skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The suspect may not an ID with them. Waiting until you identify the person is an extra opportunity for them to disappear.

Naked mugshots can be a solution in some places. Some write that in Russia police can beat the confession out of you, keep you for a couple of weeks in jail until the visible wounds heal and then send you to court together with the confession you signed.

Naked mugshots will not help in this specific situation, because the court is corrupt together with cops and they will just ignore the procedures. But if I had a choice, I'd prefer a naked mugshot to torture (and of course, they can torture you without leaving any traces; with electricity, for example).
https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/127810/difference-bet...
I'd say ransomware is much closer to "piracy" than terrorism, but totally agree that this incident shows there's not much distance between this and cyber terrorism. (Even if it's just criminals accidentally throwing themselves into the spotlight.)

For say a nation engaging in cyber war, this could be flipped around: attacking basic infrastructure but disguising it as smaller groups of criminals trying to make a buck. Not sure how effective the disguise would be, but it could obviously do some serious damage.
I think the inflection point will be a game or demo that gives the experience of moving an object around with your mind. That, and then being able to summon shapes or objects just by thinking of them. I wonder if Valve has accomplished this inhouse yet. I think a VR headset with a BCI will be what kills the monitor.
Neat! Though the title of "$0" budget is misleading. He explicitly mentioned cloning a $5 digital ocean droplet, which brings us up to $10.
Unfortunately it doesn't recreate the lovely behavior where selecting multiple desktop icons massively reduces the selection box framerate :D
I feel sorry for this guy, but not because he got fired. Anyone with such questionable morals is obviously not a good fit at Apple and ejecting him earlier rather than later is damage limitation.

No, I feel sorry for him, because he should never have been hired in the first place, and I cannot even begin to imagine the sequence of events inside Apple that led to this. It's utterly baffling, and I hope the explanation becomes available eventually because I'd love to know.
Very nice and snappy! Very cool github1s integration.
Parenthood is a choice. One who chooses to have kids is also choosing the consequences and financial burdens that it may have. It is not okay to shift that burden to other people, especially those who made a different choice.
I think that's actually my whole point here. If I'm running a system on anywhere near the scale I'm used to operating, you damn well better believe that I'm going to worry about "20 billion connections." The concrete reason, which I can give a priori without even waiting for it to happen first, is that the best case scenario for what's going on is probably that the servers are being hugged to death.

That and we've violated the laws of physics. Because even by the numbers that you agreed are grossly optimistic (which was deliberate), we're looking at that consuming an order of magnitude or two more RAM than we have across all our servers. So that would admittedly be cool. But still.
It's mostly manual. Readers often email us cases that need attention, though, and that's super helpful when the top subthread is a generic black hole. If you see one, and have a minute to alert us at hn@ycombinator.com, we'd be grateful! It's probably the single biggest thing moderation can do to improve thread quality, and we can't read all the threads.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
No Blinking
Perhaps some nose clips or a HAZMAT suit?
As far as I understand: Viral vector vaccines use viruses that are not capable of reproducing, so you can be reasonably sure they won't reproduce to much and overload the immune system or otherwise do harm through that. If you want a contagious virus, you need to allow it to reproduce, which thus makes it a lot less safe and even if you somehow have a safe variant (it's far from something we can easily do), it now can mutate to something worse.

And if you get it wrong, you now have a second pandemic to fight.

If it's incompatible with some people, bad luck for them, can't stop using it on them after discovery.

TL;DR: not easy and basically impossible to do ethically
isn't petty theft below a certain threshold no longer enforced in SF or is that just myth? I thought the criminals over there just considered the odds were in their favor to pull off those things without consequence.
> How can people contact big corporations and get no response? Are the messages not being read?

Customer support is seen as an expense. So automate as much as their job as possible and then... stop paying for customer support.
russian recall
There is no reason to believe the former. Car companies have to comply while also selling cars.
I'll be sticking with Kotlin at least until Java can do better at killing null pointers than @NotNull. Optional is good, but not widely used enough to handle most cases.
Exxon only advertises their lubricants. Oil is a commodity. Do you know who drilled the oil you fill your automobile with at Sheetz?
A take biased in favor of Garcia-Martinez which argues he's not the monster he's being made out to be: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-the-hypocrites-at-apple-who...
OK, thanks- I missed that.
Not mentioned yet:

- no explicit refresh - if you're using network shares you often won't get an update notification, but have to go out and in again

- insistence on abstractions - I don't want to click through all the folders, sometimes I have a path ready to paste
these are not available, i don't see any high storage options for sale at hetzner
Don’t act like you can’t compare a group of married people suffering from the condition that doesn’t get the implant and a group of married people with the condition that do get the implants. Did you honestly think they were drawing the conclusion simply from comparing the rate of divorce of individuals with the condition to groups without the condition? It sounds like you basically just concluded the other side knows nothing about science because they mentioned divorce rate in a negative light, when you were lacking core details of their study
why would they pay a bunch of money?
I used to say that our customers were our biggest competitors. You have to execute 10x better and be ½ the price if you want them to buy your product rather than replicate it. Or (better) you have to know something they don’t — and keep it to yourself.
There's Open Arena for F/OSS content for Quake 3, but I don't know if it's drop-in compatible with this. Also OA's content doesn't look as good as the originals.
> Forth has almost no syntax

Feel more Forth has no syntax - just space separated words defined either in assembly or other forth words
More like 5 years from now
North Korea is... A special case, and it is still quite unlike any other country in the world.
I would say you're too focused on the legitimate-vs.-illegitimate binary. HN's goal is to be interesting, a.k.a. to gratify curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...). For that we want comments that are thoughtful, substantive, and above all unpredictable.

Can there be comments which are legitimate but nevertheless also predictable, unthoughtful, unsubstantive? Sure there can. We don't need those here. They don't affect threads in a good way.

Can there be comments which are illegitimate, but nevertheless manage to be thoughtful/substantive/unpredictable? Surely this must also be possible. Such comments could well make for interesting conversation, in which case they'd be fine.

There's no rule requiring commenters to be right (which is handy, since to a first approximation we're all wrong about everything and rarely have any idea what we're talking about—this is what they used to call "the human condition"). When people approach conversation with a strong need to be right, that doesn't lead to curious conversation, it leads to the situation in the famous xkcd classic.

I'm not saying that the truth doesn't matter and certainly not that people should just bullshit. Bullshit is a lot less interesting and more predictable than it assumes it is. I'm saying that an open-minded, exploratory, conversational way of looking for the truth yields best results here, and trying to categorize things as legitimate vs. illegitimate isn't in that spirit. As for "legitimate denouncements", god help us, that covers every denouncement ever made, as far as the denouncer was concerned.
> Anyone with such questionable morals is obviously...

The entire corporate hierarchy is people of questionable morals. Companies go out of their way to hire lawyers too - while theoretically one can be a highly moral lawyer, in practice we can tell from the results that a very big chunk of the ones in corporations are moral-less negotiators.

One of the biggest benefits of modern corporations is we can put aside fiery debates on politics, morals and religions and work together on highly specific technical goals.
> this man was a red pill ideologue

What does a 'red pill ideologue' mean? Yes, I've seen the Matrix but I don't understand

But wow, that Reddit post is shocking
Is 22,000 downloads, a million actions on the site and 15 dollars in donations a success?

It feels like it is missing the part where he sold 2,000 memberships or made 2,000 in ad revenue.

I guess if three angel investors are calling there might be a path.

Building traffic is hard but only half of it.
It’s possible to make self-hostable software that auto updates. Besides, managed deployment and single tenancy are not mutually exclusive.

In this case I’m not even asking for self-hostable. I mostly want single tenant. Yes, self-hostable or “bring your own storage” would be cool, but provider-managed single-tenancy at least eliminates a whole class of data security bugs. This way, even if an application-layer dumps all the rows in the database to the client, at least they’re only my rows.
OP probably meant "$0 marketing budget".
He explained that this was in part due to hardware considerations. I don't really understand why, although unlike stack machines, I can speculate. But then he got to like it.

He also eliminated all the stack operations from machineForth except DUP, DROP, and OVER. Not even SWAP!
The goal, presumably, is to address the problem before people start feeling obligated to die on hills. This guy's made some very offensive comments, so I feel no pressure to defend him personally, but we've got to have a better process for deciding what's socially acceptable than "sometimes the eye of Twitter descends on you and you become unemployable".
It doesn't appear he has "changed". He has an Amazon link directly to his book prominently as the first item in his Twitter profile.

Would you want to work with someone who considers you "useless baggage" because of how you were born? More importantly, would you want to work under someone who thinks you're useless baggage no matter what you do?
If the device is sending the 3 closest beacons up to a server, for ads nearby, then the server can know what region a device is, wherein those beacons are the three closest, and no others, and the beacon operators can increase beacon frequency as much as needed to increase granularity.

It's unclear the trust model that makes this more valuable than sending the lat/lng/accuracy from the GPS.
Interestingly I have not seen any commentary on how few latinos are represented at Apple, and could that be the reason they summarily dismissed him even though they knew all his writings from before. Apple has many abusive (and perhaps some are misogynistic) white men starting with Steve Jobs.
> the NFL has insisted on using a scoring algorithm on the dementia testing that assumes Black men start with lower cognitive skills. They must therefore score much lower than whites to show enough mental decline to win an award. The practice, which went unnoticed until 2018, has made it harder for Black former players to get awards.

This is a perfect example of AI magnifying existing biases and ending up racist.
John does, apparently.
How can people contact big corporations and get no response?

In general, the bigger the company, the more bureaucracy and layers of indirection you have to get through to reach someone who even knows what you're talking about. This is regardless of whether the message is "bad security bug in your product" or "want to buy a million of your product".
Oh, thats fair. I guess I was trying to note that I didn't have to pay for marketing, but you make a good point!

Sorry about that
You mean under Microsoft, right?
Are we saying that an unpleasant (sexist, bigoted) person can't be an engineer now? What can he be? Can he be a janitor?

Management, PR, ethics oversight board - I can see the problem. This, I don't understand.
This sounds like the cheesy background story of a supervillain story if I ever heard one.
I second this wholeheartedly. There were the Microsoft natural keyboards and the cheap $20 knockoffs that had the six key on the right. I always had to look for those. I thought I was broken but apparently I’m not alone.
> García Martínez describes women in the Bay Area as "soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit.”

Why on earth would anyone put something like that in a book?!
Why is sci-hub complying with Indian courts and worried about American law enforcement if sci-hub is in Russia?
To be clear, no they don't post a mugshot for a traffic stop.

I mean that for all traffic stops (or at least, quite a damn few) they will report the full name, and the crime which tends to be speeding or a traffic violation.

One degree up you'll get the speeding infraction _and_ they didn't have insurance or a suspended license.

I've listened to this program every week for months now. I wish I was kidding.
Does it really make a difference, with respect to whether they should be kicked off HackerOne? Incompetence and disorganization is no excuse for what is essentially (if not literally) wage theft.
It doesn't sound like he's bragging about it, he's mentioning shitty things he's done and how it's common among people in SV. I had to look it up, but calling yourself a "wastrel" doesn't sound like bragging.

n.One who wastes, especially one who wastes money; a profligate

n.An idler or a loafer.

n.Anything cast away as spoiled in the making, or bad; waste; refuse.
Why does she plaster her face all over Sci-Hub waving?
Haha, exactly this. The crypto meme is "I lost it all in a boating accident".
Interactive Triangle Solver
> Uber cosmopolitan politics shoved down everyone's throats.

What’s a specific example of this?
Yikes. I've been remote working for 4 years and I care a great deal about my coworkers, including the ones I've never met face to face. Hopefully they don't feel the same way you do.
Try pregnant.
> Macbooks are solid laptops. Every other laptop I've owned hasn't stood the test of time as well as my Mac.

If we go with anecdotes, in the last 2 decades, I used a mix of laptops from bargain bin to thinkpads. I used macs only the last 3 years (2 different mbp models) and those are the only ones that ever needed servicing.

1. Key caps falling off (replace the top),

2. Weird memory corruption on boot (out of warranty, get a new model),

3. Charging issues (replace the inside),

4. (kind of mac issue due to lack of ports) Their usbc-hdmi dongle started failing. (not serviced, get a new one)
We have only DarkSide's word for what happened to them. No corroboration.

Not saying it's false, but the story doesn't ring true to me.

They appear to be sophisticated, yet they made the newbie error of keeping all the funds in a network accessible device, rather than a cold wallet. Really?
Starlink policy forbids “sexually explicit” usage
I’m kind of torn on this. I don’t know the guy or of his existence until now, but from his own into to that AMA he’s the kind of person that brags about having no loyalty or integrity so I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect any in return from his employer.

However this must all have been clear from day 1 so this can only be a PR move on Apple’s behalf which is not a great look either.

There are no winners in this story, only losers. Including society which got thrown yet another polarising piece of social media drama.
Yeah, well, when it's making money you're too busy to post a write-up.
The same reason she plasters her face all over Sci-Hub waving. The same reason she's on Twitter and giving media interviews. And now she's got American FBI and Indian courts after along with the publishers.
I think he’s Spaniard, not latino.
Right. Instead, Apple should continue to pay someone that employees don't want to work with. To be a leader in the organization people need to trust him and want to work with him. Enough people at Apple said, "No thanks. I can be happier working with other people on other things." So, why should Apple keep him on?

I don't think Apple employees are interested in seeing if they become characters in his next book. Making money and fame off of mocking your colleagues is not going to help you gain the trust of your future colleagues. That was his choice. Other people didn't "ruin it for him". Apple doesn't owe him a career. His colleagues don't owe him a second chance to not publicly shit on them and influence their careers.

He can continue writing, consulting, and doing a variety of other money-earning activities.
the OP?
Whether the line should be drawn there or not, there is a distinction between someone that’s a bigot and someone that’s a published bigot.
I haven't seen any concrete information on what his role was going to be, but given that his references were "prominent valley VCs and execs", it's likely it was a pretty senior role and not just a random IC.
It is a movement glorifying the "alpha male" idea. The strongest man rules and get all the women.

It is called "red pill" because of the idea that it is the real truth of this world.
it sounds like an unconditional amazing success given the original project motivations and goals. building a thing and delivering joy is a reward in and of itself.

whether or not this is or should be a business is a separate matter. not everything that works as an idea will work as a business.
Like I said, reflexive downvoting.
I agree that all of this info is public anyways - and back in the day I bet you could go to the library and look it all up.

But having it blasted out on a public radio program every week is too much for me.
O2 As(s) a Service, of course.
Money is pure politics. The attacker becoming rich can legally be considered a political goal as the nature of money is political. If they endanger an entity or someone else’s resources to gain that political goal they are guilty of terrorism as they used fear to enact political change.
I'm on mobile right now, so I can't verify. But I don't think ctrl-f matches text in posts that are hidden due to low score. I would look in some of those.
I mean if I'm hiring someone who has listed a book on their resume I'm not going to read the entire thing before hiring them.
Sounds like you wouldn't be that pleasant of a person to work with in person, either.
Amazing that the game just runs with 60fps on my mid range phone.
There aren't as many mobile developers as you'd think: https://www.hiringlab.org/2019/11/19/todays-top-tech-skills/
I've often done a thought experiment across much of what I read in my local newspaper for people getting picked up... etc.

If we didn't have drugs, or if we didn't drive, would the police have much to do? Probably not.

When it comes to drugs, we make drug users much more evil than they are.

When it comes to driving, its a relatively new thing in the history of the human race.

I firmly think the law should be there to protect us from others, and not ourselves.

Don't forget, the police have there agenda too. They want to grow their departments and look great at solving crime.

The individual officers are just enforcing what they are told to enforce, and behave how they should. They just are following the orders that the legislatures are giving us.

TBH... I don't believe people belong in jail unless they are a threat to others. We should take the extreme crimes and put people in prison for those. People that hurt or kill others do either need a break from society, or should have a 'permanent' break from society.

The rest, we just need to try to reform, and keep on making them functional in this society. Its a far less burden.

Just my $0.02.
Pretty much end-game toxic masculinity - men blaming women for not wanting to sleep with them and promoting "pick-up artist" strategies like negging, gas-lighting, and other despicable behavior in an attempt to get laid. It grew into a fairly large subreddit.
Looking at the replies, it seems that people's hatred for Apple as a company is benefitting him on Twitter court of justice
If that's biased in his favor....
Cause it makes the book sell.
They don't have financial reports and insurance companies don't routinely disclose ransom amounts.

Darkside has opened negotiations in the tens of millions in the past [0], with an average demand in the millions [1]

[0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-dar...

[1] https://www.areteir.com/darkside-ransomware-caviar-taste-on-...
Parallels' "Shared Network" doesn't suffer from this problem.
I just checked out The Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com/ and it looks like a spam content site to me. Terrible design.
Only keyboard I’ve ever bought more than one of.
Before Exxon was to blame, and now Exxon is telling me it's my fault. Why would I accept that?
Wealth is the primary means of expanding ones political influence. It’s a primitive tool like a talking stick to coerce all the other monkeys to do shit for you. Trying to gain money is absolutely political
By "references" does he mean "cherry-picked people from my life who will say only good things about me"? No one I provide as a reference to a job at Apple is going to say something mean about me or a book they may or may not have even read. The only "due diligence" that seems to be demanded here is reading candidates' books (imagine a recruiter actually going through the effort of picking up a book and combing through all of it for just a single candidate) or looking through public social media posts (but the problematic ones may have likely only been shared in a private network).

I do think AGM's comments should disqualify him as a candidate to work in a diverse work environment. But I don't want hiring to be more exhausting than it already is on either side, so aren't situations like this the reason we have work at-will arrangements anyway? What could Apple really have done here to prevent this? "Sign here attesting that you haven't ever said anything that could point to you being a prejudiced person in the work environment". If it turns out you did say something pretty bad, then too bad you had to relocate for this job because the offer is withdrawn.

I'm sympathetic, I _know_ I've posted really stupid "edgy" things on social media some time between the ages of 12-15 that's likely buried in a set of redundant servers somewhere in the world. Stuff that would get me fired immediately if I said and believed them today. How do you convincingly demonstrate to an employer _and_ to your coworkers that the person from then isn't you anymore?
Kind of stupid of him to sell his property in Washington before moving to Apple. You hear of so many stories of people quitting new jobs on their first day, first week, or first month... sometimes you just get to a place and realize you've made a big fuckup.
Amazon (often) demands a year of free service from a vendor, and requires an NDA and charges a fee to cancel the NDA so you can claim them as a customer