skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is that none of the parties involved have any incentive to fix this. The national governments certainly don't, because it gives them a convenient way to pass laws they don't like, and the EU doesn't either because it both gives the EU more power and makes national governments beholden to them. For all the talk some populist politicians make about leaving the EU, it's not like they actually would because that would mean giving up their power to pass laws without that inconvenient democratic accountability.

I reckon this was a major reason Brexit went the way it did. Supporters of the EU liked to point to the fact that actually, our government was behind a lot of the unpopular EU actions to argue that Brexit supporters had been tricked into wanting to leave the EU. What they didn't get was how completely unconvincing an argument that is. The politicians who were busy undermining and blocking any attempt to leave the EU also used it as a way to pass laws that the people they represent didn't want, shielding themselves from any kind of accountability to the general populace, and that was meant to make everyone fall in line behind them and want to remain in the EU? Ridiculous.
Thank you, good point. My statistics is better than my linguistics. ;)

I'll correct it in my comment (you're replying to someone quoting me).
Completely partisan hogwash.

Australia - another giant continent with spread out population - also has a copper legacy base.

We tried to rollout FTTP (fibre to the premises) on the basis that 1000Gbps is a human right or something.

It completely fell apart and stalled within two years, and the government who passed it got thrown out, and the next govt tried to complete it with a piecemeal solution that has left swathes of the country less happy than before (though some people got FTTP on the taxpayer's dime and loved it).

And now we have much less competition in technology, a govt monopoly on the hardware mandated in 99.5% of households, and a fig leaf of greater choice in who you will pay to shape your internet speed (as all providers are selling you an identical service based on the single-option mandatory hardware described above).

TL;dr this is a nightmare, let the market solve it. Tinker with some regs, at most. It can get much worse if you start centralising the "solution" to imperfect internet on a giant continent.

Never model American infrastructure on Tokyo or Belgium or other dense small areas with different geography.
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This is not true at all. The UK is seeing an explosion in non-BT FTTP networks - Hyperoptic, CommunityFibre, CityFibre, B4RN to name just a few off the top of my head. Granted, BT's network is probably currently the largest but that's because it's had a headstart and is a massive company - but they are certainly facing lots of competition at the local level which is great.
I just joined a consultant company, we are using Signal and discord internally.
> Douglas’s writing routine was painful in the extreme. Sue Freestone, his publisher at Heinemann, would come round and beg, often almost with tears welling in her eyes, for pages from his printer. Douglas would hurl himself downstairs to the coffee machine, hurl himself back up again, thump to his desk and sit in front of the computer. After an hour or so twiddling with the screensaver, the wallpaper, the title of the file, the placement on the desktop of the folder the file was stored in, the formatting, the font, the size, the colour, the margins and the stylesheets, he might type a sentence. He would look at it, change it to italics, swap the word order around, get up, stare at it some more. Hum, curse, growl and groan and then delete it. He would try another sentence. He would look at this one and now perhaps give a little puff of pleasure. He would stand up, stride across the room and hurl himself down to the kitchen, where Sue and I would be gossiping and smoking around the table, and make himself another incredibly strong coffee.

> ‘Dare I ask?’ Sue would say.

> ‘Going well. I have the first sentence!’

> ‘Oh.’ It would be perhaps July with the new novel already overdue the previous September. One sentence written so far. Sue would smile tightly. ‘Well, that’s a start at least …’

> Douglas would nod enthusiastically and fling himself back up the stairs, coffee dripping in his wake. We would hear the feet thump across the floor above our heads and then an agonized cry of ‘No! Hopeless!’ would tell us that the proud first sentence was not, after all, up to snuff, and a banging on the keyboard would register its angry deletion. An author’s day is tough enough, but the writing life of Douglas Adams was excruciating in a manner quite unlike anyone else’s I have ever known.
You need to do a certain sequence of flips in order to unlock the secret partition. Without that, it presents a honeypot partition. Any attempt to request a file in the "SECRET DOCUMENTS" folder discharges 220V of capacitors across the data pins.
The title might be misinterpreted. They have NOT won any lawsuit.

"The judge ruled the lawsuit can GO FORWARD, finding that Project Veritas showed sufficient evidence that The New York Times MAY have been motivated by “actual malice” and acted with “reckless disregard” when it ran several articles against the investigative journalism outfit."[1] (emphasis mine)

1. https://thefederalist.com/2021/03/22/project-veritas-wins-ea...
In this country I can think of a couple:
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There is a misconception that removing Android Webview is "fixing" the problem. The proper word is that removing the updated Android Webview is "a temporary workaround" until an updated Android Webview is released.

You cannot remove Android Webview because it is an essential part of Android. By "removing" the package, you are removing the latest update and revert back to the old (and probably insecure) version of Android Webview that came with the initial Android version of the phone.

In the end, Google eventually released a new package now, so you can perform the update of Android Webview to the latest version.
Yep, Fortuneo is the one still having sane security. There might be others but when I was bank-shopping I haven't found one.
I have 10GB up and down.

The whole city of Zurich is fibered (mostly built by the public power utility) and you're free to chose between a variety of suppliers.
The permissions models for the two are wildly different because of the different use cases. Discord has a lot more by way of moderating and exposing different defined subsets of your server to different admin defined user groups. Slack has opt in on a per channel basis per user and unlike discord channels, any user can just create one rather than being these things admins have to set out and organise ahead of time. Slack has pinning as a "anyone can pin" default, the thinking being users pin stuff for theirs or others future reference, discord ties it to same permission as deleting other user's messages, thinking pinning is a moderator activity for making announcements.

Server admins control users on slack on the other hand. Your server admin can deactivate your entire account, DMs are tied to a server and your server admin can read them. It's a business tool, the expectation is employers have access to your business communications. The same on discord would be a massive privacy violation. But now as a business, how do you ensure that users aren't sharing passwords in chat, that your departed employee doesnt have a ton of company secrets in their dms etc
In Germany, when paying at a restaurant, the machine often asks you to type the tip you want, before your card PIN. The (badly lit) screen also tells that to the user in German, which doesn't help if you don't speak it.

It has happened quite often that I typed my PIN by habit and the machine just refused a tip amount that large, thankfully.
I've used Visio, Dia, OmniGraffle, and lucidchart.com.

Dia is pretty terrible, sadly. OmniGraffle seems to be fading away. Lucidchart is ok, the sharing is good, and the Confluence integration is widely used.

Visio is kinda the best. I've even used it under WINE on macOS.

I don't use UML much. I tend to do basic ER diagrams for database stuff, and higher-level "boxes and lines" otherwise.
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> Desktop client also continually scans running processes.

Isn't this in order to update current game status?
I think we agree on the login-is-a-pain side of things but I strongly believe passwords should be disposable. If I even catch a hint of a password being leaked or insecure I cycle it.

I'd hide a 20 year old password in shame haha, no matter how many characters it has
It was terrible 10 years ago (less than 32mbps). Nowadays I get 250mbps.
and its all available for sale! (anonymized of course)
> It's the separation of church and state, right? Obviously annecdata, but a pretty decent amount of people I know struggle with the blurry lines that working from home brings.

They should join the antidisestablishmentarialist cause! Mostly because I've never had the opportunity to use that word before.

I moved my desk to a different room, and the first 6-9 months of working from home were OK. Once winter came, the darkness at 17.00 (or sooner) plus the strongest level of lockdown we've had in Denmark[1] was pretty miserable.

[1] Non-essential shops, all restaurants etc closed, though no restrictions on private gatherings, going outside etc. (I realize most of the rest of Europe had stricter restrictions.)
It's nice when you want to download RDR2 on Steam.
Thanks. That is correct.
The difference in accuracy standards that are applied to the NYT vs Fox News is astronomical.

Now that they can move to discovery, is the full power of capital going to dump all the resources necessary to crack open the NYT?

Is this the NYTs Hogan Sextape?
Another day, another programming language release
Reading about the two nacro subs captured in the last year it's pretty clear you don't even need to go deep.

For a long time I was under the impression that diesel subs stand out like a sore thumb on sat photos and nation states watch them all like hawks, but apparently not and drug cartels can just roll around as they please in them.
> And very few consumers need (or want to pay for) FTP

Consumer 'needs' have been formed by gatekeepers to shape their profit motives, so this is a bit of a red herring.
OTOH, the weight of the rocket grows mostly linearly (it's essentially a skin around propellants), the number of engines grows with the square of the diameter and the fuel volume grows at a cubic rate, so the engines can burn for longer (at some point, aerospike engines will become practical).
From that paper's conclusion:

>However, since we observed all notable SARS-CoV-2 features, including the optimized RBD and polybasic cleavage site, in related coronaviruses in nature, we do not believe that any type of laboratory-based scenario is plausible.

The fact that covid's features are found in nature seems a weak argument to disprove lab involvement.

On the other hand covid seems well adapted to humans which could have come about by serial passage in a lab. Perhaps they were doing something like in vivo characterisation of spillover risk as mentioned in Daszak's grant application for the WIV?

Or something like:

>We performed in vivo experiments in transgenic (human ACE2 expressing) mice and
civets in 2018 and 2019 in the Institute’s biosafety laboratory. The viruses we used were bat
SARSr-CoV close to SARS-CoV. (Shi Zhengli)

?
I've played the lottery (UK) at two points in my life, and I'm now a maths graduate ...

First, not long after the lottery came out - I was a young adult swept along by the social phenomenon. The BBC made it a focus of Saturday night TV, the game of "what will you do if you win" was almost as popular in the UK as talking about the weather. It was a social choice, when I reflected on that choice I stopped playing -- "started winning a £1 every week".

Second, in the last decade, we were dirt poor - on the edge of missing meals poor. I played the lottery again, it was desperation and it was something I hid. I managed to keep it minimal and quickly came to my senses. But I imagine a lot of people hit that point of desperation and aren't able to stop digging themselves further into debt and spend relatively large amounts on lottery tickets.
To my amusement that we need AI to plan for fighting instead of how to plan to all get along.
It's too reductive to blame this on one politician. We had a similar thing happen in Australia, and so did Germany, and countless other countries.

Infrastructure tradeoffs are made all the time - it just so happens that that one backfired due to a very sudden technological revolution predicted by almost no one at the time.
I've used Thunderbird with IMAP for literally at least a decade and have email back to 1998-ish. Haven't lost anything, occasionally had to rebuild Thunderbird's local cache.

Much easier to backup if your email is in one place and running even a local IMAP server is better than storing it in an email client.
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Some version of that applies to many many things.

There's also the closely-related case of people like the concept of being a $OCCUPATION. But they don't really want to do a lot of the day-to-day work associated with it.
That's literally what every litigant gets to do if their case isn't thrown out at the front door, so there's really not more to it than that.

This is literally a “you’ve met the bar of presenting a case that makes justiciable claims” decision, which is a pretty low bar.
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Well, quite a number of politicians got shitcanned after it turned that their dissertations were plagiarized.

So it's not that you're completely untouchable. Even with friends in high places.
You can store any number of fields, rather than just 1 username and password per website.

I typically have notes, maybe one-time passwords, a PIN, the email I signed up with, whether they have my address, various URL if they share the login, etc.
If it's a new process and doesn't exhibit any of the known characteristics of fusion, how do you know it's got anything to do with fusion at all?

The tragedy of this story is that the word fusion ever got attached to this phenomenon. To this day we have no evidence whatsoever that any form of fusion is associated with these experiments. What we do know is that F&P thought they had found evidence known to indicate fusion, but they were wrong and had misinterpreted it.
The 6th Gen was the best! Super small, built in clip.
Before Covid, we had gone to 1 remote day per week, with half the people on Monday and the other half on Friday. We had 1 fully remote person in IT, and a few in Sales. We had already decided not to go 2 remote days, though we had seriously considered it.

That left us somewhat prepared for Covid. I think fully remote has gone better than expected, but I'm pretty sure we'll end up with an office again and 1 remote day.
Yes, but that doesn't change the point. The fact that MSFT has been able to build a product as good as slack is an anomaly. (and they apparently didnt succeed on the video/audio part as you said). Usually big corp like MSFT are not able to build an equivalent technology to someone else. Look at Google who tried in so many fields and never succeed, except mayble Hangout compared to zoom. So I agree with you on that.

Nevertheless we know that the product is not that important. If all slack/zoom customers are migrated to Teams over night. The Teams product will keep most of its new users and will have a value for an acquisition, not because of its product, but because of its users.

So even though I disagree that MSFT could build the chat application itself, I agree with OP that what is bought is not linked to the actual product
Yes, it is. But it's still a problem.
Perspective appreciated. I’m a long block from the cabinet and do get 20 down and 10 up fairly reliably. Some nights, the winds of the Etherium, so inviting in their promise of flight and freedom, make my download speeds soar to 80.
Given the computer model involved, this is probably in the late 80s. If you've read The Cuckoo's Egg, it suggests that getting law enforcement to take computer intrusion seriously was very hard back then.

I suppose the university could impose some kind of sanctions such as revoking the student's degree.
I think the difference here is that we're audio/video first. The goal is to get on video and chat with text inline so you can share links and content thats relevant to the conversation. Video being a small bubble gives you user presence without taking up the whole screen or causing you to stare at people.
Wow... I really should have connected the dots.

I have ADHD and recently started an SRE squad in our company since I tend to be the go-to person to fix any production issues.

I had never really thought of a connection between those two things until now.
It only looks to you like less expensive. Opening a street inner city and put something in the ground gets more and more expensive (think factors) the higher the building density and 'other things in the ground' get.

I recommend to start a business if YOU know how to keep the investment down.
I hope there will be a 12-inch Macbook successor at some point.

The 13 inch Air is too big. But I suspect we're going to see chassis redesigns for everything given the new thermal windows, so maybe that will be the opportunity.
It doesn’t sound like Prop 13 is that influential for him. He’s turning down like millions for some reoccurring cash flow?
They use may have too many times in the article for me to take this seriously.

It reads like a smear campaign.
Everyone worked from home 200 years ago, and worked every day of the week
The next Nintendo Switch will deliver 4K on TVs via Nvidia’s DLSS
Oh sure, there caves and forests
That brings back memories! I kept accidentally playing/pausing music with this stupid Touch Bar. I worked around the problem by removing most buttons and keeping the right side of the Touch Bar empty.

The physical keyboard eventually became totally unusable so I now use an external keyboard 100% of the time, which solves the problem once and for all. Thanks Apple!
Agreed. The small form factor is amazing, but ultimately the keyboard will always be awful.
Well, it shows that the modern moniker for soldiers is "operators".

Weapons systems operators, transmissions operators,...

The goal never was to have boots on the ground, but rather to have guns that shoot where you want them to, when you want them to.

It just so happens that until now that required a fragile meatbag in fatigues & boots to pull the trigger.
Wouldn't this also be a GPDR violation by Facebook as well?
The different elements in the scenery represent various sounds and instruments in the song.

Another of Gondry's videos that did a similar thing was Daft Punk - Around the World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKYPYj2XX80) where each of the different types of "people" represented different sounds in the source track.
Really depends where you live. Even in the big cities there are buildings/neighborhoods where you can't get more than slow DSL or some overcrowded LTE.

Once you go outside the city, then Godspeed.
Similarly, I've been using Modeless Keyboard Navigation[0] (a vimium fork to remove the normal/edit mode distinction) for about 2 years now, and it works wonderfully for navigating to links via keyboard.

0: https://handsfreecoding.org/2017/11/22/extensions-now-availa...
hereisthehearsayfromdrunkpeople.com

(Actually that's unkind, at least some of the links there are to not-particularly-partisan sources, but a lot of it does appear to be hearsay rather than anything that would stand up to much analysis)
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“ I think there are a lot of people who want to believe China is evil incarnate and things are just as black and white as that.”

IMO the CCP is evil because they have internment camps just like Nazi Germany. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/features/uighurs/
I have Spectrum and it is fine, but it is merely 'fast' and it is expensive (comparatively anyway).
That's server side encryption. My point is if you store sensitive files on a remote server not under your complete control, you should always use client side encryption. Good client side encryption will not leak filenames/directories either. A lot of them do, unfortunately.
The idea it spread via the seafood market has been largely debunked even by CCP and WHO -- there were cases before those occurred, there were no traces found there, etc...
I for one believe that current approach of no code ownership is one of the main contributors to terrible quality and performance of modern software. People are just routinely modifying code they know very little about, it's pure insanity in my opinion. Let's hire 10 writers to work on the same novel where they're all allowed to make changes to any part of it, and see how good the result it...

The main reasons companies prefer this way of working is the bus factor. Not even being hit by the bus per se, but just having only one expert on a given piece of the system gives him leverage in negotiating pay and working conditions - and most managers hate workers who are not powerless cogs (it' much easier to manage cogs than people), and they will sacrifice efficiency and product quality to reduce people to such status.

There are a companies in niches where software quality and performance cannot be skimped on and they sometimes don't do "shared" code ownership (the alternative is to still do "shared" ownership and compensate via ungodly amount of testing to catch any issues before release - as far as I understand this is the approach in large companies that do critical embedded software - auto, medical etc.). Essentially I believe that code ownership is mostly practiced in small boutique companies which produce performance-sensitive software - somebody like an audio plugin maker etc. Everybody else, incl. web startups, went the way of the moloch via shared code ownership so that owners' and managers' jobs are easier.
Sane security would be using a one-time password 2FA in my opinion, but yes, it's the only one I know with a non-crazy login method.
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Unlike github which is/was relatively "safe-ish", Discord is full of boards for distributing fan porn, real porn, warez, etc.... I'd expect if MS buys it it will be like the Tumblr porn purge.

There are tons of pateron pron creators running discords for their patrons.
I too miss the Cambrian explosion of OSs in the 90s. It felt like so much potential before it all became dominated by Windows and then the OS itself began to vanish with sealed devices like smartphones.

Would you rather have a NeXTCube instead of your Mac, or rather a BeBox? Run some networking servers on your Solaris machine and do visual rendering on your SGI? Ah, it was fun times.
It reads like scientists who have an entire career looking at this sort of data, have spotted something odd in the AZ data, aren’t sure what it’s coming from, and are asking for clarification.
Exactly. In fact, there was a Romanian electronic musician that I used to like, and his catalog suddenly disappeared.

When I contacted him, to find out what happened, he informed me that all his music was now only available through a stock agency.

Can't blame him, but I was a bit sad.