skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

A guy donates an engineering complex, and every engineering student on that campus gets to take advantage of said complex and its resources. Guy donates a new business school building and every student on that campus can take advantage of said building and its resources. In exchange, the university lets in two girls, their daughters or whatever, who might want to major in Art History and French, and coincidentally will likely be inheriting a few hundred million to upwards of a billion dollars in the future. (Future donors.)

It's a fair trade. I'm not wealthy on that level, but if I were calling the shots at a university I'd make that trade every time.
Or they could publish the actual term used so that anybody could check, but they didn't. But they use Beijing written in the characters, as if it was the important part.
But, people might not know how to cash out. 90% of people will want cash.
Researcher's find a way to compromise Swiss Post's e-voting
Odd side effect -- I've received three duplicate 'Github Explore' emails about every hour this morning.
Yes, my main domain is locked by the registry and transfer requires some form of state ID validation with the registry to unlock the domain, before a registrar can transfer the domain.

Should be good enough protection against social engineering targeting registrars.
People learned as much as today with paper and pencil. Digital books and tools are certainly convenient, but don't really contribute to the quality of the education.

There's this study by the OECD which finds that not only there is no correlation between maths/reading/science skills and the use of computers, but in some cases using computers only makes things worse:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34174796

https://www.compareyourcountry.org/pisa-digital

In France they recently completely banned tablets and phones in primary schools.

Estonia, Finland, and Singapore have some of the best K12 education in the world and they barely use computers if at all.

The evidence is slowly piling up that learning, at least until before college (where most of the cognitive skills are learned) does not benefit from using digital tools.
[Deleting this post as much as able. Didn't realize that the fanboys would be so insulted that I disagreed with Mozilla's marketing policy.]
Binance Coin (BNB) Moves Another 5% Up Following TUSD Quote Pairs Announcement
KDE connect?
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> The problem is that Alexa is just a consumer voice command line. UI discoverability is impossible, and everything that you can do is just a utility that does something else.

In a way, I think it's even worse than that. I've used Alexa since the Echo was a relatively new product. Back then, I experimented with new phrases and commands often, but was frequently greeted with wrong answers or "Sorry, I don't know how to help with that." Over time, I stopped trying those commands. Skip forward to today--the backend has been improving for years, and many of those commands now work, but it's too late. Their users have already been taught that they don't, so folks stop trying to use those features. Not only can you not discover new commands easily, you might mentally blacklist useful commands permanently.

Perhaps more frustratingly, the "What's New" emails they send out don't help with this. They never say "Hey, we know you tried to ask your Echo to report its volume level before and it didn't work, but it does now." They always say "Ask Alexa to tell you an Arbor Day joke!" -_-
Interesting idea: employee canaries. You have a way to follow 1-5 employees of a company you think are honest. If they quit, you get a message.
The Seven Moral Rules That Unite Humanity
And manufacturers also pay retailers for improve placement. Unlike online, you never know which product is in place because of paid placement.
2 minutes between captain returning to cockpit before he realizes the problem.[1]

02:11:43 (Captain) What the hell are you doing? [captain returns to cockpit]

02:13:40 (Bonin) But I've had the stick back the whole time! [At last, Bonin tells the others the crucial fact whose import he has so grievously failed to understand himself.]

02:14:29 - recording stops

[1]https://www.tailstrike.com/010609.html
I honestly haven't done any investigation of GitLab. It's something that some folks on my team are evaluating for CI use (cf: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering... )

I do find GitLab interesting; however, I am not totally sold on the "open core" business model :\
Non-descriptive headline. Borrowing some copy from the announcement makes it better:

"Firefox Send: a free encrypted file transfer service"
>Could you flesh your comment out a bit more? How are they more insidious than Infowars? I am assuming the worst thing Infowars has done was claim that that one school shooting was a fake shooting and the survivors crisis actors.

Infowars is tabloid material at best; but even they say that this is a lie. They never asserted this.

>But I don't think I've ever seen anything that I would call insidious.

I've found myself on zerohedge a few times through investing reasons. I've looked through their content and I'm not really seeing anything offensive really.

>Fair disclaimer that I follow Zero Hedge on Twitter, for much the same reason I follow CNBC: I need a perma-bear to balance out the perma-bull.

Very wise move.
wow this is excellent, <details>/<summary> are good tricks
I guess that's why I am sticking with Redhat. I don't really want to maintain two ecosystems worth of cognitive load, and I have yet to work for a company that didn't highly value RHEL skills, whereas Ubuntu has only been valued at help desks for desktop support.

Also, the Redhat docs have been great training material, and I think they are worth paying money for.
From your [2]:

> Security by default, in software, means that the default configuration settings are the most secure settings possible, which are not necessarily the most user friendly settings.

The hard part is making it both secure by default but also developer (user) friendly.

If you make it so that it is super secure by default, but onerous just to get your product setup because of all the security overhead developers are going to get frustrated and either disable all the security or use a competitor's (less secure) product that is easier to setup and you are back at square one.

There are so many options out there that if you try to launch a product (DB, webserver, etc.) and it's really hard for the developer to get started ("step 1, before you can try out this webserver, first register an account with Let's Encrypt") nobody is going to use it.

It's not an easy problem to solve because people are inherently lazy and want results fast. Security done right is the opposite of that in its current state.
100 percent agree. Use as little JS as possible on front end. And then definitely use zero JS on backend.
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Been using it since beta.
Props to Mozilla for providing one of the easiest and well thought file sharing services.
Free option:

> Read a limited number of articles each month
ggplot2 is a solid dsl example. Use it with margrittr.

I agree with this in the main unfortunately ... I was a proponent of DSLs and did my best to try make them whenever practical. The only pattern that’s worked out for me is the builder pattern. This doesn’t require much work, and you get something functional that works as you might expect that people appreciate.

Again ggplot, epic example. Other examples , Varnish, Dockerfile, Nginx, ufw, etc
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There's a slight bias here: static structures don't help discovering.

I actually spend way more time finding out what java objects can do than clojure. The only reason java programmers don't feel this is because someone wrote code to check/suggest what they just wrote. Try writing java without an IDE.

ps: and I'd add that simple set of immutable structures plus functional idioms filters a lot of ambiguity from programming too. The other day I had to read java sax attribute API. It was not obvious and a complete waste of time all that for a list of pairs.
Writing a wasm loader for Ghidra. Problem statement and setting up environment
Alex Jones does apparently push the idea that a "gay bomb" has made frogs turn gay. So there's that....
C'mon. What if your future children want to live?
I am a maintainer of a dynamic DSL (jq), but I agree, I'm tired of dynamically-typed programming languages. Dynamic typing is an endless source of run-time errors.
Ah come on. ZH is a primarily contrarian financial news site. They often break important market-moving news faster than other mainstream media, aggregate better by considering all sources (including Twitter), and criticise just about everyone. Sure, they are often bearish (predicting crashes that then don’t happen), but that’s an easy bias to filter for, and not really that different from the general negative-news bias of most media (i.e. clickbait). Simply because they also criticise the West (politicians, governments, media, policies) (because the West is included in everyone) doesn’t immediately make them Russian trolls. I can’t believe this is even still a serious accusation, for me it’s in the realm of conspiracy theories.
How Bluetooth got its name – an interview with Jim Kardach
Against Willpower (2017)
Who drinks milk anymore? I love the taste but haven’t bought a gallon in as long as I can remember.

If you drink milk, people look at you like some sort of weirdo. It may be a midwestern thing but I grew up drinking a glass of milk (and a slice of bread and butter) with every meal.
* unit conversions

* controlling smart-home stuff

* child/baby monitor

* intercom

* home telephone
Just as a side note, plenty of banks and building societies are open on a Saturday.
My favorite behavior was setting up a lamp near the downstairs landing with a smart bulb, and a motion sensor in the upstairs hallway/landing (through SmartThings). When someone approaches the stairs from either direction, the lamp flips on with a low brightness (in red), allowing easy navigation of the stairway.
>What's really insidious is that they mix well-sourced, real news with absolute trash, so if you're just looking at the headlines it's not unreasonable to think that they're all real. That is, until you click on one of the trash articles and find that the "source" is a blog that sources another blog, which sources yet another blog and so on.

So like the rest of the news?

The point of news is to have a spectrum and you read them and determine the truth for yourself.

None of the points you make validate a ban.
I sure hope this second crash turns out to be related to the new MCAS behavior or a lot of people are going to have some explaining to do.
I know they have to be dead to be considered but I think it stinks that Sophie Wilson never gets much of a mention anywhere near the public sphere despite the immensely broad reach of her work.
"The Justice Department on Tuesday charged more than 30 wealthy people — including two television stars — with being part of a long-running scheme to bribe and cheat to get their kids into big-name colleges and universities."
How does it work? Is it P2P or what?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/benjamin-wallace-wells/is-the...

> By his own account, Lokey was writing as many as fifteen posts a day, among them most of the political pieces. The gig had a certain formula, he told Bloomberg: “Russia=good. Obama=idiot. Bashar al-Assad=benevolent leader. John Kerry= dunce. Vladimir Putin=greatest leader in the history of statecraft.” For Zero Hedge, Syria was a special obsession, a sign of the essential strength of authoritarian regimes and the weakness of democracies.

ZH says he's a disgruntled employee, but there's at least some evidence it's more than "they hate everyone".

I mean, honestly: "The Sinister Choreography Of The MH17 Probe To Smear Russia" https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-31/sinister-choreogra...
I agree. While there are many articles that are questionably sourced and there are many articles with which I profoundly disagree (mostly advocating Austrian style economics and unfettered capitalism), it also provides a forum for viewpoints that are actually quite progressive and liberal (particularly when it comes to civil liberties). I'd rather be the one separating the wheat from the chaff for myself than Facebook or its ilk filtering it for me.

Note that the ZH comments section, however, is a cesspit filled with all sort of -ists.
how can I invest?
Thanks. Grateful to hear your opinion.

I guess a big driver for me is a lot of the proprietary features (example: encryption in transit, RBAC, audit logging) seem absolutely basic to me. Not basic as in easy to implement, but basic as in as an operator I’ll need them for every type of logging/monitoring infra I’d ever spin up.

Worth noting I consider Elastic’s managed offering to be superior to AWS’ in a lot of ways. But personally I’ve always chosen to build my own setup off EC2
The Qmail Security Guarantee
Agree, but they don't have a monopoly on nonsense. And I don't really trust silicon valley companies with defining nonsense.
Algorithmic Futures, Literary Fractals, and Mimetic Immortality
The post describes how Amazon offered more than a token engagement. Elastic rejected them, as such a partnership would have included "preferential treatment that would place them above our users". That's consistent with what I've seen from other OSS-backing companies; they want cloud providers to contribute to their community, but flatly refuse to go out of their way to enable it.
> Google on the other hand has close to a monopoly on search (and browsers)

Which are both free products/services. How do you have a monopoly on a freely provide service? They have a monopoly on the supply (eyeballs) of the digital advertising market.
Agree or disagree they all have to do it now. Because it is happening in many countries and no country will take the risk anymore even if it is very low risk. Peer pressure!
Fedora was not the one making the decisions in regard to the rather specialized area of initial boot. Why that is can only be speculated, but I would hazard a guess that when there is an incentive conflict between what is best for redhat and what is best for fedora, focus of both will go where they align. Path of least resistance and all that.

I would also guess that the small number of developers that work within such niche area was basically all hired by redhat during the earlier days. Not with nefarious intention mind you but simply out of good business practice.
Just How Totalitarian Is Modern China?
I meant priority/early access to security updates really. Updated my post to reflect that.

For example enterprises may want quicker access to well tested bug or security fixes - they can get that first and then the patches appear on GitHub for open source users.
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Stratechery is weirdly insular site. I don't know the background but it looks like the writer/writers just read business news and create their own ideas and don't like to study or read economics.

The "Aggregation Theory" is perfect example of this. It's like the author is not aware that the idea he came up has not been under study for decades and has well developed concepts, terminology and research subject.
Here you go: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan/childbearing/20120817_...

Took 5 seconds to find on google. Unless you're going to move the goalposts.
Part of the condition for a donation to be tax-deductible is that you claim you didn't get anything in return for your donation.

Donating for improvement that affects others is one thing, but donating for a quid pro quo might affect this.
Richard Rorty's Hopes for Liberalism and Solidarity
Unless they under-report, we shouldn't need to feel anything; we can just check https://www.githubstatus.com/history and objectively look at frequency. Of course, some services do under-report; dunno if GH does or not.
Aws is copying others’ efforts and earning billions. Nothing is being given back to the community, instead Amazon execs buy Bay Area luxuries. Stop aws manipulating innovative projects in the name of managed services. Elastic, mongo, Kafka, redis, all are being preyed upon.
> Are paywalls ok?

It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Those are off topic.
> Nah, Android phones have done this forever

Your only option today is MTP on Android, and it stinks.

At one time, Android did support showing up as a mass storage device. I know when I first got a G1, then the phone I had after that - both you could plug in, and they appeared as a mass storage device. Just like a USB thumb drive.

I don't recall if you could use the file system at the same time on both sides; I doubt it, though. This was never a problem for me. It just worked - just like a thumb drive.

Then something changed; I don't recall which Android version, but they gradually phased out the phone appearing as a USB drive, and started to phase in MTP. I recall MTP being absolute POS on Linux, barely workable everywhere else, and where it did work, it was slow.

It's gotten better over the years on all platforms, but it still isn't anything like it should be.

My theory on why they switched was to keep people from easily side-loading APKs, and backing them up easily, etc. I think it was all part of the battle to keep people from really owning their phones, keep them from rooting them, etc. The ever and ongoing battle in which nobody really wins, everything is left as rubble, and the results are futile, because if they lock things down completely, the people that want things open will just leave to create their own devices, and they don't really gain much.

As an aside - that's a direction I've been thinking about pursuing. There are now some relatively cheap 4G modules out there, and some open-source "phone" operating systems for the Raspberry Pi and other embedded controllers (with varying levels of "working-ness"). I'm just getting tired of not really owning my own phone, and I want to do something about it.

My current phone is an S7 (TMobile version) - and they've made it hard as heck to actually root; it seems like every time they come out with a way to do it, Samsung/T-Mobile updates to prevent it. I'm just tired of the whole cat-mouse thing; I want things completely open, even if it means I have to write my own apps.
What, no VR? Laaame
You can only share files "with others nearby who also have the app".
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The time of women's puberty and menopause is a key health metric for a given population. If it's moving up or down something's likely to be very wrong (e.g. exposure to pollution, hormones in the food/water supply). It would be negligent not to track it for health reasons.

There seems to have been something shady going on here. I won't comment on that, but the government tracking this isn't per-se strange or unwarranted.
>An example of why PACs are truly bad is a recent political office run revealed that one candidate, who could not see fit to pay their taxes on time, nor their school loans, had been on the part time pay roll of a PAC for nearly 200k a year. Seriously, you want to see how politicians roll in the money look how the shake down really pays them.

Look at what happens when a state officially becomes purple. The amount of money that flows in to make it go one way or the other is sickening.
What is the legal definition of a monopoly?

As a followup, should that definition remain the legal definition of a monopoly? Do we need a modern appraisal of that definition?
Multiplying by the inverse is not the same as the division
How does one properly think about a decision like this? It's easy to go "better safe than sorry", but that sort of thinking leads to the death of playgrounds and people being afraid to walk around at night when it's the safest it's ever been.

How do you balance the small chance of a catastrophe against the guaranteed disruption and inconvenience to huge numbers of people? As a base rate, I understand that there are hundreds of these aircraft safely making thousands of trips, so the probability of a crash seems quite low, though, higher than it should be.

Everyone seems very quick to say the planes should be grounded (I saw a headline on CNN yesterday "FAA still allows Boeing planes to fly despite crashes" or something to that effect), but it seems like a tricky decision to make. It also seems like a technical one probably with a lot more data available and a history of precedent to those who actually have to make it. Frankly, I'm a little surprised at the vigor with which the general media and social media have taken to this situation, with their opinions on the matter.
I agree that not all banks are unethical whether by choice or regulation. I was specifically calling out a type of credit card service. Even if the tech behind credit cards changed the predatory services would still exist. Whether you use a card, cellphone or some future tech they embed into your skin to access an account they still exist to get you to pay interest on debt.
This is silly. They should have >20 children each until climate change ends. It's the equivalent of suicide to get your way. Rather pointless.
No one is currently preventing you from homerolling a mobile operating system and building your own smartphone (provided that you avoid or license existing patents). It would be difficult to break into that market, establish share and make money in the short term, but no one is actively being prevented from doing so (see Chinese knockoffs).

I fail to see how you see the above scenario as some flavor of monopoly.

The problem here is that Warren was arguing in either ignorance or bad faith by implying these orgs need to be broken up because they are too big or monopoly’s. They are neither. I could sit down today and create a new Facebook, Instagram, or Amazon and release it. There will be no consequences or jackbooted thugs coming to shut me down.

Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean you should be able to use scary words to shut it down.

The reality is that people like Warren want to dictate winners and losers in the market. If you feel privacy or business practices aren’t to your liking, you don’t have to use Facebook or Amazon. Don’t like that Google is censoring (or not censoring) something? Use Duck Duck Go, or Ask. But don’t pretend to be Teddy Roosevelt when you’re really just trying to project your personal biases on the market.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but the DMV links him to his LLC which is linked to everything else. A quick records search on myself pulled up the requisite registration information, so I'm left to question how anonymous he actually is.
Indeed, the website serves you the crypto code but it runs totally on the client so it's perfectly safe and could in no way be backdoored.

More seriously, did they do anything to fix this obvious design flaw? If they want to fish a key they can just serve you a modified JS file and retrieve the key. Unless of course you chose to audit the JS served every time you browse the website.
Because then they'd install a fake Netflix malware from getnetflix.com
So is she going to break up the PlayStation, XBox, Nintendo, and Kindle Stores from their platforms?

Is she going to stop physical retailers from having store brands that “compete unfairly”?
... Which these ads pretty clearly weren't attempting.

I can understand the first line review flagging them via rigid application of "the rules".

What I have trouble understanding is how they apparently don't have a mechanism for handling "high risk" placements, or if they do, it missed ads from a presidential candidate known to be critical of them, exactly the sort of placement such a mechanism, you know, is for.
Mind elaborating on "stuff like this"? I'm all ears (eyes): pat at cloudflare.