skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> messing with oil

That is an incredible understatement. Disrupting key infrastructure would be considered an act of war if it was done by a state actor. I'm not sure what the equivalent characterization would be for a non-state actor.

I do realize that in this case, as reported, the hack involved the IT systems and not the operational systems but I think my point still stands.
apple is right, we should ban rentseeking on app platforms entirely. Let them charge fees for actual products and services like code reviews and phones. Then they should deliver security protocols that must be enforced by alternative app shops on their platform.
The language people use to express themselves is important; forming reasonable arguments is an important skill.

Falling back on strong emotional language like actively harms is a crutch - unless well-supported by facts or reasoning.

Also they don't "suggest" a remedy, they demand it, and their demand is backed by their unsupported claim of "actively harms".
Not unlike the golden age of piracy with "privateers".
He also ran a great bookstore, as the article says. As a resident of Washington, I absolutely understand that he couldn't pay Georgetown rents much longer. As an occasional book buyer (not of the really pricey stuff), I regret his moving the store to Archer City.

And he was quite a memoirist: Books, Literary Life, Reading Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen.
A 68K news scrape of a Google News redirect of a Newsweek article. Original:

https://www.newsweek.com/aaa-warns-gas-prices-north-carolina...
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Napoleon blundered the Russian campaign, and as a direct result the Spanish one. Which got him to Elba. Only to come back and get a very close loss at Waterloo. That makes two serious defeats. All other campaigns were won since Egypt. Wellington was a worthy opponent so.

Was he power hungry? Sure. More than others? I don't think so, just more successful. Russia, at that time, was the only continental power left as a potential ally of the British. Which had opposed the French in every single war before. So yes, it was a viable campaign. One that cost him everything in the end. It was, IMHO, the last period which allowed for decisive battles. And Napoleon was really good at those.

He had issues in diplomacy. No surprise as the upstart among old nobility, so. And his economic policies were lacking as well. Doesn't mean that he is among the best military leaders so far. And again, a lot of his policies were really progressive. And sure, he built upon the Revolution. Nobody exists in a vacuum, Alexander built on his father's achievements. Ceasar on the Roman Republic. Just like everyone else.
Liability for what? Burn-outs? They are liable. When the company goes bust they lose their money.
Seems challenging because we’d need to first agree on the definition of “original”, “done” and “good”.

Also, the original iPod had less space than a Nomad. Lame.
The moment they realize they made a grave tactical error by interrupting the US fuel supply must have been terrifying. They painted a big X on their backs and will probably never find peace again.
The hackers who locked an hospital and caused the death of a woman in Germany also promised to be more careful next time.
The biggest revelation to me is that dinosaur bones get auctioned off to private buyers. That one could purchase a T-Rex tooth for about $3k USD seems incredibly cool to me.
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Somewhat similar: After a ransomware attack on a German hospital where one person died as a consequence, the attackers gave away the encryption key for free.

> The attackers reportedly withdrew the extortion demand and provided a decryption key to unlock the servers. The justice minister report said that the attackers are no longer reachable.

https://www.wired.com/story/a-patient-dies-after-a-ransomwar...
Why is a new currency needed for that? All I see is handwavy explanations with zero actual details about how a new digital currency would let us do anything that we can't do more easily without adding a new currency.
> I'm sure Putin will never do anything to them while they are in Russia,

Was this confirmed as a Russian hacker group? The article only states that:

> Biden also said that although U.S. intelligence had found no evidence to link the attack with the Russian government, he believed the country had "some responsibility to deal with" the issue since some evidence did indicate that the ransomware may have originated in Russia.

So basically the US authorities have no proof but their leader "believes" that the Russians are behind it.
I loved our rental apartment when I lived in Finland!
For those who had never been there, here's what we had:
Studio flat with a kitchen and decent size bathroom. Nothing special so far. There were 2 storey basement: 1 floor for bikes, some bulky stuff, while the second,much colder,for food storage. There was also a laundry room: semi-industrial washing machine, thumble drier, some ironing device and a spacious clothes drying room with a dehumidifier. Even though all the apartments had washing machines, to have a dedicated space for this was super useful. The there was a sauna too for an additional €15/month. The playgrounds for kids outside were really nice and I even saw how they replaced perfectly fine slides and other equipment with brand new stuff. All of this in an area with apartment blocks built in 70-80s on cheap. In London you'd need to pay a fortune to have something similar. Finland always felt like designed for people,not the other way around.
I agree and I can't fathom why this is an unpopular opinion. It's bad enough when my phone or computer suddenly works differently (or not at all!) due to mandatory OTA update. It'd be terrifying if it my car's safety features could do the same.
The dependency chain of modern Node projects is bewildering, and I wouldn't expect most developers to sift through the lockfiles and take note of every single dependency in the tree. (And I acknowledge this is an issue with the ecosystem)
harbor freight is excellent for some things, and abysmal for others. my cart saved my back, it's worth every penny of the 20 or so dollars. The dremel bits were just trash - I couldn't get one use out of them, same with the bench grinder.
why does a discord full of 15 year olds need to look professional?
Only emojis, no text. Emojis are safe I think.
So, don't play the game! My formula = (1) live in slightly cheaper neighbourhood. Your kids will be at school with a healthy diversity of people. (2) If you drive, something uncool / old-but-reliable. That's 2 big costs reduced. Then, develop and nurture a long-shelf-life vendor-independent skillset e:g Linux, command-line, python which'll always be in demand. If your employer then demands crazy hours, easier to walk away. Less well-paid university or gov't jobs may be the answer. BTW there's a conflict in the treadmill argument. Companies that push harder and harder will eventually fail if important people burn out. I worked in the USA for a bit. Sometimes I blatantly left earlier than my colleagues. Cos the mountains beckoned. Possibly annoyed some management. Didn't get fired though. Cos had good skills! Good luck don't let The Man win. ;)
Imagine a world where the hackers form a union in order to have more input into their targets.
> How would you support formatted text in email, then?

RFC 1896 specifies text/enriched: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1896

And of course nowadays there is Markdown, which basically codifies a lot of earlier plain-text formatting conventions.

> Please don't say "there shouldn't be formatted text in email." That's not a reasonable position.

I don’t know about that, really. We got by fine with plain text messages for decades, and the formatting conventions were good enough to convey meaning and nuance.
Why do you think 11K is a lot? If you compare how much companies make thanks to this project, I am curious why don't they make 100K a month?
"We're just ordinary criminals, not political criminals"

Fair enough. Off to jail with the lot of you then.

Making money has nothing to do with what these guys do they are stealing money.
Well, it seems pretty much certain that faster than light travel is impossible. Otherwise one of those 60 million would have been making noise of some kind.
Do you believe people have a right to privacy in their financial transactions? Even if you don't, many people do, and prior to cryptocurrencies there was no way for people to conduct online transactions with privacy.

By your logic, cash should be completely banned because some crimes wouldn't be possible if all transactions took place through police-monitored electronic systems. Encryption should be completely banned because without encryption it wouldn't be possible for criminals to communicate online.
If they didn’t say this, this could be construed as an attack on America and label them as enemies of the state or even terrorists.
If attacks of this nature are possible, they will happen. The problem is that they are possible. There is no excuse for the state of security - either in software or administration, or both - that leaves these vulnerabilities waiting to be exploited.
How is Russia involved?
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Or Modula-2, NEWP, BASIC, or really most languages that aren't copy paste compatibel with C.

Ada suffered from its domain, original price of compilers, and the few UNIX vendors that cared to offer compiler like Sun, it was an additional acquisiation on top of UNIX SDK.

Everyone knows that only newbies do coding errors in C, so why spend the extra money? /s
Ross ran afoul of the FBI. Attacking a gas pipeline is somewhere between a terrorist attack and a military attack. If I were them I’d be less concerned about the FBI and more about being declared a terrorist and being put on a kill list.
For the visually impaired, it's not "difficult" to use, it's closer to "impossible" to use.

By toning back the language, you've made it sound like whining and not a legitimate concern. You make it easy to ignore.
I wonder what hope we have for making probes that will last longer (i.e., “do science even deeper in space”) than Voyager 1, Voyager 2, and New Horizons. Specifically, whether we can make RTGs or other power sources that last longer and/or scientific instruments that operate with lower power (without compromising on quality or quantity of observations). Maybe there just isn’t much science to do beyond the Kuiper Belt (or rather, getting 50 years beyond the Kuiper Belt doesn’t improve science much more than making the same observations from the KB itself due to the vastness of space)?
Technology is not a magic fix
It has everything to do with the character, since he provides no evidence for what he says, we have to trust him. Therefore, the first question we must ask is: is this person trustworthy?
He is no longer involved.
Apology? It’s time for Congress to “issue letters of marque and reprisal”.
For what it's worth, I realize that's the official story, but I'm somewhat skeptical based on the response and warnings we've seen.
Theming makes it really hard to update the software in any substantial way. Even the slightest change to the design could end up breaking themes, or being drawn as white text on white background, etc.

I think it’s natural that it was more common when auto-updating software wasn’t the norm.
"We did not realize that the toe we poked was attached to an extremely large bear. Furthermore, we had never even realized that our chimney's diameter was slightly larger than that of an AGM-65. For that, we and our protectors are extremely sorry.

Until we can shift our assets and upgrade our chimney, we promise to refrain from poking large-ish toes. Nevertheless, we do poke toes, so we must continue to poke small ones.

We are sure that everyone understands the nuanced and unexpected realities of our predicament, especially those voters who can't get to work today."
I remember there being a similar statement after a hospital ransomware attack last made the news here. Now that I'm looking for it there are a lot of hospital ransomware attacks that didn't show up on my radar.

It makes sense from a pure self-serving rational perspective. They don't want to become target of a well-funded investigation or be held responsible for damages above and beyond some unimportant business network. They want to blend in with the background of 1000 other ransomware attacks per day and make money.
Then you have post viral syndrome which is common with viruses. If you've ever had a common cold or flu you would know. I had a simple cold and had fatigue for months. It just lingered and lingered
Dex isn't bad. I use it from time to time. It's really not much different from a chromebook. I'd use a dex laptop if it was available.
And that's the long story: tech is continuing to give individuals the powers only states had in the past. States are unsure how to respond. In addition, this allows actual states to attack other states and use individuals or small groups as shields.

Not an easy place to be.
Yeah, and Ada/SPARK performs those checks people are hyped about (and more) at compile-time! Honestly, Ada does everything those languages do (regarding safety), and does more and does it better (again, talking about safety and correctness here). If you want evidence, check out my posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19122884 (!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19245898 (!!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19274244 (!!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19274412

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19770405

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20776296

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20934511 (!!) [3]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20939336 (!!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21286061

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21286292

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21435869 (!)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23609499 (!!)
> $132,000 is almost double my salary is the UK.

If that's true, then you should probably have a word with your employer. Typical dev pay is 80k (~$120k) or twice as that if contracted.
contribution in general doesn't have to be "code" related.
C programmers are well known to refer to such programming safety as straighjacket since the Pascal days anyway.

There was more than enough time to learn why it was the right option to start with.
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It becomes unfair when domination in one market allows you to directly affect competitors in another different market.
Is it really? What about the expert, critical yet friendly review from other colleagues/competitors; the MDT meeting; the ward round? Most surgical patients have an incentive to never see the surgeon again, and the surgeon is strongly incentiveised to avoid having to see them again in the immediate future (i.e. to fix a postoperative bleed, etc). Is the same thing true of corporate programmers?

All metaphors are wrong. Some are useful. Is this one?
It only makes sense to have protection if you are going to have enough protection to fend off all 20 million of those zombies.
Reminds me of http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/ - Fixing ET for the 2600.
"Oops, no, sorry, we didn't mean declare war on the US. Didn't realise that oil would stop moving when we attacked an oil pipeline. Please don't send the Special Forces after us. All we wanted was some BTC to trade for Doge. How do we restart this level?"

Sounds like kids who got in way over their heads.
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These groups are oddly professional. Excellent "customer" service and they care a lot about their reputation. Well, at least their reputation in reliably unlocking the data. It makes sense when you look at them as a business interested in making money. It's better for them to stay a (relatively) minor annoyance. If they reach the level of geo-political threat then suddenly governments will devote a lot more resources to shutting them down.
1-4%? At first you are just paying almost 66% or more interest and mostly not the mortgage principal, here is an amortization calendar https://www.bankrate.com/calculators/mortgages/amortization-...

If you want leverage, you can get vastly more leverage for risky stock market trades (I am not advocating for doing that, I just think it's odd when real estate proponents talk about 'leverage' as if it's unique to buying a building)
I'm not sure declaring yourself apolitical would save you. The results are the same. Otherwise all terrorists would say "we're apolitical, we just wanted to get money off stock trades based on this news".
Perhaps due to the sun's rotation?
Proof that someone can type and change underwear at the same time.
That doesn't change their point. It just means that creating problems for society may or may not be an acceptable consequence
It's in line with the modern rule where your actions don't actually matter, you just have to state that your values are in line with popular opinions and you're automatically absolved of being a huge scumbag.
My wife is an immunologist who works on this at BioNTech. She explained it to me that this is expected and the data matches it. She explained why as well but there's a big gap in my undergrad-level understanding of bio and her phd + years of experience in the field, so it went way over my head I'm afraid.
> I caved in and replaced mutt with Thunderbird personally. Not only for properly displaying HTML, but it was a big reason. Thunderbird sucks massively for composing plain text emails though, and no simple way to integrate an external editor...

Have you considered emacs with notmuch and the Gnus renderer? It displays most HTML emails well, and when it doesn’t then a browser is just a quick ‘. b’ away. And of course there’s no need to integrate an external editor, because it’s integrated within the editor!

As a plus, it is simply amazing how quickly one can search local email.
> Have we come around yet to agreeing that all like counts are harmful — whether Facebook, Twitter, or HN?

They are, but it's hard to get people to accept this because it's based on a false economy: "this integer will determine whether I should read this comment or not." Instead, they should be asking themselves, "why am I putting up with so much garbage content? Why do I need distraction?"

The latter question can be quite unsettling.
Unless they lose more it's not liability.

Ed: I can't take the first question seriously... Is it really a serious question?
Apple has made some moves in that direction, but they have a dedicated button on the remote that takes you directly to your queue (for streaming apps that support Apple's unified queue, which is all the major streamers with the notable exception of Netflix).

That said, their UI for recommendations has gotten worse. You'd get some ML-driven suggestions pulled only from services you've marked as connected and don't need to pay extra to access, but they've pushed that set of recommendations further down the interface over time, offering up a combination of paid content, first-party content, and curated content in the mix as well, with no heed paid to what you already subscribe to.
Can you imagine taking a job at his startup. You have a bad week, run into a hard problem and start to sweat that your commit log isn't full enough.
It's also riskier for most folks to drive a car than to catch Covid. I agree that people should look at their specific case and do honest risk/benefit analysis.

Most of what I've seen, however, feels more like herd mentality behavior based on one's political leanings. Or people feeling they genuinely don't have a choice, given impending requirements and restrictions from their local governments and employers.

Edit: not sure why I'm being downvoted. It should be common knowledge at this point that people in their 20's, 30's, and 40's have a higher risk of automobile accident, suicide, drug overdose, etc, than of covid death.
And by your logic, nothing should be banned. Collectors of nuclear weapons should be allowed to enjoy their hobby in peace.

Obviously, the line is somewhere in the middle. I don't think banning Bitcoin is going to help at this stage as that Pandora's box is now open, but it's true Bitcoin is an insanely useful tool for extortion.
"X elements are impossible for me to see because of Y condition" is a perfectly legitimate piece of feedback. "X element being the wrong color is causing catastrophic harm" is insane feedback. By using silly language, they are making themselves easy to ignore.
I think you might be underestimating the cost of developing or licensing smart TV software.
Mathematical notation is not perfect, but it does a pretty good job of choosing clarity when ambiguity might be a problem. For a basic example, the fraction bar for division makes groupings obvious, where a single '/' in a long string of text can get visually lost. Of course it's understandable that most programming languages would shy away from special notation like that in favor of plain text, but it gives mathematical notation a strong clarity advantage, in my opinion.
"What do I know that gives me an advantage over the average joe?

What other resources do I have that give me an advantage over the average joe?"

What if my answers are none and none?
On the subscription page in the description of the plans when you say "Access to source files" I feel it would make sense to say "Access to Figma source files" instead, otherwise people might get a wrong idea.
I didn't downvote you, but I think people may have downvoted you because some of the points you made are either not accurate or are somewhat misleading.

* It's always been possible to buy a n95 mask at a $1k/mask price point in the US. I'm sure you never tried making that offer.

* My post was about wealth, and your reply switches this with "money," and then points out that sometimes money loses value. This is a straw man. If money has reduced value then it isn't necessarily indicative of wealth. When I talk about wealth it may be money in healthy, capitalist countries. In communist countries, wealth may take the form of political connections, of less measurable forms of power.

* The titanic scenario you propose, a zero-sum scramble for life, is not at all like the business situations we're discussing where people are typically focused on making a living through the exchange of goods and services.
I wonder when a future talking point for an electric car salesmen will be "immunity to fuel emergencies"
It depends on how you define it. Services like Substack could take a hit on them.
Having worked for a midsize customer owned cooperative with a large engineering shop, I think there is something to be said about the structure. Our board was our customers, who cared about continued support and customer service rather than quarterly earnings. Things did go downhill correlated with a new CEO, but it was a great culture to work in for a while.
Time for the regulators to step in on this one.
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> Excellent "customer" service

Do these guys offer hosting services? I'm looking to switch from Google Cloud
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Arguably, the scrape is better than the original.
When was the last time regulation protects anything?

The Security Act of 1934 created the SEC and look at the past 20 or so years and see how many scandals has happened under their watch. All big players. Look at Madoff. Whisper blower after whisper blower to the SEC and what did SEC do? They looked the other way.