skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're the one who seems emotional.

Taxes exist on lots of rights, as do fines. Try to hold a rally in any town center without a permit. If being a gun owner who's registered not being a part of a well organized militia? Its interesting how you jump from extremely broad sweeping concepts into extremely detailed criticisms of proposals.
Lately I've been using SimpleDiagrams [1]. The sketch look and the simpler UI is a nice change from Visio.

[1] https://www.simplediagrams.com/
Mozilla's #1 priority is not to piss off Google, so I'm sure there was a conversation before this happened. Besides, when it comes to money, Google profits many times over whatever payout they give Mozilla.
Just saw the final part, you're right they do show it. I think they did quite a good job with that, they use it to explain what happened and smartly avoid 'cinematic' scenes.
UK: Universities to Trawl Through Students Social Media to Look for Suicide Risk
Why not just use fakespot or the like?
A good way to get all these settings is to generate a profile with this tool: https://ffprofile.com/
If they don't take insurance (EDIT: insurance or medicare), they don't need to be HIPAA compliant.

EDIT: This is advice my HealthTech startup received from a very well respected lawfirm. It's not as black and white as this. However, it is a good rule of thumb.
The scary part for me (albeit that I'm an emacs user not really a vim user) here is that the modeline string is hidden from the victim in their vim window, so not only have they enabled the RCE they aren't aware of it. I'm not sure if emacs file-local variables can be exploited in the same way (they probably can but I'm just unaware of it)
As a fountain pen enthusiast, do you mind naming the shop in question?
What about the ongoing cost of waste and eventual cost of decommissioning? Are those affected by quantity of fuel used (or, more specifically, by Transatomic's design)?
A lot of the building blocks for mainstream use don't exist, but could conceivably emerge in time given Ethereum is Turing Complete.

There are projects with a very high potential to provide those building blocks in development right now, like Matter Labs' use of zero-knowledge proofs to scale Ethereum:

https://matterlabs.dev/

But yea it's all very speculative right now. I speculate it will work, but it'll depend on what the various players in the industy actually accomplish.
Depending on the severity and length, it could still have a long-term impact on that business. Also a bit unsettling that seemingly basic safety controls failed. But it is good to see DO being open and thorough about this incident.
Oh sure. Those F3B/F3Fs sure fall under the expensive category! I would probably add one for anything not foam.

> "everybody" puts a flight controller between the servos and the receiver these days

This was the point I was trying to address. It's definitely commonplace, but not essential, and the plane is aerodynamically stable without one.
Me and my colleague doing the same thing, both 70 hours sometimes, we've had issues and bugs in code we write, because it's affecting our productivity.

No matter how much we explain to our boss, the founder, it looks like we're complaining. He does not understand you need space and time to do a good job.

I wonder if there're other founders like this, who don't understand or try to empathize with engineers, and they give ridiculous timelines for project completion.

Do very successful founders have some technical background? I wonder, because if he was an engineer, he would know the amount of time it'll take to work on a project and do a good job.
I disagree the most efficient and politically palatable solution is an excise tax on products that consume fossil fuels. AKA slap a $5000 excise tax on new cars. You can use the money to buy back older cars. Same deal with gas furnaces and the like.
Thanks. Appreciate your comment. You made a very good point.
Just saw the final part, they do show a little of normal life in the first minutes, props to the authors. They did such a great job with so many aspects, definitely a work of heart for many of them.
If they already have your phone, you're already pwned.
Browser cannot stop anyone from tracking you. It is just a commercial exploitation.
I can't find anything else backing up Konstantin Checherov's claims. It seems like this is very much just his opinion, and they don't seem to add up: https://sputniknews.com/analysis/2006053048810128/
Thanks - I was actually using Davmail but at the time it did not have the address book and calendar integration, and I had not checked up on it ina few years. Looks like it has gotten more features since then. I may have to give mutt another try...:)
I appreciate that they did this.

It's sad to me that your only chance in hell of getting huge companies to listen to you is by shamespamming across social media.

That, coupled with the clear issues following procedure from support, paint a clear picture: customer service is an area to skimp on for big tech.
Reading this response it seems that crypto-mining is not allowed on digital ocean as they have checks against it. The TOS doesn't say so explicitly but does note that:

>violation of any of these Terms of Service or any law, or if you misuse system resources, such as, by employing programs that consume excessive network capacity, CPU cycles, or disk IO

By my reading that seems to mean that you're not allowed to use your VMs to their full capacity due to them being over-provisioned. This is in contrast to AWS who are more explicit on which instances (T instances) are over-provisioned and exactly how they're throttled.
Yes, HTTPS can be man in the middled by your ISP.
Smart move and I really hope the BSL can be used by others outside of Cockroach DB either in its current form or as a template for a similar license. This is badly needed in our industry to protect innovators from rent seekers.
The dev for these features started a long time ago, notably by Monica Chew as Roc reminds us (https://twitter.com/rocallahan/status/1136041917404160000). More recently Ehsan Akhgari has been instrumental in pushing to the shipping line. Kudos to all!
Hello from the world of mathematics.

We already have ArXiV[0]. Think of it as a blogging platform. Any result worth sharing ends up on ArXiV way before it gets published, and anyone who cares about it will get notified.

This addresses all problems the author writes about: the research doesn't live beyond a paywall, and people who are interested and qualified to read your work will get notified about it.

Of course, putting a paper on ArXiV doesn't mean someone will read it. That's what conferences are for, for better or worse: spreading the word about your work, whether it's giving a talk, a poster, or just having a conversation over beer (non-drinkers must have an awfully hard time in this field). Mathematics is much more about people than one might think, and the best way to spread ideas is to talk to people who can be interested in them in the real world.

Does it mean there's no place for blogging? Absolutely not; papers that get posted on ArXiV often are too dry to understand, and lack the informal motivation and intuition behind the research. We have lost the tradition of informal writing in mathematics, and it needs to come back.

To that end, mathematicians do blog, but the thing is: it is hard. It is very hard to express the idea in a few words, to popularize it even to the peers in your field. It certainly doesn't take 30 minutes to write anything that others would be able to read. So math blogs exist, but are rather rare.

And most certainly, Twitter is not the right platform for that.

-------------------------------------

TL;DR: the author should take ArXiV seriously.

[0]https://arxiv.org/
> "Portal 2," he explained, had only made $200 million in profit and that kind of chump change just wasn't worth it, when you could make 100s of millions a year selling digital hats and paintjobs for guns (most of which are designed by players, not the employees!)

All of the most successful tech companies are platforms:

* Facebook is a platform for it's users to make posts

* eBay is a platform for it's users to sell items

* Amazon is a platform for retail companies

* Even Google is a platform, because it's taking the Internet itself, and re-packaging it

From that perspective, you can see how things wound up like this at Valve.
What tweet? Would love to see more.

Edit: Found 2
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1097510657497411584?lang=en and
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/617120302116438016
I'd be curious to hear you speculate on how Valve's VR push may have come about. VR certainly has the potential to make money long term, but very long term, and that payoff is far from guaranteed.
The RF thruster: an electrodeless system for space propulsion [pdf]
Finally, an actual suggestion!

This is evidence that either you're not familiar enough with these issues, so you need to have some things spelled out for you, or you have a rather narrow view of how things should be done at the level of machine language. Funny, because the entire discussion has been about hardware that doesn't commonly exist.

OK, how are you going to mediate the thread access so one 'owns' it exculsively for writing while others can rad it? And when will the other threads know when there is something to read? And how wide is this register - 64 bits? And how much overhead will there be for this negotiation between threads?

Absolutely none of that is necessary for pub/sub semantics between actors. (Either in the form of a register or a scratchpad.) Interesting that you jumped to those several unnecessary conclusions, then ran with it. Left as an exercise. (Hint, it's trivial to show you can't do it with just one instance. However, you can make do with just one tool.)

AFAICS you didn't specify anything until this post.

Sorry, but that has nothing to do with your consistently inappropriate tone, your lack of substantiation on my other points, and your Dunning-Kruger penchant for running off without understanding where the other commenters are coming from. I long for the USENET days when I had a 'killfile' for this stuff. Have a good day. I think I've exhausted the entertainment potential from this one.
Valve and Gabe have explicitly said if will never happen. I met someone that once worked at MSFT in corporate development. Said they spent months working on a pitch to acquire Valve and Gabe kicked them out of the building after 15 minutes.
If the script file is meant to be sourced only, then a shebang is bad style as it gives the wrong hints to human readers.
If you dev using the chrome devtools protocol client (like using intellij, see https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/integrating), you won't be able to do the same on Firefox ATM.

Edit: I'm mistaken - apparently you can : https://docs.firefox-dev.tools/backend/protocol.html ... So no reason to use chrome as a primary browser or development browser.
I don't think that it isn't allowed but that they have seen that fraudulently acquired resources are generally used for crypto-mining so they felt that this was a good signal to look for.
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Why do you say "privacy" as though it's not really that? It is privacy and privacy is immensely valuable these days.

And what do you think Google and Microsoft and Facebook don't also try to control their customers? They do just as much but they also violate privacy.
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> Making a project that was Open Source, not Open Source anymore, is hardly a "good move"

Why? You offer no explanation.

I think it is a good middle ground, it has a very targeted restriction and reverts back to Open Source after 3 years.
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I think you should know about head-of-line blocking in HTTP1, how to fix it in HTTP/2, and maybe to test how much memory all your JavaScripting uses?
This seems to be the article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2019/06/04/universitie...

Subtitle "The scheme would be data protection compliant, and students would have to opt in."
Is the paid version of the Verizon app better than the free/trial version? Used the trial for a week but the Chinese calls still made it through.
they never actually stop a determined actor.

And that is never actually the point. Most theft is not personally targeted. Sure there are the times that someone cuts a hole through a storage unit into a neighboring unit they know has expensive stuff, but mostly it's opportunistic. If you have a weaker lock, you have greater risk. Especially if your lock is so weak that it is trivial to make it look like it wasn't broken until you try to open it.

This happened to me once. I bought my lock from the storage company, but someone broke and then visibly reassembled the lock. Lost all the early prototypes from my startup, plus thousands in replaceable equipment.
I don't know if I'd call that "in" the article. I suppose it's an explanation of a sort, but really? It looks like it was spit out by a science-bullshit generator.
This hasn't been updated in over a year (last commit Apr 2018). Personally, I use Wipr from the App Store because it's very cheap. AdGuard is also an option.
ITT people who are blowing off privacy as though it's not valuable while simultaneously talking about Apple lock in like they're the only company to do that.

Idk what yall are on but privacy is valuable to most of us. That comes with a cost and it's not hard to see why - selling private data is how companies make more profit while charging less than apple. Don't wanna pay? You lose privacy. Want privacy? You pay. It's that simple. At last apple gives an option, meanwhile idk how Facebook and Google and all don't face regulation for the egregious privacy violations they commit.
It would be nice if right-clicking on links gave an option of opening it in another browser. That would make it easy to stick to a multi-browser setup.
Thank you for sharing this writeup!

Regarding the Emacs example: You can make Emacs crash entirely by triggering internal recursion in the garbage collector that exceeds the C stack limit, for example with:

$ emacs -Q --eval "(let (v) (while t (setq v (cons v v))))"

yielding:

Fatal error 11: Segmentation faultSegmentation fault: 11.

and the backtrace:

Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory.
Reason: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at address: 0xbf7ffffc
0x0013bc1a in mark_object (arg=40166541) at alloc.c:5372
(gdb) bt
#0 0x0013bc1a in mark_object (arg=40166541) at alloc.c:5372
#1 0x0013bdf8 in mark_object (arg=40166549) at alloc.c:5655
#2 0x0013bdf8 in mark_object (arg=40166557) at alloc.c:5655
#3 0x0013bdf8 in mark_object (arg=40166565) at alloc.c:5655
#4 0x0013bdf8 in mark_object (arg=40166573) at alloc.c:5655
#5 0x0013bdf8 in mark_object (arg=40166581) at alloc.c:5655
#6 0x0013bdf8 in mark_object (arg=40166589) at alloc.c:5655
...
The Wordfence Login Security Plugin
Sure why not? Also your initial wording was vague, there's no need to be so angry. Just "here's some links for proof" and move on.
Show HN: First Crack, a simple static blog engine in Python
I'd argue that for the interaction to be truly consensual, both parties must be fully informed about the risks and rewards of the interaction that they are choosing to participate in. My reading of the SEC press release leads me to believe that the primary reason for requiring filing with the SEC for a sale of this nature is to ensure that all relevant information is available for the parties involved, thus allowing the interaction to be truly consensual.
Solving the problem of people being assholes is the entire point of policy. We certainly don't make policy because everyone can get along without it.
we ran that experiment in 2017 and everyone got rekt
I would suggest not reading too much in these self-help books. NYT, WSJ etc have great "relationship" with high-end publishers who propel several poorly researched myths but written in very appealing way. Self-help books are amazing amazing business netting 10s of millions of dollars in book sells per book. These publishers also know what sells: bottle a simple advise that is rather naive but has lots of anecdots and make claims to have found magic formula to make anyone insanely successful at everything. Entire self-help industry is disgusting because they take advantage of human vulnerability to the maximum extent with full knowledge of what they are doing. To some, it serves purpose of getting inspired for a week or month for $20 and that's their best outcome.

The main topic discussed in this book, i.e. breadth vs depth is perenial delima also recasted in multiple forms such as exploitation vs exploration. There is no magic bullet in one side or another. The art of getting somewhere is very delicate balance between two. The best approach that has worked for people is either get lucky or find people who have made mistakes, analyze their mistake and, of course, get little bit less lucky.
I think CRUD gets an undeserved low reputation on HN.

A CRUD ceases to be a CRUD when one is dealing with Google-like scale and/or arbitrarily complex requirements behind each of those letters in the acronym!
>If they already have your phone, you're already pwned.

No, that's not what GP means. If the attacker manages to get malware on the Mac, for example by exploiting a browser 0day, then the attacker can simply circumvent the 2FA by making the Mac fetch the 2FA code. The user won't notice it.
As netizens, is there a way to replace Mozilla's dependence on another private company for revenue? Govt grants? Or is merely donations the only way?
And things move really fast underneath you.

I was part of a team who build (one batch only of) a hardware IoT product that I'm _still_ really proud of. Our bill of materials was ~$70, maybe 50% or so of that on our cpu/microcontroller board (the kinda standard "RaspberryPi plus an Arduino" kind of design). By the time we failed to raise funding for a second production run and threw in thew towel (amongst internal infighting), we could have functionally replaced that with the at-the-time brand new ESP8266 (this was 2013/14) for a few dollars. But we already had (expensive) plastic injection moulds made up that fit our boards so we couldn't even switch our insides easily.

Hardware is hard. Major respect to anyone who get it right at small scales.
If you are the copyright holder, you can have them take it down.

But also what you're asking for is ridiculous. It's not reasonable to expect content aggregators/platforms to be able to conduct provenance investigations on all content.

Why should YouTube be liable when someone with a vendetta misuses their platform?
I have read and written similar RCA's in the past, this one is very good IMHO.
> The idea that the government has a right to deem a certain class of investors as "unsophisticated", and thus better off deprived of the right to decide for themselves what to invest in, and prohibit an entire class of interactions, on the basis that too many instances of that class are fraudulent, upends basic principles of liberal society.

Counterpoint: The government declares which investors are savvy or not ("accreditation" based on the rules) only partly because they believe certain people are unqualified to make certain investment decisions based on knowledge. The other major factor is whether an investor is more likely to lose amounts material to their survival.

Two items to consider:

1. A person making enough spare income to take such risks is someone who likely won't suffer nearly as much if the risk goes south. Someone making 200,000/y (ok, excluding SF/NY since apparently legislators hardcoded a value like idiots) or who has 1mil assets after the primary home will probably feel pretty bad if a 25,000 investment goes to zero, but they probably won't be going on public assistance.

2. That said, regarding qualification to actually make the decision, a person who has the net worth or the income flow to qualify for accreditation may also be in a better position to invest in concepts being developed by people with past track records or increased odds of success. This may be a general result of being connected to such people (what you might call "the old boys' club," but this can broadly apply to any network of people) or may simply stem from being better positioned to evaluate/diligence the concept e.g. because they're applying their specialized knowledge to evaluate a new idea which they feel has value.

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Idealism is one thing, but if you're more likely to be preyed upon because you don't have the knowledge or connections to make more informed investment decisions and are more willing to increase the tax burden on your fellow person as a result of investment decisions gone sour, that's where the government steps in to protect the general population.

As a reminder, this is one of the few responsibilities the government actually has in any society, even the most libertarian.

Anyway, this isn't really a debate. If you disagree, you're empowered to do what you wish; I've made my counterpoint above and don't intend to go further.
I understood your original point. Implicitly, you are assuming that people develop their values and beliefs and lose plasticity over time, so they will not adapt to the societal changes happening around them.

I think the underlying thought experiment "would I want to be immortal" is plagued by these and other unspoken assumptions. We simply don't know what it would mean to have a lifespan decoupled from our evolutionary experience. Clearly, we have psychological and emotional development coupled to our physical development and our functional roles within human society.

What does it mean to freeze our physical health at our "prime" of 20s-30s? Would it also freeze our cognition and emotion? Or would an accumulation of experience still shift our minds into very different modes incongruent with what we assume of young adults? Think of idioms like "young at heart", "wise for her age", or "has an old soul". Will people freeze with one personality, or all trend towards some world-weary and sage disposition as they witness more and more of life and loss?

And what of pathologies and maladaption? When would people reproduce, if they are immortal? Where does evolutionary pressure provide feedback, if traits can erupt with arbitrarily inter-generational delay?

Can an economic and social system develop to handle immortal participants? The worst aspects of primacy could emerge, if actual individuals can take the place of dynasties and corporations as permanent centers of wealth and power. Conversely, would any potentially immortal individual want to take on great personal risk for the betterment of a larger group? How does this change with time? Would centuries of experience lead one to sacrifice for the young, or would the absence of decrepitude encourage selfish delusions of grandeur, thinking that an accumulation of vast experience should be preserved by spilling blood of relatively empty youth...?
Anecdotally, I had a python script unintentionally using 100% for a month or two and never heard about it or noticed until I happened to look at top.
I'm certain that Firefox not shipping a default adblocker is a compromise they made to get that revenue from Google.