skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ransomware attacks absolutely do target Linux servers because one needs to take down all the servers to have a proper business disruption for which someone will pay a million dollar ransom; in all the recent prominent attacks Linux servers were taken down as well.

Perhaps there's some issue with what you mean by "pure ransomware" - if you mean automatically spreading worms, then those aren't that relevant, prominent examples like Petya was four years ago; NotPetya was not ransomware but a destructive weapon, etc. In the current environment, and also in the attack described in this article, a "ransomware attack" means a takeover of your systems by a ransomware crew of hackers manually working on your specific network. They generally start with a spearphishing which targets Windows desktop machines because usually the easiest way to target Linux servers is through client-side attacks, obtaining user credentials and a foothold inside the network that helps with firewall restrictions.
I personally prefer reagent directly over re-frame. I've heard some Clojure developers express frustrations with the typical idioms that Re-frame promotes. I can see some value in how it organizes some things, but you can do the same thing directly with Reagent far more quickly. The difference is that in Re-frame you only really have one way of doing things, and that consistency can be good for a team. But it does require extra development time.
Can you share the basic text/structure for B-1 visas to attend an acceleration batch in the Bay Area?
Java has editions and profiles that implement different APIs and features, so Android's subsetting doesn't seem all that different. MIDP had even more missing.
I'm not sure how seamless the experience is on macOS, but I'm happily using digiKam on Linux as an iPhoto/Photos replacement.

It's nowhere near as polished as Photos, but it's capable, open source, and multi-platform. I hope to maintain my photo library for decades, so avoiding proprietary software / service lock-in was my most important consideration. This decision was reinforced earlier this year when we had to do some surgery on my spouse's meticulously curated Photos library: it's damned near impossible to completely preserve metadata when moving items between Photos libraries, and it is impossible to remove RAW files from stacked RAW+JPEG pairs in the Photos library. If I ever ran into those issues in digiKam (which I haven't), I'm confident that my SQL abilities would be sufficient to work around them.
Yes, you are being paranoid. But, from the look of these comments, you aren't alone. The general consensus here seems to be a plausibly-deniable CCP bio-terror plot.

What is more likely: review scam or elaborate bioterrorism with an easily detectable, unreliable distribution mechanism? Never mind the complete lack of proposed harm. What is the evil plot? Destruction of the US cucumber industry?

Contrast that with the flood of fentanyl, which was/is real CCP-sponsored asymmetrical warfare with plausible deniability. Highly effective, with a side irony. Now that was an elegant way to damage a society.

That said, I hope you washed your hands after disposing of the plants. If it is Trichosanthes kirilowii (Chinese cucumber, snake gourd), the roots contain a ricin-like protein.
See references linked here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_virome
We’ve seen the same phenomenon across countries as different as Norway and Italy. Some fears are primal.
Much of humanism can be traced back to a single idea, the "golden rule". The golden rule pre-dates Jesus by a fair margin.
> complete disregard

Complete? Aren’t you exaggerating?

There were hundreds much worse leaks than any Facebook leak. Any credit card leak is much worse. But Facebook is an easy hatred target.

Nothing bad really happened as result of these leaks. Nobody harmed, nobody lost money, and don’t start again on that CA story which happened and fixed several years before you learned about it.
The Catholic church has also claimed over $1.4bn in PPP loans too.

I would find that especially galling.
Out-sourced profits – The cornerstone of successful subcontracting

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e9da/f5cc1c94c6e34e29095ca1...
Not OP but a fellow atheist. Let me provide my opinion.

You'll find racists and bigots in any group, but religions explicitly promote the supremacy and truth value of one over the other, and is a source of racism and bigotry. Unlike say, a board game club.
> It is both the active belief in the non-existence of any God, and also the passive lack of any belief in any God.

The second one would be agnosticism.
Does installed mean active?
Here, the local app had good penetration, but daily activation was rather low and constantly decreasing.

One of the concern is that it impacts battery life, so people turn it off most of the time unless they plan to go to a public space. Then they forget to turn it on.
I was hoping someone would mention Breaking Bad. The third-to-last episode of the last season is called "Ozymandias" and it's probably the second-greatest episode of television ever filmed. The greatest is the very last episode "Felina."

You have to watch the whole series linearly though; if you skip to those episodes they won't mean anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_virome

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1539106/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200210144854.h...

https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook/why-bats-make-such-go...
So churches should be taxed because they use effective organisational structures and are well run? That’s a new one. You could say the same of well run charities.
If you fill a trough, pigs will come.

We have this saying in Germany about data collection. What it means is you can usually assume that given enough time, companies will do the worst with the data that exists, so the only reasonable approach is to never collect so much data in the first place.
Sound more like MitM on steroids.
Hydrogen only has a high energy density by weight, but by volume it's actually quite low compared to other liquid fuels. Then you have all the problems with handling liquid hydrogen, insulation needed, all sorts of additional functions are required of the storage system compared to jet fuel. For example, icing would probably be a problem if the wing tanks are full of liquid hydrogen!
I think it's because publicly funding this stuff is inefficient, and religion/spirituality seems to be the most effective motivator for sustained charitable work.
A minor point: while MS has been embracing OSS, they've never been in support of software freedoms ("libre") because it's fundamentally incompatible with their business models. Yes, most OSS software is also libre, but MS doesn't care about that.
> self-hosted option is of course bad for privacy, but still good for security

there are plenty of anonymous hosting services out there in which case it would be exactly the opposite: "good for privacy, bad for security"
Holiday homes, homes held as a capital investment and not leased out, homes of people who have entered long-term care but not sold the primary residence...
I’m another person, but: when I initially read an old version of it (about 4 years ago) I liked the comprehensiveness but disliked the tone. Perhaps due to not being a native english speaker, it distracted me and made it harder to get the point.

Quickly peering it it seems that it has been improved, although some things there remind me of what I felt, such as:

McCoy might report "It's MVC, Jim, but not as we know it". And you would respond "McCoy, you trouble maker, why even mention an OO pattern? re-frame is a functional framework."

This does not help me a lot; although I know about “the real mccoy” expression, I dont understand/enjoy that.
"Once you observe the malware and know how it reaches the C&C server" presumes a single malware and a single mechanism for reaching the C&C server, which is unrealistic. We're not speaking about some piece of automated malware spreading on its own, which you could reverse engineer and see what it does and does not, we're talking about skilled people working for weeks to compromise your network. You should expect multiple different types of persistence, backdoors in publicly reachable systems and leaked privileged credentials.
> Sweden seems to have had a lot more deaths than it normally does and I haven’t seen anything saying otherwise - however you clearly have.

Most countries experience excess deaths during flu season, and some flu seasons are worse than others. Sweden absolutely had excess deaths for a couple of months this year, but you have to look at the bigger picture.

So here are graphs of total deaths per million per month for the past 40 years in Germany, Sweden, France, and Belgium: https://medium.com/@FrankfurtZack/unprecedented-overall-mort...

Now, 2020 isn't over yet, there might be a second wave of covid-19 in the winter, but given how the virus has died out with the small amount of measures taken, I don't think that's very likely. So far, 2020 in Sweden is tracking below average total deaths, even if you include all the covid-19 deaths.

If this year was "devastating", then what would you call the flu season of 1988, 1993, or 1999? Those flu seasons saw higher excess deaths than 2020 in Sweden, and no-one noticed or cared. No news articles, no reports, no lockdowns, no face masks, no travel closures, nothing. We did nothing out of the ordinary.

Now, covid-19 is more lethal than the viruses of those flu seasons, and we have no vaccine for this one, so some response is warranted. But the current worldwide hysteria is unprecedented, we have never before cared this much for this few deaths.
UFOs speculations also make a lot of sense, they are reasonable explanations why cows are missing.

But there are no evidence to believe it is a malicious intent. Just speculations.
Having spent a lot of time making a similar tool this is pretty difficult. Two issues: (1) highlighting and annotating across (partial) XML with rendered output is very hard without some understanding of the rendering, you can't really just say that a particular highlight is a fixed bounding box or interval; and (2) obviously, web content can change, so even if you could do the above what happens to your annotation highlight from character 5 to 10 when the document shifts?

Personally, I gave up and just converted the web page in question to PDF, and annotated from there. Then you get easy document position markers and no changes over time. I would also be very interested in a system that could do proper webpages natively, though.
Any good sources for understanding behavioral finance?
Yep, and just see how brilliantly that worked to keep the cain toad[1](among other species, which turned out to be quite a pest) out of the country.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_toad
"As a result, many churches in Montreal that host community groups, such as food banks, or Girl Guides or Boy Scouts, are facing mounting tax bills."

Those evil grifters, we need to clamp down.
In the UK our local church is physically about 850 years old, But there was a church on the site back in 1086 and presumably before, as it was mentioned in the domesday book. It’s Anglican now, before then it was catholic, maybe it used to be a pagan worship site, maybe in future it will be for the cult of Cummings.

It has severe financial issues at the moment - maintaining the courtyard alone costs £1k a month. I’m waiting for more detailed finances on that.

Maintaining finances for any organisation is a basic bread and butter protection against corruption. I don’t see what harm there is in taxing religious organisations the same way as any other charity.
This is also cause for the following entertaining bug:

for(let i=0; i<buttons.length; i++) {
buttons[i].addEventListener('click', e => alert('button ' + i + ' clicked!');
}

The above code is supposed to show a unique number for each button when the button is clicked. What it will actually do is to show the same number for all buttons, the number being equal to buttons.length.

The reason is that an event handler does not inherit the value of i when it is created, but a pointer to the environment in which i is defined. Because all event handlers point to the same parent environment, they will also pick up changes to i's value that happen after they were created.

If you add seemingly redundant function call to separate environments, everything will work. So the following code will work correctly:

function makeHandler(index) {
return e => alert('button ' + index + ' clicked!');
}

for(let i=0; i<buttons.length; i++) {
buttons[i].addEventListener('click', makeHandler(i));
}
If you clear your cache while your Internet connection is off, this won't work.
What about students from countries whose time zone is 12 hours different? They can watch lecture recordings, sure, but miss out on asking live questions or participating in discussion groups with other students unless they stay up through the night.
Well, if they are consciously moving to use the Pull Request, Issue tracker, Actions, Wiki, and other features of GitHub, and incidentally Git as part of the package, then I'd say that yes, they _are_ moving to GitHub, and not just Git.

Edit: I was specifically thinking on this main point they mentioned: "Programmatic APIs to enable process assistance and automation of review and processes", which to me means PR and Actions. I was just assuming that they will probably also use the Issues feature too.
Sorry for being off-topic. There was a time when we called programs programs and I really miss it. I believe it was Apple, who caused this change with thier iPad.

That's quite the major change of language. They've managed to push computers so deep into the mainstream, it changed not just a word, but public perception about computers.
Some years ago I decided to buy monkey orchid seeds( it's worth Googling how it looks). Went on Ebay and a few clicks later I made a purchase from some Chinese seller.The seeds arrived eventually and I sent them to my mum. The next time I visited my parents,my mum walked me to the 'orchid', which was a tall grass like plant that every abandoned field has millions of. It turns out you can't buy monkey orchid seeds,as it's almost impossible to grow the plant outside it's natural environment. By the time you could see the results of what's grown, the seller has already spent the money. I lost like $2 in total but I can bet someone's having a nice life in China from this seed business:)
I remember being a little too hyped over the Pinebook Pro a few months ago and almost getting one, as it looked like a cheap and promising device I could use to test the state of GNU/Linux desktops again, after switching to macOS 6 years ago. But they went out of stock, and then corona happened, which complicated logistics and made these laptops impossible to get for a few months.

I’ve recently come across a few long term reviews like this that conclude that the computer maybe wasn’t that good, due to either specs or quality of the hardware itself (keyboard, screen...). So now, I don’t know what to think. Feels like I’ve dodged a bullet.
In theory perhaps, but in practice no. To get a phd position at a reputable institution, you have to compete with people who have both Master's degrees and often have published multiple papers. Oh, and getting a phd position is the easy part - finishing it is the difficult one!
Conservative religious minorities (such as Amish and ultra-Orthodox Jews) manage to maintain big family sizes and retain 80%+ of their kids in the parents’ religion.

They are small minorities now, but give it a couple of centuries and they may grow to become the majority of the population.

A future dominated by religious conservativism is not the future for which many hope or expect
Ask HN: What are the best applications of GPT-3?
There's quite a buzz ongoing with the GPT-3 and it's various applications to solving real world problems. What do you think would be the best use case of GPT-3 that will significantly transform the way we consume tech products today.
If only things were so easy. Alas, things are not that simple, at all. Just try to discuss a project which automates the creation of a whitelist for master/slave connections which you'll be using when you attend the black hat conference and you'll find out you just violated 4 new rulings-on-speech without having the slightest clue as to why - unless you've been following those maligned discussions on politics and ideology that is.

In short, when everything has been politicised it is impossible to discuss anything without involving politics.
Exactly right!

And just to emphasise, even the agents are totally ephemeral and don't require much management effort on your side - you can install and spin them up/down on any machine at any time just through shell commands and the service automatically manages this agent pool and sends builds to it - no manual steps at all. If no agents are running, builds just sit in a queue.

If you'd be interested in playing around with it and have any questions, please feel free to email me (email's in my profile).
it's for me not a show-stopper but I can see it will needlessly antagonize people.

Why not just say immediately "it is a non-commercial license that allows you to look at the source code BUT [in fat bold font] NOT FOSS" - which takes the air out of anyone who may get triggered. ... This are just weasel words:

> "Sure, other companies might have bigger brands and bigger sales budgets, but this is open-source. You can vet the code, in the open, and so can anyone. You know there's nothing hidden inside. Plus, future updates have all the benefit of open-source software."
As in "I was a developer back then and used this API" or as in "I was a user and installed software that used it"?

I remember WinG being necessary for the Warcraft 2 map editor by the way.
Can confirm. I'm stuck in dissertation procrastination mode. This summer, boredom has moved me forward on writing but you're 100% correct that landing a slot is much easier than fulfilling all of the requirements (the key piece being that pesky dissertation stuff!).
The Younger Dryas (YD) delta-O-18 changes are most extreme in the Greenland ice core values; the result of precipitation from Atlantic surface evaporation. There are multiple variables that influence this value like 1. Sea Surface Temperature, 2. delta-O-18 of the surface water, and 3. distance from source to destination (how monsoon data is extracted from Asian cave stalactites).

The YD was initiated by massive meltwater pulses. Depending on the fluid dynamics of freshwater mixing in the Atlantic, the early YD should logically result in delta-O-18 spikes due to the influx of freshwater. The meltwater pulses are not caused by sudden temperature spikes though it is plausible that the freshwater influx disrupts the major Atlantic currents and has localized temperature impacts.

YD-style spikes occur after each glacial termination in the era of 100-ky glacial cycles as seen in the LR04 data set; parallel meltwater pulse events every 100 ky. You are correct, the graphs showing sharply lower temperatures are common and these graphs are technically correct because they are plotting delta-temperature-“equivalents”, but drastic changes can be the result of freshwater changes alone at a constant temperature.
Liquid hydrogen tanks are definitely a different problem, but I don't know if "orders of magnitude safer" is necessarily true. Many spacecraft have run into problems involving liquid hydrogen storage for a variety of reasons:

- Liquid hydrogen is so cold that many metals weaken

- Exposure to hydrogen itself weakens many metals (hydrogen embrittlement)

- Liquid hydrogen expands rapidly if exposed to heat, so venting is needed

- Hydrogen leaks through the smallest of seams

Now imagine trying to build a tank that prevents all that from happening, and it has to be lightweight for usage on spacecraft / aircraft.
> Because of that DHCP may be needed and ARP as well... nice right?

ARP is not a thing in IPv6. NDP is, and has always been, a required part of the spec.

(I agree with the rest of your post)
I suspect they didn't literally mean they were running some kind of scheme to defraud anyone, but it was a funny/playful way to note the coincidence.
and why in the world would we do that? you don't need a lot of uranium, and there's plenty on earth. yeah, let's get a bunch of equipment to mars and build a mine bumblefuck miles away where we can't even get a little toy car to function without breaking down in several years.

speaking of exciting possibilities: did you know we have the possibility of refining oil into jet fuel, right on an airplane? then we can use that jet fuel directly on the airplane.
You should see some American churches before thinking they are substitute for schools and hospitals.
With uMatrix enabled I have no problem with any of the items you mention. Also can copy-paste text just fine.
The fiat monetary system has broken capitalism.
How insane is it that all of the most profitable strategies are those which are based on wasting products and energy?

Wasting postal service and products to write your own fake reviews, wasting electricity to mine Bitcoin, wasting office space to create useless office jobs, news websites which waste people's attention on tabloids, gossip and fake news instead of real news, wasting capital on startups (Snapchat, Uber, WeWork, Softbank)...

Anyone see the pattern emerging? Waste = profit
Well, yes, I would not consider arbitrary documents as "pure data" - for that I was thinking as something like a dump of a particular database table contents only, separate from all the database structure/metadata/triggers/functions/etc.

You could restore a dump of pure structured data to a known clean system and that would be safe - but once you include arbitrary files as you describe, no way. Embedding malware in some periodically-accessed document on a public file share is a reasonable persistance mechanism for an attacker.
Do ethics classes influence student behavior? (ethics of eating meat)
That's because it's the same thing. Creating the level of order necessary for learning (or any other civilized behaviour) is the entirety of what "Patriarchy" really means. White supremacy recently got redefined to include things like punctuality and objectivity, which is even more on the nose.
There's another way to get a variable starting with a numeral - abusing extract(), I think.
I work on OpenJDK. Here are some steps we've taken to not overly depend on GitHub:

1. Issues stay on a self-hosted JIRA.

2. All PRs get an automatically generated patch that's posted to the mailing list, and all comments are two-way mirrored between GH and the mailing list.

3. All links to commits in issues don't point directly at GH but at an indirection through our domain.

4. All bots work on both GH and GitLab

This means that we can move off of GH pretty much instantly if the need arises. But self hosting with GitLab just wouldn't serve our goals. We want speed all around the world, and we don't want to spend resources on administration.
One of the things I do is use interest free credit cards to pay for my usual expenses such as food and fuel. That frees up cash. I then use that cash to invest in ETFs. When the interest free period on the credit card expires I either sell the ETFs to pay it off or use an interest free balance transfer card to carry the debt. In that case, as long as the transfer fee is below your rate of return + inflation you profit.
I have met one person who did it. Even then they were a certifiable genius, still had to jump through an enormous amount of bureaucracy with an enormous amount of sponsorship from many faculty whos grant funding was directly tied to this person working on their project.

So in practice, no.

If you want to learn more theory, I do think it's possible to apply and get an MS. Especially now since MS programs are bleeding people due to remote learning.
This is not a game of Civilization, you know. We are allowed to work on multiple things at the same time.