skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The owner reportedly is not far off his most notorious customers politically, and given that they’re popular for hosting sites others won’t it’s not surprising that this became their public image. It’s like how a bar doesn’t need to have 100% of its customers be bikers to be known as a biker bar.
Look closer...

"Private.sh is a joint venture between Private Internet Access and GigaBlast."

PIA is generally regarded as not to be trusted since the sell off / sell out.
Fix: Japan HSR makes $$$ especially on early lines you mentioned, local lines are (still) problem.
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Taking useful rocket scientists, engineers, programmers, etc, plus all of their blue collar support staff from away from productive industry sounds like the worst possible "jobs" program in the world.

Calling it a success simply because the money was spent without considering opportunity costs [1] is just bad money management. It's how you end up with these blackhole gov programs in the first place.

Extremely wasteful space programs at least typically get justified as also a) 'inspiring' kids into STEM + b) providing national pride. But when all you get in return is decades of doing nothing interesting I doubt many kids will be inspired. And after so many years and getting blown by competitively by private industry turns it into a national embarrassment (even things exploding is more interesting than what they've produced the last few decades with this program).

When you factor in the opportunity cost, aka the alternative ares NOT getting "jobs programs", or rather the capital investment, like infrastructure or healthcare or a hundred other possibilities. Things which can employ plenty of blue collar rust-belt workers into jobs that directly support the needs of modern industry who funds these tax paid adventures (ie, transit/railways, electric grid, broadband, etc). Stuff that supports and underpins the new 'knowledge based economy' instead of drawing resources away from it.

Not to mention providing a stopgap to a 'lost generation' of former typically-unionized industrial workers who couldn't compete globally after the 1980s when they could have been provided some critical time while their kids adapt and get education/skills needed for the new self-sustaining, productive, and heavily automated/software driven industries that the developed world has transitioned too.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/opportunitycost.asp
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Our crib was on its 6th kid (I only have two) when I got rid of it. I assume it is well into the 10th by now.
My wife has probably given away 50+ items of ours on buy nothing. Usually she appreciates being able to choose because some people develop a reputation for being unreliable to pick them up, so she can exclude them.
>Is the problem is the surveillance or the lack of consent?

You've got to look at the context. That type of surveillance happens where there's a massive power imbalance between employer and employee. Is the consent of someone who's at the bottom of the wage ladder and doesn't have an actual choice valid consent ? In Civil Law it certainly isn't.
There were some people that did but it wasn’t everyone there.

Secondly, the election was conducted using systems that were able to be cheated and lacked verification.

Nobody “won” the election. The 13 families simply chose Biden.

And to be clear - salute the big dog, President Joe Biden. Still doesn’t change the fact on what happened.
That’s definitely a thing here. I just extend that philosophy a bit. If we go out after work and I buy two rounds but you buy one we are still even. I’m not going to keep track and insist you buy first next time. Also “buy a beer” is kind of shorthand for “do a favor”. If I help you set the idle on your motorcycle I never expect compensation.
>Note: Valorant installs a kernel driver as part of the "anti-cheat" system; described by many as a rootkit: https://www.osnews.com/story/131665/riot-games-maker-of-leag...

yeah. that's going to be more-and-more commonplace, too.

I don't know why it's suddenly fashionable/allowable to touch ring 0 as installed software, but here we are.

the irony of the whole thing is that while game-devs rootkit clients in order to pull in more marketing data/telemetry/whatever else the ToS allows them to steal, the real game cheaters out there are using extremely cheap CotS parts to create artificial man-in-the-middle clients that they can manipulate instead, with the host PC totally oblivious that the computer that's plugged into it as a HID is the one cheating.

I've said this thousands of times, I'll use this opportunity to say it again : the only method available to routinely and reliably find game-cheaters is through constant statistical analysis of the players performance/inventory/score versus the environment they're in.

The days of tuning such a system will be filled with false-positives, but it's the only way to accomplish anything near comprehensive anti-cheat.

Need to get a few bucks for the project? Call that statistical analysis machine learning and say that you're going to provide it as a service. Sit back and watch the money flow in.
Is needing servers with 96 vCPU's and 768 GB of RAM each...normal?

I'm a programmer, but I do mobile dev, and that amount of resources for a single machine sounds comically high to me. I thought modern websites usually had more 'normally' specced servers and just distributed the load across a ton of them?
I find that hard to believe. I dont think employers can search your bag unless they have reasonable suspicion in most countries. For example in canada https://bccla.org/privacy-handbook/main-menu/privacy5content...
> That’s why I have personal property that the company isn’t able to access so I can conduct personal activities with some level of privacy.

The problem right now is: due to Work from home, you basically have blurred the lines between the digital company and private assets. Either you have a company device; or even a personal device running this software in your private networks doing and telemetering you don’t know what.

This especially bad for the folks who aren’t able to properly put those devices in a separate subnet and protect themselves.
I didn’t know I was right. Thanks for letting me know!
It will probably nag you all the time like it does now for each YouTube video you open without signing in.
I find this to be a very narrow minded perspective.

Without the philosophy to back it up how can you justify your belief in the mathematics?
Seems like a lot. I remember Stackoverflow posting their hardware setup in 2016 IIRC and it was just a handful of servers compared to this.
> which involves renaming cmd.exe to the name of the binary that gets run (can't remember the exact name at the moment) when you chose the "Ease of Access" option.

utilman.exe I abused this back in the early days of disclosure
> And that is your belief.

Yes. It is what I believe based on the available evidence. Do you have evidence to the contrary? And no, eye witness testimony does not count.

This is science 101. You have made an extraordinary claim. You must back it up with extraordinary evidence.

>Here's a whole documentary about interactions between Brazilian military and something weird

I completely believe that people saw UFOs, in that they saw Unidentified Flying Objects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Prato
The investigation was closed after finding no unusual phenomena.

I suggest you raise your bar for evidence higher than "random youtube video"
Are you talking about the captains daughter line? That was a nickname for a cat o nine tails, aka a flogger.
Most customers do not plan to repeatedly break their contract and makes no effort to fix it. Parler’s refusal to follow a legal agreement is only a concern to a small handful of other sites.
While we're sharing, here's an epic Mariner's Revenge Song by The Decemberists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPAr7kL-mmg
Penny-wise, pound foolish.
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Parler wasn’t “linked” to that any more than any other social media company. There’s a lot of misinformation on what Parler was.
The product would be OK if it wasn't for the business people.

Here's one example: the Plex media server. It used to be that Plex let you connect to your local media server to view your own local media.

Today Plex spams you with as many ads for 'free' media that it can, and even if you remove the crap from the user interface it comes back with the next update.

This doesn't seem like an engineering kind of idea, but rather a business idea that they get a penny for each time they spam you.
Quite: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/03/29/stack-overflow-the-ha...
For me, getting a dog made me more active. Going to gym may or may not happen, but it’s hard to escape my dogs piercing looks when it’s walk time. Rain or shine, feeling down or happy, that duty needs to be done
I thought Gab was hosted on its own infrastructure, but used epik as its registrar.

I think Torba was gloating about it as one point.
I'm quite certain I've seen at some point on HN a paper to the effect of workplace surveillance and paranoia being actively detrimental to productivity. Plus there was that story about surveillance-as-a-feature being put into Office 360 a short while back.
Einstein would apparently disagree with you.
Just deselect that directory in the app on your laptop.
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> ACEP achieves a full color gamut, including all eight primary colors

Last I checked there are three primary colors, and what is a full color gamut? There are several standard choices of gamut.

What confuses me about color e-ink products is that it is a reflective display, yet none of them use a reflective color model (CMY) - all of them talk about RGB pigmented subpixels. Either what I learned about color reproduction for print media is wrong, or these devices are probably incapable of showing a large number of colors. Given the washed-out appearance of several photos of real products, I'm leaning toward the latter conclusion. I'd love to see magazine-quality color in a reflective display some day, but they don't seem to be starting from the right fundamentals. Has anyone benchmarked the color reproduction of these products?
By definition you are employed because the entity that employs you can extract a value from your work that is superior to that of your salary. Therefore the relationship can only be one of loyalty if there is some societal impulse behind it, such as the post-war Japanese system. Even then, I'd still argue that it is largely illusory.
> If someone wanted to leave the GDR, were they able to?

Why do you think that has anything to do with whether it is a dictatorship?

Not having free elections makes it a dictatorship (or at least not a democracy). Not allowing people to leave makes it a shitty place to live, but that is separate from if its a dictatorship.
They don't need to drop. They're not providing Elasticsearch and Kibana as a paid service to others. You can just read the FAQ: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing
Using Elasticsearch and Kibana is still free, unless you're selling them as a service like AWS Elasticsearch does.
That just means we disagree on what humanity needs. Good thing I don't have to justify how I spend my time and energy to you.
Just pointing out that snowden's passport was cancelled on 20130622 and that he flew out of hk on 20130623. It's not an unreasonable speculation that he planned to wind up in Russia, putting on a convincing show in the process.
So I think what you could do is join an online accelerator like pioneer.app . Your project is very unique, would be great to offer something similar for Julia notebooks, which currently do not have an official support for that, but has a large community.
Obviously we need a heat pump crypto miner
I may NOT agree that it came from TikTok (as said on December 2020)

On May 5, 2020 "Wellerman" Sea Shanty by The Longest Johns posted on YouTube[0] (now has 6.5M views).

And only after that, few month later TikTok users starts to sing along to Wellerman.

FTR, On May 5, 2020 also few other Sea Shanties from The Longest Johns's «Between Wind and Water» (2018) album, uploaded on YouTube: "Santiana"[1], "Off to Sea"[2], "Spanish Ladies"[3], "Haul Away Joe"[4], "General Taylor"[5], "Mingulay Boat Song"[6], "Banks of Newfoundland"[7], "Sugar in the Hold"[8], "Wild Mountain Thyme"[9].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KO7cofMJH0

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD4gLEBGSkE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-OJtDapSuA

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24O3dtse-94

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dIA6H9vLKU

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mVWlZqxM4k

[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7OkqjVFmFA

[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3qhmblFEL4

[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmmxbNm33Y

[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6v6R5pD7A
Certbot deprecates operating system packages, “standardizes” on snaps
I'm guessing these aren't their current needs, but rather where they anticipate growing too.

These numbers are insane, but the CEO of Parler is a former AWS employee, so I would guess he knows somewhat what he is doing.
Interesting, is this planned to be an open source project?
German banking has ubiquitous qr-mediated second channel - the authenticator (app or physical device) reads a qr code, shows the transaction details on screen and if they match user types back a code from the app (which is based on qr content).
I don't think they're competitive with Rocket Lab, which is half the price and could be even lower.
Is there a way to move to Europe? Considering it.
Holy wow..

To me, this looks like the contents of an RFP where the submitter doesn't actually want any vendor to be able to meet the requirements.
Yes, it's a good thing for you, because you're not very good at justifying it.
When I visited Taiwan a few years ago I really came to appreciate the tradition of refilling the glass(es) of your companions before your own. Want more tea? Top someone else off first. Same with beer in their comically small glasses.

It’s a much more intimate experience and we formed relationships with people without even being able to speak at a conversational level.
I've lived places that weren't dense enough for it to work. But in a fairly urban environment, provided that the item is not total crap, it tends to go fast. I have had cases where I found a taker after I left my front door to take the item out but before I had set it on the sidewalk. :D
1) the age (now?) says “hundreds of thousands”, up two orders of magnitude from this. 2) it’s referring to the WiFi IP core, not the SoC itself, which seems an appropriate estimate. Just reading the 802.11 standard would account for a chunk of that time.
One form of securing fallback mechanism is to include a long delay, some 2 days, between reset request and execution. It surely does not fit all use cases, but should be good for a lot of less critical stuff.
> If your market will only bear a modest level of growth and possibility, most likely nobody will be interested in investing millions to squash you.

I used to be a lot more bullish about this before 2020's interest rate drop and subsequent declining bond yields, and the insane injection of capital into the markets. But now, I'm not so sure. Investors are reaching quite a bit further than I originally had expected in order to seek yield.
https://twitter.com/mattblaze/status/1350596044715925506
This was mentioned 2 months ago, but without traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25141524

This is a ridiculous requirement for a glorified Python script, over-engineering at its worst.
Buy nothing, but the leaders want you to buy their book.

I once commented as such in their fB page and I was crucified #LOL.

I am all for try to buy used if you can first. Recycle, freecycle, upcycle.

Even better: try and do without. #MINIMALIST
This is replacing one way of tracking with another. Can we stop it with the tracking entirely instead?

I would be happy to voluntarily provide a list of topics I would like to get ads for if I knew that this helps get rid of the cookie and tracking mess we have right now.

Think of a questionnaire a la Netflix that you spend 3 minutes answering to so that it gets your preferences.

The current system we have in place is not just creepy, but also crappy. I see it on YouTube, both the ads and the video suggestions are very poor.
"HN but it's the Reddit redesign"
> They're typically not going to be watching it 24/7. They'll only look at the tapes if something occurs.

This is the kind of tortured thinking that lets The NSA look a judge in the eye and not laugh out loud as they say "Bulk internet collection is not 'surveillance' and so it doesn't require a warrant. It's only after we've keyword searched the data and then have a agent look at the returned results that it becomes 'surveillance'."

I'm sorry but words have meanings, and you don't get to make up your own meanings just because the law prohibits you under the well understood meaning of a word.

Video recording your employees 24x7 is creepy and wrong, no matter whether you never view the recordings or not.
"Believe" is the wrong verb here. I believe that the Irish rugby team will one day win the world cup (despite all evidence to the contrary). I accept that the available evidence does not support the hypothesis of non-human intelligences having contacted us (certainly not widely).

It's certainly possible that Earth has been visited or contacted by non-human intelligences. I'd imagine if you have the technology for interstellar travel, it would be pretty trivial to evade detection.

But just because you can't rule it out, doesn't mean it happened.

Also, WTF is a "scientismist"? Is that a typo or a misguided attempt to conflate science with scientism?
My argument is that if you need authentication, the browser should have that built in as a first class citizen. And if you don’t want it, then why set cookies?
Just another reason to keep boycotting google & chrome.
The vendor of the tshirt referred to it as a "6 million wasn't enough" tshirt.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210108092110/https://teedodi.c...
> that will reload it unless XSS exits with code 0 or something

Sort of what https://github.com/google/xsecurelock recommends doing.

Also, xsecurelock doesn't run the input and PAM auth in the same process as the lock, making input bugs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224179) harmless as well.
I'm not condoning the narrative, rather the opposite. Technocrats will attack decentralisation as it threatens their hegemony. My claim is they'll sell it under the guise of preventing domestic terrorism.
Yes, if you don't condition on the past moves then the distribution you're modeling is where you randomly pick a 1100 player to choose each move as you say. What I'm saying is that there will be no wisdom of the crowd effect.
People already have, it’s called wickr
Which is funny given this talk that was linked a few months ago in hn comments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s3EbSKDA3o
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> GitHub was way out of line viewing and judging these

> messages. It doesn't matter what happened there. That

> channel is not for them.

I think that really depends on when the employees are using it - if it's on company time then I think GitHub have some right to reprimand people for the use of their time, rather than the content on their messages.
If that happened, authorities would rapidly lose the will to investigate breaches.
People generally want to get away from dictatorships, and dictatorships generally don’t want them to leave. See for example North Korea.

How else do you explain people willing to die to leave and why do you think the party tried to stop them?

> Not having free elections makes it a dictatorship (or at least not a democracy).

That’s how it was! The leader of the dictating party does not deny this is how it was! You’re delusional!
So this is is a MAJOR flaw with WebExtension design.

Each uses a separate URI scheme.

So Chrome uses chrome-extension:

Firefox uses firefox-extension:

... etc.

which means web extensions for Firefox won't work with Google Firebase because they only support chrome-extension.

Why the heck isn't it web-extension: ???
I own two (one as a backup in my safe in case I lose this one. They all have the same TOTP stuff and setup in every service side by side where possible), to agree with you. Though it’ll be lovely when your iPhone can be a U2F key through their hardware security chips and some OS support, if I’m dreaming out loud.
You're right! I didn't expect it to need a disk, as in my memory the Apple ][ would just boot into AppleSoft Basic.
I saw a couple articles or so that said Epik was hosting it, but it is possible that those authors just saw that Epik was the registrar and confused that with being the host.
A minor quibble: your unit of time should be nanoseconds.
Politically polarized people tend to only have two brushes to paint people with: You’re either with them or against them. If you have any relationship whatsoever with their opposition, in their view, you’re against them. Ultimately, Epik is just a company that seems to have found a captive client base. That doesn’t make them bad...it makes them a company with a captive client base.
This seems unnecessarily hostile. Certbot is a complex beast that generates TLS configurations, has multiple plugins that likely require specific system configuration, and is I think charitably more than "a glorified Python script".

The rationale makes sense for me:

"While the Certbot team tries to keep the Certbot packages offered by various operating systems working in the most basic sense, due to distribution policies and/or the limited resources of distribution maintainers, Certbot OS packages often have problems that other distribution mechanisms do not. The packages are often old resulting in a lack of bug fixes and features and a worse TLS configuration than is generated by newer versions of Certbot. They also may not configure certificate renewal for you or have all of Certbot’s plugins available. For reasons like these, we recommend most users follow the instructions at https://certbot.eff.org/instructions and OS packages are only documented here as an alternative."
What do you mean by "originally"? It looks like it was introduced as 80 bytes here, so it had only been 80 bytes for a year or so: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2738

I recognize the commit where the limit was lowered, though I don't believe it was actually released before being raised again.
Similar, but taken further. xscreensaver still does input and PAM auth in the main process, xsecurelock does not, so the attack surface is smaller.
in theory I agree with this, the problem is just that Emacs very often shows its age. On large codebases the performance of completion frameworks is for me often abysmal, language server connections sometimes give in without discernible reason and I need to restart. A lot of things that should be done asynchronously aren't and so the UI locks up.

As a long term Emacs user I find myself going for VSCode a lot these days just because of how smooth it is and how well done the integration of major plugins is.