skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obsidian (https://obsidian.md) also offers offline, + for free.
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Colonial Pipeline paid 75 Bitcoin, or roughly $5M, to hackers
Not quite. The attacker still got access to the system in some way. They may have a permanent backdoor now and opportunity for messing with your backup operation.
It would in incentivize more people to fight back rather than acquiesce, and therefore likely reduce the number of muggings.
Fun? Show me the fun!
Phalanx CIWS is included as part of the Aegis Combat System (as well as being used on almkst all US Navy ships without Aegis, too) so, if Phalanx can do it, Aegis can necessarily also do it.
the assumption that there is no security in open protocols is badly misinformed here.

"Hiring some guy with an infosec cert would not have stopped this attack, because there is no way to stop this kind of attack."

blovation
Backup to s3 every N hours sounds like a good trade off.
That’s retirement money. Live on an island, doing drugs and drinking champagne for the rest of your life money.

Im in the wrong line of work.
> You can say "well that's their fault for mucking with the input to bcrypt" but I bet most people would believe that kind of operation was safe before it's explained to them why it's not.

What makes you think this foolish developer would not do the exact same thing before sending the data to an externally hosted auth service?
This is no different from how Amazon does targeted compensation, where rising stock price means you get less/no refresher and raises, or all-cash comp at Netflix.

It's catering to more risk-averse candidate pool.
> When a business goes under, the employees have just lost their abilities to feed themselves, keep a roof over their heads, see doctors, buy medicine and provide for their families.

Yes, but that's always the risk of working at any company (and it's a risk the investor may also have if the company goes under). You can typically just get a new job and get these things back.

I think an even more compelling argument here is the one of opportunity cost when working for a startup vs big FAANG company.

Early startup tech employees not only invest their time but also lose out on real money they would have earned at another (bigger) company.
My searching is failing, but I believe a similar scheme was uncovered in a popular app using a 'strings' equivalent. It would run through intents on iOS and Android to figure out what was installed. Interesting to see if on the web too!
Is that not how a human's perception of love is? Even if you think you're the most logical person in the world you find it hard to explain why you feel so much for a random person. Seems very realistic
Both are fine, if you remove the comma in your example, but the one used in the article puts the focus on "eating" first. It's also more interesting to read: "By eating them..." (who ate who or what?) ..."hyenas gathered neanderthal skeletons" (oh good, interesting archeology, I'll check it out) etc.
You can push a list of revoked tokens to each server (similar to how certificate revocation lists work with (m)TLS).
Or if you're running a service which can't wait. Like a medical clinic with no access to patient records.
I think it should be 100% the wearer's choice whether they want to show the world their face or not. Saying 'thank you' to someone opening the door is just as good as a smile. Nobody 'owes' anyone else anything.
The lawsuits are usually against incredibly wealthy corporations. It's best to make sure your case is air tight before going up against the best lawyers money can buy.
I'm assuming the charities get a better rate, but typical home kits cost about $200... Not cheap to give out for free even if they get a 75% bulk discount. They're also not likely to get money from people like this who were deliberately working the system to avoid paying.

Not only that, but insurance will often cover services like GeneSight that do this specifically as a health service.
https://www.cultofmac.com/465778/today-in-apple-history-stev...
The proper Milton Friedman / Reagan capitalism solution is to let the hacked oil company to bankrupt, wipe out the cap table and then competent new owners can take over for cheap
org-babel should fit the bill.
Yeah, that was bad browser for a developer who wanted to code only by standards. But in the other hand, back then when IE6 was released - it was the best.
That was exactly my point. They are part of your compensation package. Surely there is a risk that the severance is not enough to cover for coping with a depressed job market.

Investors operate outside of these parameters. When it works out well , lucky you; but if it doesn't work you lose. The parameters to make this a worthwhile venture must be set so that the reward is higher than when you risk less.
If your product is only profitable because you created artificial friction, your business is unlikely to exist a decade from now unless you are thinking about diversifying already.

Allowing me to host my data myself should not reduce your profits as long as your product is still the best.

If you’re focused on (relative) short term profits to get paid and retire on a beach, and you succeed, good for you. I’m totally jealous and wish I was you.

Unfortunately, I’m also not your target customer.
Is your downweighting process driven by manual reading through threads or are there signals that draw your attention to potentially-downweight-worthy subthreads?

edit: that is to say, I wouldn't expect user-driven signals to automatically partition or downweight subthreads, I was more curious if they are useful in existing moderation actions and how they might extrapolate.
Hiya, author here! I wrote the article to mostly encourage others to sign up to these charities to help accomplish their mission, the data generated as a by-product is just a cool side-effect!
Nowadays the attackers will threaten to disclose the sensitive data publicly, as they did in this case. So ensuring your own access to your data, i.e. backups, is not the only concern. It's still important, of course.
What behavior in particular should be illegal?
You see people firing up coal plants in your back yard? That's not an experience most people ever have.
I don't know if anyone is still reading this, but Wired just published a detailed smoking gun on the aerosols question.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu...

It's really good, I learned a lot of new things. Please read this if you're at all interested in the subject: and who among us isn't at this point?
I was going to say fine these companies a fair amount if there's a data breach;

But they would just turn around and add their costs on to the consumer.

I'll get hammered for this, but there's a part of me that would like to just outlaw all bitcoins worldwide, and even that might not work unless every country banned them?
Your moralizing a non moral argument. Its simply harder to get access to someone else's capital than someone else's time. So people can charge a premium for the capital.

I do believe that premium is probably a bit higher than it should be because it used to be EVEN HARDER to get that capital so people are pointing out the slightly outdated examples of cost in order to gain negotiating leverage.

In the end our time and money have no intrinsic value, but try asking a friend to help you move and then try asking your friend to loan you money to hire movers and see which they are more likely to do.
A tool for collective migration inspired by Balaji
He needs to know the basics. How does he know someone is a real expert?
Atlassian tools still offer on-prem, but you need a data center license now and they doubled the price of that. Unfortunate, but they'd be losing some huge customers that cannot run in the cloud not just as a matter of policy but technology. The entire IC developer platform is using the Atlassian suite, for instance, but on JWICS, a classified network with no connectivity to Atlassian's cloud.

What's going to end up happening if more vendors decide you can only use their service from their cloud is the largest enterprises and governments are going to exclusively use Microsoft and AWS since they're more than willing to just build you your own cloud that meets whatever security and disconnection requirements you have, no matter how stringent. Already no new government projects that still have a choice are going with Atlassian tooling.

We'll see how it goes for them, I guess. Maybe they don't need governments and Fortune 500s and can get by selling exclusively to startups with no real security or lock-in avoidance requirements.
All of those features remain intact, even with the eventual creation of a payment layer. There is nothing to prevent someone from transacting directly on the blockchain.
Haha fair but they do have masks with a little bit of foam on the nosepiece for this purpose.
And this is not new, they already do that with the current dom renderer. One div for each wrapped line of text, divs for selection, cursor is a CSS animated div, etc
You do not need actual disruptions in supply to create a shortage. The threat of a disruption or a shortage for such a critical commodity can create a situation that it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy (short term).

That is what can often create bank runs and created the "great toilet paper shortage of 2020".
I think 500B or more market cap was added, when Tesla Started accepting Bitcoin and nobody talks about that. Media is so useless and biased !
Not the least bit surprised. I use Total Uninstall and almost every app leaves bits behind.

I've complained to many vendors and sent technical details of missed registry keys, files, etc.
Sometimes they even fix it.
But on the whole, Uninstall on Windows is a bit of a myth.
How are you downvoted for this? Tesla directly lost over $100M as a result of this decision. If this was a pump-and-dumb, they did a horrible job of it. Also, a pump-and-dump scheme doesn't require you to crash the price of an asset after you exit your position. Suggesting this was a pump-and-dump is flat-out idiocy.

More likely is that Musk liked the idea of Bitcoin, but got a lot of pressure from environmental activists after committing to it and decided it wasn't worth it anymore. Companies change their positions based on the outcry of political activists all the time. That's far more believable than saying Musk tanked his own company in effort to execute the worst pump-and-dump of all time.
> The villain's plot of hijacking a control system and extorting money is perfectly modern.

I mean, isn't that pretty much what happened this week with that gas pipeline?
> They never dumped.

Not true. They made their numbers by selling 100M or so of BTC last quarter.

https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a36266393/tesla-mad...

> The second item that helped Tesla were sales of bitcoin, the "positive impact" of which amounted to $101 million.

The article says that was 1/10 of what they own. We won't know until next quarter how much more they have sold.
The people that study this kind of thing spend a lot of time listening to and transcribing human speech. Plus, you can see the vowel formants in a spectrogram of the audio.
It makes me so sad that it's impossible to have a polite conversation these days without clinical paranoids popping in at every juncture to say, "COVID is a hoax! Public health officials are frauds! Medicine is meaningless!"
Except the high fees due to limited throughput and the absolutely gargantuan CO2 emissions, which are the topic of this thread.

You can't say it is a settlement layer in one breath and then immediately turn around and say that no really everybody truly has access.
Medical Consensus on Aerosol Transmission Was Wrong for Decades
> We simply exploited fossil fuels.

Not simply, but mostly: progress started before the steam engine. But yeah, pop sci is hyping a lot of things that are very, very unlikely in the near future, and it looks like we won’t have much beyond that.
You can get a reasonable idea of the problems people run into on our community forum. I use Fly for everything but that may not be the best signal for you: https://community.fly.io/
Hyenas are inverse foxes. Hyenas are dog software on cat hardware and foxes are cat software on dog hardware.
...which are unlikely to ever get implemented because adoption of such an "initiative" would have to be decided by miners, and that decision would immediately make their very expensive ASIC hardware completely worthless.
All you need for gas shortages is the rumor of gas shortages. Remember how we ran out of TP last year, for absolutely no reason whatsoever?
> Word of mouth works, but can be very slow

Is slow growth not fine? I think organic growth is healthier for society. All this explosive never ending economic growth we see today seems pathological to me.

> Where did the first person in the chain hear about it if not for marketing or self promotion?

Those first users are presumed to be close to the person who made the product. People trust their friends. They'll tell other people about it if they liked it.

> my reverse image search service SauceNAO

Thank you for making SauceNAO. I first saw it on image boards, it's a well-integrated feature of those sites.

I'm not sure if you have a business model so I can't tell if advertising would present conflicts of interest.
dont do this. you can sequence yourself from Dante labs (an italian company IIRC) which will give you all the data of 30x sequencing including the raw reads for like $200. The problem is -- i don't know what to do with the data as i havent had the time to do anything.
Now I'm going to have to re-watch Hackers with that in mind.
This is a super naive analogy - HN doesn't serve close to 50% of the US market, nor is it a platform through which billions of dollars transact. If it did very different rules apply, rightfully so, scale matters, market position matters - from Apple profit margins it's obvious they are abusing monopolistic position.
sure, and i'd posit that that's also a consequence of our love affair with cars. cars encourage urban sprawl (there's really no such thing as rural sprawl). perhaps a land value tax (with tax deferral until sale for non-wealthy primary home owners) can help us find an efficient optimum, something that would encourage urban density while not discouraging rural expanse.
WebKit is close enough to Blink that this move would be bad for the ecosystem as a whole. More variety in web technology implementations makes it harder for any one approach to dictate the standards going forwards.
Except you have it backwards. The "War on Drugs" came about as a way for the state to exert power over youth and minorities.

> “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.

> “You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-rich...

From that perspective, the drug war makes perfect sense, and was a spectacular success, not in terms of submission, but in terms of control.
Yea, crime really does pay here. If I was a lone hacker in a nation with loose laws I’d be ransoming foreign systems and building a fortune.
First time I've heard of Fly, went to check out their docs and found this awesome little mention:

> We use Lets Encrypt to issue certificates, and donate half of our SSL fees to them at the end of each calendar year.
“Too big to fail” and investors do not get hurt.

The problem does not fix itself until the investors start truly losing money, the care, unlike the Equifax case. Until the portfolio value cannot go down 90% there is not going to be a change in corporate actionism.
I think I see what you’re saying, but why is this so?
Hi HN,

I made Remake 2 years ago while working on a separate project. [0]

I started that project off with 6 months of research (interviewing potential customers) and 6 months of designing the pages.

I wasn't looking forward to spending another 6-12 months building it all out. I needed a quicker path.

Then the idea came to me: HTML & JSON have very similar structures. They're both ways of storing deeply nested page state. What if I could connect them together and make a really simple way of building web apps?

All I needed to do was convert deeply nested HTML into deeply nested JSON (by tagging elements as being arrays, objects, or keys in those objects) and save the result the current user's account!

Then I could use whatever client-side plugins I wanted (date pickers, file uploaders, inline edit popovers) to edit the page — and sync the resulting JSON data to the backend automatically. It was a really exciting insight for me and would make building a full-stack app as simple as prototyping.

I could even use the data across pages because the JSON structure could, of course, be reused on every page.

That's how I accidentally created a web app framework that lets you make web apps with only HTML templates. I'm really excited about bootstrapping it to profitability over the next year.

[0] RequestCreative.com
You don't think selective enforcement is about exertion of power?
Will this really destroy the market?
I recently setup my own http://logpaste.com to give them a try. Fly was quite easy to use.
Amazing link, would highly recommend to anyone reading this thread. Thanks again
Did he really collaborate?
The authors of the ransomware might have non-ransomware projects on github where an analysis of coding style gives them away. It's sounds like it would have a low probability of working but this is essentially what got the Unabomber caught. But writing styles in English might be easier to identify than in code. Maybe they'll use "cool headed logician" as a procedure name.
I am on the side of not using one of these Auth companies, but if you are learning or just want to make a proof of concept fast, it definitely helps to have that taken care of for you.
https://kern.al/idea/freelancer-the-ultimate-profile-for-mor...
>Musk bought BTC, single-handedly pumped the price of BTC, and then sold at a huge profit.

Doesn't this have legal ramifications when done in the stock market? If it is shady for that market, why is it acceptable in other markets? Oh, right, they're not regulated.
> The concept of having humans on another planetary body makes a lot of sense as backup-plan for humanity.

Sorry, but it's like planning your workout routine in a burning building.

The climate emergency is building right now, this instant. Cosmic threats like asteroids happen on the order of millions of years apart.

We need to stabilize the planet, now, in this generation, immediately, or we will doom a million species and most of humanity.

Once that is done, we can look at problems on the ten thousand to ten million year scales that cost quadrillions of dollars to solve, like "moving to a second planet".

Let me be blunt - unless we go all out, the collapse will happen a hundred years before any Mars colony is self-sufficient, and none of them will survive.
Not a good analogy, for two reasons. First, workers who don't have equity in a company don't really have a gun to their head even if the existence of the company is at risk. The real "gun to the head" is the threat of jail time. Second, it has historically been difficult to convince dozens of people to coordinate with each other and do something illegal for little to no personal gain.
Try Ronald Huntford's biographies. His books about Amundsen/Scott and Shackleton are also worthwhile.
Such an amazing period.

In summary, Shackleton and Nansen are admirable for courage an endurance. But Amundsen is far ahead of them all in competence, and that is what counts.

And then you can also try "The worst journey in the world" by Ansley Cherry-Garrard. An expedition in darkness...
It's chosen because airport and highway expansions also cost many billions, and at least on paper HSR often pencils out. California studies showed that alternatives centered on airport and/or highway expansions without HSR would have also cost tens of billions, and altogether ultimately more than a master plan including HSR. AFAIU the same analysis is true for the NE.

CAHSR costs ballooned, but so do highway and airport expansions. The U.S. and many other countries have cost management problems with all large infrastructure projects.
Your theory has zero predictive powers, unlike mine.
Having read your comment first (ooh, horribile dictu on HN) I decided to try playing by only looking at the left paper and deciding if it was fake. Luckily the model seems to have picked up that "last names can be units" too strongly and the 2nd fake paper was discussing a frequency of "10 Jones".
Boring histrionics aside, you haven’t refuted GP’s point. Pure proof-of-stake consensus systems all suffer from the misfeature of not even having a basic quantitative fork ranking protocol. Jude C. Nelson critiques this better than anyone [1]:

PoW requires less proactive trust and coordination between
community members than PoS -- and thus is better able to recover
from both liveness and safety failures -- precisely because
it both (1) provides a computational method for ranking fork
quality, and (2) allows anyone to participate in producing
a fork at any time. If the canonical chain is 51%-attacked,
and the attack eventually subsides, then the canonical chain
can eventually be re-established in-band by honest miners
simply continuing to work on the non-attacker chain. In PoS,
block-producers have no such protocol -- such a protocol
cannot exist because to the rest of the network, it looks like
the honest nodes have been slashed for being dishonest. Any
recovery procedure necessarily includes block-producers having
to go around and convince people out-of-band that they were
totally not dishonest, and were slashed due to a "hack" (and,
since there's lots of money on the line, who knows if they're
being honest about this?).

Under adversarial conditions like those outlined by Jude C. Nelson, PoS reverts to “phone-a-friend consensus”, or — to use a euphemism coined by Vitalik Buterin — “weak subjectivity”. Centralized Git repos offer a close to identical consensus model.

What’s the point in having a “blockchain” at all if under adversarial conditions, miners are necessarily demoted in favor of trusted human coordinators? Git is very “green-friendly”, too.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26810619
But what would be incentives to using a PoS Bitcoin fork, as opposed to starting over with a fresh altcoin?
There’s a big difference between being under surveillance because people want to manipulate you into giving them money, and being under surveillance so that you can be kidnapped at gunpoint to stop you from whatever it was you were doing (even if it is all legal).

Corporate surveillance is bad, sure. But, even when maximally bad, it doesn’t pose that grave a threat to a society’s correct functioning.

When the state gets to use it for what is called “law enforcement” (qualified because, for example, the aforementioned CIA torture prisons, and MLK Jr was targeted thus by the FBI, and sent threatening letters by them as a result) the maximum danger from misuse is a grave risk to a free society.
Has coinbase started full USDT-USD trading yet? Their announcement said there were three phases to full trading: https://blog.coinbase.com/tether-usdt-is-launching-on-coinba...
Perhaps it's a chump and pump. Bring down the value to buy the dip.