skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does fix the issue of censorship, in that 'blacklisted' instances can still have a world of their own and use the technology or protocol.

No amount of technology is going to fix the 'a majority of people don't like you or interact with you' problem though.
People often say "they don't build houses like they used to" and point to many examples. The trouble is, the crappy houses people used to build have long since been replaced, and only best survive.

It's classic confirmation bias.

For another example, I own a 1972 Dodge. I love that car, but having taken it apart and put it back together, I know that by almost every metric it is a vastly inferior car from modern cars. But frankly, I love it for its brute force and ignorance approach to performance. I like the crudely made parts, the factory paint drips, the uneven pillar joins, the cheap plastic fake woodgrain dash, the lousy factory paint job, the unapologetically crude method of achieving performance, the utter lack of electronics, etc.
Harry, a fuzz-testing tool for Apache Cassandra
Anecdotal of course, but a couple of jobs ago I did on-call rotations for a week on every few weeks. I got paid some additional money and time off, but the psychological impact was too great for me and it just wasn't worth it.
The moral hazard argument does not work in this case for a variety of reasons.
Soddy's Hexlet
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner_chain
Does anyone know what happens in practice with places where restaurants run in a space where the landlord defaulted?

If the place is repossessed, I expect a bank which takes over the space would have more gain from literally anyone paying anything for the place until it's sold. On the other hand, I'm not sure the partial rent would be relevant at all to the bank which likely has no issues with sitting on an empty property. What's likely to happen in practice?
> The EU just had its strategy changed and pronounced that it is everyone's civic duty to share even more.

What do you mean? I don’t really understand what that would mean, or what you’re referencing. Was that part of the State of the Union, or is it another announcement?

Edit: I found it. It’s an information based on EU strategy document from February.

“The EU is launching a market for personal data”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/11/1006555/eu-data-...

That doesn’t look good...
Urbit is also not a federated system, but rather, a true distributed system.

Each urbit instance is a peer. The stars and galaxies provide discovery and initial routing, which is a pretty neat solution, they're basically fancy DNS servers.

What I think is exciting about urbit, is that each identity can host services. So you can launch a chat room, and it's yours, other peers can show up and say things in it, but this is very different from federation, where there is a sharp distinction between administrators and users.

Anyone who comments in your chat room can have a chat of their own, and the cryptographic identity of you and them is identical and consistent, wherever in the fleet you may encounter each other.

Stability and performance have improved, but there's a long way to go before a smooth one-click user experience is a reality.

But the basic design is solid, and it has a chance precisely because it isn't federated, but distributed. Secure Scuttlebutt is another truly distributed system, of very different design; it's locked in some bad architecture but I found it quite pleasant to interact with.

Don't expect anything useful from Holochain, ever. Just... I don't want to get into inside baseball, but, nah. Never gonna happen.
AI and Wargaming
Not[0] really[1]. Loop antennas (active or passive) have good gain perpendicular to the loop. It would be easy to mount on the inside of a wood paneled moving van with some nice receiving equipment. You park the van so the side faces the target's apartment and voilà you can listen to the mixer of their superhet radio. If your searching for receivers a couple vans driving around could triangulate and detected signals. Just getting the right apartment building would be enough for the KGB to turn the place over.

[0] http://www.kr1st.com/swlloop.htm

[1] https://www.fmuser.org/fm-receiver/receiver-antenna/DE31MS-l...
> They should use the force majeure clause to terminate their contracts and the landlords could sue if they don't like that. A pandemic is not unlike a flood or earthquake. This is exactly why such a clause exists in contracts.

If they terminate their contracts they need to move out. That's not what is happening here. Tenants are trying to stop paying, but also stay in the property for free, indefinitely.
> You've already fucked up leaving password authentication enabled on your theoretical machine.

You could also be exposed to this with key based auth - older openssh clients have a security flaw where they can leak keys, and you could also have a 'fake' shell that still allows them to gain a lot of details about the inner working of your systems.

>It's pretty trivial to leave SSH on port 22 and just forward a high number port to it while blocking 22 externally. All the root-not-compromised assurances and still maintaining the high pass filter.

Yep! Certainly can.

>While a VPN certainly can be a good solution to securing a machine, you've now got the problem of the VPN server needing its access protected.

There's a few things here:

So, Wireguard uses key based auth, so it's pretty sure by default. Additionally, it doesn't show up in port scans - if you don't send the correct key, you get no response from the wireguard server. You'll get the same 'open|filtered' response from nmap and similar that you would for a UDP port with nothing listening. (I don't think this particularly matters - I don't really care if someone knows I've got WireGuard running - I would run it even if you could tell I was. See following paragraph)

Second, if the VPN is compromised (from a key leak) the worst they get is access to whatever the VPN network is. I don't trust clients just because they're on the VPN, and neither should you - they have all the same auth and security requirements I would put in place for something on the public internet. They still need to get past key auth for SSH (or have a zero day for it). If there's a zero day for wireguard itself, well, now they have access to that box, and can potentially use it for nefarious purposes, but I don't keep any private data for my company or our customers on it, so I replace it and upgrade to a version of wireguard without the exploit. They still need to somehow get past SSH auth, or use another zero day. I think the chances of there being simultaneous public zero days for both at the same time is pretty much nil, and someone being willing to burn two private zero days for the two on you means you're up against someone with enough resources you're probably screwed to begin with.

>Public key only for authentication and strict fail2ban rules combined with port forwarding makes for a very tight system. Not invulnerable but secure enough to not be worth the effort.

Frankly, I think public key only auth is most likely enough for 99.999% of everyone to begin with. I don't think fail2ban or port forwarding from a nonstandard port to 22 matters overmuch, even for filtering logs. If you're going for the "realistically good enough" setup, key only, no root, only have personal nonstandard usernames allowed, that log noise doesn't matter because you can just grep for failed attempts for the usernames you care about and ignore everything else, and the only thing you really have to fear is a OpenSSH 0day, which running on a nonstandard port isn't gonna save you from either. It might buy you a little time to get it patched and not get hit in the first wave, but that's about it.
I was wondering if that includes retirement accounts and checked it, looks like they consider that too. I know someone recently decided cash out their retirement account, sorta panicking with the market going down due to COVID, was stressful to check... but I guess with their type of account they didn't get to pick the individual stocks either. Not sure what type of account, back from when they used to work full time. Kinda wonder if maybe they just had a crappy broker or account person though, guess had trouble getting clear answers to things. Seems you have more control with an app like Robinhood but you lose out on employer matches and stuff like that though.
Drones aren't currently feasible. They don't have good battery life, they can't carry much weight (for a saw or w/e to chop the coconuts off), and precision cutting would be very difficult without propellors eventually clipping something.....then you have an electric saw dropping 30-50ft out of the air which is terrifying.
Just out of curiosity, if there was shortage of coconut harvesters, why were they poor? Can't they demand more money for the task?
All I need is a screwdriver, a hammer, and an oxy-acetylene torch. Nothing I can't fix.
It’s doable the same way VC funding for startups is doable. Post vaccine, we expect this industry to thrive again. Bail out the immediate financial commitments, and provide interest free federal loans that don’t have to be repaid for up to three years (similar to student loans). Hell, similar to the loans we gave too big to fail banks once upon a time.

I’ve paid for unjust wars in my lifetime and I’ve paid for global financial scams in my lifetime, so I’m prepared to pay for simple restaurants surviving the apocalyptic numbers we’re hearing (60% of restaurants not reopening according to Yelp).
Let’s say Russia releases the names and pictures of 100 active CIA agents who they uncovered as having done their country harm but are now active in other countries and out of their reach. It’s the truth, now what are your thoughts?
Bahia Apartments and Diving – Strandvakantie Curaçao
> cross-platform GUI app

May I ask using what?
I have mixed feelings on the F-15, and think it might have turned out better if it'd been a lighter fighter, as per Col. John Boyd's specification. I think the F-4 Phantom II was a more impressive engineering achievement.
Mostly C# web development. I've done some Xamarin too but I prefer web development. I live in Cincinnati. I've done very little hackerrank stuff because nobody here seems to care about it.
I didn't know that. Thanks for that list.
Could it be that the law here is just unreasonable and only the biggest players can afford to get away with breaking it? (likely for an additional premium)
Drug trafficker facing death sentence escapes jail through sewage pipes
While restaurants provide food, they may not necessarily be providing quality food. Quarantine has caused some to take a hard look at their diet, and learn to prepare healthy meals at home, and reduce consumption of processed foods. Restaurant food tastes good, but is often excessive in things like sodium. Dietary recommendations likely wouldn't support eating restaurant food regularly, as people have done without questioning it.
Yes there's something going on we don't understand, because some places that were hit very hard first time round are not seeing a second wave.
This has been my general experience too, the more a company is focused on revenue, often the experience is better and it does cut through the bullshit. One of the worse companies I worked for was one that had LOTs of money at its disposal, there wasn't really any focus on making money, but building massive projects, and the amount of politics, waste, and empire building was crazy.
They should also allow time and budget for building an application that can run 24/7 without too many errors.

"We need [insert thing manager asks for here] immediately" has consequences.
It's ridiculous that we couldn't coordinate a rent/mortgage forgiveness plan alongside all the customer bans put in place across the country. If a restaurant can't stay open, they shouldn't pay rent. If the property owner isn't getting rent, they shouldn't have to pay mortgage. And so on, up the entire chain.
Yeah but tax penalties and other fees for withdrawing early.
You keep saying this, but is the value of the property not what someone is willing to pay for it? If nobody can/will pay rent, the property is worthless. The risk you take on as a real estate investor isn’t just that of the property value, it’s also the risk of not having a tenant.

If you have a tenant, they can’t pay, then they leave and you can’t find another renter for a year, you’ve made a bad investment even though your property value hasn’t changed.
Yeah, I took a bit of literary license there. My point was that for most crops, the hardest part of mechanical harvesting isn't[1] actually getting the thing off the tree or the bush or the stalk, it's what happens after that. A combine doesn't do its magic at the head, right?

Coconuts are the opposite, and I think it's a more difficult problem than it appears to be.

1. Full disclosure, I'm not a farmer or an engineer, just a guy who has spent some time studying agricultural automation.
> We need to be pragmatic and get our people and economy through this crisis

OK, tax the rich. PS: It was the winning strategy before the crisis too.
Partly through taxes, partly through printing money.
According to a 1997 Washington Post article it happened in 1993, he didn't speak with just those two CEOs but executives from across the industry, and no company was singled out, rather he suggested for the industry generally to pursue mergers to survive large cuts to defense spending:

> The frenzy of defense industry mergers can be traced to 1993, when then-Deputy Defense Secretary William Perry invited executives to dinner. At an event now referred to as "the last supper," Perry urged them to combine into a few, larger companies because Pentagon budget cuts would endanger at least half the combat jet firms, missile makers, satellite builders and other contractors represented at the dinner that night.

> Perry's warnings helped set off one of the fastest transformations of any modern U.S. industry, as about a dozen leading American military contractors folded into only four. And soon it's likely only three will remain, with Lockheed Martin Corp.'s announcement yesterday that it plans to buy Northrop Grumman Corp. for $11.6 billion.

Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1997/07/04/h...

In context I don't see anything untoward here. 1993 was also the fourth round of closures under the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure BRAC was the systematic demilitarization of the U.S. after the Cold War, and apparently Perry was giving the industry fair warning that the process was finally and irreversibly going to bear down on their long-term sales prospects. I think it's fair to say that the Defense Department had a legitimate interest in the orderly realignment of the defense industry. It doesn't seem like he told them anything that wasn't already publicly known; rather more letting them know that there weren't going to be any 11th hour miracles.

If there's an issue here it's acting on the belief that defense contractors can only survive with enormous economies of scale given the long-term capital expenditures. But everybody believed that; and most still do. Most people still think Elon Musk and SpaceX are aberrations, and maybe they are. And nobody could have guessed 9/11 and subsequent wars, which inflated defense expenditures to well beyond Reagan's highs. (For that matter, nobody could have predicted the huge amount of assets and incredible liquidity of the modern investment world that make SpaceX possible.) If spending had remained at Clinton-era levels the reduced number of competitors may have worked out perfectly well, notwithstanding the demise of Boeing culture.
The iPhone was/is an internet product. The barrier was the UI, and portability.
Ohhhh! That’s great. I can maybe help make that happen.
You can buy any citizenship (that you would actually want) as an investor, but the cost for Canada is the same as the US at ~$1M.
Aurelius' positive aura and reputation for being a "good" emperor may stem from his good relation with the Senate, as the senatorial historians would have been the main determinants of what image of him gets passed down to us (albeit indirectly). The same thing would go about other emperors.

Also, w.r.t. wars and other state matters, a ruler generally will not operate in vacuum, and had to account for the provincial gouvernements' needs and demands, the Senate, etc, ... and of course, the need to defend against aggression.
Why should we not expect organizations to give something back?
New York City’s grief, by the numbers
Just one more thing: for me the Loci method doesnt work, i somehow cannot remember places low grained (is there a coffee mug on the table or not and did I want to place some speech item at the mug). So for presentations i make sure the hints are all on the slides.
I haven't listened to this yet, but I am willing to bet that he completely nails my thoughts on this.
Yep! and 1 codebase to rule them all! What's not to love!
Done right, it's the opposite for me. Those monkeys can live a happy life in the same way as an ox that pulls a tiller.
The ironic part is, literally, it will not bear fruit for decades.

"On fertile soil, a tall coconut palm tree can yield up to 75 fruits per year, but more often yields less than 30. Given proper care and growing conditions, coconut palms produce their first fruit in six to ten years, taking 15 to 20 years to reach peak production."
What's at the top of the chain though?
You're absolutely right. The whole reason for blocking or not supporting Flash on mobile devices had more to do with this IMO than the officially stated issues with battery / security.
Right - the money handed out isn't going to save businesses that cannot operate safely. Movie theaters and gyms to name a few others also fall into this category.
Wireguard doesn't respond at all if you do not send the correct key from the start, so I'm not sure how you would write a probe for it. You receive the exact same response as if you send a UDP packet to a port with nothing listening.

Most real world firewall configurations I have seen use DROP instead of REJECT, so anecdotally I'm not sure about your claim.

I don't think it's particularly worrisome if someone knows I'm running Wireguard, though.

If there's a wireguard zero day, they gain no more access to the rest of my servers than if I had port 22 open to the internet - and I don't think that's a significant risk with key based auth to begin with. If there's an openssh zero day, then yeah that could be trouble, but now someone needs to have zero days for both wireguard and openssh to get in to my prod servers?

If they've got two private zero days for that and they're willing to burn them on me, I'm an incredibly high value target and pretty much everything we're discussing here isn't going to be enough to save me, and I've got much bigger problems.
I am of the mind that any new player should play 10 games with bots at a minimum with tutorial driven gameplay.

Only after that should they be allowed multiplayer.

On a side note, the bots are not working since the latest patch.
When you go up that chain you will eventually run into a very serious monetary crisis that would crash the banks, the real estate market, and the entire economy.
Risk of not having a tenant has nothing to do with the current situation. The current situation is the possibility of being stuck with a tenant who will not pay the rent and cannot be removed, indefinitely.

At first these rent forgiveness measures were supposed to last a few months. Now we are nearly in the 10th month of the pandemic and these measures are being renewed. There are tenants who have not paid rent since March. Most landlords would rather have no tenants at all, than have tenants who do not pay rent for almost a year yet force their landlords to continue to provide for them by paying for maintenance, and insurance, and property tax, and the mortgages.
Most Indians, me including and people I know of, do not understand the concepts of pricing that Western countries talk about.

Even now, in 2020, this comes up frequently in product pricing when I talk to founders in India who haven't seen the Western notion of pricing first hand.
My favourite is Brewfather, a homebrewing planner and brew timer/tracker app. It's cross platform and extremely well done. Revenue is via subscription, not ads. https://brewfather.app/
I get what you're saying but grandpa is not going to be using Unix (Linux) so /var/www/ is out of question. I'm thinking more along the lines of Publii with a built-in Caddy, just to give an example.

If the computer doesn't have a publicly reachable IP then that's a much tougher obstacle. That can only be solved by voting with your wallet for ISPs that do give you a public IP with reachable ports. Net neutrality is critical for decentralisation and self-hosting.
The Federal Reserve?

It seems like it could have all sort of just been put on 'pause' for the duration of the pandemic.
Is the "Twitter PWA" something other than "www daht twitter dot calm" in a web browser?
Curiosities: Pursuing the Monster
Let's walk forward some more. Every restaurant in the country goes out of business and stops paying rent. People still want to eat out, so when it becomes legal to serve that market again new restaurants will reopen - and likely with cheaper rent. In the interim, commercial property investors get the shaft.

Those unemployed cooks and wait staff won't be unemployed for long, and perhaps throwing money at commercial rents isn't the best way to help them.
I like most of Dan's stuff. This however is overly alarmist.
This is a genuinely fascinating read. Thank you for sharing.
The official website of China's authoritative hacker forum has been established
The China Hacker Forum has just been set up, and we sincerely invite people who share our common ideas to join us.

We will always carry out our hacker philosophy, free, open source, sharing, exploring...

Website: http://www.cnhackteam.org

Our technology is not the best, but our hacker spirit is the most primitive.
Sorry, should be clearer. It did indeed have historical uses. Not sure if it has much current ones.
>>It's not exactly fair to landlords who own the properties outright, but, I can live with that.

Well of course you're OK with that, you're obviously not a property investor who worked to get free and clear. What if instead we levied a special premium salary fee on technology workers who make more than the median salary? Not really fair but us worker bees are OK with it...
"Trickle-Up Debt Forgiveness".

It sounds nice, but I think it benefits the poor too much to catch on.
If they have been sitting on empty buildings for years, why would they want renters now? I expect they would just continue to keep their buildings empty and continue to be unaffected by this pandemic.
> Engineers switch jobs all the time.

This also seems very telling
Is this contraption actually a robot? A robot has some automatic function or autonomy. I would classify this thing as a coconut harvesting machine.
Mastodon and Matrix seem quite different in practice, in this regard.

Who cares what the most popular Slack or Discord is? I'm sure there is one, I bet it's a lot like hanging out on ##hottub back in the day. Matrix is fantastic for organizations.

Mastodon is... I mean it's a Twitter clone at end of day. People want reach, no on should be too surprised that poasters tend to cluster in the biggest instance.

I think chats for companies/organizations/projects are a good fit for federation, and with the adoption of Matrix by the French and now the German government, Slack should be looking over its shoulder.
On the other hand, only if we plunge in will we learn to swim. The solutions will come when there is enough at stake to solve them, but right now since almost no one is using decentralisation/federation at scale on the consumer side, no one has the motivation to tackle the problems you have mentioned. Waiting for a perfect solution to arise before jumping in will ensure it will never happen.