skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plausible deniability where people can look is a huge thing. Even where people can’t Easily look - e.g. Intel ME “firmware”, it’s likely done as shoddy/buggy coding, so Intel can just look incompetent (and not downright malicious) when it does come out.

Russia and China aren’t buying any of this, and are fabricating their own chips. 5-Eyes are likely in on the thing so no reason for them to set up their own fab facilities.

But setting up your own software ecosystem is much easier (especially given Linux / BSD), even though it’s still expensive - so intelligence agencies would rather not give countries incentive to do so just because there’s a back door.
I’ve noticed this before, DeDRM and Calibre releases occasionally get out of sync, so to speak. They typically realign eventually, since they are very co-dependant (people use DeDRM mostly from Calibre, and a lot of people use Calibre just to access DeDRM functionality).
It's a torrent. So you are a distributor under all common clients.

I'm not sure you can get a client that would distribute nothing. You also have to make sure you don't advertise others in the swarm or any info.

Researchers have done it, not sure how technically.

Why My Printer Received a DMCA Takedown Notice - http://dmca.cs.washington.edu/
Heh heh... Was going to bed. Now that I've had some time to dig it out, here it is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/109wzdIsVW7hZwX1-8M3IioUMr49...

That's one of the American crows at Brukner Nature Center, Troy, OH US in 2019.
Could you name any? Asking because was considering making one, thanks.
What are you talking about? Non-tech people complain all the time about it. Updates deciding to run right before you have to give a critical presentation is a meme at this point.

All this "well, users are stupid so it is ok to treat them like garbage" nonsense is part of the reason I've come to fucking hate IT. I wish all of you who think that way would go away.
"The current (dire) state of Russia after all is a failure in US foreign policy"

I don't want what you are smoking.
I have encountered some bugs related to time zone, when using cheap surveillance cameras, for which the time zone/ Daylight Saving Time doesn't always work properly. The displayed time inside the video feed may be off by one hour / also different than the time the notification email.

I have encountered some bugs related to time zone with docker in which the displayed time in the displayed console log output is different from the local time, which is kind of confusing when reporting issues on github. But if your code isn't done properly and have filters based on local time you need remember to pass the correct time zone configuration when shipping with docker.

When reading blog posts / social media / messaging apps you need to be aware of the "responded at xxxx time" usually is local relative to the poster, which may cause confusing anachronism, when trying to know if the message is before or after an event. (If you get the time via an API, it usually is UTC, but when you are scrapping you need to be careful).

Also with DST you always need to check that your alarm clocks have the correct date so they change correctly.

Semi-related, on a dual booting linux/windows, my windows machine after reboot is usually still in the past at the time when it was last shut off, which prevents logging into Fusion360 (without signaling why the server refuse the connection), until my windows get it's time at the right time by synchronizing with the ntp time server.
A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge also mentioned this — it's a scifi book that takes place in space thousands of years from now, but the foundations of the computer systems are many of the same libraries in use today.
Belief in Conspiracy Theories Is a Barrier to Controlling Spread of Covid-19
Agreed about the UI. Even at a distance of twenty years, Windows 2000 looks more pleasant and professional. The Windows XP UI managed to be somehow childish in its aesthetic and stressful in its complexity.

Of course every Windows OS eventually gets stable and fast on current hardware, at which point everyone starts praying that they'll get to use it forever and they'll never have to deal with a new major release again.
Ask HN: Is HN a good place to ask for feedback on content produced?
I just started making Django tutorials on my Youtube chanel and am obviously not very good. Audio might be bad, concepts are not explained very well, etc. But I'd like to learn.

What is the best place to ask for such feedback? And, is HN a good place for that to start with?
Burying the lede a bit: the drug can’t be used because its safety profile is unacceptable, but the possible mechanism might be targetable by other future drugs.

Translation: come back in 2040.
A drunk driver is already knowingly drunk and driving one+ ton of metal around at lethally high speeds. Many of these young people, possibly even the vast majority of them, are not knowingly infected, but being treated as if they were all contagious and thus uniformly the equivalents of drunk drivers. Moreover, this is being based on very questionable cause and effect speculation about how much damage said young people are causing in terms of contagion.

Your analogy is just bad. Closer would be banning all drivers between a certain age rubric because possibly, maybe, some of them will get drunk and drive.

If anybody proposed that, it would be rightly derided, but here with politically motivated COVID panic based on still poorly understood evidence is somehow making this absurd restriction seem okay to an awful lot of people right here on HN.
My understanding is that rights holders are paid by the percentage of all plays, not per play.

Deezer is trying to fix this, but it requires the major labels to agree to the change. Deezer's user-centric payment system would apportion royalties based on an individual customer's play percentage instead of the total customer base's percentage. So if you only listen to 5 artists, all of your subscription's royalties would go to those 5 artists.

More info on UCPS at https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/news/deezer-launches-initia... and https://www.deezer.com/ucps
> It's quite different to the WWW site that is seen within the U.K..

I browse both regularly and they’re basically the same content just with an advert. Not really sure what you’re talking about.
Yeah, exact dosage is irrelevant. If you're going to kill yourself, you just take a few packs. As you say and has been said elsewhere in here, the dosage difference between therapeutic and fatal is really small, so if you take multiple times the normal dosage, well... you don't need exact dosage for that.
XP also shipped with the 2000 skin and it was trivially easy to switch over.
No one is above the law.
There are a number of reasons why Unity happened, all of them good. Difficulties getting Gnome 2 changes upstream, differences in vision between the Ubuntu desktop needs and the Gnome developers, and delivery date issues with Gnome 3 were among some of the reasons, yes.

There was a very vocal minority of shouties in various forums that spewed their venemous hate at Unity but by and large most people who tried it really liked it and I still get very positive feedback from non-technical users even today when they find out I was heavily involved in that project.

The criticism levied in the feature article is the same tired old one that boiled down to "I didn't like it because it wasn't the Microsoft Windows I used when I was first learning." There is always a certain merit to the "all change is bad" argument, but since it's entirely based on visceral reaction and not technical merit or rational discourse, it can be difficult to use to convince others without appearing petulant.
Not everyone focuses solely on cash in life, and for some the thought of becoming a 'regular software engineer at a company' might be existentially boring.
Python2 is old and has been in widespread use for years. Realistically, how likely is it that a new bug will be found that affects Calibre.
Iceland also used to have trees.
> That is why journalism is protected in the US by the First Amendment. Jettison that and one can no longer claim to live in a free society... US officials initially pretended that they were not seeking to prosecute the Wikileaks founder for journalism – in fact, they denied he was a journalist.

Uhh. This article obsesses slightly about Journalist vs Not but they aren’t a class that gets special protection under the US Constitution. There is no category of privilege or freedom based on that status and they are not registered by any central authority that authorizes the benefits of its protection. The First Amendment protects any jerk with an opinion and a printing press, in the style of Thomas Paine, and any collaborators.

Legally, the question of whether Assange is a journalist is basically immaterial.
> It makes me wonder, what duration of outage is necessary for people to actually switch?

If Google's security measures had an outage ...
We now have a new room for those interested in Rust —- #rust:fossnode.net.
Yes. I have family members whose brains were damaged from methamphetamine abuse. I had another family member who died from opioid addiction.

Not all drugs are equal.
They are using a third party backend as infrastructure for FFS.

https://mobile.twitter.com/r0h1n/status/1279291492125880321
The problem we solve by religiously sticking to "best practice" is the extreme engineering churn in "Silicon Valley" companies.

Not spending 9 months on-boarding might be worth extra minutes on deployment, IDK...
Will games eventually take over the TV/movie market? They seem superior to all forms of passive entertainment. I can still see TV Newsertainment because that’s basically just LARPing for old people.
I don't have 35 years of experience in software development, yet, so I may be totally out of depth here.

In this case, I think it's not the re-implementation that matters; rather, you have learned some new things and you applied the new knowledge into practice. You're actively comparing different contexts and tools. That's kinda different from what the original comment said about doing it the Karate Kid way.

Secondly, implementing a database/VM/frame work is not something I'd call practicing a skill. It's a pretty sizeable project, at least one semester worth for an undergraduate course. It takes a multitude of skills and knowledge to complete it.

Personally, I think my software development has benefit mostly from solving (real, not hypothetical) problems and reading how others have solved problems. I've hardly used repetition intentionally, except when I'm learning a new language/framework and need to get over the unfamiliarity.

I also practice the violin every day, but it's so much more than repeating of a few exercises. I can say confidently that no one can learn the violin by rote, to any level of success.
The NSA has a dual mandate - to improve security for the US government (and by extension, US businesses to an extent), and to peek into communications outside the US.

They have been pretty negligent about the first (or even malicious about it - e.g. the dual drbg case), letting the second take over - but officially they still have the first mandate.

In fact, DES was considerably strengthened in its day by the NSA review - at that time for reasons not understood by industry or academia. It was later discovered that the change required by the NSA made DES much more resistant to differential cryptanalysis, a technique that was (re)discovered by academic cryptographers much later.

Every “conspiracy” I’ve heard about the NSA and friends turned out to be true, most with definite proof from the Snowden releases.
I'm confused. "Political" and "factual" do not seem to be contradictory notions. The seem to be orthogonal, to me.
How close is AI to decoding our emotions?
Information (The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Some interesting context

> "Fitzgerald [barrister for the defence] stated that all major authorities agreed there were two types of political offence. The pure political offence and the relative political offence. A 'pure' political offence was defined as treason, espionage or sedition. A 'relative' political offence was an act which was normally criminal, like assault or vandalism, conducted with a political motive. Every one of the charges against Assange was a “pure” political offence. All but one were espionage charges, and the computer misuse charge had been compared by the prosecution to breach of the official secrets act to meet the dual criminality test. The overriding accusation that Assange was seeking to harm the political and military interests of the United States was in the very definition of a political offence in all the authorities."

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Vanessa_Baraitser#Political_extr...
MacOS-like Fonts on Manjaro/Arch Linux
They were elected... to be the opposition. They’re the elected opposition. If they were unelected they couldn’t be the opposition.
I'm a heavy gamer. Sometimes i'll watch TV while i'm gaming. Other times i'd rather take a break and just sit and watch something.

There's definitely going to be a market for passive entertainment.
The encryption key was to the archive that Assange shared with the Guardian journalist working on the story, David Leigh.

The encrypted archive was apparently mirrored on several sites, meaning that when Leigh published the key, anyone could access the full archive of unredacted cables. I guess Assange could be faulted for working with traditional journalists who aren't so competent with technology. That would be an ironic reversal of the usual complaints about WikiLeaks. But at the very least, Leigh should have known to at least ask Assange before publishing the encryption key.

The Guardian turned around and blamed WikiLeaks, throwing it under the bus for the Guardian's own screw-up.
There's no way that the prosecution in this case would go after the Guardian at this point in time.

Remember, the whole playbook here is to target the weakest possible link, i.e. an individual not associated to a traditional publisher, who is being attacked personally (i.e., casting doubts on his mental health after ensuring that he was forced for years to live under circumstances that would erode anybody's mental health).

They are doing this against a chosen target because they hope to establish precedent which can then later on be used against more difficult targets.
I’m sorry, but no.
There is obviously some selection bias here. You see the one structure that survived, but not the N similar ones that did disappear.

There is also the "News Fallacy" to be aware of: The news only report on unusual things. It's easy to start thinking they're very common, since they dominate reporting.
The L'Anse aux Meadows site is not on the beach. It's inland a ways enough to be protected from the tides. It's in a place where trees don't grow so there aren't any roots to destroy the site and sedges don't do a lot of damage.

I've been to a number of iron age sites that are more intact than L'anse aux Meadows was when it was first excavated. I don't see why it shouldn't have been in the state it was in.
Pre-covid times remote work would be cancelled in hope that staff would quit.
I agree with your broader point, but I doubt they ever claimed that?

I don't think the FBI would ever say that without cracking encryption they'd catch no criminals. Only that many who don't get caught today _would_ be.
If plants were highly generally intelligent (as I suspect corvids are) and if I were able to convince them that they would get a prize they highly desire if they solve a difficult Sokoban level with controls they can use (which has been done many times with corvids) then I would definitely expect them to solve the level given a few decades or centuries, yes.

(I personally don't believe plants to possess general intelligence, but I would be delighted to discover I'm wrong)
No the concept is not valid and we have laws in place to protect against this very thing. Should all debts be transferred upon death? Do you want to pay for your parents loans they didn’t finish?
Spot the Troll – Disinformation Quiz
The five monkey experiment is only a fable. See [1].

[1] http://www.throwcase.com/2014/12/21/that-five-monkeys-and-a-...
"Publishing evidence of state crimes, as Assange’s Wikileaks organisation has done, is covered by both free speech and public interest defences. Publishing evidence furnished by whistleblowers is at the heart of any journalism that aspires to hold power to account and in check".

Damn right. The treatment of Assange has dealt a terrible blow to the possibility of exposing criminal doings in the military, corporations, political parties, whatever. It sets the example that whistleblowers will not be protected.

So how did we end up here? Maybe many reasons but primarily I think maybe the Assange case is indicative of what might happen if you enter into the business of exposing corruption, and not restrict your exposures to one direction only. It will by necessity alienate any powerful interests that might protect you.

As it stands, only principled people side with Assange, people who insist that core democratic principles should trump the shortsighted interests of the state. Such people are few and far between nowadays, but are normally thought to be populating the courts, at least at higher levels, which is the last straw we can cling to.

But with a partisan press that has turned their backs on Assange there is hardly any pressure on the courts to do the right thing.
CEO of Cyberfraud Prevention Company Arrested and Charged with Securities Fraud
> If one DC becomes inaccessible does that count as an outage? It'll sure feel like it to the affected users, but the vast majority can still use your service.

Then put that on the dashboard! It certainly is an outage for the affected users (by your scenario).

- 999/1000 Data centers up
- 100,000 Users without service
- 6 paying customers without service (will get money back)
I was originally thinking the post was more like what you shared.

In theory minimodem could be put into web assembly right?
It mat not be only the safety profile, but also the fact that drug patent has expired in 2016.

I am sure they’ll come up with an alternative that may have similar or better safety profile and could pay for clinical trials.

No company is going to finance Phase 3 trial on patent free drug.
Except, you don't need to look at DevTools. As I've mentioned in response to a sibling comment, Wordpress has existed for ages, can be themed as you want, has comments and powerful analytics, and delivers 3.5x the content in half as much bandwidth and requests at one fifth the time required. And of course, it'll be readable on whatever device you have, with or without snarky hyperbole.
> Crusader Kings III

Excellent game that is actually on GamePass right now. Microsoft has actually been really great to smaller/indie games with GamePass.
Okay, okay, I’m as down with the science as anybody but those numbers sound a lot like cherry-picking. They also don’t jive with the info that’s trickled out suggesting that a plurality of infections are happening in the home, at restaurants, or while attending unmasked gatherings.
My boss started using clockwise for this purpose.
Religions Are (Software) Operating Systems
Great explanation of the issues here:
https://medium.com/incerto/the-masks-masquerade-7de897b517b7
Fish Eggs Survive Journey Through a Duck
Indeed. For those with an aggressive form of the disease, I suspect they might be willing to try it and trade MS symptoms for something else at least for a time. Still this is providing some hope that it's at least possible to reverse the damage.
Frankly, if she has a job after this, then the UK justice system would seem to be fundamentally corrupt.
For those interested, this interview with Nils Melzer, UN special rapporteur on torture is very illuminating:

https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikilea...
I'm not doing sprints now, but we have stand-ups. I think the stand-up itself is a great way to keep people on track. Plus it gives management a much better idea of when to expect things to be delivered.

I don't have a great opinion of sprints for a couple of reasons. I used to have a job that did sprints. Development was often rushed to fit the sprints which led to a high rate of defects. And now I'm working with a vendor that does development in sprints. When we ask them for changes, it adds a large amount of lag to actually getting them because we have to wait up to 2 weeks for them to reprioritize, and then at least 2 weeks for release.
That's some serious reach.
Are you not familiar with paracetamol?

To post this and compare it to water overdose seem to be the only reason I can think of.
> "Could the X people have done Y?”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
Unless, like me, you downloaded it initially as an ebook reader app. I’m hopeful 5.0 isn’t as abysmal at just trying to scroll through a book.

But the rest is absolutely best in class. In fact, it’s sadly the only in class for some things, I’m afraid.
What you said about life expectancy is not that clear, so I will clarify: average life expectancy for MS sufferers is 5-10 years shorter than the norm, but this gap continues to narrow.
Comcast. Good Guys in this market.

Divide by zero error.
Ah yes, we had something similar in Romania too, only that it was on national television. I got so many games and programs from it. Since they had reception everywhere in the country I was able to record them from the country side or a monastery too.
We have mods for Skyrim even on consoles. They can be modded on gamepass just fine if the developer decides to support it.
Don't be afraid to ask questions (2018)
Most enlightened people don't even know they're enlightened.

The ones who arrived there without conscious effort, through some intense concentration on some other aspect of life, simply lose their angst. Asked to explain, they usually have some kind of muddled folk mysticism about how it happened. Very few of them teach.

I know of well attested enlightenment from an olympic-grade swimmer, and a guy who really liked fly fishing, for example. The swimmer counted breaths while swimming, very much like one particular zen practice.

The desire to go out and teach is much more a side-effect of the people that were trained in schools founded by people who decided to go out and teach: the desire to teach is not embedded in the enlightenment experience for most people.
That’s true. But that may also be a plausible deniability thing - you create a place to hide binary modifications by making sure no two builds are exactly the same.

It could be chalked to some lack of care; however, up until 2000 or so, non reproducible builds were considered a bug in at least two places I worked in. The fact that it has become so hard to make builds reproducible could be Increased “entropy” (because no one cares To fix it) - but it could also be orchestrated by someone with a vested interest.

E.g. - suppose you are a three letter agency, and want to implement a “reflections on trusting trust” attack. Non reproducible builds become a pre-requisite.
Iceland was obviously their first marketing faux pas.
"if the charge had been dismissed, then there was no proof the razor blade existed" is an out-and-out lie (as well as a ridiculous non-sequitur), there is proof in the documents she will not admit to the court.

In the UK, judges are required take the Judicial oath: https://www.judiciary.uk/about-the-judiciary/the-judiciary-t...
Indeed. The journalist interviews, researches (using available materials, uses proper requests to obtain available materials), produces an article or story. A journalist who commits, or encourages or facilitates others to commit, crimes in the pursuit of their goals is still a criminal.
If you only need the basic stuff , lookup application portables.
"To understand is to forgive." -Blaise Pascal

Now, go chop wood and carry water.