skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is really an exploit of Microsoft's authentication services, then who knows what all got hacked. More likely, a Treasury IT admin got phished for their password, no?

And if this is a hack of data hosted on Microsoft Office 365 servers, how does it get detected?

Does Microsoft implement traffic monitoring for high-value clients?

Or do sophisticated organizations embed tracking pixels in emails to see what clients load them, and then check that those are authorized clients?
what is reddit and who uses it ?
Had you really considered what I wrote you wouldn't have missed this important bit: "when I turn off the Low Blue Light mode I can instantly feel the strain on my eyes. The picture is gorgeous but it's too bright and intense for work."

So, the feature also dims the brightness, and I did this with my other monitors too so they matched the BENQ monitor I said has this feature.

But it's more fun to be dismissive, right?
Incidentally, it's wild seeing the physical models of 3D surfaces in the Open University video you linked -- nowadays, the equivalent visualisations can be obtained so quickly, at such low cost, and reach so many more people.
IMO the answer is to have registration and insurance for bikes, which would create financial incentives to drive reporting and behavior.

In the limited experience that I have as a frequent pedestrian visitor with dedicated cycling lanes in NYC, they feel dangerous to pedestrians. Many cyclists don’t want to stop or yield to pedestrians, and left turn markings on avenues are still evolving and confuse a lot of drivers.
Yeah, that position was the mistake I mentioned in my first post. The bias ask spread is so large that it it painful to exit it though. And the Fed may be forced to back off if inflation kicks up further, we will see.
That's a different and much harder problem. I don't think there's a way around it. Community mechanisms need time for people to evaluate what they're looking at.

It's also an old problem - the adage "A lie flies around the world while the truth is still getting its trousers on" traces back to Jonathan Swift:

Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it; so that when Men come to be undeceiv’d, it is too late; the Jest is over, and the Tale has had its Effect.

A perfect 18th century description of internet dynamics!

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/
Yeah, i feel like that crypto replaced the fed with ether. Ether gets printed and buy bitcoin when the price falls.

Hmmm
The "have been hacked by" scale seems to have two settings:

0. Forgot to secure access with password.

100. Nation state.
It works every single time until it stops working. Playing the numerology game with charts and trends is astrology for people investing in the stock market.

The only question you should be asking yourself is: is Bitcoin actually valuable or is it a pure speculative bubble that's bound to burst sooner or later.
Lawmakers cramming controversial copyright provisions in must-pass spending bill
Obduction was by the myst creator, no? I found that to be too laggy in VR. I bet myst runs faster though
The cost of being the ultimate Apple fan: Nearly $80k
So buy your Mac. Problem fixed.

For what it's worth, I only buy Lenovo hardware. I shun HP hardware (except their laserjet printers) like the plague. For me. Debian and its derivatives (Ubuntu, Mint) work 'out of the box'. I can't remember the last time I had network problems. EDIT: Yes I can, it was when I last had a HP laptop and why I made the decision to never again buy a HP computer. That computer's wifi didn't even work with Windows. (Well, to be honest, it was Vista.)
If legislation came against it, it would have it's value damaged. No one seems to use it for actual transactions. It uses enormous amounts of electricity.
Perhaps a dumb question, but how much does the ability to acquire new money factor into this?

I’d assume it’s more work to dig up and purify gold ore than make linen paper. Wouldn’t this mean some currencies are inherently more stable?
Maybe the corporations do sometimes positive stuff too. You know, like vaccines.
It's even worse than that. I'll just let this URL speak for itself: https://ggwash.org/view/37541/drivers-who-kill-people-on-bik...

That said, when I am driving, I have absolutely no issue with people on bicycles who ride predictably and follow the rules. It's those who don't that anger me. Specifically, I'm talking about things like riding through a crosswalk, riding the wrong way, and not signaling lane changes. There's a reason you're supposed to walk your bike through a crosswalk, and not signaling when you're a ~200 lb driver + rider combo facing down vehicles weighing more than 10x and capable of going much, much faster than you is just dumb.

That doesn't mean drivers aren't dumb, too. On top of the usual traffic BS we all deal with while driving, I also see a lot of instances of drivers not taking over a bike lane when turning. Usually, in this case, this just seems to lead to a lot of "go! no, you go! no you go!" business, but it's 100% a recipe for a crash.
I would agree that a decentralized web is to the benefit of everyone, but we have most on the far left, and most corporations pushing for a centralized web. When the far left, and corporations have both aligned on an issue, we're going to get screwed. The center right, and center left will never agree, or unify to create a policy that decentralizes anything. This means, the far left, and corporations will win, a strange pair indeed.

The only counter is to centralize with opposing points of view, because nothing fractured ever is sustainable.
I’ve seen these things, including large DDoS attacks from both sides, black hat and white hat. I’ve also been recruited by Cyber Command, NSA, etc. The one thing that rings true is that governments and corporations vastly overestimate the capabilities of nation states, and vastly underestimate the capabilities of unaffiliated hacking groups and individuals. Most of the cutting edge InfoSec work is being done in OSS and the public domain. The Snowden NSA leaks, although ancient history at this point, confirmed a lot of this for me. The only exception would be where the government can flex muscle in low tech applications they can throw money or legal resources at (MiTM/interception, obsolete tech like SCADA) but otherwise I’ve never been been impressed.
For me, it's the general problem solving mindset. If you run into a segfault, you don't give up. You open up GDB and start getting your hands dirty.

Similarly, if your users aren't retaining or if your co-founder quits or if your investor is suing you. You don't give up, you find a tool/resource/strategy/mindset and figure it out. Over time your problem solving compounds and you've built an anti fragile company.
Well what I'm claiming is not that averages can be used to arrive at all truth, or to observe all things. Many things however are distributions and averages can be accurately used to characterize them in a way that works. In that example, one might say that the mean viewpoint is correct within the error bars that encompass the two observations, which could be quite large if they are opposite observations.
https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/unsigned.html
You are probably talking about Escheat system.
Planet money had a nice episode about it, here's the link

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/799345159
I don't understand what is funny about it. To me it sounds like having fun from imagining those men being unhappy which is just cruel.

And maybe your uncle was just asshole and you would be perfectly fine person without him too.
> if they can get a more dramatic paper by using data that's 8 months old and based on a sample size of 7 people when they could use data published last week and which has a sample size of hundreds of thousands, they'll happily pick the former every time.

Do you have a particular example of this?
Yes, of course, certain metal objects can be melted down and then sold as raw material [1]. But even if we withhold further scrutiny of this one example, it doesn't explain the broader concept of intrinsic value. How do we robustly generalize beyond this class of metal objects?
> Over then next 5 years, highly unlikely.

That's a bold statement, given that within the last 3 years, Bitcoin dropped 80% from about the current price, only to recover in the last year.

You also completely ignore that Bitcoin might be overtaken by another competitor in this area. Altavista and Myspace didn't win either.
Of course this P-O-S statement is totally disregarding the illegal alien (not friggen undocumented immigrant bullshit) who commits a crime, does it so spectacularly, like killing people, deling drugs and what not. Of course if you compare this to the pick-pocketer US citizens, it will give you the skewed statistic as the a-hole writer of this piece wants you to believe.
This Chris Barncard person should burn in hell.
The segment "GraphQL vs gRPC API"[1] touches on something near and dear to my heart: You should write API-first services, and wrap them in templates.

The ideal way you write server-side rendered page on your website is to write some code that gathers all the data you'll need, then when you have a big struct that contains everything you need to render the page, execute a template over it. As a side effect, you can set this up as a RPC call - You can do all of the data gathering in a function that matches a GRPC protobuf, and then wrap that with a function that matches http.HandlerFunc. Then you've got a well-structured RPC should ever you need to expose "a page" as "a call"

I used to wish for more languages to handle PHP like inlining of code - Most of your website is usually in the template. I still think that's true, but separating out the data-gathering is valuable, because that data gathering can fail. You can have a SQL Timeout or a retry failure or simply need to 403 for authorization purposes: any number of backend problems, and you want to serve a different template for those. Golang's html/template (and text/template) are just the right mix of inline code, extensibility from external code, and not focusing too much on error conditions. They're not useful if one of your functions will error in the middle, but they give you the flexibility to do things like conditional-formatting.

[1]https://github.com/graphikDB/graphik#graphql-vs-grpc-api
I think lifetime can very well work if done right, but not at zero cost for a user. You need a healthy business with guaranteed sales.

FL Studio [1] is one example which does it right. After buying a license you get lifetime free updates. But they offer different editions and plugins which are not free. So first, they get users hooked with lifetime updates and in the long run this will probably work out for them, because some power users want more in the long run.

On the other hand, services which are free and suddenly transition to a subscription based model annoy me to no end. The last time I experienced this was with a free e-mail hoster called Migadu [2] which killed it's free plan this year.

[1] https://www.image-line.com/fl-studio/lifetime-free-updates/

[2] https://www.migadu.com/pricing/#what-happened-to-the-free-pl...
I'm being a little sloppy in my language as well.

Since words and phrases necessarily occur in sequence, if you are speaking of things can be and typically are in sequence, it is natural to infer that the speaker is presenting them in the sequence of their occurrence. The speaker can do this, the speaker and the hearer both know that the speaker can do this, and it is a common understanding between the speaker and the hearer that the speaker intends the hearer to receive a particular representation of events: this is the purpose of communication. This being so, the speaker presenting events out of their temporal sequence would be perverse. If the speaker knows the hearer will assume she is presenting events in their temporal sequence, she must present them in this sequence or explain that they are not so presented. To do otherwise would be understood by the speaker and hearer as deliberate deception.

So the sequence comes not from the semantics of "and" but the pragmatics of speaking itself. In fact, you don't need "and" at all. If you leave "and" out -- asyndeton -- and list things, they will be understood to be in temporal sequence if they are the sort of thing that occur that way. "I opened the door. I went out."

All of these "meanings of and" can be explained via pragmatics and a very simple meaning of "and". The meaning I provided was intended as a hand-wavy gesture in the direction of a more formal theory.
The monolith? Or the few who had people with lapses in judgement?

Are you saying corporate structure in the law causes these actions?
"This looks like a good theoretical point, but I don't see how it holds in practice. What would be practical examples of this happening?"

The example given in my original blog post:

"the more you upload, the more we throttle you. The little users don't bother us and the big users eventually just go away"

"Again, good point in theory, but I'm not sure how this works psychologically - flat rates bring peace of mind and allow easier budget planning."

Wouldn't you get more peace of mind knowing that your provider was working hard to support and enable your use-case ?
Be great to see your search on there. I was admiring the speed and accuracy on the post you put on the other day...
The last 5 or 6 transactions I made on my old PayPal account each resulted in freezes of my account that required a ton of hoops to unfreeze (uploading pics of my passport, proving address with bills, etc). I eventually abandoned the account and just created another, which is what I use with no problems now, but have no idea what the balance in the old one might be since I ended things abruptly in unlock-my-account-please-for-the-love-of-god Support Hell.
"The buck stops elsewhere".
If you try to run someone down, and end up killing them, that would be considered murder. If you try, but don't end up killing them, it would be assault with a deadly weapon at the very least, or possibly attempted murder. If you just so happen to kill someone without intending to, it could be considered vehicular manslaughter.
I'm not sure this is right e.g.

> Shared Physical Memory: The host and the device share the same physical DRAM. This is different from shared virtual memory, when the host and device share the same virtual addresses, and is not the subject of this paper. The key hardware feature that enables zero copy is the fact that the CPU and GPU have shared physical memory. Shared physical and shared virtual memories are not mutually exclusive.

From:

https://software.intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop/article...
Have a link to the app you can share?
Yes - on mastodon, plemora and others you cannot use your own domain with a shared host.
Freedom has a fundamental asymmetry: it's much easier to give it up than to get it back. Imagine a society where it's possible to sell yourself into slavery -- you start out free, but in a moment of desperation you lose it forever.

Enemies of a free state use the state's freedom against it by exploiting this asymmetry. A moment of naivety by a voter or someone in power, or a traitor/spy, can dramatically undermine freedom.

The only solution is vigilence, which is hard to keep up forever. The Bill of Rights helps, but at some point we need to reject the politicians that are too naive to defend freedom.

EDIT: The socialist movement in the U.S. is of grave concern. Especially the Bernie Sanders brand, where he's a nice guy but somehow can't even recognize a failing socialist state a few years before it fails (Venezuela).
I wonder if '20% time' but on some kind of 'approved' project might make sense?

None of us 'fully agree' with the product features set. We all have 'that thing' we feel different about.

I wonder if instead of 'work on whatever' - you can just 'work on something else, that you really want to' - but that has practical value. Like XYZ feature, or creating online training, or that researchy thing with the local Uni.

So 'in line with company objectives' but still fun.

Because frankly, Google has been rolling in surplus since day 1, they have all the money in the world, that's fundamentally a different economic space than companies who are on the line.
Caught up? The laws practically ignore spot commodities and all property outside of securities and derivatives of commodities. Congress knows what they are and leaves property regulation to the states (except where they didn't), who also knows what they are and ignores it.
Ya, I think I consume far beyond the average for political news and had never heard of that distinction until now. I just always equated nation-state to country.
Chemists re-engineer a psychedelic to treat depression and addiction in rodents
Five lines I put in a blank .vimrc
In Soviet Russia, vaccine develops you.
> Humans aren’t that different.

This is true, except when it's not. Then it really matters.

I do agree some in this thread are exaggerating a little.
If I were told I had died from a bike accident when biking to work, I'd be betting really hard on that I was not on a dedicated bike lane..
> so saying anything is unworkable because the rich can partially game it is defeatism

Thankfully I wasn't saying that. I was disagreeing with your claim that "[inflation] hurts you in direct proportion to how well off you are", arguing instead that:

1. inflation benefits those earlier in the flow of new money, and

2. at present, that new money enters the economy via banks, etc.

> If we use UBI to inflate the currency...

Indeed, this depends on #1 above: change how new money enters and propagates through the economy and you change the wealth transfer effects.
Sounds like a win-win to me!
Others have answered this better than I, but I'll tell you what I've seen:

- grpc-go and gopls had great "Contributors welcome" issues set up. For both of them, I had to email/chat various people for help getting used to the code, but everyone was extremely pleasant and helpful (and happy to help).
- Drive treated it like an internship, where a TL curated a set of low-priority issues and I just went and chatted with folks when I had questions. Again, everyone was very helpful.
- Other Go tools I've worked on have had really intuitive codebases, or were quite small, and have been easy to dive right in. That's helpful too, though I do end up chatting with people a lot.

If I had to make a general statement I guess I would say: don't allow 20%ers if you don't have the time for an intern. Treat the 20% like an internship: free labour with a little bit of extra onboarding. It's ok to not have that time, but I think most people are usually happy and excited to provide that help! =)

Oh, actual tip: having a myproject-users@ / myproject-devs@ mailing list, or a #myproject-devs chat channel, goes a long way. Then, chatting and asking questions can be informal and ad-hoc.
It's not the best UI but the mouseover of the icon tells you what's going on, albeit in tiny print at the bottom:

https://i.imgur.com/hnRrBVr.png
Cancel Culture most resembles consumer boycotts, circa 80s and 90s. Both brands and influencers are targets of opportunity, have no real power.

I'll be more impressed when critics target the aggregators, platforms.
Hitachi to sell appliance business to Arçelik for $300m
I worked at a different company that had implemented a similar policy (10% I think?), and generally the problem was the same. There was no process to formally accept projects, and no formalized way of having managers ignore the productivity loss when evaluating people.

I suspect the management liked the concept of having their smart engineers invent new products, but ultimately preferred buying companies. It somehow seemed less risky even though most of the acquisitions failed.
Please see my response to your list of "mistakes". You claimed that Brave tracked users, modified links on pages, and more. All of that, without exception, is false. Brave (the company) doesn't know what sites you visit. Brave is considered the most private browser in terms of phoning home: https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-brow.... Please feel free to inspect your own network traffic from the browser via Fiddler.
And who was later banned at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10019003
krebs was fired last month (~11/17/20) and per the article:

> Staff emails at the agency were monitored by the hackers for months, sources said.

so krebs was in fact not defending against such an attack?
There are several points here—happy to respond.

> violation of the HN guidelines is the norm on HN

It happens much more than we'd prefer, but to say "the norm" is a huge exaggeration.
I understand how it can feel like the norm—it's common enough to run into frequently, and painful experiences leave a stronger imprint than pleasant ones [1]. But these false feelings of generality are dangerous because they lead to an attitude of why-bother. Current toxin levels, though bad enough to produce symptoms, at least aren't fatal. Why-bother would kill the community if it spread.

> selective, arbitrary enforcement of rules

HN moderation is inconsistent in one way but consistent in another—call them strong and weak consistency. Strong consistency would be "every post that breaks the guidelines gets moderated in the same way". That would require moderators to read all the posts, and there are far too many for that to be feasible. Weak consistency would be "when a post does get moderated, the mods do it consistently and even-handedly". That's at least possible, and what we're shooting for. We don't get everything right but we're open to hearing about and fixing our mistakes.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it [2]. (You can help by flagging it or emailing us at hn@ycombinator.com.)

> why was my reply flagged, but the comment I replied to, which you also cited as violating the guidelines, was not flagged?

Users flagged one more than the other. Your post violated the guidelines worse, so I don't think that was unfair.

> this whole submission seems to be a strange time to be pedantic about enforcing the guidelines

That's not how moderation works. When users break the guidelines and we see it, we ask them not to. Keep in mind that we don't necessarily read the threads in order—sometimes we do, but other times we're looking in via more random-access views. The guidelines don't change relative to the submission, so I don't see why moderation should.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
If that is cruel then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aversion_therapy
would be banned.