skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Challenging claims is a process best done with delicacy and foresight. In particular, it's best to pretend to be humble, collect lots of data, show your work/thinking in detail, and understand the psychology of your adversary.

Be prepared for disappointment; be prepared for vicious attacks. Expect that the power structures of the establishment will make things uncomfortable to you. But continue on, humbly collecting your data and showing your thinking.

I've watched several key paradigms fall after 20-30 years of dogged work.
https://support.google.com/docs/answer/10519333?hl=en#:~:tex....

Also, Google Drive has an open API to use things like rclone to add third-party encryption. As usual, Apple does not provide a similar API:

https://github.com/rclone/rclone/issues/1778
F droid has better discovery than the play store for apps that avoid monetizing their basic features, e.g. a QRcode scanner. Some criticisms about the release model are valid IMO, with it using a different dynamic of trust than the play store. There is no good replacement for f droid.
Dr. Scott Newsome of Johns Hopkins Medicine explains stiff-person syndrome

https://youtu.be/xulU10U4V5o
Cydia; but it requires a jailbroken iOS/iPadOS device.
> For everyone on this thread making broad proclamations about how SBF won't go to jail because of American corruption

People are forgetting he stole money from rich people, the worst crime imaginable in America. If instead he made billions killing poor people either by selling them highly addictive drugs or by poisoning their drinking supply his company would be hit with a fine.
You say it like some internal decision of some unnamed nobody at "AMZN" is some standard of excellence, or whatever.
Has GPT-3 gone too far?!
Home is where the bidet is installed
That's good to hear. I definitely prefer minimal frameworks like Express over frameworks like Spring.
I was simply replying to your statement, nothing more.

>For those over 40, when they grew up there was no "online".
In the US, commercial toilets like the one tested do not have lids. Probably for ease of maintenance and (most likely) a misguided notion that not having a lid is more hygienic and easier to clean. These are toilets found in office buildings, shopping centers, airports, etc.

Anybody know if commercial toilets in UK and EU tend to have lids?
Morever, a wonderful aspect of standard CPython is that you can compile it from source on a huge range of architectures in less than 5 minutes. Building Pypy from source is more difficult, and Pypy is significantly less portable (e.g., there is no viable WebAssembly version of Pypy).
Languages like Java, Go and C were all designed before it became obvious that `Option<>` or `?` were obviously the right thing to do.

You can live with it, but most language eventually add some way to deal with it. Java has @NonNull. Javascript and Python both have static type annotations that are non-nullable. Even C++ has some attempt at it (std::option<>).

The only one I know of that hasn't bothered trying is Go.
Nice. If CNET's article is based on the earlier Business Insider piece, that tells me pretty much all I need to know...
I don't think he has any future business opportunities (beyond maybe being "that notorious guy" on the after dinner speaking circuit), not even in crypto.

I think he probably believes he is both successfully reputation-washing and setting the foundations for a legal defence, but the whole reason he's in this position in the first place is that his gambles didn't pay off...
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Musk's Spat with San Francisco Could Spur Twitter Relocation
Ok... but that mostly just seems like Germany. At least the stereotype of Germany is that all the rules are very strict and it's very important to follow them.

From "What makes Germans so orderly?" https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200531-what-makes-germa...

On the high-speed train gliding smoothly from Berlin to Düsseldorf, a young man started chatting to me. He eventually asked, “What are some of the cultural differences you’ve noticed between Germans and Americans?”

As if on cue, a middle-aged woman hovered over us and gave a harsh, “Shh!” with her finger pressed against her lips. She pointed to a sign of a mobile phone with a cross through it, indicating that we were in the Ruhebereich, the quiet carriage of the train.

“You must be quiet,” she said, before returning to her seat.

“That,” I said to the man sitting next to me. “That’s different.”

From "The lines a German won't cross" https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/weekinreview/05KULISH.htm...

As their eyes alight on the small sign that goes with it, which reads “barefoot zone” in German, grown men freeze as though they have hit a force field, or had an electric shock administered for being foolish enough to try to pass it still shod. But I can not say what the repercussions would be. This being Germany, I have never seen anyone wearing shoes on the far side of the line and certainly would not risk it myself.

These are articles published in respectable, mainstream, western news. I'm not alone in thinking that German society is somewhat stricter than most other western societies.
Indeed the perfect language/tech stack would be immensely popular and never have any SO questions, as everything would be obvious and easy to figure out without help...
> specifically that SBF knowingly and willingly engaged in fraud

He very well may go to prison for something other than defrauding FTX customers. See Al Capone for tax evasion and Elizabeth Holmes for defrauding investors (not patients).
Apple finally adds encryption to iCloud backups
Ask HN: Security Audit / B2B Ecom Startup
hello there ~

I am looking for recos for independents who are willing to conduct security audit for our company. I am CTO decision maker. Any pointers appreciated.

Details below:

We are a B2B startup that has scaled to 3 digit M revenue. Our business is overseas (not US). Key decision makers are however from valley, some with serious startup/FAANG exp including me.

- Core of our platform includes customer facing apps (native android), e-commerce customer, order and item/catalog workflows hosted in GCP (native java some ruby on rails, unfortunately mostly one SQL)
- third party tools that integrated running warehouses.
- We are above average in GCP cloud security as per Google (we use lot of tools and are auditing sec command center)

We need to conduct a security audit for software in the cloud (where most critical data lives) as well as for our physical IT infra (laptops, routers, policies etc).

Key Question:
1. What should I include in RFP for a very tech and automation driven + cloud centered security audit?
2. How about Vanta and many of these startups who give you automate compliance. Any pointers appreciated. Thx!
London overtakes New York and San Francisco for fintech funding
IIRC the parameter order for some parameters differs between mysql_* and mysqli_* functions. But as someone else said above, built-in PDO or some other abstraction library for data access has been the way to go for more than a decade (more like closer to 20 years at least).

That said, I'm still surprised when I come in to codebases where people are still using hard-coded db function calls all over the place (mysql_* or mysqli_) I indicate that abstracting that away should be a priority. Even doing something as simple as "I want to log all the queries that I'm making for debug purposes" is essentially impossible when you have hundreds of individual calls to mysql_ embedded throughout the code. But... I've not come in to a codebase in the last... 4-5 years that does that, so either I've been lucky or that coding behavior is indeed becoming a thing of the past.
Well that's called introspection. And the post is his way of a telling a story. He is a storyteller, that is what he does.
You're not the only one. They actually started work on macros before pattern/records, but for some reason it seems priority changed. I would have much preferred macros came first.
Never understood why tax payer money goes into proprietary software with shitty security
In 2012, I was doing NLP stuff with the Stanford NLP POS tagger. They claimed it was highly optimized, and hey, who was I to doubt them? But man, it sure _felt_ slow.

So I did some _very minimal_ profiling and, as a complete outsider, found small, simple changes that increased throughput by 4x without affecting maintainability.

I think this fits your "low N" example -- I'm much more likely to believe something is optimal if you can tell me that multiple (experienced!) people have tried to optimize something and failed. If it's just 1 person, that 1 person better have amazing domain expertise for me to believe it.
US Congress rolls back proposal to restrict use of Chinese chips
Thanks for doing the work to point all of this out. "Benchmarketing".
> There are cultures in the world where the babysitter would expect to share in your windfall and everyone would think it a perfectly reasonable thing.

Which cultures do you have in mind?
They clearly could have made the announcement come off less like it was glorifying the type of surveillance work the former police officer did.

I would hazard a guess that a big part of the crowd who buy and use RaspberryPi products are privacy conscious. So it makes good business sense not to alienate that customer base and throw away all the goodwill the company has garnered over the years.

The concerns over this are justified, and could have been responded to in a calm manner.

Instead those in charge of that social media account decided to act up in an incredibly childish manner.

If the hiring of an ex surveillance specialist to a FOSS software & hardware company does not rub you the wrong way, then I would at least think the bad PR handling from a pure business standpoint would.
Yes. Also it was an easier thing to do and ship quickly. We are going to get very tight on latencies and if that would require building it into Postgres we will do so
Reminds me of who were on Fourier’s doctoral defense committee: Lagrange, Laplace, and Legendre, who all have a “list of things named after” page on Wikipedia.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_things_named_after_Adr...
That’s the dream, but need and incentive must meet for it to be the reality.
Isn’t selling a product based off those unmet claims fraud; though? :/

It’s not the failure to realize it, it’s that the product was sold with dates it was expected to be functional to x degree by.

Tesla FSD may be one of the simplest examples of false advertising I can think of that’s still going.
how are you targetting the web with dart?
I worked in an office that I really enjoyed. Then due to covid, ended up working remote, and then taking a remote only job. It's a weird feeling thinking that such a drastic social change may basically be permanent.
Yes, in a way. My DNS provider, LuaDNS, has a pseudo-record of type FORWARD [0] which sets up both the MX records and the forwarding.

Other than that, I set up SPF and DMARC.

[0] https://luadns.com/help.html#forward-record
The Hype Around eSports Is Fading as Investors and Sponsors Dry Up
1. An exception is a recoverable error, that's the entire point, that's what catching an exception is.

2. Unlike Go's, rust's panics do not actually, universally, get "propagated up the call stack until they reach a "catch point", where they can be handled by the programmer". There's a compiler flag which can be "unwind" or "abort". In the former case (the default), panics can be caught and recovered from. In the latter case, the program gets hard-stopped on the spot.
Right. She wasn't convicted on the non-wire fraud counts. You may think that's wrong but it's what the jury concluded and I don't think we generally want judges effectively making their own decision to unduly punish defendants because the judge thinks they "got off" on some other charge.
> write a long winded story for a game ending about the universe loving you that will never be seen by most players and is worth $20,000

As the game comes to an end, you reflect on all that you have experienced and accomplished. You have journeyed to far-off lands, battled fierce enemies, and overcome incredible challenges. And through it all, you have felt the love of the universe guiding you and supporting you every step of the way.

As you stand at the brink of victory, you are filled with a sense of awe and wonder. The universe is a vast and complex place, full of mysteries and secrets that may never be fully understood. But in this moment, you feel a deep connection to it, and you know that its love is with you always.

You take a deep breath and savor the moment. The universe has brought you to this point, and you are grateful for the journey you have undertaken. You know that there will always be new challenges and adventures ahead, but you are ready to face them with courage and determination, knowing that the universe will be with you every step of the way.

As you prepare to move on to your next adventure, you take a moment to offer thanks and gratitude to the universe for all that it has given you. You know that its love is a precious gift, and you will treasure it always. And as you set out on your next journey, you are filled with a sense of excitement and hope, knowing that the universe will be with you, loving and guiding you always.
Try asking ChatGPT about math:

>What is 1111151111 * 100? Explain

In the mathematical operation that you have provided, the number 1111151111 is being multiplied by 100. When you multiply a number by 100, you simply add two zeroes to the end of the number. So in this case, the result of 1111151111 * 100 would be 11111511100.

To understand why this is the case, you can think about it in terms of place value. In the number 1111151111, the "1" in the far right position is worth 1, the "1" in the next position to the left is worth 10, the next "1" is worth 100, and so on. When you multiply a number by 100, you are essentially adding two zeroes to the end of the number, which means that you are effectively multiplying the value of each digit in the number by 100. So the "1" in the far right position would become 100, the "1" in the next position to the left would become 1000, and so on. This is why the result of 1111151111 * 100 is 11111511100.

It explains what to do and yet it still gets it wrong.

>What is 1111151111 * 184582? Explain.

The product of 1111151111 and 184582 is 20748179353842. This can be calculated by performing the multiplication in the standard way, using the rules of arithmetic.

1111151111
x 184582
--------
1111151111
2222302222
--------
20748179353842

To calculate this product, we first multiply 1111151111 by 2 to get 2222302222. Then, we multiply 1111151111 by 82 to get 91678692462. Finally, we add these two products together to get 20748179353842. This is the final result of the multiplication.

This is pure fiction
It can't work; there are documents. This stuff is always found in documents. In Madoff's case, aside his confession, they had the original financial documents and the ones manually edited by Madoff which were given to investors. That was sufficient to prove that he knew the truth and was defrauding his investors.

Somewhere in the terabytes of internal emails, screenshots, and discord logs there will be something showing that SBF knew what he was doing, even if it shows up in a completely unforeseen way.
You convinced me to change the description of a "Python-like language" I'm working on to say "Python-like" instead of "Python": https://www.npmjs.com/package/pylang
Intereting question... my younger brother was a twin as well, born prematurely and incubated for months. His twin didn't make it and to this day he claims his twin took part of his brain or will (not sure exactly what he means)

I've always dismissed it as an excuse for not doing well in school & life... but I sometimes wonder if it's a legit phychological "hold" of some sort.
Yeah, I find Dart to be very underrated. It's straightforward and not overly clever while still having decent expressiveness, and the typing and inference work great. Even outside of Flutter I think it has a lot of potential.
Firefox has and addon called "Hello, Goodbye" that does: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hello-goodbye...
East coast already decided but needs sunshine so NYC out. I’ve heard good things about the NC triangle, but never been there. DC is about as close to Paris lifestyle as you’re going to get in the US, if you can handle the cold winters.
Maybe because they sent the money before fully coming to an agreement and getting a signed contract
Not sure what you are talking about as far as AMD?

This statement in particular:

> "unlike AMD ROCM which requires a custom kernel and closed-source components"

As far as my experience, ROCm does not require a custom kernel nor special kernel modules as it works just fine for me with stock distro kernels, nor does it require closed-source components. OpenCL and OpenGL have pretty much always worked fine for a long time now. I think that AMD drivers are just as good as Intel ones especially when it comes to how open-source they are. While it's cool that Intel already has AV1 encoding on their new cards, I fully expect AMD will have just as good AV1 encoding on their next gen RDNA 3 cards too when they come out soon.
Can you provide some evidence that Tulsi Gabbard is somehow compromised by the FSB? That's an extraordinary claim.
Thanks, and Hugh was denied a chance to go on Fresh Air. Contradicts the narrative, as they say.
> Well now that's some complete dystopian sci-fi nonsense.

Yep, it is so dystopian that it would never happ... oh, wait a moment.

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

Of course China is a special case, not comparable to the situation in a western democratic count... oups!

"In December 2009, a 2000 the chief pathologist at the L. Greenberg National Institute of Forensic Medicine Yehuda Hiss admitted taking organs from the corpses of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers without their families' permission" (Wikipedia)
> obviously
> The open-ended requirements to run on commoditised Kubernetes services (GKE, AKS, EKS) forced us to manage variance and prevented us from driving innovation and fully realizing the potential of Cloud

Really? Looks like they shot their own foot there

"On-prem" usually doesn't mean "running on AWS but managed by us". Sure, some people will want it, but not most of them.
No, you aren't wrong. I fucked up whilst multi-tasking (see seperate post below). Coder/Coder is AGPL. Coder/Code-Server is MIT. Doh. Thanks for the correction have updated the post. :)
So he's lying about giving to the GOP ... why exactly? What would he get out of saying this?

If you listen to the interviews he's given you can tell when he's being reaally careful with his wording so if he's later caught he can wriggle out of any accusations of lying. And you can tell that there are some questions where he was really uncomfortable and didn't want to give any answer. But when they're talking about the donations, it's very light, breezy, matter of fact and importantly the justification is simple and believable. He uses some really far-fetched reasons to excuse some of the other stuff what happened - and that's obviously causing raised eyebrows - but I don't buy that he's lying about this.

I also don't understand the fixation on this specific thing, it feels like people don't actually have any curiosity about the FTX bankruptcy and just want to score a few points for their side in the game of politics.
What are you trying to imply?

We "overpayed" for her and everyone knows it. Getting taken advantage of is kind of the opposite of putting pressure on another country to make them do something that's a crap deal for them.
OpenAI Chatbot So Good It Can Fool Humans, Even When It’s Wrong
Yikes. Why do people use it exactly? (I use debian, that's all I know)
Just remember: Apple are delivering the software to do end-to-end cryptography.
These zwift races require two data inputs, one from a power meter (pedal or crank) and one from the trainer. So manipulating just the trainer flywheel would not be enough.
My gut feel says to not believe his dumb kid act. But it's up to federal prosecutors to actually prove to a jury that he knowingly committed fraud or whatever charges they ultimately decide to bring.
> I have always understood NAT's protection to be limited to prohibiting incoming connections

It doesn't actually do this. NAT rewrites the source address of outbound connections. Inbound connections aren't outbound connections so it does nothing to them, which means it doesn't prohibit them.

That is why you don't need NAT for security: it doesn't give any in the first place.
Oh, certainly. I've sorta tried to tune into the generational "style" of parenting I've seen and it swings like a pendulum. Overprotected parenting, absent parent, etc.

My parents had different parenting styles from each other (they ultimately separated) and my friends had different experiences from their parents too. My wife had an abusive upbringing while mine was both neglectful in some ways and overbearing in others. The wife and I joke at times about what type of broken our son will end up being but recognize we're trying to fix what we see as generational trauma while still providing a foundation for him to grow from.

So for me it is about repairing the emotional stunting I've developed. I want my son to be able to express himself in healthy ways without being afraid of confrontation. My wife recognizes how her upbringing lead her to hide and avoid her family, to be self-reliant and forced to navigate the world without a support structure to fall back on. What will develop after that? I just hope he is able to grow confident and know he is loved. What branches out from there is to be figured out when the time comes I suppose.
Yes, according to hard data.

More people died in Republican counties, who listen much more to the sources telling them that COVID-19 restrictions are "idiotic" before vaccines [0][1], and after vaccines were available, listening to lies the vaccines are ineffective and problematic [2]. These are a mere sampling of credible sources that I found in literally 2 seconds, merely searching from having previously read about the phenomenon. There are studies noted in [3] that put hard numbers on it, around 300,000 deaths in R-leaning areas that were easily preventable by NOT "ignoring idiotic covid restrictions".

Mark Twain famously said that "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt".

The only idiocy is listening to the anti-public-health, anti-vax, and anti-science disinformation designed to spread discontent, and then attempting to rebroadcast it.

Your (very unoriginal) opinion does not make you a free thinker — your ability to change your thinking when new data and information arrive is what would make you a free thinker. Try it sometime; it's less comfortable and smug, but those who do actually like it.

[0] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-republicans-higher-co...

[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/republican-us-counties-saw-more-c...

[2] https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/once-covid-vaccines-w...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2022/05/19/1098543849/pro-trump-counties...