skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like that org chart of blame.

Org charts with names and faces should accompany a far wider range of malfeasance. I get this is a nice, cute, morally unambiguous story against a state enemy so CNN can do this, but there are many environmental disasters and domestic political decisions that can be traced up and down the chain.

It would be great for things like DDT, the petroleum industry denying their own global warming studies, tobacco denying their own cancer studies.
I meant ethanol was not substituted for lead AFAIK - the lead was replaced with MTBE in practice, and then the story of ethanol blending has more to do with CO2 emissions reduction (or in the case of Australia, a conservative prime minister somehow getting away with a levy on milk to bail out his mate's ethanol plant and mandating 10% blending in fuel at the pumps).

Ethanol was the original anti knock agent, but afaik was actually replaced by tetraethyl lead originally.
If the FSFE has problems, it's likely the FSF has them too, and vice versa. I don't want to get into this, really, but the cultural issues that allow these things to happen aren't one-offs; they're a known failure case of the specific, somewhat toxic brand of hacker culture that's been in Free Software circles since the early days.

(I think hacker culture in general is great, but, to use an analogy, there's a buggy implementation going 'round.)
> What BS laws? Well all victimless crime

Reckless driving and child pornography comes to mind. It is crimes against the state atleast where I live.
I think 32c3 (and the amount of hacks after) really opened the gateway to 3DS modding [1]. I had my eyes glued on the screen with what they'd revealed at the time.

I hope Smea, Derrek, Pluto et. al were approached by Nintendo in a different way because those guys had been stellar throughout the scene's life.

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7240-console_hacking
So you think they should split up harder?

What would that look like? Phone companies make some sense because they have to serve certain geographic regions which can't compete or collude with each other. Google serves the world, of which the US population is only 5%. Do you think the US government is going to split up Google such that "South American Google" is totally independent and brings back no revenue to the US? Same with "European Google"?

Or you you want it split up by US region? Maybe "US-East Google" gets to make money from Europe, "US-West Google" gets to make money from Asian countries, and "US-Texas Google" gets to make money from services provided to South America?

Is the goal to cripple Google so hard that companies like Baidu and Yandex can overtake the search market globally? Is that why the US congress should split up Google?

The only people who have a rational argument for another Google split up are governments of non-US regions that are financially invested in competing services.
> If you want some fairly clear evidence of this, if you were gonna ask a 1000 people whether they were immune if they got the virus and recovered from it, I suspect 999 of them would say yes.

I don't think this is close to true. For example when Rand Paul claimed he had immunity after recovering from Covid, liberals I'm in casual contact with were jumping up and down screaming "he's not immune! he's not immune!" Of the maybe 10 people I know of who've had Covid and recovered, 2 are still actively worried and living in terror that they will get it again.
Isn't PopcornTime free software, which means it has no commercially significant anything? Or is it meant to be read has no (commercially significant purpose) or (use)?
Everyone is right. Each group have their own background or silo or bubble or industry and each can use the word. Nobody can claim exclusive ownership unless they have a trademark. The one that still boggles my little mind is "Apple". How a company can own exclusive rights to that I will never understand, regardless of how many times a lawyer explains it to me.
Garage. The goal is to build a prototype which could then be scaled to a warehouse-sized robotic biological experimental system. But, I have also worked with such things in commercial settings.

I'd say that for most real scientists, it makes more sense to raise the funding to buy a professional scope because a lot of the dumbness is engineered out so scientists can just sit down and be productive.
Looks like link should be https://docs.stimulusreflex.com/ (the root domain you linked doesn't go anywhere).
Stated another way, I'd rather a world where nothing gets done for a term and constituents are pissed at their greedy selfish representatives and they're forced to start playing the game straight, than the world where we just let this continue forever.
That seems like a thing that will be litigated. Who knows what it will mean after it’s been through the ringer of the US court system.
And if everyone sold their stocks the economy would crumble and millions of people would be out in the streets and lose their retirement money, should we make selling stocks a crime?
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It has to start with something. It would be a lot weirder if the first revision had been a white paper.

If you disagree with what's on the page, please add or edit the information there. With proper references, it will be appreciated by everyone that uses Wikipedia.
Spoiler, it's just Ajax but it pushes the data through your templates before sending it to the client. We were doing this literally over a decade ago in the early days of XHR.
Scary to me as a technie? Not really, I worry more about the developer's signing keys.

Scary in terms of telling my mom to do it - absolutely. At least the Play Store has some (imperfect) curation, and SafetyNet.
he is a cofounder not an employee
> Though that thing about the FSFE office in Germany yesterday.

What are you referring to?
I absolutely think fast. SPAs are for applications; I'll take a few second hit up front in order to have an application that doesn't load entire new pages anytime I perform a single action.
Regardless of the argument that has long been going on over how accurate polygraphs are, that's kind of irrelevant. Dishonesty is what is prohibited. If you have some minor blemish, the government is typically okay with that as long as you admit it. You may not trust how they detect lying, but that's still what they're trying to find to base their decision on.
> Peppering helps protect against database access revealing password. Horcrux protects against password manager access.

What is a password manager but a database of your passwords? Peppering is a token that is not in the database of passwords that needs to be applied for the password to be correct. Whether it's applied by an application, or a person doesn't seem relevant, as what is an application but a set of instructions a person could do carried out automatically?

I don't care what it's called, but I don't really see a difference in the scenarios you've outlined.
> should have the right to receive all unpublished footage [of the licensed work]

I think it should be read that way. You are not conflating copyright and privacy, you are conflating scopes of content production (the licensed work vs the whole work of the artist).

In your example, the topic of the licensed video is the albatross, not the artist holidays. That clarification being made, there's probably some truth in the privacy issue (you brought that example for a reason): one must make a distinction between works of fiction and other works : reporting, biography, and perhaps other kinds. Games are works of fiction, just like movies and music, while someone's holidays isn't. Maybe one may see that as another form of scoping.
Outrage has reached its saturation point, at least in the current economic state.

But if the economy turns south....
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There is plenty of duck tape yes,

But there is suprisingly little layers on layers. Part of what has been amazing about the web is that the target remains the same. There is the DOM. Everyone is trying different ways to build & update the DOM.

Agreed that there are better alternatives than a lot of what is out there. We seem to be in a mass consolidation, focusing around a couple very popular systems. I am glad to see folks like Github presenting some of the better alternatives, such as their Catalyst tools[1] which speed up (developer-wise & page-wise (via "Actions") both) & give some patterns for building WebComponents.

The web has been unimaginably stable a platform for building things, has retained it's spirit while allowing hundreds of different architectures for how things get built. Yes, we can make a mess of our architectures. Yes, humanity can over-consume resources. But we can also, often, do it right, and we can learn & evolve, as we have done so, over the past 30 years we've had with the web.

[1] https://github.github.io/catalyst/
>The design of your website in Reddit's case has nothing to do with scale

Sure it does. Once you reach a large enough scale you kind of need to do stuff to attempt to not be losing money on the development & hardware costs of such a large platform.. so you end up changing, even if it's not 'for the best'.
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My reading is that this law takes something that is already illegal, and adds "but also dont do it on the internet". For example, you cant buy a Blu-ray copy of a movie, then charge people $1 to come watch it in your living room. This law clarifies that charging people to watch an unauthorized internet stream is the same thing.
It set it back 11 days apparently... not a few months. They’re moving it to the launch site now: https://twitter.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1341378205962395649?...
I'm a colorist and have to clean up footage from everything from cellphones (a lot recently with the pandemic), gopros, and dslrs to alexas, phantoms, 35mm, and even IMAX footage. Trust me when I say that I've seen it all.

Short answer is you're wrong, even the latest dslrs are miles and miles from those high end solution in nearly all scenarios (discounting ultra ISO lightless shooting that no one does for anything beyond Vimeo demo reels). DSLR footage looks similar to the untrained eye but falls apart in even moderately difficult situations even when shot with off camera recorders costing thousands to clean video videos, which invalidates your point anyway.

The same is true for the mid tier solutions like blackmagic pocket or ursa. I can get the footage to cut seamlessly with an Alexa, but it's much more work to make it look good and has deal breaker technical issues in many more pressing scenarios.
I'll just take a break for 3 years until SPAs become cool again. But they won't be called SPAs anymore... they'll be called "microapps". Elixir and Rust will be "just not fast enough" and there will be a new language VM that will "promise Hyperspeed™ on Google Crystalline™ chips". JSON will be considered harmful, and XML will be in favor again because it is flexible and there's plenty of bandwidth for all the extra bytes.
As someone who doesn’t do this, why? GDB supports remote debugging for starters. So what makes it hard?
Correct me if I'm wrong (please) but my understanding was that was:

1. Entirely voluntary
2. Based around making it easier to target business objectives
3. A way to compartmentalize a bit

Not a way to reduce power and uncool exercise of "monopoly" type stuff.
If you are at your cliff you might want to buy time saying you will take a bad deal but need to run it past lawyers or whatever to make it past the cliff. Then you can have a change of heart after they can't take it by force.

Also this goes to show why you should not take a cliff if you see yourself as a founder.
I've used Hey daily since it launched on desktop and mobile and I can't see it being slow in any way. I guess you could count that it shows a loading symbol for a file to appear (on the first load only).. but that would be excessive nitpicking.
And while we are at it, Motion (https://github.com/unabridged/motion)
The most important article I ever read was a piece by James Palmer titled "For American pundits, China isn’t a country. It’s a fantasyland."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/for-american-pundits...

> The people telling these tales aren’t interested in complexities or, really, in China. They’re making domestic arguments and expressing parochial fears. Their China isn’t a real place but a rhetorical trope, less a genuine rival than a fairy-tale bogeyman.

> [But] when we treat China as a fantasyland of instruction for ourselves, we end up ignoring the Chinese. Like Voltaire’s mandarins or the happy peasants of Maoist propaganda, they cease to be real people and become perfect puppets deployed for rhetorical ends.

I read it having just arrived in China after many years away and it helped contextualized just how vastly different the China was that appeared in even sophisticated English language publications and the raw truth on the ground.

It gave me a powerful lens to critically analyze media from, about how people are reduced to symbols to feed a story that the audience wants to believe rather than the data driven complexity of real ground truth.
So just like the mob, you become a "made man" by doing a great service to the organization?
I think the bigger issue is that somebody has to pay the bills. Very few are willing to pay to host those sorts of extremists views.
Our brand of Capitalism relies on people being dissatisfied.
Making a good looking image that feels natural is work, and while the camera is an important cog in the machine, it alone won't do wonders.

A agree with your observations. Is photography 101: you need good light and clean gear.

I was one of 16 people on a videoconference yesterday. We all have the same MacBook Pros, so all the same cameras. Some people looked awesome. Some people looked awful.
If you're up for a rented autodriver service, maybe you don't have to wait for self-driving AIs. Perhaps you can rent from a pool of human drivers, doing remote driving when you want to move, the same way they fly drones.
Castration is a lot more then just reducing testosterone levels.
I never got to use Amiga Workbench 3.0. The thing about OberonOS with Gadgets was that it provided a very clean and simple way to embed widgets in documents and have them work across the whole system (kind of like CORBA.) See the "Inspector" panel in the Oberon screenshot? That's editing some widget live.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Object_Request_Broker_A...
Livewire, of course, having been heavily inspired by Phoenix LiveView https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.html
Yes. I have the 70-200/2.8 as well and had the 100-400 mk 1 years ago. The 100-400 mk I isn't a patch on either quality-wise but I gather the mk 2 is significantly better so not sure how it compares.

Where the 400DO perhaps really shines is paired with a 1.4x TC - it's much more handleable than a 600/4 and paired with a decent body gets results as good as bodies 10 years ago would have got with the 600/4.
On your second point I mean that there is zero marginal cost to produce a movie. To me, that makes that it cannot be compared to stealing e.g. a bag of M&M's.
> Active for over a decade, Safe-Inet was being used by some of the world’s biggest cybercriminals, such as the ransomware operators responsible for ransomware, E-skimming breaches and other forms of serious cybercrime.
Coding as a Tool of Thought
And again we come to the conclusion of the only real use for cryptos- moving money when no one wants to touch you with a 10 foot pole otherwise.

But to the moon, right!
This what happens when your legislative process is basically a game of Katamari Damacy.
This guy really doesn't get the point - he's testing an embedded part with 16GB RAM against an overclocked desktop part with 64GB RAM (and a load of the benchmarks are garbage collected so the extra RAM is significant).
Its also the case that none of these benchmarks are Apple specific - users buying a Mac Mini for development are likely to be developing in Swift for which the M1 has special optimizations.
Need to wait for Apple to release a part for an iMac or MacBook Pro to inform his conclusion that x86_64 is going to be able to outperform Apple's ARM chips going forward.
We need a modern opensource barcode reader. The best thing (zxing) is in maintenance mode, and the newer barcode scanners with niceties like neural scan, 90% scan, bortched barcode scan are all closed source.
This is very different from peppering. Salt/pepper is all about server storage/verification. The "path" is plain, hash, salted hash, peppered hash.

Plain:server stores the password, client sends the password - matching is simple. When server is breached, all passwords are known.

Hash:server stores a hash of the password, the type of hash. Client sends the plain password, server hashes and compares. When server is breached, most passwords are known, by way of rainbowtables/brute force.

Salted hash: same as hash, servers additionally stores random salt pr account. Hash is over plain password and hash. When server is compromised, weak/dictionary passwords are compromised via brute force.

Pepered passwords: an additional secret is used for salting. The stored hash now depends on plaintext password, plain salt, "secret" pepper. When server is compromised, most likely pepper is compromised too. If not (eg: only database/backups are exposed), pepper needs to be recovered before brute force of passwords is viable. If the attacker has an account (know a password) it's straightforward to attempt to brute force the pepper, but unless it's weak (eg not a 128 bit random number) - it should not be feasible.

Finally, horcruxing - has nothing to do with server side. Has nothing to do with hashing. Is a simple suffix appended to any given password stored in a password manager, in a INMHO misguided attempt at improved security.

Server sees full password on account creation and login. Seems to suggested to share "horcqrux" cross accounts.

An attacker compromising the passwords stored in the password manager, only gets ~half the password. Need to get the other half via brute force, through compromising another account sharing the same suffix/horcrux, via keyboard logger etc.

A physical compromise of a device with a password manager seem to likely open up for a lot of these attacks.

Note that bitwarden uses 2fa to authenticate a client - but AFAIK if you have a copy of the data/vault - the passphrase is sufficient to get the decryption key.

Horcruxing defends against some odd threats, and otherwise adds more complexity than security IMNHO.
Especially for code 128C. I wrote a little image generator back in 2001-ish in the space of a few hours - the hardest part was just writing out the symbol table.
>I get they need to keep trojans, spyware, adware, etc out of the store

They don't keep out adware. Users have that benefit only when using the iOS app store. There are tons of apps on Android that just wrappers around ad SDKs
"Speed of an SPA"? Honestly I can't think of a single example of an SPA that I would be like "YES, YES, THIS IS EXCELLENT, WOW SO FAST."
It's definitely unfair. But yeah, there's a lot of SPAs that are 1) not treeshaken, and 2) probably don't need to be SPAs.

things like loading a whole mapping library, when it's used on one page that maybe 10% of users will ever even load that page. or things like moment.js when all you want to do is get the last day of the month, but need to load that whole library.

then there's the whole, I'm just writing a restaurant website with 3 pages, but let's engineer it with a whole frontend framework and 4 dozen 600kb libraries.

There are a lot of real apps out there, usually in enterprise, or b2b, that the amount of that first page load is actually saved over the course of a users day, possibly an hour, because that app is their job essentially.
Interesting point - it’s a very similar situation for audio. Most people are fine with very low quality headphones or speakers. You can get a major improvement with desktop powered monitors that cost $50-$200. You can spend much more for higher quality speakers, but they’ll be limited by the acoustic environment. You really have to put more effort into wall treatments, seating position, and speaker placement before further improvements in the electronic signal chain will be noticeable.
Isn't it in the US best interest to make Tor used by a lot of people. After all they want to hide their own traffic.
Derrek and Smea seem to appear multiple times in the leaked documents as well, with possible talking points/conversation flow graphs and ways to approach.

There's a lot in there, if you are into the subject, I can recommend checking it out for yourself - no links though, of course.
> Of course you will never get to the truth of anything if you don't have both sides of a topic in the same room.

Fair enough, in this case, but the both-sides-ism is responsible for some horrible stuff, from climate change denial to anti-vax.

It is absolutely a fallacy that you always need "both sides of a topic" to be reported / given a platform.
I declined to accept all the tracking cookies and thus couldn't read the article.
The answer doesn't seem far from the truth. Unfortunately, I believe Scrum is only the tip of the iceberg. The diversity of responsibilities I experienced coming from university to my first job is immense, despite never doing anything technically complex or interesting. Couple that with a bunch of bureaucracy and a movement that is continuously pushing responsibilities of the upper layers onto the lower layers, without giving them the autonomy and agency to act out those responsibilities how they want. It is incredibly harmful.

Yeah, I am a little salty about the state of things. I'd prefer programming in "my basement", and can understand why communication is important. Yet I can't help but feel we've thrown out the baby along with the bathwater.
We should be packaging as much as we can in reusable glass container.
They should probably abstain instead. Not having time to read what you're voting on seems like a good reason to abstain from voting on something. Voting "no" is making a policy decision with respect to the bill being voted on.
nobody is forcing you to watch those, stop acting like a child
To put that into perspective: the tunnel cost roughly 175M euros, that's 3.5k EUR per inhabitant. I don't find this excessive. From the maps, it looks like basically every inhabitant benefits from those tunnels. Even if it just saves 100 EUR in gas per year and inhabitant, the tunnel is a societal net gain after about 35 years.

Also consider this:

> On the Eysturoy side of the tunnel house prices increased by 31% between 2019 and 2020 and have doubled between 2015-2020 [0]

Additionally, the tunnels are tolled [0]:

> Construction costs for the tunnel are being recouped through toll fees. Tolls start at 75 DKK for small cars (up to 3,500 kilograms (7,700 lb)) between Tórshavn and Eysturoy, and 25 DKK for local traffic between Saltnes (near Runavík) and Strendur. This price is for people who have a subscription (hald). Without subscription the price is 175 DKK between Eysturoy to Streymoy and 125 DKK between the two arms of Skálafjørður.

75 DKK are around 10 EUR. With an estimated 6,000 cars per day, thats 60,000 EUR per day. At this rate, the tunnel will have paid for itself (if maintenance cost is excluded) after 8 years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eysturoyartunnilin
I thought I'd mention that you can convert a Wyze cam to a webcam with this firmware update.

https://wyzelabs.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360041605111-...
> Creating a for-profit platform with intent to do illegal streaming will be

Wasn't this already a felony? I clearly remember getting into legal problems with MPAA when I was 15 years old and made an online version of Popcorn Time, and that wasn't P2P.
>I don't think so [...] and therefore I reject it outright

That's not a problem. There can be insane theological and ethical consequences for everyone else.
Not necessarily.

"Mass atrocities" are difficult to carry out, and conceal, for very long.