skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the total size of the backup software industry, compared to the total size of the security industry? Is backup software undervalued, if "offline backup" is the only known defense against ransomware?
IMO, the market is rural folks who don’t have fast internet or any other options. Less than 6mbps down is normal in rural Ohio, for example. And there are no other wired options, and existing satellite options aren’t much better.

These people can even be just a mile or less outside of a town with internet options, but none of the telecom companies have upgraded capacity in the countryside for years. Obviously, a modern wired connection would be way better, but ISPs are just not willing to invest in the upgraded infrastructure where nearly no one lives. You could lay a mile of fiber to reach only one or two households. (Or less.)

Satellite makes a lot of sense here because it can cover the whole area without having to build a ton of infrastructure relative to the population.
Also, Sturgeon's Law.
Have you seen the MNT Reform?

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2020-05-08-the-much-more-p...

It's not as powerful as most modern laptops (uses an iMX8 SOM, rather than an x86 CPU), but it's got a full keyboard, trackball (!), replaceable batteries, etc.
Just fyi, I think SDL_LoadBMP relies on sdl2_image; you may want to note that as a dependency.
> What I noticed is that it's actually much harder to use Godot than expected. Yes it does significantly reduce the amount of code you have to write for your game but it opens up questions of how to structure your project because the scene editor doesn't actually match how I would make my own games if all I had was SDL2.

I agree. But what I've learned in my short time using Godot is embracing Godot's scene system and not fighting it seems to help.

This area in the documentation is helpful: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/getting_started/workf...

You can also bypass the scene system. The scene system is a optional abstraction on top of a seemingly more data-oriented core where everything is just a RID (Resource ID).

More here: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/optimizatio...

> For example if you just straight up write code to add nodes to the scene graph it will create a disconnect between what is displayed in the editor and the actual game

You can solve this to some degree by putting "tool" at the top of your scripts. See https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/misc/runnin...
Great speech by Elon afterwards. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3J-muBiVQ
Literally every senior has Medicare and has access to many types of care that requires private insurance for anyone else. There are overlay private plans as well that vary. The big complaint about Medicare is that the results-driven approach and reimbursement model for nursing and rehabilitation incentivizes unethical providers to purge people who need more rehab, and to provide substandard rehab in nursing homes.

If you are unable to work, you’re unable to maintain coverage in many circumstances. Many many people will be terminated within days or weeks of being out of work.

I used to setup Medicaid enrollment systems as a consultant — big counties have contractors to liquidate the assets of sick people driven into Medicaid every day.
It's got an ethernet jack, so there's always that.
Oh indeed it is. I spent years reading apple reports and my conclusion was that they want the data for themselves so they can sell it. Devices don't make much profit when you factor in how much is spent buying up almost all old devices that hit the market.
I was brought up to believe homosexuality was a mental disease. I lived in a house (1970s) with a catholic father who was also a trained physician and otherwise extremely dedicated to curing the ills of humanity (weird I know). At university, a young lecturer came and talked openly and sincerely about his struggles trying to deny his sexuality. I had a true epiphany that we are born with a certain orientation which we may deny or be forced to deny but it will always surface some day. I then realized so long as others didn't tell me how to live and love in my hetero life, I shouldn't demand or expect different from others.
There was no sound of the splashdown in the stream. It was silent.
This is UX/UI Designer of Frontendor. Thank you for your comment.

This is just the beginning and of course we are considering expanding to include more businesses soon.
I hope the hackers are caught too. But from bitcoin perspective, I am not sure how traceable things are if the hackers use mixing services or convert to actually anonymous currency such as monero. The main problem is converting untraceable bitcoin back to fiat, since most exchanges now follow KYC and will track bitcoin both before and after it touches the exchange.
Same as with purchasing [non-mandatory] insurance, I guess.

One may not recognize the real value of something (or costs of losing something) until it happens.
It's a luxury store, with its most recent surviving locations in upscale downtown shopping avenues or tony suburbs, on the east coast & midwest. If you're not in those cities and target market, it's not surprising, but many would recognize them as a peer of Neiman Marcus (also in bankruptcy this year) & Saks Fifth Avenue (on brink of bankruptcy).

As you've misspelled 'Sachs' & didn't even mention the paragon of American department stores, Macy's, I'm guessing you're of a generation or region where they've been far less important. But before Amazon, & before the WalMarts & Targets, retailers like Macy's (brink of bankruptcy), Sears (bankrupt 2018), & JC Penney (bankrupt this year) were giants of retail through the mall era.
yes, and whether this reflects poorly on capitalism, democracy, regulations, the corporate structure in a given country, the people in a given corporation, or the system as a whole depends to a large extent on your priors.
I dare say it has little to do with having a third option (since SLS is still years away from being an option) and more to do with pork barrel politics.
The DSM is a bit vague and outdated. Until fairly recently, a number of conditions which were similar but different were lumped in as one thing in research and the media.

Some people have an OCD which makes them obsess over children but they're not interested in them per say.

Some people insert themselves as children. This could happen due to abuse and neglect in their childhood or other factors. Some people are into certain aesthetics and media like cartoons and are not so interested in actual children.

There are two proper types. Exclusive and non-exclusive.

One is the exclusive who are alien in thinking. Instead of thinking of adults as romantic or sexual partners, they're wired to think of children. Without adequate socialization, they may even think of it as harmless to do. Education is vital.

They will be very lonely and depressed throughout their lives as it is impossible for anyone to allow them to do such a thing. I can't imagine someone going their entire life without ever fantasizing or looking at some sort of porn. Even as an escape. It isn't healthy not to do so either. It would only serve to make them more frustrated and to adopt an antagonistic relationship with society.

The non-exclusive aren't just attracted to children.
It seems to be a necessary part of the strategy though as the negotiation also helps to delay and buy time for escape/rescue.
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Ahhh! You had to scroll down. I didn't realise that. Thanks!
Because after you've been in space gravity makes you quite sick as your body fights to bring blood to your head when it's not used to having to push that blood upward. Just standing is exhausting and dangerous. So they want to get them back as soon as possible.
Google needs to be stripped of Chrome. But that's another debate.
Jakobs law: Yellow on white is impossible to read.
What's the difference?

Cut deeply enough - take out entire companies - and people lose their jobs.

People can't eat. People lose their health insurance that allows them to afford their life-saving medication.

At some point, it's not just "big corporations"; it's the people that work for them, too.
Dragon has a toilet in it.
Since C++11 you can do this there too, and I think Rust has atomics.
So I think we've had this conversation before, but what do you believe that header is used for?

Are you claiming that Google uses it for things beyond what they claim to and that Google is lying when it claims to not be using the header for ad tracking?
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At many companies, people can expense up to $50 with minimal (no?) prior approval via providing a receipt. That's a great place to be for tools that are useful in your job but not required.

Beyond that, most companies need more documentation or prior approval from your boss (only). The upper limit for that is often $500. That means whether something is $60 or $499, it can take exactly the same effort.

Above that, it often requires boss' boss' approval or a real line item in the team/department budget. The upper limit for this is all over the map, I've seen anything from $1000/month or $10k/year. Once you cross into this zone, assume customization, a more complex sales process, and you've left the realm of expense reports and moved into Purchase Orders (POs).

Above there, this is starting to look like enterprise software sales which is a beast unto itself. This likely turns into competitive bidding, a dedicated sales force, custom contracts & TOS, and a lot of other things. IF you can be successful here though, you can do quite well, especially if you've figured out how to make it repeatable and scalable.
Note that in performance per dollar, the dollars include cost of the parts, fractional cost of rack space, watts consumed directly and watts consumed indirectly for cooling.

There’s also the fixed engineering costs for the life cycle of new hardware and for customers performing migration (where relevant).
They responded afterwards that this shouldn't have happened, and while the area was clear for landing, tons of boats arrived after they landed. SpaceX people appeared visibly upset about it and NASA said they'll do better next time. Basically the coast guard dropped the ball here.
I was not actually trying to make an analogy here to the overall situation, only pointing out the absurdity of determining whether a company has a monopoly based on arbitrarily restricting the definition of the market. That is not how the courts determine those things. They look at factors like market share and whether or not the consumer has access to alternative products.

> Apple has monopoly on every single app sold on their app store, you can't buy them somewhere else without depending on the developer making a different version and forgoing the iPhone you had already bought.

As I said elsewhere, both the hardware and software are part of the purchasing decision you make when you buy a phone. If you don't like the software, you can choose to buy a different phone.
Executives don't go to jail when their companies kill people. There's no way we manage to restructure our justice system so that they go to jail for paying ransoms.
A Fine Selection of Waters
You should've pushed this to Galaxy! I was looking for an ansible role and ended up having to make my own.

How are you dealing with the secrets that need to be generated? I couldn't find anything on the tasks or templates...
As an infosec practitioner, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen someone have insurance and their security posture be effectively nothing, or the insurance not pay out even with reasonable measures in place. Market failure in my opinion, needs more regulation.
A more modern Mac with an Ethernet jack could share its internet connection from WiFi to Ethernet with a couple of clicks on System Preferences.
If it's painted grey, get out of the way!
> But, there's no need to be concerned about being infected by the zombies. Unlike murder hornets or mosquitoes, these zombie cicadas are generally harmless to humans, researchers said.

I wonder if they're a workable source of psilocybin.
>"the most basic offline redundancy"

How many people you meet everyday that are not in IT even knows what offline redundancy means?

I think what your suggestion amounts to, is effectively a mandate on SMBs having either an in house security team, or a contract with a consultancy on cyber security. That's a huge burden. It's not really easier than local tax code. These things change much more frequently and it's not like you can just walk into a local H&R Block to take care of your cybersecurity needs. Ransomeware, as it is now, didn't even exist (or is that popular) 10 years ago.
It's a modified Chromium + javascript, but it's only for visual presentation, all the software for actually reading and acting on that data isn't in javascript.

> There was a sequence when Bob and Doug were debugging the local UI layer. I guess it was a good thing that didn't happen at a critical part of the flight.

No that didn't happen. They had an issue with an ipad they use for displaying a schedule.
Being in a ketogenic state allows your body to have constant access to your fat reserves, so that's where you can get the constant, stable energy from - and any excess calories, say from meat or the other keto foods you're eating will of course store as fat for later use. There's an One Meal A Day (OMAD) movement that's starting, where people are doing intermittent fasting but instead of a 6:18 ratio - 6 hours where people eat, 18 hours not eating - they'll do a 1:23, where they eat all they need in an hour or so.
Do you feel the same way about consoles? But the question remains, why buy a device that doesn’t meet your needs if there are alternatives?
There are reasons why companies manage to do tons of illegal things. A lot of executives would have a good amount of their wealth in company stocks, for example. This has no reason to be an exception.
2012 is only 8 years ago tho
Sure it is. I’ve been investing in stocks and funds since high school in the early 90s with summer job money, and beat the indexes 22/25 years.

People buy and sell houses all of the time and find ways to make money. It’s no different with securities, and the bizarre position that responsible investing for individuals consists of being actively ignorant is gross.

Index investing is a valid, useful tool. It should not be a quasi-religion.
I was half expecting to see this link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pPb9mPzoXs
OK, two questions:

Can you make some kind of cicada tea with the psilocybin?

Could this have occurred in 1918 and caused human hallucinations because of contamination?
Pretty sure Gargron and lain talk on a semi-regular basis and are on good terms with each other, so hopefully it will.
How much do you exercise? What do you eat and drink?

I think these make a lot of difference.

For me, I don't use soap, but I do use a neutral body wash such as QV or Cetaphil.

Works well.
As much as I hate seeing douchebag criminals get rich, I do like that they establish a financial Cost of poor security.
You may want to read up a bit on how lobbying works.

US based companies enjoy 2 benefits when it comes to regulation: 1) “Domestic” factor which makes them immediately above suspicion of wrongdoing by the National Security apparatus and 2) Access to the legal lobbying infrastructure which they use to protect their interests.

The interests of both Domestic firms (who want to neutralize a fast growing threat) and the National Security apparatus align in this case, which is why the parent company seems to have accepted the fact that it would need to sell off its interests in TikTok. Their interests do not align so much when it comes to protecting user data (arguably for certain 3 letter agencies, they align in favor of fewer user privacy measures).

For those that wonder why big technology firms all seem to be based in the US, there isn’t something magical about the US. It is mostly the State assisting domestic firms in neutralizing international competitors.
They sometimes paid the amount. In some countries that was probably seen as a better plan. It probably depends how loose the cannons are.
Imagine a town of 50 people with only one restaurant: a mc donalds. The next town is three hours away and only has a burger king. You can move there, but it's pretty inconvenient.
Cicada tea or a pizza topping?
The only reason the kidnappings happen is because the payouts happen. If effective measures stopped any real possibility of payouts, the kidnappings would stop, too, saving a lot more lives.
I manage it at the playbook level. They go into the role as variables.

I’ve never really used Galaxy. You recommend it? I’ve always felt like I can’t depend on other people’s roles, especially since roles don’t have their own variable scopes.
Best Introductory book for each field (psychology, physics etc.)
Hello,

This question may have already answered In this forum. If so, please point me to that. I am looking for an introductory book on each major field of study about 300 pages or less.

Thank you in advance.
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I feel like I didn't make "primary" clear enough - it would be like using an environment variable for the path for ls. That's gonna be a big no from me, dog.
> I find flat more aesthetically pleasing but often harder to use, and I've seen data to back that up.

I would very much like to see that data; I'd be interested to see if/how to objectively measure such a thing. (Also the results would be interesting)
I like the personal note feature. Somewhat CRM-esque, and i can see it being quite handy. I'm a pleroma user (run my own single-person instance), and before that used/ran a gnu social instance, but i have always felt that what gargron and the early mastodon folks have done for bringing more attention to the fediverse for laypeople is a wonderful thing! Kudos to the mastodon folks for this update! The more options that exist for the fediverse, the less relevant the centralized silos become (i know, there's a looooong way to go, but still).
It was an easy bet in the early 2000s when the markets accepted that AMZN didn’t have to make money and would reinvest in the business instead.

That combined with their world class ability to execute made magic.
> the simplest of backup solutions would have prevented this.

Incorrect. The black hats almost always encrypt backups, too. You could say "what about offline, glacial backups?" But then you're no longer talking about "the simplest of backup solutions"
> The main problem is converting untraceable bitcoin back to fiat

Got to imagine there’s a well-established laundering system for just that
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Low. The hackers are likely European, since there are telltales like European number formatting ("10.000.000$") and awkward phrases like "make a step forward" (perhaps Italian fare un passo avanti?).
It surprised me at first but this was not my experience with our b2b SaaS.

We raised prices slowly, in cohorts. It was after years without a price raise and a lot of new value adds.

There was no churn.
Not really sure why you need to be condescending, because what you're talking about isn't how lobbying "works" nor is it how business works in the United States.

>“Domestic” factor which makes them immediately above suspicion of wrongdoing by the National Security apparatus

This for example, is not true.
I run my blog (https://wrt.nth.io/luke/) as a fediverse instance of writefreely. Here’s my ansible role for it. You should just give it a try and see if it’s for you:
https://src.nth.io/ansible-roles/file/tip/writefreely

I think federated blogs are the answer to google killing rss.
I’m 99% sure that Apple’s CEO really does care about LGBTQ rights...
It'll be hard to not publicize the LZ. NOTAMS (aircraft exclusion zone) and maritime exclusion zones are public documents. They're essentially map coordinates for the LZ.

I think you're right about there being some CG vessels around for the next landing.
Tigerbrew is also worth mentioning https://github.com/mistydemeo/tigerbrew
From what I read, the hackers always keep their words. Otherwise nobody will pay them next time.
It's not used as an operating system, only as a GUI.
And it also subsidizes tobacco farmers.
> It's ransomware 101 to wait

Not really. A sister company of my previous company had ransomware incident, and as far as I've heard this was not the case. They had just purged local backups. The attack was stopped quite early by an engineer noticing abnormally high IO activity and shutting the whole infrastructure down as soon as they realized what's going on - while a lot of data was lost and had to be restored from backups, most of the files were untouched. Still, the recovery took really long while to audit every machine before they could be even powered on again.

Poisoning backups requires backup systems receiving encrypted data for a while. Which means live systems running off the encrypted data (and most ransomware encrypts at the file level, which is much harder to do transparently, compared to the block device level). Which requires effort to make sure this is extremely transparent and goes unnoticed. Doubt that attackers do expend their resources unless they see a necessity.
It definitely makes the costs of bad security immediately obvious to the company, rather than just taking the data and selling it, which externalizes the cost to the user.
There are actually 10.4 drivers for some 802.11n-era Ralink USB chipsets. It’s not ideal since they fully bypass the OSes WiFi stack, but better than nothing
If I just wanted to host my own instance for my family to post news and updates on would that be a suitable use case for Mastodon?

I realize it can be federated, but just a singular isolated FB/Twitter clone would be ideal.
They call it OpenConnect: https://openconnect.netflix.com

If I remember correctly, they use S3 to store and distribute the master files, and other AWS services for the user interface and the like, but streaming itself is handled from their own infrastructure.
Would you mind disclosing who the doctor was? I have been dealing with this for years and it's been wreaking havoc on my personal and professional lives. Doctors in my area are not familiar with my condition and don't have a solution. I'm especially tired of the malabsorption, dietary restrictions, sleeping issues, inability to gain weight, edema.. a whole laundry list. Would love to hear your doctor's opinion.

I am not surprised that the brain-gut circuit affects the sympathetic nervous system. I find that when my symptoms start getting very bad my heart rate variability drops basically to 0 (with loud, thunderous heartbeats). When things are good I don't notice my heartbeat whatsoever. Symptoms improve basically when I stop eating.. which is not a treatment plan.

I find it strange that my gastroenterologist does not even contemplate cases involving gut dysbiosis. I ask all of the relevant questions and the answer is "dysbiosis is not something we treat". And he's a gastroenterologist for christ's sake. He literally said to me "Get used to it. Some days you will have good days and some days you will have bad days". Modern medicine for you.
> the simplest of backup solutions would have prevented this

A big part of the threat is the disclosure of sensitive data that they exfiltrated. Backups don't help this.

Not to mention that the pros delay encryption until they've managed to screw up backups, too.
Apparently many people love distracting wallpaper

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/
Not when it's done through several layers of employees and then potentially multiple layers of foreign companies.

It's very hard to find individuals to hold criminally liable for things like this. When was the last time you saw a CEO go to jail when their company killed someone?
CC0 isn't an indemnity.

The difference between falsely claiming something is public domain and falsely claiming to grant a license to it under CC0 is going to be pretty minimal (and is likely result in little more than "please stop", blood and turnips and so on).