skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I’ve worked on datasets at social media companies where literally thousands of columns were considered PII but realistically removing/scrambling just a subset of columns would make it impossible to identify individuals.

Maybe, though I doubt it was that easy against any but the most trivial reidentification efforts, but since most privately held PII isn’t regulated (in the US at least), there's little consequence for a social media conpany getting it wrong other than PR.
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That assumes you know & can generate the complete pipeline ahead of time. The elegance of promise pipelining is that your pipeline can also be asynchronously grown.
Hard not to read this a populist appeal more than anything else.

Though, I do agree that legislation is needed for many of the actual worries here. At large, there are social problems out there, and looking for technical solutions is very unlikely to help.

I do find it obnoxious to focus on "big tech" for such things as "data leaks," when, if anything, "big finance" is far more culpable on that area. I can't claim that the big companies haven't had leaks and problems; but I do think the leaks of banks and numerous small companies are worse. Will have to dive on the numbers some.

And this is ignoring the massive nonsense that is the political parties collecting and using more personal information to build demographic maps the likes of which "big tech" simply has no use for.
If you could reform the immigration system in one way, how would you do it? Would you say that US immigration is currently broken for tech workers?

Also, how does US immigration compare to other countries, such as the UK, Canada, or Germany? Is it easier to immigrate or harder?
This is an excerpt from an article published a few days ago on an Italian newspaper. The author is Ugo Bardi, a scientist who is definitely in the "orthodoxy" camp (also runs a blog about the dangers of climate change). The article he acknowledges that data were actually off and explains why (at least for Italy).

Temperature record, is someone fudging the data? Here's the confusion of the past few days explained

Another week, another heated climate controversy where, as a change, scientists manage to portray themselves in a not exactly positive light to the public (to say the least). Did you read last week's apocalyptic headlines? Things like "48°C temperatures incoming"? Well, they were quite exaggerated, actually, considerably so. But how did they end up on the front pages of newspapers? Did someone make them up? Or was it a conspiracy by the powers that be, who had recalibrated the thermometers of the global measurement network to scare us?

No, it all started from a recent article by the ESA (European Space Agency). It wasn't incorrect per se, but they did not explain well the difference between "ground" temperature measurements and "air" measurements, which are usually much lower. Obviously, it's the air temperature that interests us, unless recently you've found a way to save a bit on your gas bill by boiling your pasta water by placing the pot on the asphalt of the parking lot in front of your house. But both journalists and the public did not understand the difference. Hence, the apocalyptic headlines and the ensuing controversy.
That's it? Privacy is just the lack of tracking? There are no other components to a private life?

Tracked by whom? Anyone? Is it OK if your parents track you? Does your government have a direct involvement in, say, public city streets?

Is this about technological tracking? What if you walk through a forest, and some stranger comes up behind your path, and uses natural evidence to find out something about you, and which way you went? How would you prevent that?
I know absolutely nothing of the topic other than a few ARIA labels I applied a while back. I have a friend who is hard of hearing but that's about all the third hand experience I can recount. The most accessibility I need is a web page that renders text without Javascript. I do see a lot of companies and people in general lament accessibility, though, almost always because accessibility isn't valued and that irks me.

It must be very disheartening to be part of a minority that doesn't get the same pity and care that other do. I wouldn't call the life of sexual minorities simple, with backwards countries still putting extreme sentences on anyone outside the norm and western countries (like the USA) creeping back to encoding be-straight-or-get-out policies, but I do see a disproportionate amount of pity.

It's cheap and easy to change your company's flag to a rainbow a month every year. If you're creating media, just take a man out of a show and put in a woman, or make a little side note that they're trans, and boom, you're a forward thinking lightbearer here to teach us all about acceptance. When the going gets real tough, throw some money at a tax-deductible charity. With things like racism, it takes effort not to be race-inclusive.

Meanwhile, people struggling to survive or hold down jobs are seen as a burden because people need to put in real work to make the world compatible with them. Some places even put blind, deaf, and behaviorally challenged kids in the same "special school". It's all so extremely unfair! I can't imagine being in your position, and all the best I can tell you is that other minorities started from terrible positions as well, so don't blame them for the way you're treated. We need more progress, not infighting between the people that are mistreated!

However, there is reason to keep up hope; you never know what inclusion will be the next hype. I've seen an uptick with shows including deaf characters and sign language in Netflix shows, for example, which brings me hope that decent representation of disabilities will be next in popular media, which often pairs with progress within society.
DNS is easy in the same way that chess is. The game mechanics are straightforward, and it gets more complex from there.

DNS bears the burden of delivering you to complex IT systems. It’s abused in various ways to enforce geographic restrictions, service levels, etc. It generally works, so long as everyone upstream knows how to configure things so that downstream things they don’t know exist work well.

When things don’t work… that’s not easy.
It's probably a good idea for all IT people to have a working knowledge of how to debug DNS issues.

DNS has historically been a vector for significant security holes and it's likely that this will continue to be true for the indefinite future. These holes also lead to other vectors in nearly every other protocol like SMTP. Even the CA system used for HTTPS is highly dependent on a basically insecure protocol. (Would you notice if your bank bought a DV certificate instead of OV? likely not)

So, perhaps it's not such a bad thing that it seems hard to learn to those who don't have enough interest, since even now we see people building DNS things without taking the time to really understand the history of things like port randomization, cache poisoning, AXFR, etc.
What does capacity-based mean in this context?
Oh I understand completely how that would happen. I believe the first time I played with your work was not long after the C++11 transition, and so I could see why it happened.

This is why these days I just work in Rust :-) Less heterogenous of an environment (so far).
Could you elaborate on how an E2 founder could get to become an immigrant?
> Jesus, for a class? Who are these people?

The people taking the class. Which they flew out for.

> A wicked problem isn't one you can solve by flying into a country for a week

A wicked problem is one whose solution can't be seen until you've started working on it.

> flying into a country for a week

Meeting the stakeholders.

> then start proposing solutions

That's sprint one.

The alternative to meeting the stakeholders before working the problem, is working the problem before meeting the stakeholders.
Interesting stuff, will give it a try during the next trip!
Gell-man is exactly what I’ve been referencing in conversation recently. Any professional will gladly explain why their field is really much too nuanced and complex for LLMs to threaten in the near term before seamlessly explaining how close we are to all those other engineers/doctors/clerks being automated right away.
>Someone apparently felt that was worthless.

There is a significant probability that mom was tired of hearing "I'm gonna move it out of the garage, soon" and just said to hell with it.
I was thinking earlier this month that this was the first summer that the heat has really bothered me and generally kept me hiding indoors - normally I love it, and feel very comfortable in it, and usually look like a fool during our mild winters where I’m dressed like prepared for Minnesota in January.

But then I was in Northern California last week, and the heat seemed just as unbearable. So, I guess the upshot is, I’m not really looking forward to the next several decades of summers I’ll hopefully be around for.
This is blatant advertising/shilling for the company at a said conference. Why are such posts not flagged yet. Please do, by all means!

Almost all serious players are present at major conferences & announce that in their blog/social accounts. Pick {Google, Meta, Microsoft, Snap, Netflix, ...} and they are present in {Neurips, ICML, VLDB, HOTCHIPS, Supercomputing ...} with <N> accepted papers.

How is this presence any different to make it worthy of HN mention?
I'm not sure how much this routing is really needed. I use nftables instead of iptables, so I told Docker to not touch anything.

I'm gradually getting rid of Docker (NixOS containers powered by systemd-nspawn are more convenient for me at the moment), so I don't have any fancy networking for it - but I still run it. I have a bunch of static nftables rules for the bridge (`iifname "docker0" ct state established,related counter accept` etc.) so the containers can access what they need. And then Docker uses docker-proxy for the exposed ports (paired with appropriate firewall rules when it's not on `lo`, where I have an umbrella `iif "lo" accept`) and it seem to works just fine.
Absolutely - just wanted to make it clear that Congress did not have an unfettered ability to change how members are elected and by whom, beyond location.
Even more ghastly, it seems like the criminals could use the spoons to convert non-cripple beggars into cripple beggars. That way they both get a one-time payment and a source of recurring revenue.
I'm always applying for the hell of it, because job descriptions are a mess anyways. These companies actively say they're entry level-junior level and then requires 6+ years experience. If they're gonna waste my time by just trying to get more eyes on their position to game the filter system, then I'm going to waste their time by sending my resume.

Let's not even talk about the companies that actively promote themselves as a remote position, and the chances of it actually being remote are about 10%.
It would seem this is the exchange you're talking about:

--

KELLY: Do I dare ask where [the fecal bacteria on beaches] is coming from?

SCOTT: A number of places - there is pollution from things like failing sewage and stormwater infrastructure. And of course, you know, heavier storms are coming with climate change, so that will likely increase - and then from places like livestock and factory farms.

--

Seems like a pretty straightforward follow-on from the accepted concept that climate change leads to more severe weather. This was also one story out of three in a little segment... I don't know how much you can reasonably expect in terms of detail here.
Didn't Lenovo kill the ThinkPad docking station a few years ago? It really was a pre-thunderbolt hack to use the bandwidth of two USB ports
Please don't call that guy Vlad. Vlad is short for Vladislav. You're looking vor Vova.

It's like saying Ben is short for Bennett.
I just wanted to add on to what you're saying:

> I think partly DNS and the core protocols may seem confusing to younger people in the industry because so much stuff “just works” now.

I've noticed it's become much worse since universities have been teaching Python to start with and with the whole aggressive comodization of developers. To some extent the social justice polices inacted in our communities to exclude people*. ("unsavory" people)

We no longer have the culture where we had kids in early ages get a desktop, learn the ins and outs, play video games, trying to pretend to be a hacker, etc. We're getting developers who barely can script in javascript, barely do html, ignore the edge cases, and generally don't have a lot of interest in the craft. It's pretty frustrating to see this.
Eh, those prices largely stayed low long enough to kill off local businesses, and then crept back up again. A Walmart also, on average, kills 3 local jobs for every 2 it creates. There's only so much every day low prices will help you when you're unemployed.
Some of that is related to the parent not using parental controls, and then blaming a game for it. All chat (in game an "in experience") can be restricted for child accounts. Kids shouldn't have access to chat, with strangers online, in any capacity, in my opinion.

I see the same thing with parents playing this blame game after realizing there's porn and gore on Youtube, or when little Johny goes to a bad website, after giving him unmoderated access to the internet.
Yes, he was the most active developer over the last few years, although it wasn't a huge amount of activity. And that activity had dropped off this year as Ian shifted his focus to Tempest, a mostly-from-scratch rewrite. https://github.com/zenhack/tempest

For my part I stopped pushing monthly Sandstorm updates this year as there hasn't really been anything to push. Unfortunately Sandstorm's biggest dependencies can't even be updated anymore because of breaking changes that would take significant effort to work around.

I agree a blog post is probably in order.
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Nope, I bought the Chromebook from Dell. I'd link it to you but they haven't sold it for a few years - it was the only option with 32GB of RAM. Now there's Framework laptops though.
They need to be able to have 5 months where they can clear the calendars and just work on that. It's still a lot for 5 months, but I imagine there's a lot of downtime too. Are they getting 5+ months every year?
Yeah, the current truck stops are the natural place for this.
The storage costs wouldn't be a huge deal to either group.

In general, the affiliate nature would add a wrinkle to the whole thing, but not an insurmountable one. If nothing else, they could have used the broadcast from the affiliates they owned.
Heh, yes - that seems ... an unwise way of phrasing it. Particularly in a deposition during a lawsuit (simply with respect to the human dynamic all-around, not even the issues of law).

Interestingly, citation of "God" seems something of a theme for Lushbaugh (caveat: based on the little I just read). He apparently is quoted as having said that God was the only one who could retire him.

So, it seems he may, in fact, not have had a "God complex" (in a simple, intentional, self-will-based manner), but, actually been of a religious (/ spiritual / philosophical) persuasion in which there is an honest belief in the morality / ethics of certain actions being, say, in "God's purview" or etc.

Like much involving hierarchies and authority, this in no way absolves him of responsibility, NOR does it mean his actions were "right" etc. (much as "simply following orders" is not considered a defense in recent history [see / search for Nuremberg Principle IV, for example]). But, I do think there is a bit of nuance here - he may not be so arrogant as such a statement might suggest.

Though, "yikes" is appropriate for making such a statement, regardless of its underlying basis.
In the late 80's IBM came out with the PS/2 computer that had proprietary things like the MicroChannel bus that didn't catch on, but things like PS/2 ports that lived on for a long time.

When the early 90's were here, IBM was losing billions of dollars a year, companies like Dell and Compaq were selling more and more PC's while IBM continued to sell less and less. There were spinoffs and re-organizations, IBM still made some things like the MWave soundcard/modem, but they couldn't really compete with all the small startups making new peripherals and components. IBM was still manufacturing things in the USA, they were and old and slow and kludgy company...
"Tim decided to knock on the door of the owner. A woman answered and explained that the EDOT had sat in her garage for many years and she wanted to get shot of it. Tim was welcome to take it away for free, but she didn’t really want to discuss the machine’s provenance – Where was it from? Who acquired it?"

I'm gonna guess "belonged to former husband". Dead or divorced, who knows.
So maybe I shouldn't have peeped into that "Free Porn Kinetoscope Parlor" that appeared on the street corner down town recently?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope#/media/File:Kineto...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope#/media/File:Kineto...
As opposed to now promoting transgender and the idea of no sexes to children. Yup, I’ll take the 90’s.
Well I have been hearing that Electric cars would never be adopted at scale and that Tesla was going bankrupt for over a decade.

Yet here we are and the Model Y became the best selling car in the world this year.

Don't give up hope friend.
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How to make connections with other people;

How to figure out a long term objective by myself and stick to it;

How to lead;

Basically all soft skills that make one more comfortable when navigating in the dark and dangerous sea that is one's life. Without them one would be anxious for all life. Yeah, you can train yourself on each of the skills, but usually 1) It's already too late, and 2) Sometimes you get the wrong ideas so the more you train the worse the situation becomes.
If there are ways to track whose id came from what orb it is completely possible to deanonymize people’s world ids.

And if worldid was ever used for a voting system, wiping out the votes of people who come from a specific area would be incredibly valuable. Attacking people’s identities even for only a few dollars each is a multibillion scam industry today.
When I was 14 I (poorly) administered an Active Directory environment with mail, web, and CIFS for a restaurant without understanding DNS or DHCP. Instead of setting the WRT54G's DHCP server to hand out the domain controller's static IP as the DNS server for proper name resolution I just used IP addresses and host file entries to make everything work. I also had the MX record for the domain set to the router's WAN IP and didn't have any PTR records set - the fact that e-mail delivery went as smoothly as it did is an absolute miracle in retrospect. A few years later I figured out how DNS actually worked and in my early 20s I inherited a corporate intranet where BIND was used as the nameserver for all external corporate domain zones. Moving this setup to VPSes for increased reliability taught me a _lot_ (mostly zone transfers, SOA, etc). I'm grateful for the experience but these days everything is pretty much done for you so this is a low-value activity... "IT" isn't valued the same way that "software engineering" is for better or worse.
I'm short.
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Yes, if I were starting from scratch today I'd use Rust. Unfortunately it was a little too early when work on Workers started.
This is pointless armchair quarterbacking, and it's counterproductive to spread this sort of thinking.

If you read the presentation from the Mapuche conflict team, you might come away appreciating the effort and recommendations. You'll note plenty of humility and humbling in the takeaway notes from the project. And, you'll also note there were Mapuche labeled as 'willing to talk' right in the deck.

Especially here at HackerNews, I propose we generally stay positive on the idea of leaning in to solving difficult problems, and getting working on them rapidly. I believe it's better for the world.
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We’ve worked with several companies leveraging generative image models in production, and found that one of the main problems is that it’s hard to filter images for good quality sample at scale. Typically, teams will have to manually look through the images for these samples, which is slow and expensive.

We wanted to build a monitoring solution that lets you to see all of the images you’ve generated, and to automatically be alerted when an image was generated with a deformity.

We’ve started by building evaluators that detects deformities in human features, like face and hands. We’re focused on expanding rapidly into build evaluators for other types of images, like gaming and design assets.

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We’d love to hear your thoughts and critiques, if you have any feature requests please let us know!
some perhaps, maybe not all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY&t=1s