skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not entirely, no--arguably we may have similar values, in a sense, but (and this is where the guesswork comes in) may have arrived at them via different paths. I'll posit that the path matters, a lot.

The people in question are current students at my alma mater, where I studied, among other things, Russian language and the former Soviet Union. Some in the current class are likely studying the same, but most aren't, and even those that are, well, they're just starting to study it.

Again--no certainties there, but while I received a fairly decent US high school education, coverage of the cultural and political history of the former Soviet Union is limited by necessity--there's just not enough time to slot that in among everything else US high schoolers are expected to learn.

My gut feeling is that if I'm seeing them share this sort of content, that it's reaching them organically, not because they're finding it after a long time studying the whole of the space over a decade of hobby interest--that's where I'm coming from. The end viewpoints and values may have similarities, but they will be colored by many other factors, and those factors matter.

If that intuition is right, while we may share views in some sense, their view is quite possibly being shaped by actors whose intent is to shape it in a particular direction, who recognize that there are avenues to do so (the amplification/radicalization potential of internet content rabbit holes is well-documented at this point), and who aren't really interested in building a nuanced perspective grounded in mutual understanding of both FSU and American history.

Intuitively, based on their past actions, those actors want the opposite: to (skillfully, mind you) leverage their own nuanced understanding to craft a shallow, targeted narrative that's believable enough, with the primary goal of supporting their own agenda and political goals, not with the goal of building a strong basis of mutual understanding across borders. Is trying to reason about those aims hard, to the point of being nearly impossible to get right? Yes! Entirely! But I don't think the response warranted is "well, it's hard, we should all give up and just see what happens". We must try to instead do the best we can, both in our words and actions in a given moment and with an expectation that we won't be entirely on the mark always, but that we can and should try to watch for our mistakes and catch them as early as we can--that is how we improve and help one another.

So, to sum up, can I rule that out definitively? No. Can I make what I think is a reasonable assessment of what's going based on the information available to me and my own background of knowledge, and recognition of what's changed in the world since I made a similar journey? Hopefully, albeit worryingly, yes. I therefore think it's important to not abdicate any notion of responsibility or to call it a day and agree to disagree on a lot of the nuance--doing so tacitly grants one sort of nuance authority, and the intent behind it may not be entirely benign--historically, it hasn't, and an about face seems unlikely at this time.
Less than 10% of Fortnite’s revenue comes from iOS according to Epic. Epic’s market is not mobile. It’s market includes consoles and PCs. Epic is the last company that can say that Apple has a “monopoly” on the market it cares about.
At least with android you can disable apps (even those that are built in). Of course you need a discipline to not enable them back.
Reminds me of: https://dnipogo.org/john-r-boyd/to-be-or-to-do/
I don't remember where I saw this idea, but it seems right:

If public libraries did not exist in this day and age, and someone floated the idea, they would be laughed at and/or fought in the courts of law and public opinion. "It would cause authors to starve! It's socialist/communist! There is no reason I should fund your perverse taste in books!" etc.

It is considered axiomatic in Europe, but in the US even things like public schools and public fire brigades are not controversial to some segments of the population.

Internet search should be a public good, as should internet service, and email service , much like public schools and the postal service; but it won't happen any time soon just because it makes sense.

I think the reason it will happen in some form, sooner or later, is the fact the US is the de-facto hegemon of the internet by being the jurisdiction of Google, Facebook, Amazon/AWS and Microsoft. The NSA+FBI+CIA are able, by decree through NSLs, to read and rewrite the personal communication of probably 90% of the world population, as well as shape their search results. FB has already shown they can affect mood of population at large (in an experiment they did without consent and of which they were proud at the time!) - and they will surely cooperate with governments if "asked" (In the "speak softly and carry a large gun" sense of asking, but likely even without it).

At some point, likely after being burned by this (but possibly before), governments will likely setup a local hegemony if only to deleverage the US. Russia and China already did.
Thats awesome. I asked about people netbooting for retropie in reddit and people were really confused why I would want to do that. I think I'm going to go ahead and set it up now.
Scott Alexander:

> The latest development in the brave new post-Bitcoin world is crypto-equity. At this point I’ve gone from wanting to praise these inventors as bold libertarian heroes to wanting to drag them in front of a blackboard and making them write a hundred times “I WILL NOT CALL UP THAT WHICH I CANNOT PUT DOWN”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
Similar realization here. Just can't get myself off the damn thing - doesn't seem to matter what I'm using it for. Hopefully the more productive route works for you!
The Shotgun - My best advice when starting a new successful venture
Performance rocks. For services that do significant amount of computation/data processing, Rust is typically order of magnitude faster and uses less memory. If your service is bottlenecked by a database or an external web API, Rust won't magically solve your problems.

Rust has a pretty strict type system, and there's a lot of focus on correctness and reliability. Rust's enums with data are great for handling application state. This helps security, since the language stops you from doing entire classes of silly mistakes.

I've written some sites in Actix and it didn't feel too different from using express.js (with a caveat that I am experienced in Rust, so the language itself isn't an issue for to me).
One could argue that TOS for electronics and software are simply an extension of the “no shirt, no shoes, no service” mantra of yesteryear. Companies have always been able to have “shrinkwrap” contacts that decide who can visit their place.

The argument with smartphones hinges on whether the device is yours or Apple’s. It’s very clearly your device, but it was bought knowing that only iOS could be installed.
yes, being outside is probably the most effective covid mitigation, both for disabling the virus particles more swiftly and diluting concentrations more rapidly.

you see this kind of thing a lot in (poorly constructed) regulations, where the intended effect is intentionally indirect, with lots of negative side effects that are simply unaccounted for (charitably speaking). it seems like that rule is primarily intended to prevent disorderly drunkenness and littering, but instead of addressing that directly, they made a rule saying don't drink outside anywhere, without regard to potentially negative consequences.

just brainstorming, targeting disorderly drunkenness with a night in jail would likely curtail that behavior quickly, if it was truly a problem in the first place. and just publicly shaming litterers by posting videos online would probably help curtail littering, along with more, and more visible, public trash cans.
If by “Asian,” you mean “Chinese,” yes you’re correct.
Money damages, potential criminal lawsuits, and reputational harm which is real and costly (though I know HN is skeptical of it).
Great. Now try typing 'touch --no-create foo' on OS X and let me know how it goes.
Valve Index is great, but tbh, I've kind of abandoned mine for the RiftS in the front room. Losing the sensors and extra wires made the wife happy and the difference between the two isn't that great for me. As soon as Facebook lock you into FB accounts though, it'll be tossed to one side. I deleted my FB account 8 or 9 years ago and there is no way I'm going back over a VR headset. Thankfully i've purchased very little through the Oculus store.
Without addons, I “solve“ this by opening a separate window for each train of thought. When it comes time to go Marie Kondo I either close the window or bookmark all of the tabs for later.

This works great at home. At work I’m constantly fishing for which window some bit of information I currently need is in (though I’m not sure one window would fix that any better). So even MMMV.
Your project looks like my last one: very useful, but nobody understood the purpose.
A bit like this[0] but bigger?

0. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FIU8WZR9DNA
That's a good point. That effectively makes Spotify a publisher rather than a platform. I'm getting sick of companies trying to straddle the line between the two.

Even if Spotify wasn't effectively publishing the Joe Rogan Experience, I do think Spotify's employees have grounds to complain. Spotify has not built themselves as an open platform for free thought - they have built themselves as a curated music streaming service. Employees who do not want to support an open platform for free thought could be justifiably upset.

I'm just sick of open platforms in general being expected by external forces to curate their content like a publisher.
This is a very nice and positive progression! :)
Angular appears to be "winning" in Germany (or all of Europe?).
Attacking hospital, including machines handling life support is still a violent act.

I see no real moral difference between arson and launching ransomware attacks.
I don't want them to get loans. They can't pay back the loans, so why should they get loans? It's not like people use loans to buy bread, they use them to buy things they don't really need.
If you really serious, you can set up parental controls with whitelisted apps on most phones.
Because only one of these companies needs to make a mistake before they all should learn from it. It would be like watching every construction company make the same egregious safety error one after the other. The first one to make the mistake is not as guilty as the 10th company to make the mistake after having just watched the previous 9.
Looks like they've struck again ;). These people don't want discourse or facts, they just want to shape the narrative. Shame on them.
But mobility index by itself doesn't tell you anything about the number of infected people. Without reliable statistics on coronavirus cases in the area you can't tell if the mobility is high because the infection is contained, or because nobody cares/knows. And there are reasons to doubt official stats on corona cases in Russian cities.
Had the same question, looks like here's a link[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24519880
I have also seen backend application which strip out certain "bad" tags (i.e. <script>).

I remember being able to perform an XSS attack by sending a payload that looked like:

<sc<script>ript>alert(/XSS/)</sc<script>ript>

This passed the WAF inspection, but then got trimmed by the backend application and this is what was left:

<script>alert(/XSS/)</script>

written in the page source.

Maybe I'll write about that case too if I find where I put the attack evidence.
You can anyway see that bad validation by the actual application programmers can disable the WAF's capabilities.
tar is one of the worst. I think I know what those do without looking it up but I think most people look at that with bewilderment. Randall Munroe is always helpful in these matters and has this to say: https://xkcd.com/1168/
I really hope this trend for imperative titles ends soon.

I'm happy the author found terms that line up with their goals/interests. If they want to share their thought process, that's interesting as well.

If they tell me to comply with their opinion (which I disagree with), it moves from interesting to irritating. Sure, it's an emotional reaction but that's a giant part of communication.

FWIW - here's my complaint: if your code isn't in support of a product (or R&D for a product) it's a weekend play project. I don't mean that to be any more condescending than the "elegant code is the end" bit. As stated those Product/Infrastructure terms don't apply to how I think about roles and are just not useful. "Frontend"/"backend" aren't remotely complete, but they are fairly accurate and useful.
HelloOffice Is Hiring a Director of Product Management
I support this idea!!!
They could, but it's a bigger hassle than slapping some artificial restriction on the blob.
Yeah unless you've got a ton of devices that actually fit the LoRa use case and you plan on leaving them all on all the time I've found good ol' raw radio mode to be much more useful.
These products offer direct surface disinfection via human-exposed UV-C lights
https://healthelighting.com/pages/cleanse

First saw this installed in Chihuly Garden and Glass – Seattle https://www.chihulygardenandglass.com/elevatingclean
This is why I never got a tablet/iPad. For someone who is constantly on their computer/laptop there's no need for a intemediary device.
Keep in mind that video games are optimizations on top of hacks on top of optimizations on top of hacks on... This is necessary, because we simply don't have the number-crunching capability to simulate the video game world better. If developers could have that horsepower, then they'd probably use it. In other words: as people get faster hardware video games will start using more computational power. This allows developers to scale back some optimizations and usually allows some different styles of games.

Another thing to consider is that the number of pixels pushed to your screen is one thing. Another thing is that you will need higher quality assets with more detail too.
If "accidentally" is true then prosecuting them for deliberate murder would not be OK.

Prosecuting them for man slaughter and arson and everything else what applies would be perfectly fine.
It’s really not that nuanced at all. Trump blames TikTok for ruining his first rally, when people used the platform to register for an event they had no intention of going to.

Just like Trump is going after Twitter and FB for being “unfair to conservatives”.
Yes (See my explanation in another answer).

I also like to point out that of those political groups that were screaming foul the loudest with regards to the "consultant affair", these were the groups with the least interest in or sympathy to the German military.

Which is adding insult to injury because the whole reason the Bundeswehr has to hike its expenditures on consultants at all is because policies of the last decades, specifically of those groups, left the Bundeswehr one of the least attractive employers in the whole country, especially for seeked after talent.
en: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus_radiodurans
I actually liked how Pebble approached it, it was a watch first with some smart functionality. It so sad that they went out of business, because they made exactly what I was looking in a smart watch.
>The only atrocious thing is the FE edition is 100$ less

Some people are calling this rather scummy behavior on nvidias part.

"Nvidia has the cheapest card that this performance level ever!" is what the headlines will say. But if only a few hundred/thousand of these cards show up at this price over the next 6 months or so, and the AIB models go for $100+ more is really more of a way of manipulating headlines with no desire to follow up on the savings.
It's so unfortunate about Bash + Apple.

Bash probably deserves to die out, but Apple has really pulled a bait-and-switch on OSX's *nix/bsd underpinnings over the years.
Yeah, Quest 2 has twice the usable subpixels (50% greater pixels plus a full RGB stripe, better than the pentile of Quest 1), so I suspect text rendering is pretty good.

Yeah, Carmack mentioned some official tracked physical keyboard being announced soon, which is definitely the way to go for useful work. Good tracked keyboard and mouse support plus some decent windowing will make it dramatically better than a cellphone and perhaps even a typical tablet as far as productivity whereas by default (i.e. just controllers or default hand tracking) the Quest 1 is slower for precise input than a smartphone.

I actually don't think it'll replace phones. More likely to replace large laptop displays for on-the-go productivity as resolution approaches retinal quality in the next few years.
I did this, but using a more traditional server. It was... OK. The pi3b+ bootloader was flaky and I ended up needing an SD card with just the kernel on it, but I wanted it ro. This made updating kind of touchy.

I can imagine that if they've made the bootloader more robust on the pi4 that this is truly excellent now.
Seems like the main research company that exposed GSX has made a business out of exposing Chinese public companies

https://grizzlyreports.com/research/

Some interesting stuff here.

The company of course refuted the research with some vague stuff about APIs having encryption so the data would be wrong. This was back in June and the stock seems to be still going along strong... http://gsx.investorroom.com/2020-06-03-GSX-Refutes-Grizzly-R...
This has not been true since 2015, when the various developer programs (Mac, iOS, and Safari) were combined into a single Apple Developer program (for $99/year).

Source: I've been a member of the Apple Developer program since at least 2006, which was the first year I attended WWDC. The current program is described at <https://developer.apple.com/programs/>.
Repeating myself for the 3rd time: There are other options beside solar power, so why keep harping on this?

In fact Denmark gets about 65% of their power from wind. The UK also gets a lot of their power form wind. For many norther countries, wind power has quite a lot of potential.
I've said it elsewhere, but...

If I were carrying out this attack against NIST, and it had failed up to now (i.e. they chose 'wrong' from my perspective), my next step would surely be to publish something which calls into question the conclusion they came to. This would cause everyone involved to start second guessing, loose confidence in the process, and make it easier to re-mount the attack either now, or in the future.

N.b. I assume this document has been written in good faith and with the best of intentions. It's just hard not to see some contradictions mixed up in there.
As others have said, there are plenty of useful aspects to WAF technology. For my organization in particular, we have a lot of legacy junk floating around, and the WAF is an easy way to add a layer of protection to stuff nobody is working on anymore (keeping internet-facing systems up to date is another convo). As part of that legacy conversation, in addition to prevention of injection and other common web attacks, you get the added benefit of being able to add headers and upgrade TLS connections for old stuff to keep those pesky security scorecard reports off the CISOs desk. For most managed solutions, you can implement geo-blocking with a couple clicks. For the most part, a WAF is good for driveby stuff and zero-days. You have to look at it as just another part of a defense-in-depth strategy, and like any other control, if you put all your eggs in one basket it'll be a bad day. Definitely not snake-oil though.
He has been able to pay quite a lot of money to his own pocket via his hotels and such, but I'm not sure whether they'd be that blatant.
Netbooting and mounting NFS root would be done over local lan, the speed of internet connection has no relevance there.
Tide: A modular Rust web framework built around async/await
> Vue is the only one of the most popular 3 frameworks that can

I don't know if you intended it this way, but the start of this comment makes it automatically flamebait.

Discussion around release announcements can quickly turn into a flame war. Please use caution.
> (with enough time and determination)

Perfect, exactly what most people lack.
Is there a short description of how it works?
So did the hospital violate it?
That works too. Both Apple and Android have built-in support for do-not-disturb policies that will let someone through if they call twice in a row (defined as "within 3 minutes" on Apple and "within 15 minutes" on Android, it seems).
Very annoying. Java HotSpot uses -version, rather than --version, which is even worse. Don't mess with the standard long-form flag!
I second and third it. I've only done simple stuff and had to restart enough that I don't want to try anything complicated and lose days of work so I don't even try.
Yup, but they can do so with old-fashioned paper ballots too. Any security measures for paper ballots will also work with my idea, and the machine could also do fancier things like printing out a timestamp and signature of the timestamp . I really want things to be simple though: if the system of voting is too complex, then it will be distrusted, and distrust in the voting system is toxic to democracy.

What they can't trivially do with any system including paper ballots is remove ballots, compared to digital voting machines where you can add e.g. -100 votes to candidtate A, 100 votes to candidate B, thus ensuring that the total-votes field is correct while advantaging candidate B -- this was actually demonstrated by a security researcher on a Diebold touch-screen machine.
True, but if you're netbooting you're probably not going to the internet.
I think the answer is often "the lathe", but I also think it depends on what you call a machine tool and how persistent you're willing to be.
This reminds me of why traders are required to take vacation - it may be the only time their scams are unraveled.

https://www.newsday.com/business/columnists/help-wanted-carr...
Will it matter when its all closed source blobs because nvidia?
I'm using a browser based on Chromium 69.x (qutebrowser)
> The problem is Big Brother government

Regulations exist to protect people not to impose their will on you. Fireworks is a good example: some people are qualified to operate and many are not. Countries with lax fireworks regulations (big surprise here) have lots of fireworks injuries.

The problem with libertarian values is that they assume that all people within society are rational, capable of making their own decisions or ones that don’t harm or adversely impact other people.

Want to listen to loud music? No one is going to stop you. In fact, go do it now! But don’t create a political or legal framework where a child or unsuspecting adult could permanently damage their hearing. Or blow their hands off with a firework. Or accidentally kill themselves with a weapon you’re using to live out a constitutional fantasy.