skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, working on the other side (criminal defense) I quickly, within a year or two, found that fraud, or what the laws would consider fraud that could be prosecuted, tend to unravel extremely quickly in most cases, planning is almost always inadequate if they wanted to get away if any planning is involved at all, and common OPSEC failures tank a great deal of them almost right off the bat. Also, there's a definite correlation between how many co-conspirators are involved with how quickly their scheme is discovered. This goes for all conspiracies under the legal definition - when you need more than two people to agree to a common plan or purpose to commit something, it turns out keeping even just a partnership quiet and in check is really hard for all but the most simple schemes. OF course that does also imply that the better, more organized outfits never come through my (public defender) office and so, there's a selection bias there, but the volume of cases is very high and it's hard to imagine that this represents at least a large portion of acts that caused enough damage/loss to elicit police attention.

I think there are probably some very talented solo operators who did their homework and have contingency plans and have OPSEC down who are able to pull off some long running schemes that may never be uncovered, just knowing the points of failure in th processes I've seen, but the amount of specialized knowledge and discipline required is going to be comparable to what's required to succeed in almost any field. Except for the very few at the top of the chain that nobody knows about, most people are better off getting a real job instead.A lot of those people who engage in fraud do it and get caught because ths isn't what they wanted to do butout of necessity, greed, or shortsighted assumptions they opportunistically engaged in the scheme. The internet does enable, I believe, single individuals to commit long term fraud operations as effectively lone-wolf actors whose necessity to employ a service offered elsewhere can be effectively done anonymously, and these are the dedicated, professional, and sometimes sometimes ideologically engaged types whose choice to engage is a long-term project and the sheer amount of knowledge in divergent fields of expertise required makes me wonder that if it wouldn't be better served to actually run amnesty programs to get these people into the legitimate sector even as consultants if not corporate jobs because our retributive criminal justice system renders that basically impossible. A bug bounty for fraud, perhaps? Just a thought.
>(and those white males had less diverse set of opinions then we have in the society today).

how's skin color relevant here?
My son used to get in so much trouble - he has a mocking laugh when situations are serious. Infuriating! It took us parents years to work it out, and also his school.
For his recent transition to senior school we explained this ahead of time to his new teachers: so much easier. He still occasionally gets in trouble, but for what he did/ didn't do instead of the same, with additional rudeness.
This is kind of my experience too, maybe disguised differently. I am finding new topics that take my interest and dig deeper and deeper. Topics I hated in school like geography, biology etc. are fascinating now, can't read enough. But there are also some weird ones - looking into how guns work, details of systems like ar-15 (I know some people judge me as next crazy shooter, for me its just curiosity). Learning how to repair various things at home (variable light switch disassembly is the latest one). Little things. Previously, couldn't care less.

Picked up psychology, trying to understand why many folks behave so weirdly and differently. Again, addicted to no end (Jordan Peterson's videos are a treasure trove for me now).

But still struggling with learning french, so not everything is so shiny.

Or maybe its a common story for my age group, don't know. But I know plenty of folks who are so deep in their comfort zone they don't care about new stuff anymore.

Maybe its normal
It's not Javas fault it got bought by Oracle (and I don't agree that is is bad, as Oracle advanced it quite).

And I do like 'MetaAbstractBaseClassFactoryClassFactory' type names because that allows me in an application with hundreds if not thousands of classes to find the class I'm looking for very fast by just typing a few keywords into my IDE.
Agreed, and it's also a vector image which can be zoomed back and forth without any loss of details. I'm not sure what software might have created it, but ploticus' multi column legends seem somewhat similar.
http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/welcome.html

Also worth checking is GLE.
https://glx.sourceforge.io/index.html
I mean, it's a one-time purchase that lasts you 2-4 years minimum. If anything, gaming is on the reasonably cheap side of hobbies, especially if you still otherwise have uses for a desktop, like most people here do.
Compare getting that mid-range AMD GPU to a Netflix subscription for two years(which I am guessing costs about as much, or at least in the same range), and I think it starts to look more favourable.
You do still need to buy actual games but their costs can be amortized across sales, and the fact that people typically buy few games and play each one for a long time.
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I was about to say that this is practically an act of war. You could make a good case that military intervention is justified.
It's one thing to take non-linearity into account. But you also need to take into account the embedded colorspace information of your source image, if it has one. It's not necessarily sRGB.
a terrible thing happened, but concluding that CoCs are not necessary or "cancelling" people is always wrong is intellectually dishonest

They are tools like anything else and can be misused.
It was literally the fourth most desired framework in the 2020 StackOverflow developer survey and was third the year before. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020
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When cars will be driving themselves, you wont need to own one... one of the many parked near your home will come pick you up.
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Amazon is, of course, right, unfortunately. Licenses is pretty much all anyone sells in media, and many of those are quite restrictive
I would expect your pipeline steps to be far smaller than this scale.

We've been wrestling with the number of pipeline stages vs. the number of transistors in the critical path forever. Not so much physical distance.
why so snarky? argue with it.
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Do you think that’s viable?
I did not see in the article nor so far here in the comments one example of this in the wild, which perhaps indicates that using such simple sampling approach isn't common? If someone could successfully execute this against Twitter or Reddit, for example - that changes its newsworthiness completely.
NotPetya is a good example. Looked like a broad ransomware attack very similar to the earlier Petya attack. Turned out it was very likely a broad cover for a very narrow attack against Ukraine’s power grid during Russian invasion.
I suppose that as long as a computer lacks any network interface card, it's comparatively safe, compared to most organizations today?

@willvarfar,

About the safes — did they expect (or worry about) someone to breaking in, and power on and try to access the computers? Or/and was it to protect against "insiders"? (say, someone in the staff got bribed, or a janitor or some other 3rd party person?)

I wonder how they got data out from those computers? If by connecting to a printer, to print on paper, then, was that via a cable? Was the printer connected to any network? Hmm but you wrote that this was before the Internet, so, then, maybe only an intranet? and no wifi, only cables?

Maybe they copied data in text files on floppy disks?

What do they do instead nowadays, if you happen to know?

> The very real threat were people trying to locate young victims taken into care etc

Who are the people who want to do such things? Was it the same underlying reason as this time — extortion and making money? Or something else? If it's okay to ask / if you happen to know
Not to be mean, but I worked with Swing for ten years and it was absolute crap. Constantly dealing with resizing “collapsars”, GBLs, poor visual compatibility with the host OS, a fragile threading model and piles and piles of unfixed bugs and glitches was a nightmare. It might have worked if you had a specific end user environment but it was a PITA for anything else, and deployment was even harder.

There are a few things I definitely miss from my 20 years as a Java dev, but the half assed and under funded Swing UI is not among them.

Give me HTML+CSS+JS any time.
> You wouldn't advocate scrapping the entire criminal justice system, just because one innocent person was convicted. A little more nuance is useful here as well.

Sure, but following Blackstone's ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_ratio if one innocent person is convicted we should probably look at if things need changing.

on edit: I see a couple others made the same point.
Wonder what the relative size of the wind/renewable/shale/nuclear lobbies are these days.
I guess you can potentially bypass automatic content filters on social media for example.
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Spotify can do what it wishes, and grandparent poster has said s/he disagrees with Spotify and doesn't wish to contribute to their profits while they're doing something s/he disagrees with. So, isn't that all good and dandy?

And if people start a campaign to tell people to "Delete Spotify", that seems to be in the realm of acceptability too? Just like people are saying "Delete Uber" because they're taking money from that Saudi "Journalist Chopper" Prince.

If the campaign is to get the government to create a law to muzzle Spotify, then there is an issue...
It seems that you are describing pouchdb: https://pouchdb.com/
It would be good if a certification organization or insurance company would validate IoT hardware, saying "this will be supported with these features at this price point for at least N years, or will refund you the original purchase price of the hardware." The certification organization would bear the liability for this, so they would make sure they had watertight contracts with the manufacturers, and would collect risk premiums or collateral in case the manufacturer went insolvent.
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I don't, but there was an Every Little Thing podcast episode about it, lots of people get it.
> Not that that is any way a defense, and I'm sure there was as much a self-interested motivation of "We are going to be hit hard if we ransom a hospital _now_" as much as "doing the right thing"...

You're correct. Said ransomware case is now under the investigation of involuntary manslaughter, as a woman died during transfer to another hospital: https://www.dw.com/de/haben-russische-hacker-den-tod-einer-p...
What actually helps here is to use linear colorspace for downscaling and to correctly detect the source image's colorspace.
> I wonder how the perception of who the writer is influences the people who read the 'message'.

Given e.g. the propensity for politicians to emphasise their "salt of the land, common folk" attributes whilst hiding their gold-plated toilets, etc., I suspect it's not inconsequential.
So in the same way we build pipelines to sanitise user text input (Little Bobby Tables etc) we need to treat image data in the same way - I guess a pipeline that uses openCV to detect an image in full size and thumbnail - and if they are widely different flag for review ?

It's still cool though
Not true. Ransomware attacks have become top cover for more targeted attacks that happen in the chaos. See NotPetya.
> (Don't confuse this with the world wide paranormal hum people claim to hear)

Taking this sort of random swipe at at people who experience this is kind of rude. Even though it's pretty much confirmed it's not a real audio signal coming from outside of a person's body, there isn't quite enough evidence it isn't a real auditory sensation for these people (instead of psychological or "paranormal" issue).

I do get the hum sometimes, usually happens when my shoulders are tense. Also usually only in one ear, which is why I was able to pretty quickly rule out an external source (though when it first happened, I did spend some time opening and closing windows, listening at ventilation ducts, trying to locate it).

Edit: I'll add it here that sometimes it is a real sound. We live a couple of km away from a harbor, and the sound we get to our place from an idling cruise liner is very similar to what my ears sometimes generate by themselves. It's really hard to tell them apart except by trying if it gets louder (and more high freq components) by opening a window. The point is, at least in an urban environment it can be pretty hard to tell if the hum is real or not.
I watched a documentary on feral children a number of years back. It was deeply unsettling seeing an adolescent exhibiting canine-like behaviour, including quadrupedal locomotion and barking. If I recall correctly, she was raised by a pack of feral dogs near the fall of the USSR.

I managed to find it on YouTube:
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New account just posting on your most recent comment hopefully you’ll see. I wish you could message here

it can be anyone of course but after briefly looking in to u and what u said about everything I have a weird suspicion

Have u ever knowingly talked with someone or talked about maybe a site U were competing with at one point whether recently or years ago just at all? Especially related to crypto because I see too many similarities with something I was researching through a lot recently and found exciting info to say the least

Anyway gl with investigation. Be cautious ur other devices are not infected with something crazy
Any of the old iPod Linux guys still working at Sony on this?
One key thing to be aware of is that not all "bilinear" scaling algorithms are created equal. If the "bilinear" in question is GPU-accelerated, it's quite possible that it's the Direct3D/OpenGL bilinear filter, which samples exactly 4 taps of the image from the highest appropriate mip level (which may be the only one, unless the application goes out of its way to generate more). That means if the scaling ratio is less than 50%, it becomes something like a smoothed nearest neighbor filter and is vulnerable to this attack.

The introduction of a mip chain + enabling mip mapping mitigates this, because when the scaling ratio is less than 50% the GPU's texture units will select lower mips to sample from, approximating a "correct" bilinear filter. This does also require generating mips with an appropriate algorithm - there are varying approaches to this, so I suspect it is possible to create attacks against mip chain generation as well.

Thankfully, quality-focused rendering libraries are generally not vulnerable to this, because users demand high-quality filtering. A high-quality bilinear filter will use various measures to ensure that it samples an appropriate number of points in order to provide a smooth result that matches expectations.

One other potential attack against applications relying on the GPU to filter textures is that if you can manually provide mip map data, you can use that to hide alternate texture data or otherwise manipulate the result of downscaling. As far as I know the only common formats that allow providing mip data are DDS and Basis, and DDS support in most software is nonexistent. Basis is an increasingly relevant format though and could potentially be a threat, but as a lossy format it poses unique challenges.
This is already the case. Yes, you have to comply with CCP laws for _China residents_ if you want to have your website available in China. It doesn't say you have to apply the laws to all people around the world. But GDPR vs. China isn't a perfect comparison, because GDPR isn't blocking any content. It is not even _about_ the content. It's about following the privacy rights that I as an EU resident have and you as an US company might be breaking.
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You're right Pouch completely slipped my mind, it's a great solution. But what about something more generic on the backend that wasn't database specfic, some sync engine you could put in front of whatever database you wanted. Can you do something like this with Pouch?
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I have never encountered this in 23 years of participating in open source projects of all kinds.

20 years back (in Debian) there was some banter on the mailing lists, but never of that nature. It was mainly jokes about women. The community was primarily of young males, and that did stop as more women got involved. However, I should state for completeness that none of it was anything that anyone should have been banned over; sometimes a joke was just a joke, before humour was effectively outlawed lest anyone get even slightly offended.
I notice all of them , 100% of the time. Twitter has a fairly good one, but even that s very clunky. I'm not saying they are all slow, but they are clunky, jumpy and unpredictable, which in many ways is worse than a webpage like HN that is 100% consistent, but sometimes times out. Predictability for me is more important than pay-it-later responsiveness. E.g. when i press the Pay button i 'm OK with waiting 20 seconds for the payment to process. What's unacceptable is the button standing still, not doing anything until a few seconds later, at which time i ve pressed it 10 times.
Title should read “To protect a republic ...”

But then again, pure democracy is a tyranny over minority so it could also be that instead.
Ah the usual American response: for every US citizen that dies, kill 5 foreign soldiers and 15 civilians.

Then you wonder why everyone is burning US flags.
> A developer can write code or they can't.

Uhh that is not how it works. I can write code but if you tell me go and write in assembly or C, I cant because I think its outside my circle of competence.

Maybe you find SPA's easy others dont.
Are you saying propaganda is incompatible with a democracy?

So this WW2 propaganda poster from the UK encouraging men to sign up for submarine service because their women will admire them means the UK isn't a democracy?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/2606355/powerful-ww2-propaga...
You need to get it under control if you want to work in the kind of roles where it creates issues.

If you freeze up when you see fire, you can't be a fire fighter. If you faint when you see blood, don't be a surgeon. If you can't handle the stress of ganging up on someone, don't sign up for a CoC committee.
There are legal expectations for how companies can terminate employees, I think it's only fair that professional organizations organizing professional events also be held legally accountable for the impacts they have on individuals.

More often than not, these responsibilities emerge after onerous legal discourse, legal judgement, and promise of punishment.
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I recently moved to Joplin from Evernote. I think I use Joplin in a Zettelkasten way (though no doubt it would upset a purist) nonetheless I find Joplin a good fit and it is interesting that I independently arrived at a similar (though less complete!) solution. Now I have to think about how much of that completeness I go back and apply to my existing x thousand notes... :)
I've a rant unrelated to the story! Amazon is different in that way. I'm already paying for the subscription and some movies are available only to rent or purchase. Very different from Netflix. The user interface is pathetic. It pissed me off the most when I get advertisement even after paying for their subscription.
After reading the entire post, I feel really bad for him, and I hope he gets the time off and the support necessary to recover from this incident. I also feel quite angry with how he has been treated. So please let me vent it out here as politely as I’m able to.
I can imagine something like this or worse happening on social media groups, but an ostentatious “committee” that listens only to one side and never gives the other side the chance to get details on how things were perceived or why it’s a violation? And the chuckling in the call when someone has already said they’re not in a proper emotional state is just bullying.

I personally don’t think CoC or any other set of laws can be written to be precise and comprehensive. There will always be edge cases that need many hearings and re-hearings, with some discretion based on past precedence, nuances, etc., in the interpretation of written words in the code in an effort to make the code clearer for the future (this is how we improve laws, don’t we?).

This committee has, IMNSHO, been the opposite of kind and doesn’t deserve to hold the responsibility of handling CoC enforcement or violations. I’m sure this committee is not even capable of explaining clearly to a potential speaker what the CoC really means as per the written words and what’s expected.

This CoC needs to be torn apart and rebuilt, and the people in this particular committee must be sent to other areas where their expertise can be best used. Their proper place is certainly not in a CoC committee, for sure.
It's pretty sad.
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My impression is that the design of Java the language, plus its runtime, are appreciated even by the harshest critics.

However the culture around complex frameworks and over-engineering is what most people really dislike about it.

IMO pretty much all the advantages touted by Java proponents (such as: good language design, easy of use by heterogenous teams, speed, etc) are correct, but are negated by a large part of the culture and ecosystem. The memes about humongous class names and 200-method stack traces are true when you use the popular frameworks and techniques.

Of course there are exceptions to this and this can creep into other languages too, of course.
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https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice calls out headlines like this regularly.
But criticism can be used as a tool for bullying and it can be tricky to identify the difference between "robust good faith criticism" and "bullying bad faith criticism".
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Had to upvote, been using it for around 6 months, I couldn't imagine starting a project without it now.