skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. The Chinese government is using this entire crisis as a way of testing the limits of its power. They wanted to test it in a 0-10 scale but found the needle zoomed up to the right stop, so they adjusted the scale to 0-100 by dialing up their actions to even more extreme. That’s why they’re forcing these companies to bend the knee in public rather than quietly. They didn’t want to just disable the HKLive app, they wanted to see whether they could force Apple’s CEO to write a public mea culpa for them, which he did. You can be certain that a person with a direct line of authority to Xi made it very clear that Blizzard would not be allowed to “tactfully” deal with the situation publicist-style.

What you will soon see is the Chinese outrage dialing down as the government gets a good read on the 0-100 number and retreats for the next 30 years to build strategic power while the rest of the world gets distracted by the next Thing.
Live in a cave and consume copious amounts of fish (oil)! Die of something other than cancer.
I hear stories like that and question innocence of the protestor. I know sometimes people get screwed over for no reason but I’m also aware of numerous cases where someone loudly protests the unfairness of being blocked for a single unintentional infraction and upon further review it turns out they had a history of abuse, sometimes with a secondary account that they assumed BigCo was too stupid to link to their “real” account.

Sometimes it’s a bit of a failure on both sides (e.g. BigCo also fails to notify about the abuse on the other account). Sometimes it’s just bullshit on the part of the complainer (e.g. Endless public protestations of innocence from someone who was actually sharing child pornography). I’m too jaded to trust the intentions of corporations, but I’m also too jaded to blindly trust the claims of those who assert they’ve been screwed over, especially when my gut says the story doesn’t make sense.
I recently had to book a hotel in Essen during the Spiel! game fair this week, during which nearly all hotels are sold out.

Using Booking.com, I could only find hotels that were too expensive or too far away. Using a different site, I found a really affordable one near the Oberhausen railway station, at half an hour from the Messe in Essen.

So Booking isn't even all that convenient. Yes, they have a lot, but they're also missing a lot. It pays to shop around.
> Why, might I ask? Your tagline is full text search, but I have to turn it on?

It was a trial we added in the last onboarding overhaul 2 weeks ago. Will already be changed in the next update.

> I'd reconsider the landing page hero section design. Don't write with black on darkgray background.

Yeah that is a bug from the last (automatic) wordpress update. Will be fixed soon too.
Thanks for making us aware. :)
but "Don't you get tired of" is just a product of any focused career isn't it? Even the most novel of enterprises can become mundane in a shorter time than you'd imagine.

I think someone, like maybe this Dr T has, needs to find deeper meaning in continuing mundane work day in and day out.
NASA is usually a good place to start. Their articles are clearly written for laymen, they're proven to do good science, and you can't say that NASA is overly political.

Basically, the consensus I can find is this:

1) The earth is warming, and it's our fault. There is no credible debate here - CO2 causes warming, and we release a crapload of CO2.

2) We're on track for something like 4°C by the end of the century. That's the difference between an ice-age and current temps (https://xkcd.com/1379/). So we're on track to find out what the opposite of an ice-age is by 2100.

3) What does "the opposite of an ice age" mean, besides warmer? Wetter.

4) All the models have thick error bars, though. For temperature, think of everything as being plus-or-minus something like 25%. Our current warming is well within current error bars, despite what deniers will tell you.

5) Sea level rise will happen, but of course slower than Gore and the like said - those previous predictions were using worst-case-scenario things. Remember, error bars. Also, when talking about sea-level-rise, don't think of it as "Miami swallowed by the ocean", but think about storm surges and floods creeping further and further in land. A house doesn't have to be permanently under-water to be inhospitable due to sea-level-rise - an annually-flooded-basement will do that just as well.

6) What else? That's where it gets iffy. There are millions of different theories with varying amounts of evidence supporting them - some of them quite apocalyptic. Extreme weather, shifting climates like desertification, heat waves, etc. vicious-cycle positive-feedback-loops like cloud collapse (https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/25/climate-change-kills-off-c...).

The biggest threat of climate change is what happens if the Global South becomes inhospitable. There are billions of poor people who cannot survive if their countries become deserts. And if that doesn't sound like Your Problem, remember that some of those people have nukes.
Your anecdote is a good example that they don't listen. How many times did you complain before they took action? It looks like you had to complain multiple times which most people will not do (they complain once and try to not order from that seller).
Win32 has been with us for 25 years now, it's probably a reasonable assumption it will last another 25 years.

You have to be picky, I wouldn't invest any time in Blazor right now, it's too early.
I guess that all decryption keys are on ram. If the power is disconnected, then it would need a manual intervention to re-decrypt the data
How the hell do you pwn a server with iDRAC?
And in addition to the ice moving from land to water, the land will be less compressed by the weight of ice above it and will rise, displacing even more water.
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delicious was purchased by pinboard.in their system is very similar.
> none of these VPN providers' business models are sustainable

You can fit like a hundred of VPN users into a single cheap VPS server. With current prices for VPN they are anything but unsustainable.
It works for when you need to use untrusted WiFi, because the alternative is worse. Beyond that, it forms a nice defense against unsophisticated attackers. (e.g. it breaks a single datapoint (ip address) used by Google and FaceBook).
But did you know an Oyster card in London can't have more than 16 fare zones? This is the reason why some stations on Overground don't accept Oyster cards.
I would look at one of the cryptoanarchist aligned providers like Cryptostorm, Mullvad, or AirVPN. Of course, no one is immune to a hack but they don't have any shady connections or financial incentive to deprioritize security.
A MITM attack of a VPN allows attackers to collect unencrypted traffic.

Most people access email over a webmail interface, like gmail, that uses modern TLS encryption. All that's sent unencrypted is the SNI header, e.g. "mail.google.com", and roughly how much traffic total is transferred, e.g. "20 MB of browsing on mail.google.com".

A VPN can't easily defeat TLS. It would require the user to ignore many scary warnings from the browser.

You're still right that a user should change their passwords for any websites that do not use TLS (very few these days), or for any that use old versions of TLS if their threat model includes someone with close to nation-state resources attacking their connections individually.

It also probably doesn't hurt to be paranoid and rotate anyway, but it should be with a proper understanding of the threats, not because of some ridiculous "the sky is falling" incorrect information like this.
Absolutely. Look for project Streisand.
I'd like to thank HN for putting this on the front page day 1 of public alpha.

The site was bare-bones functionality at the time, now it's a little more feature complete :)
>Alienation is a critical and central part of Marxist critique. To miss it is to misunderstand Marxism.

I don't think the author meant that reference to Marxism as anything more than a rhetorical flourish. His target, in that context, was Hayek's argument from incredulity against central planning in The Use of Knowledge in Society.

>Marxists could not call it a day after nationalizing Amazon because the people who make the goods that Amazon sells would still be alienated from the goods they produce, and Amazon's workers would still be alienated from the products of their own labor.

As I understand it, this alienation -- as you've described it here -- seems to have its roots in the division of labour in society, which seems to me to pre-date industrial capitalism. If that's so, then the work of Marxists can never be done, because work itself would have to be totally eliminated for the division of labour to vanish.
Yes, it was definitely worth it, for multiple reasons:

- I'm a lot more comfortable with Python than I am with shell scripting

- The Python+libgit2 approach _absolutely_ saved time. Being able to iterate through commits in 4-ish hours vs 24 hours for a complete run was huge, and yes, I did a lot of partial runs to test how the process was going.

- Yes, the code rewriting portion ended up as the bulk of the time. I could do a no-op iteration of the commit history in about 30 minutes, and the final processing was about 4.5 hours.

If I ever needed to do this again, yes, I'd use basically the same approach, just with the advantage of applying the knowledge I learned right away.
That's because most of the country is wild and rural which non americans do not seem to get. This is a good thing and something without precedent in Europe where the wilderness has been stamped out
Ahhh, not too dissimilar from the greek pantheon of old
> I trust [Deltares], since they are responsible for millions of lives.

OK, so do so.

https://www.deltares.nl/en/blog/the-battle-of-engineers-agai...

> Climate change is happening right now and at a frightening speed, especially in the Arctic. To underpin the need for action, I share three wake-up calls...

> We can’t afford to ignore the warning signs. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to get climate change under control. After long negotiations, world leaders have agreed on action at the Paris climate summit. Now it’s up to the engineers to develop ambitious plans and innovative solutions.
I just use a laptop. I meet with people in person all the time in my consulting. Change things in front of them literally on the fly.
In the US at least, there still remain a few tatters of laws that control how law enforcement and intelligence agencies can surveil you.

But there are zero controls on US agencies hoovering up data indiscriminately outside US borders.
PIA is also compromised. They installed the known criminal Mark Karpelès as CTO.
6502asm is a neat little project. I'm not sure it's early enough to be the first "fantasy console", though. :)

While the term was popularized by PICO-8[0], I think you could make a case for the CHIP-8[1] virtual machine circa 1977. I've built some tools[2] and games for CHIP-8, so I'm admittedly a bit biased. My user community is even running a CHIP-8 themed game jam this month- I can plug the details if anyone is interested.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-8

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8

[2]http://octo-ide.com
The "possibly carcinogenic" declaration is quite weak ("evidence far from conclusive").

Even if it was "carcinogenic to humans", there's a lot of things that are vital to modern society which fall into that category. It's then up to the regulators to guess an "acceptable" limit of exposure.
Can they RTFM? Show me somebody capable of admitting ignorance and working to remedy it and I'll consider hiring them.
I don’t want a refund, I want to support companies that use the right processes to save me time, but companies that choose to commingle to save the company a penny and cost me time are not worth supporting.
If you're making a living selling a secure channel, where the whole point is to be more secure then other channels, you better fucking secure that channel. You can't outsource the underlying hardware and then wash your hands of what happens.
I believe my wife complained to a human twice.

Most people probably complain zero times. Posting negative reviews of a product is a poor way to give feedback about a bad seller.
You need to read the report more closely. First, it describes only the Dutch sea level rise, not the global sea level. Second, the most important reason that the sea level rise is that "the Netherlands is located in one of the least affected areas [of sea level rise] in the world. 9cm/century [of sea level rise] has not influenced the Netherlands, but has been observed around the equator" [1, from the summary]

[1] The report is here (in Dutch) https://www.deltares.nl/app/uploads/2019/03/faq-zeespiegelmo...
I disagree. If climate change is as catastrophic as it is being portrayed by most it's not going to a cause economic slowdown. It will cause massive economic upheaval.

If all fossil fuel vehicles are replaced by 2030 think of the scale of that. Every gas station in the U.S. will close. 98% of the cars on road will become junk items.
Yes. Until Evan stops gatekeeping which packages are allowed to be published, Elm is a high-risk experimental language best suited to experimental projects.
That doesn't sound like a great test since I don't think the apparatus is there to detect where signals are coming from, just (in theory) whether there are any.

I hate to admit it, but I seem to notice effects when I add wireless networks to my home. I think it's probably psychosomatic, but would like to do a blind test. I would situate myself between wireless devices, with all devices within 10 meters either being on or off, the test being to determine if any devices are on. I would feel weird asking anyone to help in this, so perhaps I'll rig something up with smart plugs or a programmable router.
Unless I'm missing something this completely ignores the decades of mismanagement and paying huge bonuses/salaries instead of reinvesting in infrastructure. PG&E put themselves in this position should be held accountable.
There's a couple ways to look at this.

On one hand, there's anonymous websites, competing VPN companies, and hundreds of Twitter bots pushing a story that is demonstratively false (just check public records).

Then, on the other hand, you have Mozilla and the EU (which has access to all European corporate records) vouching for Proton, which also operates in a highly transparent way, examples here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-protonvpn-trustworthy/

Proton definitely has an office and subsidiary in Vilnius, it's not a secret because it's on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BxMz62oHb6K/ The office is inside a 30 storey building, so it is not surprising the address is shared with quite a few other companies. And that doesn't mean Proton on a whole is based in Vilnius.
In certain configurations, iDRAC gives you an rdp connection. If idrac is left at default, windows admin login not being changed isn't too much of a stretch.
I can't find a single device marketed as a baby monitor that records audio.

Even if there were such a device, wouldn't that just bring us back to the point of the article? The existence of such a device wouldn't make the device suddenly legal to use without getting consent from the people being recorded.
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A RAM disk never even crossed my mind :) I know they exist and have used one in the past, but it didn't occur to me as a possible tool. Also, I was doing this on Windows, and I don't even know if you _can_ set up a RAM disk on Windows. (edit and of course as I say that, someone literally just linked a Windows RAM disk FS driver upthread.)

And no, I was re-running this _dozens_ of times to get it right, especially when I was in the "run -> transform fails on broken JS code -> debug -> write regex -> rerun" portion.
https://nordvpn.com/blog/official-response-datacenter-breach...
if 5G comes, please let me eat my red meat in peace!
> So did you get hit by a car before learning to look both ways when crossing the street? Or did someone tell you?

Are you suggesting the first people that learned to cross a road got hit by cars before realizing they had to look both ways? There was no one to tell them how to look, so how did they learn it except by "being hit by a car"?
That'd be pretty sweet if you were able to pull it off
I've tried this though. The tools are just essential though :/ Figma in the browser is great for most things but you can't draw well in it. Inkscape takes extra effort. But animating svg for out put or making high rez images to output for 2x/3x? That's the difficult part.

I just wish Adobe would listen. You're dead right on the macOS point and here I am running windows nowadays.
Yes, although historically washing was almost certainly the most labor intensive part of the process. There are combo washer/driers but, mostly, it makes more sense to keep them separate given that transferring from one to other is pretty low effort.

Same thing applies to washing dishes.
Here's the academic paper the article references:
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...

Not showing up on Scihub tho. Anyone found it?
>Does that mean that only these 19 people of 833 were playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 at the time? Probably not. There are defnitly more people that played it despite being in the group. It could very well be possible that people in the group not in this picture all played Modern Warfare 2 at the time. However, this picture doesn't show it.

Not really.
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He's been courting rich donors and shifted a lot of his positions from before.

I see this type of thinking a lot, which is basically accusing the candidate of being corrupted by the larger stage, that somehow they were pure and honest before. The better explanation is that they were an opportunistic liar the entire time, adjusting their positions as the political audience dictated.

After all, the best evidence that some candidate is a narcissistic opportunist is that they would run for office in the first place. “Not my preferred candidate!” some will argue. But yes, your candidate too.
If you can reboot it without anyone noticing? Really, really easily: iDRAC gives you access to the local console, like a remote KVM. Reboot into single user mode, change a password, done.
extinction rebellion, the hundreds of videos flooding twitter of climate change activists blocking streets/intersections (one video that blew up was of "activists" on top of a train. stopping it, working class people trying to get to work in the most environmentally friendly way) have been ruining the movement

everyone is aware of the real effects of climate change but the extremes people are going about it (hysteria/moral panic) are dishonest. I would guess the majority of us western relatively well off middle/upper middle class understand the hardest hit by climate change will be the poors/lower classes. so far I've seen the ecofriendly movement as a war on the less fortunate. The biggest enemies of the environment are still the huge corporations/shipping and the us military/select countries.
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One very explicit reason to not trust your ISP with your internet traffic is that since 2017 [1], they are allowed by Congress to sell your internet history.

As a cherry on top, they were also the ones that successfully lobbied the government to allow that in the first place [2].

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/03/house-rep...
[2] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/02/internet-...
We also wrote-up some of the motivations and benefits of the service. https://blog.textile.io/ipfs-experiments-creating-ipfs-links...
My brother loves Perl, so when he was looking for a job, I recommended Booking. I don't think he ever even applied for a job there, though. Possibly because of all the dark patterns.
I agree that Blizzard is risking their community with their moves, but I don't think the financials of their games/IP are that important.

Lots of cons get thrown each year, with games / lore / ip that aren't particularly highly valued. All you really need is a strong community, and the con works. That's it. Great IP helps, but isn't necessary.

I follow Warframe, for example, which is just one game from one studio and their IP is is only worth like ~10% the financial value of Blizzard. Despite this, Warframe has their own convention every single year, that sells out every year. People pay $50 - $300 for tickets to that (plus lodging/airfare/etc). They invested in their community, and it paid off.

EA could easily throw a convention every year, even just with a single game, if they had invested in building a community around it. For example, "Anthem-con" could be a yearly event, if Anthem hadn't shipped incomplete and left to fade away.
Anyway, if I can help, my email is in my profile.

Thanks.

I did write you about my latest project. If you don't see an email from me, check your spam folder.
Why would their website's SSL certificate be on one of their VPN servers? Do all of their current 3000 servers have the private key for their website right now?
wouldn't all that depend on tge specific signal transmitted? If you just look at random memory access, you'll find that it's not prone to corruption. That didn't stop rowhammer for example.
Yeah, that sounds like flagrant incompetence
Oh there's other poor places, it's okay guys. Let them keep shooting up and shitting in the street.

When you dismiss it like that, you're giving up on a solution and letting it fester.
Not marriage per se but mutual union of people ordained by the court system protects children. Truly single parents have the hardest time. Help a woman have a pregnancy with no father on the birth cerficate you'll understand what I mean.
The problem here is that there is boilerplate at all. There shouldn't be.

Boilerplate distracts from what is actually going on. I can generally identify code smells from the shape of python code (like, blur all the text so I can't read the words, and the shape of the blocks tells me everything I need), I can't do the same in go, because there's so much more indentation and visual stuff happening, and most of it (boilerplate error handling) isn't interesting.
This is difficult to track, as it is really just a sentence attached to some screenshots, with some commentary but no technical detail... but this seem to be a website key, not an OpenVPN key?

(edit: And, in fact, this is confirmed by NordVPN's statements on the matter: "The expired TLS key was taken at the same time the datacenter was exploited. However, the key couldn’t possibly have been used to decrypt the VPN traffic of any other server. On the same note, the only possible way to abuse website traffic was by performing a personalized and complicated MiTM attack to intercept a single connection that tried to access nordvpn.com.")
Answer: Compromised datacenter that had insecure remote management system running.
This comment makes no sense. In developing countries power gets shut off, because there is not enough of it. CA actually over produces power. The shut off is a result of acute climate change and dry conditions that have affected the state. And unlike a developing country, a corporation in a developed country is responding to legal risk and shutting power down. This is exactly opposite of a developing country, where corporations face no legal risk of their actions at all
Meh. I'd say just allow all discussion or political discourse and let the community moderate? If people think that's stupid then players that do that will lose out. The community already decides what it will tolerate and what it will not.