skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that it's the conjunction of the password and the harassment accusation together that make this a fairly straightforward case. If it were just a creepy password, well, that demonstrates a certain level of creepiness but doesn't mean that he made it a problem for anyone else. It's possible to have private fantasies that remain private. On the other hand, if it was just the coworker's accusation, it would be just that, an accusation without evidence.

The password as evidence of private creepiness lends credence to the accusations of harassment, and the accusation of harassment demonstrates the the creepiness was probably not just private. Together they create a case stronger than either alone.
It's good to see a news source calling the FBI's statements what they are: lies.

Nobody serious about security took those statements as true anyway, but I think the general public needs unambiguous reporting from reputable sources on what's going on.

The FBI is illegally spying on innocent American citizens and lying to congress about it.
I’m not referring to the concept that there shouldn’t be social repercussions for speech people find distasteful. Of course there should be—shaming and ostracism are powerful tools for enforcing morality, deeper and more fundamental than law. I’m talking about folks using “speech is violence” as a pretext for regulating speech through the government. (This tends to come to a head in the campus context, because when public colleges “deplatform” people, that is government action subject to the first amendment.)

Conservatives tried this too, recruiting the aid of the government to fight against obscenity, Communism, etc. And they lost that battle in the end.
Forest fire still releases massive amount at once. Takes 50 yrs to grow back and even then who guarantees its the right amount you have released because of human activity caused fires.
>Why is the title targeted at all US Government developers?

As dumb as you might think people in government are, they're not so dumb as to believe a decision could be made in a way that only applies to ICE.

They can see the abstract case at hand is a disagreement with federal policy. ICE was created by the federal government and tasked with (among other things) carrying out a controversial policy.

Even if GitHub didn't vocalize it explicitly -- or went further and stated that the decision applied only to ICE -- every federal agency is still listening to see if their business relationship with github will be shaped by public opinion towards the job the legislature tells them to do.
It's a list of people against RMS.
Coinbase-backed gaming company hit by cyberattacks after stance against China
I'm surprised that this isn't a requirement for banks considering the very large number of scams going on in the US.

In India, getting an SMS/Email confirming every card usage is a legal requirement imposed by the Rserve Bank of India. The same goes for card usage itself. All credit and debit card POS transactions need the card PIN to be approved. Likewise, all online transactions require MFA.
It is a mortal necessity. If you don't take China's money then someone else will and eventually they will be bigger and able to take you out on the global marketplace.

Either you want globalism or you don't. This is the problem with globalism too, not everyone wants to play by your rules and sometimes they're big enough to tell you to pound sand... which is exactly what China is doing.
It's one of those "everyone sucks here" situations.
> An individual can use whatever standard they wish to form an opinion.

I suppose we can all agree that any individual should at least first know the facts before forming their opinion.
> They are the American gestapo.

They're really not. It is possible to not like (some of) what ICE does and also recognize that they are not rounding up a lawless autocrat's political enemies for torture, indefinite imprisonment and execution.
Just in time to support Android-powered devices from Microsoft!
Virtue signaling is one of those weird alt-righty/Jordan Peterson terms I here a lot.

It seems to be thrown around a lot, even when people are putting their money where their mouth is.
prominent contemporary voices have been both openly supportive and critical of them

I mean, what if these prominent contemporary voices support 911?
We are saying the same thing with different words. But I do question if China really offers tons of easy and fast growth.
My guess would be "BitTorrent", given that it's next to "url" and apparently in the context of some sort of media player.
Biologically speaking pigmentation is expensive so they'd lose it if it didn't serve some significant survival purpose.
The letter does not even mention who the "large part of those we want to reach out to" refers to. The reader is left to figure out on their own whether these are legitimate grievances or power struggle.
> because it's basically a 2 letter password with only 6/3 options.

That was obviously an oversimplified example to explain the rules.

In practice you could make it as obscure as you want, while keeping it easy for you to remember.

Like the sentences I just typed here. No limit on the number of characters. I could enter different long sentences each time, as long as the characters at specific positions match certain sets.
I've seen it happen, though it sounds like someone is over exaggerating women's reaction to their ugly mug.

But yeah, I knew a woman that said anyone who smiled at her was creepy if she didn't like them
they exist.
How inefficient, what does massively mean? How do we demonstrate electric is 'very' efficient by comparison? Your list of electrical losses notably left out the power generation, which should be solar or wind, but in practice in the US is still a third coal, which does not compare particularly favorably to food. There are a whole lot of inefficiencies from end-to-end in both systems we're comparing here, many of which are really difficult to measure. What we do know for certain is that the amount of work that has to be done with a car is twenty times the amount of work that has to be done with a bike per mile of consumption, and a much much higher factor than 20x for production, which makes the suggestion that the car could be more efficient than the bike quite unlikely to be true, even though food production is inefficient.
This whole thing started with a pedantic e-mail and a blogger that got offended and decided to slander RMS. The media then lied about RMS defending a pedophile. And now 'SnarkAsh is implying that RMS was harassing people by exposing his manhood.

This is why fighting the cancel mob is so important. Lies accumulate.
We are at a point where society has pushed society/people past their limits in the chase for growth. We are so hungry for growth that we have destroyed the environment to fuel our products, squeezed every last drop of our workers, and have now resorted to selling out our freedoms. And after all of this, most of us are still unable to secure a stable future due to high housing, healthcare, and living costs. Essentially we are at the point where we are just trampling over each other to survive.
“allow fat people to eat more sugar without slaughtering horses and pigs”

- there is gestational diabetes that has nothing to do with weight

- also certain diseases, medications, surgeries, and infections can cause diabetes.

- type 1 diabetes also has a genetic component.
https://www.quora.com/Was-Hong-Kong-more-democratic-under-Br...

ps: I truly believe most of people here talking about Hong Kong have no idea how Hong Kong works before and after CCP. I found it both sad and amusing, but often time I found myself stupid when posting on the Internet. But anyhow, the facts should be delivered.
Originally, disingenuous words and actions intended to build rapport with people of a particular ideological persuasion. Nowadays, nothing, in the same sense that quantum foam is nothing.
It depends on what happens over the next few months.

IIUC, GNU leadership is somewhat distributed. If people still listen to rms, he has a leadership role. If people cut him out of decisionmaking, he doesn't. I don't think he has veto power over any aspects of the software (and even if he did, forks can be made).
Honestly, assume that everything on a work computer is being tracked - if the IT dude had managed to crack this fellow's personal email password then that's a different matter altogether.
What bugs? I find Arch works nearly flawlessly with IPv6. The only "bug" I found was that wiki.archlinux.org did not respond via IPv6.
Isn't that the same, only in reverse? "Oh you're not okay with deplatforming, you're only saying that because you disagree with the person deplatformed this time".

It's hard to prove the innermost opinions, but I do believe that there's a lot of outrage coming, among others, from people who are absolutely fine with deplatforming and consider it a valid tactic but don't consider that player a valid target. There definitely are others who are against deplatforming on principle. They are consistent, but I don't think all are. Of course, anybody can change their mind any time, and if this incident converts the proponents of deplatforming, then the next case will be very different.
if I had to cherry-pick just one, that's probably not the one i'd choose. But I might need to rebase my priorities.
just as the United States does not want to be talked about 911

There are thousands of videos about 9/11, hundreds of TV programmes, millions and millions of posts online. People only got tired of it after a decade of very vigurous debates where outright crank views were seriously considered. Memes about jet fuel that cannot melt steel beams still go around today.

And 9/11 was a savage terrorist attack. Where is this silly comparison to a totalitarian state censoring a gamer (and Winnie the Pooh) while trying to absorb Hong Kong coming from?
iTerm2 author here. I’ll be glad to answer questions.
Scott, from the perspective of some hitherto unwired second or third world country (ie Indian Kashmir) it’s probably a lot bigger deal than some OECD country ca. 1979
Even if that is true, they are at least on the record now with a position and I do feel like that is important. I would hope to see other game companies make these statements as well.
Cost.

Email is pennies per thousands.

Phone calls are cheap especially for nonconnected or robocalls (which would cost for a postal contact).

Postal mail costs $0.50 US in postage alone. The full-up cost of a mail campaign is often several dollars per mailed item, though in bulk, and with bulk rate, I believe it's closer to $0.40 (postage plus a few cents for paper and envelope).

That would cover many thousands of email contacts, possibly nearly as many phone/VOIP attempts.

And the systems required to successfully and accurately generate a postal response on request are also high.

Low-cost systems are high-fraud systems.
It would depend on what it needed to do, but most likely my goto would be Qt for anything with any complexity or need to access hardware or needing performance in anyway.

I have used Qt quite a few times in the past and it has always proven very capable. It isn't perfect, no framework is, but it is powerful and you can work with it, plus there are tons of examples and people with experience with it.
Generally speaking, the CAD software will output an STL file (surface geometry), then you import that into "slicing" software that takes the geometry and generates .gcode that is targeted specifically for your 3D printer.

I made a video about it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDeCltdVU3w&t=1s
It’ll take a lot more than a bad PR move to affect their stocks. Call of Duty Modern Warfare drops in a day or so. They’ve got plenty of money making assets, and swaths of fans who don’t care about politics.
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In all fairness, our UX/UI design studio [1] has worked with engineering teams of big companies. Be it Google engineers or others. The problem, almost always, is that the designers try to design simple UX logic - Engineers try to implement that logic - but someone higher up urges those engineers to add ABC and XYZ. All resulting in an unclear direction, where the engineering teams usually lean towards their boss' opinion. And, unintentionally, remove any logic that was initially part of the design process. To design better products, there should be a better balance between designers & engineers. Adding one guy to your team to 'make this crappy looking prototype pop' isn't going to be very helpful for your users.

[1] http://fairpixels.pro
These are coming out now because the DOJ OIG was asked to look into FISA abuse back in late 2017 or early 2018. There's now a report circulating for comment in the FBI and other agencies.

Rumour is that it will be released next week.
That's ok. This is the REAL reason to give Volvo drivers plenty of room:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I3hnTaTufg
They say that $200k doesn't make a difference to their bottom line, then come up with this convoluted argument for taking it anyway. Disappointed.
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The same thing happens with the US: despite the problems that (most of) the rest of the world has with its government, the US citizens are very much supportive of their government.

To paraphrase your last statement, as long as the US can manage to not destroy their economy completely, the US public will by and large support the government.
GitHub so woke.
Would have been impossible too: Nobel Prizes are bestowed only on the living, so as to fund their research.
I think it's a way of demonstrating that they don't care about the money in this situation and the decision was guided entirely by what they felt was right. Donating $500k instead of 200 was a bit weird, but I guess it's going to a cause that fights the primary department of ICE that people tend to object to, so it might be a way to demonstrate that they truly believe what they're saying
> Your argument is specious; flying is categorically vastly different than ... taking the train

That's too strong a claim to accept immediately. 'flying is different' is acceptable if you have evidence or a strong argument. I'd also accept it as a 'fact' if everyone agreed, but they don't - I certainly don't.

Psychologically (rather than physically) taking plane is just a way of getting from here to there, no different than a train in that respect.
> I'm shocked at how well the old hashing stood up; sure, it's totally crackable today, but a well-picked password still took 4+ days to crack on modern hardware, which is remarkable

It's not because the hash is strong, but the password itself is strong (if the attackers don't know additional information about chess). The sole purpose of using a strong <del>hash or a</del> KDF on password is making low-entropy passphrase harder to crack by increasing the cost of every round, especially for cryptographic purposes. But if the passphrase is already strong (6 random words from the Diceware wordlist), you can use MD5, and I won't be surprised if it takes one year to crack. Having 10 random words is guaranteed to be uncrackable under all circumstances, because it's literally a 128-bit key.

If your password has 80-bit of entropy, it makes even listing all possible passwords (without any hashing or encryption) a difficult job. Symmetric encryption works in a similar way, it's secure not because of the computational resources it takes, but the number of possible keys it has.

What is the moral of the story? Consider to use a password manager!
Many email applications can be set to a threaded view to be able to see who replied what to which message: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-threading-thund...
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Please, provide a source for your claim of sexual harassment.

(You won't because it's false)
It may not seduce employers, per se, but I'd rather read a technical blogs about what should be done vs how to do it, and I think big picture is more important that stuff that can be figured out as is, and I don't think I'm the only one. So there's definitely an audience even if it may not have a checkbook open.
something like https://webflow.com/ ?
>Whoa - its possible to have dental care and go to the doctor for most things, and not cost $20K per year.

How do you figure that?

My health care premiums are $1350 a month for a 10k deductible and 30% co-insurance. My dental premiums are $200/mo.That is $1550/mo WITHOUT any out of pocket costs even. I'm a the premera bronze plan. This isn't even a gold plan. There are a couple plans that are _slightly_ less expensive but a bit more restrictive.

So please, how am I magically supposed to lower my costs and still be covered in case of a catastrophic event? Or serious illness like cancer? Are you suggesting I buy the $100/mo plans that cover basically NOTHING and would do NOTHING if a member of my family got cancer?

Come on. Lay it on the table. Tell me what to do?

>If we could pay for everybody's unlimited medical care, maybe we'd do that. But it might not be affordable.

Hello JoeAltmair, please meet THE REST OF THE CIVILIZED WORLD which is able to do it.

And let me give you a little analogy here. A big company like.. Microsoft, for example, is able to probably negotiate their health care premiums quite a bit because of a large base of people right? Way lower than "my cost" which is 4 people.

Now let me do something really crazy here.. bear with me.. what if we pooled over 300 million people together to have a massive base where the taxes that pay for the program are able to cover the people with little-to-no medical issues and the more extreme cases? Holy shit, what an idea.. how has no one ever thought of this before............................. are you still following me?
I think people are tripping up on the word 'evolution' too much. The more important word in the article is 'inevitable'.

Sometimes it's good to be reminded that there is nothing inevitable about everything in our lives becoming a surveillance platform.
I'm confused about your computer point. Anything done with a computer could have been done by hand, manually. How is there any category difference? Is it because it's 1000x faster instead of non-categorical "10x faster" faster changes?

Flying is different because it's what...in the air? Surely not that it's only 5x faster than the train, or doesn't require tracks or roads, because speed and wireless alone aren't enough for today's computers to be categorically different from 1959.

My point is that you are making up categories to fit your argument, but you think the categorical differences are obvious. That makes it a weak argument.

Apologies about the error re: turboprop, I was thinking of regular propellor engines and miswrote. But this is a great example: how is the jet engine categorically different compared with a propellor plane? What does it enable aside from going higher and faster? What's the "category"? You just keep repeating the word "vastly" in your argument.

And how is a fuel-injected ICE "categorically" different?

You are full of examples of changes in "category" that don't make the impossible newly possible, just easier -- I don't think you actually have an articulable definition of "category" that fits.

> In 1969, absolutely nobody could make the argument that antibiotics, the atom bomb, computers, space flight, supersonic air flight, (autonomous) guided missiles meant there was no progress since 1919.

Nobody is making the argument today that there's been no progress, either.

My point is that we can't measure the rate of progress by only looking at the past 50 years. Something feels slower, sure. I bet in 1969 something felt slower than the previous 50 years too, to some people. We won't know until we know the actual implications of the last 50 years, and that will take a while.

That we're also using tech to make useless things is not a marker of slowing progress.
Mac OS does the same in this regard though, but in my experience neither Mac OS or Linux are particularly aggressive at using swap anyway.
> The media then lied about RMS defending a pedophile

They should have stuck to the other times he defended pedophilia and child porn instead.
It's a complicated question, but I think the real decline of true free software commons was probably around the time cloud services proved so valuable. Cloud provides huge leverage to some end-users for getting to the goal of doing the thing they want to do with the software, and it utterly side-steps the Four Freedoms via the simple expedient of "You don't own the hardware the software runs on."

GNU hasn't had an answer to this besides "boycott it," which feels an awful lot like horse-riders suggesting we deal with the problems with cars by never owning or supporting ownership of them.
I guess that cracking this specific password could be said to have been parallelized over multiple individuals over the years, and it wouldn't surprise me if it had burnt multiple years of processor time. In the end, someone had to get lucky when picking their search space/exploration parameters :-)
Sorry to hear about your pup. My wife and I went through the same thing a few months ago. Our dog had cataracts and was mostly deaf, and she started having seizures too. We also made the decision to euthanize. It got to the point where she was having them every few hours. Unfortunately that's part of dog ownership, is knowing that they do not live forever and having to make that choice for them. It sounds like your dog was in a very loving family. That is the contract we make with them, that we will love them and they'll love us back. Putting her through even more pain just to prolong her life for a small amount of time would not have been the right decision for anyone. It's hard to let go and heal but I hope you don't blame yourself for making that choice.

PM me if you want to discuss this some more. Virtual hugs.
>They recently held a pro LGBT+ event...

That was mysteriously absent from their Chinese servers.

Activision/Blizzard being hypocrites about their stance on human rights has been around for a while - here's a _long_ forum thread from last year about "Blizzard selling out LGBTQ+ to Chinese money".

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/blizz-to-censor-wome...
Perhaps, but that legal theory has never been tested in US federal court (as far as we know). It's entirely possible that the judicial branch wouldn't allow the executive branch to force private citizens into actively making false statements.

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A comedy show is in business for fifty years, and the only off-color appearance was a musician with a political opinion? As if we ever needed a demonstration of how bland and conventional SNL really is, regardless of the image they would like to convey.

SNL has had a great number of off-color appearances. Sinead O'Connor was not the reason they added the delay. SNL was already on tape delay by the time she appeared on the show. She slipped past the network censor because they didn't recognize what she was doing until the images had already been broadcast. (Per Wikipedia, she used a different photo during rehearsals. Her stunt was not edited out of the West coast tape-delayed broadcast but was replaced with rehearsal footage in repeats.)

Richard Pryor was the reason that SNL was on tape delay. In fact, per PBS, he's the reason most live broadcasts are on a several second delay. (Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake are the reason that half-time shows at sports events are now also on tape delay.) https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/6feba07a-e711-40ab-...

While many skits on SNL can be bland and conventional, a great many of their skits are classics. And especially during political cycles, SNL skits can define a political candidate or campaign. (See, e.g., Dan Quayle and spelling, Al Gore and the lockbox, Sarah Palin and seeing Russia, John McCain as himself on SNL.)