skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not from the UK but assuming the grandparent is right, you're saying they should be thankful that their country isn't as corrupt as other countries even though there's blatant corruption in something as important as the COVID response?

That's like beating your children but comforting them that they atleast have food on the table and clothes on their back.
My point was related to cultural self-criticism, i.e. criticising your own culture, not a culture of (personal) self-criticism.
I didn't say it was less deadly than the flu. I said it's comparable to a normal seasonal flu outbreak if you subtract deaths caused by lockdowns. Please don't change people's arguments in the act of re-phrasing them.

Source: look at excess death data for most European countries. Even in the UK which had a significant wave of non-COVID excess deaths during the first wave (a little under half of them didn't mention COVID on the death certificate), excess deaths from it was similar to the winter of 1999/2000. And in countries that have less incompetent management the waves of deaths are similar to flu waves.

There are many, many sources you can get the data from. Try EuroMoMo, the national statistical agencies etc. But here's just one example, long term Swedish mortality data:

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

Remember Sweden didn't lock down. Modelling predicted a bloodbath which never happened.

As for NZ, what kind of business or tourist travellers will go to New Zealand now they have to be temporarily imprisoned at their own absurdly high expense? Adding a more than $3000 charge per person to arrival, plus lost time? Your island is currently a pariah state that people will avoid visiting unless absolutely necessary, indefinitely.

I assume at some point these rules will be dropped for those who can show an immunity passport because it's the only way New Zealand doesn't just drop off the face of the planet, but vaccines aren't 100% effective and even the vaccinated can still carry the virus: they just get milder symptoms. So it's not at all clear how New Zealand plans to ever open back up.
Solar powered mining operations in the orbit are much more likely.
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The GDPR doesn't apply to personal usage of data - only if you're using the data in the course of operating a business.

> In the case of personal or household activities, the Information Commissioner’s Office in the UK outlines the exemption as being the processing of personal data in the course of a ‘purely’ personal or household activity, with “no connection to a professional or commercial activity”

(source: https://www.hutsix.io/does-gdpr-apply-to-individuals/)
How did you verify that it was not in a VM? Did you achieve persistence?

I think the article should have focused more on this as it's the most interesting and important part. execle and system are not really interesting, to paraphrase verroq: that just goes from arbitrary code execution to arbitrary code execution.

And disabling execle by recompiling library wont work, since you could still do a syscall "manually" with inline assembly.
The "Oxford" vaccine was designed by Oxford University, hence the name.
If you ever get the chance or make time to read Chimpanzee Politics it is uncanny just how closely the behaviors match that of humans.

Except you get to see it without any of the rationalizations that we make. You get the raw distillation of this behavior.

It'll never change.
The Windows heap seems to have fairly straightforward security features; there doesn't seem to be a lot of randomization other than the heap base. Did I miss something in those two documents?
Seems unlikely to me that anyone is ever going to live on mars. The conditions are unbelievably harsh.

Radiation being a huge problem apart from the basic unlivability https://phys.org/news/2016-11-bad-mars.html
Affirmative action has always been a racist hypocrisy. The fact that there have always been leftists campaigning for it is irrelevant, as it's by far more common. America is indeed structurally racist: against whites and (sometimes) Asians. The fact that this has a long history doesn't make recent trends any more acceptable.
Just speculating, but it could be to do with the recent ruling that the EU-US Privacy Shield data sharing agreement was invalid https://easygdpr.eu/2020/08/privacy-shield-invalidated-what-...

This means that data sharing between the US and EU is a lot more complicated, as the EU ruling basically says that US data protection regulations are not sufficient to comply with the requirements set out in the GDPR.
"This is the corrected version of the one I put out a month or so ago, in which my animation for all the inverse operations was incorrect": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sULa9Lc4pck.
Is anything built on top of rsk up and running at this time?
The problem with that is the AirBnB never owed the tax in the first place.

Either the Host does, or the Consumer of the service does, AirBnb would just be collecting and remiting that on behalf of the parties
You talking about Salesforce? They've been around since 1999 and have been dominant in SaaS ever since the phrase was first coined. There's nothing fast about it.
Jann Horn is a genius. The sheer amount of productivity he has is off the charts.
is there even any 5nm capacity available?. I thought apple booked all the available 5nm?, Im not sure how long for though.
This is desperately short on explanation? The very high granularity suggests that some features are more privacy-invasive than others, but not why that is.

(Also, listing the UK under EEA is .. complicated and subject to change in the next few weeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membership_of_the_United_Kingd... )
Corner case, and a tad overblown from an "academic" perspective if you ask me - I've been doing day job (and after-hours hobby with ML/CV) development in python for the last 15 years and had that issue maybe 2-3 times.

On the other hand, with my very limited exposure to my team's JS/TS FE components, I've almost each time encountered issues with the supposedly easy "npm install" command. Broken NPM installs, cryptic error messages (ok get this one on Python too tbf), lingering version lock files, global vs local package issues, broken nodejs installs, node_modules being committed, node_modules being un-deletable, etc. Anecdotally, I'd say my experience on Python packaging and management has been worlds-better than for other languages.

Python has it's issues sure, but from my point of view, packaging is not a big one in comparison to other langs.
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The relevant points:

Vendors must support both from now on; services to the general public must support both from now on; services to other government parts must support v6 but may choose at their own convenience when to start that; clients must be able to access both v4 and v6; new networks must support v6 and may support v4.

Quite clueful, really.
Elinks has known vulnerabilities in JavaScript (Spidermonkey) and possibly other parts. It is abandonware, and should not be used. You could use a terminal, mosh, and Browsh, allowing you to use Firefox remotely.
Is that true? For a social app where every user pays, sure, but Slack is generally paid for by a central business/group/organization. If the users in the organization are sufficiently unhappy with Slack, a functional organization should be unhappy with Slack, and if the organization is unhappy it can migrate everybody elsewhere overnight, with minimal social impact.
Obviously, a sane implementation would divide db file into blocks and write them into separate objects. Not as small as traditional FS blocks, 1-4 Mb, perhaps.
Oh sorry wrong thread!
Once I got into two compilers and achieved persistence (with a reverse shell), I stopped my investigation. I did not want to have any legal issues since I found some tokens that were used in production environment.

I reported that to developers and they found that I could have access to sensible data.

Thanks for the tips on the article!
How far are we from simulating these interactions? Does the recent breakthrough in protein folding provide any indication?
What will the climate be like when Earth's next supercontinent forms?
Can you provide some stats for this, as everything I've read lately suggests the opposite?
They're inching towards this it seems, they've been incrementing rolling out revisions to the new reply UI for the last couple of weeks.
Linux has had this a little longer, since 2005 or so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomiza...

However, even if the “heap is randomized”, that typically just means that the underlying blocks of memory (e.g. what mmap returns) have randomized virtual addresses. The allocator you use will still have to carve up those blocks from the OS—your kernel does not provide malloc(), after all.
I suspect that gr2zr4 doesn't think that, rather that the press release (about the approval) has been released and the scientific papers haven't.
The Japan case could even happen in the world, as everything is tied to the US dollar the US never printed this much money. I dont think we have ever had Quantitative easing for such a long time. Since people dont have any other place for their investments, everybody dumps their money into stocks, which pumps up the price. The current high after the corona drop cannot be explained with fundamentals.
Seriously, it would be a lot easier to build a colony on the bottom of the ocean or even on the moon - without the incredibly harsh penalty of many months of travel back and forth. There literally doesn't seem to be any benefit to living on Mars except for the romantic notions of it being another planet.
This isn't scalable. My employer has many many thousands of channels on our slack instance. Opt in is so much better than opt out at that level
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Everything you're exposed to in your environment impacts the immune system. That's one of the mistakes anti-vax people make about childhood vaccination. They're like "Oh no, my baby can't handle six different vaccines in one shot, that must be too many at once surely" but actually it's a baby and babies eat dirt - its immune system is already seeing all sorts of new nonsense that isn't supposed to be there every day and problems are very rare, vaccination isn't any more of a problem.

So yes, but no. And it's reassuring compared to say DNA tweaking which would permanently change the instructions in some cell lines in your body, or more extremely germ line DNA tweaking which would alter your cells and those of any subsequent offspring you have.
Deletes leave tombstones and performance plummets pretty much like in Cassandra. If your app doesn't do many deletes (<2-3% of operations in my experience) it can work fine. You can lower gc_ttl but that will limit having consistent/complete backups.
Where did he claim it was a peer reviewed journal?
The chat inside Salesforce was horrible. They get a good one with very little churn. Plus they have voice and video calling.

You can integrate this into the SF platform and your get a good defense against other players (MSFT, SAP, Oracle).

If I can schedule a customer call and register it inside salesforce it would be great. Today I have to enter all manually on their interface :-(
The book was published in 1936. I think the meaning of the word “influence” has evolved to mean something more sinister than what the book is about.
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Your last paragraph caught my interest. Can you point me at countries that are widely accepted to have done a better job?

My own experience of the NHS (as a non-Brit who lived in the UK for more than a decade) is that it is inefficient at the small things (sitting in a waiting room for an hour - but being shamed if I show up 10 minutes late for my appointment) but brutally effective at big important things (treatment for life threatening diseases - worked well, but the biscuits were rubbish). I know this isn't data, but I also know that British people love to carp about the NHS, and having lived with health services in two other industrialised countries, I quite liked it.
iCloud is still easier to move out of and never see again than say GitHub or YouTube, both of which were not owned by Microsoft or Google before but now here we are.
Presumably the powers that be should have gone to court/prosecutor/district attorney/constitutional court before restricting those liberties for hundreds of thousands/millions of people, and I'm not even sure if a "simple" court/prosecutor would even have enough authority for that.

Imo it's a 50-50 choice between what the Constitutional Court says (I think in the US that would fall on the Supreme Court) and what the public opinion says/believes. Going out in the street to protest against such measures falls under "what the public opinion says/believes".
Have you read the book? It’s very far from being sleazy or manipulative, but rather a guide to what people tend to think are agreeable qualities.
While I support any effort to neutralize the poisoning of public discourse, I would like to see this tool tested with other major conspiracy theories like Dark Alliance or Iran-Contra.
Basically he doesn't have cash and has no plans to sell his real estate?
> Apple and Sweden have about the same valuation right now

Sweden doesn't have valuation, so you can't compare them.

Apple has valuation which is measured in dollars. Sweden has GDP which is measured in dollars per year. The units are different, so the numbers aren't comparable.

I guess one can say "Sweden produces about one Apple's worth in a year", or "Saudi Arabia produces about one Apple's worth in a year and a bit". This however makes owning Sweden/Saudi Arabia look better than owning Apple by a shot.
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The article then goes on to describe a not very general set of circumstances

> But in part due to the canonicalization of CASP, protein structure prediction effectively has a two-year clock cycle, where separate research groups guard their discoveries until after CASP results are announced.

and further noting

> As I discussed earlier, it is clear that between the Xu and Zhang groups enough was known to develop a system that would have perhaps rivaled AlphaFold.

Finally, and rather crushingly for your thesis, is the points made about the real industrial groups:

> What is worse than academic groups getting scooped by DeepMind? The fact that the collective powers of Novartis, Pfizer, etc, with their hundreds of thousands (~million?) of employees, let an industrial lab that is a complete outsider to the field, with virtually no prior molecular sciences experience, come in and thoroughly beat them on a problem that is, quite frankly, of far greater importance to pharmaceuticals than it is to Alphabet. It is an indictment of the laughable “basic research” groups of these companies, which pay lip service to fundamental science but focus myopically on target-driven research that they managed to so badly embarrass themselves in this episode.
Me, I'm ready to see a Risc-6 fork. By keeping most of the details, and just fixing certain unfortunate early choices, it could benefit from almost all the work done on RISC-V, but outpace it in performance.

RISC-V embodies many unnecessarily weird and costly choices that would be easy to patch if you were not obliged to retain bitwise compatibility. At the same time, it benefits from a great deal of verification work that could itself be retargeted relatively cheaply, and applied to the forked ISA. Similarly, implementations could be forked with minimal effort, and get a very cheap performance boost. Compiler code generators would also be easy to fork.

Pretty comprehensive lists of small but costly design booboos have already been published.

Probably the biggest fundamental problem in the RISC-V world is the extensions architecture, where each huge extension effectively holds hostage its few most valuable instructions.

For example, the base instruction set lacks the extremely valuable POPCNT instruction. You don't get it without swallowing the whole, huge B extension, which itself has not even been finalized. Likewise ROTL/ROTR, essential in hashes and crypto. Even multiplication is missing from the base set, unavailable without a lot of other stuff.

Freedom to fork is one of the great benefits of the Free Software movement. The same kind of benefits should be possible for a forked ISA.

Really, network benefits can accumulate for two or more related ISAs as well as for just one, if no corporate walled garden prevents it.
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I Ctrl-F'ed for Twist, made by the team at Todoist, but couldn't find it.

It has a way to go, but I found it the right mix of persistent, long-form discussion and decision making using Threads, and sync communication using Messages. It's the best of both worlds, if you can educate a team to use it properly.
Really? Ever? Like, "nobody ever is going to do this?" I don't believe in absolutes like that. For sure, we'll make the trip possible technically. You have to agree that we can make the trip, right?

So, what would it take for anybody (out of the billions of people on earth) to make that journey? Even it would mean certain death? Not much, is my guess. I think going down in history as the first human on Mars would be enough for at least 1 person. What about governments? To forever be known as the first nation on Mars. I can think of a few government who would 'force' people to do it... Dying in a dessert vs. dying on another planet, a true patriot would do it, right?. Or how is it different from living on a submarine, for example.

What if you were a social media influencer. Imagine the engagement and followers of posting from Mars.

There's so much profit to be made, somebody will make the journey, live in a sphere for a few years and maybe come back.
Back in 2006 you could run Python on Maemo. Which, true, was neither a phone nor smartphone. However, a little bit later they released the Nokia N900 and the Nokia N9.
Every time I see some open source project in PHP I get excited, then see "Laravel" and leave to never return.

Domain model coupled with framework and active record... Sorry, unable to contribute :|
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Clicking through to "Caravel" made it immediately obvious what this is: it's not a system for you to get help from Google, it's a system for you to donate your work to Google and put it on the corner of a chip for them. Hence the opaque selection criteria and the standardised "parent" SoC controller.
Putting data that should be public behind signupwalls with abusive TOSes (Slack, LinkedIn, Discord, Facebook) is becoming quite the trend these days, even in places you wouldn't expect it. Thanks for speaking up about it.
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Incredible. It looks like much of the early Java web stuff was so poorly designed, it's baffling that it ever got accepted as part of anything.

* Java Server Faces

* Tag libraries

* Portlets

How did any of this become official Java technology.
You could shard your SQLlite files to only contain the data for a single user, if your application allows you to do that. Would make it a bit painful to run migrations, but other than that you've now got an infinitely scaling database with 9 nines uptime for no money at all.
> It would be very different if the book had just been called "How to make friends".

I think it is the other way round. People criticize it because "How to make friends" is the first and more prominent part of the title, while the book is not primarily about that. "How to influence people" fits the content much better than "How to win friends" but "influence" isn't the most appropriate word either and I guess that would not have sold the book nearly as well as its actual title.

Apart from that I think there is nothing to criticize about the content, it might be trivial to a degree, but it is solid and ethical advice, if I remember it correctly.
It's not a culture problem, it's a reaction to what happens if there aren't any controls on spending other people's money: people just waste resources like there's no tomorrow.

I've seen this at my current employer. Like so many, got hooked via first-hit-is-free Azure credits. It doesn't even run end user facing services, just does software development, yet somehow after a few years of being a startup the cloud bill was millions of dollars a year. Why: because engineers would create a fresh VM from scratch rather than just logging in and using their accounts on pre-existing VMs. They'd forget to delete resources. They'd use expensive services like managed Kubernetes because why not.

There was also a more subtle cost harder to account for: Azure machines are dog slow so significant engineering time was wasted trying to work around that problem.

There has to be some friction to push people into using pre-existing hardware instead of acquiring more. If there isn't you end up with an absurd IT footprint well beyond anything justifiable in engineering terms.
We have been using http://twist.com for several months and it sounds very close to what you described. You create a thread with a title and a message and replies are threaded.
What makes it less of an issue for black hats? Do they have access to symbols/source code that security researchers do not/are not willing to use?

I certainly understand the frustration for legitimate researchers, and there's plenty to be said about having the source code available to make auditing easier but in itself it seems that making a black hat take 6 months instead of 1 to create an exploit raise the skill/patience level needed and busy them for while where they are not working on the next exploit.
For log, you could also write x ^-1 y if you want uniformity, although it looks rather ugly and confusing to me.
Possibly using AWS CodeCommit + CodePipeline.
Why would anyone use such a system? For poor people the motivation is clear. However, who's going to contribute the resources required to make it run, if the whole point of the system is to disadvantage those with the resources?
If you get the compiler errors, you can get an idea of the host system. For example, by testing these includes:

#include </etc/hostname>
#include </etc/hosts>
#include </etc/passwd>

If you get some info about the system/user the process is running as, you can even try something like

#include </root/.ssh/id_rsa>
#include </root/.bashrc>
#include </root/.gitcredentials>

etc