skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After the last four years and everything you learned about Trump, is it really THAT hard to believe? How many 74 year olds do you know who are tech savvy enough to enable 2FA or use a random password?
There is no truth to it, because to weapons manufacturers and engineers, the division between "West" and "East" is facile, and a fallacy.

In fact, tech wants to be free to all humans. We are its host.
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Oh, yes. In terms of the math, thank you. Agreed.
As someone has mentioned in the comments in this thread, it is easy to pass laws & schemes sitting in a comfortable office. The implementation which takes resources, efficient distribution, competence and leg work is another story.

Anyways, I do not want to be too critical of anyone. My knowledge is limited to a few families I know and the few cities I have lived in. India is huge and hard to describe in a few sentences.

Finally, to clarify, I am not the guy who would buy an iPhone or go to Dubai. I am a lowly programmer, happy with my $250 Android which I use for 2-3 years.
The guy has apparently done it before. Edit: dutch media are reporting that they have seen evidence that backs up his claim.
Or they might be USians themselves, trying to distance themselves from their country being so imperialist.
Off topic: how do you format text on Hacker News? I never knew it was possible to use italics.
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Ditto for me.

I supported ACLU for decades. But about 30 years ago I noticed their messaging changing: less about racial civil rights and a move toward sexual civil rights. I met someone who worked with their local offices and in conversations it became apparent that ACLU was undergoing a shift in management style: persons from the gay community were moving into local and national positions in their organization.

Fast forward to 20 years later ACLU was (also) now concerned about bullying in schools. I had seen one bullying incident in my entire life, despite exposure to all types of people. Seeing their fallback from black civil rights, the advancement of LGBT causes to the forefront, and the support of such causes as "bullying", I surmised that ACLU had "gone off the rails". It was no longer the organization I once admired. I ceased my contributions.
So if I speak to someone from Colombia or Brasil I should expect them to say they are American?
Because it would be like me saying that Linux desktop is completely useless because it doesn't have a decent remote desktop solution.

It's true, but just because that makes the Linux desktop dead to me might not make the Linux desktop useless to you.

I did note that the WSL2 push might finally mean Linux gets proper RDP support, thanks to Microsoft. The irony is not lost on me.
I appreciate you linking your config. I made one or two changes to my own config and it seems to have improved.

I don't quite understand why this works without +lsp in the python language configuration. I also don't really understand the significance of lsp-mode versus eglot or whether or not this change made a difference. But -- these changes make my config a lot easier to use and build off of now.
Are taxes really that high compared to other countries? India has a tax to gdp ratio of 10%, compared to 25% in the US and 40% in the EU. Maybe you are underestimating just how much taxes are required to fund an effective welfare state?
Several years old example: a local forum for mothers were discussing an acute breast feeding problem one of them had (stuck milk), and one of them uploaded a video showing how to massage the milk out of a breast.

That was quickly banned as inappropriate. Probably because you could see a nipple. I think she uploaded it to Vimeo instead when they found out.

That example certainly taught me to think of Youtube more as a cache than as a storage, if that makes any sense.

It also came across as oppressive. The fear of the nipple winning over basic human issues.
Two economists were walking down the street. The first one says: “Isn’t that a $20 bill?” The second one says: “Can’t be. If it were, somebody would have picked it up already.”
The user facing surface of FreeeBSD from twenty years ago is still pretty similar to the surface today.

ifconfig still configures network interfaces (including wireless)

the init system is still the same

you still have the same three firewalls to choose from

the audio system is still the same

The internals are quite a bit different (and more capable), and I don't think zfs was in FreeBSD back then, but UFS2 still works.

If you want to experience twenty year old FreeBSD, to compare with modern FreeBSD, Apple has lovingly preserved it as the userland unix interface in MacOs, they've even got a circa 2000 tcp stack.
I hate to say it, but I'm concerned all the establishment of a regulator is going to do is push tech companies to lobby more heavily. Thus, the end result of this measure will be simply to cement the positions of established players with the capital to get policymakers on their side while denying new players access to the market.
Yeah that's a rather common scheme out there so Serde does provide built-in support for this deserialisation. Probably better for deserialisation performances to use properly tagged enums, but if you don't have a choice Serde's got your back.
Thank you, that was enlightening. Among their considerations,

"the potential effect on marginalized communities; the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are
contrary to our values;"

It sounds like maybe they've adjusted their "unwavering commitment to the principle of free speech"

"That’s because the defense of freedom of speech is most necessary when the message is one most people find repulsive. Constitutional rights must apply to even the most unpopular groups if they’re going to be preserved for everyone."

[1] https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech
I agree with all of this except the last sentence.

“Winning” against China isn’t just some notional idea. Like it or not, being globally competitive matters for the overall health of the US economy.
I agree. I'm very skeptical that twitter doesn't have some special safeguards in place, nevermind Trump.
I suppose that through their Business API, but given the amount facebook paid for them and the scale at which they operate, I don't think that would be enough to cover their costs.
Then all they need is to lobby for legalization of anonymous payments.
Sadly, I was only able to count through a vanishingly small subset of the reals in a finite time, and therefore am not a general intelligence, and so it would be foolish of me, a machine made of a handful of atoms, to try to criticize this paper. It sure would be nice if I could appreciate music, but you've proven that's impossible, so it is what it is.
> On Friday morning, almost absentmindedly, Gevers tries a number of passwords and their variations. On the fifth attempt: bingo! He tries ‘maga2020!’ (short for make America great again) and suddenly finds himself in the Twitter account of the American President. He is flabbergasted. Gevers: ‘I expected to be blocked after four failed attempts. Or at least would be asked to provide additional information.’ None of that.
Done what?
lets integrate the nukes with twitter and IFTTT.
I honestly find it difficult to believe his password was maga2020!
That may be the case, you're not wrong about what the US has done in Latin America. That said, I've never in my life heard anyone from Latin America call themselves American. Now that's just my experience, so I'm open to being proven wrong.

When I lived in Costa Rica for a time, I was only ever "Americano" and everyone from there were "ticos" or "costarricense." Though to be fair, Costa Rica has pretty much been spared of American meddling.
Right, so you have to send CRCs as well.

The nice thing about this scheme is that you don't technically need to send an active repeater: the mirrors on the moon could already serve this purpose.

At the end of the day, it's a tradeoff between the cost of extra storage, the sequential aspect of data retrieval from a delay line, and its energy cost.
> The edit? No. Why would it be a typo? You assume everyone's first language is English, right?

No, I was asking if it was a typo because I interpreted it as being a counter-point to the point you were trying to make. Here it is again, emphasis mine:

> Edit: also, searching for "prolog web framework" gets you stuff about using prolog for web application development. [...] And no sniff of this new framework.

I interpreted this as being critical of fuzzy matching, but I realize now you may have been giving an example of a transliteration a hypothetical searcher would make themselves, which makes more sense. Since what you described is what I consider to be the ideal behavior of a search engine, I thought it was possibly you meant to say "also, searching for 'prologue web framework'". I'm sorry I misunderstood.

> The language is an implementation detail [...]

I don't personally agree with this. If the language is important to the project (in this case, it is since this is a web framework for Nim), I would probably make a point to add that context.

> I think I looked at your history, and this is not the first time you got in to a debate like this, so I'm out...

Sincerely asking (it sounds snarky but I don't know how else to ask): is there something wrong about the way I'm arguing my position? I am not trying to be rude or anything, I just sincerely disagree. Would it be better if I just conceded or simply stopped responding?

> it's a bad name - the creator should probably rethink it or prefix "Nim" to make it unique, but whatever.

Disagree. I suppose it's my fault for arguing what clearly comes down to your opinion.

Edit:

> My position is that you are massively underestimating the issue with the words basically looking and sounding the same.

I totally understand the hypothetical issues that can come up in this kind of situation.

My position is simply that in this case the arguments against using this name are contrived and furthermore are resolved with the slightest pinch of context.
A heads up: Hyperventilating before diving can be fatal, so not something I'd recommend in that context, at least. Which also makes me a bit dubious about his other claims.

Edit: found a twitter thread where he told someone to not do it before freediving, so at least we agree there. I've just seen his method mentioned so many times in relation to breath hold, and it's so incredibly dangerous to do under water.
If you ever had to manage a site that had user accounts, you'd have realized that locking down access before the 5th attempt is a recipe for an insane amount of user frustration.
He's logged into Trumps account before. His password was 'yourefired' at the time.
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>Multiple rendering engines are probably a good thing in the long term for the web,

I think people forget how terrible browser compatability used to be. You had to use jQuery and worry about what you could and couldn't use. Pax Chromana in comparison is a dream.

It's possible that chrome stagnates like IE did. But I don't think so. Google is primarily a web company and so it's in their interest to keep innovating on the browser to make their websites better.
People will really pay anything for status over functionality.
The NPM public roadmap and a new feedback process
Poaching has a much broader meaning than the one you describe. It's simply taking someone's property without permission. With modern employment contracts (non-competes/no outside work/drug tests...) I believe the comparison to property is quite apt.
In this Dutch article (https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artikel/5191916/d...) it is suggested that they didn't use two-step verification because it would be cumbersome for his campaign team.

Whether or not this is true, Twitter definitely needs to start having multi-user functionality. Beyond TweetDeck Teams.
Yes, many! I use deeper-blue. solarized-light and -dark are also good. Themes don’t seem to work well with terminal emacs though, but I haven’t dug into the issue much since I’m mostly in the GUI.
I mean who knows how many intelligence agencies are reading his DM's. If I knew Trumps password I wouldn't do anything that would make it clear that I knew it.
I was asking about Chrome profiles, not Firefox containers. I use dozens of Firefox containers already, and it's my understanding that Chrome profiles aren't a good substitute because you can only use one at a time.
There are a few websites that will detect unusual behavior from browsers living inside of browsers. Although it does seem to work for most websites.
The password format <word><number><special char> is surely the most common password pattern that everyone seems to have independently adopted
Flying somewhere else to buy something is not paying tax, and it doesn't break the law.
I'd guess they wouldn't be the first, but they may be the first white hat.
NES is not 16 bit, and they don't make clones, they are licensed to make official consoles on behalf of the foreign company.
psyco worked well for me at the time as well -- I remember doing something with it and pyGame, FWIR.
My understanding is basically: "We'll contact you by email or through the launcher at an unspecified time to tell you how to migrate, but you'll lose your account if you miss it."

Which is fantastic. Time to look into Minetest.
"My other phone is the nuclear football."
I agree that they are a good alternative, but to me they're also a very bad combination of being somewhat expensive and, at the same time, easy to steal.

Personally if I were to invest in an e-bike, it would have to be the folding variant which I could take with me.
I had friends doing microdosing and your post is 100% align with what I have seen. They also experienced periods of paranoia, after people weren't that impressed with their results.
Yeah, I wasn't at all clear on how that quote helped. From it, I couldn't tell if it was a worm gear, or a screw thread. Nor can I tell how much power the wrench has. Either in torque or in grip. Really, without the picture, I would have no real hint as to what it looked like. Nor how it worked. :(

Add to all of that the main decider in regards to strength and build will be material science related, and that description is borderline useless.

Seriously, gears don't just cut themselves. Threaded metal fittings are the advanced type theory for these tools.
They tested so many factors and so many data points that you could start to consider it unintentional P hacking. 24 people might also be underpowered. Best to view the findings as hypotheses to study further rather than concluaive results. I personally can't think of a drug that stops working and starts working again with dose like this, but if LSD did have that sort of profile, that would be a really fascinating new mechanistic insight. Probably just noise though
Start using myminifactory like the rest of us who got pissed off with how they manage (well... don't manage) thingiverse.
Could you provide some more information about the local bridge proxy? I'm trying to implement something similar but don't know where to start.
> It's ironic that how until something is promulgated by or studied by a western university it is discredited.

I don't think it was discredited. It's just making the case stronger using science. I believe this will keep happening and that's good!
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Time spent to that person to go there if you can afford a 12 would be worth more than saved.
>take hallucinogens is when you believe you have adopted a negative approach in viewing reality, when you've gone down a cul de sac of sorts. If this is a day in day out experience perhaps a 'pattern interupt' is a good thing.

I don't really agree with the rest of your post, but this i do think is probably the best usage of hallucinogens as far as therapy goes. I don't really think microdosing is the way to go about it. In my experience, that 'big reset' to harmful thoughts and patterns of actions is the primary benefit to theraputic hallucinogen use.

I liken it to when you've got like 50 apps open on a desktop, a few with memory leaks, CPU's running hard all cores, memory usage is at 100%, swap's totally used.

So you reset, everything shuts down and restarts, all that's running are the system init processes and memory's cleared and ready to go.

I don't really feel like microdosing is the best way to go about this and i'm not even sure if LSD is a very good drug for that. I've never really had any introspective experiences with LSD. They've just been kind of shallow and fun. Psilocybin on the hand gave me far more of a theraputic trip with one high dose. I tried the microdosing thing. It just made feel like I was stoned all the time.
>I wonder how Franklin's views would change in a world of social media driven mass emotional manipulation.

Not entirely different than the era of newspapers and the town crier. The volume might be more now, but the end result is roughly the same. A couple loud sources blanketing the majority of public opinion.

Also, for his view not to stand up, wouldnt one group or the other need to be more represented on emotionally manipulative platforms?
> This is true but for apps where source code is available, it doesn't seem like that much of an impediment to keeping things working. I use various tools that haven't been updated for many years but have been easy to keep working as Linux userspace has changed. For closed-source things indeed it's different.

Closed source or unmaintained. Setting up build environments is such a chore with a high probability of conflict that people often use docker containers for it. On top of that, compiling unmaintained older software yourself often requires enough knowledge to dig into the code and correctly fix the errors that have been introduced by API changes. Personally, I find it easier to try and get old binaries working instead.

Besides, closed source software not only exists, but also describes some of the most popular professional tools in existence.

> The example was ffmpeg. You're right that there probably aren't that many examples of common libraries of that size. But Qt is a good example and why shouldn't it be reasonable to use it and not have a burden placed on me to provide security updates?

Windows provides both its own media and GUI layers. I don't see why Windows should be expected to maintain any alternatives people choose to use.

> If I am writing an app and want to use something like libcurl, I would prefer not to have the onus placed on me to monitor and distribute libcurl security updates for the rest of my life, especially if this is just a hobby project. Suddenly I am taking on the role and responsibility akin to a whole Linux distribution, and all because I wanted to write some silly little app.

Your choices as a developer have consequences! Windows has its own APIs for this. If you don't want the burden of maintaining a non-platform dependency then don't use one. If it is "just a hobby project" and you don't want to update your dependencies then just don't. The alternative is being beholden to third party volunteers to keep your software both available and working.
Yup. It used to have color-themes, which I believe was a package, but maybe five years ago they switched to supporting themes as first class citizens.

I use solarized dark
“Too inconvenient”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/22/donald-tr...
HTTP 431 – Request Header Fields Too Large
I think you're right, but that's maybe not giving credit to the overall concept presented. The patent description text, even surrounded with the illustrations, still stands on its own. Yes, a picture paints a thousand words, but it would be nice if software engineers would write their descriptions or documentation as precise as that simple paragraph.

So don't miss the point of the article simply because maybe the patent illustration doesn't strictly hold. I'm personally tired of seeing lazy data structures that offer great amount of ambiguity in their use and type. This article hits on a great point that software folks can really stand to improve on.
If you haven't, you need to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHaBH4LqGsI

edit: title is "You Should Probably Change Your Password! | Michael McIntyre Netflix Special" if you prefer to search on youtube yourself
It's got everything a strong password needs. Letters, numbers, and special characters!
TechShop publishes names and residential addresses of all former members
The HTML source of this link contains ALL names and home addresses of former TechShop members. This is a grave privacy violation especially for those who may be at risk of stalking or other behavior. How can we get them punished for this, and get this list removed?

Starting at line 3101 of:

view-source:https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:8u4-b9we70QJ:https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/filings/D74LXGTI/TechShop_Inc__canbke-18-50398__0001.0.pdf+&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Twitter spokesperson Ian Plunkett:

“We’ve seen no evidence to corroborate this claim, including from the article published in the Netherlands today. We proactively implemented account security measures for a designated group of high-profile, election-related Twitter accounts in the United States, including federal branches of government.”

https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/22/dutch-hacker-trump-twitter...
Thanks for the idea. For me that's not an optimal solution for 2 reasons:

* I care about using the same tools and having a consistent environment. Vagrant (for example) is awesome for building when you want to mirror a production machine, but not that great for other use cases. In my case, I would have my Mac shell for everyday use + a vagrant-based Linux shell for my software projects, so that makes two different OSes to play with… If my project doesn't require that, I would prefer not increase my "OS contact surface" :)

* I only want to use Firefox if possible
Something that is hinted at, but not spelled out loud in our posts is that AMD actively upstreams and maintains a LLVM back-end for their GPUs, so it really is a matter of switching the binary target for the generated code, at least in theory :)
The Trump-tie aside, does anyone have a good reason why 2FA isn't absolutely enforced on all verified accounts?

I can't really see a situation where the need for "authenticity" of a person/account meets the bar for needing verification, but not be considered important enough for basic security practices.
I haven't used JetBrains for a few years but it was always pretty slow (i.e. slowed down VS notably and nearly globally) for c++ at least - so perhaps something inherent in the parsing as well though clearly that could be improved.

I've never found a fully satisfactory c++ setup, but always thought things like e.g. slime worked well.
This article does seem a bit P hacking, and certainly wouldn't be enough to make treatment recommendations, but it might help on HN to link to the relevant XKCD and provide some context since I don't know how many other people are going to immediately remember the comic and understand that you're calling out evidence of intentional or unintentional P hacking.

https://xkcd.com/882/
It's kind of a tiny subset of markdown. So you can surround words/phrases in * to italicize. Maybe indent four spaces

for(code blocks) { ... }

Yep, that worked.
Let's see:

* Letters - check

* Numbers - check

* Special symbols - check

So the new, secure, password should be Maga2020!