skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a pretty legit business model; just because it's illegal doesn't necessarily mean the government wants to go after them. "Focused on paying illegal ransoms" = "allows companies to recover from devastating attacks by being a middle-man for paying the extortion fee and getting the decryption keys". It's probably one of those things that the government tells people not to do, but acknowledges is inevitable in many cases.

A company I worked at once had a meeting with such a firm, and it all sounded pretty reasonable to me. Obviously, one would hope the company has backups (which are stored in a place that can't itself become encrypted), but if they don't, sometimes the cost of paying the ransom is far, far lower than the cost of staying down. These middle-man firms have probably saved companies from enormous amounts of damage. Another commenter claimed these companies are often in cahoots with the ransomers, which maybe is sometimes true, but I highly doubt it in the case of the company we dealt with, or other US-based companies with physical locations that meet on-site.

Of course in an ideal world no one wants to reward criminals, but just to give an extreme example, if someone kidnapped one of your children and held them hostage, you'd probably pay anything to get them back, and that's not far off from the situation some ransomware-affected companies end up in.
Rail cannot get adequate funding for even basic maintenance and upkeep and upgrades, let alone modernization, because of widespread corruption among government officials and public sector workers. I'm sure public perception plays some role but it is not the root cause for our current situation.
Yes! they are still there.
Highly recommend it, though beware your yields will be truly abysmal during the winter. I live entirely off-grid in California and even here the dead of winter can be a bit tight on power. I will say setting the whole thing up is super duper easy, and if you buy second-hand solar your price/watt can be very very cheap. I paid about 30c/watt for panels.
I kind of see it but it still seems like a stretch since lots of companies take legal action against governments for a variety of reasons. At face value the company is airing a legitimate concern/grievance and they're using the EU's own courts to explore the legitimacy of that grievance so it's not like they're subverting the rule of law somehow.
That Raymarine unit is a secondary piece of equipment, and is there primarily for its transponder capabilities, which the primary radar unit (the AN/BPS-16, which I believe is integrated into the masts) probably doesn't have. The last thing a submarine wants is an enhanced "here I am!" capability.

Submarines, in general, rely primarily on their passive sensors- passive sonar and EW receivers. A submarine's best offensive and defensive capability is stealth.
It's the ubiquitous "master" that everyone is trying to get rid of. There are details in several of the linked articles. TL/DR: The master/slave analogy is problematic and lots of projects have decided we don't need that terminology around any more, when we can pick less problematic names easily (easier now that there is a config option for it without needing to create a full git init template).
Maybe you can fork them and submit a patch with the changes fixing it. :)
The only known countermeasure is a Bedazzler vest.
Therac-25 wasn’t a “it’s not ready yet!”-type issue. It wasn’t an expected or anticipated failure-mode - it only became a (literal) textbook case-study after people died and the industry has learned and improved as a consequence.
Marketing is propaganda is marketing.

Which term you use reveals your political leanings about a topic.
How Developers Can Invest Time Instead of Wasting It
Proof of Work
For fans of AGPL I suggest checking out EUPL. Half the length of AGPL. Changing/removing portions of the license is allowed.

More info: you may have seen this on Hacker News recently: https://www.arp242.net/license.html.
they do something similar called ref spam.
The Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584)
I think quaid would be good, you know because of Randy Quaid and also because of Total Recall
Not commenting on the content of your comment but what the hell is your formatting?
I agree, of course free critique of art should be encouraged, and not all art is created equal, with the bookends of the quality spectrum particularly discernible.

But the reason people keep down-voting you is because those kinds of meta-discussions have a time and place. No, I'm not trying to erode someone's freedom to speak their mind whenever they would like - it's just talking about anything outside of scope is counterproductive and wastes everyone's time (not to mention that some people you could have rallied to your cause are going to be displeased enough by the conduct to not ever become an ally). A post on Hacker News titled "Why The New Yorker has those funny dots above some letters" is a great place for this kind of discussion. Or a post about orthography. Or even "What can print publications do to stay relevant in the age of the Internet?" (New Yorker's answer: bold, archaic choices in style. Your answer - wrong decisions! You have had it with their nonsense!)

But discussing the same topics under a post that celebrates a particular artist's work (and the host of that article just happens to be The New Yorker) tends to be unwelcome, and for good reason. It's like attending a Chemistry 101 lecture and then, when the professor finishes explaining the first five shapes of atomic orbitals, raising one's hand to say "Well, first off, the problems with this university are..." People are going to be irritated.
Hi there, do we work at the same place?

Sincerely,

help.
They probably had algorithms for it, but even then it sounds challenging.

Addition sounds easy and works mostly like how we do base 10 addition. I imagine they would first go for sub 5 part which is a bit exceptional and had to be manually. And then start grouping letters together like we do and create carries if they reach the next letter.

Subtraction sounds harder. It sounds close enough to our base 10 system but borrowing from next digit is much more complicated. Like subtracting D-I (500-1). The answer is CDXCIX but I am not sure how I can go there. And now imagine this with more complex numbers

But multiplication and division? in that weird base format? I won't even try

Keep in the mind that they don't convert or even think numbers in base 10 system like we do.
i can't be there only one wondering where is Morgan Freeman? :')
Thanks for letting us know we should avoid becoming your customers.
Data requests are not our friend.
Semi-serious follow-on question- would your model be able to produce voices like GladOS, which are highly processed, but in a consistent manner? Or are there too many assumptions baked in regarding normal human speech?
> we would be required to turn over predominantly irrelevant documents that have nothing to do with the Commission’s investigations

No but it's needed so the Commission can offer better personalized services. Or do what the users have to do when they reject overly broad EULAs: take their business elsewhere.
There are still safety critical things that the Airbus is unable to do itself. For example talk to ATC, make decisions about changing weather conditions, fly a visual approach, or know that the causes of an electrical problem is coffee spilled on the thrust levers.
Wouldn't that be a better alias for `gh pr create`?
That's easy, just give up work-life balance and work another 40 hours a week at home on top of the 40 at the office.
caralombardo: Please don't ask people to admit to felonies over email. That goes double for any FAANG employee; their employers have many options to surveil them. Your employer has a page listing better options

https://www.wsj.com/tips
This is a good point but you’re assuming you can believe a word Facebook’s lawyers say when fending off requests for information.
Once you realize the only important thing in baseball is getting on base the means by which you do it doesn't matter and you can't lose if you only ever get on base.
A mix of politics, bureaucracy, and cost. For example, there was a fatal derailment back in 2017 in the US, and an automated safety system that may have prevented it was delayed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42421417

From the wikipedia article on Positive Train Control (PTC):

>In December 2010, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that Amtrak and the major Class I railroads have taken steps to install PTC systems under the law, but commuter rail operators were not on track for the 2015 deadline.[14] As of June 2015, only seven commuter systems (29 percent of those represented by APTA) were expecting to make the deadline. Several factors have delayed implementation, including the need to obtain funding (which was not provided by Congress); the time it has taken to design, test, make interoperable, and manufacture the technology; and the need to obtain radio spectrum along the entire rail network, which involves FCC permission and in some cases negotiating with an existing owner for purchase or lease.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_train_control

So needless to say... the technology likely exists today, but implementing anything significant to existing infrastructure in the US is a monumental feat.

The above example is just a safety system, but once you start removing employees you also start running up against labor unions... which is yet another layer holding things back.
> I'm a little surprised spammers aren't putting ad messages in fields that get logged in HTTP access logs just so admins will trip over them somehow.

It's been a long time since I last had reason to look at an Apache access.log file, but Referer spam used to be very common (IIRC, the default Apache access.log format logs the content of the Referer header, and analytics reports based on these logs often showed these as live links; it was not rare for these analytics reports to be publicly visible, so these Referer links could be used to spam the Google index).
Super fun job!
Very US specific.
who owns the likeness of a voice? anyone? are these legally safe to use in a product?
How about just "fed"?
Classic parenting strategy here. Connect & Redirect. Well played.
No, the usually usual annual range of total flu deaths being 250k-500k doesn't make a claim that every year more than 650k die from that cause close to being correct. 650k is not even close to being less than 250k.
Oof, thanks. I forgot you could quote the @ and thought it was the one universally illegal character. Also forgot there were others, oops.

I usually just recommend people don't validate email addys and let the email verification message do the job for you. This is pretty much why.
Ironically, I've found it to be worse. No idea why
If I load the page and leave it open, intending to read it later, and then try to read it without a connection, will the images still be on the page?
Drivers take almost all information they need for driving from looking through the windows, whereas pilots take almost all information from looking at the dials. That difference alone makes flying inherently more automatable. Automated driving adds a lot of sensing requirements over manual driving, but in flying the manual way already requires most of the sensing you'd need for automation.
"referrer" spam has been a thing for a long time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam
How about a hypothetical example? I went out of my way to use all three terms that were examples. A better way of handling such wide dragnets is similar to how ACLs work. Inclusive terms grant privileges, but specific denials always deny. So the dragnet is cast, and then from the dragnet anything that matches various keywords is flagged for manual review, with a default of excluding if it matches _that_ information. Items which are relevant to the interests of the intended search but which also contain information that is sensitive and not to be made public might end up filed under some sort of seal.

From: Reporting
To: Employee
Subject: Re Vacation / PTO / Family Medical Leave

... The change in policy is not good for us as it will impact my ability to care for ++my elderly parents++ and the ++young child++ that is on the way.

... It is still a big question about how paternity leave works and if this change in policy might shut down any chance for promotion based on having a family.
Google doesn't really care that much about the FLOSS community's contributions - they have in house projects to do everything (even a kernel or two!) just because they have so many engineers. Pretty sure the main reason they don't just ban the use of open source software internally is because it would cause their developers to riot, and the cost savings are a secondary factor.

If anything, Google probably would like to see more software released under AGPL just to screw with Amazon.
Maybe I'm missing something, but ultimately, isn't this just a re-invention of a site-wide cache?

Back in the day, in Django/Drupal/any CMS, for anonymous users, you'd just dump each page into memcached with a path URL.

Then when a new anonymous visitor comes, you load it right up from – extremely fast – memory. Maybe even faster than loading from the file system? Nginx can actually ask memcached directly, even bypassing the app server.

It feels like we've gone full circle.
true, cloudflare communicates that extremly well in talks they give about it and online presentations, but the documentation is often not as easy to read
Evidently, it's even simpler, easier, and more profitable to not use an AGPL project instead.
I don't know what archetecture your website uses, but our site for example we just cache the view into redis for however long. It's built into a lot of webframeworks, but shouldn't be too crazy to implement by hand.
Might be hard to imagine for you now, but could be completely different story in a few years. Basically there’s no reason to believe people will be always more reliable than machines.
>Shared structure is not enough to assume shared meaning.

How do you define meaning? If we can find a mapping between the sequence of words in a language and the underlying structure of the world, then we by definition know what those words mean. The question then reduces to whether there will be multiple such plausible mappings once we have completely captured the regularity of a "very large" sequence of natural language text. I strongly suspect the answer is no, there will only be one or a roughly equivalent class of mappings such that we can be confident in the discovered associations between words and concepts.

The number of relationships (think graph edge) between things-in-the-world is "very large". The set of possible relationships between entities is exponential in the size of the number of entities. But the structure in a natural language isn't arbitrary, it maps to these real world relationships in natural ways. So once we capture all the statistical regularities, there should be some "innocent" mapping between these regularities and things-in-the-world. "Innocent" here meaning a relatively insignificant amount of computation went into finding the mapping (relative to the sample space of the input/output).

>Take the sentence 'I fooed a bar with a Baz' - can you infer what I did from this?

Write me a billion pages of text while using foo bar baz and all other words consistently throughout, and I could probably tell you.
Come on NYTimes! You can do better than email.

Don't ask someone to admit to felonies over email. Tech employers have a LOT of power to investigate their employees' digital behavior.

How about this instead: https://www.nytimes.com/tips
That's true, I didn't think about that case.

I don't think I've ever seen a bare TLD in real life like that though--maybe very early on as DNS became a thing? Not since the web though.
Unfortunately the US Navy has been beset by incident. Navigation of its ships is no longer a certain thing. Look for coverage on this matter which mentions the McCain and the Fitzgerald.
But we haven't seen automated freight trains. A light rail train hauling commuters along a dedicated bespoke elevated rail line (Vancouver's skytrain, Disney World etc) is one thing, a hundred cars full of iron ore descending a hill behind a preschool is another.
Right.

This is a big issue for self-flying aircraft. Keeping the aircraft stable requires reliable altitude, airspeed, and orientation data. If you have that, you can stay in the air. AF 447 lost airspeed data, the flight control system dropped to a lower level, and gave up stall protection. It couldn't tell if the aircraft was stalling. That was enough to confuse the pilots so badly that they crashed a working airplane with plenty of speed, power, and altitude into the ocean.

A self-flying aircraft has the same problem, only worse. Without that info, it cannot stay in the air. There are fighters that need so much active stabilization that if you lose air data, you have to eject. Self-flying aircraft thus need really, really reliable air data sensors, and lots of them.

Getting airspeed from GPS has been suggested. There's one bizjet which does this. It can't be flown in areas where GPS jamming is in progress. Over-dependence on GPS is a problem.

All that is just to be able to fly straight and level. That's flight control. Navigation and landing are separate problems.
I can think of a few things. Interns are even less experienced than junior engineers, so they might not know when they're in a bad situation. They also have a pretty decent incentive to not make waves, since they're typically being graded on their work, and evaluated for the possibility of a return offer.

On the other side of the equation, when I mentored an intern at my company, I was given a great deal of support and training in how to help them have a successful internship. This may or may not be the case for a new manager.
So now that you have learned you are wrong, are you going to change your preaching on how its not as bad as a flu?
Rust benefits from optimizations in LLVM, same compiler chrome uses. You are right that they might be missing some hand optimized ASM for some routines, but I don't think that's enough that performance would be a lot worse.
999 is 1101000. So, for MSB, you only need 1 (when it's zero, you just don't put anything there). All the other positions can be 0, 1, or 2. So you would need 1 + 6*3 digits for your scoreboard. You can't not have 6 2s, for example, because your score might be 222222.
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Easily solved, keep it to the QWERTY home row and make it the "asdf" branch. Could even backronym it to something like All Saved Data Files, maybe.
I stop it by not using Google in any capacity.
I just tried this. Let's see what happens.
Great explanation, and I hope people get the message. I've tried to explain this to people and companies before, but Drew does it better.

Thanks!
They ignored repeated failures and evidence of malfunction by saying it was “impossible” that it could be failing in that way.

Unexpected failure modes are the issue. The Boeing 737 max 8 failure being tied to one sensor would suggest the industry has not fully learned the lesson.
> that seems like a role for government

But then you'll have to deal with all the people who complain about government interference in the free market.
They do, I have seen referred field spam, which also appears on analytics suites.
They don't even have to be lying, it's not a stretch to imagine FB interpreting these requests so broadly that they gave up this information to use it as leverage against the requests.
You don't need to worry about the Nash equilibrium. What happens in many cases is that short-term rationality trumps the long-term rationality. When neighbors are making more money; when neighbors are sending their kids to good schools; when neighbors are doing better; it is irrational of one to harvest rain water to recharge groundwater.
Perhaps not initially, but IIRC, they use "digital" antenna so it should be upgradable to track in real-time. Perhaps even by an OTA update.
> Its not easy to set up git config settings for a distributed team. I assume for security reasons a repo can't configure its own settings just from a pull but even still I want that functionality.

Git settings can do a lot, including running arbitrary commands. Having this set up automatically is a massive security issue. Put a script in your repo somewhere and instruct people to run the script after cloning.

> Why do I check in the name of the merge tool used for a file type in the .gitattributes but I can't check in what that name points to?

Because the configuration may be different from machine to machine. For example, one machine might have git-lfs installed in /usr/local/bin, another in $HOME/.nix-profile/bin/git-lfs. Similarly, the actual filters may be set up differently from machine to machine, e.g. one person might use `git lfs install` (to install globally) and another `git lfs install --skip-smudge --local` (to install locally to this repo, configured to skip fetching unknown objects on clone or pull).

> I work with less technical artists and they really don't want to think about git configs at all. They just want to save and push. As far as I know there's no solution to preconfigure a repo to pull submodules or set up custom merge drivers. Best thing I've found is to maintain repo setup scripts but its pretty cumbersome and you have to manually target the tools you want to support.

Skimming config right now, I do see a `submodule.recurse` flag which, if set, causes any command except `clone` that has --recurse-submodules to automatically recurse.

The aforementioned setup script could set this config flag and run `git submodule update --init -recursive` to clone the submodules too in case the user didn't pass --recurse-submodules to `git clone`.
What was your topmost time investment and worst time-waster in the last 12 months?

--

My best time investment was investing in my discipline by training to wake up at the same time in the morning and doing morning exercise on alarm.

My most horrible time waster was watching Netflix. Since the past few months, I've canceled it, and now I have much more time to invest in myself.
https://twitter.com/GeorgeResch/status/1041459084636119040
It seems Google simply abandon some of their products.

I've been living with another issue since 2011: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/35889152
Investor Aniruddha Malpani’s LinkedIn account banned for criticizing Byju's
He was "Senior Advisor" before even graduating.
He was a WH Director within 10yrs. Three years later, he was Vice Chairman of a global bank (Citigroup).
> How soon until someone builds an Operating System developed in Rust?

Redox[1] has been around for almost as long as Rust has. I first heard about it 4-5 years ago.

They had an interesting competition a while back challenging people to figure out how to crash it.

1. https://www.redox-os.org/
I don't disagree with that. My point is that historically, it's been their choice and as a result it's been mostly their loss. When there is will to use the software, but they refuse to take the time to understand the licensing or dismiss it as not being simple enough, the other corporate entities behind it will gladly overcharge them for some kind of proprietary license or legal consultancy scheme.
I'm a somewhat advanced user of Git. My coworkers use me as a reference when they have a problem of a difficult merge to solve.

I don't follow each Git release, but I also didn't notice a great productivity enhancement for a long time. Sure it is a sign of a mature project, but I'd like to know:

What's the somewhat recent Git feature that you really improved your productivity?
Well he worked for 7 years at a startup and it didnt workout
That well.
Founding somthing is hard and most likely you will fail.
There is that.
> which does seem pretty dumb if true

Why is that? The alternative is to ask for everything and keep what's valuable, kind of how companies like Facebook do. What other options do you see?