skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's kinda the opposite scenario. The hackers knew they were willing to pay more but didn't actually want to cause this much attention and so lowballed so they'd quickly pay.

At least according to https://finance.yahoo.com/news/colonial-pipeline-paid-hacker...

Krehel (chief executive officer and founder of digital forensics firm LIFARS and a former cyber expert at Loews Corp) said a $5 million ransom for a pipeline was “very low.” “Ransom is usually around $25 million to $35 million for such a company. I think the threat actor realized they stepped on the wrong company and triggered a massive government response,” he said.
unexpected but very appreciated.

Also appreciated that GTM is being removed from private pages all-together.
I'm surprised that nobody's mentioned it here, but this crypto boom has sent demand for mining hardware through the roof, which has contributed in no small part to the chip shortage. Miners are buying up ASICs, GPUs and FPGAs at a premium.

In the short term, crashing the crypto market can ease demand for semiconductors, but in the long term, getting cryptos to move to Proof of Steak will hopefully ease it up for good (But don't quote me on that!)

It's no secret that one of their biggest supply chain constraints is chips right now (aside from batteries.) So it's not all that ridiculous to imagine them pulling this kind of publicity stunt off so that they can actually produce and sell more cars. And if they can profit off of it at the end of the day, even better!
Much appreciated, I'm glad you agree! :)
^Conspiracy theorist.
Realistically we won't know until the Q2 financials are out.

Note the wording "*will not* be selling any Bitcoin" not "*has not* sold any Bitcoin". There were major dumps a couple minutes before Elon's announcement. It should be no surprise if Tesla front-run Elon's announcement, knowing that it would affect the price.

They'll keep a trivial amount on the financials, but I suspect the majority was off the books.

They will also use this an excuse to realize revenue in what will appear to be a very lean quarter. I mean they can't exactly sell to "test liquidity" again.
Agree, the experience of intercity buses is terrible. Sometimes no restrooms, sometimes restrooms don't have running water hand wash, cramped seats, you have to carefully plan when you board the bus if you want to be able to pick who you sit next to (mostly because I want 100% of my seat space not 70% damnit), no food service, bumpy ride that you can't get work done on, hard to sleep on, and Greyhound sometimes makes you get off the bus and re-board the same damn bus every few hours.

Horrible experience. Trains are so, so much nicer. I always prefer trains over buses or planes (time permitting).

Trains are also much safer than buses, statistically.
I didn't say versioning large files isn't a reasonable thing to do, I said it doesn't make sense in git.

How is it supposed to work? The LFS way where you're storing a pointer to an external http resource? Just put a script in your repo to fetch that then.

Or maybe stick the data in git's merkle tree and have a really slow repo? Why bother with LFS then?
Don't matter if they lock your computer access out and encrypt all the data, ransomware is installed.
Great project, makes a complex topic easy to follow
Specifically - the CanCon rules don't actually restrict the broadcast of any specific speech just requiring a different mixture than what you might desire (i.e. Rush).

Additionally it's important to note that the CCRF is not the US Bill of Rights and both has some inherent textual differences along with significantly different interpretation over the years. Free speech in Canada is both more and less free than in the US in some pretty interesting ways.
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Endocrine disrupters (which these are) are bad at any level.

Don’t use alcohol-based disinfectants after handling heat-printed receipts, it makes the BPA absorption rate through your skin go way up.
What an idiotic thing to say. This is just pure 'I don't like this person so I'm gone shit on everything he does' syndrome.

Rich people buy rich people things, yes, and it matter if its a gas car or an electric. And it matter if the battery industry was transformed by that. And it matters that the image of electric cars was transformed. It matters that the largest fast charging network in the world was financed by this.

SpaceX proved that they could make things the government already does massively cheaper. Literally read any report from NASA or GAO. NASA own evaluation showed that the 300M SpaceX spend on the initial Falcon 9 would have cost 3 billion if done by the government.

Since SpaceX join the race military launches have come down in price by sometimes multiple 100 million $. ULA even outside of the 300M$+ launch prices, received an extra 900M every year.

Literally everything the government is buying from SpaceX could literally not be done cheaper by any other government, foreign or domestic or company foreign or domestic.

When SpaceX got started the commercial launch market was basically 0% US launchers, SpaceX alone changed that to depending on you calculate 50-90% of the commercial market now.

There is seriously not a single argument you can make about SpaceX other then simply arguing the government should be doing spaceflight at all. Everything we know about government internals suggest that both NASA and DoD are beyond happy with SpaceX.
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Yes, but the point is that Apple doesn't allow you to not accept their house rules and install apps some other way on """your""" device.
Nodejs is much faster than Python even for workloads where there's overlap in use-cases, like webapis and scripting.

The only production language with performance in the ballpark of Python is Ruby.

I agree that more often than not it simply isn't an issue, but CPython performance isn't much far ahead of toy languages, for a whole lot of reasons that we are all sick and tired of hearing.
Colonial Pipeline Shut Down Distribution Because It Couldn’t Bill Customers
Actually he understands that Bitcoin's energy consumption is not a problem. This tweet signals that he wants that energy production must be sustainable. He wants to influence miners to move to sustainable energy.

He puts up a clear incentive: if miners move to sustainable energy, then Tesla will accept bitcoin again.
This same bill will also regulate user generated content, since an exclusion clause that was in it previously was removed. Per a Canadian law professor (https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2021/04/freedom-of-expression-un...):

> This is a remarkable and dangerous step in an already bad piece of legislation. The government believes that it should regulate all user generated content, leaving it to regulator to determine on what terms and conditions will be attached the videos of millions of Canadians on sites like Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, and hundreds of other services. The Department of Justice’s own Charter analysis of the bill specifically cites the exclusion to argue that it does not unduly encroach on freedom of expression rights. Without the exclusion, Bill C-10 adopts the position that a regulator sets the rules for free speech online. As Emily Laidlaw tweeted, human rights apply online and offline.
> We already don't care about externalities here on Earth, there's no way we can police them on Mars.

That depends very much on how the putative Martian society is set up.

There used to be an idea in cultural anthropology that a society becoming heavily dependent on technology and coordinated labour (specifically, sophisticated irrigation systems) went hand in hand with the evolution of a centralized authoritarian state to manage that.

The idea has fallen out of favour, but you can see how something similar might apply in spades on Mars. Life there is going to be marginal at the best of times; living off-grid would be a truly daunting prospect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_empire
> The fact that Israelis quite recently elected moderate governments that sought reconciliation with the Palestinians, and which were undermined by the Palestinians, is considered unimportant and rarely mentioned.

Ah yes, the moderate Israeli government that decided to withdraw the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine. Oh wait, they kept expanding it!
I used to deploy backup systems, and I had to explain to many customers that data protection is a security feature also. Very few "got" this.
Obama won’t scramble jets for Snowden: https://youtu.be/-_mqzSbAPXM
That's unfortunate :(
Acting that dumb when you literally employ a huge team of top-notch rocket scientists to advise you is absolutely evil.
For MacOS, I was able to fix this by editing the info.plist inside each application which was detected. This lets me still keep the app but no longer get detected.

WARNING: Do it at your own risk. I am fairly certain when I restart my computer, the Spotify app will no longer work as deleting the entry from the info.plist file most likely changes the signature of the app binary and it will no longer be valid.

Simply uninstalling the app won't be enough. Rebuild LaunchServices is required to get rid of the registered URL scheme.

The info.plist for Spotify for example is located at:

/Applications/Spotify.app/Contents/Info.plist

You can either do it through terminal or navigate to /Applications in finder, then right click the app and use "Show Package Content" option > Contents > Info.plist.

Open the Info.plist in Xcode, look for CFBundleURLSchemes:

<array>
<dict>
<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>Viewer</string>
<key>CFBundleURLIconFile</key>
<string></string>
<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
<string>Spotify Media</string>
<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
<array>
<string>spotify</string>
</array>
</dict>
</array>

I removed this array. Save the file.

NOTE that if you previously had the app installed in a different directory, you might have to do it there too.

Once done, you will have to run this command to "Rebuild LaunchServices" as explained on this Stack Overflow post.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10156939/mac-show-delete...

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Without the above command, the URL scheme wasn't getting unregistered and the site was still picking it up.
I think metamask injects web3 into every context on the page so it's pretty easy to check for that.
I want to like trains, but riding Amtrak a couple of years ago was disappointing. It was significantly more expensive than flying and took days rather than hours (though you don't have to show up 2 hours early for security thankfully.) The train itself was pretty run down compared to what I would have expected given the fare.

On the up side, there is lot of space for luggage and stretching out, you can walk around the train, and there was an observation car and a café car (the food being more functional than palatable, but the scenery being rather nice.) So it's kind of like taking a break from reality and hanging out on a train for a few days while it slowly moves toward your destination.

So it had its moments, but I'm in no hurry to do it again.
There are always barriers of entry. I don't know of any monopoly that exists where those barriers are low.
> until someone noticed that custom hardware could compute hashes order of magnitude faster than a pc could. I can't see how this system will proceed any differently.

Bitcoin is an open protocol that anyone can implement, so anyone can build and use faster mining hardware.

This is an open protocol, but with the added restriction that the hardware manufacturer needs to be approved by a trusted authority, and there is a cryptographic chain of trust from the device to the manufacturer to the trusted authority.

Someone could design a "bulk attestation device" which has 10,000 distinct device keys in a single device. But the trusted authority probably won't approve it. And if the hardware manufacturer tries to sneak it past them, they can always revoke the certificate. That's why the "specialised mining hardware" strategy that was so successful with Bitcoin may not work here.
> Odd, I've seen the EXACT opposite

Do you make a living from people having to go to an office?
And that is, in fact, how you should perform a hash before bcrypt as well.

bcrypt accepts text input, not binary.

So if you use a pre-hash, you pass the hex or base64 output from the hash to bcrypt.
I think that would only be true if you thought it possible to obtain perfect security, but we’ve seen that even air-gapped systems are vulnerable to nation states motivated enough, and exploits are always laying in wait. This gets some bugs patched - but it also illustrates US infrastructure weaknesses to others.
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On both of those places you have to deal with the Russian and Australian Governments who will take a significant % of the value you create.

You also have a deep gravity well.

Land on Mars is free, there are zero taxes, no political system or unwanted populations.

There is no waiting for regulatory approval on a new building, no requirements to hire x % of your workforce as y demographic subset of the population. There is no national Government to negotiate with. Your population is completely comprised of high-IQ, motivated and skilled people, making for the best human gene pool of any place in the galaxy.

When SpaceX gets to Mars, it can simply... build, without limits. This is something not seen on Earth since the colonisation of the new world (which even then had native populations to contend with).
>accelerated the adoption of electric cars by 10 years

Did it really ? Tesla rode on the advances of battery tech driven by mobile devices, there were other EV efforts arround the time Tesla came up. I agree they recognised it early on and made it fasionable + they had this narrative driven market valuation which pressured other automotive execs to invest in the EV narrative. But 10 years is way too much - battery tech advancements were bound to bring us to this point even without Tesla R&D (I think they only started using their advancements recently, before that it was just stock batteries ?), and there was enough money in batteries from other markets to drive advancement without the EV push.

Not denying Tesla played a big positive role in this, but certainly not 10 years IMO.
> Why can't Bezo put payloads into space with a billion every year invested?

Because he was busy changing the face of consumer retail, the internet, and other huge aspects of society up to a few months ago. Give it a couple of years and you'll see Blue Origin eat SpaceX's cake.

> Why can't every other car manufacture seem to put together an electric car with the same range?

Mostly because other car manufacturers are very serious about not lying about things that are easily demonstrable like range. There's a reason Teslas are the only EV that no one can get the advertised range from, but all the other EVs crush their advertised ranges. Your question is "why doesn't every other car manufacturer lie psychopathically to the consumer?".
A faulty line that's miserable UX and barely better security, but sure, a line.
Why would I? My 'tune' is that anecdotes can be misleading, and statistics is the way to get a better picture. The anecdotes you mention don't change that.
And yet, he's a climate-change denier who wants the EPA disbanded, seemed to downplay the seriousness of COVID-19, and voted against human-rights bills relating to Hong Kong and China.

I guess "tech-literate" isn't really worth that much as a label.
Serious questions for Paul Graham, or others defending this guy:

1) What should the women who work under him do? Accept performance evaluations from him and have their livelihoods screwed with? He literally published how much contempt he has for them.

2) Would you expect men to stick around working under female leadership like that? If some leader referred to me as "useless baggage", why would I work hard for that person? Why waste energy proving that I'm not "full of shit", when I can get paid a great salary working somewhere else. If his leadership is so bad that people will leave the organization to avoid working with him, why is he even selected to be a leader in that organization? He already failed the "ability to lead" part.
Wouldn't it be chaotic neutral?
I love the idea of sprinkling bitcoin private keys in text files around your infrastructure, so any hacker that gets access can take the funds, but you'll be alerted to it and can quarantine the box and investigate the intrusion. Maybe include "Email us with a write up of how you got in and a bitcoin address, and we'll send more bitcoin based on how helpful it was"

Rotate the keys periodically and sweep all unstolen bitcoin into a bonus fund split between everyone who had access to the machines which held the private keys. Give devops real skin in the game for keeping boxes secure.

Could also develop a convention for deriving private keys from security secrets - make it so if someone gets your AWS root key, they can test the credentials to see if the company has offered a enough funds that they are willing to announce (and thus burn) their access by transferring those funds away. I wonder if you could 'license' these coins in a way that it would be legal (or at least more-legal) to take them without prior consent: if there was a legal means to monetize 'misplaced' credentials many hackers might choose that over the legally riskier and less-moral traditional alternatives.

Credential rotation would certainly be more fun if it meant I was going to get a bonus!
You can see many interesting niche Intel Inside devices from china, like GPD.
The pipeline was shut down as a preventive measure (we're being told) just in case the attackers had made their way into the control systems. Trucking of gas has been increased to compensate for the closure of the pipeline, and there was emergency legislation passed in Congress to lift regulations that would have prevented these higher levels of trucking. The gas supply has been just fine here in the Northeast; the issues I've heard about have been in the South and Southeast due to panic buying (in areas of the country that shouldn't have been negatively affected by the closure of the TX->NY pipeline).
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For multi region set up it’s very competitively priced IMO.

I have some pretty important services I run on there and my availability has beaten anything I’ve run on GCP.
This largely comes down to anti-competitive practices and relative economic output. Canada has a far weaker economy than the US - we've honestly just got a lot fewer people up here - and the US can leverage it's geopolitical power to force other countries to abide by it's laws.

If we don't blink when an unequal trade treaty opens up natural resources to private american exploitation we probably shouldn't blink when a country establishes a law that favors it's domestic product over imported.

And actually, I believe the US does dump a significant amount of money into both enforcing the "Made in America" mark on products and advertising to buy American - that too is trying to tip the balance toward consumption of a domestic product. And, lastly, unlike in America, in Canada the free market is not held as the solution to all problems - going out of your way to support and help fellow Canadians is a virtue that's widely celebrated.
why has adguard flagged this site as "dangerous"

https://reports.adguard.com/en/developers.notion.com/report....
Bitcoin is China's way of exporting coal through the atmosphere.
hey author here, you're right, completely missed adding a permissive license. Just added an explicit MIT license with the latest version, thanks for bringing it up!
I am surprised to see the “their country their rules” sentiment here. Why doesn’t the HN crowd offer the same reprieve to developing nations like China or India, when they try to regulate social media, retain their culture/identity/politics, and defend against the immense influence of American culture/media/activism? What makes the two different? I find this Canadian bill to be pretty egregious because it will subject user submitted media to CRTC content guidelines. That could just as easily mean, for example, preventing speech on controversial topics like gender identity unless they align with the current (left biased) ruling government’s perspective.
Yeah, saw this. At this point I don't think he even knows what he is doing. There are no active Doge devs.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392974251011895300
Because despite many local cultures producing market inferior cultural products, those cultures nonetheless do not wish to die.
SEC doesn't regulate Bitcoin.
TFA says the opposite - that backups are faster than the decryption tool supplied by the hackers. Would you run a tool supplied to you by the hackers on your network? This thing could be scrubbing, adding backdoors, really anything.

>Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network. The tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system, one of the people familiar with the company’s efforts said.
Pushing back against "the first amendment" being a shorthand for "freedom of expression" in a Global context is not being pedantic.

Especially interesting in a thread where the people bringing this up as a violation of freedom of expression are advocating for a border-free internet without local oversight or government control over content.

Do you want an international decentralized internet or do you want a defacto US culture internet?
> When SpaceX gets to Mars, it can simply... build, without limits.

Until SpaceY gets to Mars. Then the absence of governments and regulation stops being an unmitigated benefit for SpaceX.
Great hobby (I really mean that... my wife and I grow, process, and preserve a significant portion of our own produce in our front lawn), but ultimately, these are only marginally less wasteful than lawns. The distribution costs (environmental and otherwise) of having many small farms easily overpowers the current situation, which allows for more efficiency. Plus, it takes quite a bit of intense effort to farm enough to support people.

We'd do better with large-scale reforms like stop paying farmers to grow food that goes to waste or encouraging more meat consumption (meat is pound for pound more efficient at energy storage for humans, and allows the conversion of faster-growing native species into actual food, if we did it right).
This bill doesn't actually interfere with sought content - it is more concerned with algorithms related to surfacing new content. No video is going to be banned or forced on people, but if you leave YouTube on autoplay you'll hit a lot more Canadian creators.

At least, that is the intent.
From the article you linked, it sounds like it was the other way around, but both ways to restore must be slow...

“Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network. The tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system, one of the people familiar with the company’s efforts said.”