected pants into. So a punctured torus surface is not topologically equivalent to a pants surface.

The problem with their transformation was that they twisted the surface. You aren't allowed to do that. It works if you see the pants as a volume though, but they specifically talked about surfaces. Similarly a möbius strip is different from a regular loop as a surface, but not as a volume. The twist here is similar.
I think Steve Jobs did learn how to partner with people and being very very careful which battle to pick after he came back from NeXT. Qualcomm Modem and Patents agreement, Gorilla Glass on Original iPhone. Both likely pissed off Apple's Operation because of their huge increase in BOM. As Disney's ex CEO Bob Iger said, if Steve was alive they would probably have bought or partnered with Disney on streaming. Now Apple is in the content business competing directly with Netflix and Disney.

As shown in Qualcomm, IMG case. Tim Cook's Apple just aren't very good at partnering.
now they are more expensive than credit cards, when I worked there in 2004-2007 their big deal was they were cheaper than credit cards.
I have seen absolutely zero coverage about this change so I wanted to make sure people knew about it. The change seems to have happened on August 2nd according to archive.org [1]. I checked my PayPal records to verify this was true and sure enough I've been paying the higher rate in fees starting after July.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20210727095034/https://www.paypa...
Anywhere that expressing "fuck <dear leader>" in public can result in police interrogation deserves all the scrutiny it gets.
Well, these days server side api… er Conversions API is the way to go. This way if the user blocks the browser pixel the data can still be acquired for certain events, say a purchase. Google Tag Manager server side has something similar.
Is there evidence to suggest that redundancy could have solved this problem? If this was simply a bad configuration that was propagated (as intended) to a large number of systems, I would hardly call that a single point of failure.
Just because you keep falling for the Intel scam doesn't mean we all do. My current build has components dating from 2012, and I've been able to upgrade my Ryzen easily. Previous build made use of an LGA 1155, and still reused components from a previous build. I have hard drives from 2012 in my machine, and should I have the space for it, some 2009 drives would have been in it.

Buying entire new computers is the most wasteful thing you could do, both money wise and environmentally wise.
Do you think if that happened while using Intuit software, they are going to pull intuit into court? When you prepare your taxes using software, it all looks the same once the IRS receives it. It will show up as self prepared. If you pay a CPA to do it, then they also sign the return. But in either case, you will be responsible for underpaying your taxes and will have to make up the difference. I doubt any of the software companies offer any kind of guarantee.
The one you're defending... linked a benchmark of the Mac Mini. Not an M1 based Macbook.

Try again.
Until policy makers puplish the tax rules in an executable algorithmic form, I am afraid open projects like this will have difficulty to keep up with the regulation changes.