skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What surprised me is that the company demands over $375000 (+ attorney fees) which is a several year income for an average person. But have you ever heard about a company being fined or sued for an amount equal to its several-year income?

Also, as I understand, all Krebs has done is wrote "X told me about Y". How is that statement false, if X really contacted Krebs and told about Y?
One-way and Two-way Door Decisions
Britain being forced to go cashless 'against its will'
When to Move to the Edge: A Simple Equation to Help Decide
The IRS wants a cut of the fraudulent income? What?? Feels pretty disingenuous to me..
JRuby is a really cool project! Unfortunately it's fairly far behind mainstream Ruby. They are still working on Ruby 2.7 compatibility, but Ruby 2.6 end-of-life is 2022/03/31 (tomorrow).
When you are tired of learning and being passive, it's time to start making and being active.
No insurance = no registration = no plates.

That's a pretty serious offense and it's extremely uncommon over here.

Sure, repossession can be costly but debt collection agencies will make your life hell very quickly, it's not something you can drag for years without big consequences.
Plotto: A new method of plot suggestion for writers of creative fiction (1928)
Indeed, and in this recent paper, it is argued that quite literally the opposite is causally true: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29874/w298...

"Within five years of the appointment of a business manager, wages decline by 6% and the labor share by 5 percentage points in the US, and by 3% and 3 percentage points in Denmark. Firms appointing business managers are not on differential trends and do not enjoy higher output, investment, or employment growth thereafter."
Few points after reading the comments. From designer pov:

- Although the definition of a Design System is somewhat loose, it can be stated that Bootstrap is a NOT a design system.
- To reduce Design System to a branded collection of technical assets is simplistic. You are still not getting it.
- The general idea of Design Systems is much more than organising some components for one medium (web). The execution of the system might or might not be good.
- In order to do design (UX, UI, ...), you don't need to be "a designer". However, the fact that it is possible to use something like Bootstrap does not make your design (outcome) work automatically. More often that not, the work done by non-designer is not as good. The craft exists. Thinking that "the problem has been solved already" means you don't actually understand the full problem. Like with anything, some aspects are re-solved continuously. Maybe unnecessarily. Maybe not.
- For many it would probably be easier to think that all design is design. Any act of diminishing some aspect of design can be mirrored by asking yourself if you think your design tasks can be done by anyone not paying appropriate attention. E.g. if you are a programmer, imagine a random stakeholder would quickly put together your data models and API designs and call it a day. Would it work? Would it scale? Would it be enough? Maybe.
- Any design can be challenged. Complaining about stakeholders is lame. Check your argumentation skills and asses if you have actually challenged the design when you had the opportunity.
But the only reason the insider job worked is because they insist on making their gear dependent on the "cloud" for no good reason?
I was 10 in 81.
I would travel several miles from home playing with my friends.
Bikes were a big thing.
I had no computer and played D&D.
I read books like Stig of the Dump, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.
Your favourite tv show was on once a week.
I recorded music from the television or radio on a little cassette player.
I had a record player.
I slept in tents in friend's back gardens in the summer.
I played soccer with friends until it was dark.
I went swimming with friends in the sea and the swimming pool.
I grew up in Belfast and encountered several nearby bombings.
Children seem more afraid and unhappy now than then.
I don't have a source of him saying that's why he opposed return-free taxes. This article has links to the statements of his organization:

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax...

His stated reasons are so fantastically stupid that I can't imagine them being legitimate. Return-free filing is the best tool we have to achieve his claimed goals of reducing the complexity and confusion of tax season. Can you think of an innocent explanation for his opposition?
Erm, I took a quick read of the December 2, 2021 update ...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charg...

What part of that update is incorrect? Naming that update is not going to help their case, at all.

This lawsuit is likely doing the exact opposite of what Ubiquiti expected.

Before the lawsuit, I had some sympathy that they got jerked around by an ex-employee with major access and took it in the shins. I'm kind of in the glass houses and stones camp ... I doubt very many companies could withstand a high-level technical person going rogue. They found the problem. Now they're pursuing charges against him and that's rattling through the legal system. Sure, there's lots of reputational damage, but that's the kind of thing that happens when you centralize management of things--it makes them a high profile target (see: Solarwinds).

However, the lawsuit against a reporter is causing me to pause and think "Wow. Maybe they're actually institutionally incapable of recovering from this, worried that something else might get exposed and really do suck."

The lawsuit moved me from slightly sympathetic to Ubiquiti into "What kind of idiots think this is a good idea?" and looking for alternatives.
> Are these people who are living in the "midwest" like Chicago or midwest like some rural town of 10,000 people that is hours away from any major city?

Off the top of my head, with provincial city being something like Akron, OH and provincial town being something like Bangor, ME:

Provincial cities in DE, IL, MI, TX, MT, IN, FL, OK.

Provincial towns in GA (2... both near military bases), CA (2), TX, HI, WA, WI, PA.

The interesting thing is that being from a provincial area has a lot of merits (and some demerits).

MERITS

- There is often very little competition for slots (depends on state).

- It's relatively easy to have a very high class rank and to be the top 1% of students that a teacher has ever taught.

- It is relatively easy to find ways to stand out in community development, since there are not dozens or hundreds of local kids who are trying to do the same (some for resume padding, some because they are genuine leaders).

- It is relatively easy to get unique learning opportunities like Rotary scholarships to study abroad since most of the people around you lack interest and/or ability.

- It is relatively easy to latch on to some local research initiative because most people around you lack interest and/or ability.

- It can often be easy to be a varsity athlete in some sport just because you are willing to participate. This is true even if you are not particularly athletic, but you are willing to work at it. This may sound trivial and potentially distracting, but note that some elite schools (e.g., Harvard) specifically rate you on athletics.

DEMERITS

- Many/most teachers will not know how to write strong recommendations, even if that is what they want to convey. Short version... provide specific details/examples that describe someone who is actually amazing.

- One or more folks in the process may try to keep you down, especially if they don't like you -- think school counselor, a teacher, etc. It helps a lot to be liked, but a lot of smart kids realize that K-12 schooling (especially in provincial areas) is the farce that it is, so they are often cynical and antagonistic towards teachers and administrators.

- Since school is often very easy, it can be tough to motivate oneself to study tougher topics, many of which have to be studied at a different venue (e.g., junior college, summer studies, self-study, etc.). The smartest kid in school often chooses to coast rather than push themselves, since it is not clear how pushing themselves has the potential to benefit them.

- Unless they are in a good private school or learn from another source, some/many folks from provincial areas are underprepared for an elite education. They often don't have the same foundation of knowledge and study skills that folks who went to better schools have, often times because they rarely or never had to study. Catching up in foundational knowledge and study skills is not impossible to overcome, but it's definitely starting a square or two behind everyone else.

- You probably won't know anyone at your university going in, but some of your dorm mates (e.g., from Stuyvesant) will have quite a few peers with whom they attended high school.
Lapsus$ claims to have breached Globant
Sure, but adaption can be a number of things. There is no real reason you cannot ‘go back’ if you adapt that way; it is a choice either way. Ofcourse things are not the same but the feel can be. And your heart definitely is a lot stronger (unless you have obvious defects by birth or lifestyle) than red bull and coffee.
Hello eesmith,

I finally got to your comment. I'm sorry about my delay, I was so busy and I think this is important so I wanted to set aside some time where I could really think about it and respond properly. I hope you enjoy! :)

> Prove it. :)

You have yet to explain … you would rather believe there's a secret project a least a decade ahead of the rest of the world, than believe it was misheard or falsified.

Ha :) I think a decade is easy and the truth is further. I’m satisfied with the explanation of SAPs, and if you’re not, you know your interpretation is not something I can’t help you with, right? :)

The only people I know who do that are conspiracy theorists.

Then you don’t know me, heh :)

Yes… you could be living inside a Truman-like artificial environment…a carefully constructed zoo of what humans used to be like.

Ha :) Is that why you find it hard to accept that SAPs imply much unknown, because you think it radically alters your reality? Could that not also be a good thing to refresh your perspective, and unblock you to speculate on larger possibilities? Hard to dispute that classified history diverges, and seems a stretch to imply that SAP existence means reality is a simulation.

Richard Dolan could be a cockamamie conspiracy theorist…Prove he isn't.

Does a label alter the truth or thinking? Labels can function as a Jedi mind trick to discourage more thinking tho. Are the prevalence of such labels why you find it hard to accept this, because the labels connote shame or craziness?

Because I have an idea… how much work it took to program it.

Knowledge based on one (public, I assume, heh :) ?) compartment. The existence of SAPs implies much unknown publicly, why insist that public knowns proscribe all unknowns?

Your conspiracy theory requires a system which is about 300x more powerful… seems you would rather make up a fake history about the secret world than enjoy the amazing work that actually did happen.

People can enjoy being inspired by both. :)

There were leaks about the Manhattan Project … just prior to its use.

Did those leaks come from Los Alamos? The project occurred at many sites. That SAPs are hidden in small towns seems hard to dispute, heh :)

Don't forget …Cray. Again, 'How do you talk to God?'

No one public at any rate. That people were better in their niche, seems hard to dispute.

That's one of the more annoying things about conspiracy experts. They demean… even now when 1GHz laptops are passé.

Being inspired by public history can prompt people to speculate, which can be seen as admiration of public breakthroughs, not undermining.

And they don't care…doesn't have the ring of truth

Will your “ring of truth” be the same as someone who has worked in SAPs?
What does it take to adapt a text layout engine to add RTL support
It would perhaps be wise to try to practice deriving happiness from something other than the seeking out of novelty.

Like picking up an instrument and start practicing more advanced music than the pop song of the day. That's really a long-term game.

Programming can be another such activity. I mostly stopped reading programming books some years ago, but I find that deliberating over the meta-game of programming, i.e. not how do I specifically solve this problem, but more how do I structure my solution, how do I simplify it, how do I reduce the problem itself to its core, how do I write the actual text, variable names etc., in such a manner that it is self-evident what is happening. That is truly a long game too. There's even a skill to the deliberation itself - too much deliberation is counterproductive.

I read somewhere that the philosophy in the antiquity defined being good not as based on absolute moral values of say unselfishness, like giving food to starving children, but on simply being really good at what you do. Perhaps that's from a realization of what actually makes people happy? Like the old carpenter expertly fixing a troublesome door while softly whistling to himself, a human being in inner peace.
Exactly. Plus, it's not like "back in the day" you could do anything about random bans on IRC, Usenet or whatever.
Why is the title on HN "spent $40M", but the title of the article is "stole $40M"?
Yeah not really working as expected.

Was interested in this as I'm looking to build a "swearing detector" to help me swear less in video calls but this could not pick up one sentence properly out of a couple and then it started throwing errors.

Think it needs some time back in the lab tbh.
Remind me where I advocated censorship?

> Free speech may not be perfect but the alternatives have been worse.

Define free speech. Define censorship. Is the action of private citizens or businesses declining to propagate your words censorship? A lot of people seem to think so these days.

> How often have censors "[promoted] an honest marketplace of ideas or the discovery of 'truth'"?

Define who is a censor? Because if you consider (for instance) moderators on internet services 'censors' then the answer to that is "a lot", by getting rid of trolls, spammers and shitposters.

The terms of the debate are important, and trotting around saying "Free Speech! No censorship!" is not really very useful most of the time, when people are constantly changing the definition of both.
So you’re saying that you think John Lennon was the last one to be considered a musical genius?
> it's well known bankruptcies stay on your credit report for 10 years.

That isn't exactly true!

Chapter 7 bankruptcy remains on your report for up to 10 years, and Chapter 13 stays there for up to seven years. [1]

Chapter 7, which is known as liquidation bankruptcy, involves selling some or all of your property to pay off your debts. This is often the choice if you don't own a home and have a limited income.

Chapter 13, also known as a reorganization bankruptcy, gives you the chance to keep your property (including secured assets like your home and car) if you successfully complete a court-mandated repayment plan that lasts between three and five years.

[1] https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/bankruptcy-chapt...
Because the code runs in a VM already, they are not concerned about isolating further.

For example, if you're writing code in C++ targeting Linux, using Docker helps with reproducible builds and deploying on any hardware.

But if you have a VM, there are less advantages. There still are some, of course, with orchestration etc if you want it.
Common belief in the computer cooling world is higher end VRMs need _less_ cooling because they're more efficient (which generates less heat) and have higher temperature tolerances.
I started my career in Java and although I loved IntelliJ and was perplexed by how poor RubyMine seemed by comparison (circa 2012) that's not enough for me to go back from Ruby to Java.

What I'm realising now is that Java has (had?) a really clunky type system and that there are other languages that do types better, so I shouldn't use Java as my reason for avoiding them.
I think it means that they like to install software and manage servers rather than renting a container cluster to host your app.
Hello eesmith, did you see my reply? I'm sorry I just wanted to thread it down the page, rather than branch it! :)
To be fair the fact that's all we had to say, due to a character limit also on HN, proves the article author's point very nicely.
This comment is confusing to read. It doesn't matter which party wins the election because the voting system itself is flawed. It's also not a particularly new thesis but an often acknowledged problem.
It might be that this was the intent of the system, that doesn't change the fact that nowadays significant portions of the population have gravitated towards a few very large metropolis, effectively giving disproportionate power to the people living in rural areas
Ask HN: Amazon sharing data with Facebook/Meta?
I have all tracking settings possible turned off on my devices, including in the Facebook and Amazon apps.

Usually the ads shown to me are random, great!

Except whenever I use the Amazon Android app, not long after Facebook starts showing me targeted ads based on products I've viewed on Amazon.

For instance I was looking for gravel and other types of decorative stones for gardening purposes. Many of the products I looked at were marketed as for use in aquariums or with reptiles.

So now Facebook is showing me ads for fish and reptile pet products. When I checked the "why am I seeing this ad?" page they've added pets, fish and reptiles to my "interests".

The only place I've looked at those types of things is in the Amazon app.

What's going on here?

P.S. I even have the global Android targeted ads setting turned off.
They did? I have an AP and I keep the old version of their admin app on an old computer, but when i tried to install something newer it started some crap with a cloud login so I gave up.

Did they revert it? You can really use an AP with recent firmware now without connecting in any shape or form to Ubiquity servers?
We don’t answer any requests unless the police actually turns up on our doorstep. That happened once in the past 20 years and we assisted.
It makes complete sense if you’re utterly amoral, as long as you remain below “hire a cpa” threshold any money you can scam out is free profit.
Germany and Deutschland are two unique countries on this list. Japan is doubled. Ukraine is doubled. Thailand. Israel. Spain. Lebanon. Armenia.

France has the special property of zooming out to the entire world map because there are multiple French territories located around the Caribbean islands. (Do French people have maps like the U.S.---where Alaska and Hawaii are an inset beside the contiguous states---that show all of the various French islands?)

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Two recommendations for improvement that unfortunately make a non-trivial amount of work:

* consistent localization (so many choices: all English names, all local names, local names for non-Latin alphabets, all English and local names with redirects, etc.);

* having true "find by location", because if you search for Saint Barthelemy, you get every listing from France.

* (bonus) test spell check results of "not found" locations. If I search Saint Bartholemy on the piano finder, the result is "No place found", while on Google Maps, it shows Saint Barthélemy.
Here it is: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.06188

RNN outputs "confidence" bit which can guide computation to perform more steps to obtain more confidence in the result. Essentially, RNN asks "let me think about that some more".

But, separate ablation study found that if you just drop confidence bit altogether and allow RNN to compute some more every time (e.g., always perform 4 computations on single input for 1 output), you get same or better results without extra complexity of training.

There is also Microsoft Research's paper I can't find right now about the variable computation for image classification where there is a "confidence" bit at some of the final layers - if lower layer is cinfident enough, it's output will be used for classification, otherwise the output of that layer will be passed into more transformation of upper layers.
The alternative would be hosted functions, like lambda, which is just running in someone else's containers.
> Well, once you stop trying to get people into exclusive clubs, you start asking crazy questions like "why don't we just educate everybody to a high level rather than place arbitrary cutoffs based on century old social clubs to maintain an artificially restricted elite?"

Pro tip... if you want to be educated well through instruction, don't go to an elite school. The instruction in most of the classes really sucks (with some notable exceptions that are often available for free or cheap online).

Small liberal arts schools tend to do a much better job of educating through instruction.
Wow, that is productivity at another level! Anything else you'd share?
TurboTax is a relatively new product, and they haven't been big lobbyists for their whole existence. Why wasn't the tax process simple before then?
> Perhaps that's from a realization of what actually makes people happy?

I just want to comment on the irony of praising a philosophy that focuses more on abstract virtue rather than an absolute metric of goodness, by noting that this increases happiness.
Half a million to destroy something that costs a million or more seems like a decent bargain to me, especially given that it’s fire and forget and capable of hitting them where their armor is thinnest. The pentagon’s latest numbers claim that out of 112 Javelins fired in Ukraine so far, 100 have hit their target[0].

[0] https://www.armyrecognition.com/ukraine_-_russia_invasion_co...
We're nearing a recession, if this always-accurate indicator is right again
> You are reading 'Linux' and hearing 'desktop' but the reality is there is a lot more embedded Linux than desktop Linux

Yeah, this is a weird example of availability bias. Of the literally billions of Linux instances on the planet, how many are desktops these days? One in a thousand? Even less? Most of them are Android phones, most of the rest (other) embedded devices, almost all of the rest, servers.
Maybe a slightly less extreme analogy would be highly processed food vs. traditional food... I feel like I'm just learning that white bread isn't really healthy and is nutritionally deficient after many years of vigorous consumption.
In a way, it is even deceptive, because naive programmers might be lead to think that repeated(!) table scanning is what real database engines do.

It's actually very rare that this happens. For example, SQL Server will create a temporary index on the fly if one is missing. It can create B-Tree, Hash, and Bitmap indexes which might be unexpected for some people because only B-Tree indexes can be created "permanently".

So in some ways database engines do even more than just use statically defined indexes.
In a democratic society, with an elected principal, it's not only not valuable, but anti-democratic and antisocial.

We all agreed on the rules as a society, if somebody wants to empower themselves above them than that's not cool imo.

Of course, in authoritarian governments your point stands, but then the trade-off is undermining democracies as collateral damage.
A deterministic universe is still subject to the butterfly effect. What you’re describing is fate. Which is more a spiritual belief than anything.
Exhibit A in "Machines vs Humanity"
There are a lot of mental disorders that are induced by neurological / physical things. I wish ADHD, ASD, Schizophrenia, SPD and more was just 'bad parenting'!!
OK. That's the difference between "I find it currently confusing because I happen to be confused" and "it is intrinsically confusing".
Updates to Learn Ada Website
More than archives it would be so amazing if it could be resurrected in some meaningful way. Maybe not totally interactive, but a read-only mode. Even old AOL. Would be great to relive that time.