skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least one of the sources in this article, the Washington Free Beacon, is financed by a right-wing activist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Free_Beacon

So yeah, doesn't really seem like a case of progressives eating-their-own
Still that makes no sense as others have pointed out ... MSFT as a whole made $143 billion in revenue and $40 billion in profit for 2020, so not sure where the €220 billion number is coming from.
> Is there some zero day that's getting out and causing a lot of these recent ransomware attacks?

My guess is this is fallout from the SolarWinds hack. Wouldn't be surprised if they discovered intel on a number of vulnerabilities or maybe even backdoors that are helping enable these attacks.
>Someone who wrote a racist or anti-Semitic comment in 2007 could have evolved to deeper understanding

Perhaps but i don't feel they deserve the benefit of the doubt.
That social connection only works for people who haven’t discovered the internet yet. I’m in my late 40s and we mostly lurk on Meetup and through private connections.

On numerous occasions I’ve had nights out with people I’ve never met before who’d be chased out of the village by pitchfork wielding yokels if you took them in the church. And it was great!
And potentially bribes!
every "hackathon" I went to for years had some try a variation of this. and "bill-splitting" apps. but... wtf - you're an adult who can afford an apple smart phone. how many times are you "splitting a bill" and having to settle up with people such that this is such a burden that you'll want to use an app for that? that one truly flummoxed me, but every hackathon event (pre-covid) I went to had people talking about this sort of problem.
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Yeah bro, a quick visit to your Twitter and I see you retweet all the people I expected you would.

You're not a bot, you're just a fool.
Hey, and at least I addressed this reply in advance of you making it.
But religion is not necessary for any of that. In fact, depending on the exact contents of the religion's teachings, it may go directly against the task bringing up a kind, compassionate individual.

Recall the medieval, Renaissance and early-modern Europe: pretty much everybody was Christian (for the then-definition of "Christian"), and yet the amount of bloodshed is truly staggering. And it's very well documented that the humanization of the European cultures were not really influenced by the churches: on the contrary, they lagged behind pretty hard and opposed it every step, even into the 20th century.
It's like a law that makes it illegal to get raped. Many countries exist where that's actually how they deal with it. Reported rape does indeed drop. Emphasis on "reported".

The fundamental problem is that you put blame on the victim and force them to "try harder". Trying harder in this case, against literally anyone in the world discovering one flaw in their system (and systems are never flawless).

A more successful approach would be eliminating the ability for anyone in the world to extort money anonymously from companies. Because without the motivation, the blackmailers have no reason to blackmail you.
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How does the EU handle cases where one member wants to treat something as contraband and other do not? With open borsers for people and trade can one meber state have different laws for banned items or substances?
The U.S. military does supersonic flights over land, too. For example, see page 39 of the R-2508 Complex Users Handbook[1], the section titled "Supersonic Operations". The R-2508 complex[2] is an airspace around the area of Edwards Air Force Base in California.)

1. https://www.edwards.af.mil/Portals/50/R-2508%20User%27s%20Ha...
2. https://www.edwards.af.mil/About/R-2508/
"Keep Receiving our News" seems to do nothing when clicked (no browser-level modal) so that has to be the worst-labeled "No" button on any website.
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You could use a perceptual hash, which would work as long as you had the entire image in any format.
I think your missing my point. Antisemitism isn't just not liking Jews. Of course there is hatred and bigotry, as we just saw in every mixed city.

What I'm saying is that antisemitism is a distinct thing.
> You do realize that the NFT markets are fuelled by controversy, right?

Justification for this claim? This is not at all clear to me!
I have to say that I'm kind of confused by the response that France is "stigmatizing Islam" with these actions. France is simply enforcing their (entirely uncontroversial) laws against sending death threats.
I don't really agree, the difference between being alone in my home vs being in a office with a few people makes me more productive at home. If you're offering personal offices to people that can't have an office at home though, I understand why you would see people more focused at work.

> Sure, now that we have reached to this point, some people can work at home. But the sustained work is done with your colleagues beside you.

Not sure what you mean by "the sustained work". Sure, work was harder when I worked at McDonald's compared to now that I work in software, but on the other hand software gives me way more leverage with what I do, and so I can produce more value. I'm not saying that I'm changing the world here, but I can write a small script in an hour that makes some manual work for a few people automatic, and thus improve their productivity. There's no way I could do something with an impact this big at McDonald's.

> The internet. The vast, vast majority of companies that are the backbone of any country. The financial system that runs credit and capitalism. All these things were built in the office or it's equivalent.

For the internet at least, most people involved had personal offices. Mixing personal offices and open spaces is, I think, a big mistakes. Most employers only gives open spaces, which don't allow to concentrate on work as much as you would like to. I do agree that personal offices with nice shared spaces are an ideal for work. Anecdotally, most research lab that I've seen followed this pattern.
He was leading NextStep right before for ~12 years, iOS SDK is built on top of that effort (NSString - Nextstep string)
Here is a risk assessment:

GO FUCK YOURSELF YOU LIBERAL FUCK!
I use pidgin for reading SMS messages on my phone. TIL I'm among cybercriminals.
Then say that.
I think there would be a pretty large hardware cost to ensure the input signals come to both processors at the same clock everytime on the many high speed interfaces a modern CPU is using.

And you'd need to eliminate use of non-deterministic CPU local data, like RDRAND and on die temperature, power, etc sensors. Most likely, you'd want to run the CPUs at fixed clock speed to avoid any differences in settling time when switching speeds.

This could probably effectively fine broken CPUs (although you wouldn't know which of the pair was broken), but you could still have other broken devices resulting in bad computations. It might be better to run calculations on two separate nodes and compare; possibly only for important calculations.
I don't have one yet. Still working that out!

I am certainly monitoring this thread with a lot of interest.

My approaches and results so far:

- Email marketing. This was done by identifying businesses in the local area (roughly 1,000 of them) and just churning through contacting them, ideally with the name of the owner sourced from their website. Result: literally not a single response or conversion.

- Posting to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn with tutorials, news, offers about my product every 3 days. Result: also zero. I should note that I have never had a social account before this, so I have no existing networks of friends and family to rely on.

- Talking about my product on Hackernews. Result: hundreds of page views and 4 free trial signups. Nice! Finally something.

- Reddit posts: tens of page views, no signups, so far as I can tell.

I have a few more routes, like paid for advertising, but I am honestly trying to do this all at a cost as close to 0 as possible (FWIW, I'm paying about £10 a month for my VPS and Cloudflare workers, that's it)

The product is a static website builder that's supposed to be much easier to use than WordPress, mostly cheaper and also super usable on mobile (which is rare I believe).

https://pinkpigeon.co.uk if you're curious, and apologies for the self promotion.
People who things Python2to3 is was not a big deal are missing the fact that, there was practically no reason to upgrade to python3 until python 3.6, when the dict enhancements were released.

The inertia to upgrade can mainly be overcomed, if there are security vulnerability in existing version or you faster performance for free. Other than that, there are very few cases I have seen where upgrading at cost of breaking backwards compatibility makes sense.
Reassigned? Lol. He was already on the roof.
My whole twitter account is 100% only recruiter bait.

I cycle my reddit nicks every 2 months or so.

I've cleaned out everything that I've posted as a teenager (even though I am a sensible person)

Not taking any chances. Saw the writing on the wall with Damore.

I should probably axe this nick but I've grown fond of its upvotes. So whatever :P

Always assume you've been dox'd.
> From my experience with homeschoolers, the sheer amount of parent attention they tend to get lends itself towards figuring these things out

It depends. Some parents focus homeschooling on religion. Or skip schooling so their 11 year old can focus on his baseball career and 3 travel teams. Or have no clue.
Aluminum has 3x the thermal conductivity of lithium and half the thermal expansion, so this could result in a larger space savings.

The weight is an issue but if we end up with less issues around dendrites etc, it might not matter? I imagine that larger cell sizes and lack of need for cooling might offset the perceived weight issues.

I'd also be very curious about the longevity of the battery as well vs lithium-ion.

I imagine for the automotive space (air running over the battery could be all it needs to cool) this could be huge, but maybe not so much for cellphones/aerospace!
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On the flip side Boeing seems to be in the middle of imploding, the ideal time for a new player to come in.
Nobody institutes limits on the number of joints you can have in swimming competitions either.
It's almost as if use value and exchange value were two different things :thinking_marx:
>I don't hear nearly as much for how religion makes people more loving, more caring, and better

Really? I hear that much more than opinions critical of religion, which seem to me to be the minority opinion. It's a more controversy-adjacent opinion, so it may appear more prevalent and create more noise.
Those are great questions. The simplest way I can say is that homeschooling alienates from society, and you become an Other, in your own eyes and the eyes of others. The child become adult must reassimilate (with all the nuances and weight that word conveys) into broader society.

That should give you the vector to look into - the question of assimilation and the other has been adequately discussed elsewhere.
They want him to quit.
Being a Front End Developer at GDS (Government Digital Service) in the UK
At the Head of the European Public Prosecutor's Office
Didn't know Google had so many failed projects... it blows my mind!
Making particles of it is easy, making sheets is where it is still hard, so that's probably the bit that you're missing.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/mass-producing-gra...
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Oh now I can answer.

<img src="https://api.assetroulette.com/random_meme?hello=there">
<img src="https://api.assetroulette.com/random_meme?general=kenobi">

Should give two different images on the same page :)
I think it's because of how the browser caches a request for the same url but I don't know exactly yet. :/
I will definitely implement the search part, that is a great idea! Thanks again.
I don't think there's any nation state level actors or fancy zero days in play here, just ordinary organized crime. This appears to be very effective and profitable.

Most corporate networks are very bad when it comes to administration practices and credential hygiene. I'm talking about Active Directory of course, which is the identity and management backbone of most every corporate network. However, to be accurate, this isn't a problem with AD as a technology itself - it can be made very secure - but how it's deployed and used in practice. Of course, you could argue that a technology is bad if deploying it securely requires arcane knowledge and isn't the default configuration... However, the same underlying principles or weaknesses exist in the underpinning technologies or concepts themselves and are not AD specific.

Ideally, Active Directory is the identity management backbone of your entire corporate network. Identities and devices are centrally managed through it. Ideally, access to every single server, workstation and application is managed through it.

Compromise the identity management backbone and you compromise everything that it controls access to, i.e. the entire network and all business data. Doesn't matter whether it's AD or MIT Kerberos or whatever.

In practice, this issue is Windows- and Active Directory specific, but mostly because AD is the most widely deployed directory service by far and Windows machines tend to be domain joined for effective management.

But to be clear, Linux would be vulnerable to this in exactly the same way if they were configured similarly, which they're often not. But you could have MIT Kerberos etc. running to centrally manage access to all of your Linux assets - compromise it and you compromise all assets it manages access to.

In AD, there's a group called Domain Admins which grants unrestricted administrative access to every single workstation, server and identity in the directory. In today's security conscious world, that concept is very much a blast from the past, but I digress...

On most networks, practices are generally very lax and the number of Domain Admins and the use of such accounts thereof vastly exceeds the minimal scope they should be used in. Admins log in to standard workstations with them etc. putting the accounts/credentials at risk of theft.

On most networks, it's fairly trivial to move laterally after the initial foothold and to capture Domain Admin credentials (because they're scattered all over the place), after which the entire network is compromised and it's game over.

I've seen it happen in the span of about 12 minutes from initial compromise via the internet to malware being deployed to thousands of endpoints at once through AD. No actual vulnerabilities needed, just bad (network) administrative practices.
Seems like blatant HIPAA violations to me and only a best-intentions step above asking for “papers please” in a German accent, but whatever.

I support states rights I suppose, and I support my own right to not spend money with these states or businesses. I think I support them making poor business decisions so they can feel the effects - or prove me wrong.
You could easily imagine an EV with a hybrid battery pack consisting of 2/3 Li-Ion and 1/3 Al-Ion. You pay very little in range for the combination compared to a Li_Ion pack, but you gain flexibility. You then discharge the Al-Ion part of the pack first, partly because it has better longevity across cycles, but mostly because this then lets you charge that empty third of the pack very quickly giving enough range for an extra hour or two of driving.
Last time I looked what I read was lithium doesn't change size when it gains or loses and electron. Other metals the ions change size which damages the electrodes.
I haven’t tried but I’m pretty sure you can change variable values. Aside from it being Linux-only I haven’t encountered the CPU challenges. VM incompatibilities are a different story as I generally only ever run directly on metals when debugging. That being said, it looks like it does work (at least if you have sufficiently new software bits) so may be worth giving it another go: https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr/issues/2806
Look I'm not going to quibble about what is and is not Appalachia. My definition of Appalachia part of the South that was inaccessible to rivers and navigable waterways and had poor soil and was therefore not remotely of interest for plantation owners. Therefore there were no native populations of slaves when the civil war ended.

My point is that a plurality of people in the United States who live below the poverty line happen to be white. And when you talk about class have you ever seen Google or any tech company talk about making sure they are hiring from a diverse set of classes? Of course not.

Show me a bunch of googlers and I'll show you a bunch of people whose parents were college-educated no matter what their skin color is.

All of this is just laziness at it's core. Treating humans differently because of their group membership in person-to-person interactions is the epitome of bigotry. It's not acceptable when cops do it and it's not acceptable for you to give passes to people of certain colors who have become bigots despite probably never experiencing extreme racism themselves. My cousin was murdered in Virginia Beach by a man who happened to be black in 2006. It would be inexcusable for me to hold that against other people that share that man's ethnicity. But if the colors were reversed you would have no problem giving me a pass because you have low expectations for people that don't look like you.
But if you have to trust the originator it's not a "proof" is it? A proof is something that can be demonstrated to be true.
Not sure what this has to do with the immense amount of code that needs to be written across various layers in a stack to do the simplest task. Can you translate this into some real and actionable?
Founder of failory.com here. Thanks for sharing!

Let me know if you have any suggestions ;)
Sure wish they had identified all the various watch models that were pictured within!
> What do you mean by "correct"?

Sorry I'll reword. The question asked was "How is Lenna's picture disturbing or suggestive?"

So don't focus on the word "correct" as much as the "explain why". They asked "how" and they did not get an answer.

You linked to a page that doesn't help answer that question, because it only has the same quote.

Lots of things are opinions. But you can justify an opinion, explain an opinion.

If I was going to argue against using Lena, I'd say things about the context of the image and why that's a problem. Any problems with the 512x512 image itself are much less obvious, and I think it's fair to want a more detailed argument on that front.
Google Removes Diversity Chief over Antisemetic 2007 Blog Post
Curious how liberal Jews are dealing with this.
Agreed, not knowing measure theory never stopped me from computing a conditional expectation. Some courses and books overemphasize rigor in probability and, while it obviously has its place, I've seen newcomers to the field become obsessed with doing everything via measure theory. Further to your point, volume two of Feller is pretty light on measure theory IIRC.
The top few articles I googled quoted her as saying: “I’ve apologised for my past racist and homophobic tweets and will reiterate that there’s no excuse for perpetuating those awful stereotypes in any way.

“I am so sorry to have used such hurtful and inexcusable language. At any point in my life, it’s totally unacceptable.” Backlash against her initial comments seem to be that she characterized her tweets as insensitive rather than using the word racist, which seems important but certainly pedantic.
I think it's pretty clear from the proposal that the only relevant NFT for some piece of digital media would be the NFT created by the original copyright holder of that piece of digital media. For example, Getty could issue NFTs for a particular stock photograph.

Obviously any random person could create an NFT and claim that it represents ownership of a particular stock photograph, but that's not really relevant or problematic. You could also create a traditional paper certificate of title for your neighbor's car too, but obviously no one would respect it (unless they were tricked, but that's against the law and the legal system would tend to respect that genuine certificate of title).
“Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they’d become precisely the sort of useless baggage you’d trade for a box of shotgun shells or a jerry can of diesel.”

“PMMess, as we’ll call her, was composed of alternating Bézier curves from top to bottom: convex, then concave, and then convex again, in a vertical undulation you couldn’t take your eyes off of. Unlike most women at Facebook (or in the Bay Area, really) she knew how to dress; forties-style, form-fitting dresses from neck to knee were her mainstay.”

“Out of nowhere British Trader informs me she is once again pregnant; the calendar math takes us right back to my move- out imbroglio in December, our last tryst after a breakup desert of nonintimacy. After a brief debate, British Trader confirms her desire to keep the child, whatever my thoughts on the matter. It occurred to me that perhaps this most recent experiment in fertility—and the first—had been planned on British Trader’s part, her back up against the menopause wall, a professional woman with every means at her disposal except a willing male partner—in which case I had been snookered into fatherhood via warm smiles and pliant thighs, the oldest tricks in the book.”

“To make an analogy, a capped note is like having to seduce five women one after the other, while an equity round is having to convince five women to do a sixsome with you. The latter is exponentially harder than the former.*

* The women analogy breaks down in that, unlike with women, the more investors you seduce into your moresome, the more likely others are to join. This is an expression of the lemming-like nature of tech investors, most of whom scarcely merit the title.”

—Antonio Garcia Martinez
Automated signatures work decently when the process is smooth. XCode integrates with your Apple ID to sign apps. Letsencrypt works for signing TLS certificates. HDCP works silently even for typical users.

I don't support HDCP or DVD-region-lock but they worked for the copyright owners without inconveniencing the users enough to affect the bottom-line. It's the technical users and hackers among us who have a problem with these.

I'm not looking forward to NFT everywhere for creatives, I'm saying I can see it happen. I don't want to sign every JPEG I edit but if the tools preserve the source signatures, it wouldn't really affect me.

Photoshop has had counterfeit detection system for over a decade. I'm sure Adobe would love to offer Getty + CS Cloud NFT-copyright integration if they can make it work. I'm sure they can come up with a catchy marketing name for it and build an ecosystem to license, edit, and distribute media with detailed tracking of every asset.
There are some very sophisticated behaviors displayed by single/low-cell-count micro-organisms. It is something I find very challenging to put into the accepted framework of how cognition works. I think there are some are order-of-magnitude issues that we are missing, probably due to the technology we have available.