skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hehe - go big or go home?

Its actually getting hard to figure out how to get rid of stuff. Its all working gear, and the blades are all 2xquad cores with 48G ram...but its so old, no one wants it. Local maker space has old gear coming out their ears, schools won't touch anything that old. I really don't want to destroy working gear :-(
> It's still not clear if a previous infection stops you from being an asymptomatic carrier, and we don't want more asymptomatic carriers.

It's as clear as it is for any other viral disease. For example, to my knowledge, nobody has ever done any kind of systematic study of whether or not infection with influenza protects you against asymptomatic reinfection with the same strain.

This is a level of paranoia that is unique to this particular virus.
Visa in Europe in cyprus/portugal/greece/Hungary does not need a lot of money as investment.
That was a disingenuous quote, you merged parts of two different sentences as if they were one.
This is extremely reasonable especially in light of the fact that cloud providers intentional attempt to lock customers into proprietary apis that are designed to be challenging to migrate across clouds.
People who have never faced consequences for their actions rarely consider the possible consequences of their actions
So, ISPs should be a regulated utility, then?
If we ignore the lucky ones who where first employee at unicorn with very generously owner,,, do you really get any money as an employee when there is an acquisition !? How common is it outside Silicon Valley ?
UML is pretty retarded.

Hey look. Let’s make system documentation easy by drawing a bunch of stick figure people.

Stickman is a bank customer.

And he needs to

1. Open an account

2. Deposit funds

3. Withdraw funds

4. Close an account

Seriously?
this is awesome - congrats! first donation of many :)
That's the point. Kicking Parler off AWS is not like Penguin refusing to publish your book, it's like MAN forbidding people to deliver your self-printed books in one of their vans. Well if MAN had a monopoly on delivery vans.
Hahaha, thanks for trying it out!

It's honestly mind-boggling that we now have tools that even make something like this possible.

(Even though GPT-3 clearly has to read more poetry.)
Yeah yeah everyone is a facist and nazi. We get it. Yawn.
Are you so sure Area 51 is real?

https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Onl...
This is good in theory, until you yourself get owned by someone else, that now all of sudden knows exactly what you think is a tell-tale sign of some other actor.

From there on they can modify their payloads to look like they come from another toolchain.
LAPD commission voted 4-0 to approve a face recognition policy
It's crazy to make a hero out of someone that just did his elected job and obviously admitting that 1+1=2. In fact he is complicit for not whisteblowing all the crazy stuff apparently Trump told him to do or saw.
They were right, you should never run a GUI as root. The wrong part was not providing the alternative before blocking it. That maintainer left KDE IIRC, not sure why but I heard there were a lot of conflicts.

Last time I checked this feature was in progress by KDE devs, polkit or something like that, that allowed you to do that kind of operation without root.

But it was in a limbo because it was huge and hard to merge. They were trying again last time I checked. They would probably help you or anyone who would like that feature implemented to get started.
The only "alphabets" (quotes because Ugaritic is an abjad) that can be traced back to Mesopotamia are the Ugaritic and old Persian alphabets. Both are independent simplifications of the syllabic cuneiform script into "alphabets." Both are linguistic dead ends, with no subsequent scripts arising from them.

The Phoencian "alphabet" is unrelated to Mesopotamian cuneiform. It likely represents another independent invention, but this time deriving from Egyptian hieroglyphs rather than cuneiform.
> “Stolen or searched” isn’t a very specific description. Does the attacker have the screen lock? Or is the screen unlocked but they don’t have the screen lock factor?
> Does the attacker have the ability to inject code into the running OS, or only to read memory contents?

As long as Molly is locked, it doesn't really matter. It offers protection in the worst case scenario, under the premises I noted before.

> This can increase safety, but at cost of features or usability (as you noted) or complexity.

You are right. Just keep in mind not everyone need a safe, but the people who need it appreciate having the option to buy one.

> why wouldn’t I just use the lock screen?

Because you know there have been working exploits in the past to bypass the lock screen, or to read physical RAM directly from the USB port of a locked phone (1). And thus it is reasonable to believe there are still more vulnerabilities to be discovered and patched in Android.

(1) https://saltaformaggio.ece.gatech.edu/publications/DIIN_17.p...
What non-technical "security enthusiasts" will never understand or grasp is that no system is really ever "secure". It's only secure as long as you're not aware of exploits - and given how complex these systems are (not counting the software they're deployed on) you'll never even have a 95% guarantee. The real ringer is that as long as someone has an IOS or Android exploit that lets you listen to they keyboard or IO inputs, the security of what you're typing into doesn't matter one bit ;)
Obviously it would depend on the situation, but in this case we could probably use a metric of something like mean-time-to-discovery which is probably a useful metric for evaluating intrusion detection. Making simplifying assumptions, we can just model this as a probability to discover per unit-time with percentage improvements reducing mean-time-to-discovery. In this case we have ~8 months to discovery or ~240 days.

We then need to determine what we deem adequate for intrusion detection. I contend that a competent intrusion extracts the vast majority of its value within 1 week. This is consistent with the results in the Verizon Data Breach Report from 2019 [1]. Given this, we would logically want to detect an intrusion in less than this time otherwise the vast majority of the damage has already been done. By this metric, 1 week or 7 days versus 240 days would require a 35x or 3,500% improvement in detection by FireEye to be able to detect the intrusion and materially impact the value gained from the intrusion.

In addition, this is not materially different than the standard in the industry as seen in the other graphs on that same page which shows that detection normally takes on the order of months which is far longer than the standard for exfiltration which is days to weeks.

I do not contend that all software everywhere must be made secure against all attackers. However, it must be evaluated against actual expected attacks with a proper understanding as to what it can actually defend against otherwise it is impossible to make an accurate cost-benefit analysis. It is up to the creator/user/people to make an evaluation if the benefits outweigh the risks. That is how you define adequacy.

[1] https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2019/10/16/1-2-d... Page 10
Yes, the mechanism is the same.

However, Facebook has lines that when crossed result in being moderated. Their moderation system is obviously imperfect and a lot of the time they act too late, but it's there.

Parler was courting all the line-crossers with the promise that there would be no such moderation on their platform. That ended with predictable results.
I think this is a form of what might be generally called "due process" -- something that is missing from many of the operational actions made by online platforms long before any of the recent incidents.
The problem is that you need a certain population density to pay for maintenance of infrastructure. It's like running a business. If you can break even, you can expand your business endlessly. If you are even just a single dollar short it just doesn't work out. Suburbia is not just a dollar short. It's making substantial losses while providing very little to show for it.
Democratize it: put government in charge of that company. (And also campaign finance.)
Planning, prediction, and coordination.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm#:~:tex....
Not everyone is traveling to the beach on vacation. There are numerous valid, serious reasons people need to travel.
So, what is this: parallel evolution, where Intel drew more or less the same conclusions as Apple w.r.t. how to build a performant system, or an order from above “Make a presentation that makes people think we’ll have something to compete with M1. We’ll figure out later how to actually do it”?

How far along to being shipped is this design?
This. Shit. Is. Hard
Starting my company was the hardest career decision of my life.

I left a cushy role running design at one of New York's largest venture studios to transition into the grueling world of startups.

It's been hard.

But, it's also been one of the most transformative experiences of my career.

Here are the 3 most important things I've learnt along the way.

Doubt is a normal part of the process. I've talked to founders who have run companies making millions in revenue. They all experienced doubt on their first day. Many still experience it today.

Start shipping. The biggest antidote to doubt is action. As you ship, you'll build more confidence and see how your behavior informs your thoughts and feelings, as much as your thoughts and feelings inform your behavior.

Keep at it for 3 months. Persist. Ride the highs. Ride the lows. At that point, you'll either have shipped an idea that excites you (and others), or you'll have learned that an idea doesn't work. Either way, you'll have learned critical founder lessons, and will be one step closer to finding that killer idea.

Either way, you win.

P.S. If you want to see what it's like for founders to go through the doubt, the shipping, and the 3 months of persistence, there's tons of online resources to do so: YC runs startup school which is a free online & community for early stage VC-backed founders & Indie hackers is a community for ideation stage bootstrapped entrepreneurs. I'm also helping to run an event which will showcase what a few founders have worked on after tackling a sprint for 3 months (links here https://hopin.com/events/day-one-showcase if you're curious).

Remember to keep going.
Hah, nearly a year too late.
Did Mark Zuckerberg coordinate with Parler’s lawyers, payment provider, and bank? They all dropped Parler as a customer.
>Simple, how about just like a store is not allowed to refuse service

A store is absolutely allowed to refuse service. You're not allowed to walk in to Costco without a Costco card. Plenty of restaurants and clubs have a dress code. Most places have "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service" rules.
Honestly if usa collapses not many places will be safe worldwide. That would be a major event in history and could bring civilization down
A plane ticket.

If things do kick off US is probably the last country I'd want to be. Way too many people armed to the teeth eager to try out their netflix walking dead acquired survival skills.
Cyprus has been looking like a decent option - however I'm far too young and poor to make a move like this haha. I'll clutch my self defense whistle for now!

edit - yeah no way for at least five years unless I get a huge break or raise. The current minimum for investment citizenship is $2M euros [0]. Damn, I really shouldn't have mucked up the relationship with my ex girlfriend from Maldova who was a citizen of Cyprus!

0 - https://www.goldenvisas.com/cyprus
It's not an absolute.

The more work it is to find the current hiding hole, the harder it's going to be for them to recruit and groom more terrorists from the populace.
This is the real issue.

We can hire all the "security experts" in the world, but if software and architecture are fatally flawed from the getgo, you can check all the checkboxes, and scan and produce all the pretty reports you want.

The end result is still paper mache
They'll admit it if you speak to them, in a round about way. At this point you're either anti-fascist or not.
Switch Transformers: Trillion Parameter Models from Googleent Sparsity
>a now proven fascist with no appreciation for democracy, its institutions, free speech, and the rule of law.

Who are you referencing here?
Funnily enough a static configuration HDMI display needs no special circuitry, as it's essentially VGA that didn't pass a DAC and you can spam it directly to LCD matrix.
Even if the government bans XMR from exchanges, BTC to XMR atomic swaps are coming.

You can then

1. Use XMR as an anonymizing bridge to pseudonymous ETH or ADA wallets

2. Grow wealth with ETH or ADA smart contracts/decentralized finance

3. When you want to spend, transfer funds from your ETH/ADA wallets over the XMR bridge to newly generated spend wallets. (There's potential for a chain-analysis correlation attack at this point if you aren't careful with how you are withdrawing.)

---

Really, it's all a nightmare and very difficult to do it now, but I'll be damned if someone doesn't develop an app or program that does this all seamlessly in a few years.
What would you suggest in its place?
WISPs are usually bottlenecked by the amount of unlicensed spectrum available. Geography can also makes operating a WISP difficult. Hilly and heavily treed terrain is poorly served by wireless, as are high density residential neighbourhoods. As one academic put it: investment in wireless merely delays investment in fibre.
Become Education Chooses FusionAuth for IDaaS
>I mean Greenwald has also asserted that no Parler user was involved in the insurrection

Oh? Where did he say that? I'd like to read what he said with context.
South Africa here. I've known people that got their test back in less than 24 hours
I definitely forgot about 4, but since the colo provider is also likely the ISP, I think this is effectively covered by 3, generalized to "ISP cancels its contract based on your bitstream or other reason".

5 doesn't really cover the scenarios that I think we're talking about. Yes, if you believe that we live in a fascist, near-fascist or just plain punitive state, then fear of law enforcement is probably going to make this concern rank fairly high for you. But I think for most of us, if law enforcement is coming to remove your servers from a colo facility, something much bigger is going on.
You can remove the "Mitigate health inequities" subcategory and the essential workers approach still comes out ahead in the ethics category due to the "Promote Justice" category which is the fairness of controlling exposure reason I detailed in my last comment.

Minimizing deaths isn't being ignored, it plays a factor in every single one of the top level categories. It simply isn't a line item itself. It also needs to be weighed with other health considerations. For example, the essential worker approach reduces the number of infections and we should all know by now that COVID shouldn't be judged in a purely binary way with deaths versus recoveries.

Also I am not putting a value judgement on these approaches. I am explaining the way I interpret the judging criteria.
There are definitely the instigators and the people who are dragged along. The instigators are the people at the front who pushed down the police and murdered one of them. They should get life without parole. There are also a lot more people at the back who see a bunch of people running in, don't see what happened to the police officers at the front, and just kind of go with it. They still need to be punished, but not with life without parole.
Section 230 of the CDA is the government getting in the way of business; granting these businesses privileged immunity such that they can have all the advantages of operating as a common carrier, while actually operating as a publisher.

Take away that government-giveaway, and the problem is solved.

The CDA was always a bad idea.
I lived in Madrid over winter years ago, and it dropped to -6c for a few nights. I'm from the UK so I'm somewhat used to colder temperatures (it's 0c currently for example), but my god, that is the coldest I've ever felt in my life. I went to bed dressed in 3 layers of clothes and I was still freezing.
Interestingly, I've seen some internal Apple stuff get sent upstream to LLVM.

One example is ILP32 support for AArch64, which is apparently used in the Apple Watch. It looks like all of Apple's modern SoCs are 64 bit only, and in order to reclaim some memory on constrained devices, they're using ILP32 and a 32 bit address space, with 64 bit registers and such. https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-January/12978...
No, you're conflicting two different things. DDoS is obviously illegal as you're attacking someone else. The "forced to host a tenant that they object to" the other commentator is mentioning is regarding not liking their speech and ideas, not actions. Of course we should try to stop illegal activities that actively harm others. When it comes to Parler, it's unclear if Parler themselves were active in inciting the violence, just members who happened to be using Parler, or if they are related at all.
Function as a service in Rust with the code editor being run as a function on a server that saves to distributed network storage. Almost everything will be distributed because of privacy so most devs will have a home personal cloud server to run their code on.
Not OP (and not Microsoft), but I would say it's a complicated road to get there.

I do believe we will see open source Windows in... the next decade?

Anyone want to take a longbet with me? ;-)
12 year old repackages signal with better kid compatible branding
A big reason this is happening IMO is due to the inaction of the government. I don't want companies to bring down sites, however the government seemingly actively refuses to take action. There is precedent for limiting free speech in the case of violence apparently
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
And it seems like there is some correlation with communications being had on Parler and the insurrection on January 6th.

It is unclear how this could be enforced in the internet domain, but maybe the website could have huge fines levied against it or criminal charges levied against the founders (so not the posters) if its possible to prove violent intent. Its also not a very slippery slope. We have hate crime laws, but they are notoriously hard to prove. I imagine violent intent on the internet will be similarly hard to prove and only be applied to the extremely obvious cases.

Its also a bit weird. Nobody made a huge deal about PornHub (from what I can tell) being forced to take down tons of content due to Visa, because guess what. Its hard to disagree that the source of a lot of content on PornHub is troubling and very likely illegal. This isn't that much different from what Amazon and other companies are doing to Parler. The intent of a lot of posters (even if its a minority) seems to be to incite violence. Parler actively didn't try to monitor the content and boom, it got taken down. I imagine if PornHub didn't make a good faith attempt to remove a lot of content, we'd have seen Amazon (or whoever hosts PornHub).
This is probably where the bad cliche "rules are meant to be broken" came from. Perhaps St Benedict had missed the note of "Rules Making 101", never make up any rules that cannot and impossible to be followed.

As I mentioned in my other comments where God in the Quran has exposed and cautioned the monks (in Chapter "Hadid" or "Iron") who were not observing their own made up rules during their monastic period seeking God's good pleasure, for the exercise of monasticsm that were not originally prescribed or enjoined in their own God's scriptures, oh the irony! Pardon the pun :-)
> that would constitute ~200 TB exfiltrated per customer or ~19 years of 1080p video.

Nitpick. That's a very strange metric you're trying to use. What codec/bitrate are you using to determine that amount of spaced used?

19 years = 599184000 seconds

200TB = 200 * 1000GB * 1000MB * 8bits = 1600000000 bits

roughly 375kbps for the bit rate

That's some crap video quality even for h.265. I for one would not keep a hard drive full of video that poorly encoded.

I'd have been more impressed with how many times the Library of Congress could be stored in that 200TB
I agree, it's the user experience I notice the least. It doesn't get in my way at all, and I don't recall it changing or if it has the changes have been so mild and consistent I haven't noticed.
My team have been developing Remotely (https://meetings.remotelyhq.com/) with this very thing in mind - customizable avatars, voice-driven animation and expressions, animated emoticons, cinematic rooms, interactibles.
It's still very early stages, but the main observation is that the scope of problems people are having with communication is too large.
Some people want to feel less anxious in meetings, some want accountability, some productivity, some want "fun" and customize stuff, others want video, screensharing etc. It's hard to pinpoint "the problem" that's tangible and solvable outside of the base must-have features. "feeling more like part of the team while working remotely" is not an easy problem to tackle.
"So how do we guard against this type of attack?"

Don't allow access to your 'secret' source code from the open Internet.
>What amazes me is how cheaply he built this. Less than $200k with an expected break-even of 42 months.

Small town governments take note.
if a cartel of companies having intertwined business interests collaborates to destroy an uprising competitor that is inherently monopolistic behavior
Great piece and very good points, what did you ship in those months ?
I’m assuming this is Vietnam as I have friends going through the same issue. Citizens of Vietnam and they are on a 6-9 month waiting list for a repatriation flight with the gov’t basically saying “if you can stay where you are you can’t come here”.

They can’t even even pay for a commercial flights and quarantine like other countries.

And because Lunar New Year celebrations are coming up, repatriations flights have been cancelled until after as they are concerned with all the travel within the country.
I absolutely agree that asm should be taught for computer fundamentals but I really LOL'd at assembly teaching how CPU works without abstraction. There is tons of abstraction below assembly -- see Microcode. It's this mistake in thinking that lets things like spectre/meltdown sit in computers for decades. But for the most part you're right, going down past assembly has not helped me understand __software__.
AWS agreed to host Parler on a 1 year contract.

They have just breached that contract and bowed to the mob. For those reasons they're now being sued.
That also doesn't remove your access to the Internet.

They also weren't banned. Their hosting provider refused to continue hosting them. There are thousands of competing companies out there they can take their business to.
Wow, that’s nearly 450 years ago (almost half millennium) and 300 years before M C Escher and these pictures look very modern and artistic.
Sam Hyde releases the trailer for his next big project: The Great War (2021)
Human rights are not the same thing as corporate rights.
How many colds are you expected to catch on a year where the country is under lockdown, and many people are staying at home, or wearing masks?

There aren't great stats for the common cold, but the flu seems to be affecting only a quarter of the people hit by it in a usual year.
Nah just Trump. He also managed to ruin the lives of many people who believed his crap while he ran away to hide. Typical fascist.
I watch all YouTube videos at 2-3x speed. Helps me a lot. I also watch a lot of TV shows at 1.5-2x speed.
Can't speak for the grandparent, but here he'd be warned several times, then banned.