skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? A lot of people all throughout the world have had people outside the school system to teach them integer factorization, Ancient greek, and integral calculus as soon as they could?

In the real world 99% of parents don't have the time to teach their child anything beyond how to speak and walk and answer their questions. 90%+ of parent's don't even remember how to efficiently factor integers or any math beyond arithmetic.

Certainly very few people have this level of genius, but if Von Neumann were to be born to an average milieu it is impossible he would have been able to reach those milestones.
Isn't that exactly what I stated in my initial comment? Not sure why you were so quick to disagree
Yeah his site has been around since 2001 and I doubt he bothers to clear out dead sites. That's why I would love to see someone fork this and give it the much needed TLC, especially removing the need to disable safe_mode in PHP.
Sure but I still think shadows and 3 dimensions work.
It's not through the wall, it's from reflections off the wall. Imagine being able to see around a corner because all walls were mirrors, except this works for walls that are not traditional mirrors.
If the employees had options they weren’t shareholders (yet)
Well, two possibilities that come to my mind:

- Run it in a Windows VM. The program could detect this and not phone home in this case, of course.

- Monitoring on network level (wireshark on same network, Pi-hole, router itself...). This is virtually impossible for the program to circumvent.

You could also audit the changes it made to the system (resorting to stuff like diffing disk images before/after if you really want zero trust) to verify that nothing sneaky was left after running the program once.
Oh my god, give me a break. It's von Neumann.
Imagine trusting Microsoft.
If anyone wants some insight into one of the ways that YC manipulates this site against their competitors, compare these two lists:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew

* https://news.ycombinator.com/show

YC competitors go straight to shownew to minimize visibility and they have no hope of landing on the front-page. Whereas YC companies go straight to the front-page.

That's not even touching on the dirty tricks the YC network plays with the VC community. They will work hard to ensure that no YC competitors get funded, including spreading false dirt on founders of competitive companies.
being able to defeat latest stockfish level 6 and drawing against level 7 or 8
Curious tangent question: what constitutes drowning in demand? I mean numbers.

The obviously it varies by sector and type of product but say for a typical SaaS.

I’ve seen a lot, just curious about what people here think.
BT built a system of underground copper pipes/waveguides for microwave transmission in the 1970's - it never got beyond a testing platform in Suffolk (Martlesham Heath to Wickham Market) due to fibre optics becoming the clear winner.
Every petrol station I’ve driven past in the last week has had giant queues or (more commonly) been shut for lack of fuel. SE England.
Why do we have to regulate? It seems an alternate yet much more difficult path would be that we could grow a societal backbone and make certain destructive practices illegal instead of trying to figure out a central list of allowed practices and licenses and policies and permits and bureaucracy etc. For example, it’s pretty clear that internet scale data markets and user attention platforms harm the individual. Why is step one always to reach for a regulatory solution instead of a slightly more radical “outlaw such machines and then figure things out from there” approach? A naive example might be a law stating: “It is illegal to profit from the sale of advertisements to your own users.” In the same vein, why cant we outlaw DRM because it’s bad for users and tell movie studios we care more about users health and well being than we do about your “piracy” problem?
Many of these towers are also used for other equipment as well, and not abandoned.

It's also worth mentioning that big equipment like this isn't designed to be removed from towers, and not only would be expensive to remove, but extremely dangerous. It's a lot safer and cheaper to just leave it there, and mount additional equipment (cellular equipment, etc) elsewhere on the tower.
> I'm not even sure you can disable everything this tool does via group policies?

Apparently you cannot:

> On May 2017 a security researcher named Mark Burnett demonstrated that disabling the default data collection toggles, found in Windows 10's settings app, are entirely useless. Furthermore he showed that even through using intensive group policy modifications, in a process heavily scrutinized and iterated upon over several days, he was not able to prevent Windows 10 from sending critical, personally identifiable information with certainty.

From: https://wiki.ameliorated.info/doku.php?id=faq

In my last job I had contact with Microsoft and I approached them about datamining issues several times. I noticed they simply don't understand the concerns at all. Microsoft is becoming a highly 'data driven' company and every time I approached them about data gathering the response was along the lines of "Oh but we only use this for improving your performance / our products / whatever". They think it matters what the purpose is, they don't understand (or they don't want to!) that some people are against telemetry whatever the reason.

Our own company is thinking along similar lines, with the exception of the German parts of the business, for whom we had to make some exceptions. I'm not German but I'm heavily aligned with their thinking on this.
It reminds me of the Royal Cameleopard from Huck Finn.
Only insofar as the HN audience consists of people. It’s a people “problem”.
It's either/or?
Industrial engineer, working in emergency medical services in operations research to help optimize the service (i.e. figuring out where to let EMTs take their breaks in a metropolitan area to increase coverage of potential critical calls, short term demand prediction, employee scheduling and planning etc..). Been lurking on HN for a long time, and stumbled on it by chance and got hooked instantly. Like many others said, its a great way to stay on top of tech related issues/topics.
Because benefits outweighs risks.
Very nice that I turn off everything I want one time, but what about the next update that will randomly toggle some settings back? How about new settings for new features that are added?

I think it's foolish to go use software like this, and expect some privacy to happen. Windows and its user are just not on the same page.

What refreshed my hope in IT is the FOSS ecosystem. Where software is passively uncaring about me, the user, instead of working actively against me, which is the case in most of proprietary stuff nowadays.
Indeed. My other comment has to do with meta info. Docs, procedures, training material. Cost of change is high, rewards or returns?

Low.
Hydrogen can be either fuel cell or modified internal combustion. Fuel cells are more economic for larger vehicles like trucks, ships, planes than cars. Fuels cell systems have potentially lower maintenance costs due to fewer parts.
What are the flags for?
> `Disable advertisements via Bluetooth`

A screenshot of the application on the website shows this option. I don't understand; are advertisements via Bluetooth some kind of Windows functionality and how does it work?
More importantly if the server just accepts hashed passwords and stores them, then if you got ahold of a hashed password through a leak you could just use it directly to authenticate by modifying the client. The hashed password just becomes the password with one extra client-side step that you can trivially skip.

Salting is more about making it non-obvious which passwords map to which hashes so you can’t easily build tables of hashes for common passwords.

Sending the password to the server in “plain text” is fine over https, it’s a secure channel. Hashing isn’t meant to hide the password on the wire, it’s to prevent anyone with access to the database from learning what the passwords are.
The surprise is just not worth it.
Wikipedia has a major recent events section which is the closest thing to this I’ve seen
Yes, they are high quality and you should take them if your employer is paying.

I considered taken them without my employer paying but the price is too absurd. And I've lots of experience so it doesn't make as much difference as if I were just starting.

It won't hurt, you'll have some fun and your CV will be better. Take it if you can.
GDPR requires the opposite, data collection has to be opt in. I don't really see why the telemetry they capture doesn't count as peoples personal data honestly, it should given how much behavior information is available from it.
After further consideration, I agree. Deregulation is the best regulation.
> More startups would succeed if they were bull-headed about keeping the customer and the problem the same but changing the solution. This is why passion matters. You are unlikely to pivot quickly through lots of different problems or customer types if you care deeply about the initial problem you set out to solve.

What would be some examples of companies that did and did not do this?
Still required them to actually pay for the thing, which is a funny usage of financed.

NYC public transit trains and subway were predominately privately-owned and -operated until 1940:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City...

How long did the second avenue subway take to finish under benevolent government leadership?
Sorry, sounds like a misunderstanding. I always meant to accept anything, that is why I put a replace in my top comment not saying that I would reject the form.
If you knew of a language other than C or C++ used for any substantial fraction (say, more than 0.1%) of peripheral device designs, I am confident you would have cited it.
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Thanks, Jim
The most awful problem with Java is that Larry Ellison owns it.

So the real question is: "Ugh, Why Oracle?!"
What sanctions? I've never seen one even fined for pirating software or any other kind of media, let alone someone fined for decompiling or altering software in general. Is something that everyone does.

The only thing that can get you into trouble is if you that kind of things for a profit, and that is right, but if you do that for personal use or to share it on the internet without profiting for it, nobody will ever do you anything...
It's not wrong of them to object if it's true. Wikipedia does spread disinformation and it's always personally frustrated me how they grant a public platform to every creepy stalker who's harassed me online.
What is the general opinion on Vivaldi?
what about the next update that will randomly toggle some settings back?

Well, you run the tool again. It even tells you to do that after making changes.
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Honest question: wasn't this whole debacle considered as a possible outcome prior to Brexit? Surely someone in the government must have said "hey this whole thing could end up like this, maybe we should talk about that."

What am I missing? Did something unexpected happen with Brexit? Or is this fueled by the pandemic?
C++ and Rust frameworks are faster. But Java is in like the top 3 or 4.
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OnShape does it better.
https://www.onshape.com/en/

But hey, new entrant into the market, keep trying! OnShape is expensive and could use some competition.
Outlaw what specifically though? You're falling into the same trap OP is calling out, that your extremely vague hand wavey proposed laws would only ban "the bad guys".
Website Meta Language is an offline HTML preprocessor, dating back to the 1990s
Seriously, how do I close my Amazon account?
Near the top. They never came out on top because languages like C++ would out perform (and now we have Rust too). But Java is certainly up there. That said, recently even a lot of the other languages have made some huge optimisations in the web server space too and so Java doesn’t even dominate amongst the byte code languages like it used it

https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/

That all said, comparing Java to Electron is like comparing a sports car to a camper van.
What Happened to London's Trams?
Yuck. This would have never gotten past Area 51 5 years ago. SE is slowly killing itself.
Sorry, I did leave out the US when I typed it. An innocent typo.
Yeah, I don‘t expect a drastic shift, but I would expect some details, like the weird material tap animation, to change for the better. Maybe the youtube app will support all iOS screen sizes with their safe area insets and properly sized toolbars. That‘s the kind of thing that the people who write about apple care about.
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Microsoft provides a tool that allows you to see all telemetry that’s captured

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/01/24/micro...

I don’t work for microsoft anymore but I laugh at these sorts of suggestions. I don’t know much about bing but I do know a decent bit about the telemetry pipeline and the idea of an anti government meme detection is ludicrous at best.
PBS is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is tax money. So it's more like NPR or the BBC.

Also, PBS has a variety of content and I don't think I know anyone who watches their news. Scarcely any of their content, but they have a few good things. I don't think they are taken very seriously as a news organization -- much less than NPR, for instance.
I agree. The winning move is not to play. To fiddle with Windows' privacy settings, and expecting them to respect the users privacy, is like asking an abusive partner nicely to not be abusive. Promises will always be broken, and in new and unexpected situations, the partner will act on their character, not on their promises. And Microsoft has a documented history of this behavior.
He probably would - he was incredibly warlike and had quite little regard for human life. Just like anyone else he had violently wrong opinions and predictions and had his biases - he was certainly a fallible mind though a genius.

That being said, there are quite a few historical figures (Einstein, Penrose, Hawking, Ramanujan, Bertrand Russel, Grothendieck) that are nowhere as morally questionable as many, though they are all flawed people.

On a purely intellectual level I doubt that you would be disappointed though they are all human in the end.
Until about 15 years ago Colorado was extremely serious about fining people caught collecting rainwater. Like somebody with a bucket of petunias watered from their rain gutter. It was ridiculous.
Find My data is end to end encrypted.
It's lazy, ugly, inefficient, unclear, and ugly to look at
Reindexing array accesses by +1 in Lua would be interesting…
I believe it’s only opt in when it contains user identifying information. Information on did a feature work or not and how long search indexing took isn’t particularly sensitive once you strip off any device identifiers.
Within civil eng (at least for my uni) students usually don't take more time than they have to. People finish left and right. It's easy for me to overlook the fact that it's just fine if it takes longer. So it's important to just get reminded from outside the bubble that this can in fact be normal. Thank you! :)
Is it possible to circumvent Wireshark, Procmon and the likes? Otherwise those 2 combined give pretty good insight in what an application is doing wrt I/O.
I think this is a question of what your definition of "a lot" is. If you use percentage - for example, 1% of parents, of maybe even less - 0.01%, 0.01%*7.7 billion = about a million people.

Does percentage make more sense here or absolute number? It depends on your context. I would say in this argument, it seems more certain that Von Neumann's success, which is always a function of both nature and nurture, can probably be attributed more to nature. Or, perhaps most likely, it's a rare event of talent meets incredible luck.
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> The comparison is between the original hashed password and the hashes made at auth-time.

Didn't I write that this shouldn't be done via the clause? I haven't edited my comment either so it should still be there and I see it is.

> the pseudo sql doesn’t select anything

It should select the hash(es) and bring them back to the app for comparison.

> The name of the original is “pass” but since it wouldn’t make sense to compare a plaintext string to a hash another logical assumption is that “pass” is a hash.

It doesn't matter whether it's a password or a hash, the form of the SQL statement is going to cause trouble and should be the other way round.

> Maybe these generous assumptions about someone’s pseudo code are unwarranted?

Perhaps you meant to reply to someone else?
I'm not really sure if this is the proof I'm looking for.

The author of the video was explaining how the LN works and it seems to be an exponential routing calculation problem ( similar to traveling salesman )

So while it could work for 75 k channels, it's not going to work for 1 million.

If the explanation of that video is correct (since you didn't disagree that), then how many channels it has now is irrelevant from my POV.
It's also more confusing, distracting, and dated. Also super lazy. Good clean song is harder, but more enjoyable to use.
> Just imagine the politician of your nightmares being in control of the regulations.

Even the worst politician is (ostensibly) accountable to the people. Corporations are not.
You are quite correct. I'm from Eastern Europe and consider your own reaction if I right a tool which has a name in cyrillic and every time you need to use it or search its functionality, you need to perform a complex incantation trying to remember the exact steps to generate something that at a glance looks just like "рир".
Isn’t the “grid” literally the electricity grid? But the phrase also can connote going completely out of contact, so it’s ambiguous.
safety and clean-up are always a cost center, on the books.
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>it's because it doesn't enforce.

If there's a lawsuit or formal complaint, they're forced to enforce...
I acted like this for a long time, and my trust remained broken.
This reminds me of the old "Windows XP Service Pack 4", or Windows 7 Minimalist ISOs that were going around. Generally, even the idea of using an OS downloaded from a random site (big Linux distributions excepted) is a security nightmare: you're trusting random, anonymous people not to put malware deep enough into the OS image where it won't easily be found. See XcodeGhost that got caught way after the fact.

Same exact reason people should strongly consider staying away from LineageOS builds and other such things, where the dev team of half a dozen non-vetted anonymous forum users is responsible for everything running on your phone. The "open-source means security because code gets vetted" argument only applies to big projects like Chromium, where hundreds of major corporations with world-class software engineers review, and contribute to the source code. Not to Lineage, where every phone model has its own build and dev team, and each build gets used by maybe a few hundred or thousand people, and reviewed by practically nobody. If there was one single Lineage build for all phones, I'd feel much more comfortable with it.

Though I have zero reason to distrust the Ameliorated folks, you generally never want to mess with software (especially OSes) downloaded from anyone other than the official vendor. The risk of using this is much higher than running proprietary ShutUp10, which is already non-zero since it's proprietary.
Probably the norm going forward to thwart ad-blockers. Also ads will most likely be generated server-side and served from the main domain in the future. I'm surprised this hasn't happened already TBH. I guess the ad-networks like their JS on user's pages enough to slow the progress?
Q: What’s the prize in a pie-eating contest?

A: Another pie.
So do Blueray players, Java is everywhere.
If it’s so valuable, then it seems they’d be fine to pay the same amount for water as municipal utilities do.
Interesting. Is there no corresponding podcast episode for this story?
Recent HN discussion on the Martians of Budapest :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28726489
I was very surprised and disappointed when I discovered that. It didn't really felt cross platform anymore if for every component you need to do a platform check and render it differently. It sounds like flutter is more about having the same (custom or material) UI on both platforms and not having the framework do the "nativification" for you.
I have no interest in helping a trillion dollar company beyond the bare minimum to access the services I need. I’d rather they figure out how to improve their services with more ethical (and controllable!) privacy practices.
Does Aaron Schwartz count as a counterexample? I realize he was never formally convicted but they were in the process of throwing the book at him when he died.
For some reason an image of Barbra Streisand just popped up in my head.
It didn't exist when we bootstrapped our department. Nowadays Airflow is a dev favorite and we have no good reason to seek alternatives.
They need stable secure funding that's unaffected by what the publish (not the quality per see) and autonomoy. With that, you tend to get good news.
Historically tools like these were broken by windows updates and could not keep up with Microsoft's violent efforts in breaking them. You can't even turn off windows defender in the registry anymore, which is the sole reason windows performs terribly on low end devices. It sends the CPU and 5400rpm disk to 100% use all the time.

Windows is a threat to national security and Microsoft must be sanctioned. Business if they wish to avoid crypto lockers and actually care about "cyber security" will drop windows in favor of Mac/Linux.
OK this is the case about whether he committed sexual assault in Sweden - which may be exaggerated or fake is just to extradite him to the US.

There is no doubt that he really is guilty of leaking US secrets.
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But it will rust and eventually fall down, so doesn't the cost show up at some later point anyway?
Yeah I'm sure being born to nobility and being surrounded by multiple governesses and tutors with advanced education had absolutely no impact on his ability to reach his potential and that if he was born to a slum he would be just as capable as otherwise.
Is that picture from the prison itself (label "Sigurdur Thordarson in now in Litla Hraun prison in Iceland")? If it is, it looks order(s) of magnitude better than majority of earthlings homes.
I wonder what it takes to add output to Rust, or if that’s even possible…
Windows has a P2P update distribution feature so I would not be surprised
It would also apply to government RFP processes.
I don't remember the whole story, but the original username I was going to use was going to be gödel and then something about incompleteness. Since Unicode isn't allowed for usernames here, I changed it to this.
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