skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite pathetic that our head of state's password was as simple as "MAGA2020!. Twitter should impose complexity requirements for passwords of verified accounts.
Thanks for finding a better source. Something along these lines was kind of my suspicion. Given Twitter is claiming this didn't happen, it's hard to see what kind of evidence he would have that would convince the police. All the stuff like alleged screenshots from inside the account are fakeable and unverifiable without the cooperation of Twitter.
> The number of overall votes it would take to change the outcome of the election, compared to the total size of the electorate, is small.

Sure, with a geographically optimum shift of votes to maximally leverage the anti-democratic nature of the electoral college, it would take about ~125k votes (37 EVs need flipped, ~40k gets PA for 20, ~31.5k gets GA for 16, and ~3.5k gets ME-1 for 1; at least I think that's the lowest-vote-change scenario, and assumes reversals of votes where every change reduces the margin by 2.)

Of course, that would also be by far the biggest popular vote loss by an electoral college winner since the election of 1824, which had four candidates clearing over 10% of the vote, and the only electoral college defeat of the majority (not merely plurality) winner of the popular vote in US history.
If Mozilla wants revenue diversity, it can be found through empowering independent creators on the open web. The open, standards-oriented, values-based browser is the key, not a sideshow.
OP posted the non-tech audience answer and is hot under the collar about it. Do you need them to spell out every part of what they do? Part of investing is due diligence
Your best bet is probably something like an independant YouTuber making tests that are easy to see, understand and replicate.

This video comes to mind, I had watched it when comparing products: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXL5NoX25XM

But even then, it's hard to get total transparency. Did they receive a product from a manufacturer for free? Are they receiving money to ignore a particular device? Etc.
“Hacked” seems like a strong word. A security researcher guessed the password and notified people of his findings
“ There is no amount of technology that can get over this problem.”

Wouldn’t each person in the room having a VR head seat solve this problem?
The total energy cost of paying a pack of gum with your Mastercard is probably on the order of running your computer for a few seconds. Maybe as much as a minute, I don't know to what degree the financial system uses replication.
This perspective IMO is informed by a slow-burning (like, career-scale) FOMO where if you're not as successful as the person getting $200k+ offers from FAANG right out of university then you are behind and a failure.

This is a persistent sentiment in CS and adjacent circles, I've noticed, and a serious hindrance to finding fulfillment in life and career.

It's not a race, it's an Iron Man, and for the vast majority of people just finishing somewhere they feel proud of is (should be) enough.
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> Hopefully, the "extend" and "extinguish" are not on the agenda.

There are certain organisations whose prior behaviour precludes "hope" from a reasonable set of expectations. Whether or not Oracle is included is left as an exercise to the reader.
I was playing VR shovelware and pavlov pretty regularly for a while, we just put mirror the game to the monitor so the spectators can spectate, and the headphones float off the ear a couple inches so they can hear us.

It helps to have at least two friends for that scenario. for Just one friend you're probably better off playing a non-vr game and trading the controller.

these days we're farther apart and one friend has a child so he's worried about covid. we play "ghosts" (Phasmophobia) once in a while.

in summary:
2 friends required (minimum)
mirror the screen
headphones off the ear
> There’s probably a way to get those last three into my NixOS config

There is, it’s called home-manager [1] and it’s a pretty nice way to manage your config files and user packages even if you’re not on a NixOS system.

[1]. https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager
> Source? I'd prefer a reputable one, if you please

Here you go[0]. Although it says the opposite of what GP claimed.

[0] https://www.axios.com/trump-coronavirus-stimulus-negotiation...
Exactly. A screenshot is not convincing enough as they can 'inspect element' this 'hack'.

Simply show me a video logging into the account in real time with the given password and the 'hacker' can eliminate this skepticism.

Quite funny how people can quickly believe this stuff on the internet without thinking again, especially from...

BBC online news... sigh.
They are similar because they are both logographic languages. The MIT team should of added logographic languages in their experiment for the same reasons in this blog post:

https://blog.fluent-forever.com/logograms/
And at least one or two to his papers... Of course, he's anonymous!
I have no problem with companies saying “if you want this, you have to pay”. I have a problem with a company saying “It will be free, with full security updates until 2029” ( https://archive.is/7Qmtw ) then turning around and saying “Just kidding, it’s only going to be supported until the end of 2021”.
You know, not trying to bring ideology into HN, but if you just capitalize the S in state and the D in duty, what you’ve said is rather terrifying.
Fine. But when I opt out I want to be truly 100% opted out. Actually, I'd prefer the option to opt IN if I want to be tracked.

I think that's the real issue here. I know people who love targeted advertising. Great. Let them have it. But when I say I want no parts of it, my explicit withdrawal of consent should be honored.
I fairly regularly use the “search tools” option in google to filter results to within the past day, or month, or whatever.
This looks really neat, love the powerline look.
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There's videos too. https://www.leithcars.com/blogs/1421/lifestyle/jet-powered-v...
I hope that doesn't portend anything bad for Ansible...
I tried this back in the RHEL 6 days. Do not recommend.

They changed things just enough that you can't just drop in RHEL and expect drivers, performance, and other kernel-level stuff to be the same. Now I understand why, it was to better support their database. But it was frustrating to deal with unless you were going all in with them and planned to pay them for systems that needed support.

Has this changed?
On NLP, in the UK there has been one miscarriage of justice (a wrongfully convicted man spent four years in prison) due to mishandling of text messages by police and prosecutors, and some close misses. Because of the time pressures on police and prosecutors, they were just looking for a bunch of keywords unsystematically rather than reading the material fully, and failing to disclose relevant material to defence lawyers.

See: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rape-conviction-...

Getting text automation software wrong can have pretty horrible consequences. AI/ML tools should be an aid to proper review of documents, not a replacement for it.
More info: http://www.ronpatrickstuff.com/
> Why do we want a high birth rate?

Economic pyramid scheme, such as entitlements and economic growth mandates that rely on it.

A lower birth rate is preferred (less resource contention and impact on the ecosystems we rely on for survival), we should be driving it down with economic incentives (faster than it’s falling naturally). It happens naturally as women are empowered and educated (per Our World In Data [1]).

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#what-explains-the-...
Yet the rich get richer as Congress passes 'relief' plans that allow the wealthy to sneak massive chunks of cash directly into their pockets.

Here's just one example:

"According to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), about 85% of all the approved Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans were for less than $150,000...The bipartisan bill holds the intention of automatically forgiving loans of less than $150,000." [1]

85% of so called 'paycheck protection' loans didn't/won't actually have to go to paying staff after all. Up to $22,000 per employee directly in the owner's pocket regardless of how the business was doing at all.

[1]https://www.solo401k.com/blog/news-ppp-forgiveness-for-loans...
If I remember it correctly, the briefcase was able to synchronize by floppy.

It was an awesome piece of software, that nobody knew about.
The quest 2 is pretty much a revelation. Untethered, light, cheap, high quality display and inside out tracking and connects wirelessly to a gaming PC allowing you to play virtually any title if you pay $15 for vrdesktop. Obviously you have to be comfortable with facebook but it's just a better end to end experience than any other headset I've tried, although it would be better if VR desktop or something similar was included out of the box instead of them trying to flog you the kludgy occulus link cable that doesn't work as well and which tethers you to a pc. It feels like VR done right for the first time in the same way as the iPhone was a smart phone done right for the first time.
https://i.imgur.com/zM5gMjt.png in case post is deleted.
But you have to install an app on your phone, right?
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Injecting HTML is a terrible idea. It has extreme overhead compared to just evaluating some JavaScript in the page context, and it will break the occasional page that expects certain things of its DOM, and it’s fairly inevitably broken when you have CSP things. The DOM belongs to the document. You shouldn’t touch it unless you actually have to to provide your functionality, and this isn’t such an extension. There’s a a proper mechanism for executing scripts in the document context, which should be used.
Never, it will forever be a niche product. It doesn't solve almost any problem better than what we actually have but keep the mind engaged in the future of virtual reality.

VR is the flying car of software: so amazing to imagine, so impractical in real life.
Does this mean that Gnome 4 is around the corner?
It's even simpler than that, both of the fields in the screenshot are editable fields, so they had to do nothing more than create a new account, upload the same banner and profile picture, and put the text in the boxes
>The blame for the situation lies squarely at the feet of the state and local governments. The federal government didn't force any businesses to close.

The state and local government had to act entirely because the federal government had no real plan. Someone is going to fill the decision making vacuum, but it is a problem when the people making the decisions don't have the financial power to make the right decision. The federal government is the only government in the US that had the power to pay people to stay home and experts were telling us that was the right decision 9 months ago.
How is this even possible. How can twitter not force MFA for arguably the most important social attack vector of our time.
Not saying you're wrong, but... what particularly did the Democrats do (or not do)?
There's nothing here for Google Finance or portfolio data.

https://policies.google.com/technologies/product-privacy
Hey Rongxin! Thanks :) It's been a fun ride. I'm going to drop you a message, it's been far too long...
Raindrop looks nice. I've been using xBrowserSync to sync bookmarks on all devices, regardless of browser). Features: Open source. Run your own server. Encrypts on the device. No accounts. No ads.
I'll preface the following by saying I fundamentally disagreed with rolling back the DAO as the entire purpose of these networks is immutability and their trustless nature.

The reasons for it, even on their own, all make a lot of sense:

- Ethereum has always wanted to move to Proof of Stake, a move that would have been impossible if 25% of the networks funds were suddenly in the hands of a nefarious actor.

- The DAO was intended to seed development into projects that would benefit ethereum and the blockchain space as a whole. It was an incredible amount of capital that was all intended to help evolve the network. Losing all this capital and momentum would have been detrimental to that goal.

- The DAO was arguably an unlicensed security and losing the funds of that many investors would have been a problem for many who had a hand in building it. By returning investments, they basically made this a non-issue.

So again, do I agree with the choice? Absolutely not, you should not proclaim "code is law!" until it's inconvenient for you. Did they have a choice? No, the roll-back was inevitable as soon as the DAO contract was deployed.
Because our entire capitalist economic system is built on consumption, which is largely reliant on the birth rate being above the replacement rate (2.1). This is especially important for some sectors like durable consumer goods, housing, etc.
Strong acute exposure and slow chronic exposure will show different effects overall. But yours sounds like a decent heuristic as a first pass.
> short sentences are prone to misinterpretation

Exactly. That's why laws or contracts written by lawyers are so verbose. Think of a rent contract or a software license like GPL.

Contrast with WTFPL and similar...
I’m sorry I am not buying this story. No way his password was that and guarantee the presidents account has two-factor. Congratulations Victor on getting world wide press coverage but I am calling BS.
Douglas Adams must have written this. There's no other plausible explanation.
You got it the wrong way round. Deflation means when prices are dropping. The price of computers has fallen over time predictably and exponentially, and yet that hasn't stopped people from buying them. The Keynesian argument against deflation is that it disincentivizes people from spending money as they expect prices to drop. This disincentive hasn't prevented the computer industry from being a huge success. The fact that you know that if you wait some time you can get a faster and cheaper computer doesn't prevent you ad infinitum from buying computers.
The pay difference is pretty staggering, but after a certain threshold it stops being a very good motivator.
> how the technology can be useful for society

I think it's important to separate Bitcoin itself from the general concept of blockchains as a new type of data structure. Personally I think the real benefits to society will be had by applying Bitcoin's concepts to brand new unrelated things, and hopefully Bitcoin mindshare can help spark that creativity in people. To me, someone saying "The Blockchain" is like someone saying "The Linked-List". They're not thinking about it generically yet.
One of the studied showed that teams that completed the checklist had lower mortality, but argued that the teams completing checklists might be systematically different from the teams that didn't complete the checklists, and thus the difference could not be attributed to the checklist, per se. Not wrong, but doesn't amount to refutation.

Note that in the debate you cited both, proponent and opponent, advocated the (continued) use of checklists.

Side note: I could see how you could do a blinded RCT, but not how you could do a double blind RCT here.
It's not weird. A lot of people (especially on HN) repeat false claims they hear that "sound right" to them, especially where they have some animus against someone involved (me, in Brave's case). Brave was inspired by All Advantage, but we knew going in that Gator and worse examples of personal ad systems would be used to dismiss or disparage. Marketing challenge, not a reason to give up.

“A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.” —Mark Twain
> The blame for the situation lies squarely at the feet of the federal government

It's more complex than that. The UK is keeping things stable/frozen, but with nothing being produced, the value of their money is shifting.

You cannot keep paying people to do nothing. You have people in jobs where they are still employed, saving tons (because there's nothing to spend it on) and record buying of future e-waste (Going back to the 2000s, PS3 prices were back to normal two weeks before x-mas Christmas. PS5s are still $1000+ on eBay), and the income inequality is growing between those who happen to be in safe industries and those who weren't .. and it's arbitrary. Nothing has changed for the manager at a Wal-Mart, or a UPS driver or an engineer, but it has for the restaurant manager or someone who owns a small corner store in California.

The completely arbitrary and almost random lock-down decisions have crushed all small business, giving over their entire customer bases to large big box stores.

The people with their small businesses don't want handouts. They'll take it sure, but they want to work. Some have shifted and found new creative ways to make money. That's the nature of capitalism. You do what you have to, within the limits we've evolved over the past 100 years (no more child labor; pure capitalism without regulation is bad), to offer goods and services people want. But many are struggling.

In contrast, the earlier larger unemployment payments provided a perverse incentive to keep people from returning to jobs that had reopened. Lowering them a bit has helped those return to jobs that were there, but it's been devastating to those who have nothing to go back to.

We cannot just inject money. Social welfare has been a disaster in many respect. Only only need to watch modern documentary that break the bubble: "What Killed Michael Brown" and "Uncle Tom" to see how the perverse incentives from badly constructed government systems actually hurt a lot of low income communities and destroyed families.

There is a lot of talk about "A great reset," used in many countries to indicate a global agenda to fundamentally change economic models. Make no mistake, people at the top with influence are not going to give up or redistribute their wealth. Bezos, Gates and others at the top will hold on to their wealth. But reconstruction could destroy people under a certain income threshold if it's not done correctly.

People need merit and value, and the draconian COVID regulations have removed personal agency from the masses.
They wouldn't even need to provide these services themselves. They could act as independent auditors in exchange for revenue (as they do for search).
Right. I don't understand why there isn't RH that you can just add the EL too.
Fluctuation has to do with volume. (eg, penny stock) In the 1700s the stock market looked a lot like bitcoin.
For non-tech people they think the exact opposite. Facebook is a name they know and understand.
Gmail just mass-mailed Google+ Page accounts?
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Please RFA.

"The reduction they saw was confined to households that did actually have access to a car"

"They discovered that tightening these laws had no detectable effects on the rate of first and second children".

Also, if i understand it correctly, you have about 50 quasi experiments, one for each state.
Definitely 100% about greed. The core thesis of "will the price go up" is dependent on if greedy people will continue to be greedy.

All of human history (and perhaps biology) has always been about continually trying to accumulate more even at expense of others. Bitcoin doesn't detract or contribute to this human nature.
Check the GitHub repos of people who are on the team. Company code might be private but you can get a sense of who is on the team and how they code. Also see if you can talk to teammates before joining to get a sense of what the day to day is like. There are great engineering teams in the sense of eng practices but horrible culture in terms of management, getting along well with other orgs, etc. So you want to make sure you have both.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC Nov 24

If you want to know why COVID relief is tied up in Congress, one key reason is that Republicans are demanding legal immunity for corporations so they can expose their workers to COVID without repercussions.

Dems don’t want you to die for a check. That’s what we’re fighting over.

https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1331322923534213120?lang=en
True, but the hacker himselve is not just "a wannabe" though. He found and disclosed more than 5400 online vulnerabilities, so I would just say that the article doesn't prove any point ( if it's true or false).

( https://tweakers.net/partners/meet-up2020privacysecurity/127... )

More information about some of his findings are listed here https://gdi.foundation/#/news/README

Small extract:

> WeWork’s weak Wi-Fi security leaves sensitive documents exposed

> A huge database of Facebook users’ phone numbers found online

> China Intercepts WeChat Texts From U.S. And Abroad

> Over 90 Million Records Leaked by Chinese Public Security Department

> Unsecured MongoDB databases expose Kremlin’s backdoor into Russian businesses
>If this is too much for you, you’re not a serious player. In fact, a business running on a @gmail or @yahoo address, with the online presence being on Facebook screams “amateur” or even possibly “scammer”. In any case it’s a useful signal that the owner isn’t really committed.

This is very much in the context of US. The total Facebook user outside of US exceed the total population of US itself. And most of those business, especially in SEA are simply using amateur email address just to get things done or in some cases, dont even have Email at all as they rely on WhatsApp / Line or just Facebook Messenger.

Just trying to add a Global perspective.
While I do agree that crypto needs to step away from the current "investment vehicle" mentality and be treated more like a "currency"... I'm still lost how yet another currency is going to help society. Im not trying to be an ass, I'm being serious on figuring this out. I constantly see this argument with no real logic other than trying to essentially use Marxist ideals of "redistribution of wealth" to a disenfranchised demographic. Yet trying to distribute a computer based/useful currency to folks that dont have running water let alone electricity also confuses me. Tag on that the current distribution of bitcoin is in the realm of 30% of users own some 90% of bitcoin wealth. That's a pretty shitty interpretation of redistribution of wealth. In truth, it pretty much follows the realized implementation of Marxism throughout history, "everyone needs to redistribute wealth to me and my friends and away from the people who already have it".

Just saying "this will help the poor because they have nothing" over and over with no real plan, let alone action, doesn't make it true.

One guy I argued with once told me about him donating his bitcoins to buy pizzas for people who needed it. Which, cool. That's awesome. But the donation argument makes it sound like people dont donate dollars or euros. Or even like theres some grand mechanism that makes bitcoin better than traditional currencies... even though crypto gets converted to traditional currency so it can become useful.
Facebook does use OpenStreetMap: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2020/04/17/facebook-ope...
Ian Bicking left Mozilla something like a year ago, if I'm not mistaken. Already in March he was talking about it in terms of "what I would have wanted to do but didn't get to". This post appeared last month in the context of the big layoff round.
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> But to be clear: the money always kept coming! On a per-user basis it even increased over the years.

Well if the number of users diminishes...
You raise a great point, I'd like to add that growing antitrust concerns are another danger that lies down that path for Apple.