skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/sunspot-malware-technical-a... is the key link with more technical analysis for those interested, including source code of the implant.

"If the decryption of the parameters (target file path and replacement source code) is successful and if the MD5 checks pass, SUNSPOT proceeds with the replacement of the source file content. The original source file is copied with a .bk extension (e.g., InventoryManager.bk), to back up the original content. The backdoored source is written to the same filename, but with a .tmp extension (e.g., InventoryManager.tmp), before being moved using MoveFileEx to the original filename (InventoryManager.cs). After these steps, the source file backdoored with SUNBURST will then be compiled as part of the standard process."
I am from Madrid, and I can tell this is in fact highly unusual. From time to time it might snow in Madrid a couple of days, but nothing like this. In the mountains of course it happen almost every year, but not in the plains...

All the cities in central Spain are collapsed by the ice and snow (including the capital), there are no public transportation, emergencies services can barely make it into affected zones, a lot of people don't have water supply because of frozen pipes (including myself), trucks with food and supplies are still stuck and cannot enter in the city...

This chaos is of course because we are not prepared for this extreme cold weather, and we are not prepared because this is VERY unusual.

Let's say this is the same unusual as in the covid-19 pandemic,nobody would have imagined it a year ago.
Negative test, not positive test (by the most common usage of the phrase).
That is an impossibly broad category. Anything could be construed as political in one way or another. This would result in no one being allowed to remove anyone at all from their property or platform.
Your scenario is not at odds with the parent's one. He's saying "Figure out how much I want to save for long term goals, and set that aside first" It doesn't preclude saving for long term expenses.
It directly contradicts your use of the statement as justification for the platforms' behavior.
NZ currently requires a negative test if you are coming from the UK or US as well as 14 day quarantine for arrivals from anywhere (with more tests). You can also only return if you are a NZ citizen or permanent resident or you get some kind of special dispensation (notable recipients of these include film crews and America's Cup sailors).
There really needs to be some sort of mix between chat and a collaborative note-taking app.

How can we transform chats into a reasonable, permanent reference materials?

Maybe it would be possible to build a slack-bot that could identify which part of these threads are the most important, and even move them to a more permanent storage.

Or, slack channels could add functionality to allow users to vote for which messages are most pertinent, or should be moved to longer-term storage or a featured position for everyone.

I think there is probably value in these rapid fire IM's, but I feel the Mike's (the author's) pain. I skip over threads everyday because reading them never feels worth it.
My cloudflared website is leaking IP on “zoomeye”
I have a website that have cloudflare.

I looked for ways to bypass Cloudflare. I realized I was able to achieve this with Zoomeye.

How can I prevent my site's real IP from showing up on Zoomeye?
Right. What I'm saying is that people making comments about this being the same thing Twitter did with the @realDonaldTrump account and others are maybe missing the differences between the two situations.
The first person would, most of the time, not bother making the drive, which would have the same mitigating effect on COVID transmission.

The real reason for why domestic flights don't require negative tests is because it's politically inconvenient for the government to ask for them, and because it would gut airline revenue. "Controlling the spread" plays second fiddle to matters of political expediency and money.

That, and it's much easier to impose restrictions on foreigners, even if, as of January 2021, those restrictions don't accomplish much.
>Starting with C means sitting down, thinking hard and taking the time to understand how the basic model of a computer works, along with all the issues and annoiances that come with it.

Then perhaps ASM would be an even better starting point?
I’m speaking only about myself. If someone is a member of a union, they are due all legal protection due to that membership.

I also avoid any possibility of managing others because I’m very aware of my tendencies to “cold-shoulder” anyone with whom I have a severe disagreement. And in general, I’m not qualified for management, nor do I seek it.
Suddenly it is very easy for the powers that be to see the threat these platforms pose. Deplatform little people? Fine with us. Deplatform a head of state? Can't have that!

Facebook, Twitter, et al are going to regret the pandora's box of unintended consequences they just opened up with this move.
I have an interesting anecdote related to this.

As it happens, I currently have COVID. When I first noticed I was getting sick, I was scheduled to fly in the near future, so I got a rapid COVID test that delivers results in 15 minutes.

It was negative. I got another one, and it was negative too. I had thus intended to go ahead with the trip under the assumption I had a minor cold.

Later, a few days before I was to fly, I lost all smell and taste. Now I didn’t know what to think. I wasn’t particularly congested, and the loss of smell was total. I’d never experienced this before. Could both tests have been false negatives?

I delayed the flight (free of charge luckily, so no big deal) and got a test that had to be sent to a lab for analysis. A week later, the positive test result came back.

Take from this what you will. I'm not a scientist or a doctor and frankly there's nothing remotely intelligent I can say about the various tests out there for COVID. But if the rapid tests are as unreliable in general as they were for me, it’s sort of no wonder COVID is spreading like wildfire. I was very, very close to boarding a plane with an active case of COVID, and I would have if I hadn’t acted out of an abundance of caution.
That's just not true, Slack in particular is quite searchable. Anyway, weren't we talking about email, which is even less searchable?
"Theorems for free"! By which I mean, when I'm coding something and it could be universally quantified on the type, then it's better to do so. That way, it's impossible to phrase certain errors. For example, a function `Set<a> -> Set<a>` must produce a subset of the input set; that's guaranteed by the types. I can't accidentally include the value 0 in my set, because 0 isn't of that generic type. The generic forces you to think in terms of the structure you're manipulating, rather than in terms of its contents.
I don't think a lot of tourists are interested in coming right now anyway, given that our virus load is most likely worse than their home.

That being said, this obviously needs to be paired with a relief bill that helps those businesses survive.
It sounds like they worked out the URL format, which included a sequentially increasing id for each post, and then started pulling URLs starting at 0.
lots of IT teams have a fleet of the same machines with a spares to swap the ssd into when a machine is damaged.
But because of the amateur dev squad at parler she got deleted and private messages/videos/voice messages as well.
There are standard docker images available [0]. Not sure why you would you virtual images when there is an easy install script and a docker.

While I agree it’s a complex beast (it’s an ERP system), there is a large community [1] and active forum.

Also if you are happy paying $300/month for a proprietary product, why would you expect the same for $0 from an open source product?

[0] https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker

[1] https://discuss.erpnext.com
> how they just used their unconstrained power to utterly destroy a rising competitor.

From the start, this stood out to me as a very faulty premise. How exactly was Parler, a social media site, a competitor to Amazon, Google, or Apple? It would be different if this were Facebook, but we're talking about ecosystems/infrastructure vs a single app/website.

Also how can the power of three separate companies be a monopoly? The argument seems to be that Silicon Valley is itself a monopoly, except Silicon Valley is only a geographic location.
Exit Interviews: Aaron Williams
Those aren't examples of violence. Did you read the whole quotes?

It's a reference to the children's game whack-a-mole about banning Nazis from a platform:

> If we have to play an constant game of Whack-a-Nazi, I vote we whack as many Nazis as we can.

It's like you aren't even trying to hide your distortions.
But this is once again removing context from the initial argument. The goal isn't to minimize Black deaths or even overall deaths. This has never been the goal at any step of the way otherwise we would have been in massive and prolonged lockdowns from day 1. The goal is to weigh the need to save lives with the need to let society continue functioning. That is where the essential worker argument comes into play. "Mitigating inequities" is listed as one of three bullet points in one of three categories in the decision making process that favors essential workers. You can't remove that context and pretend it is the overriding factor guiding these decisions.
Well, yeah, it's a dictatorship run by warlords.

It turns out that once you shut down the leader of the world's largest empire, every tinpot thug who fears losing their ability to control their citizens will shut down access to your platform. Whoda thunk? It has nothing to do with right and wrong and everything to do with realpolitik.
Talk to your lawyer on this too. Our lawyer said emails with the lawyer in the conversation will have client attorney privilege, is not court admissible. I dont know about IM.
I can't remember which TV-series I saw it in, some kind of murder or "who dun' it?" show. But I remember that they had a pretty genuine and true role for a mathematician in that episode.

The mathematician was tasked with calculating the areas of manhattan that would be hit during stormy weather and give a rough estimation of the required drainage for the water to seep away.

That's the rough details, can't remember exactly. However, it always struck me as a job where the "mathematician as a job" fit really well.
"Be elsewhere" is a great way of handling collapse.

But it's hard to apply. You can wind up running from every social hiccup. (Did you flee the US for the BLM protests? But maybe there were days when it was wiser to not go downtown.) You have to correctly judge the level of the problem, and not run away from too many of the small ones, and not miss any of the big ones. It's a tough balance. If you can pull it off, though, it works far better than a bunker.
Wow that's really strange because here in Greece we have probably the hottest January of the last years with temperatures around 20c!
Cue black market negative tests for sale.
The Chinese were low key buying up as much medical supplies in Europe as they could get their hands on and flying them to China. This didn't raise any alarms.

The West displayed an enormous level of incompetence same as the Chinese authorities but you can at least understand why the CCP cadre in Wuhan was so negligent. There is something in the human brain that makes people incapable of recognizing danger until they experience it.
Where's the global warming(lie)?
It doesn't. I added it because it amplifies your point.
As a disclaimer I have to say I haven't used this (yet), but it does sound a lot like what you need.

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/run_as_date.html
> When you need to spend some significant unplanned sum you take it out of savings, if you have any. If not, you eat less or go into debt.

Doing detailed accounting helps prevent you from that "go into debt" scenario.

Typical long term things people forget to save for:

- Their next car

- Car Repairs

- House repairs

- New roof for house

Etc.

With detailed accounting, you can set money aside for these things, and then when you suddenly decide to go on a vacation, you know how much money you need to leave aside in your savings to cover the above.
Regarding #6, 99% of my assets are in US banks, real estate, and brokerage firms. Many of these banks and firms operate internationally. Do I still need to transfer to truly international banks ?
This is pretty cool!
However, these two samples are very simple to solve. I'd love an "AI" to find root causes for problems that are not obvious.
Just throw the whole log collection at it and let it solve all the issues. One can dream ;)
YPO Global Survey Offers Glimpse at the CEO of the Future
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>All viewpoints and thoughts are equal before the law; only actions can be prosecuted.

Speech is a kind of action, isn't it?
I think the idea is that these fundamentals could/should be supplied by the standard library

Ironically, despite all their differences, Rust actually has a similar situation: it's really hard to write the fundamental data-structures in Rust, so they've put a focus on having really good standard-library implementations and people are generally content using those (in Rust's case it's because the borrow-checker makes pointer twiddling hard, but the outcome is similar)
I haven't used the word "justification" so i'm not clear what you're talking about. My statement was

> So France and Germany could be seen as asking the US government to take a stronger stance on hate speech.

Which was, and continues to be, supported by Merkel's statement.
Not an expert, but wouldn't the experts have thought of that too, and wouldn't it likely show up in animal studies?
I believe so - basically following the vanilla SQLAlchemy integration guide they have [0], and not trying to await query results as they do in the the async guide [1]

[0] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/sql-databases/
[1] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/async-sql-databases/
This, combined with comments from other threads, makes me think that SolarWinds wasn't the real target.
They were just means to some specific high-value ends. When low-value companies were using it, the remote control would even remove the backdoor to avoid some accidental discovery.

How, and how much, were the real targets affected?
"Prison industrial complex" is verbal sleight of hand to blame a system rather than people, but in reality these market forces are merely the revealed preference of what people want. If people wanted these inmates free - and by wanted I mean wanted in the revealed preference sense, not the virtue signal on the internet sense - capitalism would have them free tomorrow.
Beaker Browser – experimental peer to peer web browser
Wasn’t this kinda expected? It’s an El Niño year I believe? Australian summer is also colder than usual I think.

EDIT: Seems like it’s a “La niña” Winter...
The Alchemy of Achievement
I’m reminded of “languages designed for the masses”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=899246
> Is there any significance that he chose "Internet 3.0" rather than "Web 3.0".

I think so, the closing point of the article is that we are due for a return to decentralization, even if that is spurred on in the short-term by "competing centralized solutions." The primitives required to run distributed/federated services that can compete with the big web giants probably aren't there just yet, but they are starting to emerge.

With cloud hosting providers, K8s is a big step forward, because you can deploy an open-source system end-to-end an arbitrary cloud k8s platform. Part of the pain of switching to more open alternatives in the past has been managing operational deployments which this begins to address. Blockchain technologies, for all their misuse and hype have brought us some interesting innovations such as the InterPlanetary File System (which probably isn't going anywhere but is a start). None of this is better than the current crop of closed system, compare Diaspora to Facebook for example, but we have the start. But you can only have the "Web" applications he envisions if you have the "distributed internet substrate."
> Seeing the current state of affairs saddens me.

Me too. I didn't say twitter should take down that post. They shouldn't take down anything that isn't outright illegal. They are abusing their power and I hope it bites them in the ass hard.
(0) A large contingent of your user base is using your service to conspire to overthrow the government.
With Rust, sometimes I'm just breezing along wondering why people say Rust is hard. Then I try to deserialize some JSON into a type that borrows a reference...

Also, Rust struck me as quite a lot more challenging before non-lexical lifetimes and rust-analyzer, so it's possible that you're responding to outdated criticism.
Nice I haven't seem bugzilla for a while now, it looks good maybe we can use to replace Jira. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/home
Author here. This is wrong information. Not sure where you are getting this from.

Also as I mentioned above, docker installs are actively supported.

https://github.com/frappe/frappe_docker
Parler is probably basing their statement on looking up arrestee names in their database.
Then maybe it's worth taking the whole thread into consideration.

The zero arrests comment probably is incorrect, but, does that take away from the larger point, especially with regards to the context of the nyt article?

Tl;dr: he made a lot of tweets on this subject. Cherry picking one part of one tweet doesn't say much about his overall point.
Should elected officials be allowed to use social networks to communicate with the people? I don't consider myself a traditionalist, but this is one area where I prefer to see elected officials use government and journalistic channels for broadcasting information.
Thanks. I was about to comment about how things didn't seem to line up based off of the top-level tweet. I'm glad that yall scrolled down further than I did.
Regardless of the topic is this not how interest in any such time duration based event works on the human level? Given everything in the world is now perceived as "real-time" most can only consume so much before having no more interest for any such topic. Foregoing listing other time duration based current events here, of which globally there are many, could it also be stated that people are showing 'fatigue' for several other major issues as well? A separate topic which comes to my mind and is applicable to what I stated above is that of cybersecurity.
Whatever you may think of them, they are in the objective sense proletariat. They do not own the mean of production, but instead must sell their labour.

They are also labour aristocracy, the segment of global proles that are relatively comfortable and well compensated. It’s good if they wish to show solidarity to the rest of us.
I wish I knew the reasons...
Cal Newport has a new book coming out every few weeks. Usually its 90% of the last one with a different target audience. :)
Great tools and philosophy on software. I think their political views and whatever online drama they're involved in is hardly relevant to my enjoyment of their software.

st is my favorite terminal and surf my favorite web browser. It does take some effort to add the features you need and to keep them updated, but once everything is in place they're a joy to use.

The development on surf has stagnated in recent years, a few sites are unusable for me and the performance is terrible compared to mainstream browsers, but the simplicity and customization more than make up for it.

surf would make a great base to build a simple browser for the masses, if a competent C developer would polish some of these issues and added a more user friendly UI, while still staying true to the suckless philosophy. But so far unfortunately I haven't seen a particular fork pick up steam.
I mean the biggest change for most people with rust is really the borrow checker or aka the lack of a (automatic) garbage collector. I think it takes much longer to get used to it if one hasn't worked with say C or C++ before.
The 30 minute tests are antigen tests. The 72 hour tests are PCR tests. Antigen tests can basically only detect the virus if you're currently contagious. PCR tests can detect the virus before and after you're contagious. Airlines typically require the 72 hour PCR tests.
Title should be changed, because it's not about clubhouse.io.
Any summary pointers you'd care to share?
What incentive would anyone have to do this? Show of force? Frustration about a specific package?
This doesn't look good for Twitter, but comparing blocking an entire country from social media a few days before an election and blocking a few leaders who have clear ties to inciting violent riots via conspiracy theories seems like a false equivalence. Instead of justifying censorship as "good" or "bad" in some essential fashion, I think it's important to be clear about the context.

EDIT: In fact, Twitter has done more than just ban a few leaders, removing many accounts associated with QAnon, for example [1]. The point still stands that context matters and the two situations don't appear to be exactly equivalent. (It can still be argued that Twitter's ban was not good for society, but the argument should be more nuanced than "because censorship is always bad".)

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/11/trump-t...
> A key reason for her success: Parler’s site was a mess. Its public API used no authentication. When users deleted their posts, the site failed to remove the content and instead only added a delete flag to it. Oh, and each post carried a numerical ID that was incremented from the ID of the most recently published one.

From the Arstechnica article:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/parle...

As discussed on this HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25747395
this link clarified some things for me,thanks
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But isn't that how the typical chat works? Where's the difference? At least that's similar to how the channels in my company are organized. The only difference might be that there's faster feedback in a chat and this leads to shorter posts/messages. But I haven't really used any forum software in the past decade, so I don't know if they don't have similar notifications and unread status icons on threads today.
"We really need to whack Joe Biden before he becomes president!"

That's okay, right? Because it's just a children's game, right? Or is it interpreted differently depending on who the target is? Nazis, whacking them is just a game. Leftists, whacking them is srs bsns?
The sad thing is that this is exactly how the right sees the actions of the left. and it's even worse, as they (the left) are now winning. Their eyes are not blinking - they don't care about freedom of speech or fair game.

In the long run, both sides start to see this modus operandi as completely normal. Censorship and vengeance to the other side are completely acceptable.

As a libertarian, I am utterly horrified.
Wow, exactly.

The phrase of the day is "Cognitive Dissonance".
It has nothing to do with Trump at all. They shut all these sites down in 2016 too - https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/463407/