skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming it wasn't bribery but simple social engineering, what's there to prevent this from being abused? In Germany, porting the number to another carrier would be next to impossible without the victim realizing. You have to request from the old carrier to release the number for porting, then you have to tell the new carrier you want to port over the old number from the old carrier. Then the old carrier informs you via SMS and email when the switchover will happen. That date is usually at least one week in the future. And usually the evening before the switch you get another SMS.

Pretending to have lost your SIM and requesting a new one might be slightly easier, I never needed to do that. But it would mean your SIM gets deactivated the moment they start the process of shipping out the new SIM, so it will give you at least a full 24 hours to notice you got no service, usually two days. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd also send you a text plus email before deactivation just in case.

But in general I feel like call center workers here are very good at following the protocol. I'd be very surprised if you'd manage to convince one that you lost your phone and you also happen to have moved and want it sent to another address.

But sure, if you're paying someone on the inside, all bets are off.
In the last couple articles I've read to reduce your own carbon footprint I've found one thing is sadly missing most of the time: butter.

It's way worse than beef.

One kg butter blasts 24kg CO2 into the air before it gets to you, with beef it's around 13kg.
Because it seems even less likely that they even live there when I see a random small cheap car driving through somewhere like St James in London. And they clearly aren't driving because they love cars because they've just got the cheapest car they could. If they're driving through London in a Bentley then maybe they've got a house with a garage and they have to drive through there because that's where they live, or they really love cars.

So they don't live there, they can't be going somewhere in St James as there's nowhere you can park, and they're not driving for pleasure. So what on earth are they doing? Did they somehow pick a route that includes driving through one of the most congested places in the country? Why would you try to do that?
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My understanding is that, by taking away the 180d exclusivity window from generic manufacturers, the latter are less likely to risk developing their own version of the product
Do people actually eat that much butter regularly?
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What I object to mainly about TFA is the arch tone, subtly sarcastic and defeatist, which culminates in this:

> Within three weeks, I got tired of being careful. My faraday bag is somewhere in the back of my car, because I like to use my phone for GPS and playing podcasts. I stopped wearing my Reflectacles in public. I haven’t scrubbed my old tweets away with Jumbo in a while. I use my Visa to buy stuff from Amazon, which it delivers to my house. I plugged Alexa back in. Daniel Gillmor of the American Civil Liberties Union wasn’t surprised. “I don’t think the fix to privacy is something that can be done by an individual alone, in the same way I can’t solve the pollution problem by recycling on my own,” he says.

> Until people demand a law that makes privacy the default, I’m going to try to remember, each time I click on something, that free things aren’t free. That when I send an email or a text outside of Signal or MySudo, I should expect those messages to one day be seen. And that if I ever really need privacy, I should feel a little badly about what is going to happen to Leo Selvaggio.

So basically, he's just poking fun at people who try being private. And he doesn't even mention compartmentalization. You know, the first rule of Fight Club?

I mean, I have a phone. Admittedly, not a smartphone. But I do call people. Mainly my wife and medical services, but whatever. And I do get tracked, at least by cell towers. But none of that matters, because I don't talk about Mirimir and my other personas.

I use a credit card for Amazon too. But I just don't buy anything that's linked to anything that Mirimir or my other personas are up to. Including the box that I'm typing this on, just in case some jerks are tracking firmware codes.

And the part about "demanding a law" is just foolish. We already have laws, but they're ignored all the time.
I have become an 80% vegetarian - meaning I try to avoid meat completely, but I am not "strong" enough and end up eating a (usually small) piece of meat, once every week/second week.

It took me at least one year to achieve this, because meat is so prevalent in our society. A friend of mine was in India recently and he said he did not miss meat at all since the non-meat dishes were so great. I think a lot of it is just how good the quality of vegetarian dishes is.
How's that similar?
No problem, I loved it too.
The UN doesn't have the guts to target the task issue: too many humans. And recommend the only solution: one child per couple until we get down to about half the current population.
Gathering intelligence is a key part of staying in power.
The difference is that you don't consume butter in 250g quanities in a single sitting. Even if butter is worse the consumption patterns for butter are not those of beef.
That's a good idea, but eating less meat is even better, because that can reduce 8Gt CO2/yr. Banning private jets would not reduce 8Gt CO2/yr. It is important to be quantitative here.
Interesting... they do not seem to be interested to processors exploits.
Sorry, but this is really cheap criticism that detracts from the main point. Of course, their private jets (if they have them) should be banned, sure. But this is an invisible blip on the radar compared to the climate impact of the meat industry (or air travel in general).

Such messages only cause people to postpone the need to take real action. And we need to take real action now if we even want a chance to dampen the effects of climate change (let alone reverse it).
> Imagine one year where I dedicate two days a week learning, understanding and trying. Do I would have any chance at all to find something worth the $1M?

Yes...but probably not the way you're thinking.

Most issues are discovered these days through fuzzing first. So there is always a chance your fuzzer will find an issue worth $1M, its much less likely that you'll realize its worth or be able to demonstrate and begin to weaponize the exploit to prove its worth.

Lets rephrase the question a little bit though:

Instead of "Do I would have any chance at all to find something worth the $1M?" lets ask "Would I have any chance of learning this level of exploit development"

Two days a week, lets just round to 50 weeks a year, give you a bit of a break during the year and say 100 days of effort.

So, in a 100 days would you have any chance of reaching the level of being able to atleast write an iOS exploit, ignoring the discovery aspect? Unfortunately, the answer is still no.

But, you would make some serious progress!

A modern iOS zero-click exploit isn't just one issue, in a worst-case (okay there are worse than this, but this is a poor case) scenario you might need the following issues

- Memory Leak + Entry Point service exploit
- Sandbox Escape to low priv user
- Privilege escalation to higher priv user
- Kernel memory leak + Kernel exploit to finally get root privs

This even for someone with experience, going from fuzz result to exploit can take months. So in a 100 days of spread out effort, you won't be doing that, but you might be able to begin approach that first stage, a memory leak and an exploit in a user-land service.

I do only say might because 100 days is a really short time when you think about how technical your knowledge of this stuff needs to be, but I'd like to think that with some real determination, in 100 days at least foundations of modern software exploits should be approachable.

As for would it make sense for you to even try, the best time to start was 20 years ago, its been getting increasingly more difficult. The longer you wait the higher the barrier to entry gets.
There is no need to go from one extreme to the other. This is about eating "less" meat.

People do not traditionally eat that much meat because meat used to be expensive and its supply limited.

This is still the case in poor countries.

In developed countries, people started to eat more and more meat as they got richer because we naturally like meat and because of clever marketing.

We now eat too much meat, and also consume too much dairy (adults don't need to drink any milk and many don't digest it well, by the way). If people just stopped eating meat at every meal or every day, consumption would drastically drop without too much of a change in daily life.

One solution would be measures to increase prices but that is a political minefield.
However, that core is REALLY BIG. I do not really miss any enterprise feature. I ordered enterprise edition only to support it and I never installed it.
While the aviation industry, and as you point out low capacity flights in particular, is a major perpetrator for high CO2 emissions, the food industry is the number one area where your average consumer can make a big impact.

I agree with you that governing bodies should be putting more pressure on the excesses of the wealthy and on industry, but changing industry practices and consumer behaviour are not mutually exclusive, especially when we should be doing everything we can on all fronts to overcome this crisis.
I am excited about the work Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are doing in this space. Creating alternatives with same nutrient content and similar taste but 1/10th the land usage and consuming less of other resources.
Thank you for introducing me to this wonderful poem.
no the question is do we support from the "west" that everyone gets the same share of the cake which means we have to change dramatically our way of living or do we want to keep it for ourselves.

If every CN or IN guys lives on the same standard as we in EU/USA the world will be gone in 60 seconds.

Let discuss on that level instead of picking out all kind of less relevant topics each time.
Shift subsidies from meat to vegetables perhaps.
Make much higher welfare standards for farm animals a requirement - making meat much more expensive, reducing consumption.

Sounds like a win win to me.
Actionable is always questionable even for those professions, like medicine, where it's well known there is one.

However, code of ethics do exist in software and other engineering:

https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html
This would ignore the fact that almost all emissions are caused by the richest 10%. Reducing this population would be more effective.
paywall :( what's the reason according to the article?
I don't strictly disagree with you, but the parent has a point. It's not a technical outline of the difficult tradeoffs distributed systems must make[0], rather an ad copy where they can promise you the world and it's hard to tell what's exactly true.

Even igoring Amazon, MySQL/Percona's mha story has had a history of buggy, weak, imprecise promises.

[0] I guess Google level special sauce gets a pass since they have the most published about specially clocked hardware, and how it changes DB design.
Took me a bit to realize that this is the same font as "Inter UI" (which I installed right at the end of 2018). It was apparently renamed to just Inter in February this year.

The changelog provided on Github gives some interesting insight into development of this font https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases
Not only have I found it rare to see a font with active development like this, but it's also exciting seeing changelogs that are this detailed.
Now that I think about it more, I think you're right. Huawei is not good. I remember about two months ago there was a github repository https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU made by Chinese programmers in protest of 996 work week. I bet Huawei enforces these long hours on their employees.
> make up that anecdote

Apple got caught on hidden camera. Multiple times.

You can find plenty of these kinds of videos, but I think Rossman was referring to this one, featuring the man himself:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_XneTBhRPYk
How so? Butter is a side product from many dairy processes, eg producing parmesan and skimming milk.
Changing the demand side is fundamentally what marketing does. It’s how Frito-Lay and Coca-Cola and any big worldwide brand came into existence, by convincing consumers to choose their product over the alternative.
Solid in Java: Liskov Substitution Principle
Didn't work in China. It actually causes a massive "aging population" crisis, some serious gender imbalances, and some weird economic effects throughout the stack.

I mean, if you must be a film and TV dystopian bad guy, Thanos' idea doesn't work.
Well, there is a responsible way: use it like a charge card.
Anytime i hear about marketplace i think of trust issues. How can a consumer deal with a merchant confidently?
I read somewhere that the one meat free day a week initative is laughable and we should really be aiming for one meat day a week. Personally I've switched to a mostly vegetarian diet in the past few years and when I do eat meat it's good high quality meat.

Meat consumption seems like one of the easiest things governments could change to tackle climate change. Unlike cars and travel it's hard to make the argument that humans depend on access to meat so making it 700% more expensive via tax would effectively shift consumption patterns with few if any downsides. If anything it would probably have the excellect side effect of improving public health.
Its not about the software being independent of the architecture. Its about using diverse hardware platforms to avoid the situation where an un-detected, hardware-level bug affects the voting ability of all participants. We've seen, time and time again, so-called dependable platforms weaken over the years as more and more issues are uncovered.

Diverse voting node architecture requirements are designed to prevent hardware bugs from crashing trains, not software bugs.

>Siemens VCP /proven/

.. and yet, it still crashed trains.

>What customers want

Its not obsolete if a customer wants it.

Customers want older CPU platforms because the tooling and industry required to support them in the field is long-entrenched, and costs of upgrading to "newer, sexier CPU's", not really worth it if the lesser platforms are capable of doing the job...
I personally used to be very concerned about ressource efficiency. With a new doomsday message every day, I decided to make most out of my resources now until some eco-shmock is going to make it unavailable for me. I fly all the time and eat as good as I can. Maybe tomorrow it will be only a memory but that’s more than making a big trip other year and then nothing.

Edit: BTW, this is not trolling. I represent a real niche group with an unknown number of people behaving consciously or unconsciously the same. I think it’s an important information in the discussion. People downvote me because they don’t like that it is happening but it’s real.

It’s like downvoting climate change because you don’t like it happening.

Edit: Rebuilder, that’s a good question. What would change my behavior? I think positive role models could help. Leaders that say we restrict ourselves to meat once a week or even better: here is my CO2 footprint (and please no offsetting bullshit). That’s how it developed over the last 2 years. Etc.
>> It turns out the better half of Europe has TV licences in one form or another - but for some reason, we never hear about them.

It's probably because in the rest of Europe national broadcasters don't badger you to pay a license even if you don't actually own a TV set.

In the UK, I get threatening red-lettered envelopes every few years- because it's easier to harass me by mail than to try and figure out whether I watch TV or not.

And the threat is quite real. The broadcaster can send people to your house to snoop around, to see if you have a TV set or not. These agents are known to take liberties with the extend of their power (they will allege that they can enter your property whether you agree to let them in, or not) and there is basically nothing stopping them from stating that you are watching a TV programme as it is being broadcast if you have have equipment capable of doing so, such as a computer, or just a smartphone.

Basically, the TV licensing people in the UK are convinced that, if you say that you do not watch TV you are lying, and they treat you as an offender by default.

Does any of this happen in any other European country?
Another scenario is, having access to the code, being in a much better position to test and find vulnerabilities in the first place. Instead of disclosing them internally which may just be expected and get you little extra, leak them to a trusted external partner for a share of the bounty.
I simply cannot believe that food is affecting environment more than factories, vehicles and rubbish.
Specifically - and this is much more important right now: 1/10 of GHGs compared to their meat counterparts.
Well, boycotts are a pretty good example. Those seem to change corporate behavior pretty frequently actually. That being said, i'm very skeptical of this type of demand-side strategy, in this particular area.
And they apparently transition to an average of 0-2 children naturally as a function of wealth management and survival confidence.
> If it can't swap, it pretty much just dies.

The point with my example was that if 512 MB of swap would save you, then why wouldn't 8 GB of extra RAM save you?

Yes, if you run out of RAM, you're in trouble, but if you run out of RAM+swap you're in trouble too, so what's the point in adding a small 256 or 512 MB swap?

Ok, so the point is that its visibly bad with swap before it actually dies, giving you time to recover. How about setting up some kind of alert when you're in your last half a gig or gig of RAM then? It seems like this would give a much better recovery experience. If its a server, you need an alert anyway since you're not going to notice the bad performance until its too late, most likely (you're not watching it 24/7 I assume).

Of course, from the article:

> I stand by my original position: have some swap. Not a lot. Just a little. Linux boxes just plain act weirdly without it.

That's fair enough, if the reason is to stop linux from acting weirdly, then fine.
We run Gitlab on premise during last 4 years and I can't complain on those costs - updates are "click this button", backups are few hours work to have, there are no server maintenance whatsoever if you don't count runners and we didn't yet have catastrophic failure so I can't guess on that.

So far, price was next to nothing relative to mass of functionalities given in free version.
> […] were slaves from Macon, Georgia in the United States who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. She passed as a white male planter and he as her personal servant. Their daring escape was widely publicized, making them among the most famous of fugitive slaves.
If I understood right annotations are part of the parsed data? Are they idempotent then? I know some people maintain that you can add comments in JSON but I hate that they disappear on a deserialize/serialize unlike XML comments.
Two ultra-xenophobic states, yeah..
I don't think "hate" is the best word, but I would say the concern is that Huawei can be wielded as a weapon by the Chinese Communist Party in any way they see fit. Even if you look at it from a country-neutral perspective, it's more threatening than Google because everything ultimately serves The Party in the Chinese system in a way that is unknown to liberal democracies.
The interesting part of the story is not so much that Berlin is finally making its main shopping street car-free, but why it hasn't done so before.

Dutch cities and towns have had car-free or car-poor shopping streets since as long as I can remember, certainly the early 1980s. It's not unusual even in smaller towns. And Munich shows that car-free city centers also exist in Germany, just not in Berlin.
Why tremendous energy? Cutting individual consumption by eg 30% doesn't look so difficult to me.
Another static site generator. Being an emacs user i based mine off of org-page by forking it. Perhaps other can fork this too or just go ahead and use Jekyll?
I guess the main difference between now and then is that we are starting to have an idea of what is going to be possible and already see “dark uses” of technology happening (e.g., surveillance in china) whereas beforehand we were clueless about those things.

I think that rejecting proactive legislation per se is a dangerous attitude. For example, see climate change. Proactive legislation could have made us avoid all of the discussions we are now working through during crunch time...

If we have reasonable evidence that there is a high likelihood of us creating worlds that we don’t want to live in, we should take reasonable action proactively to avoid those scenarios.

Thus, I agree with you that not all unprecedented technologies need to be proactively legislated but as soon as there is reasonable evidence for possible negative consequences we should start reasonable processes to avoid those consequences. There is no black or white situation here, we need to have evidence based discussions and work our way through this collectively.
I agree. Few years back I bought some tofu sausages to try out how they taste. They tasted interesting but not like real sausages. Definitely not a good replacement. Even if I made myself eat them because of moral reasons, ignoring how they taste, many people would still avoid them. As long as meat tastes better than its alternatives, people will use it. We need to bring good meat alternatives to the masses. The theoretical advantage that artificial meat has is the lower amount of resources needed. Over time, because of this it can get much cheaper than real meat, at least if you don't factor in skewing of the market due to government subsidies. Then, if they truly have comparable tastes, people will naturally choose those alternatives.

This seems like the best strategy: If you force people to become vegan by law without giving good alternatives, you just make them angry at people who want to stop climate change. If you nicely ask them, some will switch but most won't. So I believe the best way forward is to invest into meat alternative startups and help them make their product as widely used and as cheap as possible.
Which one do you pay for? All of them? How do you determine high quality? How do you reconcile the fact that you need to pay before you can read it, thus not being able to evaluate the quality properly? How do you reconcile saying a large news publication produces quality with the amount of errors that are frequently and egregiously present in articles with any sort of depth?
The reason is that I do Scala at my day job, and thus I'm simply more experienced in that than Haskell.

While I've written a compiler in Haskell in the past, and prefer the language in many ways, I don't know how to do front end programming in Haskell, compile Haskell to efficient JS or debug performance problems. I also don't know if there's a good Haskell IDE these days. PureScript would have been risky for me, since I haven't done anything in it before.
I've replaced butter with margarine in a lot of cases since I just didn't taste a difference when having it under something hearty and tasty. Easy win.