skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1) They're doing a Tiki Torch walk, during a time when it was heavily politicised.

No it wasn't; just in the US. Not everyone in the world is obsessed with the latest drama in the US.

I've done many torchwalks with scouts. In fact, they're used to celebrate the end of the Nazi occupation in my home town every single year on Sept 18th. Should we stop doing this because some yahoos on the other side of the world used some torches in some far-right march? This is "Hitler has a moustache, you have a moustache, ergo you must be a Nazi"-kind of logic.

> 2) They're adapting Nazi slogans as hostnames

A private server belonging to a single person, not the project. I have asked him plainly and directly about that and he avoided the question. I am also not impressed by this, but that doesn't make him a Nazi, and it certainly doesn't make everyone involved in the project a Nazi.

> 3) They're denigrating "Cultural Marxism".

A single person is (same one as the hostname). And like I said, there is a lot more to that conversation than the screenshot makes it out to be as there was a lot of confusion about what's intended with "cultural marxism". I really recommend you read the entire conversation in full, and while I don't personally agree with their take, it's also really not that bad.
I'm by no means a parlor fan and don't think they really stood for free speech as much as something else.

But: there are open calls for murder and violence on literally every internet forum. I've seen them on hackernews even!
Yeah, but if you're blindly installing a third party's binary blob, it's hard to call that "zero trust".

Edit: It seems like a serious extension of the zero trust concept would involve something like "only allow in source code into the system from sources we trust and then we compile it ourselves". Limit trust to trusted identities and don't allow binaries in any more than people.
Doubtful. Insurances dont run at a loss, every penny that goes into them they take a cut as profits. If the treatment is expensive, great! More demand for their product, and even if their cut is the same, their profit and revenue will be greater.
I have heard the weather is nice in Brutopia this time of year
It's an imperfect solution. But thousands of people have left to the beach in Mexico, Florida, etc. We aren't talking of people that got surprised by COVID in March, we are talking of people that bought a plane ticket in the middle of the pandemic, traveled abroad for vacation, and are now inconvenienced by the fact they need to get tested to come back.
Yes. Plaid can be used to verify banking details (many stock brokers use it for this, for example).

Plaid works by asking the user to give their banking username and password to Plaid, and then their two factor authentication token too. Plaid logs into their account behind the scenes to verify ownership.

Plaid claims to not store this info, and I assume that they don't, but it still seems like one of the biggest security anti-patterns ever. If nothing else, it's training users to ignore the "don't share your password" warnings. Do we really want users trained to be more susceptible to phishing?
MAGA hat wearers have been attacked and abused for years, but I guess it's ok, since all of them are bad guys
It was an organized insurrection surrounded by a circus
It is illogical to have such disregard for the prime directive.
I recently found out about them for "tabbed" (in the tools project)- converts xterm into a tabbed terminal emulator.
Good thing that you're not in charge of anything.
- instant search. I use tg for notes. It blazing fast. Just try to search in Skype for something to compare
<shameless plug> We're definitely smaller, but we're launching Solo v2, a full upgrade of our open source security key. Crowdfunding will start end of month.

https://solokeys.com/v2
>I thought the typical goal of hackers and startups

Hackers and startups are two very different groups with very different ideologies and goals and incentives. No idea why you group them together. Some startups have no technical founders even.

>"change the world" and "make a difference"

Startups are businesses and like all businesses in the end they wish to make money. VCs, for example, are very clearly investors and not philanthropists. They are high risk, high reward businesses which means they need to change things to get those returns but in the end they are a business.

>How does selling to Visa accomplish those things?

It gives Plaid financial stability and long term platform for its technology. If its technology makes the world a better place then its continual existence does make a difference.
I love their software and their attitude.

I’ve been using dwm for years and it’s the perfect window manager. Configuration by editing the header and recompiling makes sense when compilation takes under a second.

I’m not much of a C programmer, but I like that I can sort of understand their code. A window manager in 2000 lines means that if I wanted to I could understand how the whole thing works.

It’s all refreshing, and even, I would say, beautiful. I like that my environment uses very little memory, leaving my ram for actually doing things.
I find there's a similar culture on a lot of subreddits. You're more likely to find criticism of existing ideas rather than discussion of new solutions. I think it is a function of a relatively young audience.
What evidence is there that this is actually the SolarWinds hackers and not someone who uploaded some random encrypted files and is hoping to trick people into sending them money?

There’s a PGP signature, but as far as I’ve head the attackers didn’t leave behind any other messages to prove it was signed with the same key.
Oh yeah, that reminds me of the one time I wanted to join a TeamSpeak server, but my "security level" was not high enough. My CPU had to calculate some stuff for 2 minutes to get that required security level, it's apparently an anti Spammer measurement.
> overly-complex generics-within-generics-within-generics

To me, that's a shining example of the problems I've run myself into when trying to squeeze much power out of Java-style generics. I never seem to encounter similar problems in F#. Scala, it depends on how successful I am at not losing a boot in the mud.

Generic programming was born in a language whose other pioneering features were algebraic data types and an HM type system. I've never really seen a first-rate example of one that didn't come paired with at least passable examples of the others.
> more nuanced view ... based on context

What's nuanced about supporting violence/rioting/looting/etc while fighting violence being hypocritical? My main point remains "you were silent while 100's of millions in damage was done and now you're mad about 6 hours of less violent protests and a single building being damaged?"

> reasons aren't equal

Reasons aren't equal... but there is plenty of reason to pick apart the hypocrisy WAY beyond DC vs Portland riots. I can point out many "police brutality" stories that aren't really when facts come out. (IE: "hands up, don't shoot"). I can do the same to most of the 'non contradictory' positions.

It's important to stand up for what you believe in peacefully... it's also important to try and not be a hypocrite while doing so.

I stand against the hypocrisy in the other positions you mentioned as well even if not mentioned in detail. The hypocrisy destroys the message.
> just as hospitals test all admits (even those without symptoms).

Some may, but that's a county/state decision.
It's worth reiterating that the problem is climate change, not just global warming. There's more energy in the atmosphere, and that can lead to warmer weather (on average this is the case) but it also means there's more energy to whip up storms or move regions of hot or cold air much further, to places that are not used to them. So unusually cold weather can in fact be a result of climate change.
In Bulgaria too.

But this weekend temperatures are going to drop to -10 to -15.
Yeah they try to rewrite history i think, but if you look at the old logo the G looks like Goggles, it's also more logic to call your search-engine goggle, and not a number, but anything is better then BackRub.
Immediate mode rendering is similar to what the Firefox WebRender changes are about:

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-f...
it's not impossible, but this could be how Earth got tardigrades in the first place.

(it's a stretch, of course.)
Governments has been telling people for months not to go on vacation, that is correct, they should have thought of that before leaving.

They also gave 2 weeks notice so if you went somewhere and didn't think you could get a COVID test, there was still time to make it back home before the ban started.
There is a funny joke about a Bosnian in Canada, you may appreciate it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/3dcn76/the_diary_of_...
A woman who stole America’s Atomic bomb secrets-Elizabeth Zarubina
According to Wikipedia [0] that should not affect Europe.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ni%C3%B1a#/media/File:La_Ni...
Fortunately per the article the tardigrades are sealed in epoxy and dehydrated, so any concerns about inadvertently disrupting some theoretical microbial ecosystem on the moon is probably not founded (not that I believe there is other life on the moon anyway)
This is what it feels like to live in a country like China, where if you criticize the government, or question the dominant narrative, or call for regime change, you are called a "terrorist"

There's a big difference between criticizing the government and storming the capitol.

Talk all you want. Engage in constructive debate. Run for office. Change laws through the system. All of those things are OK in the United States.

Dragging a police officer down the stairs and beating him with a flag pole is not OK in the United States.
The encoding used by GPT-2 and GPT-3 greatly obscures many of the textual properties of words. This at least partly accounts for why it has so much trouble with meter, rhyme, syllables, and some math.

More info: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#bpes
Yes, but...

Having worked at SolarWinds they're especially susceptible to demands from sales and marketing. "Go faster, ignore tech best practices, etc." It's not unique, but their culture is not a dev-first, or security-first, culture to say the least. Many product managers answer to marketing first, and don't have earnest tech backgrounds that would let them know right from wrong past sales numbers. The culture changed significantly when they went public the first time; it went from a place where devs built good tools... to a place looking to buy products / competitor products so they could charge more for their services. Look at how long it took them to get into cloud tools -- great example of how marketing and sales missed the boat because they were only focused on things they had sold before and not focused on systemic changes to the industry -- because technologists weren't driving.

Anyway, like I've worked a lot places with better security built into the culture, better tech best practices built into the culture... that's all I'm trying to say. Knowing that attacks like this are out there... and it was just a matter of time before it happened, SolarWinds did next to nothing to avoid it happening to them.
Maybe the word "equivalent" isn't a perfect fit, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's "not true." There's some overlap in the concept, if not an exact correlation. I attended a university that had a strong focus on practical applications to the point that it was often tongue-in-cheek referred to as a "glorified trade school."

Edit: what koube said. I went to a CSU school.
Visa was going to pay $5.3b dollars for Plaid. I don't really think you can say that that is "small startup ambitions."

Is YouTube a failure? Is Instagram a failure? How about Github or Linkedin? There are reasons to remain an independent company, but there are also reasons that it might be better to be acquired. Besides the premium that the acquirer will pay, large companies can actually accelerate your growth while also insulating you from a lot of the pesky overhead of being a public company.
This would require a level of coordination and leadership at CBP that we just haven’t seen, at least under the current administration.
Well, he did take two rapid tests, which both produced false negatives.

What this tells us about false negatives depends on details he didn't mention, about how correlated the two tests were. Obviously, it was the same person each time - but was it the same day? Same test brand? Same clinic? Same tester?
There is. You split the team or hire additional engineers in other time zones, such that no one is relied upon to work on their time off. There should always be someone working at all times around the globe, available to support.
Sure, totally understand that. It's just not what I think about when I read AWS console replacement.
The Prime Directive prohibits contact with intelligent pre-warp civilizations.

Starfleet colonized quite a few planets without existing intelligent life.
To be clear, the order of events was such that I did not have loss of smell/taste at the time of the rapid tests. There was no indication at that time of anything that wasn't completely consistent with and expected from a cold, and I even encountered resistance when I tried to get tested prior to the tell-tale loss-of-smell symptom appearing (hence the rapid tests only at that point). I had a mildly uncomfortable phone call with an urgent care center where they discouraged me from pursuing testing because they didn't think I had enough symptoms.

I knew exactly from whom I had contracted whatever illness I had, and that person had also tested negative for COVID (upon further questioning, their test had also been a rapid one, and they too had not been informed of its unreliability for any negative determination).
"GitHub is facing employee backlash after the firing of a Jewish employee who suggested 'Nazis are about' on the day of the US Capitol siege"
This was a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25748129 but I've detached this massive subthread in an attempt to spare our poor server. yes, we're working on it
Unfortunately, this particular report does not seem to be reputable, based on the way unsubstantiated rumour and uncredible source were solely used to draw an eye-catching title.
Only Spain isn't Europe - meanwhile 12° further north, temperatures are normal (even a bit on the warmer side) for the season.

A single night of record breaking low temperatures doesn't mean much. 24 years ago today, it was -18°C in my little corner of the world, the next night it was more than 12°C warmer already.

Freak weather extremes will increase in both intensity and frequency, but doomsday predictions usually don't hold much water as we know too little about the system as a whole and the feedback mechanisms involved.
Well, I've been trying really hard not to point it out because I don't want this to be like a commercial. :) But, the idea here is that the Zebrium ML picks the incident lines unsupervised; then, the GPT-3 model creates the summary unsupervised. So I guess the combination is what we've been working on in a private beta, so that the user can get the best of both worlds.
And it does not seem a very serious attempt either. The only way to make this deal is through a single listed protonmail address that if this gets any traction will be closed in all likelihood. Not like an onion site with a contact page or something.
Why not both! Of course, since it is org-mode, you can just do your ledger-ing in there (like any other source block), make reports, comments, etc. Literal programming becomes literal finances.

I haven't done this yet, but have played with ledger and org-mode separately. I've seen several articles about this, including on the official docs [1, 2]

[1] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-...

[2] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/weaving-a-budget.html
I really hope this mRNA train keeps going and companies succeed executing on it. Does anyone know the status for CRISPR medical technology? I remembering hearing about all these great applications using CaaS-9 and 13 but I haven’t really heard any new medical breakthroughs recently (though the hemophilia “cure” was awesome!).
I wouldn't extrapolate.

Most places in Spain have and need heating, apart from a few coastal enclaves in the south. Spain is the 5th largest user of energy for residential heating in the EU, behind Germany, France, Italy, and Poland.
Perhaps, but a dangerous precident that could easily be extended to less objectionable websites, and probably will.
Not a mail server, an individual person's laptop.

> these mails originate from a host called "wolfsschanze", which appears to be the laptop a certain Laslo Hunhold works from (their conf organizer?)

-- the tweet in the thread that you're mentioning
Problem is, no-one came for the Nazis, and nobody "blocked" their propaganda
There's an easier way to do that. You give them poor performance reviews or fire them if they don't improve.
Did you just refer to using global cloud providers as "dumbification of online presence?" I'm not even sure how one comes up with that.
This argument doesn't work very well because even in Parliamentary systems there is good clarity as to what people are voting for.

Your arguments is resting on technicalities, but not on the realities of awareness and participation of voters.

Boris Johnson had a questionable first phase as PM due to his inherited position, a lack of confidence - so - there was an election. Not only did everyone in the UK know who they were voting for in terms of individual leadership, but very much in terms of policy. It was also an 'issue election'.

The affirmation of 'Boris to complete Brexit' was clear, democratic and decisive (however people may disagree with the result).

Voters clearly 'had their say'.

The EU does not have any such relevance in terms of issues, ideology, leadership, policy, participation, regulatory clarity, which makes it's democratic credentials kind of questionable.

They do some good work though, it's just going to be a problem when the are at odds with the people.

Edit: I should add, the fact there was no public awareness at all of Von der Leyen - there was no opportunity for scrutiny, press inquisition, background awareness - is obviously problematic from a democratic perspective.
Why Remove User Tracking?
Slack was fun at first, then it became a distraction, now it's blocked on our networks.
What is the use case for the operations that cause these ‘tainted’ canvases anyway?
You can allow or block based on the parent process.
I mean Greenwald has also asserted that no Parler user was involved in the insurrection, which is a straight-up lie. The fact his work has such an uncritical following on HN doesn't say much could about HN's pretensions to offer high quality discussion.
hiack of the build process is wild. brings to mind Thompson's "trusting trust" https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Apart from what the sibling comment mentioned, it's not a great analogy because we have a very limited things that can go wrong with a bridge. This is knowledge shared between all engineers - you analyse the design for multiple known forces and you're done.

Compare this to the CI systems designed to take unknown code and run it in a safeish way. In a bridge analogy it would be something like "one of the screws turned out to be a remote controlled drilling device which hollowed out parts of steel without visible changes" - of course nobody would notice that for some time.
Thanks for putting that info here!
Bad practices oftentimes amount to defects -- what distinction are you making?
If I have done activity that deems I am a fascist based on a corporations policy, that's totally fine. Don't see a problem with that. Unless you think ISIS should also exist on Twitter promoting their beheading video series
> but I do not see any of the advocates of limiting free speech having the courage to tell what they really think in the face of those whom they want to protect.

It's not them I want to protect (though I don't have any explicit desire for them to _not_ be protected). It's me I want to protect. Your right to swing your fists ends at the tip of my nose, and your right to yell "Fire!" or "Stop the steal" or "Storm the Bastille!" are likewise constrained when they infringe on my rights.

The practical implementation and realisation of rights is always a trade-off of rights vs rights. What is under discussion is where the balance of those trade-offs lay.

Having said that, there is a very strong case to be made that we need to address people's propensity to listen to, invest in, and act on, obvious bullshit (e.g. flat-earthers, reptilians etc). More than education is required. My brother-in-law - a highly functioning, tertiary educated small business owner and nice guy - is a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracist, believing the most outrageous things. Having a rational discussion with him has not budged him from his beliefs one iota. I believe it's a psychological condition as common as depression or anxiety.

There are no easy answers nor quick fixes for this problem.
The anecdotal evidence I have says that you can be reinfected. I don't know if it was with different strains, but it's still troubling.
Honestly, you'd probably enjoy the ML languages. Haskell and OCaml are both fairly popular
Your R0 number is waaaay off. Like 2-3x higher than generally observed.
Beyond being technically incorrect (a firewall with a whitelist still works) you're missing the larger point: if you don't trust Apple not to surreptitiously access your data, you can't rely on Apple-managed security mechanisms to enforce it. Run this command to look at the list of applications which aren't subject to the application-level firewall (the lower-level packet filter does still apply):

defaults read /System/Library/Frameworks/NetworkExtension.framework/Resources/Info.plist ContentFilterExclusionList

That list breaks down into two categories: things which you can't safely be on the Internet without (e.g. security updates) and things which aren't enabled unless you enable them (iMessage, Photos, Music, Find My Mac, etc.) and load some kind of data you care about into them.

In the former case, your options are to enable it or switch to a different operating system — you may choose to schedule them but there's no good security policy where you don't install updates promptly.

In the latter case, people come up with these hypothetical scenarios where someone finds a way to, say, enable iCloud music or photos without your knowledge and then do … something … sketchy with it. The problem with this line of thinking is that if you use those services, you can't firewall them and if you don't you're trying to come up with a scenario where someone can start a service, login using MFA and deleting the notification emails, load your data without prompting, but somehow doesn't already have control of your system or an easier way to exfiltrate your data.

The person I replied to had an even sillier version: “Access to our personal data by Apple - intentionally or "accidently"”. That asks us to believe that there's some way Apple would want to access your data, deploy some kind of attack code which bypasses all of the prompts for each stage, but forget to, say, simply disable the firewall entirely or exfiltrate data through a hostname used for other purposes (such as the software update CDN). It's technically possible but it's so farfetched that Hollywood screenwriters wouldn't touch it.

Any time spent playing firewall admin like this would be far better spent enabling MFA on everything you use and reconsidering the other software you install. Defending against the OS vendor is close to impossible and where people in reality lose data it's due to third-party apps / browser extensions, insecure backups, etc. which are both far more important and much easier to make meaningful improvements.
Or may be PSTH.