skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO "Know your stuff" in this case means specialize (in tech) and find a niche (in an industry/domain and the market/clients you work with). Speaking from experience of doing the opposite for the better part of a decade. Cannot recommend. Would not do again.
Here's a Reuters article from back when he was detained in July [1]. It includes this unflattering paragraph:

"Myanmar has detained at least 38 journalists since Suu Kyi came to power in 2016, according to Athan, a freedom of expression activist organization. These include two Reuters reporters who are on trial accused of breaching the Official Secrets Act."

I'm starting to think that the Nobel Peace Prize should only be awarded posthumously, or perhaps once a person steps down from power (though this would be hard to quantify). Scientific contributions are rarely undone, but a person's overall contribution to world peace can vary quite a bit over the course of their life.

[1] https://reut.rs/2KVsJq7
I am a former academic now working in tech. In the past year I have missed research.

I don't have the time or patience to go through the whole peer-review process in my spare time. Furthermore, some aspects of peer-reviewed scientific writing are quite boring to me e.g. introductions, trying to sell the importance of your results.

Instead, I find that I can scratch my research itch by doing what I want, then uploading the results to GitHub. So far I've re-implemented a couple of recently published papers, and put in a modest contribution of my own. If you want some discussion on your work, you can turn to a pertinent online forum.

Apart from being much faster than writing a full paper, another advantage is transparency and reproducibility. It has become a fulfilling hobby.
You dropped the /s.

It's a bit late.
Also Myrddin and C2 seem to target a similar niche.
I'm convinced that Microsoft will soon offer a "free" version of Windows 10, supported by explicit tracking, advertising, and promotions (q.v., Candy Crush). I think it will be quite successful.
NSS Labs vs. CrowdStrike, Symantec, ESET and the AMTSO
California may ban terrible default passwords on connected devices
I'm muen-aware, but I favor https://sel4.systems/. seL4 isn't a random L4, it does capabilities and has more complete proofs than muen.
There is also a interesting post from a person with Asperger's Syndrome about how the new CoC causes discrimination toward him in first place.
You seem to assume all jurors are high school dropouts or something. They can come from all kinds of backgrounds and this means that specific jurors can be quite knowledgeable.

The idea is a "jury of your peers." Part of the point of this set-up is so that The Haves are not the only ones in positions to make life-altering decisions about people's lives.

Jury Nullification is a thing. There is some degree to which jurors, knowledgeable about how the system has consistently and intentionally screwed over "their people," decide to not go along with railroading yet another person of the wrong color or whatever.

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

Any time a government is overthrown, one of the first things that happens is they release all the prisoners on the assumption that, regardless of what their conviction is for, these are actually political prisoners. This is a not unreasonable conclusion in most cases.
arguably true but irrelevant: Alphabet's GV has invested, along with others, in GitLab (and they had already last year as well).

They haven't bought GitLab
It seems it is a very new language, started only few months ago so probably there is nothing created with it yet.
And? Vanguard does things to increase the return for their shareholders. Should I not invest with them?
A year and a half in internet time might as well be a decade for the rest of the business world.

The real question is did they learn from their mistakes and implement better guardrails to prevent this from happening in the future?
If security is their goal, even more so.

Linux can't be made secure for a very simple reason: The kernel is huge, and all of it runs in supervisor mode.
There is a great review of the Pizza MRE here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_sY-nJ179U

This guy's channel is quite entertaining. He eats really odd stuff, like WWII-era rations.
Doubt, there's no pure communist states left, they all fell after killing a bunch of their citizens by "knowing what's best". The economy is a chaotic system and any earnest attempt at top down control will fail, let alone communism which historically was more about transferring power to your friends than any real belief in an ideology.
Hey, thank you for the feedback. We are heavily focusing on performance improvements - both in the product (so that features run better)[1] and in our GitLab.com infrastructure team (so that GitLab.com runs more reliably)[2]. We stayed transparent about the database incident and people really appreciated that.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests?label....

[2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues
Thanks, that's interesting and useful addition to the parent comment. (I'm not being sarcastic, just trying to counter balance other comment with honest opinion).
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The most unexpected part was seeing "Gentoo Hardened" as a part of state-level official documentation.
The website of your coach is ugly !!!

But your project seems interesting.
Google invested early in Gitlab. I'm not saying you're wrong, but they've been in this space for a long time already.
4 common Node.js security issues inside NPM packages
In what area you are interested in?

I guess we could create a small "research group"... I would join and give my contribute.
worth a ticket on a bug tracker
>Prosecutors had omitted to reveal to Mr Dixon's defence attorney that a gunpowder test on his client's clothes had come back negative.

>Perhaps even more egregiously, another man, Lamarr Scott, admitted to local media only days after the murder that he shot Torriano Jackson. According to the Buffalo News, prosecutors conceded that Scott had been admitting his guilt in the case for a long time.

What kind of person sends an innocent man to prison just to score a win in a case? They should face some kind of repercussion, a good start would be an audit of all their cases looking for similar behavior. Of course that isn't practical, maybe a "strike" system where you would be suspended after x cases of unethical behavior.
Good question. In my eyes Russia indeed has really no motive to do this. On the other hand, given the constant demonization of Russia over the last years, this perfectly fits that narrative.

But if the goal was this demonization of Russia, then yeah, that's a lot of motive right there.
At least with picking randos off the street you had to both physically make an effort to be there and could also only sample a limited amount of random population on a given day. With social media you have the ability to actively target super-minority opinions without getting up from your desk, which I believe has caused detrimental effects
Yeah, I'd agree about the recent blog posts. But I've been a customer of theirs for about a year and have only good things to say about the quality of the product. I think I originally came across them from another hacker news comment too.

I used to run my own mail server for years but spam was becomming a problem as it always does when running your own system and I thought the pricing of most of the services was poor if you had lots of addresses but didn't send/receive many emails. Spam hasn't been an issue for me with mxroute so far and their infrastructure seems to be pretty solid.
Modern Microsoft and Google are both now trying to make their millions by aggregating and selling customer data. Windows 10 is mostly spyware.
>all men driving Mercedes AMG, Lamborghini or Ferrari have Arabic origins

If you can't show me a reliable source of this outlandish claim then you are simply spreading racist propaganda.
This looks really great, thank you!

I might play with it this morning, with Choo!

https://github.com/choojs/choo
Maybe I just missed it in this ranty wall of text but I can’t seem to find an actual concrete complaint about what we supposedly need to unfuck in our codes of conduct.

I’m by no means a big fan of the concept of a code of conduct (it’s basically patronising for functioning adults by spelling out things that should be obvious; and I’ve yet to see evidence that they are actually effective at combating bullying, tribalism and harassment). But by now they’ve simply become a signal in their own right, saying: this place cares about its community. And, in the end, I think that at worst they’re not actively harmful.

So: how are they harmful, and in what regard do they need “unfucking”?
NOT true AT ALL. This is how it's presented to everyone but this is NOT true. A jury decides on the question if it is just/fair for this person to be convicted of that crime given the crime, the evidence, the state, and the expected punishment, or any other factor they care about. NOT just if they're guilty. A jury is perfectly free to declare someone not guilty even if they are convinced they are guilty.

Seriously, give this as an answer as a first year law student and you fail. No question. Of course, it's how prosecutors present it to the jury (you might ask yourself the question: given that they misrepresent this, how badly did they misrepresent the crime in the first place ?)

And, frankly, if you knew how the police and penal system worked internally, you would in nearly every last case vote not to convict. It does not fix the crime, it just creates one more victim, and the system is totally inhumane. Even if someone is a criminal and have stolen, or even raped they do not deserve to be subjected to that.

Furthermore, prosecutors lie in court to get people convicted, so how trustworthy is their case, really ? Listen to a few of the dirty tricks police pull to convince juries:

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?t=26m48s

Still so ready to convict ?

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

NO ! Is the only correct answer when on a jury. Ever.
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What is your field? Can you link some of your work?

I could be interested in helping with the "academic writing"...
It is quite well accepted, as in:

- the biggest Polish banks (whose initiative this was) support it, and the ATMs (Euronet included) usually have that as an option.

- ALL of the Polish payment providers / gateways support BLIK.

- Poland is quite infamous for supporting contactless payments [0] and most of the POS terminals support BLIK as well.

- For merchants it also makes sense as there are no chargebacks.

I do concede that for BLIK vs. contactless payments in the brick & mortar shop the latter always would win for quick payments, but why does it seem high friction to you?

[0] - https://zalewskiconsulting.pl/mastercard-poles-love-contactl... and also Android / Google / Apple Pay
Used them for a bit. Their webmail is pants and the search is so slow. Switching to Google Suite has made my life much eaiser.
Thanks. I just found the following article about "proof of stake" in case anyone else is: interested:

https://hackernoon.com/what-is-proof-of-stake-8e0433018256
Wait, youtube removed all private messaging? Wtf.

The phenomenon of reviews on youtube is interesting. I personally had an issue with yters who would give glowing reviews of anything sent. I immediately report these, as they are usually fraud. Be sure to ask for an honest review, because a 'nice' review where there is no critical thought might as well be a bad review. Once I see your product as being shilled, it will lose trust and likely any chance of buying. I suppose candy helps eliminate much of that, thankfully for yourself.

Great article, love the detail included.
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> Hardware-based mechanisms and isolation are assumed trusted, properly functional and configured. Here is a non-exhaustive list of hardware-based security and isolation mechanisms: UEFI firmware, Secure Boot ...

Is firmware a "hardware-based mechanism" with comparable isolation claims to a TPM, MMU or IOMMU?

See the talk "Firmware is the new Software", on attack/defense of UEFI firmware vs auditable open-source firmware like LinuxBoot, https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2018/speaker/hudson/
I'm thinking about expanding on the ideas of Nicholas Nassim Taleb. For instance the concept of anti-fragility.

My academic background is in information studies but I'm not married to the field.
That's true. But unecrypted email really isn't secure anyway. I'd prefer this solution to using Google Mail and having my emails read for targeted advertising.
That's correct, here are more details about that. https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/09/gitlab-raises-20-million...
I'm always wondering why github is more successful than gitlab... What github has that gitlab can't offer ?
With deconvolution of an impulse response sweep you can get the spatial data in the form of an echo. You should get better data with a sweep than with a single pulse due to the general uncertainty principle.
perfectionnism vs pragmatism ?

Maybe making a full fledged sel4 OS would take years ... I don't know.
Also, if you mostly use GitHub as a way to backup your code or to synchronise it between machines, and you're okay with spending a little bit, simply spin up a 5$/month VPS on digital ocean (or similar), set up your SSH keys, create bare git repos for your projects, and you're good to go. Private and simple.
Sony.com SSL certificate miss-match the domain name
I can acknowledge that Suu Kyi's position forces ugly compromises, but I don't see how she her or her party really needs to jail journalists. Especially when 1. this article claims that the offense is criticism of her, and 2. as you mention, public trust in journalism seems low anyway.

At any rate, are we even sure that this is the work of Suu Kyi's faction? It would be a pretty fiendish move for the military to suppress free speech and make it look like Suu Kyi's work, since (as we see here) it would weaken her status with the west. But I have no idea how to verify something like that.
I reference this when I talk about HackerNews in general. I remember reading this post back then. I remember them slowly growing huge. It's kind of funny to look back and think I knew about their project from the very beginning.
"The super block is stored in two 4KB blocks at a known location at the start of the device."

There should be more than 2 slots for the super block, e.g. at least 64 slots for the super block, to allow for better wear-leveling for SSDs. AFAIK this has been a problem for some filesystems, which wear out the device due to the high frequency of super block updates.

The latest super block should also be replicated 2-4 times on disk to survive corruption. Otherwise, the loss of a mere two contiguous disk sectors could result in loss of the entire disk.

A super block of 4KB also looks like they might be relying too much on the device to guarantee atomic sector writes (this is almost always the case, but not necessarily), instead of using a cryptographic signature to verify that the super block was written atomically. Also, 4KB seems small these days for a super block, especially if the super block needs to include replicated information relating to RAID sibling devices etc.
What I got out of it was essentially that they're not fun, and we just need to all stop being mean to each other.

I'm not sure why we didn't just try that in the first place!
Mirror of OpenStreetMap databasefiles on IPFS
That doesn't even make sense. Google is the ad company. If they "sold your data" as claimed, they'd be giving away their biggest advantage to their competitors.
This sounds like an amazing way to go!
Here: https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/node-js-admin-panels-str...
>but she was a Nobel Peace Prize recipient

Wasn't Obama as well? And he maintained a torture camp, occupying forces, and tons of bombings.

The "Nobel Peace Prize" is a political tool, not some valuable metric.

Someone mentioned Kissinger having one as well...
> Now why, instead, are we now so dead-set on being so goddamn serious all the
time? What happened to simpler times where things like
"error: ‘long long
long’ is too long for GCC" were the norm? What happened to simpler times where
were used to be able to laugh at ourselves? Sure, there were disagreements and
the occasional toxic troll, but it was very easy to just pointedly ignore them.

"Remember the good old days, when we didn't care about feelings? Yeah, maybe a bunch of women and other minorities got turned away from tech because they would be bombarded for nudes, doxxed, and had to endure a lot of racist taunting, but at least _we_ were having a good time, and right now, that's what I care about."

Yes, it was easy for the author to ignore them. Not for other people. That's the point. The author is giving me PTSD flashbacks to coming home from grade school with a black eye and being lectured about how if only I had ignored the bullies, this wouldn't happen, so really in a way wasn't it all my fault?
Should be fixed with https://github.com/phoboslab/underrun/commit/2477c5a45f5be4d...

Rolling back X and Z when any collision occurs would prevent you from "hugging" (i.e. sliding along) walls. The problem was that a near corner collision wasn't correctly detected when the player didn't collide in X direction in the last frame (last_x) but does collide in the current frame (t.x), allowing the player to move into the corner in Y direction.

Thanks!
I've seen this used at a large US research institution by data scientists doing health care statistics.
I wish for non qwerty support. Otherwise its genius
I guess we have some time before the block rewards drops to 6.75 BTC. (~21 May 2020 21:49:54) [1]

[1] https://www.bitcoinblockhalf.com/
Here are more details about Series C round of investment https://about.gitlab.com/2017/10/09/gitlab-raises-20-million....
He did a bit more than that[0], and he comapred it to Kitty.

[0] https://jwilm.io/blog/alacritty-lands-scrollback/
One of the most valuable lessons my coach taught me is, "get better at being good enough". She practices what she preaches ;)
I was not allowed to used a "calorie counter" web app as a sample app for a certain new web framework at a presentation I planned to make because it may be upsetting to "people of size" and people with "disordered eating" issues.

I declined to change my example, and pulled out of the conference.
Thanks for checking out my site. I’m excited for AutoMicroFarm’s project to take off! It’s much needed in this world.
"Assume failure. Optimize for resiliency."

Printed and stuck on my desk. Thank you very much for this well-said wisdom.
I've dedicated a server to download the openstreetmap database files weekly and push them on ipfs. The server then keeps the pins for that batch active and seeded.

Since the server is limited and it would be costly to enlarge it, I cannot keep seeding older versions, at the moment.

I've written a short reasoning and tooling article on steemit on how I'm managing this: https://steemit.com/ipfs/@berkes/mirror-files-from-the-web-t...
This may be true for a while but eventually there will be more and more pressure until the system explodes.
Spock’s planet?
Idk, I think people seem to care about having a good looking website more than having a website that is practical. It conveys all the information you need on it right on the home page which imo is more important than being pretty. Though, the person who made the website forgot to make a landing page for the redirect on the "I want it!!!" button lol.
What's the difference of archival filesystem vs. distributed filesystem? I assume other distributed filesystems could be used to archive files as well, namely https://github.com/moosefs/moosefs
haha, I built an almost identical tetrahedron for my first prototype with tiny capsules :)

for the larger capsules I had to use more parts for the frame (small pieces of bent brass) to correctly mount the capsules.
>> Very few countries can boast to such a peaceful political turnaround.

I'd say most countries in Eastern Europe and some in South America certainly can boast that. Political changes don't nessecarily have to be bloody, violent affairs.
Paypal's post login page comes to mind.
I want to see the dashboard after login, not a uninformative ad that probably took time and money to put there.
It's also why the death penalty is wrong.
Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics

Hans Sluga, Politics and the Search for the Common Good

Both are very sceptical of the attempt to formulate a general theory of how the world should be in the abstract. They have a different take on political theory.

Geuss also recently wrote a brilliant series of intellectual portraits of ten or so figures from the history of moral/political thought, which is extraordinarily incisive, but also very accessible. It's called Changing the Subject: Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno.
Is there a GitHub/GitLab-like project using ActivityPub?
Everybody thought Gates-era Microsoft was actively out to fuck over everyone it could. They happened to be right.
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God, yes!

Even if it's not the best way. If it's for more than one person, for the sake of sanity, pick a single way to do normal tasks. It doesn't have to be static (changes to the process/tooling can be trialed and applied), but it should be single.

I've built developer tools for big teams that improved productivity and increased my and others' happiness for a living. And I'd shred every single commit to those tools in a heartbeat in exchange for an environment where you don't have to head-scratch about what process and tools other people were using to make changes to the same code.
My guess is because GitHub is American, GitLab is European.
+1 for Stage Lines
Or kit and nim.
We're witnessing the maturation of crypto as these kinds of resolutions only make it stronger. It's going to be used as a flight-to-quality asset class after the traditional markets crack in a few months.
Unfortunately, the keyboard is built with a single membrane under all of the keys. I think that Apple imagined this meant dust wouldn't be able to get under it. Unfortunately, it just means that you can't spray compressed air under it when dust eventually does.
Probably. Wow, you used the word "probably". I guess you aren't aware of the many cases wherein when a Chrome extension gets popular, indie developers are contacted by some company and many have sold their extension are let them collect data. Also yhis data gets sold to 3rd parties,many such cases with small-medium websites have occured. Remember Unroll.me

Also, Google knows how to make profiles and it knows the importance of that data amd keeping it safe. It is also somewhat answerable to Consumer groups,users,shareholders,regulatory bodies.
Indie dev doesn't know how to make good profile, more likely to sell the data to make revenue. Not ridiculing indie devs, just ridiculing your assumptions that if a solo dev is an angel.

https://www.labnol.org/internet/sold-chrome-extension/28377/

https://m.slashdot.org/story/328731
Social network. The second Wave.
>"Remember the good old days, when we didn't care about feelings? Yeah, maybe a bunch of women and other minorities got turned away from tech because they would be bombarded for nudes, doxxed, and had to endure a lot of racist taunting, but at least _we_ were having a good time, and right now, that's what I care about."

This is a strawman, and I assume you are better than that.