skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The folks like this should actually do a startup. Hardening security is often just keeping up with and following checklists, installing proper monitoring, backup and audit software however for large majority of company it is impossible to hire competitive security specialists. These guys can scale up by hiring 100s of employees who they train on different aspects and contract with small firms like these at annual subscription. That would enable them making much more than $10M. With their current approach they will almost certainly get traced eventually and end up in jail.
less friendly as it obscures the destination to the user. it could have been a rickroll or something pertinent given the url
What countries are you talking about? Because kidnap insurance is still a moderate size business
> All they'd have to do is deploy a third party to enforce it.

Ah perfect, ambulance chasers but for child porn.

This also ignores some major issues: child porn is currently illegal to create and distribute. There are good reasons for this. Once the porn gets old enough, it enters the public domain.

Which means that there's still a potential market for it, and there's no implicit criminality of the creation, but only the distribution of such things.
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It took 7 days to get a letter from LA to SF.

I’ve had a package in SF for 4 days now and it still hasn’t been delivered.
Do these people have rights? I’m assuming they are essentially slaves and government by 200-300 year old laws where the captain is the absolute dictator.
How can you actually tell which brand advertising channel works? From what I know about the CPG market, they historically couldn’t tell except via coupons in newspapers.
Is the ransom tax deductible?
Why would the hackers do that? It wouldn't help them in any way.
This comment isn’t based on facts. I suggest you read this (https://www.lawfareblog.com/tiktok-and-law-primer-case-you-n...) to get the legal basis right. You are free to disagree or call out US in an emotional tirade, but have the facts right on why the President can make these decisions.

Additionally, painting China as a mere victim here ignores the complexity of the geopolitical tensions we are currently facing.
Regardless of his seriousness, I appreciated this background.
Would you really expect state sponsored hackers to drop references to Korea? They are either European and don't mind anyone knowing, Europeans who accidently dropped hints, or not European and want people to think they are.
They are cooperating, but they aren’t integrated.

There’s a difference in what tech considers integrated and what everyone else considers integrated.

The cooperative information sharing is not “take all of our information and do whatever you like”. It’s a case of “we have this info that is relevant to everyone else”.

But none of this actually matters in this context - as the issues with privacy isn’t an issue of intelligence gathering
Quality of the roles on Galaxy vary a lot, but there are some that are certainly useful. Usually the variables get namespaced with the name of the role, so you'd only get some kind of conflict if you were using two different code bases for the same role - or if the dev was really sloppy/didn't care about others integrating their code.
Neat. Was just looking for straight up HTML and CSS and BS4 templates. Could you put up one sample to check it out? Thanks!
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Yes, bass is harder to reproduce on vinyl - RIAA equalization is applied in the mastering process to help with this.

Some "sss" sounds are prone to producing sibilance, which can be filtered out during mastering or avoided at the recording stage.
Let this be a lesson to those that say bitcoin and other cryptocurrency has no real value outside of speculation.

This kind of attack would be almost impossible in the pre-bitcoin era. The difficulty of receiving that volume of money in that short of a period of time in a difficult to trace manner is a new thing.

We are entering a new era where crime can pay in very large sums with orders of magnitude less complexity.

Instead democratizing currency, we're democratizing large scale crime. Previously only large organized crime organizations could perform such an attack. Now, almost anyone can.
> "However I see a huge difference between protecting human lives versus protecting corporate assets."

The idea that there are fundamental differences between human lives and corporate assets is flawed. There's a very specific value of human life: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/835571843
>"The book" says that once you have an operational configuration you freeze it.

I guess we've been reading different books then. The Shuttle you're referring to had been constantly modified and tuned (noise suppression to prevent STS-1-like body flap damage, autopilot, the anti-geyser line, LWT, SLWT etc etc etc). The other manned vehicle, Soyuz, is on its 8th major iteration already, and got many minor modifications in between.

They looked for old CPUs instead of upgrading because it wasn't worth it. Shuttle program got cancelled in 2004, and it was known well in advance that it will stop flying.

The difference is, they don't make headlines nearly as much. (Shuttle did early on, but it was too long ago)
Does anyone know if this actually works with Mastodon accounts? I tried to follow mine, but it sent a "follow request" and then did nothing (my account is open for anyone to follow).
Cyber insurance is already a thing.

Even though not paying the ransom is recommended, some companies are instead paying the ransom as part of their insurance coverage. For example, earlier this year Lake City, Florida was a victim of a ransomware attack. After receiving approval from their insurer. Lake City paid $460,000 in order to restore their systems. Since they had cyber insurance, the city only had to pay a $10,000 deductible.

https://content.naic.org/cipr_topics/topic_ransomware.htm
It’s a rails app. I love rails (and activitypub), and I use rails for work frequently, but it comes with substantial operational load (postgres, redis, worker nodes, process supervision, media storage, backups, high ram use, etc).

If that doesn’t scare you off, then go for it!

If you don’t want the federation, I’d suggest looking for something lighter.
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I read an article about a remote work startup that switched to using rust on their projector firmware on HN a while back. I remember it as having a Japanese name, maybe google invested in it. Basically replaced a wall with a projector screen. If anyone could remind me of the startup name that would be appreciated. It had branding as creating a "new environment space" or something zen.
I know you're being facetious, but Gab announced they are going to shut down federation.
It's 12 and 200 nautical miles, to be precise.
Google needs to be stripped of its ad business. They need to lose Chrome and Android. They can't embrace, extend, extinguish the Internet. They're seriously harming the web with Chrome, AMP, and other initiatives.

Apple needs to be strictly hardware or software. They can't continue to run an exclusive app store and tax 30%. When you buy the device, it's yours. You should be able to upgrade and change the software.

Facebook can't be allowed to acquire any more social media companies. They need to be mandated to provide account data export, and they can't create shadow profiles without consent.

Amazon can't be allowed to compete with its sellers. Every act of espionage needs to be confirmed and awarded $100M or more. Out of all the companies, their behavior is the most gut-wrenchingly evil and steps on the upstarts.

Call your representatives and demand this.

Microsoft, surprisingly, is acting like a trillion dollar company that isn't run like a monopoly. Their tools and ecosystem play nice with others.
Yeah, I strongly suspect this will be the result on a much scale than the edge cases we see today. We need to start punishing companies using reCaptcha. Stop doing business with them.
I have a Japanese pressure cooker slow cooker combo. Apart from a a fuze blowing the day of warranty expiration, I am very happy with it. It cooks white rice in 8 mins (+washing time and cool down time). If it wasn't always full with other stuff I would never use my rice cooker.
I get that irony exists, but I was not trying to imply one thing is true while asserting in clear English that I believe exactly the opposite thing.
Greenpeace used a non-lethal attack involving stink bombs from hell... glass bottles filled with some kind of oily sulfurous compound that got on everything. I wonder if anyone in commercial shipping does that. Definitely not something you would want to test.
Has there been a look into which media companies were pushing these stories? I'm not pushing a conspiracy or anything, but just asking the logical question. This is how I judge any news in today's environment. If it was evenly covered, then that would be different than if just one like Sinclair or WaPo only kind of thing
It’s not the same if you complete the amount with cents. 100.00$ can become 9100.00$ much easier than $100.00.

I explicitly and carefully write out my tip and total with a dollar sign and cents and sometimes circle the total in an attempt to prevent the temptation for anyone to alter the amount (I’ve heard this happening to a could of friends back in college at restaurants and bars).
Possibly. The previous argument stand either way.
I believe BMP loading is included into the core SDL2 library, but not other formats, which SDL_image remedies. Here is SDL_Surface.h. SDL_LoadBMP is just a macro using SDL_RWFromFile.

https://github.com/SDL-mirror/SDL/blob/master/include/SDL_su...
I don't think GP is looking for an alt-right instance, probably just one where you aren't treading on eggshells all the time. The people on the Fediverse do have a bit of a reputation for cancelling people who they disagree with, most notably Wil Wheaton [0].

[0]: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/100639540096793532
It's just objectively impossible to have neutral politics discussion in reddit because of the upvote system. Not to mention mods in almost every subreddit are (naturally) biased and heavy handed.
> n a difficult to trace manner is a new thing

I still don’t understand - how is Bitcoin difficult to trace when there is a global immutable public record of all transactions?
I don't see why not. Business expense?
Think of it as a very expensive bug bounty.
It was a joke, and he followed it by stating that Tesla gets most of its lithium from Australia.

I did find it a tasteless joke though, and a foolish thing to publicly say. But then again Musk is known to TUI (Tweet Under the Influence) quite often. Rocket man gets hiiiiiiiiiiiiigh...
Not a bad read. In the opening paragraph you conflate argument validity with argument soundness, though. Thanks for the link.
What is the consistent set of rules here?

The status quo is you must raise prices for consumers to be antitrust. Can you think of a more socially positive alternative? The status quo is not to find economically positive outcomes because that is (1) incommensurable with policy enforced by law always and generally (2) likely unknowable.
Not kind of a context I'd like to be associated with a cryptocurrency, though. Privacy is great, but I'd rather prefer people of thinking of that property associated with buying online porn (or whatever legal) than paying online ransoms.
Find someone who can help you with devops so that you're not afraid to make updates!

I would take the parent post's suggestion about pricing. Other than that, this project looks awesome. Keep going!
Without repeating the same arguments, it's possible that Google is using it for tracking purposes because their public statements were ambiguous. That aside though, this behavior is never disclosed to users and is impossible to disable.

Do you think the average user knows that Chrome is sending unique identifiers to DoubleClick? Of course not, it was never disclosed and they were never given the option to disable it.
I'm working about 80% right now from my back yard in shorts, t-shirt and flip flops. However that's no different than when in the office. Not sure why people are still dressing up for work calls.
Yes. Google seems to be lying. Which would not suprise me or many people. If they cared they would allow for the header to be disabled. They do not.
Malta is Binance's location.

Malta enables Binance to enable users to "clean" approximately ~2 bitcoins/day per an account.

Binance has ~5 times the daily trading volume of the 2nd leading exchange.
I have seen way worse than this.

In a "corporate [bull]shit" setting, I could easily imagine scenarios where the synchronous client-side query could make sense and be the best available option. Thankfully I have escaped this kind of workplace long ago.

The worse codebases IMHO are the ones that have random associative arrays that are exchanged and mutated randomly in any part of the code. Give it a few years of maintenance by bad developers, and you end up with a mess of conditional workarounds and variables that can contain up to a dozen of different data structures with inconsistent properties.
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Lots of turntables in the 80's had flickering lights lighting a pattern of dots on the edge of the turntable. The pattern would stand still if the turntable was revolving at the right speed. My Technics had a pattern for 33 1/3 and for 45. Is this something you could try?
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For better or worse, you can look at the current price of Bitcoin as an options contract on future criminal activity.
You seem like a nice fellow. And smart! How about somehow aligning your life's work to not further the goals of enormous corporations that do not seem to have the best interests of us at heart.
I found it interesting none of these sites actually provided the alleged bitcoin wallet address. I found it @
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/13nmJ3SsNB5pSyQrmX3e6...
you're an amazing human being
>Call your representatives and demand this.

I don't agree with any of your capricious rules, so no, I don't think I will.
My personal belief is that the problems are being oversimplified and that is very counterproductive.

I'm sure people will misinterpret what I am trying to say. But, it is framed as a "democracy or tyranny" question. I believe that although the authoritarianism is quite horrific in some ways, in some respects there are actually advantages. Which, if you are still reading, is not to suggest in any way that it is the correct path, but maybe is a hint that our current "democratic system" may not be quite what it is cracked up to be either.

Again, in no
way suggesting we should get closer to a closed system, but I feel like honest evaluation will see very significant deficiencies with western governments such as the United States. For example, looking at the extreme political divide in the country sometimes makes government seem like a joke.

I personally believe that the best and maybe the only way to move forward constructively is to be realistic about the flaws in both extremely divergent views (east and west) and think of a totally new shared philosophy and way for government to operate..

But most likely that will not happen, and I also personally believe that another world war may be stimulated by poor technical adjustment to global accounting collapse (along with the complete failure of cultural and political integration). I think if this occurs then it will prove that humans are not fit to control the planet, and hope that we will soon have competent and (one can hope benign) but much more sophisticated AIs that we can pass the torch of evolution to.
That explains the dip after Trump was elected and the run up to each election.
Some modern wifi networks have 11b (and 11a) switched off so that newer protocols (11n +) can get higher throughout.
It is proposed via the web infrastructure community group in the W3c, and I've seen interest from the big four browsers. I don't believe it is anything like AMP.
Facebook has our attention, they built their platform to scale rapidly and hold our attention effectively. Now, they are a massive force with 9 million advertisers. 9 MILLION advertisers, all vying for the attention platform they have built.
Google raised its prices multiple times, you just have to stop evaluating prices in fiat currency. Google provides services in exchange for your personal data. So each time they take more data, they raised the price.

Merging DoubleClick data with Google accounts was a huge price hike. Starting to store your web and app activity centrally, was a price hike. Mining your Gmail receipts to populate a "purchases" tab in your account? Price hike. Auto-logging your Chrome in when you logged into Gmail, holy price hikes, Batman. You get the idea.
What do you not like about it? I mean, it's not great, but saying "We'll give the first 200 people half-off" seems fine to me.
For those who didn't get the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_(spacecraft)
Yeah it definitely works. It uses the ActivityPub protocol which both just implement. But I use them together all the time.
... I would never actually say “for business’ sake”
1) You need to be able to tie a BTC address to a human
2) Mixers
The rule of law exists because of a country's sovereignty. Sometimes, the two must be conflated.
Bing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency_tumbler
Yeah that makes sense. I’ll take a look. Thanks!
Perhaps they bought the device based on the primary metric of security and privacy. But with the banning of Telegram, it turns out the potential for secure chat is insufficient on iOS. Therefore, Apple is falsely advertising themselves as a privacy-focused platform. [0]

Therefore, the legal options available to Apple are either 1) open up their platform, 2) permit Telegram to be sold on the App Store, or 3) rescind their false advertising. The ball is in the EU court.

[0] https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/03/14/privacy-thats-iph...
If you want free speech, avoid anything listed on joinmastodon.org, as that site lists only instances with censorship.

I joined Gab, but unfortunately most of the posts are political and very US centric. I care primarily about tech, so in the end I don't use Mastodon.
Hmm, odd about my account then... Thanks!
What is a perfect market? What is FB advertising "done properly"?

I don't believe FB is a perfect marketplace because there are too many powerful interests with their thumbs on the scale. If Zuckerberg and crew were actually impartial and objective and wanted a perfect market, which they don't, even if they did want it...could they make it? Where is the line between marketing, lying, up-selling, persuasion, and truth?
> Also if they did bill them NASA would just get the bill and probably marked up.

It's a fixed cost contract, while SpaceX might push back on accepting the bill in the first place, they are unlikely to be able to redirect it to NASA if they choose to accept the bill.

Of course, I would expect to see this cost reflected in all future contracts they and anyone else signs with NASA.
According to legend, some songs in the 80's were engineered to sound as if they were played on AM radio, not so much to sound acceptable on that medium, even if they were being played on superior systems. The reason was, some of the people with influence over the process believed that a hit sounded that way. Which, because the hits tended to be a mainstay of AM radio, there was a correlation.
Who are you quoting there? Putting a few too many words in my mouth.

To many of us, the system has lost all cedibility, and voting is signalling just the opposite of that. Nothing about embarrassing anyone. No way to regain people trust at this point. We're too far gone.
Who's to say this isn't an internal job? Random developer that is unsatisfied with his job sees blatant security hole and exploits it himself for ransom.

Let the money sit in a Bitcoin wallet for a while. Maybe move it around a bit here and there and cash out a few years down the road. Good retirement egg.
This is going to be a moment that raises a lot of young peoples awareness of legal frameworks and Foreign Investment and things. There will be ripples from this for a long time to come.
This guy has pretty much single-handedly renewed my interest in low-level architecture and circuit design, and I know I'm not the only one that feels this way. Ben is doing current and future generations a great service with these videos.
> Wrong

They said they saw a difference.

They didn’t say other people didn’t see a difference.
I have trained my dog to do this for basic things like food, walks, and water. The best thing about it is that he doesn't whine when he wants something anymore, he'll just press a button and if we tell him no he will just try again later instead of whining for half an hour
My impression was some of those expressions were added to the compiler specifically to make stream fusion work well enough to use. Even if so, it’s a good point that laziness makes streams more “natural” in Haskell so that was just a performance improvement, not a semantic change. Certainly laziness is a big “philosophical difference” between the two!
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Also, laundering is now super easy.
> Maintaining exclusive access to the primary (and I'd argue only) means of purchasing software for a device they do not own is a monopoly

The device is yours, the operating system is not, it has its own license and you even get regular updates of its terms. If you don't agree with them, you are free to jailbreak your device and use it at your own discretion & expense.
Detecting their temperature doesn’t help, until they’re already symptomatic enough that they’re likely to be staying at home — or in a hospital.
Yeah, I know, but Big Sur is around the corner.
You right away jump into something unknowable like the exchange rate of “data” and “fiat currency,” in exactly the kind of economic positivist framework (really crypto anarchist jargon) that is incommensurable with policy.

Like obviously the price of doing Google searches and visiting YouTube is zero so I don’t know, even if I accept your premise at face value anything exchange for zero is possible interpreted as a zero or undefined exchange rate.
Can you really not follow the trail from the mixers?
Welcome to all marketing. How is this any different from any retailer having a sale? Lowering prices for an arbitrary period of time.
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I wanted to read your thoughts but your pop-up modal prevented me from reading your article and also decreased the probability that I'll ever visit your website again.
An interesting technical and financial challenge is how they intend to launder and tumble the Bitcoin and eventually turn it into fiat currency. The open nature of the block chain means that third parties can and will track all transactions related to the wallet(s) that received the 4.5m.
So nothing will change then?

ReCaptcha already appears to have some grudge against me, presumably by virtue of running Firefox and comprehensive ad-blocking, so blocking yet another google thing isn't going to make my life substantially worse.
Looks like this app uses TOR in long-range communication.

Although it's annonymous, your connection to the network is detectable and would trigger redflags in government monitoring software...
It doesn't matter how big your company is, every penny still gets counted. This will come out of some department's budget and have an adverse impact on operations or even cost them some employees. Hopefully whoever was auditing their security.
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