skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's an interesting take on this from Grugq:

https://gru.gq/2020/10/18/ransomware-prohibition/

"The current situation, where there is no criminalisation of payment has created a market place where a number of companies working with insurers are handling the vast majority of ransomware incidents. There are crisis responders who help the companies recover, who arrange a minimal payment, and who get paid by the insurers. This is market governance and it keeps the prices down because there is a sort of gentlemen’s agreement between the gangs and the payment companies. Also, the lack of prohibition means these companies operate in the open and they can share information about pricing etc internally and with each other. (Transparency)

The status quo is not the ideal world, but it is far better than the nightmare of ineffective partial prohibition."
The whole premise of this thread is the speculation: "Google would eventually try to deprecate whatever API peertube needs". My answer to that is "basically do what webtorrent already does" (but using a different API)
I don’t like 1 because then it creates the issue of price negotiations. How can you put a standard price on privacy? Also, privacy isn’t really the focus of this lawsuit.

And I don’t like 2 because the news isn’t the only industry being negatively affected by Google’s monopoly.
You can Google and see more symptoms. Things like unexplained weight loss and overall fatigue are signs. They also say "gas" can be a sign, and I actually did notice I was "tooting" a lot more than normal, although after a certain amount of time, you forget what normal is. I'm not sure if that itself was another symptom, but it certainly was part of my overall feeling of my situation that did lead me to book the doctor appointment.
It is. Does that knowledge help to use git/GitHub in any way? If you can have a certificate without practically using git/GitHub while people who use git/GitHub every day failed to get one because they don't bother to flash card GitHub trivia, is that certificate worth something?
Bootstrapping is as important as dogfooding. If you make it easy for people to try things, maybe they'll use it - maybe they'll change it. But if it crumbles in their hands, then it was never going to survive.
Exactly. And they're responding to the incentives in the system we've built. CEO tenure has dropped dramatically over the decades, while CEO compensation has skyrocketed. I can't find a measure elsewhere, but I'm sure sub-CEO executive position tenure is way shorter.

So if one is playing to maximize cash, the optimal strategy is to be very good at bullshit, self-promotion, and generating impressive short-term metrics without regard to long-term impact. You have to look good, and then you have to avoid the long-term consequences of your choices. Then when you get to the top, it's even more important to juke the stats so that executive compensation is maximized. Because by then you're standing on top of a pyramid of bullshitters with little devotion to the workers or the customers.
Out of curiosity, how is paying randomware all that much different from handing a mugger your money? And is it also illegal to pay kidnappers? Honest question.
I didn't say I believed this to be true myself. I'm saying that the logic is analogous to the argument in the article.

I do think there's something to 'shared experiences' across ethnic groups to an extent, though it probably won't have as strong an effect as sharing a religion, given that religion is at least nominally a choice, and has an explicit ideology backing it. Nevertheless, you see this effect when you see viral memes with captions like "only asian american kids get this" -- obviously these don't apply universally, but there's enough of something there to drive their virality. Hell, sometimes it may be as simple as shared experiences dealing with racism.

> Saying that people naturally converge on a shared culture based on their skin color just sounds like thinly veiled racism.

I don't really see how you got this from what I said.
I watched a video once of an adult that taught himself perfect pitch. It turned out the way he learnt it was a little different than how a child might learn it as he had to use reference points in his mind and then use relative pitch to calculate the actual note. This would take him quite a long time compared to someone who had learnt it young who could tell you the note straight away almost without thinking. I can't find the video now but there are many other similar videos on YouTube.
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It's more that any word where one has to slow down and insert extra time between syllables so that they are distinghishable and intelligible is a "poorly designed word". Otherwise, it starts blurring due to the lack of a consonant.
you are being downvoted because kvm is just not capable of being hyper v and it never will be. hyper v is the best software in existance and windows will be fine forever.
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Maybe the assumption is that a complimentary standards like OIDC are necessary and expected?
Sadly you're right. AAISP is very much worth a look, but they're not cheap. We went with Sky because they're good for the low price point - our longer term play is a joint order with the majority of our street for FTTPoD (Fibre to the Premises on Demand) through Cerberus Networks (which will cost quite a bit more, but take time). (this will eventually get us up to 900Mb/s, and the build will be entirely funded by the Governments DCMS Gigabit rural broadband voucher scheme, and built by Openreach.)

All indications are that Cerberus are extremely technical - the sales guys were able to talk BGP happily (not literally).
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hyperopic if you're lucky enough to have coverage. dirt cheap gig e.
You wouldn't own it anyhow, you're licensed to use it either way.
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Lots of businesses that were direct competitors to the internet.

It makes 0 sense for journalism to shrivel in the age of the internet, it's just dying because its revenue (selling ads, newspaper prices were never what covered expenses) was disconnected from the value it provides.

It's a public service, we should have a way to fund it somehow.
If they had the kind of control over the human consciousness that you're suggesting they probably wouldn't be in the position of being sued by the federal government in the first place.
Even if I don't care about the morality/legality of it, I probably wouldn't bother. Google knows every profile and IP address I've ever used. It would be trivial for them to detect this, and close it down again. It's just not worth the effort.
Did you live near?
I use both Google and Dropbox. Photos, for instance, are backed up on both services. Full resolution on Dropbox and whatever resolution on GPhotos. Dropbox is my real backup because it syncs to my PCs, and Photos is my convenient AI searchable backup for when I'm looking for a photo quickly.

And since Gmail's inception, I've been using a forwarded pop (edit: I meant imap) address from a custom domain. I've been accessing my forwarded mail through Gmail for 15-ish years now. I remember there's some fiddling in the settings and you have to make sure when you respond to an email that it responds with your custom address. But I've never had an issue all these years, and if Gmail were to drop tomorrow, I still have all my mail.
Wow very interesting insights. Thanks for the write up.
So, apis with multiple non-browser native clients?

Basically the current app model, but decoupling the owners of the client ant the api?

I think it could work, but you'd probably have to mix ads directly into the return values for it to be at all profitable.

Then again, if clients are one time download, and the owner of the api doesn't have to deliver 5-10 meg of JS every single time, you might be able to get away with less ads.
That's great. Congratulations! One thing I didn't understand before this was how meaningful hearing stories of success like yours would become for me and my family.
> Which is why you wouldn't pay it in the first place

Currently, ransomware operators could just decrypt half your files upon 50% payment, and demand yet another payment for the rest. But they don't. Why? Because they seem to have naturally converged upon honoring their decryption payments in order to maximize total profit. I think if paying the ransom was made more explicitly illegal, the ransomware operators would probably converge on not outing their clients. At least for now.
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I am having difficulty understanding this post.
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As an American, my entire circle communicates almost exclusively using services like WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram.

iMessage shows up occasionally while forming initial connections, but I tend to move the conversation to one of these other services as soon as possible and the other party is almost always OK with that. (I do this in part because I don't regularly use my Mac and these other programs have web versions that can be used on all platforms including Windows PC.)

If you're curious about demographics I'm in my mid 30s. My particular social group is not big into Facebook or Facebook Messenger (though I know they own WhatsApp) since we are techies and privacy-conscious. I'd rather have a 1on1 or small group chat than blast thoughts out into the ether when in that mode of communication. (Hacker News is different. It's cultivated, moderated, and oriented around exploring curiosity.)
No we can't.

In so far as we can understand people with different accents it's because we have been trained on them. Even if they are not common around us we've had some exposure, from occasional visitors, travels, or media. When we hear an accent we've really never been exposed to we aren't likely to understand it. A good example is foreign speakers trying to speak our native language... even if they've learned our language in school for years, their even slightly off pronunciation can make it very difficult to understand what they are saying.
The key word is “recognition”, not comprehension. Humans do much better with a higher error rate since they can fill in gaps through comprehension and context.
The human right to privacy, like other human rights, should not be saleable.
The model wasn't already there. Everyone means the public cloud. Mainframes were at best, private clouds.
Re: semiconductor behaviour, I’m having flashbacks to my mandatory Semiconductor Physics class in EE. First day of class: “To understand semiconductors, you first have to understand solid-state physics. To understand solid-state physics, you have to understand quantum mechanics. Settle down now, we’ve got a lot to cover. Let’s begin...”
Python’s grammar is well defined and has far more validation. YAML has multiple ways to define the same output and since it makes almost anything legal there’s not a way for a tool to disambiguate.

For example, if you double-indent something, YAML will just silently assume you wanted a nested data structure but Python will throw an indentation error. That causes issues in many editors when copy-and-pasting.

That pattern continues where Python uses indentation to force clarity and consistency but still has syntax which removes ambiguity. A key one is that Python requires quoting data, avoiding all of the common data loss in YAML when people happen to enter data with meaning in YAML (country=no, names with equal signs or colons, etc.), and you have to open and close structures with syntax rather than just indentation.

The most analogous Python bug is when a statement immediately after an if, nested def, etc. is one level of indentation than intended. That definitely happens but a fair fraction of the time it’s immediately obvious because it usually fails due to something like a variable not being in scope. YAML consumers are more likely to ignore extra elements so it’s easier to miss things like that for a while unless you have an unusually strict validation stage.
FreeBSD feels more solid to me; upgrades are easier, and stuff changes less often. I don't have time to keep up with maintaining a Linux server any more.
> It had no interest in serving people stuck at home.

Why not? Esp. when everybody's at home!? This sounds ridiculous.
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> Old pre-mobile sites will be fine

Who can guarantee this? What are the criteria that Google uses to determine "the site operator made the site explicitly unavailable to mobile phones"?

> those websites that actively decide to give mobile users lower resolution images

Mobile internet is a joke even in developed countries such as Germany, and data caps on mobile are absurdly low. It's annoying that zoom does not work, yes, but I hate sites with a passion that think it's ok to waste 3 MB of my precious 2GB data volume for a single fucking pageview.
> You're making the same assumption that people with the same skin color will have the same culture.

He said ethnicity, not skin colour. Ethnicity is a quite broad and fluid concept which you could assign to any distinguishable cultural group which has some shared history, shared norms or values etc.

As such, it's entirely valid to say that if you belong to a certain ethnicity, statistically you're quite likely to converge personally on many of its norms and values. That doesn't mean all muslims are alike, but two muslims are more alike, ceteris paribus, than a muslim and a non-muslim.

That also doesn't exclude that there can be many different ethnicities at play at the same time, e.g. there are asian (e.g. Indonesian) muslims and african (e.g. Moroccan) muslims. And again, a muslim moroccan is more alike a Moroccan jew than perhaps an Indonesian muslim. Because Morocco has a culture, and Moroccans as an ethnicity converge to many of its norms and values, just like Indonesians in Indonesia.

And so indeed, Black Americans are a distinct ethnicity from African Americans (for lack of better terminology), agreed. And within those ethnicities its willing or unwilling members converge on the norms/values in those groups. I don't see how that's controversial. That doesn't mean they're all copies or mindless drones. Nor does it mean the members cannot have other ethnicities which they also converge on.

I'd say the fact members of group A statistically tend to be more likely to exhibit than outside members, the characteristics of group A (i.e., converging weakly or strongly to norms/values of group A), is so obvious that it is almost a truism that isn't worth stating, and hardly controversial or thinly veiled racism.
This used to be called TxAuth. You can find a lot of the discussions online through search:

- https://ietf.topicbox-scratch.com/groups/txauth

- https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/txauth
By the same logic, shouldn’t it be illegal to hand over your wallet if you get mugged?

Companies aren’t really paying this money by choice, they are paying it because losing systems/data can in some cases result in an inability to operate - otherwise it wouldn’t really be a ransom.
I think you almost hit the nail on the head.. it’s like a paraphrase of that saying about genius vs talent.. the difference between good work and great work is.. good work takes resources, but properly great work surprises us with how little it takes..
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I'm very sorry to hear about your brother.

Glad to hear you are staying on top of your situation.

As far as triggering my cancer, I have no idea. And I don't think anyone is going to give me any more clarity than that. I don't think it's possible to do so. What they have told me is that more and more young people are getting colon cancer, and they aren't quite sure why.
There is always going to be money in it as long as there is ever anything worth ransoming.

What's new here is a new type of criminalization and an incentive to hide your actions from the government. And if the ransomer is asking $5,000 and the government will fine you $50,000, then you have a good incentive to gamble on never getting caught, and that's already a game corporations play (very successfully) with taxes.
Thanks for your comment and question. What do you think about this argument: Actually what we try to do has been done by, for instance, Google: They find people with great skills and ask them to work for them in California. They pay them so much that they will work for them and even move to Cali (at least before Covid-19).

Now in a Covid-19 context remote work obviously created a new way to think about salaries. If you sit at a desk in Cali or in Germany and do basically the same work, it will be very hard to communicate why the US developer should earn so much more or why the German one should earn so much less :)
At the end of the day we could thus start with just a few companies being willing to pay the global price tag of the skill. The result may be that these pioneering companies will hire better talents. This will also cause other developers to demand the same. As this shift slowly progresses it might become a standard in how developers are paid.
I moved to Microsoft, but the story is the same.

Own your domain name, with that you can go anywhere.

Once you become a paying customer the options are so much better and more comprehensive. And owning your domain let’s you do far more flexible things. Rent a VPS, install ftpd. No longer live with San Francisco imposed choices.
When building web games the browser differences can bite you even if you're following the standard. Firefox is currently rolling out WebRender which hopefully will solve the performance issues I'm facing (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=925025).
Next they'll be saying, Bitcoin will be the interplanetary reserve asset. Then the interstellar. Intergalactic. Universal. Not in our lifetimes, is course. But it's coming.
Rankine cycle tops out at 40%, gas turbines are more like 50%, and combined cycle, which is really what's being implemented here, can reach around 60%.

When the gas is essentially free, there's not much incentive for efficiency, but they could have powered the compressor with a smaller yet more efficient combined cycle system. If you can economically extract power from a powerplant's waste heat, the original power plant was suboptimally designed.
It's not a fortune but ignoring the actual money:
* It's publicity for peertube, here and other places
* It could get a good chunk of useful development done if used correctly
* It's an endorsement from a trusted body that might help build awareness and momentum

I realised at the last second my last comment was about peertube too :). I have no stake but I'd love YouTube alternatives.
I'm a fan of Randi up to a point. Some of his investigations were culturally relevant, such as Popoff's prayer cards. But also some of his work was decidedly low stakes, such as Uri Geller's spoon bending (though Geller escalated with potentially ruinous lawsuits).

Ultimately the skeptic movement left us with tame establishment defenders such as Michael Shermer, and a complete disregard for the positive roles Christianity plays in our Western heritage, culture, and communities.

That all said, James Randi was a very impressive and entertaining man. And I love that he was an ambassador for sobriety which is rare, and I think fitting of the scientific mindset.
> What is stopping Republicans from getting those bureaucratic jobs too?

Many of them aren't especially attracted by quaint notions of serving, you know, the public.
I didn't test Philips ones, but bought a simple one for a fraction of their price for Little One to help her know when it's ok to get up.

It was really a game changer, it only wakes her when her sleep is light (we go in there ~10 minutes after if we have a timing to follow, or let her finish her sleep if not) and she stopped getting up at random times.

Now thinking about getting something similar for us too :)
> Meg Whitman has had a legendary career

Meg Whitman was lucky enough to ride the eBay rocket at the right moment. Everything she touched after that, went wrong.
I'm wondering if we're giving up too much with the move away from clear text to binary, reminds me of systemd.

Considering so much of the internet traffic is not text media was it necessary.

I feel there is a slight possibility of a Google optimisation for a problem they perceive. And then no one questions because brrr faster brrr.

But I'm conscious I might come across as a bit of a Luddite, but it's mostly musing.
AAISP has an excellent product. Their sales team wasn't the easiest to deal with (pretty brusque in my experience), but in the ~15 months I've been with them, the connection has been rock-solid and never throttled. You do pay for it though (£45/month bottom line for ~75Mbps).
Is it possible to set privacy settings per container (keep cookies or not, delete history), or is that still a universal switch for every tab?
Sorry, who or what is RMS?
My disappointment is immeasurable. This is going to cause a worse Github culture to emerge.
It doesn't have to be popular in order to be successful, or worthwhile.
You want to talk to ISPs that target themselves at business use, rather than consumer ISPs who are indeed all in a race to the bottom, with a side-serving of barely different custom routers.

Zen Internet (zen.co.uk) have pricing comparable to consumer ISPs, but provide significantly better service, and have support staff who can actually fix your problems.

Andrews & Arnold (aaisp.net.uk) are very much priced for business users, but on the flip side of that have possibly the best support available - on occasions I've used them in the past calling up their support line always resulted in immediately being answered by someone who knew how ADSL works inside out, and could happily diagnose routing errors without escalating to anyone. They also once called me to say they'd detected activity which indicated malware was present on my network, and that I might like to resolve that.

Depending on where you live, there's also quite a few ISPs popping up who are running their own fibre throughout cities and selling symmetric gigabit connections for about the same price as BT would charge you for 60Mbps.
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>I find it shocking that strangers would actually stand up for an artist on the internet that seems to be having their work used without permission. Shocking in a good way.

This happens a lot. Artists have followers who like them and want them to succeed, and those followers will get mad and notify the artist if their images are being sold/used illegally.
Chocolatey is far better than downloading installers manually, but it's just slow as every installer has to do its own thing rather than just relying on a package manager to place files where they belong. It also doesn't remember why a package was installed, so dependencies of a package aren't removed after uninstalling it.
Rules are only interesting when it's likely that you can be forced to follow them. In this case, they're not germane.
I think the year of Linux on the desktop will be heralded by Microsoft introducing WSL3 that provides absolute compatibility with all Linux applications. ;-)

Not that most people would want to run most of those, but Microsofts corporate customers are fed up with supporting those Linux laptops and all the problems related to that.
Not sure when this happened. But Adwords does have a phone number and companies have their own agent.