skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.gov.uk/visit-europe-1-january-2021/business-trav...

As well as the actions all travellers need to take, there are extra actions if you’re travelling to the EU for business.

Business travel includes activities such as travelling for meetings and conferences, providing services (even with a charity), and touring art or music.

Entry requirements
The country you’re travelling to might have its own entry requirements, or ask you to have certain documents.

Check the entry requirements for the country you’re visiting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-24/johnson-i...

The deal doesn’t include any mutual recognition of conformity assessment [...] meaning firms will have to pay the regulatory cost of certification twice if they wish to sell their products in both the U.K. and the bloc
That’s simply not true for the same amount of hardware, or else that would be all that chess engines do
If you read the text of the GoDaddy phish, there's something like "CLICK HERE NOW TO CLAIM YOUR FREE MONEY BEFORE ITS TOO LATE".

If it was just a notification "btw you'll find a little extra something in your check this month" without requiting any weird action from the employee (which btw is how this would look if it was real) then it's a totally different thing.
> Surely FB employees aren't managing those bot accounts themselves

Why not? It's not like Facebook employees have a track record as paragons of virtue.

If there are managers incentivized to meet click targets, it could even happen informally. Like the Wells Fargo account-opening scandal.
The Wire really is a remarkable show in that, unlike a most of TV before it, it literally springs from who the characters are. The closest thing to an imposed narrative is the decision to focus on a specific segment of the phenomenon that is Baltimore, the police bureaucracy in S1, the white+ working class (well before DJT) in S2, etc. Literally everything else derives from the who the characters are, not the arc imposed by the writers. The scripts are as much channeled as written.
I go back to watching North by Northwest every few months. The writing, the sets, the cinematography, the music and the acting all sublime. One of my favorite random facts is that Albert R Broccoli initially wanted to get Cary Grant for the first Bond film, but the producers ended up deciding to get a younger actor.
No - since you are planning to inflict some harm to your employees, the onus is on you to prove that the harm is warranted.

Specifically, you would have to prove that sending phishing training emails with more neutral topics (e.g. a package arrived, IT policy change - ACTION REQUIRED) is less effective than sending the more potentially harmful.
With FOSS, the economics are very different than with paying customers. It’s fair to ask a FOSS user to go to a lot of effort to file a bug or request hand-holding support; the developers are not getting paid, so asking to user to work harder to make life easier for the developer is perfectly fair.
You make the common assumption that success is caused by property, rather than by the most important criterion of “right place at the right time”.

It would not surprise me at all that in an alternate universe, the exact same language was released a mere six months later, and was forgotten into obscurity.

Microsoft is undeniably the giant it is today largely because at that exact moment IBM needed a cheap operating system for it's line of personal computers and that Bill Gates' parent at the time worked for IBM and could arrange that deal certainly also helped.

The success of many giant companies can be traced to a pivotal event that was sheer dumb luck — for FedEx, this event was actually gambling in a casino with what money they had left when they were close to bankruptcy.
I can attest that I have ran tests in a very similar vein at least three times. One of which also caused an uproar.

I also prefer my security measures procedural, technical and layered. Like I said before, phishing simulations don't really work for me at all... Currently many places where I do some work the security department have a large say in what happens, regardless of goodwill. Security measures always suck, are less efficient and cause no end of headaches, you mostly have 0 goodwill anyway.
I don't see why this would be a meaningful comparison. Employees make wages, not profits. They do not expect to share profit with their employer. If the company made a loss, they would rightfully not share the loss either.
A solid meditation practice.
>tablet-based, gamified MIDI app that reports practice frequency, accuracy, speed, timing variance, etc stats back to the teacher

Which app is this ?

Also, curious to know..do you think virtual pianos are good enough for smartphones (iOS/android) or do you still need laptops?
I can't speak for other people, but the reason that I think we are in an AI boom has nothing to do with online advertising. It is that computers can now recognize images, translate language, have conversations, generate articles, make realistic looking pictures, play the game of go, solve protein folding, generate realistic text to speech, recognize voices. All these things were not possible 5 years ago. Every year there is significant progress. I believe that in a couple of years we will see many more applications. This will be as much of a paradigm shift as the invention of the personal computer, the internet and smart phones.
And the song: Warm Leatherette
I totally get off of car crashes, but still don't get this book.
It’s easy to sound hyperbolic calling anything the “best” thing of its category, but no TV has even come close to The Wire for me.

Season four broke my heart with the adolescent kids. I can’t believe how good they all were in their roles, phenomenal performances.

The one minor scene that always wrecks me is where Bodie is talking to McNulty near the end of the series and says, “I feel old...”

The character is supposed to be a late teenager in that scene, and is already feeling worn out of life he has almost no chance of escaping.

That to me was the big takeaway. Too many things are stuck where they are: people, systems, etc.

As Marlo says, “You want it to be one way, but it’s the other way.”

Okay I’m done fan-boying. Yes, I’m this annoying when I tell my irl friends about the show as well.
Most billionaires don't get into rocketry, but exceptional wealth is a requirement. Other billionaires do other ego trips.
No game console will ever again have a mascot as great as Segata Sanshiro.
Oh definitely, but for me I was never gonna be able to learn Ruby in a vacuum. If I had needed a general-purpose scripting language in 2007 I'd have reached for PHP or Perl, both of which I knew from web dev.

But with Rails I had a reason to pick up Ruby in the first place. So I didn't know a damn thing about metaprogramming or duck-typing going in, but I knew Rails was lightning and I wanted to capture it.
Four days ago this post hit the top of hacker news [1]. It goes to show how easily misinformation can spread - the correct date was even in the article. I'm as guilty as everyone else for taking this in.

Shoutouts to tobr [2] who noticed - and rurban who posted similarly [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485651

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25486398

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25487207
I think hivemind/zealots is a more appropriate word for what you're describing.

From scale 1-10 I would rank:

9 suckless / cat-v

7 KISS community

6.5 *BSD community (they got a 0.5+ for how overly smug they are about it)

6 FOSS community

6 Rust & Go community

3 anti-systemd crowd

The C/C++/Java community would've made the list around 10-15 years ago, these days their zealousness is pretty tame compared what it used to be.
You don't really own the games however, it relinquishes user control. If that's fine to you then sure, but I don't want to play games as a service, I just want to play them on my own hardware with minimal latency.
Do you have a recommended English translation?
For all its criticisms, it's an unusually good language for just getting shit done.

Sure, you can build whatever you want in almost any language you want, but 90% of those will be more verbose, harder to read, require compile steps, and be 10x the LOC, and take 4x longer to write... You can have it; I'll keep writing Python.
You made data a king and ended up being ruled by a tyrant
"It's understood that many before and after pictures will not include the patients' faces."

What kind of pointless statement is this? What is "many"? And does that imply that "many," "most," or "only a few" pictures will include the patients' faces?
Intel has had an ARM license since 98
I like the last season. I thought it was a comic masterpiece (darkly comic) and a master class in all sorts of irony. Maybe that's the rub. Still, these two scenes are gems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn0ylNZhOJI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2-NkZ8lGsA

And it's still consistent with the "institutional ineptitude of conservative western cultures" (as @ddek puts it above) theme.
Email-link obfuscation (for whatever purpose) makes it nearly impossible to determine a real email from a phishing attempt. Even if you notice AFTER clicking the link that it is no good (i.e. before entering credentials).

My company used to mandate all emails are signed with AD-registered certificates to lend credibility, but they've moved away from that. (I think the reasoning was that webmail clients don't have robust support for S/MIME certs, but I'm not sure.)
Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas.
It's not worth lining up at 3am to get any of these things, but that is the level of hype these things inspired.
That's funny, I had the same experience. I enjoyed using Vue 2 but when Vue 3 came out and was totally different I decided I'd try out React again. React hooks changed the game for me and now back to only using React.

I have no doubt Vue 3 is the bee's knees, but I'm rather enjoying React.
The fact that such a great proportion of human knowledge is now available to such a great proportion of human beings is enormous, and holds enormous ongoing potential. The fact that every nut-job on earth ("The earth is flat!") now (potentially) has a platform is a huge negative, and the fact that on-line discourse so often has a beyond-ugly tone is a big negative as well. If the hype is simply "This will have a huge impact", without regard to positive or negative, the WWW stands out well beyond LeBron James, the Iliad, or anything else I've heard mentioned so far (No offense meant to LeBron or Homer).
It's often the case that the UIs are, in universe, not useable by non-experts too. People who don't regularly use the tech are often baffled by its apparent complexity if they need to use it for some reason.
Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
I think that’s unlikely because this jet pack flight was dangerous and illegal
No, it can't. It is impossible for the blackmailers to prove that they no longer have a copy of the data.
For anyone getting into LED stuff without much design background, I can not recommend this enough: desaturate your colors.

pixel_RGB[i] = Math.max(90, pixel_RGB[i])

It will make an absolute world of difference in the aesthetic, and it's one line of code.
Just the thought of further scaling the beast of a factory I made, again, to deal with all the added complexity makes me want to purge that game from my Steam account. No thanks, I am not interested in additional slog for its own sake.
> It's not clear if Facebook explicitly knew at the time that the ad targets didn't meet the criteria, or if Facebook's targeting data was simply incorrect for those who were targeted.

The plaintiffs don't care, nor should they. When I go to a restaurant and order a hamburger, if the server brings me a tuna melt I send it back. It doesn't matter why the server brought me a tuna melt. Facebook is essentially saying that even though they wrote hamburger on the menu, and accepted my order for a hamburger, I should have known they meant a 41% chance of a hamburger and a 59% chance of something else because taped underneath my seat is a 15,000 word Restaurant Use Agreement printed on microfiche.
Google has your intent though and possibly that’s a lot more powerful. “Pharmacy my town” is pretty clear.
Yep, they are very uncommon these days.

When I was in college in the mid 90's, VT220's were still common on some parts of campus. A few years later, I had a job at a mostly DEC shop. They had a few terminals here and there, connected to Alpha Servers and a couple of old VAXes.

I haven't seen one in the wild in a little over 20 years...
I guess there's two ways of looking at this:

* 40% of targeted viewers didn't match "high-earner, college educated", the system is crap!

or

* 60% of targeted viewers did match "high-earner, college educated", that's amazing!

I dunno... do you have a better way of reaching those targeted viewers? Do you have a better way of measuring results than abstract page views? Depending on the context, 60% could be very worth it.
>can play music via BT

What is BT?
About half my dads job was managing contracts for the government. My experience is most voters are completely unaware of that kind of work. More likely is the sleazier contractors[1] hate those guys and have been able to get governments to reduce or eliminate those positions.

[1] Companies run by finance guys really hate contract oversight managers.
Unless the pictured email client has an absolutely horrible kerning implementation, it is sent from @Godaddy.com. Where did you get the "@gocladdy.com" information from?
Maybe you'll will find this article useful: https://medium.com/the-100-day-project/100-days-of-3d-4b28a5...
Can you elaborate on the uproar?
...Except all Engineers at Amazon saw their stock appreciate in value.

Clickbait tittle.
Should have put up a second wreath. :)
> Dear Customer, your Worldwide Freight package has shipped

I had a package shipped from the US to the UK by my company's shipping provider a few months ago due to covid. I honest-to-god thought I was being phished. The email had one of those titles, a typo in the body, no tracking number, was sent from a third party domain. the template email told me to click a link to an external third party via a url shortner, and when you got there you had to enter your "email address and password" which turns out is actuallu my work SSO login and it checks via ldap. Insanity!
I Made an App and need some Feedback
Try checking the file into GitLab (or GitHub) pages. It’s just an HTML5 file. Use pull requests to manage changes. Use the git repo as your history.

In the 2005-2009 timeframe I served a TiddlyWiki from PTC Windchill as a project website for my team. Windchill provided the access, change history & configuration management layer.
Until these breaches result in lawsuits and maybe even criminal charges that result in complete dissolution of the corporation to pay out, these events will never stop happening.
This gets a hard disagree from me. I _really tried_ to give the whole node + react approach a go because, to me, GraphQL & all the things you can generate with it is _magical_ (especially fine-grained authz with app-specific graphql directives - beautiful!). Singularly, the availability of xstate to replicate business processes identically between api & ui. So useful! So undervalued!

Then I ran into finding myself spending time on background jobs, authentication management (not the basic functionality but tinkering & modification past password reset / session management, blacklist/expiry if jwt's, etc), file upload integrations, db management (when not utilizing prisma or hasura), etc. High variety of effort spent on tasks where I found myself asking the question, "why am I having to work on this...?"

I still ship more in Rails. It's still a better tool for most things. There are cases where I'll reach to node when needs are simple and short-lived. Other tools have the potential to exceed Rails (and I hope they do), but they're not there yet.

One of my least favorite things about Rails, & one of the best ideas to emerge in the past decade or so, is react. The componentization of views driven by state is such a useful approach. Rails has historically had a has & belong to many relationship between controller contexts and views, which is essentially global and easy to get super confusing. React (and now browser-react aka web components) provide a better way of tackling this problem.

And... they hook up directly to my cache? They provide a great way of broadcasting dom updates directly? They interoperate with web components no problem where I need high fidelity interaction/performance? etc etc. Rails... has done it again.

No getting away from how useful it is.
I like how this bug report captures how much we've lost :-).

Basically the bug is that VT220's are not UTF-8 capable display devices. What is worse, when you send them UTF-8 sequences they interpret them as VT200 sequences and as a result oddness can and does occur. I haven't tried fuzzing one of my VTxxx terminals but I suspect there are likely cases where you can hang the terminal with the right character sequences.

Of course, most people, perhaps > 80%, working on open source maintenance have never actually touched a terminal. Many have lost any idea of what "TERMCAP" is, or the difference between "Smart" and "dumb" terminals, and what escape codes do what. For most, "terminal" is a program that runs and always responds in a way you would expect it to respond (which is typically a variant of ANSI terminal specs). Not that they have ever tried to get their shell to run on a Beehive or Hazeltine or Adds terminal either.

At one of the west coast vintage computer festivals I had a VT320 connected to a Linux box and the younger adults there who played around with it were appalled at both the lack of colors ("How do you know what files are directories?") and the pitiful number of lines and columns ("I feel like I am inside a coat closet!") It was funny, and sad. Sad because my memories of how great it was to have a terminal that could do line insert so when editing files over a 1200 baud modem it still felt fast, were now pitiable.
> It leaves you with equivalent security to most Linux distros like Debian.

This is why I don't run desktop Linux, either. That's not a good security model.
This does not surprise me in the least.

I have spoken with employees and supervisors at GoDaddy when reporting malware and ad fraud and they are the absolute worst.

I see that the latest SolarWinds hack used GoDaddy for their initial CnC as well.

The worst.
GoDaddy doing something unethical?! Color me shocked.
Could also have something to do with age at time of death and bone composition.
Facebook's case is likely because they launched a public email service back in 2010.
That means Dominos would have to pay them a reasonable wage! Such a crazy thought.
Use Go (golang) instead, if you can

Go is like a modern C: simple and effective

Go fixes C's well-understood flaws (declaration resembling use, unintuitive operator precedence, unrestricted address math, silent casting, zero-terminated strings, etc.)

Go puts essential C idioms directly into the language (pointer/length is formalized as slices, packages are part of the language instead of just being naming convention, etc.)

The longer you use C++, the more you despise it. But C has always remained a pleasure, and Go is a continuation/modernization/enhancement of that

Happy holidays
> Does your chats list get filled up with these unsolicited messages from randos?

It was, then telegram desktop popped up with "it appears you are getting a lot of messages, would you like to automatically mute + archive those not in your contacts" or somesuch. Still, the archived folder is at the top

The only thing that stopped it was deleting my message from the community. Guess I won't be participating again :(

It certainly is an interesting example - I know nothing of their team, however things like this are also another reason as to why a diverse team is important!
you've got to get a visa to go over to the rest of the US now.

For business yes, for tourism no.

And you'll need to pay tariffs to get good in or out.

This is a zero tariff agreement.

And you'll need to abide by our laws on those import and exports, things like emissions for cars, pesticides, safety regulations, that stuff.

Yes, but that applies for all exports/imports under any circumstances.
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I have a lot of thoughts on this, having worked on security teams, and now running a company.

1. Employees and customers are who the company should be serving. It isn't "employees at the cost of customers", or vice versa. If your business can't do both it shouldn't exist. In this case the thought was "It's worth making employees upset because this addresses a real customer concern".

2. Phishing tests are silly. You should just assume someone will get phished. If you want to do trainings, do trainings. Or, better yet, make phishing pointless - at my company anything important is gated by a U2F token, among other things. We are simply 'immune' to most types of phishing - the one major source left being wire transfer fraud, which is fairly easy to avoid.

We only do phishing training for compliance purposes.

3. This is the wrong kind of security. It's "blame the user" security. It's a silly, backwards, outdated, ineffective attitude.

If the goal is "Make sure people report phishing", you can do that without trickery. Just send an email and request that users report it to whoever is responsible - you'll soon find who does or does not know how to do so.

4. (Editing in) Security teams should be aware of how what they're going to do is impacting the company. The impact of this phishing test has had public impact on the company - that's a disaster. A security team is about managing risk, and here they've instead subjected the company to concrete, public scrutiny. This was simply the wrong call.

Having trust in your security team is really important. Security teams need to do outreach, they need to be friendly, and be people who everyone feels good about going to with a problem. Building animosity for the sake of phishing protection is far more dangerous.

> If this was a real phish they'd have leaked real data. Perhaps even your data.

That's the security team's problem, not the victims!
Exactly, I thought, well if Vue is getting hooks, why not just go to the source directly? Also I got annoyed that many popular libraries these days are React only, and I didn't want to miss out.
I don't know why you're faulting the reporting, as opposed to–possibly–the institution making the announcement. They convened a (virtual) press conference, after all.

The report also does not state anything factually wrong. Any "meaning" you fear people may or may not assign to it so far only exists in your head.

The two cases being several months apart also points to at least some significance of this strain. It's far less likely for such a set of mutations to independently happen twice.
Exactly! I kept having this feeling as I read their replies and you just nailed it. "I can't test the real threat because my users will rebel" might be a real case in his situation but speaks poorly of the company. What other things are they not dealing with head-on?
> Obtaining data isn't stealing.

What is it then, if you don't have the legal right to the data?
Ethics is not a trend. For 50 years those who do nothing and know nothing are yapping about ethics. I suggest that we start this discussion when a machine makes the first unethical move. Saves lots of energy and grant money.
News to distract from the fact that the tyrannical UK government has locked everyone down for what data and science now show is clearly no emergency
AFAIK, animals where there is stronger competition among males for females tend to have more of a size difference. Species that are purely pair bonding tend to have animals of similar sizes. Humans have relatively little size difference compared to other mammalian species. There are many spider species where the male is smaller.