skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope the article isn't accurate, because if it's only "tech giants" to be prohibited from store brands, that would mean, Congress has decided, it's only brick-and-mortar giants who can use sales data to grind product sellers and compete using store brands. I mean, it's not as if drug chains (Walgreens, CVS, etc.) and grocery chains (Kroger, Albertsons, etc.) and big box chains (Costco, Walmart, etc.) and pretty much every sort of large retail operation doesn't do just the same thing.

And speaking of using data to grind suppliers, ever since the early days of the NCR Teradata project put them miles ahead of any competitor and made them the largest retailer in the world for decades (sales still a bit ahead of Amazon last time I looked), they've been grinding prices, forcing offshoring of production to reduce labor costs, forcing suppliers to economize (that is, cut corners) on manufacturing to keep prices low. But, hey, it's tech giants selling store brands, that's the big problem!
My guess from looking at this is once you select a district, it would have populated a dropdown with teachers. The teachers were keyed off SSN as the ids in the select element. Not clearly visible in source, but would appear right away if you did "inspect element" after selecting a district.
What is an "online gym?"

How easy was it for people to cancel their subscriptions? Did you experience lots of chargebacks?
Not sure if it's bots or hackernews sentiment changing but pretty much this. I guess that's what happens when the disruptors become the corporate. But yes it's like the classic democracy quote about it being the worst but better than all the other alternatives. If this is the slap for running an unregulated exchange for 10-15 years which today traded $350 mil everyone here not building that including me is the idiot.
Who wrote this update?

> As we said previously, the incident was a result of a server configuration change that allowed improper access by an unauthorized third party.

It opens needlessly defensive / combative, and then is sparse everywhere else. A week later you've confirmed passwords and credit card information wasn't at risk?! A server configuration allowed access to your source code and some data warehouse?!

> We’ve undergone a thorough review of the information included in the files exposed and are confident that it only affected a small fraction of users and the customer impact is minimal.

The small fraction of users is your most prominent, who drive the majority of your advertising revenue. The impact is minimal?! Every viewer now knows how much creators make (I understand they could infer previously, now they visit a <website> and know it with full confidence). You don't think it'll impact their desire to donate, as a most obvious example?

Show Emmett Shear the door (finally), give this to AWS and let those folks manage it please.
I don't have any specific criticisms but I do think it's relevant to point out that the nature of things like computing, and other subjects, changed over time. To say computing is the same today as it was back then would be an error (not trying to insinuate you say otherwise, just believe it's important to note).
In the UK, experienced NHS nurses can be better than doctors.

I don't think anyone looks down on nurses in the UK if they have spent anytime in hospital.
You can find plenty on twitter. E.g.

https://twitter.com/BrutalTrade/status/1449035910658600969

Some are paid bots but some are real
"Facebook accused of 'fanning ethnic violence' in Ethiopian civil war

Frances Haugen, a former data scientist at Facebook, told members of a Senate subcommittee that her former employer bears some of the blame for the growing conflict in Ethiopia. More than once, Haugen accused Facebook's algorithms of "literally fanning ethnic violence" in Ethiopia.

"My fear is that without action, divisive and extremist behaviors we see today are only the beginning," Haugen said. "What we saw in Myanmar and are now seeing in Ethiopia are only the beginning chapters of a story so terrifying no one wants to read the end of it."

Freelance journalist Zecharias Zelalem is one of the people attempting to document that story in real time. He reports extensively on Ethiopia and agrees with Haugen's assessment.

"Just looking at the instances of documented evidence over the course of the past three years in which prominent Facebook posters would post unverified, often inflammatory posts or rhetoric that would then go on to incite mob violence, ethnic clashes, crackdowns on independent press or outspoken voices," Zelalem said.

In one recent instance, Zelalem saw an inflammatory Facebook post from a media outlet that falsely blamed members of an ethnic minority group for carrying out murders and kidnappings that took place on Sept. 27.

The post quickly got hundreds of shares and likes. A day later, on Sept. 28, Zelalem said the village cited in the post was ransacked, burnt to the ground and the inhabitants were murdered.

"Despite multiple efforts to report the post, it remains up and live as of this moment," he said.
This is the search form. Pretty sure it's the results you would get after the search that has the full ssn in the html source. Still interesting in that it allows searching by the last 4 of the ssn.

And the source seems to indicate this is the "public ssn search", and that a "search by full ssn" probably also exists.

E.g.:

let SSNSearch = document.querySelector("#pnlSSNSearchHeader");
let SSNPublicSearch = document.querySelector("#pnlSSNPublicSearchContent");
This is just fluff. Financial services and banks are not the same thing. The biggest problem with banks in the US is no free accounts, we need banks with physical branches to offer accounts for poor people to have. There is no money in this so a16z would not be interested. Everyone else is looked after already.
Rebecca Schaeffer's murder led to some privacy reforms in the US.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Schaeffer
Keep in mind people will try to take advantage of arbitrage situations so this process can take a while. Go back and research MTGOX.
> subtasks are forbidden because apparently they are buggy

heh, I've experienced exactly this. Makes a mockery of the whole setup.
> it's not possible to get anyone to care about you from a position of weakness

If that were true, there would never have been any civil rights movement anywhere. Civil rights exist because people do care about oppressed people.
I only ever enjoyed working in waterfall and „just in time“ environments.

Anything naming itself agile or SAFe always lead to depression and my withdrawal and disengagement.
I've noticed tech employees conducting organizing activities using workplace resources, such as Slack. Even if I agree with the spirit of organizing activity, many people doing it seem totally out of their depth. Of course you are going to get nailed, unless the company is tolerating your organizing as PR or as a venting mechanism.
Filters make cigarettes mildly worse.

https://www.quora.com/Is-smoking-unfiltered-cigarettes-signi...
I've been keeping a private notes file about this. People tell me I'm fast, and I agree with them, so I'm trying to track why.

Some examples:

- Be a fast typist. At 120WPM, typing is not a limiting factor. I know professional programmers who do 40WPM and it limits them a _lot._

- Have self-awareness about what is taking you time. Ask whether you can stop doing that. A good example of this is having good autocomplete: if you're looking at docs when you could configure VSCode (or whatever) to have the answer a tab keypress away, you're losing minutes per hour.

- Get really good at using the fuzzy finder. Stop clicking on files.

- Write scripts for common actions, either in `~/bin` or in your source directory.
Most elementary school teachers I know seem to have a mentality that boys are somehow uncontrollable and unbearable to teach.

Are they harder to teach? Possibly, even probably.

Does that mean we should just resign ourselves to mediocrity in teaching them based off of sexist stereotyping? Hard no.

I suspect that getting more men involved with elementary school teaching would help ease this issue because you'd provide more role models for young boys in elementary school. At the school I went to, there was only one male teacher for all of pre-kindergarten through 6th grade. That absence of male role models can't be a good thing.
Nice analysis of what's going on behind the scenes in the ML model -- and I love the section at the end thinking about how to make the RNG more resistant to ML cracks.
Put top recipes on the home page, actually curate some data (at least 4 searches just show no results), a million other small things. Honestly just looks like a "my first open-source" recipe app repo on github.

Way too early to show off, best of luck. Recipe websites are notoriously bad and there is obvious room for improvement.
It's debatable whether Tether has a few inaccuracies or massive fraud.
>The only financial services companies that are seeing positive uplift from these sorts of initiatives are those with enough resources to try this path, fail at it, and then decide they wanted to build 100% of their own stack in-house anyways.

The issue is a lot of the executives that join the bank's C-suite after 10-15 years of experience usually come from consulting... And as you can imagine they keep hiring and re-hiring their old firms to have 2-3 business graduates come and make a PPT telling a room full of engineers and developers how they should be building complex systems.
"Uncoerced market" or something, is closer to the meaning I seek.
> It occurs to me that they’re the same problem, since a woman who goes into engineering probably doesn’t end up going into public administration. So you only need fix one of them, and the other follows.

That's assuming a fixed pie. If you push more women into the PhD level (or discourage men), then you could perhaps fix the engineering disparity while keeping the others. An overall disparity that favors women will probably not be perceived as much of a problem.

> And it’s no particular surprise that people find engineering more interesting to talk about.

Why? Engineering is in fact often incredibly boring to most people, and I would be very surprised if people spend more time talking about it than public policy.
In Facebook's case they own some of their biggest potential competitors for attention and deliberately preserve their niches. So splitting them up might make a difference. But if not, requiring an open network akin to the telephone system with standardized protocols might make a difference.

AT&T was split on geographical lines, so maybe FB could be as well, and the regionals would all have to interoperate with open protocols that would allow for regional competitors.
It's interesting you completely omit the part where he figures out the string in the URL that's a company's ID, and uses that to request a file. In your example it would be "I'm this other person, can you share my own files with me?" Except he's lying, and he's not the other person.

Tell me, what happens if you, heavyset_go, send an invoice to Apple, and the invoice says you're "Cisco" and they pay it. Do you get to keep the money, or does the prison get to keep you?
This is actually pretty commonplace in the LA area. I mean, you can take a tour bus that points out dozens of celebrity’s homes. It’s why many actors and influencers hire private security.
Right? My pandemic hobby was cocktails. Never even tried drinking anything more complicated than a screwdriver before, but fell down the cocktail youtube rabbit hole because of "how to drink".

So, over the course of a year I made a hundred different cocktails and blogged my experiences on my blog, twitter, and Facebook. Most of the cocktails were simple 3-ingredient things based on what I had available, but a few were elaborate messes like eggnog or a Ramos gin fizz.

I had my neighbors coming over to me when I was outside thanking me for the cocktail blogging and saying it was one of their favourite things to see on Facebook, and asked me to keep posting them.

Social media doesn't have to be terrible.
For an even clearer example. There's this list of the 25 most searched for people last year: https://www.ratsit.se/info/omtalade/mest-eftersokta-forra-ar... . I can recognize several celebrities there, most of them artists, and even our prime minister.

You can see addresses, if they own dogs, which cars they own, what salary they have (the site I linked needs payment for that, but there's other ways to get it for free), the companies they own or own a part of.
Plenty of overengineered projects became fragile messes as well, it's hard. You need to actively break some subset of "best practices" on any given project.
This feels like the story of how Pesäpallo was invented, except that it did work.
I'm coming from a USA perspective. It's great to hear that this non-sense is no prevalent everywhere.
Half of these degrees are PRETEND.

A "liberal arts" "doctorate" means EXACTLY NOTHING.

The entire society is going to pay a heavy price for pretending unequal things are equal.

Your GenderFaggot Studies degree does NOT equal my Doctorates/Masters in Engineering, Computer Science and Medicine.

I refuse to pretend that they are.

You should too.
Do we know the money was actually seized? Last I’d heard the Tether (or maybe Bitfinex?) CEO had told the NYAG office the missing $850 million kept in a Panama(?) bank had been seized in an AML sting but I’m not sure whether that story was ever corroborated?
Thanks! Good idea. I will put that on the my TODO list.
No, no decoupling.

I wondered if the runup was like MTGOX. It’s plausible, but if so then someone is providing the dollars for everyone selling into USD on Coinbase etc. Whereas MTGOX’s prices were all self referential right? By the time it started freezing up

One other possibility is that Tether is playing the CME futures and making money from the pump up. I suspect they’re insolvent but it’s possible they aren’t and are merely crooks. The crypto markets interface with real money now
Though a bit elitist, his comment isn't discouraging anybody, and does hold some truth in that getting closer to the hardware allows you to do things you can't do otherwise.

I feel like it's unfair to disparage him as harshly as that.
There are a bunch of sketchy unlicensed exchanges that are heavily invested in utilizing USDT. The Tether meltdown should be quite the show. All of those outstanding balances have to be reconciled somehow. Or they'll just close up shop and disappear and years later people will maybe get a small % back, like with MTGOX.
People will look at abject incompetence and failure like this and use it as a *REASON* we should give more money to government!
Antisocial - "when a person consistently shows no regard for right and wrong and ignores the rights and feelings of others".

I don't think antisocial fits as a descriptor, at all. When I think of antisocial behavior I think of graffiti or arson and other property damage without regard for the owners or the public sphere.

I think the word you're looking for is asocial.
Where would one start to research this?
There are exceptions within engineering, yes. But it is mostly related to what you are building, chemical engineering is closely related to medicine, and women like medicine so it has better gender parity. In the degrees where you build/program things that moves you see more men.

In order to bridge that gap you'd need to tie programming to something women love as much as men loves working on machines that has moving parts.

Edit: And I've seen CS degree variants with heavy UX focus that tends to get 50/50 gender balance. It is really easy to shift gender balance in degrees this way, just shift it more to humans and you get more women, more to moving things and you get more men.
Let's break down what we saw in the Civil Rights movement. There were speakers and big marches. There was a lot of pride. MLK focused on appealing to morals and the economic problems caused by discrimination, and the people who were defying authority were doing it to thumb their noses at it. The pathos wasn't, "help me they're fire hosing me :'(" it was, "I am tough and determined enough to get beat up and keep going. We're on the right side of history and they will give up before we do." The victims were calling their victimization endurance.

The peace movement, the origins of labor organization... almost every popular movement in US history has been conducted from the perspective of class solidarity, endurance under difficult conditions, and an intent to fight to change something that forces outside the movement didn't want changed.

How they're going to make that work for menminism is beyond me, but we're living in the time before the talking points seem obvious. When someone figures out what they are, then everyone will start repeating them until we all have them memorized. That's the way things go.
Sometimes I think the biggest slowdown for most coders is the inability to make a decision and start working in a certain direction. Not-deciding also includes masquerading procrastination as researching a subject :).
Nobody's clamoring to fix the under-representation of men in teaching and nursing either.
Augmented Reality Glasses you can buy in 2021 with features breakdowns
Sure, they add value for those that own property at the expense of everyone else.

When you go to defend a company that essentially acts to exclude large swaths of the community from home ownership by accumulating real estate assets and driving prices up $400+/sq ft in many communities without actually doing any work to these houses, it's important to distinguish who exactly benefits here, because it's not most people that benefit from this.

Defending a company that adds value exclusively to the wealthier, property-owning class to everyone else's detriment by arguing that they "add value" is a bit of an oversimplification, isn't it?
Underlying poll: https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2021/10/08/national-report-...

Unfortunately, they didn’t ask how much savings the responding households had prior to the pandemic, which makes the headline answer hard to evaluate.

The closest it gets is “Is your financial situation now better, worse, or about the same as it was before the Covid-19 outbreak?” (Page 18).

23% said “A little worse” and 9% said “A lot worse.” 49% about the same, 15% a little better, 4% a lot better.
Yes, just like the various interpretations of quantum mechanics, it's not a scientific question because it doesn't allow for any testable hypothesis. Science is bound by the scientific method, questions of philosophy exist outside these bounds. Is math invented or discovered? Does the wave function collapse upon observation, or do observers exist in superposition? Is my "red" the same as your "red"?

Even if we could have exact answers to these questions, they wouldn't allow use to make predictions, and so they are not science. I think it's reasonable to say that means they aren't "useful", we can't go to space or build skyscrapers with these answers, but I think it equally makes them the more interesting questions. Our usual tools at rational inquiry fail to penetrate these sorts of questions.
For capacity planning you have to look at worst case behaviors, and we have a lot of Pollyannas running around crowing about best and average case behaviors.

A consensus protocol has O(logn) behavior on any network that displays any of the 8 fallacies of distributed computing. But the larger the cluster the more fallacies you're likely to have to deal with in a given day, and O(logn) is too optimistic. If the cost is ever 'marginal', it's in little islands of stability that won't last long.

What I see over and over again is people expending huge opportunity costs trying to keep their brittle system in one of these local maxima as long as they can. I think because they fear that once they slip out of that comfy spot people will see they aren't some miracle worker, they're just slightly above average and really good at story telling.
Playing with the Wio Terminal’s Grove Connectors
> Anybody have thoughts on what could make a social network "healthy"?

Personally? I was thinking about this the other day and how I wish it was more like email - use whatever provider you want or host your own - either way you can post and share with other users.

That's at least one criteria after seeing how so much of the network effects are created by the need to use one platform in order to communicate on that platform.

Then I started thinking about how this would work. Subscribing to the feeds of people you care about, being able to browse and search updates, etc. and in the end I realized I was basically describing RSS with easy publishing tools.

Host your stuff on whatever platform/host/provider you prefer and see fit, but have some common format "calling card" or address that you can use to share your subscription address.

Competition would come in the form of hosting options, reader features, etc. but the conflict would likely result from some providers "innovating" features that only work on their platforms, devices, etc. Sort of like how I can message with anyone with full functionality...unless they're on an iPhone and default to iMessage. Then I'm downgraded to SMS/MMS.

That said, I would still prefer a nonFacebook that still allowed me to follow/converse with people on Facebook, even if it stuck me with the shitty interface when dealing with non-standardized platform "features".
>US education fails boys significantly starting all the way back in elementary school.

It has absolutely nothing to do with doctoral degrees. Why even bring it up?
Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform
https://gcn.com/articles/2020/01/07/af-kubernetes-f16.aspx?m...
What a world we live in…

Edit: here’s the DOD case study by the CNCF:

https://www.cncf.io/case-studies/dod/
Libvf.io: A Commodity GPU Multiplexing Tool Driven by VFIO and YAML
I've read the article and it's about facial detection - it detects that there is a face on the picture.

Haven't read anything about identifying the person wearing the mask.
On the initial headline I thought that $41 million would be negligible compared to the central role they have in the crypto ecosystem. But apparently that fine is 2/3 of their backing reserves.
To be clear, it asks for last 4. This is not uncommon, with some sites asking for last name, birthday and last 4 of social to identify someone.
Oh boy, it's not just unentertaining, but a grotesque farce of what you get when you want to check all the bingo boxes for making something bankable, and in doing so, completely destroy the original content.

In the first minutes it's already game over: they try to get you interested in the human characters in a book where the main protagonist is an entire galaxy over centuries. All named persons are going to die every 3 chapters, I get that you can't get ROI on your expensive hot actors faces, but that makes no sense for the material you work with!
Are there delays on Bitfinex transfers currently? And were people able to transfer out of MTGOX at all?

I had wondered if there were parallels in the runup, but haven’t heard widespread reports of people being able to transfer out yet. Or rather, more than the usual number of such reports, there are always some.
Ask HN: What would be some interesting uses of analyzing data from HN favorites?
Every HN user's list of favorites is public. Given that it's a list of topics that people find interesting, I imagine some people, especially advertisers, would find it useful.

That's an obvious one though. What kind of wacky ideas have you had for this kind of data?
Isn't that the benefit of being a large company. You do something bad, you get a slap on the wrist and they politely ask you to stop. You do it again, same slap.. and they say pretty please. Eventually, you just realize that as long as you keep paying the politicians you can do pretty much whatever you want with little to no consequence?
I would guess in URLs, say for a “more info” link that shows more info about the person in question.