skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems that this frigate sunk much too easily for a warship because of a failure of watertight compartmentalization. (Specifically, the part which allows the propeller shaft to interpenetrate multiple compartments.) There might be a parallel here with the Kursk. The watertight compartments were supposed to be hardened against explosive over-pressure, but I remember seeing a documentary where it was proposed that this hardness was compromised by installations of new equipment. There is also speculation that one of the watertight doors to the torpedo room wasn't even closed, which has parallels with the HMS Hood. (Not all of the ammunition transport safety features were used by the crew on the Hood.)
There is a difference to me in turning down a service (you could turn it up again) and shutting down a service (not going to ever come back up (in the same incarnation.)) Even shuttering a service works.
I believe the High/Low guess the number game is very common as a beginners programming task too.
A web browser today is essentially an Internet-facing client-side operating system. You are suggesting to use something that runs outside this OS. (Just pointing out.)
To mock about the doings of others is easy. Plead me guilty. But there are rights and wrongs on both sides. Usually.

My theory is that engineers are often stuck in a filter bubble. Especially newer engineers. If you read all day about microservices and SPAs, there is at some point no place for something else. But classic web app achitectures are still doing very well. At a common scale they do things better with less complexity. The point is that they aren't very heavily discussed anymore. Most problems have been discussed and there are solutions for it. For me it is hard to argue about the problems of modern approaches. Not because I don't have any arguments, but because mostly the response is that we have to throw more code, hardware and architecture at it. It works for FAANG, why argue?

All sides need to pay more respect to things that work. And we have to set context when/where/why it works.
When you enter into a transaction using your bank, someone who is not a party to that transaction can see it, and they pay for that access.

Under any framing, that's a third party paying for access to your transaction data.

The user hasn't opted-in if the co-founder of the company is telling people it doesn't happen. It's only opt-in if the user knows it's happening and agrees to it.
I'm amazed at how flat Atlanta is compared to other cities. Even having lived there, I didn't realize the population density was that much lower than cities in the Northeast and on the West Coast.
We do support IMAP/SMTP via the ProtonMail Bridge.
I think that in a general macro downturn, cryptocurrencies fall further than other asset classes:

In a macro downturn, cash becomes more valuable, and, ceteris paribus, this decreases the cash price of all assets, including crypto.

The popular expectation of above-market returns in crypto is sufficient to create price volatility. A segment of crypto holders will sell when they believe above-market returns won't happen in the short to medium term.

Obviously, downward spirals of selling occur in all/many asset classes. I think the expectation of above-market returns in crypto makes these spirals stronger.
Google CEO had to remind COTUS they don't make iPhones
Emacs and vi are used by programmers. Browsers are used by nearly every single person on the Internet. The threat model is completely different.
I'd be really interested in seeing the declassified intelligence the article mentions that points the finger at Chinese-intelligence. While proving that the attackers originate in China might be easy, clearly connecting this to a government-supported operation seems quite a challenge involving long chains of reasoning. It's probably not feasible to release all the info needed to independently verify this, but we'll see.

I can also imagine how this line could be blurry... perhaps the government quietly permits more profit motivated blackhat operations in exchange for some intelligence sharing. And really the perfect "cyber attack" shouldn't be attributable at all.
"Have you ever seen a game built entirely out of default OS windows and buttons?"

Castle of the Winds, Windows 3.11.
Yup, that is a hairy decision to make if you advocate for privacy and anonymity, and against censorship: What to do with the bad actors who will make use of it?

From the Tor FAQ:

> Some advocates of anonymity explain that it's just a tradeoff — accepting the bad uses for the good ones — but there's more to it than that. Criminals and other bad people have the motivation to learn how to get good anonymity, and many have the motivation to pay well to achieve it. Being able to steal and reuse the identities of innocent victims (identity theft) makes it even easier. Normal people, on the other hand, don't have the time or money to spend figuring out how to get privacy online. This is the worst of all possible worlds.

> So yes, criminals can use Tor, but they already have better options, and it seems unlikely that taking Tor away from the world will stop them from doing their bad things. At the same time, Tor and other privacy measures can fight identity theft, physical crimes like stalking, and so on.

BTW: Those examples I gave are for Milo Yiannopoulos and WikiLeaks. I am not sure they fit into any category you mentioned.

> If when you say whiskey you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it.
It was deemed the pedestrian was also partially at fault. She was crossing a road, at night in a dimly lit portion of the road, no where near an intersection and with seemingly no regard of awareness of oncoming traffic in dark colored clothes which is the opposite of pedestrian safety for walking/running at night. If you watch the video, even a human probably wouldn't have hit the brakes in time with average reaction speeds, the person was only visible for 1.5 seconds before impact. I believe the term is contributory negligence, when both parties are making mistakes that lead to the accident.

Grounding the fleet would have saved her life, but its arguable any other driver could have hit her and only applied the brakes for a short period of time, not enough to stop or slow to a less lethal speed before impact.
Does this offer the ability to copy the applied styles of the element you're hovering over?
Perhaps "don't use your real phone" when traveling to the US?

There's no telling what kind of APT's may be installed now or at a future date, so thinking a phone wipe of any kind will do the trick sounds risky.

APT's are apparently commonly used with China, so doubt the US would be any different.
Exposé is what made me see that 13-inch laptops are a viable option.
I used plaid as a payment option at my SaaS company. Yes, it is a great idea, but the implementation is "meh".
> OFAC can say what they want, no one is technically barred from sending funds to that account

Are you saying there is a difference between "censorship" and "technical censorship"? You are demonstrating the obfuscation I called out in my post. Suppressing content is suppressing content. If you believe that Bitcoin will allow you to freely send money to OFAC-sanctioned addresses, please prove it by sending a transaction there and providing us with a verified signature. Until then, my point stands.
> One of the super secret missions they used to sell the shuttle program was capture

That would work once. After you successfully capture one satellite your adversary would add a special explosive payload to a subsequent satellite and then "leak" a salacious detail about said satellite to make you attempt to capture it. One shuttle braking up in orbit later and you'd never use it for that purpose again.
If on Linux, try running fstrim from time to time. More free space makes life of SSD's garbage collector / defragmenter much easier. I've anecdotally noticed that running fstrim reduces freezeups under heavy load from 1-2s to almost nothing on my Toshiba drive.
People do this all the time when they don't want to believe. At one point people didn't want to believe North Korea was the perpetrator of the Sony Hack, for political reasons, but then for other political reasons people were sure it was North Korea.
Just like the email hacks --people tend to believe or not believe depending a lot on their ideology and how it aligns with them, unfortunately.
I blame the fact that most lawmakers are senile, corporate crony incumbents who have little incentive to get the facts right and board Air Force 1 with toliet paper stuck to their shoes.
I used to use OneTab, but it wasn't robustly constructed to deal with data loss/recovery. I've now moved on to Session Buddy, which has some really nice features, like auto-saving your browsing sessions without your doing anything. (I guess I should check if that respects private modes.)
Seems pretty useless to me. It's way less effective than dev tools and more of a hassle to implement into projects.
Replace Chinese with Russian and ask yourself if you still want to see the declassified Intel.
Maybe the init system in the 90's was similar when Slack was compared to contemporary Linux distros. There is very little modern resemblance. I wish this perception would go away. Spend a day with both and I'd put money on an honest person never making this claim again.
>What was a bit offputting was how quiet Colbert was when the camera was not running and how much more energetic he was when it was.

That's normal for introverted performers. There's a whole lot of them, from George Harrison, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, Charlie Chaplin and more, who have been known to be quiet when offstage, and turned on when performing.
> But can they stop you from sending money there?

It's an easy to verify claim, and as far as I'm concerned it's the people making extraordinary claims that have to provide proof. If you want to prove this "censorship resistance" that you claim, please sign a transaction to an OFAC-sanctioned address and let's see how many confirmations it gets.
It’s possible that some or many of the people who bought into the original Ethereum ICO did so because they liked the idea and wanted to support development. It’s not always a pure cash grab. If the only definition of speculation is buying and selling an asset in the same day (the government’s definition of a day trader) then most are investors.
>Have you ever seen a game built entirely out of default OS windows and buttons?

I remember having a lot of fun playing Stars! as a child:
https://www.mobygames.com/game/stars
compared to (for instance) a 16MB consumer CF card from Sandisk, circa 2000.

That would almost certainly be small-block SLC flash rated for 100K program/erase cycles and 10 years of retention. The huge-block TLC now is ~1K program/erase cycles and 2-3 years of of retention depending on where you look (the manufacturers are not surprisingly quite reluctant to release these specs...)
> the registry still existing

You know that GNOME also has a registry, right?
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/dconf
See https://stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/everything-yo... for more than everything that you might want to know about the use of they as a singular pronoun. Even those who think that they object to it, frequently use it without noticing.

The upshot is that whining from self-important grammarians notwithstanding, English has always had a third person singular pronoun in common use. It has been used in every century by established writers. Indeed frequently by the same people who were saying that nobody should use it. That pronoun is "they".
Trying to get compiz/beryl to work on my crappy dell inspiron was probably one of a few indirect factors that resulted in my cushy tech job.
I hear great things about DO and I really want to try it out but DO doesn't accept payment from our country. The same $5 droplet costs $25 here. I really hope you guys expand to the developing countries.
American culture is sustained by paid masters degrees at ivy league schools? That doesn't really seem correct to me.
Typically these situations where belief follows political lines are an indicator that there isn't strong evidence to support either interpretation.
The old Bizspark (and Bizspark Plus) programs have changed into a single Startups program which is more selective. Still great value if you can get it.
Every frame is perfect™

Every frame is great. If a frame is missing, ### gets quite irate.
Bizspark doesn't exist anymore, it's a single program called Microsoft for Startups now, and it does allow you to apply directly: https://startups.microsoft.com/en-us/faq/
Isn't there some kind of reward for whistleblowers in the US? eg % of the fines or something?
Ok. So you’re arguing the climate is cooling, not warming.

You know what, I don’t believe you’re a real person - I think you’re a disinformation sock puppet. I have no evidence for this, but by your measure the onus is on you to disprove this.
All correct about Communism at its peak, but by the time Gorbachev came to power it was already in severe decline, unable to use force. Gorby wanted to modernize it, he had no intention to destroy it. Things went beyond his control quickly. For old communists he was a traitor, for new generation he wasn't moving fast enough. He picked the worst of both worlds. He saw himself as a messiah, for no good reason. At first he sounded cool are refreshing, but then people quickly got tired of him, of endless indecisiveness. They wanted real change, which Gorby never delivered.
Check out http://www.iaee.org/documents/denver/varela-salazar.pdf

Texas has 2GW of refinery cogen capacity alone.
Scala is an especially messed up situation. Everything is either overengineered or simplistic; there is no good middle ground because the language is a mess.

This is a little-acknowledged industry-wide problem that extends beyond hot-shot overengineering to reems of banal code too, so I would rather it be written from a less expected perspective.
Go 1 has been rather usable for many of us so far :-)
I understand that there is something that makes the cells stop working over time. blattimwind's reply is the first actual explanation I've ever seen of what that something might be.
the prevalence of the PNRP gene is much better explained by periods of time when humans were very cannibalistic. This makes more sense behaviorally as well, since humans are very difficult to program with instincts. I would bet dollars to donuts that the average hunter gatherer/early farmer had no such revulsion. Meat is meat.
Its a great story, told in a video with high production value, too bad its "innacurate". Saturn was cracked 20 years ago, you could mod it easily and play copied games. There also did exist complete CD emulators before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12075653
Hasn't Ubuntu switched back to Gnome recently?
Since ~2009 most of the effort was Canonical-sponsored. The C++ rewrite was quite a dealbreaker in the flow of the project (which was originally written in C). The time it took to get the rewrite up and running and the language switch had a great toll on the motivation of the contributors.
I believe it’s small things like this that separate the under dogs from the Giants. The giants are good if you are a huge Corp like Apple, for the little guys DO is amazing.
Never ever happens!
You don't need to exfiltrate data, just detect if some crypto workload was occurring and weaken it in a way known to you.
The exact wear mechanism doesn't really matter (you must be referring to "hot carrier injection") --- the point is that to record data, electrons are being forced through a material which gradually wears it out.
Is the product you are building out already?
Basically, if you want to be a dictator be a bad one (like Saddam or mr Kim). A nice dictator will not survive (witness the Romanovs -forgiving an assassin, for example) because people naturally will "take advantage" of that situation.
If only Cathy were a Muslim from Guantanamo. He would leave no stone unturned not to extradite her. And maybe pay her a few millions and apologize deeply.
I appreciate the nuance. "Today, Bitcoin censors less than PayPal" seems closer to the truth.

Would you then agree with "Cryptocurrencies in 2010 censored less than cryptocurrencies in 2018"?
Wot no vectors?
It is important to always be aware that arrests and disappearances in China are about state power, never ever about justice. Just ask a crime victim. Then ask a victim of state persecution.

Even the killing of a street dog in Hangzhou is about state power and you cannot forget that.

To take down a Huawei executive and break a trade flow involving Iran is majorly affecting the state (the Communist Party), so they will fight back with thuggery against Canadians and Americans.
I also wanted to mention the Sony hack, and on the Wikipedia page there's a section quoting experts who doubted that it was them who did it. Associating this with sanctions against Chinese networking companies makes me think that it's just too convenient of an excuse.
People do this all the time when they don't want to believe.

I'm fine with the prospect of China hacking the US. It fits in just fine with my world view. However, there's also the sinking of the Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and Iraqi WMD. Skepticism is called for.
"Many things been coming out of their house, but not a usable browser — a raison d'etre stated in their charter. "

And yet here I am reading this on Firefox. Like, I get that someone might prefer Chrome, but how anyone could call FF unusable is baffling to me. What on Earth would make it unusable in your opinion?
Hi dec0rum,

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I can totally relate :) The hackery you had to do to have the whole stack work was significant and helped a lot grow sysadmin skills for me, and to build fresh versions and hack up new plugins was a great motivation to learn to code in a team-oriented setting.
Agree about the sketch and Figma click through stuff. One of the only things I see holding all of the competitors back from eating InVisions lunch right is that it's easier to share and collaborate (internally and externally) with InVision. Being able to login, comment, and share a URL seems to be a big part of it.

I would also say the inspect feature is a big plus, but that doesn't even play nicely with some sketch plugins right now.
For over a year there has been widespread reporting of a surge in Chinese hacking, since the trade conflict began with the Trump Administration. Before that, the Obama Administration managed to get a brief cease fire, during which reports of Chinese hacking plunged dramatically.

So what exactly was the Obama Administration getting an agreement on? China was doing it before, stopped after a publicly acknowledged agreement with the Obama Admin, and then it's so far fetched that they'd start up again during an increasingly aggressive trade war as to be worthy of false flag considerations - I don't think so.

If it was China in this case, it's nothing more than par for the course for how they've been behaving for the last decade plus. It's an invaluable tool in their arsenal for dealing with the US in a variety of regards.
> So the question here has to be whether the creator of the machine acted reasonably in designing the machine as they did.

I'm wary of this line of reasoning. No programmer outside of a terrorist organization will ever intentionally design a machine poorly. If a civil engineer -- specifically a Professional Engineer in the U.S. -- signs off on an unsafe bridge, and that bridge later collapses and kills someone, you can bet your arse they're getting sued and possibly charged with a crime. Unfortunately, we have no real equivalent to this in software engineering/programming -- the concept of a Professional Engineer doesn't exist, and so no one can be held accountable for faulty designs.

Yes, this would bring software development to a grinding halt. I for one don't necessarily consider that a bad thing. It doesn't have to be for every project too -- after all, you don't need a PE to sign off before you build a shed in your backyard. Likewise, a web browser or video game probably ain't gonna need that level of accountability. But for a self-driving car? If someone isn't willing to be held accountable for the software failing, I personally feel the system shouldn't be allowed on the road.
That nature article is not great. It just assumes a straight line growth of energy usage. But proof of work, interestingly, could incentivize green energy development —- unlike other forms of energy production which generally need to be near the site of consumption, you could have a solar farm in the middle of nowhere and still mine bitcoin.
For my day job we use Azure, and it gets the job done. But all my personal projects are with Digital Ocean I love how clean and minimal everything is.
Are you just trying to sow doubt for China's sake or do you legitimately have issue with what was said by the two sources and Just Dept case.
> perhaps the government quietly permits more profit motivated blackhat operations in exchange for some intelligence sharing

I've long wondered if we're going to see cyber warfare "letters of marque" at some point.

In retaliation to cyber attacks on US companies, the US government could designate Chinese firms with connections to the Chinese government (and particularly those which support the Chinese military) in letters of marque, allowing retaliatory IP theft, permission to cause damages, etc.

If the Chinese government is behind these attacks on US companies, than we are in a de facto state of warfare.
That skepticism is earned indeed. But despite that people will believe something along these lines (WMD[1], Sony Hack, Russia, etc.) if it aligns with their political view. And if it doesn't then they're even more skeptical than is healthy.

[1]Although to be fair, Saddam _wanted_ his neighbors to believe he had WMDs. It was a sort of a reverse 'boy who cried wolf' and then not wanting to lose face kept playing games (which fooled many to believe more than they should have with flimsy independent evidence that he had WMDs (including many in the opposition parties).
Thanks for the suggestion, I have heard of Marvel and tried it a while back but haven't given it a fair second chance. I will give it a shot!
I'm using netbsd as my daily driver. If you got some free time to play with FOSS it can be great. I can dive into a lot of fields and it's a lot easier to edit out the sources and change out parts on the BSDs than most places. You can easily read the source code for everything you use.

While rough around the edges, it can be comfortable enough that I forget about it most of the time.

All the BSDs are better if you're not using the shiniest of hardware, they do eventually get hardware support for things, but not always at day zero.
what was interesting to me was the "milkshake" phrase is quoted verbatim from something said by senator Albert B. Hall. He was jailed for accepting bribes to sell US-owned oil reserves for cheap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
im noticing a trend of our government offloading its responsibility to protect us and hiding its incompetence by pointing finger at foreign nations.
-elections fucked up? -russia.

-corporations dont protect consumer data? -china.

-drugs and gang violence? -mexico and other south american nations.

-unemployment? -canada and tarrifs.

come on already.