skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been playing VikingMUD for more than a decade. I have been 'backdoor/hacking' it when I was using telnet to connect?

I have been audit in IT/IT Audit/IT Security for quite a while. Having ability to telnet in is not a crime. We got firewalls for stuff like that. Even if it is not documented in whatever paperwork have been provided, it takes 5 seconds on a scan to pick this up. There also a bunch of IDS/IPS out there that would spot and kill such a connection attempt in a millisecond.

Also, telnet is unencrypted. Who attacks something when everything is readable? It beats the purpose.

This story has so many holes that a junior net-admin could prevent in their first week. I will assume that Vodafone has 'an army' of highly skilled network and security administrators that have "block telnet" in the first page of their checklists.

I am not taking sides. I am just thinking of ways I have reacted in the past when I found on firewall logs blocked connect attempts.

I also think Bloomberg should stick to what they do best, money. Let the IT Sec to far more qualified outlets. Or if they really want to do this right, and not just aim for clickbaits, get a team of experts to go through their material before they post.
Backdoors are always hidden. Else it is a "frontdoor".
People began working 3 or 4 unstable part time jobs

May be people should have gotten a normal profession?
I just enjoy writing and when a topic is really on my mind it gives me an outlet. I honestly never thought anyone would read half the stuff I write but several things have made it here for big discussions. It was pretty fun and encouraging so I kept doing it.
I agree - I had less free time as a student than I do as an average adult with a full time job.
George Washington's nickname was Town Destroyer ( for wiping out native american towns ).

https://www.usnews.com/news/national/articles/2008/06/27/tow...

Thomas Jefferson on exterminating the natives.

"This unfortunate race, whom we had been taking so much pains to save and to civilize, have by their unexpected desertion and ferocious barbarities justified extermination and now await our decision on their fate."

General Sherman on exterminating natives

"After the 1866 Fetterman Massacre, Sherman wrote Grant that "we must act with vindictive earnestness against the Sioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children."

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

The first governor of california - Peter Burnett.

Instead, the greed for gold wealth led to a second option which was, literally, termed a "war of extermination" by Governor Peter Burnett who declared warfare would not cease with Native Americans "until the Indian race becomes extinct"

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

The inescapable truth is this country ( and before if we include the pilgrims ) was subdued with conquest and series of genocides. Pretty much everyone political, academic and business leader implicitly or explicitly supported genocide. Of course some ( like Jefferson ) wanted to negotiate first but when push came to shove, they all supported explusion and/or genocide.

But they also did a lot of great things. You have to take the good with the bad. Else we are in an untenable position. Columbus was far more brutal to the natives and he didn't contribute anything to the growth of america ( like andrew jackson did ). George Washington was also far more brutal against the natives. What should we do? Rename Washington DC ( District of Columbia )?

The only reason Andrew Jackson is being targeted by the establishment today is because he was the most anti-central bank president we've ever had.

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

In terms of his racist views and policies, he wasn't anything exceptional ( especially during the 1800s ). If we have to remove him, then we have to remove Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Sherman and an unending list of public figures. Where does it end? We should teach and accept that genocide and slavery was part of the making of america rather than try to hide it. And it's okay to praise Washington, Jackson, Franklin, etc for their part in founding and building the country and also condemn them for their wrongs.
Comparing the theories of our novel scalable ACID datastore with others
Thankfully not all of us take your approach.

Because you should always assume malicious intent when it comes to IT security.
> ...there is more to the story than simply "nothing".

Well, where is it? Seriously, where?

Bloomberg made the assertion, a serious one that moved markets, and now it's on them to prove it. Or at least someone needs to step forward with something that remotely corroborates the story.

It's a hard-to-believe claim on a technical basis alone like something straight out of James Bond story. It was a year in the making and now approaching 5 months later and still nothing?
It mentions tax rate laws, but those don't actually cover why Amazon effectively paid no taxes. I.e. massive investments in R&D, stock-based employee compensation, carry-forwards losses, and whatever else I may still be missing.

I don't think it can be considered fairly informative if it doesn't cover how we got to those values. From reading this article, one could still ask if a tax rate is at 21%, how does that mean a profitable company doesn't pay any taxes?
Both texlive and miktex allow selectively installing some packages only. AFAIK the difference is that miktex will show a popup saying «do you want to install foopackage?» when you try to compile a document which uses foopackage, and you don’t have foopackage on your system. Kinda like on ubuntu, you get «you can install this command by running apt-get install foopackage».
No.

The only thing worse than a fool is an engaged fool.

First educate the people, then crank up the engagement. Doing it in the opposite order is a recipe for disaster.
Because an actual review by Super Micro did not find any chips like that [0]. Unlike the Bloomberg article, they also released which company did the audit, while whoever was behind the Bloomberg article couldn't even supply a sample of these chips to any other security researches.

Which was just very weird: On one hand you claim to have discovered this extraordinary thing trough physical evidence, yet when asked to produce said physical evidence, you can't. That alone was reason enough to trigger several red-flags.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-supermicro-chips/super-mi...
I'd say diet is a failure on societal scale but at the same time individuals are the only ones who can fight against it. No one is going to help you because it is more profitable for corporations to ruin your health.
“Adverse possession” laws would likely be triggered even if the treaties were invalidated.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession
No? But they do not connect to each other in every city either, which is why you can get this delay even if both parties are in the same city.
Well, Russia recently invaded a European country, assassinated several people in the U.K., got caught using spies to infiltrate U.S. political parties, hacked the emails of a U.S. presidential candidate while meeting secretly with her opponent (who may or may not be massively in the Russian government’s debt), and resumed air attack drills on NATO countries. So, a lot of English-speaking people see Russia as the “bad guy” right now.
190k users affected by Docker Hub's security breach. Now what?
Ahh, hadn't seen that before. I stand corrected.
>If the[re] is business in the category, you're liable to find it in the SV

This in an interesting take. My understanding is that SV caters to a very particular business: software. Sure that business is growing (eating the world), but Silicon Valley doesn't strike me as "all business friendly", especially when everyone is trying to grow at all costs, while the rest of the country (and world) operates on small, sustainable businesses.
Awesome, that also sounds good

The big advantage of the job DSL plugin is that if you have many similar repos, you don't just treat them all the same with multiple copies of the same Jenkinsfile, you actually can build the jobs from the same source, inheritance-style.

There could be some reasons not to do this, but if you have 100 jobs and 20 or more of them are mostly identical in form except for some parameter, it's a better strategy than multiple Jenkinsfile.

But then again if your Jenkinsfile isn't changing, it might not matter.
To be fair, why companies should be paying tax at all? Companies are taking all the risk, employees aren't.
Last time I checked, pandoc’s LaTeX parser did not support too much of the TeX syntax. It only works for some subset of LaTeX, basically
Soon, "running on Kubernetes" will be like "running on Linux", i.e., it won't add any operational complexity because you anyway have a Kubernetes cluster running.

So maybe you are not there yet, but for a future-oriented CI/CD platform with self-hosting option, using Kubernetes as basis is a good approach.
Well, they are not written in stone. We have quarterly V2MOMS and we change their content during given quarter if that's better for the team.
This whole discussion reminds of the novel A Canticle for Leibowitz. i.e., a society arising in the centuries after a nuclear war failing to learn from their ancestors' mistakes.
So then keep a diary?
I imagine that for a lot of people "oh well a few people died, but it's for the greater good!" is in fact not enough justification to help them sleep at night.
I work for a telco and it's not about money.

With 5G the architecture is far more sophisticated and wide reaching. Companies are also looking at containerisation to go with it which means that vulnerabilities can do far more damage and stay hidden far longer.

Telcos are very much looking out for the interests of their users because once you're known as not being private and secure your business will be finished.
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In one of the previous jobs I've used Jenkins Pipelines (and oh boy it was PITA to set it up in 2016) to handle jobs of different projects. On current one we are using Teamcity (still cheaper than Gitlab Silver license for us) which has the support of this feature as long as branch names have a common variable in their naming convention.

I.e. Project1 has branches in form feature/TICKET_NAME or fix/TICKET_NAME, Project2 uses only TICKET_NAME, TeamCity VCS settings are based upon masks of branch names so ticket 12345 would be branch 12345 in P2 but fix/12345 or feature/12345 of P1 if one exists (priorities could be tweaked too).
I don't see anyone insisting on 2 or 4 here, just you.

If a particular group with a narrow territorial claim is wiped out by disease (that is, population density drops to 0), it seems like 2 should apply to that narrow territory.

It's not like each the native of the Americas asserted a territorial claim on all territories of the Americas. There were different groups with different, sometimes competing, claims, and each enforced those claims with military power or lost them. This was true both before and after European arrival.

I think everyone here agrees that genocides did occur, especially in North America and the Carribean, but is pointing out that the overwhelming majority of the native population decline was due to diseases that few people understood and none could effectively control.

I think the argument is that when all the Taino are dead from disease, it's not clear that any of, say, the Algonquins have a better claim to any of the lesser Antilles than the Spanish crown does.
Voice-Notification Desktop Browser Tool for Gamer Headset?
What is 'this'? Sarcasm or not following groupthink?
what I'd consider a fair share of it back into society

The "fair" share would be a fixed amount of money. Everything else is unfair as it means that some people should pay for others.

The sad state of things is that progressive taxes are unfair, but inevitable.
Making a Mobile Controlled Robot
How much maintenance, support, marketing and feature addition is needed?

Let's say you need 1-2 hours a day for every of your product (all activities combined)

Being a manager means 5-8 hours a day managing people, not working on products.

So the time is similar, but your work on product, not manage people. Way different.
The funny thing is you do still take vitamins in your diet through “functional foods.”

Another trick that might help someone for those nights where your brain races too much to sleep: get out of bed and write down all the thoughts you’re having with a pen/pencil and paper. Avoid a computer screen since the light really will keep you up and energized.
Its just an MVP, so please provide me some feedback.
Any luck finding an affordable nutritional yeast without synthetic vitamins? Other than buying bulk.
> completely generic phrases are being eliminated from the allowed speech

But that's not happening. Anyone can say "it's ok to be white" wherever and whenever they want - as evidenced by the fact that PEOPLE DO.

What's happening is that other people are going "Hmm, well, if he's happy to use a known white supremacist phrase, we're happy to lump him in with the white supremacists."

But now the first bunch of people and their defenders are complaining about the second bunch judging them on their actions. Which is HILARIOUS.

(Generally because the first bunch don't agree with freedom of speech unless it solely benefits them.)
People want conformity, and they rewarded the vendors who gave it to them, no one forced it upon them. People choose to gravitate towards like minded people, and choose to consume things most other people like. The only reason it didn’t happen before on such a scale was that it wasn’t as economical.

The positive of being able to communicate with anyone at any time and/or lookup information almost instantaneously are worth the downsides (which we need to collectively fight against) in my opinion. It’s like any other tool, it’s made life a hell of a lot easier, but you can also cause damage with it, but that’s up to the person.
My biggest gripe with joining and aggregating to JSON is JSON itself. The project I'm working on is dealing with timestamp ranges which of course can't be serialized to JSON.

Although I'm not working with SQLAlchemy (or Python) I presume it has the power to serialize a TSRANGE into a native Python range (if it has that) as well.

I'm curious if anyone has ever found some way around that, I feel like it isn't possible UNLESS there's some data type than JSON available that I could aggregate with.
In the last 16 years (2003-2018), Amazon had only two years of negative earnings: 2012 and 2014.
Good question, dunno. This is Shoreditch, Silicon Roundabout area. Almost every 3rd building has a co-working space now. I'm just waiting for Tesco et al to get in on the act.
4000 satellites is enough to hit economies of scale. Per piece they are probably among the cheapest satellites in orbit.
It could also be mostly text, but mixed with ligatures having their own codepoints (sometimes non-Unicode).
Weird, here it reads

$ wc -l /etc/passwd

108 /etc/passwd
> My goal was to contribute back the same way.

YES! So much of our computing-related triumphs come from documentation that other people wrote. Even super basic stuff that no senior developer or sysadmin would dream of asking, that stuff still needs to be written down by someone.

I have a dozen or so Markdown documents of varying sizes that I need to finish, proof and polish before putting them online. I sorely lacking in motivation (and sleep)
> Dose of reality: test makers are for-profit organizations.

And public schools are really really bad at buying things.
That seems like begging the question. Why it is divided like that in the string representation?
>This is the only place where a cafe is filled with tech people talking about their startups, pitch, their stack, etc.

How many people actually find this appealing?

To an outsider, this is the joke of the Silicon Valley show: everybody is always "talking business" and "crushing it", while the vast majority of "engineering work" being done is mostly useless. The Silicon Valley lifestyle is to me the other side of coin as the Wall Street lifestyle.
Honestly, China is probably worse, but it's not like the USA is the shining beacon of freedom and democracy. Or is Brett Kavanaugh an honorable man?

We are all sort of guilty, we want our cheap goods (clothes, smartphones) and look away when the news talks about garment factories collapsing in Bangladesh, or when the Chinese phone factory workers commit suicide. I enjoy a high living standard, I don't think the way the West (me included) is living is sustainable and it's built on the blood and suffering of so many around the world (like the news the other day how electronic waste exported from Europe are poisoning Ghanaians), but well, isn't ignorance bliss...
I'd stopped consuming so much cable news, it can rot your brain. And why did you edit out "China's human rights may be even worse" from your comment? That's certainly something that is up for debate.

"English-speaking people"? What's that?

Russia does bad things. China does bad things. The EU does bad things. We do bad things. What's strange is the sudden hysteria and relentless propaganda directed towards china and russia in particular. It's not like Russia and China were saints before.
I get that, that's why you don't label it for humans, and you make it hackable. Just like there are people ready to die on Mars just for the sake of making the next step for humanity, there is out there a community of people ready to take the risk with their body to solve a problem that plagued their community for so long. Who knows, they may actually want it, and not be able to do it because of the lack of opportunity.

Open the door, let people volunteer. If you get a response, the ones coming will know what they are in for, and as long as you are respecting them, their action, and the community, you can be proud of what you do.

Why do you think Pasteur tested the vaccine on himself ?

The desire to help, being part of something important, is a deep human drive.
If you have a lot of market power and you want to make as much money as possible the rational thing to do is to charge people according to their willingness to pay[1]. You can't do this perfectly but this is what is behind senior discounts and Intel's huge number of SKUs. Since people in Botswana can't profitably resell their internet in England, since Starlink can easily charge different amounts in different countries, and because the marginal cost of servicing a new region is approximately zero it would be crazy for Starlink not to do geographic pricing tiers.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
People you lose, the people you gain, the people that stay
My mouth tastes horrendous if I don’t brush so that’s a reminder and motivator. It can be good to have the equivalent for other things. I find if I’ve promised something I’m more likely to finish because of the bad taste of breaking the promise. Even f the promisee doesn’t care too much.
Don't you think that saying that all software that comes from these places is plain old racist? Some of the best engineers I have worked with are from Ukraine, for example.
Hi guys,

I've just finished my MVP and I would like to get some feedback, it's a desktop app(right now working only on windows, we have plans to release it for macOS after some validation)

Value proposition: "Offering support or doing marketing/sales on social media/forums/skype can be a very repetitive task or if you work in a big company offering support it may be hard to remember the canned responses that were set by someone else, this is why we come up with SavedReplies, using it you can start using the same canned responses everywhere on your computer."

This is mostly intended for people who support or do marketing/sales on social media/forums and other types of sites like the one mentioned, anyway, if you are interested I can provide more info
Read the article to find out why, came out disappointed.

Yes, the French has many specific, unoften used words; but so does any other language. Some words sound similar or the same but that is not exceptional either.
The "History Eraser Button" from Ren & Stimpy comes to mind...
IA collections:

https://archive.org/details/marionstokes

https://archive.org/details/stokestvarchiveexperiment
> in what world is literature or English multiple choice?!

If you click on the article, the first thing your eye is drawn to is an image of a multiple-choice scantron bubble-sheet. Its reasonable to think that this image is relevant to the discussion the article presents and to implicitly conclude that the article is describing a multiple-choice test.
I don't think you have an idea of how a telco works.

There isn't some giant firewall that every request goes through so you can say "block port 21" and your problem is fixed. Most of the equipment is talking directly to each other on many different private networks some of which may be managed by third parties. And as companies shift towards virtualised, container based architectures it can become harder as there is more complexity as companies transition.

And not sure if you've worked at a large company before but the idea that they have this army of highly skilled people who just make sure everything works perfectly isn't what happens.
Learning a language at any age is hard. It's just harder to fit in thousands of hours of deliberate practice in your thirties than in your teens. As the author correctly notes one needs to know tens of thousands of words to have a reasonable chance of getting through a text without encountering an unknown word. To get to that number a spaced repetition system is much more useful than sticky notes, but it doesn't help much with the time needed for practice.
Maybe your memory of history is very short, but the US pretty much championed a lot of the things you rail against China for in their "war on terror".

Torture camps and abducting people into them included, just like Internet-censorship (to prevent the spread of "terrorist propaganda") and pretty much the biggest and most sophisticated global surveillance system in human history, facilitated through the FiveEyes cooperation.

A lot of the things China does on a domestic basis, the US has been doing for decades on a global basis.
The absurd thing about this all being: They all use the same reasoning to sell this authoritarian creep to the population, the "fight against terrorism".

And people gobble it up like it's the most normal thing ever, regardless of them being Chinese, US American or British.
> (...) It happens to be relevant here (...)

Then it should be discussed. Along with the policies already mentioned in the article and it's disingenuous not to do so. How can we expect to make informed decisions if we selectively choose what information to expose or hide for discussion?
Lunch should usually be the time that people can bond. But people usually opt to continue working or eat with their colleagues.
The fact that they are so strict in a very real way keeps a lot of crapware and annoyances (that I do see on other platforms, more or less linearly following the openness) off of the marketplace. I go from liking it to hating it more or less on a yearly cycle, but I have never hated it enough to stop owning their devices.

When I want something with solid gameplay that doesn't just sell because the graphics are so good (or whatever marketing flavour of the month is in vogue at the moment), a Nintendo console is what I go to.
This article would have been much more convincing if the author had done some testing of their actual level in French rather than just talking about how insecure they feel.

It's possible the author's language is poor, it's also possible it's very good but they see "great" as normal and so discount what they know due to imposter syndrome.

I've heard a lot of people apologise for their English after speaking flawlessly.