skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> from the similarly-leaked “black ledger” story implicating Paul Manafort, to its later-debunked “repeated contacts with Russian intelligence” story

It's astonishing to me that Taibbi (who's work I've always enjoyed) isn't aware that - far from debunked - this has been confirmed. The Republican led Senate Intelligence committee report[1] was released in September and covered this in extensive detail. It's a long read, so reporting from The Intecept's summary[2]:

One of Manafort’s closest aides during his time in Ukraine was Konstantin Kilimnik, who the Senate report identifies as a Russian intelligence officer. Kilimnik also served as Manafort’s liaison with Deripaska.

While he was working for Trump during the 2016 campaign, Manafort stayed in contact with Kilimnik and gave him the Trump campaign’s internal polling data, which showed that the key to defeating Clinton was to drive up negative attitudes about her among voters.....

The Senate report says that the intelligence committee “obtained some information suggesting Kilimnik may have been connected to the GRU’s hack and leak operation targeting the 2016 election.” The report adds that “this information suggests that a channel for coordination on the GRU hack operation may have existed through Kilimnik.” The report adds that in interviews with Mueller’s prosecution team, “Manafort lied consistently about one issue in particular: his interactions with Kilimnik.” Manafort decided to “face more severe criminal penalties rather than provide complete answers about his interactions with Kilimnik.”

In Taibbi defense this report was released in September, and there was a lot of news happening then. Prior to this report, I don't think any official source was willing to call Kilimnik an intel officer.

[1] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

[2] https://theintercept.com/2020/09/03/trump-russia-senate-repo...
But what is "heal"? There's no such thing as the "right" or "fine" ecosystem. In 100 years, I'm nearly 100% certain that this planet will still exist and something will live on it.

His point was that we're killing ourself. An ecosystem and a planet will continue existing, the question is whether humans will exist on it.
In general I'm frustrated that rigor, standards, etc are out the window in favor of all this warm fuzziness. I guess I might be angry...

The culture change in our industry, towards warm fuzzies and away from tech screens, results in calculable waste. Time, money, electricity, customers. We lose good engineers and tell ourselves they were a bad fit. We push crap on users just to sell ads. Then we write engineering posts to brag about fixing our own mistakes. It's a terrible shame and I speak up about it to remind everyone there was a time when RTFM would be the only response to this.

Edit: rate limited but one last thing: are we this forgiving of Equifax when they oopsie our data? Seeing this would immediately make me wonder if anything I have shared with Pinterest is safe. That's why they owe us a postmortem and not a thirst trap.
Ah, I see.

I mean, yeah, I think that kind of is the theory behind US sanctions sometimes honestly. It's pretty messed up. (And the US, which is a "democracy", would want to avoid looking in the mirror too).
Poor writing style, lack of understanding of units (equating emitted and absorbed, comparing total dose with dose per unit of time, etc)

The accident is pretty interesting and you can find some good articles, much better written.
This isn't true either, as the article says that builds went from 40 minutes to 30 minutes. The time spent cloning was presumably about 10 minutes and came down very far, presumably by 99%.
How do you secure your data using CRUD?
That did occur to me reading through this discussion.

I migrated entirely off desktops and went laptop / mobile.

Got happy as my current work benefits from me being highly mobile. Super glad I did it. Ended up surprised at just how much can do with a Note type phone and optional keyboard / track pad.

But, I never did replace fast and responsive. Just kind of coped and the other benefits made the whole thing worth it.

This pandemic has me rethinking some things and yeah, I want to build a nice machine. Want that workstation type feel and performance.

The closed computing argument holds more water every quarter too.

What we need is a reasonable battery pack, and software to throttle the machine down on an interruption. Make this package a couple hundred bucks, or something a person can just load their own cells into and it's bound to be a winner.
Just run a lot of ion thrusters in parallel to get your thrust. They're tiny, that's feasible for any ship trying to go further than Mars/Venus.
Not to forget NTR dumping most of the heat during the burn kinda by definition while NER has to radiate lots of heat continuously to power the engine.

Also without high trust you can't really make use of the Oberth effect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect
Meanwhile, Debian has an official mirror (and two others) in Iran:

http://ftp.ir.debian.org/
https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
With a docking station it’s not problem at all.
Agreed, these aren’t good analogies.

Twitter and Facebook are getting closer to: the post not delivering your mail, or the power company turning off your electricity despite paying your bill, or the phone company cutting you off after you say the wrong thing...
But isn't the sort of sneaky racism exactly what people claim is such a problem today? There's not overt claim of inferiority or an explicit denial of opportunity, but yet there is still "systemic racism".

The analogy is that Twitter can't censor stories that benefit republicans, but if the "reasons" for censoring always seem to work against republicans and are applied inconsistently, then perhaps things aren't as they seem.
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Twitter's objection was that the New York Post article contained hacked or illegally obtained material (personal intimate photos, etc.). Publishing those materials is a legal grey area.
>> the code is developed 100% in mainland China

> I am under the same impression and have some circumstantial evidence supporting it as someone who's been inspecting the code of the Zoom client

This has been reported in the US press for years. The Zoom founder and the original 40 programmers worked for Cisco Webex, and the programmers were/are based in China.

Why Cisco allowed an ex-manager to poach 40 engineers is beyond me. My guess is that Cisco's legal team advised that the founder would just retreat back to China, where there's no fair legal system.

The question is if Zoom copied source code from Cisco, which I haven't seen addressed yet. It would actually be surprising if Chinese engineers did not copy, since that's done in every other situation.
Small businesses are hurting everywhere, what can mayorships in large cities do any differently from those in small towns?
How the heck can an opposing party "meddle" in an election that the very party itself is contending in?
This.

I looked at various online domains a few years back, and STL Fed publishes far more articles than the rest of the Federal Reserve branches. ~106k STL vs. 6--8k for others. federalreserve.gov publishes about 1/2 what stlouisfed.org does.

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3hp41w/trackin...
It's frustrating how many ways there are for a git clone to get out of sync, especially when it's an automation-managed one that is supposed to be long-lived (think stuff like gracefully handling force-pushed branches and tags that are deleted). I've dealt with a bit of this with my company's Hound (code search engine) instance. Currently there's a big snarl of fallback logic in there that tries a shallow clone, but then unshallows and pulls refs if it can't find what it's looking for, culminating in this ridiculousness:

git fetch --prune --no-tags --depth 1 origin+{ref}:remotes/origin/{ref}

See the whole thing here: https://github.com/mikepurvis/hound/blob/6b0b44db489f9aeff39...

The pipeline I manage is many repos rather than a monorepo, and maintaining long-licheckouts in this context is not really realistic, but what does work and is very fast is just grabbing tarballs— GitLab and Github both cache them, so they don't don't cost additional compute after the first time, and downloading them is strictly less transfer and fewer round trips than the git protocol.

The only real cost is that anything at build time which needs VCS info (eg, to embed it in the binary) will need an alternate path, for example having it be able to be passed in via an envvar.
i'm usually not so pessimistic, but i was in a bad mood, especially because youtube-dl is such a essential tool for me. things aren't hopeless. they just feel that way sometimes.
Yes, this is true. Aaron always seemed to regard it as a sore point, but he was never listed as a Reddit founder.

I'm aware that PG has called him a founder, but seemingly the Reddit guys never thought of him as one.
Thank you (though I'd hoped for a link to that figure but I guess there's not a direct one, it's an implied result). It's higher than I would expect but of similar scale, perhaps my own perspective is a little biased by being non-US (though comparative), and mostly being used to a low-income environment and culture.
This is a great question.

So just because your good at gaming the system yourself doesn't preclude understanding its unfair, having empathy towards those less fortunate and being keen to see it changed. I think most people in the fit in this box. Regardless if discussing it is conscious or unconscious signalling, it reflects well on the group.

But that is separate to the fact of whether lip service is damaging or not. And indeed it could be. It can allow you to feel your part of the solution whereas in fact you may be inadvertently perpetuating the problem by being conservative in the face of solutions perceived as radical or detrimental to your group.

As an anecdote, I used to work in a video shop / net cafe. It was in a semi-gentrified area, very low income mixed with high-income bohemian style folks. Our manager used to let neighbourhood kids in to play with the computers and run around. Better than running around on the streets. Of course, they were noisy and disturbed other customers. One complaint was "Look i love what your doing here but honestly I come here to work on the computers and I just cant if its like this". Completely fair yes, but also detrimental.

Its genuinely hard to understand the circumstances of someone in a completely different socio-economic group to you. Sometimes its better to just get out of the way if you cant make the effort. Or, make the effort to understand and then support someone who is driving real change, while realising it may be uncomfortable to you and your group. And with inequality, the solution should by definition feel uncomfortable, after all its your resources that are being redistributed.
So, what do you suppose? Prohibition of political news stories leading up to an election?

Have you heard of an October surprise?

"On October 20, 1880, shortly before the 1880 presidential election, a forged letter was published purportedly written by James A. Garfield voicing support for Chinese immigration to the United States. At the time, most white Americans opposed Chinese immigration and both presidential candidates were in favor of immigration restrictions.[3]"

And a list of many more....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise
What would be the best sensor one could get so that it could pick up random radiation sources like this? Are there any good ones in keychain form?

The thought process is that if there is random steel laying around releasing unhealthy amounts of radiation, would it be nice to know before going to the doctor?
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It depends on your definition of throttled. A CPU that was totally unthrottled would just sit at its boost clock under sustained load, but even desktop CPUs can't manage that, dropping to their base if too much heat is generated. Of course, there are laptops that can't even sustain the base clocks, but some have enough cooling to match that.
Yes but contributing without having proper releases that distros can grab and distribute doesn't help much.
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A new checkout is good practice. Using refspec and depth options can make it quick.
Thought I would post some of the contents of the suppressed articles. They seem falsifiable through financial transaction records:

> A tranche of emails from a hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden — published exclusively by The Post last week — revealed how the scandal-scarred son tried to leverage his family connections to land lucrative deals overseas and boost his Burisma pay.

> Speaking before reporters at a Marriott hotel near the debate site Thursday evening, Bobulinski claimed he had a falling out with the Biden family when Hunter Biden wanted to pocket $5 million from an initial $10 million cash injection into SinoHawk, ponied up by CEFC.

> “He said, referring to ‘the chairman,’ his father, that CEFC was really investing in the Biden family, that he held the trump card and that he was the one putting his family legacy on the time,” said Bobulinski, who declined to take questions afterward.

> “During these negotiations I repeated to Hunter and others that SinoHawk could not be Hunter’s personal piggy bank,” he went on.

> “CEFC through July 2017 was assuring me the funds would be transferred to SinoHawk, but they were never sent to our company. Instead, I found out from Senator Johnson’s September report that the $5 million was sent in August 2017 to entities affiliated with Hunter,” he said, referring to the Wisconsin senator’s congressional probe into potential corruption in the Biden family.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-ex-partner-tony-bobulin...
> Are you familiar with unsafe IO?

> It's used pervasively in low-level code because the idealism of monads just doesn't cut it. In my opinion, this proves that the pragmatism of side effects is a necessary evil for actually getting things done in a performant way.

It seems like you aren't very familiar with the ways Haskell programmers deal with side effects and mutation. UnsafePerformIo is sometimes needed, and there are a few common idiomatic ways to use it, but there are usually better options. What at first looks like an impenetrable wall between the IO monad and pure code is actually surprisingly permeable, just not (usually) in ways that violate expected semantics. For instance, you can read a file into a string in the IO monad and pass the string into pure code to process it. The string is lazy, so the pure code actually triggers the file to be read as it's consumed.

Another escape hatch is the ST Monad. It allows you to run imperative computations (i.e. use mutable variables and arrays) within pure code. Since the ST computations are deterministic, they don't violate any important guarantees about pure code. You can't read and write files from the ST Monad, but if you want to do array-based quicksort or something similar it's available.

Some aspects of Haskell are hard to work with. You're right that laziness introduced some performance issues that can be tedious to fix, and some of the libraries are hard to use. However, it's a perfectly reasonable tool for many general-purpose programming applications. It's not a replacement for C, but you could say the same thing about C# or Java or any other language with a garbage collector.

(edit: fixed grammar typo)
I saw even some slightly crazy studies where they launched a shielded probe & high thrust for a very close Solar flyby to achieve crazy high delta-v via Oberth effect so that the probe can catch the next unannounced extrasolar asteroid.
Another related warning sign...

> On February 15, 2007, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)—adapted a new ionizing radiation warning symbol to supplement the traditional trefoil symbol. The new symbol, to be used on sealed radiation sources, is aimed at alerting anyone, anywhere to the danger of being close to a strong source of ionizing radiation.

> It depicts, on a red background, a black trefoil with waves of radiation streaming from it, along with a black skull and crossbones, and a running figure with an arrow pointing away from the scene.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_iso_radiation.svg
It drives me nuts when videos don't use youtube and have video players that don't support playback speed. I can speed up video 2x or even 4x and still keep up with a lot of these videos - that's how slow they talk.

Also, I don't understand why most of that needed to be done in VsCode. Surely they could've done the setup and asset export in the XD app that then also generated snippets for easy access in vscode. Instead, they're setting up all that meta data and complex workflows in a vscode extension.

Not only is that unnecessary, it's extremely annoying. Putting aside the additional bloat that has to go through electron, just debugging performance issues alone would be a PITA.
I don’t understand the point you’re trying to make. What group has elevated privileges, and what group is being discriminated against that needs protecting?
> 1. The old, mostly working thing waits your commit

From what i understand there are commits, just not releases. What is the point of committing if the maintainers do not bother to make a proper release that your work can be distributed to the users?
I think that is an optimistic view.

Consider that an overwhelmingly partisan ownership and stewardship of the majority of media, (whether left or right - currently, as the example in the article it's liberal left) has a more insidious power to control the narrative and push counterpoints to the margins until they die naturally, partly because there is in that situation a de facto monopoly.

Government-censored material never actually dies, and has a habit of being leaked (or released on change of government) and causing scandals; Silicon Valley etc-suppressed material has a habit of being sidelined into the anaemic and eccentric irrelevance of the cancelled and the crackpots, and by the time we realise some of them are actually worth listening to, the damage is done.

Especially in the context of a society where "speech is free", and egregious censorship is assumed not to exist, this is arguably even more damaging - the idea that suppression exists is itself dismissed by the mainstream and chattering classes; that isn't necessarily the case in a country under authoritarian, censoring governance.
Define "reasonable tax rates." I'll tell you this: states where there are very low taxes (e.g. no income taxes, low sales/other taxes) tend to be net takers when it comes to federal dollars: they get more from the federal government than their populations pay in taxes. States like California are net givers: their populations send more to the federal government than they get back.

As a bonus irony, the "taker" states also tend to house the most vociferously free-market/anti-government types.
Because the one is an obvious expression of carnal desires and greed while the other is at least ostensibly about ideology and truth.
Computer chips work because they capture magic smoke. I know this because when I let the smoke escape the computer stops working.
How many nests are there in USA? Do they have a number?
Small accelerations over long periods are great! But when you're using electric propulsion, how small starts to become an issue. As far as I'm aware ion thrusters have TWRs in the 1/1000 range - NERVA's were in the ~1 range. This means you're taking a 3000 second burn and replacing it with a 3,000,000 second burn - add in efficiency losses and things start getting interesting. (assuming a constant mass fraction devoted to engines, and that the electric propulsion TWR includes power generation and cooling)
> The culture change in our industry, towards warm fuzzies and away from tech screens, results in calculable waste.

I have not noticed, in the past decade, any move away from tech screens whatsoever.
Hi HN,
the author of the article here.

Can someone explain how Telegram 2FA, Yahoo 2FA and Apple 2FA were bypassed?

Especially Apple 2FA - I received a 2FA call from Apple, picked it up, and the attacker logged in right after.

Please note, this was not a (typical) SIM swap. I was still receiving SMS and calls during the attack.

p.s. thanks for all the comments!
> So, what do you suppose? Prohibition of political news stories leading up to an election?

That's exactly what I propose, precisely because October surprises are not in the best interest of democracy.

Many countries [1] prohibit all political news stories during their election cycle. An added benefit of this policy would be to limit the length of the election cycle.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_silence
Hopefully a lot of commercial office buildings will be able to convert to condos. We could use the extra housing.
It certainly seems very corrupt to me for any founder of a company to withdraw any significant amount of the invested capital as cash.
There's a lot of variation in that trend. Prices are up for the kinds of places you'd like to WFH indefinitely from (large detached houses in nice neighborhoods), and down for the kinds of places you wouldn't (shoebox studios downtown).
This works to a degree - each thruster weights something and has cooling requirement. Also wear and tear if you run them preatty much continuously.
It says from 40 minutes to 30 seconds, not minutes.
And there can be only one is warcraft :)
They overpromised and doubled down on scams. The core idea was good, read somewhere that some ex-Theranos people are working on more realistic/humble implementations of that same idea.
And they flew a helicopter over roads to find more pellets that had been hidden in bitumen!
Can you provide a source that confirms it was not false information?
No, our trash should be recycled as much as possible and where not possible try to avoid those materials. Plastic is one of them.
Republicans aren't a "race" and political preference isn't a "protected class" in the US (with a couple minor exceptions).
I recently learned the following interesting thing about the Transitautobahn (the motorway connecting West-Berlin with West-Germany). To enter or leave the GDR, you had to pass the Marienborn controll point [0][1]. This facility was outfitted with underground tunnels and an extensive conveyor belt system to transport passports from the gates to internal checking facilities. More interestingly, the Stasi had very large gamma-ray scanners [2] ("Gammakanonen") installed on the lanes [3][4] which were used to check passing cars for hidden persons. These scanners were quickly removed after the border was opened in 1989.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Grenz%C3...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmstedt%E2%80%93Marienborn_b...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_scanning

[3] https://img.braunschweiger-zeitung.de/img/helmstedt/crop1502...

[4] https://www.mdm-online.de/tempcache/t_fc_lg_sets_bilder_2404...
The author of the article is using the bike as a back up to his solar panels when the power is out. He isn't going to be running AC and arc welders off the power generated from his bike. More likely some lights and phone/laptop charging.

The power from the bike is likely to be more than sufficient for those use cases.