skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering the FBI recently foiled a plot by a group who was planning to "take out" parts of the energy grid, it seems likely from my experience that this is another set of people executing a similar plan targeting telecoms. I imagine there is a high probability of more incidents like this happening between now and the inauguration, meant to target various infrastructure and "big government" components throughout the country. This attack screams anti-government militia with it's technique, and we will see in the following days online chats emerging with all the planning details that will likely include someone that had some degree of "insider information" about the ATT facility.
Yes. Sorry. I think my initial post wasn't clear on that aspect now that re-read it. That was actually fairly unusual aspect of it.
It would appropriate to quote one old saying, possibly originated in armed forces of a certain country:
"do not rush to execute an order, it will likely be canceled"
On Windows it is mostly meh in my opinion as it is hard to compete with the Visual Studio feature wise. Had they ported it to Linux I'd be way more interested. I am not particularly fond of native C++ IDE choices on Linux. Currently using CodeLite for that purpose.
You forgot /s. Someone might think you're serious.
Salmon are used as food sources for humans and for wildlife. The stronger the salmon are, the stronger the ecology of the PNW will be.

Not all dams that are blocking salmon runs in the PNW are used for hydro power, or for flood control for that matter.
> November if not September of 2018

Presumably you mean 2019?
Yep!!! We had to tweak some settings because the router would constantly flap channels during DR tests and we were getting billed for the call setups (international ISDN calls were not cheap lol).

It was cheaper to have stable excess capacity.
Covering for your crime by committing a far more severe crime seems like a pretty bad idea... though I think there is no shortage of criminals with bad ideas, so this seems at least plausible.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540850
> The industry is pretty messed up and it sometimes feels like researchers/pen testers/bug hunters are effectively subsidizing and protecting shitty security practises.

In my opinion, this is a result of there being little/no consequences of being breached due to incompetence. Zyxel isn’t losing anything from this, and has no incentives to be better.
Consider the countries like Japan that do not actually have excess mortality despite COVID-19. Suppose they just stopped testing for it. You would not be able to tell the difference. You could then come up with any reason for this “huge success”.
The machine can render 3d worlds but a simple GUI is too much?
Salmon by Mark Kurlansky is a fantastic read on the historical + ecological history of of this.
wow, Delphi, that brings back memories. It must be one of the most mature products on the market by now.

the IDE looks awesome btw, I guess the main advantage vs. VS is that it's hackable.
Migrating MongoDB to Cosmos (2018)
Exactly, this is what gets me about the student debt debate as well.

For some reason we've structured the system with the expectation that 17 yr olds are perfectly rational actors.
Can you pls. point to relevant literature showing attempts on using STDP.

I am not exactly working on this, however, intuitively believe that it should be possible and effective to make STDP work (including handling loops).

Thanks.
The only thing you’re missing in your plot is encrypted messengers that can’t be cracked without sweeping legislation.
I spend on travel. But I only travelled once in this year.
As a plugin vendor supporting Linux: I think the problem might not be technical but is instead all about the UX.
Regardless, it's been great supporting Linux as it appear 5% to 20% of our userbase are now Linux users (macOS 30%).

On Windows or macOS a dictatorship constrain the Audio API to be X and the Graphics API to be Y.
On Linux, as a user I can choose ALSA, JACK, PulseAudio and while I'm sure there is a better option, why is the user asked to make this choice in the first place? Just choose "the best" for the user.

So Linux software usually doesn't hide stuff to users (liberty?) and this quickly translate to a worse beginner/intermediate experience, having too many choices in audio software is usually something to combat.

And Ardour is the perfect example of this: upon opening it asks several questions to the user in a pop-up, while virtually all other DAWs will reopen the last session. There is a significant divide in terms of UX, and I see a bit of this everywhere I go when booting under Linux.
I would argue that it isn't Linux that is bloated. Linux is the kernel. It is the desktop environments and the things added to them to make each distro distinct (and fat).

There are significantly less bloated desktop environments, but people like their bling, and bling by default includes an accompanying increase in resource consumption.

Look at Raspbian. It looks pretty good, but uses a lot less resources than gnome and kde. You can add to it if you want it to be as bloated as the typical desktop environments. But it's a choice.

Personally I'm in love with tiling desktops which use even less resources yet. And they're blazingly fast.
Bad policy.
What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relatively little operational coordination; but lots of online showing support and post-crime support.

I hope all congressional representatives and local government officials are reviewing their safety plans.
> You realize in 600ad the temp was a 1 hotter than today.

No, I've done a fair amount of research into the historical climate of the PNW and I've never heard that before! Do you have any journal articles so I can read more about it?
I have to wonder- why are there photoshopped stock pictures featuring the IDE?
Do you have a link for the FBI prevented plot?

Edit: thank you (both)
This looked way too bright/flamey/sooty to be a high explosive like McVeigh used.
What about terrorists that primarily target a government, or various government institutions? Note that nearly every government organization[1] is generally considered a perfectly acceptable target in a war. It should also be noted that government offices tend to be full of civilians. What about factories producing war materials? They are also staffed by civilians. Factories producing materials that are used by factories that produce war materials? The list goes on.

The rules of war are not all that confining, and largely go out the window when one side starts losing.

[1] With a few exceptions.
“AI” malware? Is this like calling any internet enabled thing “smart”? Any cool features are AI or is this something else?
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> Consider the countries like Japan that do not actually have excess mortality despite COVID-19. Suppose they just stopped testing for it. You would not be able to tell the difference.

That assumes that testing-dependent interventions (whether contact tracing and quarantines of the exposed, appropriate treatment of systematic infections, etc.) have nothing to do with the absence of excess deaths.

Which seems improbable.
The Cost of Code
Thanks I hate it.
I wish it was part of the same file, it's very tricky to keep two files in sync especially during early development, and in a mature project it becomes a chore.

I thought most languages were moving away from header files. I know typescript has similar files but that is out of necessity as it is added to a language that has no idea typescript exists
I saw a bunch of headlines recently that said the FBI had decrypted one of the popular secure messaging apps (telegram or signal maybe?), which, bizarrely enough, fits my narrative perfectly. Though I saw other headlines stating that was incorrect reporting.
My 2014 MacBook Pro died a few weeks ago. The logic board fried when waking from sleep after a battery replacement. There are no official replacement batteries. I'm trying to find a suitable computer to switch to.

2014 MacBook Pro:

+ Repair parts are easy to find

+ Skilled repairers can fix the logic board (e.g. Louis Rossmann, Paul Daniels)

+ Retina screen, good webcam

+ Full size USB, HDMI, SD card slots.

+ SSD upgraded to 4 TB, currently possible up to 8 TB, presumably more in future.

- Original batteries swollen. Replacement batteries broke 3 logic boards in a week due to power surges when waking from sleep.

- Not sure who to trust in order to replace the battery safely.

2016-2020 Intel MacBook:

+ AppleCare would allow me to have it fixed for another 3 years.

- No full-size USB, HDMI ports.

- I can't upgrade the SSD, or remove the SSD and recover data elsewhere

- Important chips for repair, e.g. ISL9239, are not available. https://youtu.be/gmRd9IVE6dc?t=490

- No MagSafe

2020 ARM MacBook:

+ M1 chip is very fast.

+ Good battery life

- Cannot boot into Linux or Windows, which I will need for work.

- No more Target Disk Mode

- Cannot sync iPhone over USB (contacts, calendars, music, bookmarks, photos)

Non-Apple:

- No Time Machine

- Software compatibility: AppleScript, Office, Keynote/Numbers/Pages, Skype

- Cannot sync iPhone over USB (contacts, calendars, music, bookmarks, photos)

- Generally heavier, worse webcams, non-replacable batteries

- No leaked schematics, boardviews, parts, iFixit guides for repairers.

Even though the repairers (especially Rossmann) say many terrible things about Apple, I still think the documentation and parts are easier to find for old Macs than for average PCs.
It's been 6 years though, and I don't think Apple are going to change their mind. I want to be able to move away, but it's really hard to find a decent alternative.
Ah I didn’t understand that aspect. So we write the parser in ocaml, then serialize it to protobuf, then consume that from C++ so we can call LLVM’s API to write the expected file format? That still seems needlessly complicated. Is the file format simply too arcane?especially given [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25540637
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclu...

(note: not the OP)
Yeah, it seems that there's a lot of questionable (to put it mildly) claims and anecdotes surrounding e-paper regarding the long-term health effects - reflective vs emissive, blue light, polarization, contrast, you name it.

I also use an e-ink reader sometimes because it looks so much better under direct sunlight, and because it's a single purpose physical device. But I'd love to see some more substantial work backing the eye and neurological disorders claims, from actual researchers in the field, with n greater than 1. Otherwise, that's how you get a snake oil market for geeks.
Reducing the harm of a purposeful, voluntary action -- maybe just to make it personally palatable to your own morality or mission -- doesn't seem to meet the threshold for a "good deed".

Less of a bad deed, sure. But given that they still did the very dangerous thing, no not a good deed.

The context I replied to implied that tracking a bomber by a warning they gave would be "punishing" a "good deed". That seems dubious.
> This attack screams anti-government militia with it's technique

What part of the technique indicates "anti-government militia"?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/national-digest-whit...
> I'm a firm believer in wielding antitrust law to break the biggest corpos up, no matter the sector.

I'm a firm believer that no amount of legislation will change the direction of the ship we're on… k street wont have it any other way…
>While I'm only speculating, it could be quite possible that whoever may have wished to damage or destroy the AT&T building, seriously underestimated what these kind of buildings can take (essentially being disguised bunkers).

Which somehow makes it more plausible to me? The type of insane person who would do this seems like the type of insane person who would underestimate how reinforced such a building is.
There are different kinds of hydropower. At the risk of oversimplifying, "big" hydro (such as conventional dams) inflicts massive environmental damage, while "little" hydro doesn't.
if you look at the map on the opposite side of the street/block its filled with random pubs/liquor stores/restaurants. do you really think the target was random restaurants?
Weekend car bombings in non-residential areas with advanced warning is what you’d read if you picked up a textbook on the IRA.
Regardless of whether it's the 'best' way to do things...
I see employment prospects coming up more and more with young people. Pretty much everyone I know feels jobs these days are very insecure and can be gone in a heartbeat. So a career with high demand and good pay is seen as a bit of 'insurance' against the bad times.
the rule being discussed doesnt apply to a virus that reproduces and transmits to another host before causing illness.

the basis of the lethality and transmissibility are inversely related is dependent upon dead or ill hosts having down time and not interacting with other hosts. thus if you are sick and febrile, you contact fewer individuals thus less opportunity for virus transmission between individuals.

in the case of the coronavirus the dynamic is different.
you contact the virus, virus replicates, and becomes transmissible, you still feel fine and behave as always transmitting the virus to other individuals, Then you begin to feel ill and bedridden. the virus has reproduced, transmitted and even if it kills you, it has escaped the selection pressure of the first case, where lethality or morbidity must be decreased for maximization of transmission.

here is a slightly difficult read but is is a classic example of the rule you are asking about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis
Are you saying you want "sudo" to use a a password entry mechanism which cannot be spoofed or intercepted? Something very similar to this is pretty easy on Linux.

If you are willing to pay a little, requiring Yuibikey press for sudo is supported [0].

If you don't want extra hardware, you can use "pam_exec" PAM method to read second factor (like PIN) from "/dev/input/by-id/...". This'll read from specific input device directly, bypassing GUI session or any other processes controlled by non-root user. Or use a "chvt" call instead, and you can have a secure display output too.

But while this will prevent "evil sudo" from capturing your password, it won't prevent "evil sudo" modifying the commands you want executed (the same problem exists with Windows SAK / Escalation prompt: you know you are approving some action, but it is not clear which action exactly).

I guess Linux has a unique advantage in that "sudo" is designed for user-readable commands -- so in many cases, confirming the command on un-tamperable output will be enough for safety (for example, "sudo apt install foo" will be safe this way). But you'd still want to make sure you are vigilant at all times -- if you have a habit of typing "curl ... | sudo sh", then no type of SAK process will save you from evil sudo.

[0] https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016649099-Ub...
Do you worry in general that you are being manipulated? Or that people are trying to take advantage of you?

Because it could be a broader belief that is bleeding into your appreciation for film/tv and hurting your ability to enjoy it.
Stochastic terrorism abound indeed - a couple days ago in WA there was a massive train derailment and fire at a Berkshire Hathaway railway previously targeted by arrested saboteurs. They were anarchists rallying under the cover of Antifa, one such decentralized stochastic phenomenon.

https://komonews.com/news/local/oil-train-derailed-near-site...
5d glass storage. I think it will revolutionize it, specifically the backup /dr world. it can't come fast enough
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One of the founders of Magic Leap left the company
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Why Nashville then?

I used to work in 111 8th Ave (a big meet-me facility in New York City) and "National Security Agency" was on the building directory. Why risk killing civilians to wiretap Nashville? They can probably ask nicely ("nicely") and get whatever they want.
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> And I would guess he was in the vehicle when it exploded.

Yeah, because moving an RV remotely is impossible with today's tech…
Thanks! Can rep
They also had an announcement warning people to evacuate, so they clearly weren't optimizing for casualties. I don't think "which side of the street" tells us anything.
Heh. Maybe I should start looking at property in Costa Rica or Finland or somewhere just totally away from it all.
Sure, but "terrorism" explicitly implies a value judgement. Why else would you take issue with the term "political violence", which is equally technically correct? It is violence for political aims.

You were clearly trying to make a point beyond the prescriptive definition of the word, so this comment reads like backtracking to me.
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> They've been unreasonably hostile to basically everybody that has wanted to work with them over the years.

Citation needed.
I can't see how flag planting has any meaning unless a human does it.

Not to detract from the accomplishment.
https://archive.is/IBZMr
There's not a whole lot of evidence that illegal border crossings from Canada are a major driver of the spread in the US.

And of course, the same can be said for Mexico (because the main driver of the spread in the US is people not taking simple steps to prevent it).

Travel to Canada has been restricted for much of the year (I live in Michigan; there's a warning 4 hours from the border that travel is restricted). But that's because Canada isn't letting their fool neighbors in.
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This sounds extremely similar to Fight Club
yes, same! I remember being a child and thinking it was so bizarre that they called it "bloodshed" dev c++ but i didn't care, i was having the time of my life.
This was 2016… when WSL was released. It's already here.
That's almost straight out of Ghost in the Shell...
I wrote my self a note about this last year to demystify the internal data structure [0], if you want to check it out. But the TLDR straight to rabbit holes; is that commits are a directed acyclic graph (DAG) [1]. And the file tree snapshot is a fully persistent trie [2]. And the commit DAG points to different snapshots. Branches are name shortcuts to commits.

[0] https://sransara.com/notes/2019/build-yourself-a-git/
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
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FYI on iOS you can use the accessibility settings (via the zoom filter, with zoom turned off and darkness turned to max) to lower the brightness beyond the normal limit.

I have this setting tied to triple-clicking the sleep button, so I can activate it easily in the morning or late at night.
So remind me again why it is wrong or unacceptable to call it "political violence"? I agree that a terrorist is a freedom fighter depending on the observer, your comment seemed to be suggesting taking a specific rhetorical stand however.

I didn't downvote you.
I left the US 5 years ago… I think the US will be ground zero for this "Innovation" (although proof of concepts have been deployed in the ME for years, tech cheaper now for more people to use for their own ends)… :P

I don't think anywhere is completely safe, but I do think some places have less likelihood of such happening due to the backdrop not skewing incentives as much in those places for such to happen, but everywhere is connected…
Squirrel do not remember much though. They fill the ground with nuts. Then they dig the ground seemingly at random. Most of theis caches are forgotten. Which often leads to nuts trees sprouting all over the place during spring.
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This is sort of a worst-case scenario for git: there are patch-based DVCSes that would handle this scenario better (darcs and pijul), but those have their own set of trade offs (I think they end up being slower for large histories).
I thought they had found vulnerabilities on my 14,400 baud modem. Phew. :-p

The modem brands I still remember are Zyxel and US Robotics.
Indeed. Reasoning based on intelligence came much later into the evolutionary scene. Emotions form a part of the optimization process for animals, creating shorter feedback loops. We feel pain because we won't attend to the injury if we didn't. The evolutionary significance of most emotions can likewise be reasoned about. (I've found relatively less for explaining jealousy in what I've casually read).
You guys should check out femtovg, the rendering framework sixtyfps is using https://github.com/femtovg/femtovg that I’m coincidentally maintaining. SixtyFPS recently added WebGL support

https://tronical.github.io/femtovg/examples/index.html
Well, it’s not as if every major takes the same effort - the harder ones “pay off” faster.
Ask HN: Entrepreneurs who tried over and over but never “got there”. Why not?
I'm a serial failed entrepreneur. Gave up a few years ago for money reasons, then did well in crypto and decided to give it another shot with some financial resources at my back.

It's not going well. Again.

This time around, I haven't yet figured out the "why" apart from things I knew were potential issues ahead of time. I guess that's progress? (i.e. At least I anticipated and accepted them before diving in vs being surprised.)

More generally, I think my weaknesses are introversion - a hardcore resistance to networking, fundraising, relationship-building, team-assembly, self-promotion - and intelligence (I guess?). I'm in the "Salieri zone" at the top 1%; smart enough to recognize genius, but not actually genius myself.

I also hate anything relating to finance. I'm a builder at heart and want to scream when it comes to valuation, options pools, market analysis, etc. You know, the MBA stuff. (Good thing all the schools rejected me.)

Everything else: work ethic, technical aptitude, resources, upbringing, physical health... nothing abnormal.

How about you? What's your story?
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Perhaps a better analogy to something contemporary, in this case specifically, is adding a GPU to your system, which gives you an additional instruction set, with extremely parallelized execution--at the cost of some quite substantial hardware, as Ken explained.
Calling it a bunker might be overstating it. Maybe some are like bunkers or some have been reinforced. It’s hard to say.

Sometimes these central offices are put in really old buildings. Sometimes they are even put in regular homes in a neighborhood.

It’s simply based on where they need the connections/circuits and have access to electricity, etc.
Purely my opinion and speculation here, but I'd say the things that stick out to me are the timing and avoidance of random casualties for one. This is a hallmark used by the IRA and the ETA in Spain to inflict damage upon the government without damaging the people, so to speak. The use of an RV also stands out to me, I don't recall many VBIEDs associated with foreign terrorists using that type of vehicle in the US, while I do recall RVs being a common tool in militia groups for movement, travel, storage, etc. Some other things stuck out to me watching videos of the explosion, but it's hard to say anything definitive until more evidence is released.