skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a bit of a background for non-German folks and particularly Australians... that's a "government-run", "federal" broadcaster publishing this. Sounds like shooting your own foot? No.

The Basic Law of Germany, approved by the Western allies in 1949, included telecommunications as a responsibility of the federal government. And so the federal government thought to create a television service to compete with those of the states. The states sued and won in the constitutional court - saying that telecommunications only referred to infrastructure and delivery, definitely not the content (think fascism and communism as to why). The resulting corpse was used by the states as a foundation for a new broadcaster formed through a state treaty.

Germany is part of the EU and thus Frontex. The individual states of Germany organised a sister organisation, ZDF, to the Federal Republic of Germany itself and it isn't.

One reason I mention all this is because we've got a broken media environment unlike Germany here in Australia with a vast amount of media concentration. And the constitutionality of the ABC is based on the constitution saying that telephones and the postal service fall under the responsibility of the federal government. The ABC isn't Australia Post or Telstra. Yet somehow we all just went along with the premise. So this is what happened here in a similar situation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Files_(Australia) - a police raid, the federal government applying pressure and a chilling effect for all future publications. The top three options in Australia for a 'stop the boats' leak like this would be 1. a broadcaster under a massive _chilling_ _effect_ by the 'stop the boats' government, 2. Rupert Murdoch or 3. Nine, with Costello in charge, who was literally the deputy 'stop the boats' guy. Horrifying.

So when I see comments like

> It's really worrying that there's some concentrated effort to take Frontex down.

No, this leak comes from the constituent states of Germany being concerned by a "superior" power doing things that they haven't been authorised to do. Whether it's the Federal Republic of Germany deciding to start a public broadcaster despite the states (and Allied powers) not having agreed to that being its responsibility or whether it's the European Union starting a military (which it's not allowed to do) it's the same thing. It might be a concentrated effort, whatever - it doesn't matter - because it's a constitutional necessity. This leak here is an extremely important part of the process that all "inferior" constituent parts of something should engage in to keep the greater parts in check.

Something the constituent states of Australia should take more seriously.
Not to defend the term itself, but like with many items of culturally historic clothing that have since become fetishized, people normally wore practical underclothes underneath kimonos. That way, you don't have to change or wash your bulky, elaborate outerwear so often, just the layers that touch your skin. It's also more comfortable and easier to customize the inner layers to suit your particular body.
Worth noting that the current vaccination rate is now twice that, at roughly 3M/week.

https://www.travellingtabby.com/uk-coronavirus-tracker/
Cool seems like unix `cat` command with addition of storing the filepath (so maybe like `find`?)

While this of course sound like a cool project and my comment might be the most Hacker News-y thing [1] I think it's aimed at developers and so it fits.

I don't agree with the zip downsides listed in the repo since firstly `unzip -l` exists to see what's in a zip and secondly the argument with reuploading the zip doesn't work in favor of a different format since you also need to update it in a remote when changed.

Secondly I am kind of amused about this format when `touch`, `mkdir -p` and `echo` are available in every POSIX compliant system which can be combined to create a nice coherent shell script which without dependencies would cover the functionality of this project as far as I understand.

I don't want to sound condescending but I'm a feeling a little left-pad [2] on this one.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

[2]: https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how...
There are several similar small chameleons around the island, which have been long known by locals and tourists. But this new one is 'micro-endemic' to a very small, remote region. Probably been seen before, but I think 'discovered' is fair in this case when talking about discovering that this is a separate, undescribed species and not one of the more widespread ones.
"ML is, to most non-technical people, intensely boring."

Maybe, or maybe it's just an old trope as you point out. So much of science fiction assumes some level of intelligent computers and has since the beginning. The phrase "machine learning" is really a rebrand of the "thinking machines" of the 60s and artifical intelligence" of the 70s and 80s. Even in the old Star Trek TV series, you had people talking to the computer, not unlike we talk to Alexa, Siri and Hey Google today.

That said, now that people are seeing ML affect their lives directly, there is a lot of exploration that may be possible, as perhaps, ML is just not science fiction anymore.
Perhaps you should read what I wrote. It is not the same thing you seem to be objecting to.
I run a podcast where I speak to remote marketing teams from across the world - https://anchor.fm/remote-marketing. I publish an episode every 2 weeks and the podcast is entering its third year.
Modern TTY users indicate the end of conversation by typing in “GA” at the end denoting Go Ahead.

And end of transmission by ending it with “SKSK” for Stop Keying.
>> The more I learn about the networking side the more interested I am in how to secure this, and I'm less interested in writing code.

Be warned, most 'security' jobs are running scripts and programs and filling out checklists. If you were interested in writing code I'd suggest books like Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering or Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

That said, a good way to get into it is to find any kind of local user groups, either in industries or at colleges, and find ones that offer security classes and do capture the flag (CTF) events.

Here's one in Michigan, for example:

https://www.merit.edu/security/training/

This is a good way to get familiar with the tools you would be using and even better, a good way to meet other people in your area who might know of job openings and such.

Here are some details on CTF events:

https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/capt...
“Football” isn’t even the most popular name for the planet’s most popular sport. It’s probably “futbol”.

In the English speaking world, there are over 328 million Americans who use the term to refer to American football, 37 million Canadians who typically mean either American or Canadian football, and 25 million Aussies who use the word to refer to Australian Football. Brits are a minority of native English speakers.
The worst thing is that consumers fall for it, every single time.
Keep your public keys private
I feel like having a tool for this - which you need to download and run - is rather overkill compared to a bunch of mkdir and echo commands in a shell script. You could call it a 'shell archive'.

You could even write a tool to make these for you - and you wouldn't need anything but a shell to expand it. Maybe call the tool 'shar'.
If you really want to impress me, clearly define "artificial intelligence" (as opposed to statistics, data analysis, etc) and tell me the most impressive example.
They generally don't use the same trade name for totally different apples.

It's likely the Red Delicious of the old days are genetically exactly the same as the Red Delicious of today.
Finance and the Good Society by Robert Shiller is a good book which outlines the vital functions the financial sector fulfils for a civilisation.
B. nana, brought to us by the guy who named some pygmy frogs 'Mini scule', 'Mini ature' and 'Mini mum'. I'm looking forward to the next few things they're working on going public :)
You've made a valid point. I was really thinking about it from an end-user perspective. From a mass market perspective. I came upon this thought because of a post a day or so ago about LibreOffice.
Link to the tool:

https://archive.org/details/pub_editor-publisher
Having gone shopping regularly there during December and January, the major change was when lorries stopped crossing the channel. That's when we started seing empty shelves. The pandemic by itself never managed that.
That's like bad small talk. Try to sound smart by repeating the same phrases over and over again.
Like bad small talk it's shallow and boring.

Still thanks for posting. I found it interesting ;)
I think you're misunderstanding what "risk" means here. It's not that they have a moral right to be wealthy because their companies are at risk of catastrophic failure; it's that they perform the valuable service of making risky investments that other people can't. Mortgages are the canonical example; they allow lots of people to buy homes who wouldn't otherwise be able, and they could never work if some individual person had to take the risk that the borrower might default.
Service that converts all the pain and love of Git commits into wall art;)
hes talking about absolute risk rather than relative risk. also there's a reason why we route everything through middlemen like banks instead of p2p. and it has everything due to risk and organization.
Not all animals make good pets.
This is what the XFL was supposed to fix, but that didn’t end well...

But seriously, it’s even worse in person. I’ve only ever gone to one football game in person and it was almost unbearable. At least on TV you have commercials to see.
Can you give me a source on ~200 people controlling 40t USD?
I expected to find Gaudi in this list for art/architecture. He got run down by a streetcar, which to my knowledge happened while he was watching his Sagrada Familia. It seems I'm mistaken here as his wiki page also does not mention it. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Gaud%C3%AD
Thanks for this. It's given me a broader perspective.
What about files with different encodings? Which of them is used? UTF-8? Same question about line endings

And how does it deal with files that have strict whitespace requirements like python or Yaml? Can it reliably restore each tab and space?
It's sad how much the modern NRA is used as a slush fund for campaign contributions and not advocating on behalf of gun rights at all. Good riddance.
I don't understand how people can think Akbar Allahabadi was the best thing since sliced bread and then complain that other people participated in British education more than them. Doesn't that come with the territory?
I don't think i've tried it; according to these people, Empire vs Red Delicious is an east coast/west coast thing:

https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/empire

But i live in the UK, so i don't see either!
Instead of all the snark you should have just included a link:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar
Sure, there is some insight. But the general hatred-oriented language of the article doesn't allow to think in a constructive manner, at least for me.
I'm disappointed.

Google actually scanned a huge number of newspaper microfilm and microfiche back in 2010-11: https://news.google.com/newspapers

It's an amazing resource, but it's hidden away and researchers within Google have trouble accessing it even if they knew it existed. I spent
months with lawyers to get access to the original files for research and at one point they told me they were going to delete it! Whaaaaa!?!

It was something like 6 PB, which seriously, to Google isn't much, but the team that "owned" the data wasn't using it and to them it was just an expense. Ugh. People don't care about history.
It’s interesting how the attitude of the tech world is changing.
Yeast grown that that tastes like mashed potatos. Food in space is going to suck.
We absolutely can find more productive things for those folks to do. America’s infrastructure needs rebuilding, and clean energy can create so many jobs. A humane society doesn’t necessitate lack of access to jobs.
They mention shar in the readme:

> shar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar) - old school method that has the major security flaw of potentially running any shell command
My advice is to stay as a software engineer, and slowly move towards secure software development. 98% of the security world is complete and utter bullshit, and no one is interested in actually securing anything. Ever wonder why EVERY bank has terrible 2FA practices? It's because they don't care. Same with law firms, hedge funds, governments, etc. Yes you can get great job security with security, but at the end of the day you simply won't be producing anything of value unless you are in the top 2% of the field.

Secure software development is different. Go make high quality software for firms that write in functional languages and use advanced methods for ensuring high code quality and safety.

Source: I did penetration testing for four years, also served in a cyber position in the military. What a giant waste of my time that whole effort was.
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It was referring to coding as being the same as any craft. You are being hired to do a job, you don't know how long your code lives and needs to be maintained. "The buyer is a lady, I will not make the effort to make that hammer last long, how often will she use it" is not someone I'd do business with.
So for you it depends on how you kill people?
how would you be avarage softare developer, Everyone has a different challenge :) what would you tell me about it
Going to football in person is best done when you are in your early 20's, a college student, drunk, and a student of the university whose college football team is playing at home.
If it was down to covid then imports would be equally affected. Import changes don’t come in for a few more month, and are at normalish levels.
Even glulam and engineered hardwood flooring is called engineered wood and they are far more natural than this.

I think it would be fair to call this wood fiber reinforced epoxy sheets.
Starship is so good, I’m finally back from zsh do bash without having to roll my own oh-my-zsh replacements.
Here's a more concise version, minus a few forks!

sed "$((RANDOM % 1632 + 1))q;d" words.txt

Grab this cleaned wordlist with 1 word per line:

wget http://nerab.github.io/wordlist/words.txt
> the Queen’s objection that the law would reveal her private investments in listed companies, as well as their value

I mean that seems rational for the function of the markets.

I don’t really care how those landowners pulled a wool over that kingdom’s eyes. It is fascinating how they escape any criticism.
The reason it's not that simple is that the organization in New York has assets - trademarks, offices, etc. - that they'd like to keep when they reincorporate in Texas. They almost certainly can't erase New York's claim on the assets of a New York organization by just setting up shop in another state.
When did the BBC start fucking with the back button? Every time I click a link from here I have to rapidly press back to come back. So annoying.
In the same way that if I hit you in the face you break your nose and I bruise my hand?
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COVID, quantitatively:

* ~2,300,000 deaths globally, according to google.

* ~$28,000,000,000,000 cost to global economy, according to the IMF.

That's a cost of $12M per death, and mostly for deaths of non-working-age retirees.

Do you really think it's the "covid deniers" that are driving us towards a cliff?
etrabroline did say "in the public domain." I consider Isaac Asimov's inclusion major, for example. I've even heard of a lot of the periodicals he's listed in.
Yes... and no.

I mean, fruits and veggies were very, very seasonal, save the things we could preserve in different ways. Eggs were seasonal as well. Now with shipping and greenhouses, more of us can have some of the stuff all year.

But only if it ships well enough.

For a lot of things, we've decided that having the thing is better than not. So we get red delicious even where apples don't grow, and maybe you can buy local ones in autumn - you know, the ones that don't ship well. Some fruits you only get frozen or in jams simply because they won't make it to you fresh. And so on.

To make things more complicated, things like apples are strange: An eating apple is a rarity from seed.

It might also be that your taste buds were more sensitive when younger: This is a known thing. It lets you eat a wider variety of foods now, as an adult, but can have the effect of not liking other things.
Since we're just naming apples now, in the last few months i have really enjoyed Jupiter, Holskin, Golden Melinda, Reveille, and of course the mighty Cox:

https://www.orangepippin.com/varieties/apples/coxs-orange-pi...
The physicist is female and the article keeps referring to "he". What does that tell us?
If only edge mobile or chrome supported ublock origin..
DailyMail and The Sun readers deserve to have those 50 banners on a page+ 3 min load time.
Thank you.

So that sent me chasing interval arithmetic's history -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic -- and that page is also silent as to where did it come from. But academic.ru has the (surprising to me) answer that none other than Archimedes (not a surprise) used it:

"Interval arithmetic is not a completely new phenomenon in mathematics; it has appeared several times under different names in the course of history.

For example Archimedes calculated lower and upper bounds 223/71 < π < 22/7 in the 3rd century BC. Actual calculations with intervals has neither been as popular as other numerical techniques, nor been completely forgotten."

https://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/1037936
"The UK was one of the few net contributors to the EU" -> UK was in very good company as can be found easily here:
https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-...
and it's not difficult to see that the amount of the net contribution is somewhat proportional to the share of the European GDP .

"They didn't want unspecialised poor immigrants from Eastern/Southern Europe" -> the fact is that they were getting a lot of graduated/high specialized immigrants from southern Europe as well.
Did finance need defending?
(not OP)

Thanks for you book suggestion, would you say it's a bit dated now?

I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kq1MIfTWCE&list=PLt_s8-zoCd...

It seemed like a decent introduction, I am a beginner programmer/developer (doing Odin project at the moment and only done some small projects before).
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Okay so how do you come to the EU when you from Africa?

Or if you are from the far east?

Please enlighten me.

Oh wait either you go through turkey where we don't even know whats happening with these people or you get pushed back on the Mediterranean sea by frontex.

yeah sounds super lax to me...
> Does anyone know if the contributors of this fork ever talked to the current maintainers of mc?

Yes, and there was a kind of dispute about this. The gist of it can be found in this ticket: https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/4187

EDIT: Interesting read also about the pros and cons of Slang2 as scripting language, some history and the job of maintaining mc in general …
What is worrying about that?
Same for security and audit processes. Most of these are a largely pointless waste of money and time. Some are well-intentioned, but utterly impractical to the point of questioning the well-intentioned part (e.g. "all releases of all software needs to be audited").
I agree to the extent that the issues with the financial industry are less issues with the financial industry and the failure of society and government to appropriately regulate the finance industry.

For all the nonsense about unconstrained free markets, the reality is a well functioning free market is fairly fragile and requires a lot of curation and guidelines to be something we would appreciate. In the absence of this governance, a free market devolves to might is right (where might can be earned by any of wealth, physical power, popularity, etc depending on time and place).

The big problem was that a belief that laissez-Faire non interventionist capitalism would spontaneously lead to well functioning free markets has/had taken hold over society which has led to damage not just to the broader society but also to the financial industry specifically.
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I'm guessing it probably needs a very specific diet and climate to survive. If this is like other chameleons, they are prone to all sorts of health issues and in general very hard to keep alive.
I'm not a security engineer, although I've managed security programs and triage security issues. If I were you, I'd probably start by pen testing via HackerOne. You likely won't earn much doing it, but it's an easy way to access many companies inviting you to break their systems.

Many reports on HackerOne are disclosed publicly. Reading through public reports will expose you to what application errors are most commonly found with specific reproduction steps, what tools were used to discover the issue (Burp Suite is very common), and use that as a jumping off point for what to learn and discovering where your knowledge gaps are.
They just need to rename their community edition to "unsupported edition" or "insecure edition" or "we will leak your IP to china edition".
They show something interesting, that "Hosting wikipedia accounts for roughly 2% of their total expenses", something that someone donating might not know.

"years and years ago", this was in 2019
There was a recent ballot measure in Montana designed to prevent individual cities from establishing their own gun law and regulations[1].

In support of this ballot measure, the NRA Big Sky Self-Defense Committee spent $52,632.37. In opposition, the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund spent $208,357.84, the Alliance for Gun Responsibility spent 15,400.00,

I was personally very surprised because I had always been lead by the media to understand that the financials played out in the opposite manner, with huge funding coming from the big bad out of state NRA, and small local governments getting trampled.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/Montana_LR-130,_Limit_Local_Governme...
Have you tried Braeburn? Fujis always seem like a pale imitation of a Braeburn to me. As do Pink Lady, Gala, and Jazz.
Thanks for sharing that. Aging vulnerability researcher and reverse engineer here and it is both amazing and disheartening to see what most of security work has turned into.

Layers and layers of policies, procedures, and abstractions that mean no one is ever accountable for anything and anyone who knows the details is marginalized as being too much “in the weeds” so they’re left out of the conversation.
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