skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Suckless tools are meant for hardcore *nix hackers who already know how to look up this information, so no, the naming doesn't really matter. Anyone who knows how to use the ps command will also know the man command, so if someone wants to know what that dwm process is, they can just do "man dwm".
I thought they DID bypass vpn connections.

Also, apple will routinely clear your pf rules when installing stuff.
Elsewhere in the thread, it's noted that they maintain a mail server that's named after some nazi stronghold or something.
> So how do we guard against this type of attack?

You can't ever prevent it, but you can raise the attack cost/complexity and make detection much more likely.

Go for immutable infra and transient CI/CD systems. Provision the build nodes on demand, from trusted images, and wipe them out completely after just a few hours. The attacker will have to re-infect the nodes as they come online, and risk leaving more network traces. Anything they deploy on the systems goes away when the node goes away.

The attack against SolarWinds worked so well because the CI system was persistent and it was upgraded over time. For a reliable and secure environment, the correct amount of host configuration is zero: if you need to modify anything at all after a system has been launched, that's a bad smell. Don't upgrade. Provision a completely new system with the more recent versions.

This kind of architecture requires the attacker to compromise the CI image build and/or storage instead. (Or the upstream, directly.) It's an extra step for adversary, and a simpler point of control to the defender.

Recon. Compromise. Persist. Exfiltrate. -- As a defender you want to make every step as expensive and brittle as possible. You can't prevent a compromise, but you can make it less useful, and you can arrange things so that it must happen often and leave enough traces to increase the probability of getting caught.
Are you saying the personal comments of a MSNBC reporter are equivalent to the personal comments of a sitting US president or Senator?
In the UK, Covid rules have changed 64 times in 10 months
Haha, maybe if you want to go camping or something? Not too many tourist attractions are open these days...
> Doesn't this blow a hole in your whole argument? If there is little bias in this climate change coverage and conservatives still object to it, what makes you think they will accept any form of objective truth?

I don't think so. I think the bias in other fields poisons the well of good faith. Specifically the conservative interface to these fields is probably angry people on the Internet who are as likely to bash them for their climate politics as for their opinions on BLM protests. If they were better plugged-in to the sciences, I think they would see that climate science is less problematic than critical studies.

> You aren't going to get an argument from me that the mainstream media is perfect on this. However I think it is clear that centrist and left leaning media is much much better about this than right leaning media.

I agree. I think even when things were good in these institutions, their relationship with the right was already strained.

> Fair enough, but the loss of trust needs to be linked primarily to a perceived lack of truthfulness and I can't think of any examples of that either that aren't linked with an overt lack of truthfulness.

I'm having a hard time thinking of examples too. I think that the 'perceived vs overt' consideration is just a reflection on how bad things have gotten--if you abuse the trust of someone for a long time, eventually their perception of affairs will become exaggerated. That's basically the whole thesis. Note that it's possible that we can't regain the trust of some people who have such a distorted view, but even still it's worth being honest if only to keep more people from crossing the threshold (and insodoing, those who have already crossed will become more marginalized and constitute a decreasing percentage of the population).
Let's let this rest as 'controversial'. 2020: https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(20)30011-5/fulltex...

Even people here in Australia passionately declare that they have Lyme disease (without overseas travel). Our ticks don't even carry Lyme disease...
A colleague of mine made the same comment. I'd love to use one too, but my desk has no horizontal space for it. I can only fit a 24" because the new monitors are so-called "frameless" displays.
Java before 5 wasn't a language, it was a library and number of jvm implementations. It wasn't until Java 5 that there was a memory model spec that defined how stuff was supposed to work.
I think they're referring to this?: https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177

disclaimer: found on Google, unsure of context / if these people are core developers, just sharing for those who like me were also confused
Does FedNow solve all of the problems Plaid solves? I'm thinking specifically about Plaid functionality that lets consumers expose transaction history, investments, etc.

It would appear that FedNow solves for "How do I get money into my Schwab brokerage account?" but not "How can I let Schwab do risk analysis across all my investment accounts?"
_Technically_ you're right. Go considers v0/v1 to be a distinct module from v2. Most people would consider this to be the same module, but Go doesn't. If you want to know more, you can go read the manifesto released by the maintainers about how this is "the best thing ever".

If you never tag v1, you'll never have to deal with it.
I wonder why no-one is following the rules any more?
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> Imagine stringing out a whole article from two Elon musk meme tweets

Agreed - EM is highly overrated most certainly on this platform.
to ensure election is fair. one candidate could be a media mogul, other candidates won't have a chance against him. it's the same reason why tv debates are timed and have to be balanced
This comment strikes a nerve with me - perhaps because it's "saying the quiet part loud". I thought the typical goal of hackers and startups was to "change the world" and "make a difference". How does selling to Visa accomplish those things? Isn't expressing sympathy with Plaid's staff for not getting a payout effectively saying "sorry that you might actually have to deliver on the lofty promises this time"?

It's also kind of indicative of how small startup ambitions have become. Acquisition has become a measure of success, not failure.
> Maybe this belief about most people being stupid is correct, therefore free speech must indeed be limited, 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.

Maybe people don't actually espouse that stated position because it's a strawman.

Intelligent people can be fooled and manipulated without being stupid - they have been for ages. What's different now is the speed and concentration of misinformation.

Platforms of mass misinformation and manipulation are curious beasts, and susceptibility to radicalization != stupidity. Something somewhat novel appears to be happening due the new ways we communicate, and it's not unreasonable to suggest that "something" should be done about it.
I owned the X1 Carbon 3rd gen and currently have a 6th gen. It is a fantastic machine but the 16gb ram isn't enough when running multiple VM's. I am excited about the 32gb ram option. I will certainly be buying when available for sale.
And Twitter should act as an arbiter for such distinction?
You're continuing to demonstrate that if I answer your questions it has no bearing on your ideology.

Now you want to know if Twitter has an active account with AWS. I could answer that. But does it matter? Nah. That's what my last sentence meant.
not saying that every industry should have a social benefit. Just that HFT is uniquely and excessively terrible and pointless and should die.

I think you are assuming that anyone who criticizes HFT must be clueless about how finance works because you can't imagine any other reason they would criticize it. Look around, that's not true.
What amazes me is how cheaply he built this. Less than $200k with an expected break-even of 42 months.

Think about that for a minute... ATT, Comcast, et al can't be bothered to invest in infrastructure that would pay itself back in 3-4 years. Remind me why we need these companies again? They seem to be failing at capitalism.
Never used Plaid but didn't they require your banking credentials and also didn't have a very secure mechanism for storing them?
Interesting, I just thought a windfall meant "a lot of money at once", but it looks like you're right that it implies luck. So agreed, a different word would be more accurate here.
I mean, nobody reasonably joins a startup and expects to make buku bucks. It’s “unexpected good fortune” from my perspective, and certainly seems to qualify as a windfall.
It does not, which is why I mention Europe's PSD2, which would. You don't build a startup to do this, you mandate your financial institutions to provide this functionality to users.

Baby steps!
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/18066-hn-comments-owl

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-comments-owl/kp...

E: This will only highlight comments since X time, it helps somewaht.
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Looking forward to the X1 Extreme Gen 4, which will presumably make the same move.in the 15" size frame , with upgradeable parts
> If an unknown long-dead civilization existed, I would think that their writing system and it’s influence would be one of the easiest ways to recognize them. Writing tends to be our best source of information on ancient civilizations.

This only works if you actually find the things they wrote. If those works are still trapped in ice or ground somewhere, potentially thousands of feet or more underground, we may never find them. That's even assuming they used writing materials that would be preserved.
Dropping casual fash references means you probably are fash. We've moved on from not taking edgelord Nazi references seriously since the late 2000s.

I knew suckless were assholes whose software philosophy was unworkable in the real world, but their casual nazism just makes me want to avoid them more.
I get that you're just trying to get your software out there, but your modern features that email doesn't support are just wrong.

>shared history
Not if you have a mailing list, and then going off the record is as easy as removing the mailing list from the CC field.

>markdown formatting
This is an implementation failure, not really a fundamental problem with email. There is no reason that email clients don't support markdown, except that nobody has ever wanted it. There was someone who made a utility to switch markdown to regular MIME email, but just as a proof of concept. It works.

>Image previews
I assume what you mean by this is an inline thumbnail that expands when you click on it? Again, there's nothing about email that prevents it, it's just the way email clients are. That could be fixed

>emoji reactions
Okay, that's fair, there's no way to do this in email, short of sending a single emoji back. On the other hand, I think everyone would agree that this is more of a nice to have feature, than a necessary one, and one that really only makes sense in the world of quick, back and forth chat programs.

[1] https://begriffs.com/posts/2020-07-16-generating-mime-email....
darned auto-expansion. meant GP
I assumed the D stood for drive.
I don't like this. Please comment on what he states in his tweet, instead of bringing up old ones.
When you're right, you're right. Regardless of your past.
Glenn Greenwald either one of the most-easily-fooled people in history, or one of the most dishonest. The man is never right about anything. He's wrong about whether water is wet. This tweet being the perfect example.

https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1349097133186707457
> they were actively moderating the platform to push it on the far right side

Do you have a source for this? I tried googling it for ~5 minutes, but my google-fu is too weak.
Could be; I'm not sure. Still, at that point, saying "Go look in the House Office Building" (or wherever - I have no actual idea) would have been a better move for someone attempting an actual coup.

But a cynic could easily think that Trump could tell that sufficient force was arriving to stop the mob, and that cutting his losses was therefore his best option at that point, even if he were really trying to do a coup...
Lets not forget that Twitter just last month signed a new deal with Amazon to be hosted on AWS. Don't suppose this has anything to do with Amazon booting Twitter's largest competitor from the platform do you?

As for hateful rhetoric on Parler, that same hateful rhetoric exists on Twitter as well, don't fool yourself, it is only the fact that it is the left threatening the right that anyone allows it. Remember when Kathy Griffin held the bloody head of the President, or the current rise up and kill cops tweets you find everywhere on Twitter. Or the white people should all be dead tweets? Whether you agree to it or not does not therefore make hate speech. There is no clear cut defined line for hate speech to begin with. Anything can be declared hate speech, hell what I am saying now could be considered hate speech because I actually defend Parler and the people on its right to speech. At least then we can show examples of see this guy right here? He is a moron and believes in really dumb stuff. All they are doing by silencing these people is forcing them deeper underground where even more nefarious ideas and figures lie becoming more radicalized and more violent. But I guess that is what establishment wants, a perpetual idea to scare people with so that they give up even more freedom of thought.
Cloneable templates:

Webflow: https://webflow.com/website/simple-login-using-magic-link
Bubble: https://bubble.io/template/simple-login-using-magic-link-160...
I think even democratic country like India would start to consider "national" social media for national security purpose. Of course, Jio might be a strong lobbyist for that.
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It's probably just poor humor, but it doesn't reflect well on them.
Guess this is related:

Plaid blog post 'The Year Ahead' https://plaid.com/blog/the-year-ahead/
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25754256)
Certainly. As a counter-example to the pain of implicit functionality, take the UNIX file API. `open(1), write(1), close(2)...` represent hundreds of thousands of lines of code, spanning network devices, local file storage, integrity checking, and who knows what else, and all of it is hidden. It is precisely the mountainous heap of implicit behavior that gives these APIs value.

That being said, APIs with implicit function that are broken or surprising are painful, but I take this not as an indictment of implicit function, but as an indictment of buggy APIs. I think state and hidden functionality is the essential ingredient of highly useful code.
So you have n companies each applying their own subjective judgement over their own networks, or you have 1 government applying its own subjective judgement over all networks in that country.

It's highly unlikely that the latter is more friendly to fringe or extremist views (setting aside whether or not that's a good thing).
How lucky for you to be able to avoid these topics, since it is apparently not your life being threatened.
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> On the other hand, do we really want a handful of unelected billionaires deciding what is acceptable speech - whether or not we agree with them? We talk about net neutrality, but shouldn't we apply the same standard to hosts like AWS?

And what did start-ups do before AWS et al? Didn't they 'just': rent a rack, fill it with computers, get an ASN/IP block, and make it accessible by DNS?

I understand it's more 'agile' to just spin up instances as needed, but are we in a place that the Old Way can no longer work? (At least theoretically.)

Doesn't Stack Overflow (still?) run on their own hardware?

* https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...
Your analysis is not useful because no such entities as "the left" and "the right" exist. It's not remotely helpful to lump complex and differentiated phenomena into binary categories so you can attach simple motivations and behaviors to them.
You can control the duration of the animation via the `flipDurationMs` option or turn the animation off.
It is also possible to drop to the new position before the animation finished (but after it started).
I think it’s more about protecting the passengers who are in an enclosed space together for 6+ hours than preventing spread within the US. I find it a big reassurance.
Okay, fair. For myself, I'm coming from extensive experience in both Python and C++, and although I'm admittedly still in the honeymoon phase, my assessment so far is that Rust is an excellent union of the two.

Basically I get the high level abstractions and package management that I expect from Python, while inheriting a set of tools that help finally realize some of the high performance, zero-copy idealism of C++ (slices, lifetimes).
Personally, I dislike all the 're-learning' process. However, by 'Python', I had to re-learn quite a few concepts when I touched C ground. Of course, it was a 'A-Ha' moment to put in positive way.
Signal is closed source, considering their server code hasn't been updated in 9 months yet changes have been made on production since then. [1] This is a really dishonest argument.

[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
Wouldn't a little ice age be great right about now? Then we can burn all the oil we want and be helping stay within our temperature bounds, not blowing through them.
Also the video[0] linked in the post seems to be ~Dec 2020 which is new to me.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TborQFPY2IM
The imbalance is clear though. If Museveni can leverage social and state media but Wine can't, then it makes organization, outreach, and exposure much more difficult.
That's definitely the path they're headed towards. @FunctionalInterface from Java 8 and type-inference from Java 11 and instanceof destructuring from Java 14 are the big changes.
"Proper" modern Java is functional, at least at the surface level.

The big issue is that the ecosystem is kind of stuck; it's freaking 2021 and we're still targeting Java 8.
Also the type system could be better, null references are everywhere even though there is Optional<T> (I wish it had optional strict null checks a la Typescript, but I'm not sure how realistic that is), and the fact that you can't have List<int> because generics won't work on primitives is just boneheaded.

But yeah, the language isn't the "Dog extends Animal" bullshit they teach you in school, at least not anymore.
Can attest that some employees and ex-employees took a decent tax hit by exercising NSOs after the acquisition was announced at the $5.3 valuation price.
If this was primarily about "[objecting] to the US not having laws that require this behavior", their emphasis would not have been on the platforms being out of line.
B117 variant wasn't circulating then, and we've known for a while that while it's not "no risk" outdoor activity is "lower risk". (EDIT: I'm not suggesting that meeting people outside is a good idea, I think lockdowns are needed, especially with B117 around).

Here's a respected not-idiot virologist talking about it.

https://twitter.com/mugecevik/status/1348771251758784517?s=2...
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Well, maybe it isn't a "windfall" to someone who lives in the tech world and comes to expect such good fortune and thinks their effort should be rewarded in an outsized way. I'm sure we think it's deserved in a relative sense.

But it is most definitely a windfall to the rest of the world (even the rest of the country), who work equally hard, under worse conditions, for their entire lives and cannot even hope to earn say 1/5 the wealth that a tech worker can accumulate after his/her first job.

To have a payday of millions of $ fall out of the sky, for toiling the same as others trying to make a living, yet also being lucky to be in the right place and the right time to have it rewarded.
Any viable social media competitor needs critical mass. A conservative exodus to Parler would be one way to make that happen. Big tech just squashed a competitor while the "iron was hot" for Parler and even if it comes back online it might never get the network effect it could have gotten.
Polar (https://getpolarized.io/) has a GPT-3 based flash card generator from text highlights. It's available to premium subscribers.
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Thank you for the thoughtful response. I mostly agree - we can criticize corporations for their current actions from a moral perspective but not a legal one.

To your second point - isn't the U.S. one of the only developed countries where you kind of can do this? I regularly see armed guards in front of private businesses, from Walmarts in the middle of nowhere to dispensaries in downtown SF.

(FWIW I think calling SV tech 'commies' is off the mark - Marx would find little in common with the SV tech industry, I think.)
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Basically this. IRCv3 never really took off and it's not really feature-comparable to the modern chat clients. I still connect to IRC for one project I'm on, but I think IRC will likely be just the last few holdouts from here on out as it's way too late to pull people back in.
PCR is sensitive, but at the cycle thresholds most labs use, it is not specific.
You have to segment and have monitoring tools monitored by people with a clue.

But that is very expensive to do. The average SaaS or software company does nothing.