skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If youre that concerned download it and read the script.

It's possible to detect the use of curl|bash and serve different content accordingly [1]. This adds a burden to to the person checking it trying to make sure that any trickery has been accounted for and that you're actually getting a non-malicious installer.

Aside from that, I don't want scripts shitting files all over my file system - I am firmly of the opinion that software installation should be handled in the package manager so it can be cleanly removed later on, upgraded, and so on using the standard tools.

I also see curl|bash as a red flag because it indicates that either they don't have the skill required to build a deb/rpm/etc. package, or they simply don't care to do so - which I feel indicates they have a lazy or uncaring attitude towards software quality and craftsmanship. This is less of a red flag if they say something "debian/ubuntu users download .deb here [link], everyone else please use curl|bash" to limit the variety of package management systems they have to support, but still concerning in my opinion.

[1] https://www.idontplaydarts.com/2016/04/detecting-curl-pipe-b... and related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17636032
Does he still get proceeds for non-US sales, or does he forfeit those as well?
> And law enforcement can just remove the battery to stop the erase

This is why full disk encryption should be used.

> Erasing the headers on an encrypted drive seems quick and effective and the way to proceed. But if the technique is to use a USB dongle then we should also be able to modify the source code of Suicide Linux to do the same with the modified default terminal.

Defense-in-depth, you add a bit of countermeasures at every level. For example, the USB self-destruction will immediately kick in (if the law enforcement decides to seize the computer alive, a mouse emulator is likely to be used immediately), erase the header, and halt the computer, even before anyone has a chance to perform any forensics. If the LE was able to take the computer to a lab, it's possible to do a live memory extraction via cold-boot attack while the computer in still running, for example.

Again, the tricky part is balancing the sensitivity of the self-destruction mechanism and the risk of data destruction from an accidental trigger... A possible workaround is adding an "armed" switch - the most sensitive tamper-detection code is only activated after the switch is flipped if the perceived risk is high, for example, before you take your laptop to a coffee shop.
If you're on a group hike/bike/ride/run, the group goes at the speed of the slowest person.

It may be that you didn't sleep well last night, or that your stomach is bugging you, but the reason it's going to take an extra hour today is because Tim has a blister.

Whatever is holding up that server is what's holding up the entire train of communication. If that is where $5000 will fix the problem, don't talk about any other problems, you'll just confuse management.

The next place to stop if that doesn't work is, if you can't fix "Tim's foot" can you offload some things "he" is dealing with? Dump some of his load, work steal, etc. But these are just mitigations.
I agree. They should allocate a response time and the persecutor's microphones should stop working until the victim has had their entire time.
I don't know a Lisp programmer who wouldn't avail themself of structures, vectors, objects, or whatever other tuple-like things Lisps have made available for decadea now.
Ah, we have no shortage in Italy of people who claim to have been the kingpin of this or that plot central to the history of the nation. Whatever Pieczenik might have said there are most probably others who gave a different version (Italy's very outspoken president Cossiga, for example). Anyway, those who materially organised the kidnapping and executed the victim were communist militants- fighting against the... "imperialist state of the multi-national companies".

Oh well. Maybe they were just 40 years ahead of their time :).
The GFE is an HTTP/TCP reverse proxy which is used to serve requests to many Google properties including: Search, Ads, G Suite (Gmail, Chat, Meet, Docs, Drive, etc.), Cloud External HTTP(S) Load Balancing, Proxy/SSL Load Balancing, and many Cloud APIs.

...

Google engineers were alerted to the outage three minutes after impact began at 2020-09-24 18:03, and immediately began an investigation. At 18:15 the first service change, which significantly increased the number of programmed backends, was rolled back. At 18:18 the second service configuration change was rolled back. Google engineers started seeing recovery at 18:20 and at 18:33 the issue was fully mitigated.

A Google Front End (GFE) outage is a costly one, especially since it affected ads too. Oof.
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Looks like they are still trying to figure this out[0].

Also "hundreds" of accounts seems on the low side, anyone know the actual number of Redditors impacted?

[0] https://twitter.com/reddit/status/1311700793808941056
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Have you ever filled out an actual job application in the US? I'm pretty sure every job application I've filled out until San Francisco passed the Fair Chance Ordinance has asked if I have any convictions, and some have asked about arrests (which is crazy). And every job I can remember has done a background check.
People are hard. Who you are as a person (ego, purpose, identity, and belief systems) are at play and at the core of these issues. It’d be a lot easier if this was just about cutting checks to folks every month for the rest of their lives.
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Even if he's on the payroll of a Russian intelligence service, doubt he's immune to wanting to be compensated for the work involved in writing the book. If he's not on their payroll, whatever work he's doing to support himself in Russia, surely some supplemental income would be welcome.
More realistically will be the lawsuits unleashed from the southern district in NY, and I think a couple more from a few states, all for valid things. They’ve been readying them.
I threw a brick through a bank vault. Does that qualify?
I'm not sure I'd call this "bound" at all, though I like the siblings "dependency bound". To me this would be "blocked". "Bound" means I'm doing something productive, and I'm "bound" on whatever is limiting my speed. If I'm waiting on an external API outside my control, I'm not "bound" I'm "blocked" (stuck sitting around doing nothing, making no progress until they deign to get back to me).
> We can't make the punishment the same, or he would just murder her, yet I don't think such a person should every be let out.

Do you believe people can change? Or perhaps more generally, what do you think the purpose of a prison should be when considering rehabilitation vs punishment?
Is anyone aware of the implementation of a system where documents are checked out for access, possibly with limitted read only access and only optionally write access? My thought is that documents would then be slotted into categories like unimportant, contains sensitive information, must not be lost and possibly have greater barriers to access based on these criteria.
Has the Italian government found any of those other claims of responsibility credible enough to open an inquiry into them?

I found this passage in the article I linked interesting too:

> The request came as prosecutors demanded that a linked probe on allegations that two Italian intelligence agents were present at the site of Moro kidnapping be dismissed.
It was called The Machine: computer with unified memory. They released it without memristors in the end: HPE unveils The Machine, a single-memory computer with 160 terabytes of memory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14350396
Unfortunately, we do not know how neurons learn, compute and represent information in biological neural networks. Though I feel that there would be great potential in figuring this out - the energy efficiency and capabilities of the brain are truly amazing.
I can imagine that BSODs are useful-enough if you're writing a Windows kernel driver (or doing internal QA for someone writing a driver), and your new driver is what crashes.

(Which would be pretty likely, since when qualifying a new driver, you'd be stupid to use anything but the most bog-standard hardware and drivers for everything other than the particular device-under-test.)
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I think we would have found any database to be a PITA at write volumes and data volumes we were using, with our expectations of availability. I don't think we would have been able to get that performance out of MySQL, or Postgres; and anyway, we didn't have a dedicated team for database management to make sure nobody wrote bad queries if we did. Sync, status and reg ran on MySQL and php when I started, and it was a lot easier to run them and scale them on Erlang, IMHO. Repartitioning MySQL like we repartitioned mnesia would be a lot harder, I think.

I'm not too worried about a lack of experts and documentation. If you operate at the limits, you'll just need to become an expert, and the source code will be your documentation; mnesia is all written in Erlang, and not too hard to follow; most people won't hit the limits of ets, I'd think. If you don't operate at the limits, you might not need an expert, and if you keep up with OTP releases and hardware releases, the limits get bigger every year.

Looking back, I think we should have spent more time earlier on using the hooks mnesia provides to make healing clusters take less effort; and maybe some automation on cluster expansion. Of course, WA never shied away from manual work by server engineers. :)

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It's odd but seems to be quite common for people to know the least about the level of government closest to them. Most Americans know who is the president but I'd bet quite a few have no idea who represents them on their city council or county commission.
Do you program in elixir often?
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. Nothing new or interesting will come of it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They’ve likely also noticed that the time they spent in the funhouse afterwards was not so fun after all. So even if this were true (which I don’t think it is), they might think twice about going at it again.

If someone is more likely to do it again because they are mentally unstable, they shouldn’t be released.
I mean, they could remove section 230 protections, which is what the direction I've read seems they're looking towards :(
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This might be the strongest argument for monitoring all online traffic that governments have ever come across.
Thanks; seems like a superb analysis (in my extremely non-expert opinion†).

> addressability (effectively deflection DAC's resolutions)

So I guess from the perspective of how precisely a programmer could position vectors — and therefore how many distinct rotations would make sense — this limit in resolution was the ultimate deciding factor. There's a limit where more fine-grained angles/positions would have been pointless. But then, in turn, the DAC wasn't necessarily limited to that many bits because more wouldn't have been feasible, but because trying to position a vector more precisely would have been defeated in practice by the error introduced by the deflection coils, which can only be so accurate when you yeet the beam all over the place.

My working hypothesis is that it would have been possible to make a display with more precise positioning, but only for the rare case when you wanted to display extremely little information, such as a single moving dot, which was too niche and silly to spend resources on.

Does that sound about right? Just curious if I'm understanding the issue somewhat correctly.

† I know almost nothing about the topic but it seems analogous to aiming lasers with mirrors on computer-controlled actuators. Which was a rare treat in my childhood and has recently become accessible to modestly prosperous hobbyist hackers. Check out https://youtu.be/tozuzV5YZ7U for a quick taste. You'll probably want to watch the BTS next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YONOexk0Eke .

Oh and look, here's a thing that exists: Recreating Asteroids with lasers - Seb Lee-Delisle at An Evening of Unnecessary Detail — https://youtu.be/0RPHS1dlh_g (Only 4168 views, WTF?)
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Some people in university hinted that some lisps had special parsing stages for car/cdr based functionals. They may turn c(.)*r into nested (car (cdr ( ... ) ) ) calls.
Definitely not. This is a running theme.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/maritsapatrinos/dad-knew-best-in-ca...
How about: an insurance policy such that, if the employee does end up stealing, then the employer is made whole. The former-thief employee could pay for such a policy, and then it would seem the employer would be indifferent between the former thief and the average applicant. The policy could be paid for out of the thief's salary; he would effectively be accepting a lower wage.

If the job is minimum wage, of course, then it's not possible to lower the wage further.

Also, discovering the theft and proving it was that employee might be difficult.
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I'd even go further, notation should never .. well that's too radical, rarely be a topic of discussion.

Concepts are way more important. Spending time on syntax is like having a course in tar --flags.
Ask HN: Thinking about making a tutorial to create a QR code without a computer
I've been thinking about making a tutorial to make a QR code from scratch using graph paper, a pencil (or pen), and a (presumably) big paper booklet on how to encode ASCII characters, choosing the encoding type, Reed–Solomon error correction, etc. with no computer needed. I vaguely recall seeing something posted on HN about this at some point but I can't find it. I can't seem to find any blog posts on it either; I am very interested in reading any posts about it.

After a bit of research there's a website which shows what steps are required to make a QR code but are a bit light on the details. Wikipedia has some info but is pretty technical. It looks extremely complicated which is why I can't seem to find anything.

The goal would be to make a QR code that has a few characters encoded (like ABC) and could be read by a cellphone's camera.

This would be a significant project and a significant time investment as there's a lot of steps and many months (or maybe years) of reading and research. Would anyone be interested in reading a post about this and if so, what information/sections would be useful? Is this a pointless endeavor? Could this be packaged up into something that could be sold?
>Repealing it would only lead to more restrictions on what people can post.

...which so far appears to be necessary. Sure, FB announced yesterday that they are banning "LOL voting machines steal ur 401K" ads, but all of these announcements are really well past their sell-by dates, and Facebook has established repeatedly that they will be the last ones to do anything. I doubt we're ever going to "holy shit!" about them.
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I suspect this article is trying to problematize the issue more than describing an existing, widespread controversy among historians.

It lumps digital restoration, upscaling, frame interpolation, and colorization together, but all of these techniques are different, and some are more controversial than others.

For example, it's hard to think of an argument against using AI to remove imperfections from an image, if you are not troubled by having a human do the same thing. In both cases, information is being added where it had been lost. There's no way around that.

Colorization is a different thing altogether. But, pretending that historians view noise removal and colorization as equally problematic is misleading.
Look. No one is perfect. We all have our faults. But Trump is deeply flawed in many ways. And he hardly has any redeeming characteristics. If you think both are the same then you haven payed any attention or you are just pretending that your are neutral but in reality you love him. And you are definitely not a leftist. Even Chomsky and Bernie have warned us.
Giant is usually reserved for something much larger than the norm of that thing. Would you say that Mozilla’s executive pay is much higher than the norm for executive pay? I wouldn’t, but opinions certainly vary on this topic.
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I totally agree with this. I've long dreamed of something like a FPGA for NN's where the gradient is built into the hardware configuration.

Someday I'll sit down and actually try to design a prototype for such a thing.
I've read all the strips at least half a dozen times, I know about that gag ;) I'm just suggesting that Calvin might have internalized some of those since he's exposed to it so much.
Apparently this is in Gardena.
I mean, keep in mind that the Nasdaq is up more than Google’s stock over the past 5 years.
For anyone curious, the NDA signed prior to being given access to classified information is publicly available (link below).

Paragraph 5 spells the forfeiture of royalties pretty clearly, among other things.

SF-312: https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/SF312-13.pdf?forceDownload=1
I have never flown with them but did work for a startup airline for a few years. Reputation is low-cost, no-frills airline. I believe you only get a personal carry-on (under seat) free. Everything else you need to pay for.

I've heard compare to ryan air in europe
Clockless CPUs have been a theoretical idea for over a decade before the "neutral network" became a common phrase. Felt like a decade ago it was still a pipe dream. Resolving the asynchronous signals becomes a chore. The world feels stateful and ordered to humans. In the same way functional programming can be difficult, getting this right is very hard.
> Do you think that the "programming language" should sacrifice the usefulness of its syntax in order to appeal to beginners more?

No. This has been tried a lot and has mostly failed. The notation can be a barrier but it isn't the hardest part.
Yeah, I get it. In some places it's part of the cultural identity. It just feels like giving them hope is a bad idea.
Many of them actually are working remotely, but have the option to go into the local office if they need anything. Sometimes they also started going into the office a few days a week and then stopped because there's really no point when the team they're working with is remote. (This is before COVID - now everybody is in this situation, and it's likely the whole company will once we come out of COVID. Most of the moves in question were either from my first time at Google [2009-2014] or the period when I wasn't working for them [2014-2020].)

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Well yeah, because most blue collar jobs don't want you to be classified as a full time employee. It's still de facto a full time job even if you are only on the time clock for 38, imo.
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So that was the view of a pre-9/11 world. Post 9/11 we learned that terrorist organizations can plot and fund crimes against the US from overseas.

The best way to stop terrorists are with their funding. Stop the funding and they wither on the vine.
It’s interesting that the very people that say ‘they haven’t learned their lesson’ perpetuate that exact thing.

There was an article a little while back about a company tracking the employees behavior on the computer, and a lot of people mentioned that ‘if you are not trusted regardless, what incentive do you have to be trustworthy’.

This is the exact same thing.
Normally I think you're right about these things, but between the ivory tower comment, and the sentence after, I think there's an implied argument that's pretty relevant to the situation.

That argument being that the academic approach hasn't lead to people having a more accurate image of history. It has scared them off and resulted in most of them having almost no knowledge of history. The approach doesn't seem to lead to it's intended goal.

The comment was perhaps made a bit crassly, but I think it's something worth considering.
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The studies on covid lung damage found that it lasts 1-3 months and then recovers in all cases where ARDS is not diagnosed. I wonder if this is similar (e.g. intense viral infection, regardless of symptoms, leads to myocarditis but then heals over time). That's the biggest open question mark about how bad covid is that hasn't been addressed yet.
The Republicans want one type of change to section 230, which would prevent the suppression of conservative-adjacent voices. On the other hand, the Democrats would like the opposite: greater responsibility of the platform to limit racist, sexist, and violent content.

I just want to observe that the position of "conservative" Republicans is to insert the hand of a central government to limit the operations of a private company, and the Democrats are taking the self-regulation stance, the "hands-off option," if you will.
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You should be super uncomfortable to tie your account recoveries to any carrier, though. Don't use phone recovery.
Well for one, last time I checked GH doesn’t allow this in their UI.

And on balance, I love open source!

It’s just one of those unfortunate things where it’s hard and slow to be considerate while being easy and cheap to be inconsiderate.
I think the OP is talking about BitMex. I work at a crypto exchange and a large part of our team is dedicated to monitoring and reporting(through SARs and STRs) suspicious activity.
That’s exactly there.

You can pre-pick the scenario, “Live in partner with no interactions besides you.”

You can also get there through the series of drop-downs.
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