skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have we already forgotten the Iraq War? Syria? Lybia? Vietnam? All of these wars based on lies that covered for profits and killed millions?
I don't think that's been reported anywhere, could you link to an archive or something?
Coincidentally, today's Fresh Air is very much on topic. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/07/16/8914386...
If you're pinning a shell script to a specific hash, why not just keep the script itself in version control?
Well whatever we’re doing with half a million homeless is clearly not working.
Here's some advice:

Don't participate in activism if you aren't in a position to weather the problems it brings.

It can often seem like a good idea, but especially with how things are now it'll likely only fuck you over. Be safe out there.
Simultaneous Shortage and Oversupply (2019)
Yes it was dangerous, but nothing is “erased” if that market valuation is restored a few minutes later
Hey there! Thanks for the congrats. I see your point, but external factors + different cohorts visting throughout the test is a bit of a pickle. Nonetheless, I wish you the best!
You might be able to make your own "chunk modules" system, by sourcing from .profile something like ".shell_modules//.sh", and then use GNU Stow [0] to selectively install, from a centralized directory, whatever modules you're interested in.

Each module would have to go to its own subdir (the '*' part in my example), but that's a good thing as it means that each module could contain several files.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/
It certainly wasn’t the only typo in the article.
Microsoft has entire set of application development in C++
Your link doesn't support your claim. The article indicates a crime syndicate was responsible, a group who had already stolen lots of money. The weakness here is not in a UBI-type system at all; money was being stolen regardless of the source.

> The fraudsters took advantage of states that were already struggling to process a flood of jobless claims amid the COVID-19 pandemic and related government shutdowns.

To me, this reads as a negative mark against the US federal government for denying the existence of the threat. Not a result of the aide programs themselves.
My office is right next to Spyderco’s. Didn’t know they had so much respect in the knife world.
Yep, automatic testing is definitely on the roadmap!
What is the future of Social Networks?
In other words, data bits stay at 64 but ECC bits go from 8 to 16.
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They did, the FBI is involved now.

"U.S. FBI is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hack, sources say"

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-cyber-fbi-exclusi...
I’m lucky enough to have flown in both both business and first (upgrade!) on a 747, although a long time ago. The front was a bit more spacious, and since there is no cockpit in front it feels quite different to upstairs.

The upstairs business class cabin on the -400 was also larger (more people flying) if I remember correctly. A lot less people fly first than business.

In first you are ahead of the front wheels, so when turning during taxi, it’s quite an odd sensation.
What was that about? It reminds me of the kind of person who watched "Dr Strangelove" and thought the long discussions of 'precious bodily fluids" being poisoned by communists was a serious thing. Vitality? Fresh air?
To me, this means that too much trust is placed in social media, rather than we need to police/secure social media more. Social engineering will always be successful to hack into accounts, and hackers are always 1-step ahead of whatever security measures are in place. It is the trust that our society has placed in social media for news/announcements/politics that is the issue.
The nose of the 747 is also very quiet; you are very far forward. It's also private as there's no through traffic - you turn left on boarding through 1L and there's only First there.
I think cameras will be the new guns, and some people will be ok with them and some will not.

The thing is, people with the cameras will wield power over their subject, and many will not like it.

I don't know if the answer will be laws, or polite norms, or further civilization of what people accept.
Technology Connections [0] also has a great video about these awesome devices, although not that much in-depth in comparison to this website.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pZZ5AEEmek
Internally they're quite honest about what's most important on IT projects: billable hours.
My fiancée is a senior tech consultant at a big 4 firm and I can say with the utmost confidence that they have zero ability to actually build things. I specifically watched her project manage a multi-million dollar product for a client. Clueless. Consultants are good, organized, hard-working people but they are not technical in the ways most on HN are. And the outsourced dev teams they hire at bottom dollar will just never deliver anything of quality.
In the pre-virus times, I'd push back against rhetoric like this.

Not anymore.
I think you're incorrect about the perceived power of a former US president, but regardless I don't think perceived power has any impact on whether the FBI chooses to investigate or not.

That might be a fairy tale some black hats tell themselves, but it seems clear to me that compromising a former president's accounts has serious security implications for the US govt. Obama's access to information (both past and present) is such an overriding concern that his level of perceived power is basically an after-thought.

The FBI often helps out with major breaches of all varieties, let alone ones that involve former heads of state. It's extremely unlikely they're not already involved in this one.
In the context of this post, an important thing to add is that threads in Zulip also have just a single level of hierarchy - it's not at all like the tree structure here on HN, or on Reddit. We've felt that single level is the right balance for having a conversation that someone else can come to an hour later and easily read and follow.

The way it works in Zulip is quite different from Slack, though. Here's a description in another comment in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23863588
With any sort of decent encryption, flipping a bit will corrupt the entire cache line unpredictably. That's still bad, of course, but it's much less likely to be exploitable.
My guess was frantic copy pasta. Since the reset password emails went to both him and the OG twitter user. Plus wouldn’t you need an API key per user and set that all up? I think that takes more time than spamming a tweet.
Agreed. This was most likely a "shot across the bow" by a state actor. I have no proof of this. But it's highly public nature would seem to argue against a black-hat commercial interest (e.g. proof of potential to a possible buyer) as it would/will draw too much scrutiny. Also, the crystal clear implication that the damage done could have been far worse, would seem to indicate someone was sending a message. From whom and to whom can only be the subject of speculation, but again, whoever did this must have known that the it would be interpreted as an attack from China to the USA. So either they didn't care because making that obvious was the whole point (ergo, attacker probably China), or the misdirection was the whole point (ergo, attacker probably a power that would stand to benefit from increased tension between USA and China).
Kosovo? The US didn't seem to have much in the way of interests there.
This guy could upgrade to a two-story house

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oquV0vvhjh0
Yep, I'm actually not saying that VPNs are the right or only (no way) solution I just wanted to highlight that auth is complex and there are often loopholes.
So the point is that youth protection scandals involving experimenting with medication on unwilling children are rare anywhere ? (even with the youth protection officials getting paid for it)

Ok let's check. Did youth protection do medical experiments on unwilling patients (and by that we mean that BOTH the child and the parent were not asked for permission, and very often not informed at all):

US: aside from this incident, there have been many others [3], including youth protection services specifically [5]
Netherlands: yep (and the officials got paid by Janssens Pharmaceutica) [1]
Belgium: yes [2]
Germany/Austria: jawohl [4]

And if you consider untried psychological treatments as medical experiments as well, and they can certainly have extreme negative consequence, then we should perhaps just say that every kid in youth protection gets experimented on, as this is very close to the truth.

If you think this is the worst they did, you should not Google "aversion therapy LGBTQ youth protection". That was a psychological "treatment" for not being straight that included torture, on purpose. Note that they still treat unwilling children for not being straight. Google "Gender identity disorder treatments" for example. What any sane person would call torture is still being used (ABA, for example).

And let's not forget what ritalin, official treatment for a whole range of (often misdiagnosed) conditions given to children. It is often compared to cocaine, for good reason.

Nobody can be trusted with power over other people's children. Certainly not psychiatrists, who have a LONG history of abuse centuries old, with essentially constant scandals continuing even today.

[1] https://www.socialevraagstukken.nl/experimenten-met-psychofa... (it continued, at least, into 2016)
[2] https://lib.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG01/001/392/898/RUG01-0013928...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentatio...
[4] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05112-1
[5] http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7736157/ns/health-aids/t/governmen...
Optical cement. Traditionally, Canadian Balsam would have been used, but there are newer adhesives that are apparently easier. I bet UV cured is a lot more practical in a production setting. See this article about using balsam to repair a doublet:

http://forum.mflenses.com/re-cementing-doublet-elements-with...
> People open short positions worth more than $100K every day

Yes, but you'd need to open one worth $1m to make $100k on a 10% move. $1m is still not "much" in the grand scheme of things, but it's still significant.
Works fine in FF reader mode too.
I worked for them as well and lost count how many times myself and my product owner were in calls where upper management were promising features that had a fundamental conflict with major design decisions. Leadership absolutely did not want to hear about it and became hostile. We both left the company and are much happier. Terrible company, when I hear ‘run like a startup’ I have flashbacks.
It's still useful in airports with limited landing slots, like LHR, but i'm guessing landing slot demand won't be a factor in at least the immediate future.
People always mention more memory usage as a bad thing, but with Moore's Law slowing down, we are being forced to find other ways to speed up computation. One of those ways is trading memory usage for performance via look up tables, caching, duplication, less compact data storage, etc. I would expect memory usage to rise significantly as long as memory technology advances quickly while clockspeeds remain flat.
Yes, given increased working from home I'd expect more breaches to come. Especially if companies allow non-corporate machines to connect to their VPNs (or other once internal systems are on the open internet). Putting an admin tool on the internet places a lot of trust on your users and developers to be perfect. That also assumes any 3rd party dependencies are free of issues.

Putting VPN and MFA on shouldn't slow down people much. They'd just have to spend a bit more time logging in each day. Annoying? Yes, but that's better than a breach.
The fact that those curves don't even come close to resembling sine waves seems more wrong to me, and really helps drive home the fact that the diagram was made in MS Paint with little regard for accuracy.
Very known? I’ve been buying Apple since 2001 and in that time have felt like first class in all interactions with the company, even the post-Jobs era. I know a few who think like you, but whose experience is relatively close to mine (they may have gotten a bad iPhone one year, etc.)

This sounds more like the usual “Apple is too expensive and just cares about profits” trope.
>What is an IC?

Individual Contributor, used to contrast with "Manager". Point being, my main job is to design systems and write code, but I still have to do some of the organizational stuff sometimes.

>There are loads of shops where the developers, even senior developers, mostly just write code.

Okay, so your experience is different from mine. I'm surprised that there are places where this is really not a meaningful job requirement, and I've never worked at one, but I believe you.

>it's something people can learn if they want to

Sure... but so is coding. Part of the point of an interview is to see what skills and traits you already have. If you're missing some, that can be balanced against the ones you do have - it's not a dealbreaker, but it is still a negative.

>Some people don't want to. There are roles for them too.

Again, not where I work. Engineering, even at relatively junior levels, includes collaboration and explaining your work. You can't just say you don't want to do that - or rather, you can, but you'll have no upward mobility and be managed out pretty quickly.
That was my experience of French trains right before the strikes :)
How does that fit with the theory I was responding to that they were stealthy with other accounts? It seems incongruous.
Yeah, this is totally a "charge more" kinda scenario. A/B testing is, like, THE first thing you do once your ecommerce business gets a little established, right?
The problem is that things are working great for those in charge.

With the coming wave of evictions that number is likely to soar. Things are going to get a lot worse before there's any opportunity to fix things.
Doesn't MongoDB still has major issues with not keeping the consistency guarantees they have potentially just "forgetting" whole batches of data and stuff like that?

I kinda remember having read something like that two or three month ago...
A broken clock is right twice a day.

This is the problem with the entire Trump administration. To me they seem to be right about some issues related to China.

But it’s hard to take anything they say seriously when they’re so deeply pro-corruption, and the commander in chief can’t stand in front of a camera and be honest about what he had for breakfast this morning.

Oh, I forgot to mention that if it’s Goya, it has to be good!
But is that really new? Other than scale and reach (quantitative difference), how is that any different qualitatively from the old grapevine/gossip network? "My dad's co-worker's, girlfriend's uncle works at ... and said..."
So is Kanye West and Taylor Swift, who, like Obama, can do things like work full time as a registered lobbyist, and not have to publicly disclose financial investments or otherwise ever publicly respond to the public, and many other things that regular citizens are allowed to do.
The Poverty of Historicism
In all seriousness you’d probably have to ask the subcontracted dev team in China what they’re using because the actual Deloitte employees won’t know and likely won’t care.

Source: fiancée is a tech consultant for a big 4
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I had the same experience many, many years ago. And my dad is still envious to this day.
I always say the world doesn't care about humans, what people call the 'real world' is just a bunch of made up rules people have decided on so we all get along, and a (different, smaller) bunch of people can make money out of.
You will never ever get a reason for being fired in writing here in the US because all that does is provide evidence for a possible lawsuit.

> Is it all related to American culture that the rest of us don't understand?

In part, yes. Here in the US we don't really have worker protections. Many believe it is because of this that we have such a strong growth in business.

It objectively makes our economy more nimble and adaptable, but at the expense of employees.

A perfect example: I worked at a startup in 2000, and we had a bunch of people in the US as well as Europe. When business was down and we had to lay people off, we ended up laying off engineers in the US, because we couldn't get rid of any of the people in Europe quickly enough. We had to pay people for months before they were let go, and they didn't even show up to work. It was great for them, but it was bad for the company and also bad for our growth since we had to pay people to do literally nothing.

To be clear, I think workers need greater protections. But those protections should not be at the direct expense of the company. It should be indirectly through taxation.

But to get back to your question, yes, here in the US, workers are not treated as well as elsewhere. Entrepreneurs and businesses are seen as the drivers of the economy, not the workers.
The tweets didn't come from his handle. They were using the same image and name but what really caught my attention was that those accounts had a blue verified badge.
Yeah, it's a highly integrated piece of Microsoft Active Directory, which is a core piece of any "Enterprise" Windows deployment. It's not just something that stays on internal networks - organizations that have trusts between their Active Directory systems have connections too.

But for public networks, I completely agree that it's insanity to run DNS on Windows.
This is a gross oversimplification, but crude measures of self-reported well being can be correlated to three factors: genetics 50%, controllable life circumstances (e.g. habits, hobbies, voluntary social engagement) 40%, uncontrollable life circumstances 10% [source: The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky]. In other words... a “shit life” for someone who hit the genetic lottery for happiness could look quite similar to a “golden life” for someone with terrible happiness genetics. The same objective life situation can result in profoundly different levels of self-reported well-being.
It's quite mechanically and electronically simple, though, by modern standards.
What, no /s?

What's sad is that you could be serious and correct.
I've always looked forward to the next Age of Discovery, when we set out to colonize on other planets. What I've never understood, though, is the "plan" that Mars is a good backup to Earth. Outside of some cataclysmic event - our planet will continue to be more hospitable than Mars. I have little doubt we would be able to set up a small station on the moon or Mars within my lifetime, but I don't see us supporting large amounts of people on another planet anytime soon.

If we inflict something on ourselves that makes the Earth no longer hospitable for humans, I think that's when we should call it quits on humanity because we obviously aren't mature enough a species to take care of our gifts.
Anecdotal, but...I don't know a single person who is interested in either returning to China or starting a new life there, and my social circles are overwhelmingly Chinese of all types (born here or Vancouver, moved here in grade school and grew up here, moved here for grad school, moved here as H1-Bs from PRC/Taiwan/HK/SG). For the ones who did not grow up here, they're predominantly from Beijing and Shanghai, with rich parents and connections back home.

My girlfriend (Beijing-born, came over as a grad student and stayed) has told me several horror stories of her time spent working as a SWE in China and Singapore. Based on her experiences, it seems like women should be especially disinterested in returning.

For the record, I would be ok with living in China for some time, or even relocating there long-term if/when the mantle is passed. Though I wouldn't do it without someone who speaks Mandarin.
Obvious thought: reverse Polish notation. It'd be a little surprising from GIMP, but not unthinkable.
Google "desert aircraft boneyards". They will be parted out for pieces to keep remaining models of the same type flying, and when that's not economical anymore, they are cut up for aluminum scrap.
> When else would they ask? The exit interview is when you are being informed of the decision.

At a previous employer, a manager would need to formally put you on a performance improvement plan to give you a chance to improve, to discuss about what's going on (maybe you need a leave of absence for family; or maybe training). HR should be surprised that the exit interview is the first time they're talking to the person.
In Jiu-Jitsu competitions there are referees and paramedics. The referee is an impartial third party.

In law enforcement, the cop is both fighter and referee. And the decision to get paramedics and when to get them also belongs to the cop.

Imagine a Jiu-Jitsu competition where you were fighting one or multiple referees, where they were armed with both lethal and non-lethal weapons. Now, imagine all those referees belonged to a union that maintains a code of silence in case they break the rules. Imagine that once you lose the match, they can continue beating you down and never call paramedics. That would be a closer comparison.

Blood chokes can kill if sustained, and they are not safe to perform on random people. No other police force in the world requires such an agressive use of chokeholds.

Even if you solved the chokehold problem you would be still left with: excessive force, blatant inefficiency, racism, arrest quotas, rapists, stupid legislation, lack of accountability, inadequate training, plus a complete lack of proportionality and common sense... A complete shitshow. Plus a fucking passive aggresive portion of the citizenry that uses 911 to harass minorities.
> "Purely out of interest, what does the tech stack tend to look like for these big projects?"

My experience being on executive panels, etc. receiving pitches from firms like Deloitte, et Al., is that they're super buzzword-compliant nonsense because what they're actually selling is a vision of "innovation" and "modernization" to middle & upper management of all manner of enterprises going through the corporate/institutional version of a midlife crisis. These folks want to feel relevant and cutting edge, and firms like Deloitte sell straight into the strange mix of vanity and insecurity. That said, I'm sure I'm witnessing a fair amount of sample bias in that read, as it's the big corporate contract side.

I have no idea what the governmental side looks like.
> Do you really think someone like elon musk will pay a bitcoin ransom

A somewhat odd blog post by Jeff Bezos about blackmail from last year is quite interesting in this context. [1]

[1] https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146...
For sure, it's much easier to sell any decision if you package it in terms of values and ideals that your population is willing to embrace. It's as true for the US as it is any other country in the world.
You are assuming the kids doing this don’t think just getting 100k is a lot of money. They most likely originally got the backdoor solely to get original usernames and someone had the idea “we could phish bitcoin with this”. I doubt they went into it with a big plan
Greedy Linux phone manufacturer profiting from consumers ... oh noes!

Thank god they have a big government to protect them!
>The U.S. economy is nearly 2x larger than China's

No, it's not. This is a flaw of using nominal GDP which doesn't take into account currency differentials, and therefore costs of production.

China's GDP(PPP) is already bigger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)