skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again, the Shadow Brokers stuff is "a staging server was compromised", which just isn't that related to the problem of securing an IM backdoor. Snowden leaked information he had access to, but measures like storing the key in an HSM (and not allowing it to be extracted) largely mitigate that threat.
Yeah, money lies. Overestimating your ability on a memory retention task might not be indicative that money lies, however.
You forgot the part immediately following your out of context quote where she says they had multiple large expenses that were inexpected.

You suggest (by placing those two quotes together) that seeking happiness in a less expensive area will put people in financially precarious situations.

I'd like to know why you decided these quotes go together, and why they don't merit being quoted in proper context?
> But it seems that, quite often, US indoor temperatures loom around 18-20C, while in EU we usually aim at around 24-25C

I wonder if it has to do with the US having a higher obesity rate than the EU?

Anecdotally, I'm in the US and a few years ago I lost a fair bit of weight. Before that I would heat my house to 65 F (18.3 C) in the winter, and turn that down to 62 F (16.7 C) at night. As it got to warmer parts of the year, I was comfortable up to maybe 68 F (21 C). If it got over that, I'd consider it too hot.

After losing a fair bit of weight, I find those old winter temperatures too cold. I now heat to about 68-69 F (20 - 20.6 C) in the winter. Below that, and I'm wearing a sweater. In the warmer parts of the year, I'm now happiest at 75 - 78 F (23.9 - 25.5 C), and can go without much annoyance to maybe 81 F (27.2 C) if I turn a fan on to blow air over me and maybe take off my shirt.
The Marriott system is still riddled with vulnerabilities. Had someone transfer 200,000 points out of my account recently. No way they stole my session cookie, and the password was very complex, unique to Marriott and generated / stored by LastPass. There was no attempt to change my password. Now what's interesting is that the points to airline infrastructure likely is a SPG legacy backend that is still running.
Well, for a company that wants someone to hit the ground running in their chosen stack, your degree is useless as well as your ability to do well in hackathons, and unless they are looking for an iOS developer, so are your iOS skills.

Most jobs don’t need or care that someone can do leetCode or invert a binary tree.
Same 403 for me, but TOR Browser was allowed.
For most of the mitigations there are kernel parameters to disable them if you wish to do so
I like your cheat sheets. Nice.
China has a MIPS chip in the wings called the Loongson. Got a lappy with one, works nice.
> You’re describing the temperate areas of America

Yeah that was part of my point, these places really don't require much a/c yet in the summer they're on full blast.
We need a different word than "friends" for such bonds though... Someone who does not know your birthday is not a friend.
Plus they priced them the same despite the extreme limits on portability, lending, resale, etc.

I love ebooks, but I don’t buy ebooks with DRM.
>We compared 10 climate policies that stimulate innovation (e.g. carbon taxes, deployment subsidies, cutting fossil fuel subsidies) and found that increasing government budgets for public clean energy research and development (R&D) is the most effective—even more effective than carbon taxes.

This causality seems tenuous. I'm confused how an enlarged budget for Renewable Energy R&D necessitates a reduction in emissions? There'a lot of jumps being made there.

On the other hand, a carbon tax is straight forward: a tax is applied on carbon, and it creates a "price signal", where fossil fuels products become more expensive relative to those based on cleaner tech. This fundamental price signal--with the price on carbon increasing year over year--incentives investment into renewable energy and clean tech. The market runs full speed towards a clean transition.

How would "carbon taxes become more politically acceptable"? The arrow of causality is in the wrong direction: it is the carbon tax that MAKES clean energy R&D the obvious thing to do.

And finally, there are tons of studies that have explored what a clean energy mix would look like. Here's Stanford professor Mark Jacobson's: https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/Coun...
As a small note, I think the word we're looking for in this thread is not "nation-state", but simply "state" i.e. sovereign country or polity.

Not all states are "nation-states". A "nation" (⋆) is specifically a group of people who are culturally homogeneous, and a "nation-state" (⋆⋆) is a sovereign state that is also culturally homogeneous. In most of these discussions we are talking simply about sovereign states, not nation-states specifically.

Someone else pointed this out onetime in another HN comment, and now "can't unsee".

(⋆) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation (⋆⋆) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state
You can be selective about your work without being a snob.
In Linux you can disable mitigations with kernel parameters.
It seems to me that there were two technical details of TBC. One was "We can build a tunnel cheaply". That seems as far as I can see to have been entirely down to digging smaller tunnels- which doesn't seem like innovation to me, especially since some of the cost saved is by not building the escape tunnels that traditionally are built for safety not capacity. The second detail was "These tunnels will be fitted in a way that allows super-efficient transportation". That seems to have entirely disappeared.

I would really hope to see some evidence of their efficiency of digging tunnels being legitimately better than traditional methods now. Otherwise you've got to fear that this all ends in a dozen people dying in a tunnel because the safety precautions weren't sufficient.
No it doesent explain it. I know the answer but its not convincing and no the models so NOT actually predict anything without the curve fitting. They are more wrong than right. Yes its logaritmic but question is how much of the increase is man made how much is natural. This is the question we cant answer. If 10% of the change is caused by humans its a very different thing than if 90% is human as one scenario means we can do something and should, while the other mean its waste of time. As long as that number isnt clear i wont loose my sleep over it.
> This is simple and just works

Who is that guy and what has he done to Elon Musk?
Yep Braintree and Mollie are some other options I’m going to consider.
Acting like the parent poster suggested shooting random homeless people as a solution for homelessness is disgusting.

Defending yourself from a person who hits you in the head with a hard object is reasonable (at least in the rest of the world outside of California), shooting too.
What's written on that web pages is clear enough for me and it's the same as my own understanding of personal data. It is rather abstract and I can admit that it may be not easy to understand for others without some good examples. But it's a complicated topic in general, that has to be studied beyond reading a single article or text of EU law.
From My Perspective
As far as tracking and advertisements go i think that whoever is the owner of such stuff should have to remunerate the target. Either by way of free data, free software, free anything. Also, i remember when CD's first came out and all the P2P sites, the music industry fell flat on its ass so i think what they came up with is that a percentage of the CD sales would go into a kitty that was divided up somehow to these musicians videomakers/producers/etc. Now nobody hardly uses CD's so how do these issues get rectified? Make the Trackers/Advertisers/ServiceProviders/Computer Companies?and who ever else,come up with a happy medium so everybody is Happy!lol.I useto be a convict,still am but use to be too so i couldn't care less if they tracked me...i might lead them to some good porn or something and as far as adds go,i only want to see adds i'm interested in like say scuba diving;if there's a new and revolutionary re-breather out on the market,then hell yeah, i want to see it,but all the other crap just piss's me off.Now the reason i came here in the first place.Firefox Rocks! Xcept i'm having an issue with all these add ons,that are awesome.I'm on the computer all day and night now learning all the Adobe programs and Rhino Cad and what not (thanks Get into PC)..and my eyes bug out so i got all these color,contrast and light/dark addaon's but some are specifically designed for youtube and fb and they are really good,, but then when i go back to FF settings and themes and add ons management and what not,, the pages are all bright white,, so then i adjust the color settings from visited and non visited and going to vistit someday.. wtf? Then that throws everything out of whack,i like that Stylish and Momentum and that little Black Cat theme,(little fk'r,,lol) trying to chase my curser around..and he just stares at me and acts all Catish. And when i'm using a specific youtube and fb theme nothing seems to work,, they have to sync with each other.
honestly, I've found the far bigger problem is actually the complete opposite. ymmv.

companies and corporates have direct structural and economic incentives to commoditize work and development.

trying to find work that is intellectually stimulating, ethical, and not already a process flow or a prescribed solution is incredibly difficult, and even when you're notionally hired into such a position, you'll spend most of your life fighting against systems, incentives, training, culture and qualification institutions designed specifically to commoditized and throw up barriers to not thinking like 'pro in a box's. indeed, you might even say that the very notion of 'stack' of particular technologies is itself a materialisation of this concept. I'd love to say I've internalized the model of BA's, DB people, our other weird names for the job people do, but I can't. half of the time they aren't defined and the skills required to do them well are essentially the same. there, I've said it!

there's a real problem in that companies hire saying they want open minded and full stack, but all their behaviors are actually geared to want the opposite.

it's also why I try to do data science and not business or web development. I want open ended questions where things are genuinely not known, not IT specifications and requirements or building to spec. I would think the same drive infects a lot of people who choose the startup route (once you eliminate the tech fetishist fanboy circle-jerkers, if you'll pardon my French)...
Women perform better on math and verbal tests at higher temperatures, while men
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In the context of a large web application what many people describe as back end is hardly such. Typically that stuff is middleware. The actual back end would be things like payment processing, database access, internal services, and so forth. The code sitting on a service that issues server calls and into the business logic that builds anything client facing is middleware. I call that stuff middleware because at a large enough company they would not let anything on a webserver go remotely close to anything storing data for security reasons.

That being said fullstack doesn't actually mean the entire stack as the name would suggest. It really means the front-end plus the middleware, or both ends of HTTP. For developers experienced enough to write on both sides of HTTP it makes sense to tidy that up into a single position to lower labor costs.
I don't think many people care about DRM. Most people have only one reader, so the fact their kindle book doesn't work on a nook didn't bother them.
What hurt the industry was the book publishers getting upset at Amazon and choosing the agency route. With most ebooks more expensive than their mass market counterpart. And the lack of sales, as you could never sale the ebook for less than agency price.
After all, there is no middle ground between living in caves and dying of getting gored by a mammoth at the age of 14, and having say, billions of people drive 20 miles a day, as they commute to work, in an opposite direction of other commuters, alone in their three-tonne vehicles powered by dead dinosaurs.

No middle ground whatsoever.
Playing the devil's advocate here -- GP is resorting to attacks and straw arguments, but let's try to come up with something plausible. GP raises several examples of species once thought extinct, whose habitat never disappeared. However, the flightless rails appear to have lost their habitat. Did they?

It's well known that flightless animals, such as moose, can and do migrate significant distances and colonize islands. They do it by swimming. Could flightless birds do the same? Quite possibly.

It seems reasonable, to me, that a population of these flightless birds would colonize nearby land. What sounds more incredible is that they would then up, leave, and find their way home, thousands of years later -- all without leaving a trace. Perhaps this leads to an interesting follow-up study: are there geological records, or populations, of flightless rails on neighboring islands or nearby land masses?
I haven’t seen a Linux implementation of this yet, but I suspect the performance is beyond terrible. Intel’s doc says:

> There is no hardware support for atomic transition of both threads between kernel and user states, so the OS should use standard software techniques to synchronize the threads.

Ha, “standard software techniques”. Let’s see: suppose one thread finishes a syscall. Now it sets some flag telling the other core to wake up and go back to user code as well. But the other core is running with interrupts on. So now we sit there spinning until the other core is done, and then both cores turn off interrupts and recheck that they both still want to go to user mode. This involves some fun lock-free programming. I suppose one could call this a “standard software technique” with a somewhat straight face.

Meanwhile, the IPI on entry involves an IPI and the associated (huge!) overhead of an x86 interrupt. x86 interrupts are incredibly slow. The IPI request itself is done via the APIC, and legacy APIC access is also incredibly slow. There’s a fancy thing called X2APIC that makes it reasonably fast, but for whatever reason, most BIOSes don’t seem to enable it.

I suspect that relatively few workloads will benefit from all of this. Just turning off SMT sounds like a better idea.
Perhaps best answered by:
http://alloytools.org/faq/how_does_the_alloy_analyzer_differ...

It's more about data structures and testing every variation up to a fixed maximum size.
Things we have now that I would never want to be without:

- Amazing browser debugging tools
- Source Maps
- Typescript
- VSCode w/ Liveshare
- Mostly standardized CSS
- Automated build tools

These are solutions to problems we had in the past.
My bad the article said seasonal rains, not torrential. We have stone carvings in scandinavia too but I assumed sandstone was much more susceptible to weather. If not the rain then wind and sand alone over 8000 years would wear it out.
acquaintance ?
Disused coal mines have a surprisingly high capacity for that. And hydro is not nearly the only storage method aside from batteries.
> Most examples in the text are, for instance, related to companies failing to properly implement the GDPR (... companies deleting articles even when there would sufficient public interest,...)

Some of those examples were deceptively reported. For example, the doctor who asked The Guardian to take down articles about her suspension: she had successfully appealed that case, and a judge overturned her suspension and ordered the record expunged: her name was dragged through the mud on bad information. This is exactly what right to be forgotten is meant for.
Government aid is a proxy for soft power through population pacification, political subversion, intelligence gathering operations, and proselytization. They know exactly who they want to target at all times.
Repeated interaction is a necessary first step to friendship, you cannot befriend someone you don’t see. My gym buddies are now my friends, and we see each other regularly outside of the gym context.

Also, most of my friends don’t know when my birthday is, so that’s a bad metric imho. Birthdays are not universally important across the population.
Arguing that somehow being targeted with ads to make $$$ is worse than being jailed / having your property taken is kind of tone deaf.
Every single company on that list deserved to die.
fair enough, my language, not yours. I was driving at a similar point however inept my language was.
Most videos like this one are obviously attempts at demonizing innocent people and most people who see these can easily spot such a video. It all really depends on what the viewer chooses to believe. Sadly, there are millions of people who will either accept the bogus claim of racism without thinking or even watching the video or they'll simply pretend that it's the real deal and slam the accused just to be mean.
" The curriculum has your usual suspects of business administration topics, but also focuses on forming contacts in the elites and politics, plus explicit instruction in techniques for manipulating and dominating others..."

This is fascinating - any other folks know of similar formal training. I work in a well known tech company and at the higher levels, this seems to be the distinction between folks who go up and those who don't.

As I think about it, it feels like courses that train one to spot and defend against such behavior should be part of all undergraduate curriculum.

Clearly some people master these exploits (and the defenses) without formal training but most people don't and pay for it over the course of their careers.
Kinda, yeah. There used to be more public restrooms (not least in every bart station) but they shut them down after September 11 for 'security reasons' and have never been able to figure the problem out since. Sure, you could hide a bomb in a public toilet, but on the other hand that's probably the least-bad place for an explosion to occur if someone ever decides to do that.

If you don't have public toilets, then drunk people are gonna relieve themselves in alleys and the like. That's just a fact of life, not a moral issue.
Maybe Susskind. I'm not sure what definition of "monumental" we're going with, but he's surely "brand name."

Maldacena seems like a good consideration. Maybe Alan Guth.
If we want securely-isolated low-horsepower machines, why don't we just fill server-racks with large numbers of low-horsepower physical computers, rather than small numbers of big-iron computers using software isolation in the form of VMs?

Wouldn't that win half the battle, at least on server-side? It wouldn't apply to workstations, of course. Malicious/untrusted processes running there would still need to be isolated (malicious JavaScript in the browser, say).

Also, am I missing something, or are these concerns really not applicable to gaming applications (which the article emphasises)? That's a highly trusted codebase, so securely containing it isn't worth a 15% performance hit, no?
I don't buy DRM-encumbered ebooks. Sorry, Amazon. I buy the hardcopy if there are no DRM-free ebooks.
I am also taking a guess: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside...
Except for the Markdown part, this command line looks very similar to the most minimal old Unix email interface. (Anti-spam measures effectively ended that, and now we need to pay service providers.)
Should we ban food inspections too, since that means smaller players have to do more work? How about automobile safety testing, it's such a hassle for auto makers. Why not get rid of building codes and prohibitions on lead in children's toys while we're at it.
A world dominated by effen Windoze? How could I miss that? I sure as heck miss the simplicity of my Amiga, if we are talking the 90s, but that's about it in terms of simplicity.

All other aspects of "90s simplicity" sucked.

Table based web layouts? Without the "complication" of CSS? I sure miss that. Calling the family landline and hoping her "complicated" father doesn't answer the phone? Fuck yeah, I miss that. Having to play cool with the artsy-fartsy kids to get the CD with the new fonts? Sure, I miss that as well. The simplicity of "obtaining" Emacs for the Mac in the 90s! Hell yes! I miss that simplicity. And last but not least, pixel pr0n, animated GIFs. Yeah, I miss the simplicity of the 90s. Fuck Micro$oft, remember that one? Oh do I miss that. And the "web crawlers" don't forget thet simplicity to submit your site to more than 100 search engines!

The AOL CD, simply flip it away! Enviromentalism was still a European thing, or so, thought the European Gen X. Kurt Cobain didn't comit suicide and fuck Atari.

Short answer: "No."
If the fundamental thesis is that "the market fails" or that "corporations are irresponsible", then at the very least it should be predictable that some of these regulations will have the real negative consequences (which I think we can agree some of these are) expressed in this article. The goal of this realization is not necessarily to disparage the GDPR, but hopefully to learn and perhaps put together a more precise or better iteration in place that avoids these pitfalls. For example:

> Spotify not asking for 2FA/email confirmation for the bulk download

I'm not extremely familiar with the letter of the law, but if it doesn't specify that you need 2FA/email, and there are clear fines/downsides to not complying, I do not see how this is not a predictable issue that would come up. The incentive is to comply, since you've already put in the work to make it possible, and there are onerous punishments for not doing so. In other words, a false negative (disallowing the download) can be potentially perceived as much worse than a false positive (allowing the download). This seems built-in: the goal of the law was to give it teeth to allow the user to get this data. If we just default to "its the companies fault for not applying an additional layer of thought to all this", then whether its true or not (and I agree it is!), it does not realistically solve the problem - establishing blame doesn't necessarily provide a path to making this less likely in the future as long as the equation is still heavily weighted towards disincentivizing false negatives. This is another way of saying: if we want to characterize corporations as lazy/malicious/what-have-you, then we can't then be Pikachu-surprised-face when they act that way under the letter of the law like some monkey's paw scenario: we should instead "aw shucks, fool me once" and try to come up with something better.

> companies deleting articles even when there would sufficient public interest

Similarly, we should try to predict that it is entirely plausible that the rights will be attempted to be abused, or leveraged, by those that it provides an obvious benefit for, even if it is malicious. Here again it is interesting that we begin with the thesis that "we need these laws because companies have proven not sufficiently responsible enough on their own" and yet then immediately make a law that is vague and thus defers major parts of the decision to these same companies. Many times this ultimately comes down to litigation where the boundaries of laws are worked out, and this is a very reasonable response: its only been a year, the courts will hopefully work out when these rules are mis-applied. However, it is on us to make sure we litigate "too much" right to forget (as in the cases here) and not just cases where companies refuse to forget. If not, the courts will send a clear message that it is perfectly fine to blindly abide by every request as the path of least resistance. Again: the premise is that they don't care, and we still haven't figured out how to legislate caring.
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As defined by whom, though?