skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long can they afford to fight it? It's not hard to spool up a rideshare competitor per say. When they pulled out of Austin several other rideshare companies popped up in their wake. If prices got exorbitantly high for the average user, I wouldn't be surprised if a company came in undercutting uber.
It's only ~2.5x the cost of the Made in China version. I'm intrigued that you think it could be done for less?

Given that no one currently is and that the average salary in the US appears to be about double the average in China - that seems about right?
It shouldn't be, and that's why I'm being a bit careful with my language. To normalize that it is in fact a bilateral issue. How to solve it and what to do about, sure, those are left and right opinions. But the fact that it is an issue needs to be normalized, because it is indeed a fact.
List of Computer Criminals
I was going to mention COBOL, but COBOL has actual use cases.
Speaking of necessary context - in 2019 the US saw several hundred people die of TB, vs ~250,000 of covid so far this year. For better or worse, it's been possible to control the spread of TB so that it is no longer a great threat in the west, and that is what controls the amount of American money and public interest spent on it.

But, the way this control has been achieved is that the US and many other rich countries require anyone applying to immigrate (and many people not applying to immigrate, if they are from a risky country) to be screened for TB and be treated successfully before they are allowed to enter the country (with some waivers where treatment is unlikely to be available where they are). On top of all these border controls, at least $100 million is spent specifically on TB just inside the US every year, in order to keep the number of annual cases down somewhere around 10,000. Until 2019 healthcare professionals in the USA were required to be screened for TB every year. People in America who do contract active TB disease are required to take medication daily, personally supervised by a healthcare professional, for six months - to make sure they do it correctly.

And all this is only possible because TB takes a pretty significant amount of contact to spread, and there's a detectable latent stage (sometimes lasting an entire lifetime) of infection before it becomes contagious - neither of which is true with covid.
Ah, Jeff, actually thanks to your post I saw that most of the projects I contribute to had Travis CI builds take almost a day and I went over most of those that used free TravisCI/CircleCI/Semaphore and started migrating them all to Github Actions. So again, thank you for your particular inscription on the blog, I guess.
You can get through life being very smart or very kind. I’ve tried smart. I recommend kind. Said someone once.
and like nuclear power, it is the politics that will kill* it, not the technological progress.

* - Yes, Nuclear is not dead, but is not being used anywhere close to the potential it has i.e. effectively dead.
Individuals or Teams: Who’s the Better Customer for SaaS Products?
when you insist as a population to the right to have guns, then you have to be prepared that people need to treat you as if you have a weapon and, at times, will make mistakes. It's one of those weird rights that people want so they can "defend" themselves, but actually makes society as a whole a lot more dangerous.
Robert Ghrist of TDA fame did his undergrad at UToledo I think.
I believe I felt that one in Croatia. Started on 6-7th November.

My ISP Tele2, Croatia. But, I am on a 4G LTE router.

Haven't had it for 2 years since I've been with that ISP nothing the same as described.

Or at least we had some strange stuff for a few days, I thought it was my dedicated server SSH and MTU, bu not.
When connected through the VPN, the speed is normal, fine.
Also, FTP was working fine.

But, without a VPN, the network seems to be "throttled" somehow, do not know why.

Persists today. I have to use VPN for SSH connection to my server and to download on my "full speed" over FTP.

And my router is D-LINK, since firmware upgrade cannot access HTTPS configuration. Bad certificate :/
You made The Gov look bad? Then yeah, you gonna get The Treatment. What did you expect?
You can use ping to more easily hunt these types of issues, for example `ping -A -c 100 -s 1000 -p deadbeef` will show the difference if there is a flipped bit in the payload. You can generate patterns with xxd.
Most interesting one seems to be Hamza Bendelladj:

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Pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit wire and bank fraud, 10 counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiring to commit computer fraud and abuse, and 11 counts of computer fraud and abuse[26]

He is a co-creator of Trojan horse SpyEye. He stole from 217 American banks in total stealing $400 million and is alleged to have donated all the money to Africa and Palestine, though Trial documents did not mention any donations or charity activities.[27] Despite much false information on the internet Bendelladj did not get sentenced to death, and claims saying he donated any money to charity is almost impossible to verify.[28] The SpyEye software was also sold to other hackers and used as part of a botnet.

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Being careful with my language should not be indicative of believing that it is a left-right issue. Being careful of my language should be indicative that I believe people will interpret it as a left-right position and I'm not here to discuss politics.
Yes, and we voted Biden in as President.

(No I didn't vote for Trump)
> a manner that protects the officer the most

I doubt this is true. To me it is clear that their demeanor and behavior increases the liklihood of escalation and an incident.
Lots of people jumping to conclusions one way or the other here, but keep in mind a few things.

#1 The police had a warrant. That means they had to have a certain amount of evidence to present to a judge. "She is a disgruntled former employee with an axe to grind" is probably not enough to get a warrant. Server logs with an IP address would hold up in court.

#2 Pointing guns at clearly non-aggressive people and particularly kids is bullshit in general. The PD says she hung up on them and knocked on the door for 20 minutes. Maybe BS cover up, but if true, might explain the seemingly over-aggressive entry.

Not jumping to conclusions, but sometimes decent people do stupid things.
I see from elsewhere in the thread that this was a painstaking/manual effort and leverages D3.

Does anyone know if there are projects/libraries to help build this kind of visualization more generically? I realize that no library could every cover every possible use case, but I'd love some kind of framework that makes it easy to build out this kind of thing.

Reveal [1] is great for a web-based slideshow, but I'd love something that helps explain complex systems, even if that requires me to do some heavy lifting.

[1] https://revealjs.com/
Sigh. Thought it's an article about getting off from a start-up/business that's sinking; not literally the Titanic itself. Amusing but well written, triggered some flashes of Titanic movie while reading it though.
Who said anything about oppression? I just don't think anyone wants to live and work in a place where they are unwelcome and unwanted.
You get some amount of your traceroute packet back too, could have flipped bits in there.
She made claims that Florida was hiding hospitalizations in May.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Jones#cite_note-17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csvzt6kGzHw

This was patently untrue, and sensationalist. The absence of a massive, national scandal resulting in the impeachment of DeSantis proves that Florida wasn't hiding anything, months later. Her claims were always made without evidence, and were magnified by partisan actors.
What mission? It's a CI/CD platform.

I think the far more likely explanation is that updating the websites was very low on the priority list of the people who made this decision.
Yeah this is more on the other axis. Authoritarianism doesn’t care about left or right.
It's one thing to find a security issue, it's another thing to exploit it and easily leads to jail time even if it's harmless.
I guess it wasn't a real country after all.
I've given an 101 minutes trying really hard to grok this... everything I've found skips the very basic definition of what S and K are for some astoundingly dumb reason.

Stephen Wolfram obviously knows what he's talking about... but lacks Feynman's ability to put it into layman's terms.

My suspicion is that there is an implied list, and if you go off the end of the list, you get a hidden zero... if not, you get a one.

The SKI combinator Wikipedia page has a section about Boolean logic that comes close to making sense to me.

Please let me know if I'm getting this right.... restating the page, putting it into familiar notation

Booleans are a list of [1,0]

T(x,y) = x

F(x,y) = y

Applying this over Booleans

T(1,0) --> 1

F(1,0) --> 0

They then go to explain that

T(x,y) = K combinator

Then they go on to explain

False(x,y) = SK, which I think is K(S(Boolean)

It's at this point, I'm lost.

Is SK --> S(K(xy)) or K(S(xy))

I can't resolve that to get any further.
Although terrifying, many people in the US won't see that as a problem along the lines of "she broke the law and these are her consequences". I don't know if that's getting too "into the fray" for HN but... whatever... I feel it's important to express this.

As others have posted - here's the video... I think it's important we watch it:
https://twitter.com/GeoRebekah/status/1336065787900145665

I hope she gets good legal representation.

EDIT: Yeah there's tons of comments in here that are scarily along the lines of "she broke the law and here are the consequences" - gross. Just gross.
It looks like someone on the twitter thread checked and the checksums are wrong. Im not sure why these packets aren't discarded by your computer.

edit: apparently osx doesnt drop these packets according to the twitter thread.
Lawsuits and legal settlements come to mind.
Am I the only person who finds this article written in an annoying way? It's almost like 2 mediocre articles forced into a single one
Please don’t do that here.
With guns drawn, police raid home, seize computers of Covid data whistleblower
Must be fun to have a game ban you for being a cheater because you've tampered with the byte stream :P
Funny enough, training is expensive and most of the issues are from a lack of training. I think removing funding will only make things worse.
When you're making policies for people who both fire guns and have guns fired upon them for a living, you don't get to be very fine-grained in those policies. The situations are, by their nature, chaotic.

In a situation where police are legitimately going in with guns drawn (like, I dunno, arresting actual terrorists known to have actual guns?), they don't have the luxury of determining whether someone's a child before pointing a gun in their face. If anyone in the house could be armed and firing back, they need to point the gun first.

So, there isn't a realistic "They shouldn't have pointed guns at children, but the rest of it is fine." Either it's okay to point guns at children because the situation demanded it, and the moral culpability of the child's trauma (or worse) is on whoever left children with armed outlaws... or they shouldn't have gone in with guns at all to the personal residence of someone whose alleged crime involved no violent action of any sort.
The training is a huge one. Patriot act on Netflix (clearly 100% unbiased and best news source ever) even talked about exactly that.

His joke was to the effect; imagine airplane pilots spending 90% of training learning how to use the ejection seat and a couple hours learning to fly
What if this is false? Like, everybody here is quick to believe that someone raided a home and pointed guns at the faces of children. What if it is a lie? How do we know it's not beyond "oh yes it's the US so it makes sense"
Berkeley's walkable area is actually pretty extensive. The others are less so.

Berkeley's walkable area encompasses all of Telegraph Avenue down to Ashby (Berkeley Bowl) (South), all of downtown (West), the perimeter of the UC Berkeley campus and the campus itself, and probably half way down University avenue (further West), the North Berkeley area to the north of downtown Berkeley (Chez Panisse, etc...) (North). If you like walking, you can walk from campus all the way to the Bay. If you like hiking, you can hike up part of the way to the LBL. San Pablo Ave is also walkable but wasn't as ritzy.

The inaccessible directions are NE and E. W was considered ghetto but has gentrified. The only parts harder to walk are up in the hills (pretty much impossible: narrow, windy, steep, no sidewalks) (E) and the hilly parts of North Berkeley (NE).
You could bring your own steel straws instead of plastic. There are those who bring their own cutlery as well.

Due to growing demand, people are innovating in this space and are covering aspects such as reuse, sturdiness, ability to clean, storage, aesthetics.
Mass gun ownership also increases gun ownership among fools and incompetents who leave their guns in places where they can be stolen and introduced into the black market.
No my main point is that people on here are reading into Rabois’ comments on quality of life issues at face value and not recognizing that his move out of state at this moment in time has to do with avoiding taxes on his IPO gains and not much else.
How much non-default "churning" should a Monero user manually choose for maximum privacy?
Major cities in all those countries are just as congested on the streets as American cities. Toronto in particular has some of the worst traffic on the continent.
I don't disagree with that but is the shift in drunk driving norms really enough to shift from owning cars to taking taxis? In my experience, most people don't primarily use cars to go out drinking--including among those in a position to just take Ubers instead.
They're definitely not a certain kind of princess, let's say that.
Well, the test launches have all looked like someone stuck a rocket on a grain silo...
I think in the long term, people will use Win32 applications to target the Linux platform. While the kernel takes compatibility seriously, the GNU OS around it has absolutely zero binary compatibility in mind, and it's harder to get old Linux games running than old Windows games on Linux. With MS increasing its focus on UWP, Win32/Win64 might actually have a longer life on Linux than on the eternal Windows 10 platform.
The site design makes me want to throw something. The massive header bar with literally 7 words on it that is more than inch wide, taking up more than 25% of the vertical space and has a bizarre iiiIji logo (or something) that has no mouseover. What a waste of space!
I understand that, fundamentally, anti-cheat involves taking some form of control away from the player. But when the solution involves deeply embedded hardware modules that take that control away globally, introducing their own host of problems, I think that goes too far, and the cure might be worse than the disease. As a player, I wish there was a way to make sure that the anti-cheat only runs when the game runs, and only checks stuff related to the game and nothing else.
Trying to explain this issue to AT&T support is like trying to convince a doctor you're the only person on earth with a particular disease.

Even explaining the issue is hard. It's not an outage, my internet isn't out, it's intermittently wrong. The phone support agents aren't prepared for this, and I can't find any way to escalate or speak to a network engineer.

I feel like if I spoke to the right engineer, there'd be a ticket on this and they'd roll at truck to their facilities or the IPX within an hour. It's a major network issue to flip bits, it's costing them bandwidth with retransmits and could be breaking SLAs with their business customers.

On the phone the most they could do was roll a truck to me.
I've been having problems like that with ATT fiber too.
You can use it on a device without GApps, so without closed-source google code, using only the open source Android codebase (and the blobs and drivers from the manufacturer, depending on your device). This means you don't have to trust Google.
Bitluni and CNLohr are two of my favorite hardware hackers to watch on streams/videos. They both have such creative ideas and intense passion for getting the ideas working no matter how many walls they hit. Lots of fun to follow along even if it’s way beyond my understanding half the time.
> All authorized users use the same user name and password.

Having shared credentials for an account is going to make it very difficult to prove who accessed the system.

Also, the single user for a common system typically means that they didn't want to pay extra to have multiple users. Makes me wonder if this incident will open Florida to a lawsuit by the vendor.
How to survive sinking a ship and then freeze to death while watching it sink nearby.
Can you explain to me why COVID-19 data should be considered confidential? My first thought is that she got raided because she was releasing data that contradicted the Official Florida State COVID-19 data.
> Well, what's the problem with eating, say, gorillas, if done in a sustainable way?

There's no problem with eating these animals if it's a cultural norm. Many indigenous peoples in Africa, eg the Bari of Sudan, eat monkeys and other apes. Whales have been hunted in Canada by aboriginal peoples since time immemorial. It doesn't matter how smart or social you are. Someone or something unsympathetic is going to eat you, and it just might be humans who don't share your (actually our) ethical ideas.
How many different full-featured Matrix clients do you know? And what about lean ones that don’t come in a huge Electron package?

Also, Gajim has support for MAM and can sync everything locally. I believe Monal has it, too.
AT&T runs transparent proxies on their network that have been known to intercept and mangle tls, and directly manipulate tcp packets on the wire.

Take a tcpdump capture on both server/client side and compare the handshake/tcp headers/negotiated window size. Often you see the server sending one thing, but the client sees another
This is a great example. Matrix has the concept of widgets which let you embed little webapps, which can be used as a compatibility layer for stuff like payments. For instance video conferencing is done in Matrix as a widget (Jitsi) for clients who just support widgets... but clients with native jitsi support (Element iOS and Android) integrate it natively rather than using a widget.
Obligatory read: http://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-so...
And look! You found a friend!
Unless you can prove your running copy is the same as the provided code (which is pretty hard for server software), you can always keep a private forked copy with the backdoor and run that
https://floridacovidaction.com/donate/
It uses code from microg for this, which is a free GApps replacement, but needs to be installed at a system level, while this can work on any device
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25339510
"Break the rules. Officials may try to deter you from using passages, ladders or stairwells. Ignore them. If you need to kick open a door or pick a lock, do it."

I would say that in general, when a ship is in danger of sinking, hatches are closed and dogged off for a reason, usually to control flooding, so this is a really bad advice. On the other hand, when a hatch is secured, you usually can't open it from one side, so if you are on the side that can lock, you are probably better off looking for another door.
> Gun ownership is very common in this country, and anyone on the other side of any door can have one.
> So I can get that part.

Its completely unacceptable. Police don't pull over drivers for speeding with a gun drawn. However, anyone in Florida may be armed and you cannot reasonably argue that the drivers are cool headed.

This overreaction is unprofessional, dangerous, and thuggish.

We have a law that we may not be required to quarter soldiers, perhaps a better law would have been to make it illegal to enter private property without consent armed.
> The people with actual power in this situation have the greater responsibility.

This cannot be stated enough. It seems in our general conversations that whenever there is a tribal component to the discussion that this responsibility shifts when it aligns or disaligns with your tribe. I've always been a firm believer that you can complain about those in other tribes, but it is your responsibility to hold those in your tribe to a higher bar. After all, you don't have a voice in the tribe you don't belong to and your tribe isn't perfect and can always seek to improve.

And there should never be a question about a person in a position of power being held to a higher responsibility than an average person. No one should be getting a pass on this, inside or outside of your tribe.
... so what you're telling me is, Washington has a very low tax rate and few people who complain about their overall tax burden?
Assuming Morris and Swartz here are Robert Morris and Aaron Swartz - Morris is a cofounder of YC, but I don't believe he had much to do with HN. Swartz was involved with Reddit, not HN.
How is it "the fact of the matter that she broke the law?"

She hasn't even been accused of breaking the law. There have been zero charges.
I've spent enough time converting nearly illegible coffee script back to JS that I didn't want to do it again. I believe TS has its has benefits, I just don't care.
The chance that anyone can have a gun is above 0 everywhere, it's a meaningless statement. Sure, the chances are higher in the US than just about everywhere else, so why not just say that.

It's totally unreasonable for the officers to act this way, and I don't think it's particularly obvious that escalating to guns drawn makes them any safer. Maybe it does, but maybe it turns them into a threat in the minds of the people they think they are protecting themselves from.
I missed the paragraph that mentions his new book. Yes, that's the most likely answer.
You haven't given me anything actionable. Read the question I asked, understand against your instincts that it is a question and not the insult you assumed it to be, and then tell me a way to ask that question that doesn't make you feel the way you do right now. Is there one?

Disagree strongly on "contributes very little to the discussion".
Another point: is there an open spec for GH Actions, that Gitlab could implement? Or vice versa, could Github support Gitlab CI? I am thinking of CI these days as some kind of wild west as back in the days before a common Open Container Initiative spec...
> Seems unlikely that a judge would issue a warrant without some kind of probable cause.

Unfortunately, here in the US that is not something you can bank on. There is a large amount of evidence that judges routinely sign on warrants without even understanding what the warrant is for, and there are even many types of non-standard warrants that do not need to follow that protocol.
I wrote a list of code review suggestions a few years ago that focus on things the reviewer should do:

https://mtlynch.io/human-code-reviews-1/
Periodic Table of the Web
Who is making it a left-right issue in this thread?
What about all of the routers involved in the connection?
There's not much we can do if Earth is hit with another giant asteroid. Or some massive biological or radiological disaster. Or some other type of impossible to predict or mitigate disasters that could render Earth uninhabitable for humans. Musk's goal is to make the human race multi-planetary, not escape to Mars. Just as you should back up your critical data more than one hard drive, or run redundant servers to ensure your service runs reliably, populating multiple planets would ensure the continuity of the human race should some disaster befall us on Earth.