skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They could have contacted a core maintainer and explained to them what they planned to do. That core maintainer could have then spoken to other senior core maintainers in confidence (including Greg and Linus) to decide if this type of pentest was in the best interest of Linux and the OSS community at large. That decision would need to weigh the possibility of testing and hardening Linux's security review process against possible reputational damage as well as alienating contributors who might quite rightly feel they've been publicly duped.

If leadership was on board, they could have then proceeded with the test under the supervision of those core maintainers who ensure introduced security holes don't find their way into stable. The insiders themselves would abstain from reviewing those patches to see if review by others catches them.

If leadership was not on board, they should have respected the wishes of the Linux team and found another high-visibility open-source project who is more amenable to the project. There are lots of big open-source projects to choose from, the kernel simply happens to be high-profile.
Neat, appears to occupy a similar niche as Alpine: https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine
Will Quantum Computing Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
People commonly withdraw thousands of dollars and then disappear from online banking or bank-card use, if they leave to travel for some months in e.g. sub-Saharan Africa or Andean villages where all transactions will be made in cash.
I saw that, it leaves out a lot. In production you'll need something that formats the response and handles errors, which means defining a custom Event Source. It seems like the functionality quickly returns to traditional javascript when any normal amount of complexity is required.
Canada's M1 is up 27%, M2 up 20% over the last 12 months. They aren't printing nearly as much as the US but it's still dramatic vs prior years.
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Interactive matplotlib style file editor
I definitely agree – none of my hypotheses make for a good reason. I'm just wondering if there's anything technical behind what seems to be a quite stubborn decision that also sticks out (as everything else has controllable privacy options).

Another weird decision is that read receipts are not possible to be deactivated in group chats, but there is no explanation for that that I could think of (delivery receipts might be required for faster encryption key ratcheting, but the read status has no significance at all for the protocol).
Even the smartest and savviest of people read the tealeaves wrong sometimes: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/2585-facebook-is-not-worth-33... .. or.. does this just prove what a bubble it is!? ;-) More on this one at https://twitter.com/benedictevans/status/1261617044648329216
True, but this took thousands of years. We could domesticate descendents of polar bears, perhaps. But those would no longer be polar bears.

Also, injuries and even deaths from dogs are still quite common, and polar bears (and their hypothetical domesticated descendents) are a lot stronger.
But none of those things are very recent.
So aren’t there tests and code reviews before pushing them to the Stable code base?
Look at real estate listings in many smaller Midwest cities and you’ll see large inventories of very nice, very affordable homes.

What? No, it’s the opposite. Suburban and rural homes have seen major price jumps in the past year while the most expensive cities have stagnated or dropped. For example Western MI has seen more price growth than the city of SF in the past year.
Pundits have been making this argument since 2010 about runaway inflation and about prices being unsustainable. Yet prices keep going up and inflation remains low. Maybe it is best to just ignore those people. There is no evidence either of USD decline either. Foreign currencies, especially currencies of emerging markets, have fallen considerably against the dollar in recent years.

If there is runaway inflation, real estate would be a good hedge. Inflation is not really a concern for Americans because all global wealth tends to be measured in US dollars anyway. It's not like Americans become poorer due to inflation, because all their wealth is denominated in dollars.
My red and yellow carts still have original batteries too, and the saved games still work perfectly (as of two years ago when I last checked). The only thing I might say "oh well" about losing is the official Mew I got from some Pokemon event at a mall, but I don't even have the certificate that it came with so it doesn't really matter.
>By printing it and buying government securities?

They also printed money to buy billions $ worth of corporate bonds like General Electric Ford, GM, AT&T, etc:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22federal+reserve%22+buys+c...

Example list:
https://www.investopedia.com/the-fed-s-corporate-bond-portfo...
I was about to say, this article makes perfect sense to me. The Daily Mail is one of my last choices of news, and I generally don’t use it as a source at all. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google’s algos have figured out the same thing many of us have…
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Do you mean any one of your contacts? or anyone who has your phone number? And I'm still confused about the definition of "online" and how that can give anyone an understanding of you.
More units available means lower rental prices (in general), which means renters should be able to save more money to purchase a home later. There's a big assumption baked in there that condos & houses don't get snapped up by existing landlords or rise in price faster than the savings rate of renters. But that's the thinking.
> But we have always known that someone with sufficient cleverness may be able to slip vulnerabilities past reviewers of whatever project.

...which is why the interestingness of this project depends on how clever they were - which I'm not able to evaluate, but which someone would need to before they could possibly invalidate the idea.

> (and unethical)

How is security research unethical, exactly?
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With Android phones you could possibly use an app like NoRoot Firewall to cut off net access for the app when you want to appear offline. Unfortunately that's a pretty "advanced" use of apps for the average consumer and definitely not a replacement for building this in natively.
Same. OP says "going to die soon" of a framework that's been around for 9 years and is being invested in heavily. I've been working on Xamarin projects for years and have done very well with it.

Doing consulting I've done plenty of projects in React Native and played with Flutter a bit but Xamarin really is a great framework.
This is a little like "they thought Gailileo was a crank." Yeah but they thought a lot of other people were cranks and you don't know them because they were.
">>Why would someone vote the same if system is clearly corrupt."

Because the system is not "clearly corrupt", it's just a human organization and it's always going to be some corruption and inefficiency (public or private). You just have to strive to improve it.

">>What do you mean by have no power. Its not mandatory for me to own certain stocks like it is mandatory for some ppl to go to a govt hospital. "

In your analogy, selling stocks is basically leaving the country, that's something that you can do also normally, but probably is better to try to improve it. I believe, that big stockholders practice something called activist investment, where they push for changes.

I don't think there is any country in the world where is mandatory to go to the hospital, but there is some where not hospital is available to part of the population.
You have a 401K. Investing in a taxable account need not be much different -- you can open a brokerage account and buy ETFs or the mutual funds available on the broker platform. Depending on your tax bracket, municipal bonds may be indicated over taxable bonds for the bond portion of your portfolio.

You can of course buy individual stocks, which can be interesting but which typically produces a lower Sharpe ratio due to underdiversification.
I could absolutely believe that there is a "quality" ranking that pushes Daily Mail stories down because the domain contains such poor quality content, or that the pages are loaded down with so much crap that people hit 'back' almost immediately after clicking on one of their links.

That said, and as much as it pains me to side with the Daily Mail on anything, I think there's an interesting argument to be made here that Google's "quality" ratings are entirely opaque and the public should be given better access to them.
"Buyers are competing against other buyers with seemingly unlimited cash offers. "

So this should be the alarm bell that contradicts the argument.

In 2008 the Fed took what was then seen as a 'generational' bump in assets on it's balance sheet, namely bad real estate, effectively bailing out banks and home-owners, and arguably exasperating inequality.

But the money printing going due to COVID has dwarfed everything, to the point of multi-generational consequence, and what we might argue is a 'New Financial World Order'.

The Central Bank realignment due to COVID may be as significant as the start/end of Bretto-Woods etc. because the degree of social intervention is on an unimaginable scale. Aside from the 'raw numbers' it means social intervention and governmental direction of the economy like we have not seen since WW2 but this time without the obvious and easy infrastructural and educational adjustments to make: in the 1950's there were no highways - so they got build, and nobody had College degrees so getting former Officers/NCO's into College was a no-brainer.

Interest rates have been going down, and historically lower since the end of Bretton Woods, and they are now in the range of where it's causing considerable strain with massive leveraging, negative central bank overnight rates etc..

The result of this is a 'primary driver' of the Housing Boom, and it's the same thing happening in almost all asset class.

Or in other words: we are playing flirting dangerously with real, scary inflation, it's just happening in our homes so we think it's all good.

COVID has caused us to 'look the other way' with regards to financial reality, which is understandable, but that can't go on forever.

I am not a supporter of Crypto, BTC or any of the like, and I generally loathe the anti-fiat fanaticism etc. because I don't think these arguments are data driven or made in good faith, however, COVID has brought a lot of credibility to the fiat debauching concerns.

Housing prices are one element of that.
I have a feeling that methods of patching the Linux kernel is a concept most members of IRB boards wouldn't understand at all. It's pretty far outside their wheelhouse.
their next paper 'How alienating open-source community led us to a career in academia'
I saw this linked a few days ago here on HN (since I look at "new" sometimes). The thread didn't get much traction but it seems like it might be right up your alley. No affiliation with the author, but it covers a lot of the basics and gives you a good starting point to do more of your own research.

https://www.danhacks.com/money/simple-investing.html
yes, thank you; you said that far better than I did.

... it's always SUPER clear in my mind when I type the words, but I can never quite communicate correctly.
Nearly half of malware now use TLS to conceal communications
Lately with Gmail they've actually taken an account that I didn't have a phone number inputted for, but accessed on my android device, and have instituted 2-factor authentication based on that phone.
I'm on the RedwoodJS core team and can 100% confirm early performance issues. That's no longer been the case recently. I've seen bulk operations perform just fine and even data pipeline use cases. Now the issue is DB performance in a serverless infra, which needs extra set up and config to perform consistently and at scale.
> And then you have to do it timely enough to beat other offers.

This is an understatement. My mother's neighbor sold their house within 2 hours of it going on the market and for $20k over the asking price just last week. There are realtors asking around my neighborhood if anyone is getting ready to sell because there are buyers looking to purchase in here. This is even with developments going up like crazy. This is in a northern state away from the big cities.

> Also, inventory is drying up because construction has been heavily affected by the pandemic.

Not around here.
I am honestly surprised anything like this can pass the ethic committee. The reputational risk seems huge.

For example, in economics departments there is usually a ban on lying to experiment participants. Many of them even explicitly explain to participants that this is a difference between economics and psychology experiments. The reason is that studying preferences is very important to economists, and if participants don’t believe that the experiment conditions are reliable, it will screw the research.
so this is just a bootable thing that runs Tetris? Does it do anything to run/control the hardware?
you can do this for any snapshop of time, it is only now that socia media makes events that decades ago would have gone ignored, major news.
I think it's pretty clear what I'm trying to achieve. I'm trying to get you guys to implement an account deletion button in user settings like you should have. I should not have to expose my personal email by contacting you in order to do so. How would you even know the request was legit? I have no email associated with my account.
If you don't put it in the RFC then you'll end up with five different solutions to this problem from five different vendors, and a nice 5x5 matrix of new hilarious edge cases when these are talking to each other and something wonky is happening to the TCP session.
you are, but you don't know it since you are inside
I remember reading about this decades ago. I guess it's still being discussed?

Short summary of the theory:

Trees are largely made of thin air ;-) : Carbon Dioxide provides the required (C)arbon, water that rains out of the air provides (H)ydrogen and (O)xygen, and (N)itrogen fixated from the air provides the basis for amino acids. This covers about 99% of the chemicals in the woody parts.

Young trees want to grow a lot, so they make a lot of lignin and cellulose. These consist of C, H, and O. Once trees have grown tall enough, they tend to slow down, so you'd expect them to not grab as much carbon anymore.
One of the more robust ways to detect a bubble is by constructing a price index that summarizes market activity without getting distorted by short term changes. Perhaps the most respected housing price index is Case-Schiller house price index which currently indicates the market is somewhere between 150% to 200% above historic valuations. Since housing is something all need and is generally supported by incomes there is no reason to think that the current relatively high prices are robust and will endure. This article also points out that there is an imbalance between demand and supply which means that any large scale increase in supply is likely to moderate demand and market prices.
They answer to this objection as well. Same section:

> Honoring maintainer efforts. The OSS communities are understaffed, and maintainers are mainly volunteers. We respect OSS volunteers and honor their efforts. Unfortunately, this experiment will take certain time of maintainers in reviewing the patches. To minimize the efforts, (1) we make the minor patches as simple as possible (all of the three patches are less than 5 lines of code changes); (2) we find three real minor issues (i.e., missing an error message, a memory leak, and a refcount bug), and our patches will ultimately contribute to fixing them.

And, coming to ethics:

> The IRB of University of Minnesota reviewed the procedures of the experiment and determined that this is not human research. We obtained a formal IRB-exempt letter.
Proper analogy would be 'rude SWAT team', not 'rude bank tellers'.
The matter is conserved: it becomes soil. Most of the carbon an individual plant absorbed when it was growing will become soil when it dies and decays. (Should note "absorbed" here refers to the carbon that became part of the structure of the plant - not the carbon the plant breathed in. Plants breath out most of the carbon they breath in.)
Yes, it releases some of it during the decay process, but a lot of it (most of it) does get sequestered even after death. That's where humus comes from. And it's pretty easy to meassure that. And for deciduous trees, they are sequestering yearly as the leaves they drop decay.

It wouldn't surprise me if the amount that is being sequestered is being overestimated in many studies, but the mechanism for it happening is pretty clear and that it is happening is pretty incontrovertible - it falls right out of the chemical math - and I would be much more likely to question any study that questioned that than to question that mechanism itself.

It's really frustating to me that what is being posted here is basically just a headline and not even an abstract unless you have a subscription to Nature.
That is expressly the opposite goal of open source. If you arbitrarily say foo user cannot use your software, then it is NOT open source. That's more like source-available.

Nobody would continue to use linux if they randomly banned people from using it, regardless of the reason.

[side note] This is why I despise the term "open source". It obscures the important part of user freedom. The term "Free/libre software" is not perfect, but it doesn't obscure this.
Patreon is relatively hands off with content though. They do absolutely own the financial relationship with your customers, but their podcast support is still just an RSS feed that can be played anywhere that supports adding by feed.
"Real" === "fits my biases"
There's a real cost. What's your estimate for going through each of these 190 patches individually, looking at the context of the code change, and whether the "ref counting or whatever" bug fix is real, and doing some real testing to ensure that?

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210421130105.1226686-1-gregkh...

That looks like quite some significant effort. Now if most of those fixes were real, now after the revert there will be 190 known bugs in the kernel, before it's all cleaned up. That may have some cost too.

Looks like a large and expensive mess someone other than that UNI will have to clean out, because they're not trustworthy, ATM.
By this definition France and 1990s Seattle would be terrible places to live.

The opioid epidemic is potentially a real indicator of immiseration (not the same thing as misery btw), but I don't know much about it.
I think the attack is:

- mass record all these requests

- offline, recover the phone numbers or email addresses

⇒ you know who was where, when.
One neat thing about ISO 8601 that I learned recently is durations. For example, "P1M" is a 1 month duration. These can be used in frameworks like Rails to store durations in the database for things like subscriptions and then parsed:

dt = Time.parse('2021-02-01 00:00:00 UTC')
dt + ActiveSupport::Duration.parse('P1M')
=> 2021-03-01 00:00:00 UTC

This takes care of calculating what a "month" actually is, instead of erroneously adding 30 days in seconds to the datetime, which can result in an inconsistent billing cycle:

dt + 30.days.to_i
=> 2021-03-03 00:00:00 UTC
Deel raises $156m at $1.25B valuation
Foxconn mostly abandons $10B Wisconsin project touted by Trump
Are Things That Bad for Millennials?
I think the point was the case should not be thrown out because the judge doesn't like the plaintiff but only if the case is baseless. You can't judge the validity of a case just because preconceived notions about the plaintiff.
I agree to an extent. But that amounts to basically "trickle down economics" that protects the incumbents (large banks, many of which are foreign, mortgage issuers, etc). Notice how you don't really see any new banks being created? Why are bank stocks up 30% from pre-pandemic levels?

Put this into context. The 12 trillion in new spending/money allocation due to covid results in $36,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States. The government could have cut a 5 figure check to every person in America to deal w/ the fallout, or a fraction of the people most affected. Instead we decided to give it to large institutions. And we're arguing over 1,200 vs 1,600 stimulus checks.
you can renovate a house while it is lived in. why not an app store?

what's so bad about learning what your weaknesses are and then fixing them?
Your computer fan is as loud as a lawn mower? You can't have a conversation in your room while your fan is running? What?
Ignorance was a theme of many past bubbles. In the 20's it was the common man not understanding stocks. In the 80s it was "Savings and Loans are just banks, they're safe!". '08 it was "They wouldn't give me a mortgage if it wasn't a good decision". In all bubbles you see a few shrewd hawks and millions of lemmings - that's where all the money comes from.

In this scenario its, "There's nowhere else to put my money", but not having a better alternative doesn't necessarily make it a good investment.
I think that one of the things that distinguishes Arm from Intel (for good or bad) is that Arm _has_ left behind a lot of the legacy. aarch64 has no Thumb, Jazelle etc
In the end, the damage has been done and the Linux developers are now going back and removing all patches from any user with a @umn.edu email.

Not sure how the researchers didn't see how this would backfire, but it's a hopeless misuse of their time. I feel really bad for the developers who now have to spend their time fixing shit that shouldn't even be there, just because someone wanted to write a paper and their peers didn't see any problems either. How broken is academia really?
I think it is because many labs in CS departments do very little research involving human subjects (e.g. a machine learning lab or a theory lab), so within those labs there isn't really an expectation that everything goes through IRB. Many CS graduate students likely never have to interact with IRB at all, so they probably don't even know when it is necessary to involve IRB. The rules for what requires IRB involvement are also somewhat open to interpretation. For example, surveys are often exempt depending on what the survey is asking about.
If anything google should downgrade the daily mail even more. Not for its content (which i personally dislike, but censorship is a risky business), but rather for its spammy practices and clickbait titles.
Not sure when you used ActiveRecord, but slow query logging helps a lot to identify these issues. I also appreciate that in the docs for ActiveRecord they make it very clear that jumping to raw SQL is absolutely fine and normal, and they make the interface for doing that very nice.
It's been a long time since I saw this usage of the word "plonk". Brought back some memories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet)
That will only work for a short time. Those young men will still have their grandfathers' rich Sicilian blood coursing through their veins. When they return home - and they will - armed with military training and experience, and with all the fury one might reasonably expect of a young man witnessing the deliberate genocide of his people, there will be hell to pay.

The demographic replacement across Europe is progressing very well, I think it would be a mistake to train and incite young European men in any way. Patience is key now. Shalom.
Had a look at those. I see a lot of political discourse, which is certainly related to economic prosperity, but only vaguely... Has the quality of life declined in the US? Have future prospects generally declined? If either of those is yes, we could be in big trouble..