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“Russia tried, succeeded, and continues to do it to the US“?

Source? Which computer system did they break into, and how is it attributed to the Russian government?

Every time in the past when someone says this to me or I search for it online, the “hack” is that US citizens voted for Donald Trump.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_...

Doesn’t show any convincing evidence of hacking into election systems, or what the result of the hack was. At best I can see that people suspect WikiLeaks is connected to Russian intelligence and that the Hillary email leak originated with them, but there’s little evidence to support that. Besides, that’s not hacking any computer systems related to the election.
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Yes, but significantly less of it by weight. You get significantly more energy per kg of nuclear fuel than you do traditional chemical propellant.
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Here is an example for a very recent progress in language model which does not mention the language name at all:
"CTRL - A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation" -
https://blog.einstein.ai/introducing-a-conditional-transform...

As a researcher in a non-english, morphologically rich language, I completely agree with the article by Emily Bender. Everytime I read papers, when people ask questions or discuss on NLP in various forums such as reddit/stackoverlow, the language name is taken for granted as English.
> Often people who are not developers put "issues" into the bug tracker and they might not find working with the command-line easy.

IME it's best not to have non-technical people entering bugs, they should be submitting through email, a simple form, automated crash tracker or something along those lines. Most issue trackers will contain so many fields that will make zero sense for someone outside (or even inside) your organisation. They won't know the priority, the won't know the component, they can't find relevant logs to attach, they don't know the internal workflow, they aren't familiar enough to search for similar issues. And that's before you get to the corporate mandated fields, there's some on our issue tracker I don't know, I have no idea if something is capitalizable. Similarly I don't think I've ever put in a successful request to our internal desktop support system, I have no idea what their division of responsibilities are and somehow always select the wrong team.

I've become quite religious about creating issues on behalf of people when we get support requests or relevant lunch room chats, otherwise nothing makes it up their side of the corporate org chart and back down ours.
One thing I don't see addressed here is a drone "accidentally" falling to the ground. How do these companies address the safety and piracy issues? I could see neighborhood kids getting really good at shooting these things down.
Congratulations Textmate team, and thanks for hard work.

I still find textmate the best for my needs:

1. Nice search interface (sorry sublime)
2. Fast and memory efficient
3. Best autocomplete
5. Multi line editing.

But few things could be better: editor tabs not contrast, slow when editing files with very long lines, feature to see memory usage per project
That Judge was operating at the lowest tier of the Judiciary when he sentenced Lula.

The sentence was appealed many times all the way up to the Supreme Court and along the way, other Judges not only agreed that Lula is a criminal but also increased his initial sentence.
Also rich people don't have that problem. They live in condos in big cities, or on properties far enough from their neighbors that the only landscaping noise they hear is their own.
The ability to make contributions to improving hardware and software is important. Perhaps I want my MP3 player to support a new audio codec, or to display a large clock, or to track my steps when I go for a walk - you get the point. When it's open source, I'm able to make these changes, or use the work of others.
A very apt name, I’m at a party and just lost about an hour revisiting old phones and chuckling at how the introduction of the iPhone changed the status quo immediately.
Hmm, very true. Do you want it to not require modifications to the piano? I guess that would mean that you pretty much need to do sound decomposition...
lol...20-25%, who actually knows...stop listening to these BS news sites!
Other countries will make up terms like “collateral damage” when they drone strike a wedding just to kill one target.
Doesn't being a CO sometimes result in prison? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientious_objector
I think the idea is that it wasn't a complete clean room Yemeni design, but rather an altered Iranian design, which in turn copied from a Soviet missile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-55

The engine was switched from a more efficient turbofan to a turbojet TJ100. But switching to a piston and propeller engine might have been to much of a change and would have require a complete redesign.
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Yup, this is just click bait!
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It looks like OP has different experiences that let’s them see the situation more clearly.
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I did a big project to remove myself. It’s a slog. You do a ton of passes, each time you get a little more and escalate your approach with lazy vendors. GPDR can help on the last couple of ones. There are 1-2 spots that I can’t ever remove, public records etc. But generally now the bottom line is if you google my name, no pictures come up, no articles about me come up on page 1. I’m just looking to be incredibly unremarkable to a quick google search of a kidnapper, hotel staff selling the names of guests to criminals, etc.
Maybe this should be a link to the actual project rather than someone else's article telling us that this project exists (even though I really do enjoy reading Handelman's blog)?
I don't think the government thinks the kids are guilty, I think the parent is implying something even worse: that they'd be willing to essentially throw these innocent kids under a bus to arrest the parents.
Where in the article does it link the confession to the trial in question? I read it and don't see a connection.
China probably just didn't see as much value in pushing for such a person (or maybe either), combined with Russia backing a person the media/establishment found so undesirable it naturally draws attention.

Since Trump was clearly hostile to China during the whole thing and continues to be in power, if anything they likely would have pushed for a more mainline establishment person to keep the status quo. Which is the type of thing which doesn't generate nearly as much noise. It's only a problem when it's a problem, otherwise we don't hear 99% of what the NSA et al collects regarding nation state hacking.

Plus most of this stuff regarding Australia sounds like collection for predictive and intelligence analysis purposes, not directly engaging via spending a couple million on FB/Twitter ads.

Additionally tapping into private data feeds purely for collection can't be as easily spun into "hacking the election" headlines.

Otherwise China's "50 cent party" is quite well known from well before any of this election stuff and they seem to be focused mostly on astroturfing Chinese issues. Which again isnt as newsworthy as buying some politically taboo advertisements on Facebook. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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Shoot, you're right. My bad.
Maglev trains are cool! There's actually one here on earth: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train
Not necessarily.

Taxis don't only exist due to cost. It's more convenient to take a cab across London because even if you have unlimited money, finding parking is a pain in the arse, you have to think about it, etc.

Or you might just be tipsy after a night out.

I've never taken a cab to save money; I'm not sure I've ever been in a situation where it would be cheaper than just taking public transport or driving.

It's just a different option with different pros and cons.
A lot of people seem to be missing that Varnish is a two-billion-dollar company, Fastly, largely but far from entirely as a result of PHK doing a good job of optimizing it. This is not a question of freshman homework quibbling.
Consider it being put on the No Fly List.

You don’t have to be charged to be put on it.
Buying property is a one-time check to the current owner. You also generally make regular payments to the government in the form of property taxes.
> we don't highly internalize "being American"

True for a subset of people but drive out to the red states and that is definitely not true.
You would use it in conjunction with the concept of Services [0]. Services are essentially are a group of CRUD operations that can be exposed over various transports: HTTP(s), Websockets, etc.

You can use services with Feathers' Event Emitters [1] give you a service-level abstraction for sending data over websockets. If you want the full flexibility of using websockets directly-- by all means, do so! A common use case, however, is to send updates as service objects are created, updated, or deleted over websockets for real-time applications. You might take that updated record, insert it into your state management system (e.g., Redux), and then use your UI library (e.g., React) to repaint the user's screen. Feathers doesn't care what state management or UI library you use.

[0]: https://docs.feathersjs.com/api/services.html#service-method...

[1]: https://docs.feathersjs.com/api/events.html#eventemitters
Well it couldn't hurt. It depends more on what specific threats you are worried about though.

It's not too tough to drastically limit the amount of information that any non-privileged people online can find about you. Just make sure all accounts are either deleted, or locked so that only approved people can see any info. Post few to no pictures, and no job info. If you really want an account on some service, start a new one with a fake name that you haven't used anywhere else before. Don't link any accounts to any other accounts on other services.

Highly privileged people are a different matter. Meaning police/government investigators and any internal investigators or algorithms at any of the big tech companies. It's much harder to really be private from them. Doing all of the above, plus being super-vigilant about only accessing new accounts from VPN or Tor, and never doing anything that could associate it with your old account. May require separate hardware to have a decent shot.
That's my hopes for PineTime, I would love for it to be a standalone "fitness tracker" and MP3 player rolled into one. It's a very nice price point for a watch to hack with.

All it would need is an ESP32, IMU, heart rate sensor, micro SD card reader, audio jack, LiPo and touch display. Make it work with the Arduino IDE and things get very exciting for hack-ability.

Honestly, the watch makes me more excited than the phone.
First I'm sorry Hillary Clinton lost, I was a 2008 HRC delegate, so it certainly hurts. But China is definitely a greater strategic rival than Russia. Russia's GDP is very small compared with China; in fact China surpassed the US in 2014 by PPP and if their people become just half as productive as you and I - they will become twice our GDP.

I recommend reading more on this subject. one interesting book is "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?" by Graham Allison. (Recommended by Joe Biden, and Lloyd Blankfein)

https://www.amazon.com/Destined-War-America-Escape-Thucydide...
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Do you know of any examples where the forest that was de-forested 25% was the Amazon or another tropical rainforest? Obviously if a pine barren is deforested 25% it won't turn in to savannah.
His brother, while mayor of Toronto, also smoked crack. They preach populism, and when elected cancel as many public transit projects as they can.
Chinese takeout > McD, KFC and Pizza Hut. So I welcome this new development.
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There are generally noise regulations, but they are not suited towards shift workers or night owls and they don't limit the noise much during the day. Also, at least for the City of Seattle[0], lawn maintenance equipment is allowed to put out at least 80db during the day.

[0]: Example for City of Seattle: https://library.municode.com/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code...
This is well known.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/us/politics/russian-hacki...
Darn and here I was hoping that it did it by reading a bunch of chemistry papers from the 19th century.
And Washington was a big player in the Native American genocide. While Churchill’s actions led to the Indian famine, resulting in millions of deaths.

If we are going to judge a country by its history, then no country is “good.”
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Last summer I had a big white faced hornet nest next to my front door. Unfortunately I had to spray it with poison.

This year there was a big active yellow jacket nest in one of my sheds. The day I put out some non-poison traps, I noticed there were very few bugs flying around. A couple days later there were none. Something got to them already. I don't know what would kill a whole nest like that unless they got into poison from one of my neighbors.

I think they're actually beautiful animals and I don't want to kill them, but I can't have them right near the house.
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Eh, even nations can't just declare contracts void without serious repercussions. Nations have credit ratings too and frequently utilize international financing
Any such proposal is considered by many Brazilians to be patronizing a sovereign nation.
The article is concluding that the Quds-1 is not an altered Soumar (which is the missile based on the KH-55) - the list of differences up to and including the significantly smaller diameter and different engine make that unlikely.

Rather it is mentioned that TJ100-alike engines are used in Iran's drone program (as distinct from cruise missiles), and this raises the possibility that the Quds-1 is a derivative of one of those.
Can the machine detect three identical plates stuck together? Just curious.

My most hated parts to separate are a flat dot on top of a regular dot. Second runner-up is the 1x1 plate on top of a dot, which is common in the Minecraft sets. I'd pay for a machine just to separate these for me!
Intro page vaguely reminds me of DropMix, which has unfortunately been EoL'd.
So, is it then impossible to criticize the collective political decisions of the Jewish State of Israel without be anti-semitic?
Checkout Pocket Operators from Teenage Engineering if you haven't seen them already. Its a lovely (to me) line of physical synths that are quite inexpensive < $30 USD and also as a non-music person really got me started down a path of wanting to learn more.
The FAQ addresses this question here. tl,dr: Yes, you can add custom methods: https://docs.feathersjs.com/help/faq.html#how-do-i-create-cu...

If you want to expose the custom methods to clients, you can use this add-on package: https://github.com/arve0/feathers-custom-methods
It is, and while Blackstone's Formulation is foundational in western legal systems, I also acknowledge that other countries may choose different lines to draw. At the very least it's a grand experiment into what works the best.
> We often hear Full Stack in the context of a complete distributed web application, but for many the stack goes down to the metal. This emulator literally boots up from the real BIOS of a Playstation and emulates the MIPS R3000A, a BUS to connect components, the CPU, the CD-ROM, and display.

As I say probably too often, the modern usage of "full stack" basically equates to "iceberg tip".
No, it's pointless. Sinking more money into the black hole that is Brazil's corrupt government? What's next? How about regular payments to US and Russia so they have a reason to maintain their nuclear weapons instead of just using them?
The worst ones seem to be hornets/yellow jackets. They're aggressive, and want to eat anything that people have.
Where I grew up as a kid you were always warned about yellowjackets, not wasps generally. Not knowing how to discern a yellowjacket I guess I was generally wary of wasps, particularly any wasp that was yellowish, but never had the mindset that all wasps were aggressive. A wasp-shaped thing that was black wouldn't have been something I'd think twice about.

What sucks about yellowjackets is that they're easy to dismiss as bees. You can ignore bees; indeed, you should ignore them. Not ignoring bees is how you get stung. Yellowjackets have a reputation for being capricious. Ignoring a yellowjacket is how you get stung, not how you avoid getting stung. At least, that seemed to be the wisdom.
I'm using 'Password/PIN' for database encryption and it isn't compatible with 'Device Credentials' in authentication method. Can you tell me how you've enable fingerprint unlocking?
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Not unreasonable in general but there's absolutely no reason that AoE2DE needs to use DX12 and the Win 10 requirements that come with it. And there's a significant reason why they shouldn't.

A large fraction of the player population is in countries without access to large purchasing power or modern computing equipment. If it requires 10 then a large part of the playerbase will simply stick with AoE2 AoC on voobly or HD on steam. So DE will only be new players or players in rich western economies. MS is showing they either don't care or don't understand the AoE2 scene.
(al-)Quds is just the Arabic name for Jerusalem.
This is a bit of a tangent (that the author takes): “But during protein assembly, each amino acid must be chosen from a soup of 20 different options. Grover’s algorithm explains these numbers: a three-step quantum search can find an object in a database containing up to 20 kinds of entry. Again, 20 is the optimal number.”

20 is the number of amino acids, but this is ignoring stop codons (and specialized amino acids used for initiation).

It’s not super clear to me at what level of abstraction the search is taking place - it can’t be the tRNA space because that’s not just 20 options.

The point that electrons seem to follow a Grover search is cool. I’m just unclear on whether the biological part holds up.
Cool!I have been using visual studio code before, this time I can try it.
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All things considered, the arrangement of Guantanamo Bay, where Cuba retained sovereignty and gave the US an indefinite lease, which survived Cold War hostilities, even the missile crisis, without disruption by anti-US sentiment, has been relatively stable.
> China does not respond to the normal stimulus / protest that democratic, human-rights based nations do.

I wonder how you see them as any different to the US? The US wasn't scrambling to meet the demands of the Occupy Movement.

I guess there was the brutality of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, but Tiananmen is the exception in the history of Chinese protests, just like the Kent State Massacre was in the US.
Real life is not a fantasy novel, it's far too complex to reduce down to good and evil, despite the temptations.

Our founding fathers would probably be considered terrorists to the Crown.
There are many open source projects got submitted to HN everyday but not many got the chance to be upvoted to front page and attract traffic. So I built a service called Porter[1] to collect HN submissions, filter out news about open source projects and send digested email to subscribers. There is also a `explore` page[2] at Porter which will show the daily submitted projects. You can find from the page that only two or three projects get a lot of upvotes and many projects got zero upvote at all.

I was wondering if many users are using Porter, I might have a chance to bring traffic to those projects developed by solo developers and becoming good channel for promoting and discovering. But just like those open source projects, I have problem promoting my service too. I don't feel like to spam people by submitting the url everywhere. There are organic growth but it's not fast enough for me to put a lot of resource in it. I guess marketing for open source related projects and services is always a hard problem especially for solo developers.

EDIT: Those projects that got exceptional growth might have successfully attract traffic from HN. But just submitting your projects to HN does not guarantee any growth.

[1] https://porter.io

[2] https://porter.io/explore/
I thought I couldn't use my registrar's DNS unless I wanted it to redirect to the weird URL for the s3 bucket. But maybe I've got it all wrong and just took someone's S3 static site build instructions too literally 5 yrs ago.
Checking the website from my Android Firefox. NoScript and PrivacyBadger are not showing any dangerous stuff apart the typical Google analytics/tracking (which I always block). I wonder if someone from a desktop with more comprehensive tools can see if there is any sneaky frames that my tools didn't see.
From what I’ve gathered, it’s not because it’s becoming more hostile, but rather they are no longer getting any privileges because of the complexion.

“If you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
The current deforestation is already driven by illegal trespassers. Changing the ownership on paper won't change anything
Indeed when there are large outages is when utilities often find out that the models
Don’t quite match reality. One example would be when 1200 MW of generation tripped in the WECC region and they found the effective droop of the system was about 8% instead of 5, and have since mandated that every generator over 10 Mva is tested every 5 years to ensure the equipment still matches the model.
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They did not hack any election systems. They conducted misinformation campaigns and trolling that helped Trump, but that’s not the same category as directly hacking voting systems.
We need an economic framework that makes it more profitable to keep the forest intact than to burn it down and plant soybeans.

It's hypocritical to point the finger at Brazil for exploiting their natural resources when developed countries got rich by doing the same. If we want to prioritize biodiversity and oxygen generation then we should pay the Amazonian countries for it.
I picked Flutter and I'm really happy with it. The latest release of Flutter makes me even happier as there are some nice improvements. I'm using Material components because for me it is the bootstrap of UX these days and requires little thought to make a fairly clean UX. As a developer I can just drop in components as necessary.

* Hot reload, on device, works and works well.
* Really nice error messages (in latest release).
* It is fast.
* Dart is pretty nice once you get used to it.
* Provider api for state management works great (basically, react context).

I also do a lot of react web dev, but given that Flutter targets web (and desktop now... goodbye electron), I might try that in the future once it matures a bit.

Some one is developing this kind of cool example of the web target: https://github.com/rxlabz/panache
Ah my bad, looks like it only happens when I kill the app and not when I exit the app properly. I do not know if android apps are supposed to clean up persistent notifications when they are killed or even if they can.
Were any details on the mechanisms they used released? The article is paywalled for me, but any article I've read only states that it was "concluded". Like, what attack vector did they use, do all states use common voting machines?

EDIT: Was able to read it, and they don't even suggest any evidence. As usual, we have to take it on faith. Sorry, my faith cup has runneth out.