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They're only selling compute from Colossus 1.

As part of Project Texas[1], they've already been using Oracle's infrastructure.

The central feature of Project Texas is our work with Oracle to isolate the TikTok services serving U.S. users within Oracle’s U.S. cloud environment as an additional safeguard. Although gateways to the storage infrastructure are strictly monitored and controlled, U.S. users of the TikTok platform can still communicate and interact with global users for a cohesive global experience.

[1]https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-about

True, but the original Steam was created for managing updates to Counter Strike and their anti-cheap system (VAC if memory serves me right). Also back when having a low WON ID (now SteamID) was a badge of honor (like having a low Slashdot account ID).

Sounds like a recipe to become to the next Ted Kaczynski.

VS Code isn't being discontinued for Mac - just Visual Studio.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-fo...

What do you use now that Dark Sky's APIs support has ended? Tomorrow.io's APIs seem interesting.

https://www.tomorrow.io/weather-api/

From a security perspective, as someone who enjoys cooking as a hobby, I thought it would be interesting to use a tactic-by-technique perspective. You could visualize the tactics and techniques as a matrix of cooking techniques grouped by tactics moving from researching menus, procuring ingredients, preparing ingredients, to cutting/trimming techniques, to cooking/grilling/sauteing, to plating/presenting.

I mean they _do_ have VirusTotal to compare hashes to. It's obviously not fool-proof but it's an option.

Yubico makes a Yubikey with NFC, if you're interested.

https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-for-mobile/

Not that it matters, but this was the submission that garnered, I believe, the most traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547912

On topic: I was just mentioned this book to a coworker last week. I highly suggest Scott Adams' book How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big.

Apparently, there's no _true_ offset for extended hours of sitting[1]. There might be some science/studies behind smart watches urging you to stand for a couple of minutes every hour, however.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/08/the-new-e...

It's extremely suspicious. Their exchange rate for BTC-USD is $6200 USD[1][2]? Yeah, I'll pass.

Well hey, on a side note, at least they have an, albeit likely fake, web trading platform that's publicly accessible before Robinhood. Lol.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/OQJDi [2] https://cobinhood.com/trade/BTC-USD

Thanks. I was about to buy the book on Amazon for ~$90 but at least now I can give it a read first to see if it's worth, for me at least, buying.

Or 1) planting evidence (no need for extended wire taps, 2) voice recognition software for access control, and 3) nearly any other fraud that will exploit the acceptance/authorization of verbal consent.

> then the FCC gave the cable companies a special exemption to allow them to start Encrypting the signal that is when they started to screw people over on the Box fees

Admittedly, I don't mind this because it has drastically improved service availability and quality in my area by stopping people from stealing cable.

And then there's http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

That's hardly why suburbs became popular across the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburb#Origins_of_the_modern_s...

Honest question - I have several machine learning with Python books that I'm about to dive into but before doing so, which resources would you recommend a complete beginner in ML to read?

Washington Post also published an article about how millennials prefer socialism until they get jobs and it comes out of their pocket.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/03/24/...

What are your thoughts on Kafka vs Flume?

You don't think that Google search enjoys being on hundreds of million devices?

Remember 1999-2001 when Google unseated Yahoo from the king of search? It was a feat that seemed impossible when you had established search engines like Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Excite, DogPile, etc. all competing in the space.

As with most industries and its enterprises, you'll always have an event horizon and then singularity until markets are saturated and the industry becomes irrelevant to the consumer.

Tangible objects provide a higher sense of gratification, I suppose. $10-15 USD for a single, one-time, movie ticket or $1-5 dollars for a phone application.

And then there's the whole micro payment economy which is another thing.

Taking what the parent comment said and what you've said, I can see both points.

In defense of the parent, anyone that practices a trade (singer, actor, artist, programmer, developer, engineer) typically doesn't identify themselves as one of the aforementioned titles unless they get paid to do so. Now, mind you, that doesn't mean in the most traditional sense that lack of monetary reward/success doesn't disqualify their skill but, in this world, it certainly validates ones work/interest.

To make my point, society typically doesn't label someone that can sing a 'singer' unless that is their profession and they get paid for it. Even though I script and do 'some' programming, I wouldn't dare call myself a programmer.

I believe that one shouldn't get too hung on titles. For me, at least, I find a sole definition limiting because there isn't a single title that describes everything that I'm good at, however, there is a single title that describes what I'm good enough to get paid for.

Sans emphasized racist remark, that's pretty sad.

Similarly to how the industrial revolution 'disrupted' manual labor/blue collar jobs.

Several years ago I worked at a hosting company that was compromised via external and internal actor. The external actor used a vulnerability of WHMCS (one of many available, at the time).

To this date, the breaches were not disclosed publicly.

Creating tunnels would be several orders of magnitude more expensive than creating the technology for drone delivery, lobbying for it's adoption across various municipalities and so on.

I partially disagree with you. Some of my most memorable moments are the stories of various games. Metal Gear Solid, Final Fantasy VII, Zelda: A Link to the Past and so on all, with their great gameplay for the time, above average to great story lines that captured its audience.

Now on to games like StarCraft, DoDA, Quake 3, and Counter-Strike were all hailed as some of the greats, not because of the story like you pointed out, but because of the game mechanics that allowed them to be used as a medium for competitive gaming. And, as a former competitive gamer, I can attest to the addictive nature of gaming that causes your heart to race and one's palms to sweat while trying to clinch a victory.

For this, I believe you can't say stories don't matter. I believe there are games that are better suited for repetitive gameplay and those that rely on a great story and subpar game mechanics to reel in or captivate the player(s).

I totally agree. I'd like to take advantage of the screen's DPI, if possible.

A VM/VPS running Ubuntu with one GB of RAM to be precise. Had to recreate a droplet when testing it because I only provisioned 512 MB of RAM.

So far, it has done its job quite nicely. Just make sure you don't plan on installing it next to a webserver. Its installer hijacks port 80/443 with its own nginx webserver.