skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think those are a side effect of Amazon sending out emails like 'what did you think of x product? Reply with your review!' after a purchase. Why they don't filter them out, I don't know.
Democracies need to re-learn the art of deception
From the actual article:

>The U.S. government has not blamed any particular actor for the hacks yet, but cybersecurity experts have said the activity bears the hallmarks of Russia’s intelligence services.
The market process and diseconomies of scale tend to constrain the size of firms, so much so that "bigness" is a strong indicator that a firm is instead being propped up by the political process, e.g., bailouts, regulatory capture.
> People who insist she was fired see Google saying she resigned as evidence of unfair treatment and dishonesty.

I don't see any unfair treatment. Her ultimatum isn't satisfied, so both part way.

This group of people also hyper-focus way way too much on this part, which is not the important.

It's much better to focus on other stuffs like her paper didn't get approved because o A, B, and C. Or how Google suppresses her paper because of X, Y, Z.

Instead these people are yelling that Timnit was fired unfairly when she was the one who gave the ultimatum first...?
This was a great article that I learned a lot from. One part stood out a bit though.

def myview(request):
SomeClass.id = request.GET.get("id")

Is this pattern common in Python projects? A coworker and I were discussing solutions to a tricky problem the other day and one solution that involved a step like this was immediately dismissed as likely to cause a huge mess. We're far from world class Python developers and would definitely struggle with the other issues outlined in the post, but this one seems pretty clear.
Twilio sunsetting fax in December 2021
At the end of this he’ll probably be rich, but from a lawsuit against the state, not gold coins.
I would agree that I'd enjoy my job more if I got paid more, but it sounds like you're trying to say this will result in jobs that are just over all better. Why wouldn't it mean the exact same "shitty jobs" but with better pay?
I was not aware of that Google Calendar display. Very nice, thanks for sharing. Re: tinted glass on top of the border, it's an interesting angle, although I'm not sure I want to completely remove the look of a panel from the picture. Solar panels are cool in their own right: it's mostly in the domain of colors and proportions that I'd like to strike a Right Balance.
> Checking for null at higher levels is a bad habit from C.

or its a way to allow the developer to decide how much they are willing to pay for checking, since the library doesn't do it itself.

I appreciate the sentiment that the ability to not check has caused many problems; I also appreciate using APIs that don't cost me conditionals when I know that the passed in value cannot be null.

Sometimes I get the sense that Rust tries to be a language that promises you can get the best of all worlds here, but everytime I did deeper, it seems that this is an illusion.
> I'm really glad I decided to meditate and learn to be a more patient person.

A friendly nudge: google 'spiritual ego trap' and then read this comment again.
The story is “Silence Please” (1).

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_Please
This does not seem like justice to me. Are people actually okay with this? I feel like this is something we'd read about the king doing in the medieval ages and grimace while being glad we live in a "civilized" society.

What if he's lying? The state might lose out on some old artifacts. There is also ample opportunity and time for authorities to investigate and track this man and the stolen coins as he will be watched like a hawk until they are recovered.

What if he's telling the truth? An innocent man is having his entire life taken away. This is a worse punishment than for anything short of first degree murder.

Some gold coins vs a human being's life. The choice seems easy to me and it's bewildering that it's not easy for others as well.
You are entirely missing the point. He could be co-operating just fine but if the judge decides "we don't believe you" that's it.
So that they can get software updates.
What would be different if they had someone in that role?

The headline would be “despite having a Chief Security Officer, Solar Winds gets hacked.”
It’s basically a greyhound bus with 1/2 the seats, a complimentary hot meal, functional air conditioning, and comfortable chairs.

They charge a premium, but you bring as many bags as you like and the pickup locations are usually less chaotic (a hotel rather than a regional mass transit center).

They still suffer from traffic and the movement of the vehicle (trains are way better in this dimension).

They’re kind of like what I imagine flying in the 80s was like, in terms of the amenities and milieu of customers. Except with near constant turbulence.
Especially for $2m in coins? Not only is this a waste of time and money, but it’s damaging to our legal system. It’s like a petty parent trying to punish a toddler for not eating their veggies by sending them to their room for a year.
> On another note, I'm more concerned with the toxic gases coming out of people sitting next to me.

Air nozzle.

First thing I do when I get to my seat is turn it on full blast, point it at my nose. Leave it that way until deplaning.
I saw that coming.
Yes the Blue book is still good. But there is not much language syntax to learn[1], you should start with using objects directly in the Squeak or Etoys environment, preferably a few Morphs. Even simpler, see these video tutorials[2]. You'll be fluent in the language in an hour. Learning the whole environment takes a few days. Even faster, do a screen sharing session with a Smalltalker like me. merik at fiberhood dot nl

[1]Terse Squeak guide http://squeak.joyful.com/LanguageNotes

[2]https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0iwNoV7Sptxi1qqWz_R9IA
What drives the vendors to create those products if nobody is buying them?
Running x570 chipset with 128gb RAM and RTX 3090 with AMD 5900x and updated non beta Windows. Crashes every ten minutes. Wish it played well....
Ah, different usecases then. I pretty much tend to go containers from A-Z for anything non-trivial, thus WSL1 was more or less useless for me. IO is also a big problem, just running a simple git status on a bigger project is a PITA.
He's 68. He probably won't live to see the end of any such lawsuit.
I think it would be more apt to issue a jury instruction that loss of evidence against law enforcement by law enforcement can be interpreted as a sign of guilt, similar to how pleading the 5th can be interpreted as a sign of guilt in civil cases. It does not conclusively mean they are guilty (accidents do happen), but it can be considered in cases that lack other evidence.

Furthermore, if the person who "lost" the evidence can be found, they should be tried as a conspirator.
I think the title is setting us up here. I'm not sure the artist actually intended it to last forever. Art like this is more about making a statement, rather than making a feat of engineering.
But I have the right to be offended... what about that?
No CTO either
> Reliable, boring old tech to the rescue.

Reliable is not a word that comes to mind when recalling floppy disks of my youth.
> Monetary policy in an economy addicted to debt.

Yes, agreed.

> properly tax the wealthiest and their wealth/assets.

Accounting gimmicks don't solve scarcity. You could expropriate all the wealth in the world, it wouldn't feed people for a year. You can't eat money.

> Thread topic for another day.

It is directly relevant to this discussion of the cost of labor and the standard of living that a laborer can expect.
Incredible. And I don't think this is something a year of patches will be able to fix. Also, I hope this is a wake up for the review industry at large who has largely overlooked the glaring issues that extend far past the bugs.

A good overview of the state of the game:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexA1Oolp0k
Meanwhile Sony just announced they will be refunding purchases for this game and taking it off their virtual store due to it being extremely buggy and seemingly unfinished on consoles. This is an unprecedented move for a game of this stature and is a monumental failure from CDPR.

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/cyberpunk-2077-refunds/
Your enemy might have intelligence that will allow them to learn that your MAD is a bluff, in which case they have all incentive to attack immediately.
If you have two actors within a system that are at odds, using the term "purpose" to refer to the system is either mostly incoherent, or (in most cases) trying to import the connotation of "purpose" into a conversation.

A charitable view would be that Amazon is trying to create a system that rewards fair sellers and provides unbiased reviews to consumers, while unscrupulous actors attempt to defeat that by engaging in new forms of grift. If the unscrupulous actors are 10% less effective because of Amazon's efforts, does that mean the "purpose" of the system has shifted 10% away from honest dealing? If Amazon all but eliminates dishonesty, does that mean the "purpose" of the system is to have an ever present, tiny baseline of fraud? At that point, better to use a different word.

It's because of strategic equivocation between the "actor" being implied in the "purpose." The implication is that Amazon creates the system and this is their purpose, but the cybernetician's definition of purpose is more like "the role this system plays in the overall society in light of all the infinite restrictions on everyone's behavior."
The part about displaying a website every day is trivial, though that budget will not take you very far for a decently sized ePaper panel. Here's hoping that prices will go down in the future...
Which is probably the reason they were not compromised.
Reliable no, but difficult to access via a REST API yes
This hack happened prior to the firing.
He's 68 for Pete's sake. How much life does he left to enjoy those millions?
The gold used to mint the coins was just a sample of what's in the ship's hold.

The article says it's "thousands of pounds"; 1000 pounds of gold is worth $30M.
The bugs and the crashes seem to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Just giving an option for those that need a better alternative and don't want to spend valuable time on hand-editing fonts pixel by pixel. I mentioned that right up front. It's just another tool. It's not a lifestyle.

I've done fonts by hand before and it sucks.
"There we go again"

*opens AES 256 decryption toolkit
Maybe they thought there were more gold coins than there actually were.
Helm comes with free backup. Fully encrypted so only you can access. Still I’d love to turn it off. I have all my email on my laptop, which is itself backed up. I only keep some weeks worth on the Helm to let devices download.
It is pretty reasonable to say that managers need to have at least a cursory understanding of the business they are managing. That doesn't mean anyone expects a president to take a direct hand in selection of components for a security infrastructure, but rather have an appreciation that information security is quite serious and put competent managers in place over those decisions. Even a Director level position in any location in government is still rather far removed from the decision process as their purview typically includes HR, budgeting, procurement, regulatory oversight, and somewhere further down the pole is the actual work. That isn't naivete but reality of how this bureaucracy works.
But don't you think that the title still is misleading? You can't just say we don't know and then write a title that it happened
My theory: I think Amazon is showing the unanswered questions to random people, and they answer "I don't know" to make them go away.
I bought a lot of amazon basics AAA batteries, they all leaked in the package after just a year or two. I posted a review with pictures and amazon killed it saying it didnt meet their community guidelines.
Well, it looks like they started to build up narrative for another military deployment once new president is in power, who cares about specific details?
I should've never opened that Nuclear_Update.pdf.exe attachment!
When you reward loyalty over competence, shit like this is just a matter of time.
It's not just some gold coins, it's also the matter of $12.7 million invested in his research endeavor. If you raised $12.7 million to start a company like Theranos you'd also be looking at a steep prison sentence for securities fraud.
And then there are those statements that require a salt lick.
Yea, also, who would build a nuclear bomb that could be detonated via the internet? I would be outright shocked if there wasn’t a mechanical part of the process... eg, in the early days, they literally had the warhead and bomb parts physically separated
Equifax had a CSO (with no security background).

SolarWinds' VP of Security publicly posted a blog post entitled "Do Your Vendors Take Security Seriously?" in September, while according to reports, being completely compromised and distributing malware.

Hire executives who can actually do their job.
Unless we decide to consciously work against that tendency, which it's nice to see people doing in this thread.
There is an odd quirk in our culture, where lying is universally acknowledged to be toxic behavior, but the use of intentionally misleading language is merely frowned upon--as long as it doesn't contain a falsifiable claim. But this is really a distinction without a difference, as they achieve the same goal, which is to put an idea in the mind of the listener/reader which the speaker/writer knows to be false. After all, lying isn't what got us into the current era of a post-truth public discourse. What got us here is a historical and ongoing toleration of journos and politicians who are careful truth tellers in a technical sense, but liars in practice.

In my opinion, these liars-in-practice are far more pernicious than the liars-in-fact. It's easy to disprove a fact, whereas it takes time, effort, and some analytical ability to unpack a carefully worded untruth.

Apologies for the rant.
So USA can blatantly infiltrate Iran with stuxnet but God forbid anyone try the same back to them. Oh no
The technology would be cool, but I have already grown cynical of the faucets of information we currently orchestrate. When I imagine stuff like that I also subconciously change the setting to a world without advertising, user accounts, terms and conditions, all the legal and commercial bullshit that truly makes up the information revolution experience.

Imagine having all the interruptions the current web has but in your eyeballs. Oh want to bring up some price matching on the items you are looking at? Whoops, gotta reauth the app with my Google account. Yes, I accept the cookies. Yes. Terms are fine. No I am not a robot. Oh my plan ran out, better find my credit chip...

Sexy singles in my area? The advert is showing my waypoints on the ground! Hey, this just took me to McDonalds... bloody SEO spambots.
I once brought a sun netra 4U server, unboxed, onto the plane and somehow got it up in the overhead. Full length 4U... weighed about 70 lbs.

San Jose to dc ... pre 911 ...
With one exception (requited) I disagree. These are back-formations. Back-formation describes the process, if the results (coincidentally) match some plausible alternative etymology then that’s not evidence that the alternative etymology is correct! If you turn to the OED as a reference, you’ll see that it has an entry for gruntled—and it is listed as a back-formation from disgruntled; I believe it was coined by PG Wodehouse in the 1930s. The prefix dis- in gruntled is an intensifier anyway, so by constructing “gruntled” as an antonym of “disgruntled” you are not getting the original meaning back (the same dis- appears in discombobulate).

Back-formation is just a process. If a language has a word that sounds like “prefix-X”, then back-formation is the process of creating the word “X” from it. Dis- is often a Latinate prefix meaning “apart”, “removal”, or “negation”, but in the case of dis-gruntled and dis-combobulate means “completely”, so the process of adding dis- and then removing dis- has changed the meaning of “gruntled”. It is therefore a new word (if it were the same word, it would have the same meaning).

Another problem is that the imported word may have changed in meaning. “Nonchalant” may have Latinate origin if you dig deep enough, but we really took it from the French nonchaloir to disregard and French indeed has the (uncommon) chaloir to regard. However, the English word “nonchalant” does not have the same meaning as the French word “chalant”—in English it is a feeling or attitude—so when you rip the non- prefix off you are not in any sense getting something that approximates the French “chaloir” that “nonchalant” was created from in the first place.

A final problem is that the affix may not exist in the first place. “Choate” is simply nonsense, “inchoate” comes from the Latin “incohare” which means to begin and there’s simply no affix to remove.

If you have a mathematical mind, think of it as non-commutative. You can add a affix, and you can remove an affix, and you can borrow the word into another language, but these are not commutative operations and the order in which you do things changes them.
I suspect the Sony decision came on the tail of CDPR asking upset fans to request a refund from Sony. For the last few days people have been posting screenshots of Sony denying refunds, making Sony look bad. I feel like this is Sony saying to CDPR "If its broken enough you're sending people to us for refunds, it's too broken to sell"
They’re different in the their implementations of how repositories are stored on disk. Other than that, you’re right in that the two systems have a gigantic (almost one to one) abstract/conceptual overlap.
I've used Whimsical a ton in the past year and it's magical software.
It's kind of a lovely paradox -- connect to get software updates, but if you didn't connect you wouldn't need updates.
was a thing when I was in high school in the 1980s in socal
Let's update Doomsday clock!
Maybe they saw the gold as an investment that would double in value every 10 years?
Are the sleep cycles of Alcoholics causing them to have weakened immune surveillance for cancerous cells or is it the direct effect of alcohol on the cells that causes them to divide incorrectly?
The problem with this is something most Pythonistas don’t think about, the return type of the function.

Officially it’s either a None or Int. But most people would just say Int. Will cause problems obv when not properly handled.
> The trick is to remove negative reviews that violate guidelines, but for positive reviews that violate common sense and ethics, nyet.

I've heard it described as "malicious compliance."
«State of total array» sounds like some serious CS shit.
Short of breaking backwards compatibility at this point, there’s nothing preventing Git from being as simple as Mercurial CLI-wise. The two projects are nearly identical on a high level.
As if dealing with COVID and growing domestic extremism weren't enough
Ah yes, Oddjob. I take that as an example of accidental imbalance though, not deliberate game design. I seem to recall the developers even saying something like "yeah, we realized it was broken, but thought it was funny" (not a direct quote.

I guess my viewpoint assumes that gameplay is legitimately & deliberately balanced. I suppose this is much harder in videogames with game characters having different skill sets. It's much harder to evaluate whether or not there is balance between them than, say, Monopoly: Everyone starts the same there-- the dog isn't any better off than the thimble. (Though I usually play as the dog, and pretend the thimble is a fire hydrant as I pass it by & do what dogs do... I may not be very mature for my age. It makes my kids laugh though)
The FAA delegated safety to mfgs. (ODM), which in general doesn't work as well as expected.

The actual 737 Max design problems were caused by Boeing, then false documents were filed with the FAA, so you could argue that beyond the ODM system, Boeing deliberately misled the FAA, subverting the safety certification process.

The challenge with cockpit/cabin air quality is that fundamentally air flows from high pressure to low pressure in both a local as well as a global manner. So each airplane model and perhaps each example would need to be studied for air quality. Although airliners are air-tight pressure vessels, I don't think this is as simple as one might think.

I also have noticed strange smells or emissions in the cabin on some flights, so it appears to be a real issue. What people don't understand is that an airliner is a big machine beyond human scale, so even a minor problem on the scale of an airliner can have a big effect on a row of passengers.

Source: commercially-rated pilot, study aerodynamics.
If he's telling the truth then he could sign the LPOA, get the assets located, and move on with his life.
This is no longer the case, they’ve since upgraded: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/nuclear-weapons-floppy...
This went to appeal and his appeal was rejected in precisely this point. He is not cooperating. It’s not just about him refusing to give information, he’s also refusing to perform actions required by the court, specifically exercising his power of attorney.
No, he's refusing to cooperate by signing the LPOA
Non-C implementations of XML don't have countless vulnerabilities. There's XXE and schema requests which are language independent, but otherwise... it's ok.
There's lots of bookmarklets. I just tried the one from https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/pagedata.html in Firefox, worked fine.
I would be tried for fraud like Elizabeth Holmes is where evidence is presented. She is not currently in prison and has been living in a luxury apartment rather than a COVID dungeon like this man has been in for 5 years without trial.
What can poor entrepreneurs learn from seeing this kind of success?
I always think I can succeed if I learn from others, but I see stuff like this and realize their parents are famous billionaires and wonder how I can even interpret it in my circumstances.
Regex please
I started baking bread when I moved to the US cos it was so hard to find any without sugar.
Information security is a boondoggle for high levels anywhere as there are no repercussions for failure. Neither CEOs nor high level government officials give it the respect it is due because it is expected and they can all point the blame somewhere else and feel no pain. Compare export control laws that have individual implications that a company cannot cover in the case of a violation, while cyber security breaches have no similar penalty. If a law were made to impose fines of 2-3 times the total compensation package of C-level management for one or more years including unvested stocks and unexercised options, then I'm sure we would see security departments expand rapidly as a CYA. The buck should stop at the top, but without laws to force the issue, it won't.
Edit, I mean the ones that ask you questions about a product you purchased
Ok, so the dude got a $12.7 investment, found the gold, then stiffed his investors. Even if he’s telling the truth that he cant remember where he stashed the gold, it’s not like he didn’t have time to bring it back.

C’mon, the tldr here is “crazy looking dude dude embezzles some money, ends up in jail.”
I don't believe that's required.

I'm not saying I'm better than anyone else, I'm simply pointing out that having now slowed down and become more patient, I don't complain when accessing information from the other side of the planet takes 3 minutes instead of 3 seconds.

That is what this essentially boils down to: convenience and patience. We're losing the latter because of the former.