skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i already saw those warnings a few times also, but i never noticed any difference.

Can you provide any examples?

i always thought that probably they're just being cautions...

There is one thing they don't have enabled by default (at least it wasn't the last time i checked), however, that may also bring that warning up: PDF Forms.

You can enable them in about:config searching for pdfjs.renderInteractiveForms and setting it to true (but they probably have a reason not to).

This will enable you to fill pdf forms directly in the browser.

PDF.js is actually a very good tool. It's actually (again, the last time i checked) more powerful than Chromes's PDFium
Who knew Salesforce could work this fast :p
I doubt a fair percentage of HN has used hashcat to break passwords to attempt to steal US government documents. The tool is not the point of the charge.
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I have set up synapse myself a few months ago for my personal domain. I am a happy user so, have been bridging my different chat applications through it.

There is one caveat: looks like "agreeing on how to do video" is not a Matrix standard; it's in the UI configuration or "widgets", which means only matrix/element combo is "properly" supported (with caveats).

Has anyone had success running video calls over Matrix without Element? Is there any movement on the protocol side?

Extending to this thread, will non-element applications have reasonable support for watching (video) fosdem?
Suggesting that the USA will soon adopt China's approach to censorship of public discourse is basically preposterous. Our public discourse is not some extravagance that our government allows us. It is the core of our system and has been from the moment of the country's founding in reaction to hereditary monarchy. The government's right to rule flows out of this conversation. If the conversation stops, the country will cease to be.

So while I think you are quite wrong about the current risk, we are in complete agreement that freedom of speech should be vigilantly protected.
I totally agree with your premise, I just wanted to point out that AWS is rarely as cost effective as a VPS.

If you're spending 30c in lambda, you're probably cheaper than a 5$/mo VPS but I'd argue you'd be covered by heroku (or similar) free tier.

In theory, AWS gives you more tool so you don't have to build / manage software yourself.

In practice, the markup on the tools is significant and you usually pay a premium for devops who know AWS over those who don't.

If you're saving a lot of development time by using AWS tools, it could be worth it, but I haven't seen many companies where that is true.

Maybe it makes more sense in Silicon Valley where tech people are much more expensive.
oh good, it's not just me and my already bad first day of the year... is it too early to start drinking?
Appeals are not a right in the UK and rarely granted. This is a highly political case, so it might get herd. I hope he goes free. Assange is a true Australian hero, even though his own government abandoned him.
agreed this sounds like political activism judging. how can one judge say we can’t extradite to the us because the system isn’t good enough when other extraditions are ok?
Keyword: would (not will). No perjury.

And if they use "will", it's perfectly normal to wonder why one would ask such a strange question. It would totally read as "we're gonna find a case to test you on that teehee".
How many more outages until all trust is eroded and competing services differentiate themselves on the basis of uptime?
Relying on Facebook for communication. Horrifying.
If you don't have a security clearance, it's not illegal to know the thing or even share the thing, if you happen to find out about it.

It's different for people who do have a security clearance, because they signed away their First Amendment rights for classified information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Commission_into_Trade_Un...

Commissioner Heydon found that corruption was widespread and deep-seated, and recommended a new national regulator with the same powers as the Australian Securities and Investments Commission be established to combat corruption in the trade union movement. The Report highlighted insufficient record keeping (including false invoicing and destruction of documents); "rubber stamp" committees which failed to enforce rules; payment of large sums by employers to unions; and influence peddling by means of the inflation of union membership figures. The Report recommended a toughening of financial disclosure rules, new civil penalties to bind workers and officials on financial disclosure provisions; a new criminal offence.[50] Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History at the Australian National University, has described this report as having "all the impact of last year’s telephone book being dumped in a wheelie-bin.

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/mick-gatto-broug...

Mafia boss settles disputes between real estate developers and union boss, no worries mate! "Building industry sources said it appeared the parties had opted to use Mr Gatto to settle their issues rather than involve police."
Such a clickbaiting title
That was my initial thought as well. Placate everyone until the threat of a Trump pardon is in the rear-view mirror.
Not at Google you can't
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25632048

I think HN is hiding these posts. Maybe status threads are discouraged now? But they're much more useful than status.slack.com etc.
Matrix is amazing but even as a programmer I have no idea what their Security and Privacy page means. If it is meant for masses then average Joe should be able to understand it.
Just hundreds?
Really spitballing, but one that comes to mind is eliminate forced private arbitration? I haven't been able to avoid that one by switching employers.
Oh, I've done both of these: I've given up customising my computing environment, and taken up exercise. It's now something like 25 years since I first installed Slackware off floppy discs, I've been there and no longer regard it as a useful use of my limited time.

The thinking environment of choice of the most productive, smartest person I've ever worked with was .. a notepad. Not Notepad, a physical A4 ruled paper notepad and an ordinary gel pen. The actual development inevitably required some typing, but the thinking process and its associated diagrams, calculations, and scribbles for the kind of maths-heavy work he was excellent at worked best on paper.

(I currently have vscode open .. and actual Visual Studio, and IntelliJ, and notepad++, each with a different set of files open in different languages.)
Good to see this type of fraud being called out.

I once worked for a company where we were tasked to create "fake users" to make it look like a website was getting way more traffic than it actually did on the premise of doing an "extended load test".

Come to find out years later the person commissioning the fake users was trying to sell the website and wanted to validate their asking price -- with fake users and fake traffic.

Long story short it didn't work out that well because eventually the algorithm running the fake users got entirely blocked out by whoever was the host at the time and the guy wasted his money.

I just wonder how many times things like this have happened and people were very successful from it.

Fake likes and fake posts by fake users who then are clicking real ads seems like the landscape nowadays =/
I wouldn't necessarily call their platform a niche - but rather one that doesn't foster a lot of open-source contributions. I've always felt like development on Apple's platforms, even when wildly successful, is often a close-sourced and proprietary endeavor. It doesn't surprise me much that there isn't a big footprint of their languages on GitHub.
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Precisely - I'm not anti-union, but I've seen the worst of unions (where they become boss #2 instead of being the collective voice of the worker). Anyone planning on starting a union should look at cases where unions _failed_ and avoid creating a union structure that resembles the failures.
This is one of those things that isn't a big deal in isolated instances, but becomes an issue if it gets more prevalent, so it's always hard to know when/if to even say anything :)
HN is where we all go when the Internet (or large portions of it) are down. It's more reliable than all the 'downforeveryoneorjustme' or 'downtime monitor' services.
> Everybody would know in China, a close relationship comes from bribing at least from those times, and bribing is a crime in most countries

It is a classic tactic in dictatorship: Make sure that for anybody to advance, they need to get their hands dirty (i.e bribes) so that you always have a Damocles sword over their head. It's one way to ensure obedience.
I think you might misunderstand the goal of a union. It's inherently political, that's the whole point of it. And the values from the mission statement does sound like something every company should aim for, but sometimes they forget we're all humans here, so we need something to keep companies in check.

I'm not sure comparing unions to code of conducts are suitable. Unions are a historically old and proven way for workers to enact change in workplaces, industries and even entire countries. Code of conducts in open source is a fairly new invention (officially, written down ones at least) with no such track record.
Wasim Jaffer selects his top five Indian batsmen for Sydney Test
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This is fine until a platform or service decides to lock his account or permanently disable it because of frequent password reset attempts. If he’s lucky, he may be able to use a phone number connected to the account to get in. If not, then that’s the end of it. Seeing the kind of login patterns that many sites track for security reasons and how bad their judgments can be, I personally wouldn’t take such a risk.
People on here have already made up their minds about Assange/Snowden etc, even if damning evidence came out against them, they would still find a way to spin it one way or another.

Cases like these I doubt the truth will ever be known/come out. There is too much political BS surrounding it.
> There's nothing preventing your GPL'd project from being used to make a commercial product that you are not a part of either.

Copyright law does exactly this. The role of the GPL is to carve out explicit exceptions to the "you can't copy this" rights granted by copyright law.
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If they end up as producers on the show, they can often just get it granted to them, or included in the promotion obligations that are part of their contracts.
I thought it was KARR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KARR_(Knight_Rider)?
Do we laugh or cry at how this cannot be immediately discerned as a joke at this point in time.
I wouldn't be shocked if businesses saw increased productivity during these.
It's not really a joke either. The Clitnon's have been corrupt for years. The entire Hunter/Biden censorship of the Post by Facebook and Twitter show the interests of big tech align with that of the Bush/Clinton dynasty.

Biden could have him killed. He's an empty husk of a president, and will be controlled by the big interests, the Clinton and anyone else who he's been compromised by.

We've been living in 1984 for decades and most of American won't acknowledge it.
US until very recently wasn't even trying. EU is, and our phones are quite usable. Things could be improved - I wish there was a way to get rid of the few marketers that find their ways to skirt the regulatory boundary. It doesn't seem impossible to achieve.
US literally started the damn civil war.
And not in 2003... think '79.

The only thing that makes Amercians forget - lack of conscription and relatively small army(as % of population).
> the HN community believes that every other organization and industry can be disrupted...EXCEPT unions.

The thing about this is, when other organizations and industry are "disrupted", according to the usual west-coast definition of "disrupt" this typically means exploiting a market to the benefit of shareholders by eroding labor standards. What does one erode while disrupting a union, when those same standards are that org's goal?

The only thing I can think of that the modern form of "disruption" would do to unions is to allow them to "screw over" their members more efficiently.
Being someone who is likely closer to bad negotiator than good negotiator, this is something that can be learned. I am pretty sure there are hundreds or thousands of books on the subject.
Unions at Google strike me as rich people complaining about not enough assigned parking. For an industry of free lunch, massages, and unbelievable perks and benefits, talk of unionizing is just tone-deaf.
why are you so focused on people using the google calculator? They built it, people will come.

who cares!?
Are you claiming the judge’s decision was made on political grounds rather than on legal grounds under UK law? It seems to me she looked at the appropriate laws and made a reasonable decision. That’s her job and it has nothing to to do with “siding with the US”. Whether they are good laws or not is a matter for the UK Parliament and people.
Oh wow, the prices have normalized a bit - about 18 months ago I had to pay about twice the money to get 64 gigabytes of ECC goodness.
You actually make a good point in a way. It's because the autism argument has been used before is why it was employed in this case and why it became the strongest argument.

Lauri Love https://news.sky.com/story/lauri-love-autistic-hacking-suspe...
My take last time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24690175
This is usually communicated in the course of organizing - you don't win union elections by not communicating what you stand for/what would be pushed for in a new contract.
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> Maybe status threads are discouraged now

They always have been, since they clearly don't fit the guidelines for what a good submission is and usually leave little for interesting discussions. (unlike postmortems of past outages, which often are good)
Take a 3.6MW generator.

That is 3.6MWh per hour.

As we have 3600 seconds per hour, it’s 1kWh per second.

Say rotation is one per second, it’s 1 kWh per rotation for a 3.6MW generator.

A few kilowatthours per day for an average home?
That's a hilarious story about the response to the potential of a defect.
> Here's my other issue with treating Assange as a journalist: he was clearly playing politics. You saw this in the Democratic email hacking and publication. This undermines the whole theory that Wikileaks was somehow different, impartial or open. It is and always was another tool to further a political end. At some point you aren't a journalist anymore;

How should 2016 Bernie supporters feel seeing the leaked emails showing the establishment conspiring against him? “Political” in the pejorative really depends on which side you’re one.

Wikileaks is/was a threat to the establishment. That’s why he’s currently locked up.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/damaging-emails-dnc-wikileak...
Funny how everyone's opinion about Assange changed after 2016.
Yup, this is the problem. There is no centralised log of what people bought, which is what you'd need to actually fix this problem.
For me, the value in attending a "top" university is much more about the networking and "name recognition" on resumes, and the enormous boost that those factors offer you over the course of one's career, than it is about the actual coursework. Unfortunately (imo) if a recruiter is given two identical resumes but ones says MIT and one says State School, the MIT resume will almost always get preference for interviews, salary negotion, etc.

I went into massive debt attending CMU, when I could have probably gone to a perfectly good university for free, but I've seen first hand (and been told by recruiters) how much just having THAT university on my resume has affected my prospects, and so I still think it was worth it. That's not to mention the other experiences afforded by attending a world class university like research opportunities, internships, etc. which all sort of serve as a positive feedback loop for improving the prestige of the university and it's alumni.
Many services down (Slack, Robinhood, Todoist)
The status page has now been updated [0]:

> Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. Our team is investigating and we will follow up with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for any disruption caused.

- Jan 4, 10:14 AM EST

[0]: https://status.slack.com/
What a naive world view is this to think that a large enough company goes “above and beyond” for their employees...
As a German these American work ethics are so weird to me. You are being put on a stick and held over a bon fire and all you do is scream “turn me quicker“!

What life is this to work your ass off for a company that demands crazy work hours, that can fire you for any reason with laughable notice period, gives you almost no vacation, no maternity leave and when you get sick, you lose your health insurance and end up on the streets. While the other survivors are celebrating their own luck.

Such a depressing dystopia.
None because all competing services have some problems at some point.
I know at least one person who left Google because it became too political, and this was several years ago. It's sad to see what's become of the company.
It’s like politicians saying that $600 is significant. How would they know? Google unionizing is like politicians asking for free parking. They seem to just want to unionize as a way to force their beliefs on others.
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These events seem to be happening almost on a monthly basis now. IRC was never this unreliable and at least with netsplits it was obvious what had happened because you'd see the clients disconnect.

IME messages just fail to send with Slack, then you can retry but they're not properly idempotent and you end up sending the messages twice.

It's really poor.
That is kinda the hidden message isn't it? He was practically imprisoned in the embassy. Now even if he is free, he's returning to a world of lock-downs and stay-at-home orders. Released from his private hell into collective human rights violations in the name of a virus. Welcome to 2084. Everything old is Orwell again.
A lot of it is philosophical - for the reasons that I dislike Gradle, I dislike SBT, but SBT has the honor of also having historically (and thankfully since cleaned up) esoteric syntax. I simply don't want builds to be allowed to reach the complexity that sbt allows.

I would definitely agree with your point that most build tools aren't easy! I've used maven and grumbled about it, and I'm mostly sold on scripting my build in the same language I'm using anyway, but in my long time on the JVM, it's always been the gradle and sbt projects that end up with inscrutable and hard-to-follow build scripts.

The sbt REPL also regularly breaks existing build scripts by changing how args are passed/parsed, or even how terminal color support works, and I just get sad every time I see a new, unexpected error from one of our CI runs.
While I agree with you, I also think that the CPP was more than happy to have a lot of assets in foreign country owned by Chinese citizen. It give them a lot of soft power in foreign diplomacy.
Down Detector showed a lot of different services suffering downtime at the same time https://downdetector.com/

I wonder if it's an AWS region issue
for a brief period, I had an interesting glitch where my messages were reordered on my screen (A,B to B,A and back within a few milliseconds)
If you're asking genuinely then I can tell you my experience when I was part of a SaaS shop, though the times have changed a lot and "my metric is not necessarily your metric".

But it was roughly "one large impact a month, for six months", with large caveats that upper management for whatever company had to be working with the product during that month.

Large companies don't care if X service went out during the night and impacted someone not in their timezone.

If the CTO notices that he can't use something with the same regularity that he gets paid, then it doesn't take long for it to stick in their mind. But migrating everything is _so painful_ that the majority of large companies will do anything they can to avoid moving away.
> Customers may have trouble loading channels or connecting to Slack at this time. Our team is investigating and we will follow up with more information as soon as we have it. We apologize for any disruption caused.

- Jan 4, 10:14 AM EST

The status for messaging and connection services has been marked as [incident]

https://status.slack.com/
In display, at least. It's not massively common with either Google or Facebook (assuming you avoid their networks), which is part of the reason that both of them make so much money.
I believe the "true" value of an MBA is the connections you make to/with the other students and the alumni network.

This is why (IMHO) an MBA from Wharton for example is worth almost whatever they wanted to charge and why an online MBA taken from the typical for-profit provider or even one cobbled together via coursera is worth nothing.
I'm running a 2400G in a Mellori-ITX. Another issue is sizing the power supply.
Coming from a third world country, whenever I see someone contrasting human rights abuses of US and China, I instantly realize the person was born and bred in the west, and does not have a meaningful realization of the level of depravity that can exist. Not saying US doesn't have his problems, it has plenty. But comparing to China is, at risk of being flippant, laughable.
If I were a Google employee with an active social media account that promoted conservative politics, this would be pretty alarming to me. It's similar to the CoC debates - the visionary goals foreshadow the darker enforcement strategies.
It can definitely be done, but historically, that's not really been its sweet spot.
I disagree. There was less capital and more art. Now there is more capital and less art. Adding more capital does not create more art. It creates a tiny subset of commercially successful artists. Not the same thing at all.
Could be neither, or it could be that adding to 20 billion dollars is different than adding to 100 thousand dollars.
Links to the pages you're referring to?

I found their Privacy Policy surprisingly approachable (https://matrix.org/legal/privacy-notice). Maybe because I've read through tons of policies before, but theirs seem to use very easy language, even for someone who's not a native English speaker.

Could not find any page who's title is just "Security".
Who reads f * * * instead of f*?
One obvious way this manifests is in seniority-based provisions whereby union members demonstrate a preference for their own interests over the interests of future new hires.
I agree that government tech is usually pretty not great, but I am not sure if that has to do with unions per se or perhaps the government's antiquated pay scales/lack of civil service exam.
the article makes it sound like this union will not be about collective bargaining