skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current political regime the most dishonest, corrupt and dysfunctional regime you can imagine.

First thing you need to know is the government itself in Iran is nobody, Ali Khamenei has been enjoying full power and control for the past 30 years or so. Iran's president and minsters can only be appointed by Khamenei's approval.

With him being in power he needed a royal force to follow his ideology and shut down any voice of criticism, that's IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps).

IRGC and Khamenei control as much as 50% of Iran's economy, from telecom to oil. needless to say they don't answer to anyone, they don't pay any taxes and Khameni itself doesn't even do any interviews with the press.

I think majority of Iranians hate the current regime as much as i do, for one, It's not possible to change it democratically. One person has all the power in country and he made a powerful force to back him up.

every time Iranians want to change the country, Khameni unleash his dogs (IRGC) and they either kill all the protestors or arrest them and sentence them to long term prison. I've been shot and spent time in Iran's political prison (Evin), my crime? participation in peaceful protests (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Green_Movement)

> Would a return of the Shah be a positive thing?

Return of the Shah, reminds of me Russians who are envy of the soviet union time, because things were better at the time. I personally think democracy is the best way to go and no one person should have majority of the power.

> Do you have any fears of Israeli aggression, or would you support a peace deal

Enemy of my enemy is my friend, that's how I (and honestly majority of the people that i know) think of Israel. I think at the moment, Israel is the only country in the world stopping the regime from developing nuclear weapons and that's a good thing.

Iranians and Israelis historically have been friendly, Its only since this regime got the power that has changed, and i do understand why, because Iran has been threatening to wipe Israel off the map almost everyday.
Hey, what podcast is that?
> Strictly speaking, Iran is not a nation-state. It is a multiethnic state.

Switzerland, Britain, ...

Strictly speaking, you need to consult the dictionary.

noun: a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory: leading industrialized nations.

Iran checks multiple boxes on that list.

As for US, is it really a nation or is it a corporate spin off? Curious, too, how those 13 bars ended up as 13 "states"..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company
You should try running an Arm64 OS and then using ExaGear (Linux VM) or just run your x86_64 app (Windows).

Forget about full system emulation, especially with Qemu’s approach which doesn’t leverage the host MMU. Emulating an MMU alone is very costly perf-wise. That means that you should use an arm64 OS and then use an x86 compat layer on it.

For Qemu’s user mode emulation, it doesn’t exactly provide good performance either. But it is still much better than full system emulation.
The privacy violation is Bob being careless and losing the message to Eve. That isn't caused by the internet, it's caused by Bob.

When Eve has the message, privacy is already lost. Preventing Eve from spreading it around is technologically equivalent to censorship at that point so then you're just proving the original formulation.

It doesn't mean you can insert just anything. "The net interprets beef as damage and routes around it." If you're an animal activist you might like for that to be true, but that's not really how it works.
No my friend, if a crypto project is audited by the founders, an independent team, and a government team, all in initial agreement, there should be no way for corruption at a later time to change it. That's what I'm talking about.
Don't go mixing corrupt people with the non-corrupt.
But they had no trouble making two bombs to drop on japan?
> I'd bet there are hundreds or thousands of genius programmers living in Russia, Brazil, the Balkans, Guatemala and many other countries that simply couldn't land a job at FAANG even if they wanted to.

I could make more money as a waiter in Germany or Austria than in my devops job in the Balkans, but a) money isn't always the main motivation, especially in Europe and b) the same amount of money goes a lot further than in Silicon Valley.

It's not that comparable.
Seems we're both triggered by this emphasis on "_very_", or even use of that word at all. Obviously Iran has a variety of technical capabilities, such as evidenced by their national firewall and internal infrastructure, but are there any documented offensive campaigns successfully mounted against a foreign target?

The only attacks I know of are low brow phishing, DoS and web site defacements.
"t" "o" "r" "i" "l" would've exceeded hexadecimal. There were no capitals or numbers, so I just assumed base 26.
Indeed - however, I'm usually compiling things straight on the phone, it's not that slow. Rust can be challenging in this regard, but works acceptably well once you get dependency crates already compiled (which can require adding some swap, unfortunately).
From a rationally objective and internationally legal perspective, the military occupation of Gaza enforced through land, sea and air entirely deserve violent retaliation against the occupying force. The Gaza strip is not your land and grand delusions about your moral superiority because you are a historically persecuted people is simply not going to wash. Nor for that matter is silencing critics using fake antisemitism tactics.
DEF Con Radio
An Indian technology reporter on how he witnessed the decline of democracy
Israel -- politically divided, pluralistic society, democratic government & leader in exporting high-tech, pharma & healthcare advancements.
Iran -- repressive, despotic regime & leader in exporting terrorism.
I've encountered it a little bit, and in both cases I left as soon as I realized I wasn't going to make any more headway.

But the key is here:

> They immediately asked who was giving up this information and wanted to crack down on this perceived insubordination, rather than trying to address the issue

One of the key elements of the "boss" social role is to enforce subordination: people doing what you tell them to do. This is kind of intrinsic to the interpersonal dynamic, and it's quite hard to avoid doing at least some of the time even if you're aware of how it can be a problem.

The problem with people doing what you tell them to do is that what you tell them to do may be wrong or incomplete. You then have two choices:

- admit error. This is uncomfortable.

- increase the effort to subordinate the person so the boss does not lose face.

There are all sorts of examples and case studies of this kind of thing in command situations. Here's it causing a plane crash: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/10/asiana-airlines-to-pursue-co...
It is used as a placeholder for a to be determined keyword, not the actual one. It is usual in java enhancement papers, to avoid people concerning themselves with syntax.
You are right that I advocate for the GNU/Linux phones. However I advocate for Librem 5 more, and it should be performant enough for most use cases, including Signal in Anbox.

Otherwise you are right and Pinephone is too slow for such things. But, again, this is a fault of Moxie and imo effectively shows that Signal is not free software (no freedom to run).
“Cyber Polygon”: The WEF’s Simulation of a Coming “Cyber Pandemic”
Network Slicing: The greatest thing since sliced bread? [pdf]
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>By now, it is impossible to watch MotoGP, or Formula 1 on a SmartTV using any kind of app in either my host, or home language - my choices are streaming with DRM via custom apps on some platforms (Apple iPad, desktop browser with DRM plugins), or to subscribe for €50/month to a nonsense cable package I won't use.

In many cases, its impossible to watch certain teams, events, and entire sports even if you get cable and purchase every streaming app available in your area. You are left with no option but to pirate a stream or simply be denied the chance to watch at all.
The reduction of quality of life is already happening in permissive cities like SF, Portland, and Seattle. Public spaces are taken over by those breaking the law, and yes that very often includes “drugged low-lifes”, and it brings a host of other problems with it. As examples: a popular jogging path near me is now being avoided by women I know because men from the encampments that have taken over the park the path runs through, and sexually harass them sometimes. There are frequent posts on Next Door where some homeless person will be on camera stealing things out of peoples porches or yards, to feed their lifestyle, and police simply don’t have the resources to solve those crimes and deter further criminal acts. Graffiti and littering have increased substantially, despite littering in green spaces carrying a big fine for any law abiding citizens. Criminals that are arrested are mostly simply released in the spirit of restorative justice or similar policies, going on to repeat the same crimes against new victims.

This last year has involved a lot of blind hatred of policing and poorly thought out calls to reduce police funding all based on very rare anecdotal incidents which have been spun as data. The reality is that police forces in America have hundreds of millions of interactions with citizens and almost none of them are problematic. It do surprise that surveys show public perceptions of police brutality are incredibly skewed, far from resort (https://nypost.com/2021/02/27/cases-of-police-brutality-agai...).

I can only describe the current trend as a mass hysteria driven by biased news media and dedicated true believers, who organize on social media and real life, and end up influencing the masses into believing the same things.
Alternatively, now literally any normal fuck up at Natanz can be played off as a cyber hack for political points, and everyone unquestionably assumes that is plausible.
I’m not sure what if accounting exams / knowledge transfer between France and USA/UK, but I would strongly suggest trying to find a remote job as an accountant or even just a bookkeeper. These jobs are available and you’ll have a much easier time than retraining as a programmer.

This is a good place to start looking:

https://remote.co/remote-jobs/accounting/
Adminer is super convenient, as it fits in single php file.
I usually hear this what-aboutism argument from the people who benefit from current undemocratic regime.

If another country did/do something wrong, that doesn't justify Iran's actions. everyone is responsible for their own action and the reality is current Iranian regime has killed many thousands of it's own citizens.

Iran shutting the plane down and denying for 3 days is not justifiable by any means.

out of curiosity, what is your opinion on 1500 protesters who died during 2019-2020 protests?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Iranian_prot...

should we ignore this too because Israel also killed bunch of people?
vr is going to be an inherently smaller market not just for the cost of entry but because it's inherently hard to make it casual
It's sort of useful for sending money to Asia without losing 1.5 to 5% on transaction fees, but that doesn't involve actually investing in it
MiSTer, an open-source FPGA gaming project
If you follow the cyberwarfare space, most of the powerful attacks are actually infowar, and social engineering, and human intelligence. It's not always as technical as Stuxnet (even Stuxnet wasn't possible without information operations and human intelligence). Intelligence Gathering and Cyber Intelligence are the most effective and powerful divisions.
Nice. So JavaScript/Ajax frameworks?
There are more then a million Israeli Arabs who enjoy full citizenship rights. I fact, they enjoy more rights then the average Israeli, being able to enter West Bank freely.
Fair points. I had options in mind, casinos don’t have derivative bets afaik...
Sure, i am not claiming without ads we will not have homeless people

I am asking whether we have any proof that the advertising i dustry contributes anything substantial to the real economy, or we would be better off if these people were doing something else
Same, but pre COVID at least lots of people were expected to travel even if a video chat could be equally effective.
"Culture fit" is just another way to discriminate a candidate based on race, age, or gender.

HR from my company has explicitly told all interviewers not to use "culture fit" as a reason to disqualify a candidate presumably to avoid potential lawsuits.
This sounds like quite a complex surgery with lots of staff, and also something new and novel. If someone here is a medical expert, I’m curious what happens if someone’s trachea is damaged significantly in some incident - is there currently no “emergency” treatment for that situation?
Both keyboards do exist. The Cherokee layout is included in OSX and iOS, while Navajo is available for download. You can find pictures of Cherokee keycaps in use, and I think there were also typewriters and certainly printed type in Cherokee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_(activist)

>Gilmore famously stated of Internet censorship that "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it".

>"First Nation in Cyberspace". Time. December 6, 1993.

http://kirste.userpage.fu-berlin.de/outerspace/internet-arti...

>People who uses these new entry points into the Net may be in for a shock. Unlike the family-oriented commercial services, which censor messages they find offensive, the Internet imposes no restrictions. Anybody can start a discussion on any topic and say anything. There have been sporadic attempts by local network managers to crack down on the raunchier discussion groups, but as Internet pioneer John Gilmore puts it, "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

http://www.toad.com/gnu/

>"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

>This was quoted in Time Magazine's December 6, 1993 article "First Nation in Cyberspace", by Philip Elmer-DeWitt. It's been reprinted hundreds or thousands of times since then, including the NY Times on January 15, 1996, Scientific American of October 2000, and CACM 39(7):13.

>In its original form, it meant that the Usenet software (which moves messages around in discussion newsgroups) was resistant to censorship because, if a node drops certain messages because it doesn't like their subject, the messages find their way past that node anyway by some other route. This is also a reference to the packet-routing protocols that the Internet uses to direct packets around any broken wires or fiber connections or routers. (They don't redirect around selective censorship, but they do recover if an entire node is shut down to censor it.)

>The meaning of the phrase has grown through the years. Internet users have proven it time after time, by personally and publicly replicating information that is threatened with destruction or censorship. If you now consider the Net to be not only the wires and machines, but the people and their social structures who use the machines, it is more true than ever.

>"We make free software affordable."

>This is the slogan on the back of the first Cygnus Support T-shirt.
Sales tax isn’t collected on components of products. So an apple farm sells apples to a factory without any sales tax etc.

Taxing on point of sale is very useful if you want to capture externalities, but it’s got minimal effect on the supply chain.
Please provide the full terms before you imply the young doctor was being unreasonable. The silence was probably because you were offering an awful predatory loan, not that you were delivering the ultimate gotcha zinger.
> Again what is this based on

~170 nations that don't have the capability. Just because a 14-year old in Thailand can mount an attack doesn't mean Thailand's government or civil institutions have or utilize that capability. That makes them less than _very_ competent at it.

> Saudi Arabia targetted at least Bezos' phone

And a coup that was, likely using off-the-shelf software from an Italian company composed of engineers from two _extremely_ competent nation-states. That certainly shows how easy it is to acquire the capability, if not the competency. The KSA has been doing it for years with it's armed forces munitions and equipment.
WTH this syntax from hell... sounds even worst than cpp...
> I'm super impressed with the state of "convergence" here.

Convergence is great for productivity. Ubuntu Touch's main USP was that and I was even able to get it working in UBPorts on my nexus4[1].

It's a shame that convergence is still a hit or miss on android ecosystem, At this point of smartphone compute hardware & USB-C standardization we should be able to plug any smartphone to a monitor. At least Linux smartphone ecosystem is betting high on that.

[1] https://twitter.com/heavyinfo/status/1251048583190609920?s=2...
One of my favorite bosses got summarily fired for getting tired of the grift and telling a customer we were still in analysis on something that the founders wanted them to think was well underway. This wasn’t the first time and our code was on the way to intractable due to layers of expediencies.

When a bunch of us quit 18 months later, we had stuck around for 6 months for a bonus that worked out to about 7-8 weeks’ pay. As we sat around having a beer down the road, I asked if it was worth it to stay the extra six months. Almost 3/4 said no.
To call this a ponzi scheme is pretty disingenious, probably great for views/clicks though.

At the core a ponzi relies on guaranteed return, paid for by other investors.

Just because you might not like or understand how something works, doesn't mean it's a ponzi.
I, too, think that most sports aren't entertaining for many reasons. A lot of it has to do with their compensation structure.

But it's very much an opinion. And calling it shitty says a lot more about you than it does the sport.
Iran and Israel used to be friend, but Israel nationalize Irans asset on Israel and didn't pay back oil they took from Iran, Iran got mad that Israel stole their things and now they are sworn enemies.
I still haven't tried it, but what if you downloaded the iOS apps on the M1? Wouldn't it be more containerized if you ran those apps from the phone "emulator"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdxxVxtHK2M
Actively working against US foreign policy goals seems to be a pretty egregious act. If proven true, that seems like it would seriously erode or destroy the US alliance with Israel. There's a lot of institutional weight towards support of Israel, but that action would make them an enemy of US foreign interests.
Interesting read. The Basilica of San Clemente, which the author spends some time describing, was the basis for the fictional "Basilica di San Tommaso" in Ngaio Marsh's 1970 novel "When in Rome" -- a nice read for those who enjoy the murder mystery genre, history and archaeology.
The part about cheating was tongue in check, self modifying code makes writing printable executables easier.

An excuse to avoid it is that some operative system are trying to enforce W^X, so executable code can't be modified. (But I think the real reason is that he wanted the harder challenge.)
In my experience with trying to watch sports streams in Germany the experience of paying for it is usually worse than using some random IPTV provider.

Until last year Eurosport had a horrible app where instead of watching the segments you want you had half an hour of the previous event in there just because something ran longer and it was cut at pre-determined times.

For F1 it's even worse as F1 TV (the official streaming service of the F1) is now not available in Germany any more and has been replaced by a Sky Sport subscription that costs three times more per year than before. As someone who prefers to watch Sky UK's F1 coverage there's really no way around paying for pirated streams from some random IPTV provider every month. Funnily enough the official F1 TV service was mostly unusable or down during the race weekends while the pirated streams were working well and with faster loading times.
I can take a stab at it, there are potentially political motives to why a politician might want data that would bolster the perception of police misconduct.
Start with a scene that does not move your body fluidly — just do teleporting and stand up and look around. You may have a friend who says “oh the only way to play Half Life Alyx is to play with smooth locomotion”.. yea that’s fine for people who have gotten used to that but not for people new to VR. Smooth locomotion is like being on a boat but you can’t feel the rocking of the boat. Better to use teleporting mode. It also depends upon headset. Valve Index at 120 or 144Hz helps.
The boss role does not have to enforce subordination, there's multiple styles of management which encourage self-leadership in terms of what people work on and how they do it. I'm personally a fan of David Marquet's "Leader-Leader" style.

But, because so many people expect to be subjugated in their roles it does require some hurdles to get past normal societal expectations and not everyone is a fit for it, some people just want a task list and to be told what to do. I think the world could be a better place if we could effectively help people sort into the companies with the leadership style that best suits their working style.
This is what I was trying to do:

c:\> echo ABCDEFG > file.txt
c:\> ren file.txt file.exe
c:\> file.exe

DOSBOX: Exit to error: Illegal GRP4 Call 5

Now. Imagine that you study very hard raw machine code and find a new string (replacing ABCDEFG), which constitute valid EXE-header and a piece of code, which does not cause error and does something useful.

And useful thing here was to interpret letter-pairs in the string as hexadecimal numbers, so you then can write any program you want.

Did this help any?
How big are the files?

The old version of the application that was written before my version always wrote the entire file like you do. But when the file got very large it was too slow, which was why we used SQLite in newer versions.
>These are probably the most highly guarded facilities in Iran

This seems unlikely. Iran's nuclear facilities aren't overly important compared to things like their oil production or likely any military facility, and there is incredibly detailed information available about the site in question as a result of many nuclear inspections.
Bellingcat launders intelligence agencies talking points to media
It certainly is.. but now let's go talk to your insurance company and see how they feel about covering the loss.
Prompts for Brainstorming Startup Ideas
Not sure I understand the argument here. I'm clearly talking about current/ongoing efforts, not decisions made 15 years ago. Anecdotal evidence doesn't change the fact that I witnessed huge cross-cutting efforts to improve privacy. At Facebook's scale, it's not exactly an overnight process.
Israel is not against a nuclear agreement in principal. They want to make sure it has enough teeth that it can and will be enforced and that it doesn’t expire like the current one does.

This is the same reason most of the gulf states are against the nuclear deal in its current form.
No. Their security model does not meet the baseline security needs of our clients.
Republicans will never back down on Israel, regardless of how they affect out policies.
> document.interestCohort

If that's an actual way to access it, "undefined" will have to be acceptable due to browsers that don't support it.