skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no part of this headline that does not make me happy. <3
Um .. you remember how they spammed random password data and memory all over the Interwebs right?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/351962/cloudflare-leak-exposed-da...
Some people will see the evil as the country you are working for is known as the one of the primary aggressors and war initiators of the history that continues to kill directly and indirectly hundreds of thousands of people in other countries bringing them "democracy" where no one asked them for anything.

Others will just see it as a necessity and that every company should work and help the government when they are asked to defend the country and maintain the global status quo.

for some that conduct is a virus, for others just a symbiosis, but it's easy to see where they come both of them.
I wish it was that simple, but I never received a single notice of the migration or my need to do anything at all as a bug reporter. (Just ran a liberal grep on my inbox right now.)

The only notice I received was after-the-fact. Sorry.

Learning of GNOME'S cavalier attitude toward user reports and eventual product direction was exactly why I moved off the platform in the intervening years. I had high hopes when I was young and naive.

I realize GNOME is volunteer-based with a pillar of corporate backing from Red Hat and similar, but it strikes me as botched that if enough will existed to migrate to GitLab, an endeavor that requires serious engineering hours of research and planning and execution, that nobody could have said: let's query and build a list of unique email addresses from bug reporters and personally email them once with a quick letter, letting them know what they need to do. Compared to the actual migration, that is drops in a bathtub. Simple due diligence for user-facing goodwill.

I want to be sympathetic — really.

JWZ's CADT supposition has a lot of explanatory power here combined with the opportunity to "scrub a lot of bugs quickly".
Yeah, but will it scale to the 9 billion users my growth chart has me at by year 3?
Lua has a special place in my heart for several reasons, but their suggested usage is to just include the source code in your application because they don't guarantee compatibility at all between minor versions. As far as they're concerned, Lua 5.0 is completely different from Lua 5.1. It has a certain charm and I personally think it's pretty cool, but each different Lua release is like the perfect case of, "there's really only the one implementation of this, use others completely at your own risk, p.s. they almost certainly aren't fully compatible". Hell LuaJIT might be more popular than Lua 5.3, and it _definitely_ isn't compatible with it.
If Google employees strike over this, we must find ways to show solidarity with them. An end to the war machine is within our power!
Think of it the other way, if Lockheed martin were to start a Gmail, GDocs equivalent tomorrow, would you use their services knowing how closely they work with the military? Would global users be comfortable using it? The whole PRISM fiasco isn't far from this. What's stopping the Pentagon from buying access to users data? It's a trust thing, imo.
To those that modded me down, I'll explain my point bit better: the order of precidence I was referring to is the individual directories that appear in the delimited PATH environmental variable. (Semicolon delimited in Windows, colon delimited in Linux / UNIX).

In both Windows and Linux the directories that appear earlier in the list in PATH get priority over those that appear later. So if you have the PATH that says

/bin:/home/laumars/bin

Then any executables named 'sed' in my home directory's bin folder would NOT become my system default sed utility so long as an executable named 'sed' also existed in /bin. However if I swapped that order around:

/home/laumars/bin:/bin

now my home directory's bin folder DOES become the first place the system looks for executables.

Windows also applies this order of precidence to its PATH variable.

This is why I believe having a writable localised directory in PATH is a relatively mitigated attack so long as the PATH variable is set correctly from the outset. Sure you could plonk a randomly named executable and get that called as there isn't any overriding executables higher up in the precidence, but then you need some way of launching that irregular file name - by which point your attack might just as easily use a relative or absolute path to the executable, sidestepping the need for a targeted attack against the machines specific PATH hierarchy in the first place.

One thing I didn't mention in my previous post but is worth noting is that on Linux, any zero length paths in PATH will be expanded to current working directory. This could be either two adjacent colons ( /bin::/usr/local/bin ) a prefixing colon ( :/bin ) or preceding one ( /bin: ). This can be really easy to miss if you build up PATH through other variables. Eg

export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN

Where you've forgotten to define GOBIN before appending it to PATH (ie GOBIN will return "")

So it is worth being extra careful how you're building up PATH when using variables
This is a terrible use of World Bank funds, if true. Where does it say this is funded by Uber though?
There's a large gap between being OK with your employer having a military project, and believing that the entirety of your multinational corporation is (either morally or legally) bound to one particular nation.

I suspect most of those Googlers who are OK with building a robot for Pentagon will probably be OK with building another for, say, the German military. (Why not? It's double the profit.)
For better or worse it's the easiest way I can stay up to date somewhat with what friends and family from various places are up to. Sure there are other more active ways to stay in touch. However I can often see curated info from people I'd known when I've lived/visited in various parts of the world.

I'd honestly lose track of them otherwise. Maybe that'd be fine and yes there alternatives, however it would take lots of effort to make the change and it seems to be a case of inertia for me and lots of others.

I was just thinking of shutting it down again then thinking of how I'd stay connected with all the people I already am on FB, seems exhausting. Kinda sad maybe but true in my case.

As an aside, when I hear someone putting down/wondering why about FB and using something like Instagram I find it more than a little funny.
On the other hand with reproducing you get to participate in the only thing unifying every organism to ever live on this planet, so there's that.
For people who know how, why not just run this stuff locally? Setup your own recursive resolver on an openwrt router? Or maybe in a hosted VM close to where you live?

I know Google and CF claim they don't track this DNS information, but why even use them when you can run your own. Keep in mind CF did have a software bug that spewed SSL traffic and passwords all over the Internet[1], and they took down a website once because their CEO didn't like it[2].

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/incident-report-on-memory-leak-c...

[2] https://fightthefuture.org/article/the-new-era-of-corporate-...
> "3 days, 4 hours ago at 00h15 in WA"

This sounds exactly like a line out of some Douglas Adams book. Which is perfectly fine as long as no one booking meetings on that app has read any of his books.
That's what I find particularly cool about stuff like nvidia DGX systems: they are great at machine learning stuff, but they also have ridiculously high performance for more traditional scientific computing (GROMACS, QUDA, etc). A DGX-1V provides 50+ teraflops for fp64 at a price point that is within reach for many university labs.
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look at the longer pdf in 'Acknowledgments', "The report was mostly funded by IFC, with financial contributions from Uber" [1]

[1] - https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/ec101088-8a12-4994-9918-...
> Because it is a conflict of interest.

No, it's not. That's entirely subjective. It's only a conflict of interest in the heads of people who believe the U.S. military is evil.

The problem is that Google has a different interpretation of evil than yourself, and you're struggling to cope with that reality.
"[Bitcoin mines] are often built beside hydroelectric plants set up along mountain streams. These plants often produce more energy than they can sell to China's state grid, and some plant owners have found they can either sell the surplus to bitcoin mines or set up their own mines."

https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/world-chinese-b...
I just visited Bali and encountered the Bali Street Dog for the first time, which is apparently a semi-feral breed that basically doesn’t care about humans at all http://bawabali.com/bali-heritage-dog/2585-2/

I wonder if they lost the genes that the study identified as causing hyper-sociability, or if they still have it but the phenotype is suppressed for various reasons (e.g. environmental)
It kind of isn't up to the U.S. government. It's about how you structure your organization to have the right incentives to do the right thing.

Apple and numerous other businesses are beholden to shareholders, whose #1 demand is profit. Many shareholders are located in the U.S. - so far, so good.

At some point, the business decides that more profit is best obtained through international expansion. Apple extracts money from Europe, China, Russia etc. and delivers the desired returns. Yay.

The flipside is that if those returns are in danger of disappearing, there's now an immense pressure to stop that from happening. I don't believe the U.S. government can even help Apple if they don't want to be helped - their primary incentive is not preservation of diversity and free speech, but satisfying the shareholders.

Possible fixes:

a) Avoid conflicts of interest. Apple is not an American company at this point, it's an international company. So, limit your market reach to regions that align with your principles, i.e. don't expand to Russia and China. Of course, this can never work because public companies are legally obligated to maximize shareholder returns. Which leads to,

b) Put incentives in place to prefer doing the right thing over the profitable thing, i.e. don't sell a voting majority of your business to investors who will sacrifice principles for money.

Both of these fixes mean sacrificing market share to other, less morally grounded businesses, because you don't get to be a world leader in selling stuff by playing fair. You can't go back to playing fair once you depend on being a world leader. Apple literally can't do anything about it because of what its incentives are, and if it aligned those differently then it wouldn't be the big Apple that we give a shit about.

I don't believe there's a solution to this except supporting a decentralized market and educating others about why that's important. Apple is a lost cause, they're at the point of no return. They couldn't fix it if they wanted to. Let's make sure they're only one of several viable options going forward.
Well, once upon a time when I was young and stupid, I chose to make some very tiny improvement to spam filtering.
> PS: We control the information flow, we can start and stop political conflicts by selectively displaying information [..]

I see that claim thrown around a lot but nothing ever backs that up.
I have mixed feelings here. On the one hand, you're correct about reduction of collateral damage.

On the other hand, weapons of old were used as part of actual wars. Precise weaponry seems to be making it too easy to kill off people without starting a war - like the US is doing with its drone strikes - which means it'll happen more. Also, I fear that the limit of precision strike weapons is being able to swiftly kill an arbitrary target anywhere, for cheap - which opens the way for ethnic cleansing, killing off political opponents, people harboring thoughts inconvenient to powerful people, etc.

Ultimately, I think precision weapons are better than blunt ones, but their development needs to happen in lock step with development of protection technologies - mostly social technologies, that would ensure those weapons can't be arbitrarily used by random politicians or countries without consequence. Unfortunately, it seems that in the last decades we've been losing social technologies - like the rule of law and trust in it.
Tantalum capacitors are not failure proof. Ask around about tantalum failures, usually someone has a memorable story about an old tantalum capacitor that shorted.

If you buy quality electrolytics and don't store the machine in a humid shed/attic they are likely to outlast you.
In this blog post, Firefox should encourage people who know how, to run their own. Maybe even provide/maintain some docker images for us tech heads.

I agree that immediately promoting CF doesn't seem like the best genuine idea for those who are still a part of the Firefox/Mozilla community.
Note that for now, if you're sniffing packets, you can learn hostnames anyway due to TLS sending SNI in the clear. That may or may not change in the future...
In an interdependent universe, every problem is solved independently - by the universe.
No, it has to do with disposable income.
Let me rephrase- yes they can impose a fine, harass employees, ban imports of iphones, but what can they do that will work - ie force apple to ban a well known app from the app store innsuch a blatant fashion.

Apple would be insane to comply with these demands, because it just opens the door for every other regieme to do the same.

So ... is Apple stopping Telegram from sending the updates? Are they doing it because of Russia pressure?

or is there more?
Interesting. Did you glance at the latest Google I/O? There are a ton of things on the horizon that will continue to keep Google very relevant and generate money. For one, I'd like to point out Waymo. Autonomous transport seems like a pretty big business. From my perspective, Google has the lead in AI right now and it shows in all the products that they're beginning to push out.

A lot of engineers work on ads teams. I heard it once before, but search is Google's core. Without search, their ad-serving isn't very profitable. Everything else is a moat around it - Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Chrome. Most media companies are built around the advertising model.

I can't say that you're wrong. Enterprise software does generate a lot of revenue and Microsoft does support it fairly well. Microsoft has also had some wins as of late.

A lot of Google's revenue comes from ads, but I wouldn't label it a "single horse". It's really a stable of horses if you're counting YouTube #2 most visited site and the other revenues its generating from it's G Suite, people paying for Drive, cloud services, etc.

I may be blinded by my bias toward Google products, but it's also crazy that I don't use a single Microsoft product at the moment -- I don't boot my old PC with Windows. I don't own an X-Box. I don't own a Surface. I don't use Word or any of the Office software anymore. I don't use Azure or VS Code as my editor as a software engineer. However, I do know a lot of .NET developers.
I can confirm from personal experience. And all of these have to be unchecked separately, there is no deactivate all button. It's completely ridiculous. Oh and your selection isn't restored once you leave the dialog and immediately come back. I know sites have an interest in persuading you to let them share your data, but some of these dark patterns are indistinguishable from black.
Sorry for that experience. We are working on fixing it up. Please read it on MEdium if you are not able to read further - https://medium.com/bevywise/mqtt-vs-rest-from-iot-implementa...
The App Store guidelines [5] indicate that, with regard to a single app, the app author (Telegram) "must comply with all legal requirements". Telegram agreed to this requirement when they published their latest update two months ago, and so Telegram – not Apple – is liable for illegality.

Apple received a notice of illegality from Russia regarding Telegram, a third-party app. This notice was inappropriately delivered to Apple, who currently has no responsibility for Telegram. Telegram's compliance with Russian law is not Apple's problem unless a Russian court orders Apple to de-list Telegram. Until such an order occurs, Apple has no reason to de-list Telegram.

Therefore, I believe that Apple did three things:

[1] Apple temporarily suspended Telegram app updates worldwide after receiving a notice of illegality.

[2] Apple immediately forwarded the notice of illegality to Telegram, without any assertion of validity.

[3] Apple notified Telegram that they may resume updates by either declaring in writing to Apple that Telegram is legal in Russia or de-listing Telegram in Russia.

And Telegram did no things:

[4] Telegram has refused to declare in writing to Apple that Telegram is legal in Russia, and has refused to de-list Telegram in Russia.

And Telegram, after two months of refusing to act on [3], is trying to pressure Apple into giving up on [3] using the "woe is me" GDPR excuse.

[5] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#leg...
Best to store this stuff in a conditioned space, not a humid shed with no air circulation. Got some lyts from 1962 working fine here.
ARM needs to get some skin in the accelerator game before RISC-V et. al. commoditize its cash cow.

NVDLA is fairly permissively licensed (free for commercial use), but of course Nvidia will steer the greater ecosystem around it. Perhaps ARM can be the Red Hat to NVDLA's Linux, or something like that. Still seems a bit strange to me.
> What is "evil" about working with the military or developing weapons?

If you work on weapons which are then used to kill people, you are complicit in those murders.

AI automation of weapons and surveillance systems is probably going to kill a large fraction of living humans. I'm not talking skynet, just about automation we could easily achieve right now. Anyone who works on those systems will be complicit in the subsequent genocides.
This is not a case of this being some kind math or graph theory phenomenon. In the Western world, it is to very big extend thanks to the rich being given a privileged status by the monetary policy.

In all Western countries - the state is the ultimate creditor. The bigger you are, the closer you are in line to the money water tap, the easier it is to get loan financing for your businesses or (more often this days) LBO play. It is few rich people in the West who "made" their own money through business revenue.

Second to that is the existence of stock market, where the people closer to the financial water tap, park all money they got from it.

As for why it happens in poorest counties, it easier to understand there. In much of them the top 10 "businessmen" will be former officials (if not acting one.)
If only all of the energy spent on Gnome bashing would be spent on bugfixing, we'd have a perfect Gnome desktop by now. It's sad.
During WWII Siemens owned a factory in Auschwitz and manufactured electrical parts for concentration camps and death camps.
I worked at Amazon in Distribution operations management in the very early days(1997-2001).

Culture in the distribution centers(now called fulfillment centres) was definitely one of no excuses performance.

I take responsibility for my role in how the culture evolved.

In the early days, we were hiring like crazy, trying to “average up” with every single early hire, while trying to keep the customer happy with orders backing up with exponential growth.

We worked nutty hours, often packing a bag to stay overnight or for a few days.

Hourly associates and temps were often compelled to work 50+ hours per week.

Terminations were very quick and cold as we didn’t feel we had the time to do it properly with customers orders clogging up.

Something had to give. So we were all pretty ruthless. Perform or leave.

I’m proud of what we achieved, but it came at a significant personal cost to many people.

I burned out after 3+ years.

I believe it’s a fair bit better now, but still a challenging environment that requires good performance or risk of termination.

It’s not a place to “coast” or “Be a grey man/woman”.

20 years ago we had scanners than could measure productivity.

Nowadays, everything is measured.

You can’t hide from your productivity data.
I renovated my house using skills learned mainly from YouTube videos.
> If Vermont were a company I'd assume a play at cheap advertising...

Politicians like cheap advertising as much as companies do.
«renewable power will always be at a premium over the cheapest power.»

That's patently false. The share of global electricity that's going into crypto mining is small enough—less than 0.5%—that it's too small to directly affect the price of renewables.

In fact some mining ventures are even starting to build their own private power plants (one example: https://news.bitcoin.com/20mw-solar-farm-set-to-power-crypto...) There is no reason why this would increase the cost of renewables. More money, more R&D, more infrastructure deployments will in fact in the long term push prices downward for the rest of us (economies of scale):
the crux of these social websites is that they need to have a social experience

I think something people forget when they're talking about social media is how new it is. Social sites have yet to prove they're something people genuinely want to engage with in the long term. There's no particularly good reason to believe someone who joins a site in their teens will still be on it in their 30s and beyond. They might move on to something else. Or they might not. Teens might not want to join it now that it's an established platform and not 'trendy', but they might come to it later. We don't know. There is no data for this. No previous social network has lasted long enough to discover what happens.

Let's not forget that Facebook has only been around for 14 years, and for a couple of those it was closed to world outside of academia. 12 years is nothing when you're trying to work out how people use something. This entire thing is a fascinating experiment. We're a long way from drawing any conclusions yet.
I've had differing experiences. Note that if you've been distributing before you got the cert part of that rep will carry over as its also a function of the exe signature.
Web Code is a solved Problem: How about fixing Web UI next?
Huh? Methane is a versatile feedstock. Haber process for ammonia. Also methanol and acetic acid, and from them, just about anything.
Fact check: The public funding of Elon Musk’s ventures
Dunes of frozen methane detected on Pluto's surface
Yes, the borderless internet and www are coming to an end. GDPR is only the start but the splinter was/is bound to happen. Countries don't like to give up control and don't want to be told what to do by other countries.

We've seen the separation with China and the search engine differences between countries that Google has to deal with due to regulations from different countries, now. Add GDPR to the mix and the splinter is getting bigger.

We've seen what a no border internet has brought to the world. Any country can go to another country and cyber hack it and influence its people. That's a problem. Also, countries want to tax it in different ways given the impact it's had on commerce. So governments already have an incentive to close its borders.

People think that it's not possible to segregate the internet but once the incentive is there it is only a matter of time before it happens.

We are only one mega cyber attack from going from open to closed.
> As a non-native English speaker, I need it all the time to follow conversations on Internet

I found that installing the google dictionary extension[1] for chrome solved that problem for me entirely.

you just doubleclick on the word and a popup opens with its definition.

This extension is the primary reason I'd loath to ever to switch browsers.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-...
I think you should read some stats on Korea or Vietnam and get back to me