skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if you’re a criminal with a lot of Bitcoins you can do it. One way is through exchange insiders taking a bunch of your balance and giving you a bag of cash (but you sell your coins to them at a discount of course.) See eg https://cybernews.com/security/how-we-applied-to-work-with-r...
Source: https://github.com/rastapasta/mapscii
In the wild exploitation of ZeroLogon detected over the 'net on honeypot (2020)
The ones sitting on that cash (MS, Apple, Google) arent at risk.
> It then also makes sense that those same users will also spend more money on the App Store, since they also had the expendable income to buy a "premium" product.

Those users will also be more likely to spend on apps and accessories in order to justify or supplement the much bigger phone purchase. Someone who's got the same amount of expendable income but chooses a cheap android for frugality is also more likely to be frugal in extraneous purchases like apps, especially when free but slightly inconvenient alternatives are available. At the end of the day, focus on the customers not the app platforms.
> One of the coolest parts of our codebase is the new general purpose language at its foundation. Though the semantics of the language are substantially different than Clojure, it’s defined entirely within Clojure using macros to express the differing behavior. It compiles directly to bytecode using the ASM library. The rest of our system is built using both this language and vanilla Clojure, interoperating seamlessly.

Actually this sounds quite horrible.
For me "Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentional violence to achieve political aims", there is no political aims here, their goal is to extort as much money as they can from their victims. This is a criminal activity and any small or big companies that pay for it are feeding the monster and should be persecuted. But the US has been ignoring it for years and now it comes right back to them.
> But the worst part of the experience was the method of starting with epsilon/delta and limits, to "explain" what was going on, and then throwing that away to get on with solving problems using differentials and integrals

I guess that was pretty normal once upon a time? I remember that was how my calculus textbooks did it. First pictures to develop some visual intuition, then a gentle foray into how to make the intuitions more rigorous using limits, sequences, and series, and then techniques for solving certain differentiation and integration problems. It makes sense to me; it shows that the techniques are based in math and not in magic, and it lays the groundwork to introduce Taylor series later. It also foreshadows the kinds of proofs that students might do in real analysis if they decide to pursue an engineering or physical science major.

I guess every math class could be very different if you knew it was the last math class that students would take, but you don't know that, and it's problematic to separate students according to which ones will study the material further before they're even exposed to it. If a student takes a class and unexpectedly finds they want (or need) to take further classes in the area, they don't want to be find out later that, "Oh, sorry, we didn't think you would pursue this subject, so we gave you the version of the class that didn't prepare you for the next one."
Finally we going to get security research paid properly and companies punished for not fixing their zero-day-sponges. Oh, its just another monstrous deterrence Three letter agency.

But yeah, in a game-theory sense, its the cheapest option, to have a nuclear counter strike, instead of building all cities like underground bunkers. Security, by strike team. That would actually work, if all countries agreed on that.

Or the internet is expected to break into allegiance-sized parts. The server only connects to country, who will extradite cyber-criminals and adhere to this connection contract.

It was a nice dream, while it lasted.
Like that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STtXdpD8LtM
on top of that it's a chicken and egg problem too. Because purchasing power is higher, developers also charge more compared to similar apps on Android
> If that is the case, then contributor's emails are being 'leaked' without their say-so or probably knowledge

When you login into the NPM CLI it printed in all caps that the given email address will be public.

I don't like this either about NPM, but it's not like they are leaking in, they are upfront about it and warn you that the registered email address will be accessible to anyone in the package metadata.
I think the issue is bigger than just self-driving. AI/ML is wildly oversold as an engineering solution to real world problems. In the best case, it's solving easy problems under narrowly defined conditions. It's not really solving hard problems robustly under real conditions.
> Toyota is the last automaker (historically) to integrate "new" tech into their vehicles.

The Prius was ground-breaking work; had Chevron not killed NiMH batteries, they would have been shipping mainstream electric RAV4s in the 90s. Toyota are very happy to innovate where they think they can deliver to a high standard.
Customers aren't the only factor here, though. Developers are coming out en-masse to denounce Apple's business practices right now, and the government has been starting to intervene lately too. It's obvious that there is contention in Apple's ecosystem, so they'd be much better suited to addressing it outright instead of dragging it into the world's longest media fiasco. This is (and has been) one of Tim Cook's massive pitfalls, and he repeatedly falls into these asinine grudge matches that only further destroy what little digital cogency there is in this world.
Ransomware is actually a legitimate threat to the well-being and health of all people. They lock down government and health records. It a huge risk to the American people
do you live under a rock? have you missed the ransom ware attacks on critical infrastructure....
This reminds me of framevr.io Totally 3D with support for headsets and very expandable.
It wasn't worth escalating for me, and I have no idea if it fell through the cracks on Toyota's end, or they bet that either I didn't know the law or wasn't going to take action. (I appreciate you mentioning that in case anyone else reading this in the U.S. doesn't know that aspect of the law, but I was aware of it.)
> They pretend with a straight face like it was somehow impossible to sell software or reach customers before their magical store made it happen.

I never heard them claim it but speaking as a developer it's obvious that Apple was a driving force here. Sellable desktop software became obsolete due to piracy. Everything is server-based now. Mobile apps, particularly on iOS, is the only place where the general public consistently buys client software. Most people don't want cracked apps on their devices, and they want secure, privacy-focused phones. Apple has had that focus for years.
I'm sure the Russians are as interested in these crooks as the Americans, as it would be attractive to seize their assets. They will not extradite them, but they might wish they had been.
I think it still doesn't read speed limit signs either like it used to be capable of, but some areas are programmed in.
I would be surprised if the audience for those vehicles want lots of modern updates, as well.
correct; this is how their subway systems aren't a black hole money pit. pretty smart macro planning, imo.
I remember now that you can prefix your search with

allintext:

Which of course is way more obscure than + and given that nobody has mentioned it thus far on THIS site, you know it's way too obscure for the public.

http://www.googleguide.com/advanced_operators_reference.html...
Just like people say "All life matters" is coded phrase for racism. Similarly "diversity goals" are just diversity of gender and skin color. This diversity does not include political orientation, location, language, food, religion or life experiences etc.

So no surprise some are not onboard with "diversity goals"
Why did they remove radar?
that's a pretty big joke
> Cash is a solution to the problem of portable assets.

Barely. The portability usually ends at country borders.

> Bitcoin is a problem in search of a solution.

Don't you mean "a solution in search of a problem?" Nice Freudian slip, though :)
Always surprised when I see people still using jenkins, must be because of history? you wouldn't choose it today..?
AML, SDN lists - yes, all that is in scope. But enforcement has been uneven: it’s so far been about making US exchanges comply with KYC laws. Nobody has really gone further.

What happens when a company is a victim of a ransomware attack and OFAC puts the extortion wallet on an exclusion list?
No the optics around charging developers large platform fees when they also highly profitable on the phone itself. This whole thread is about double dipping. I am specifically talking about "double dipping" and the optics of that.
> 1) will be public and probably not too common - fishing expeditions by the police. 2) will not be public at all and will represent the bulk of data transfer

I don't think that's correct at all.

To the contrary -- how often does a regular resident get a subpoena? Practically never.

On the other hand, how often do cops check CCTV footage? All the time. If cops are trying to follow the path a suspect took to drive through a neighborhood and where they wound up, then this 1) option is amazing and will frequently be used.

I can't imagine why you're perjoratively calling it "fishing expeditions". That's ridiculous, there's zero evidence police are using this, or want to use it, to catch petty crimes they don't know about in the first place. It's to track suspects' routes and confirm alibis, that type of thing. Both common and legitimate.

> They certainly mustn't.

The obvious context here is Ring requests. Not things like subpoenas.

> Complete bullshit as well. Ring doesn't make the rules.

You're wrong. Ring does make all the rules of what Ring shares through this program.

You're acting like the existence of subpoenas makes this all a bunch of song and dance, but they're entirely different things for entirely different purposes. Your pessimism and cynicism isn't just unwarranted, it's simply factually incorrect.
The killer app here would be to license or safely mimic some classic office layouts: Mad Men, The Office, Silicon Valley, Parks and Rec. Or even the USS Enterprise.

Or, an “App Store” for interior designers and artists to sell office spaces and furnishings.
The question is ""How is Lenna's picture disturbing or suggestive?"

The context is relevant to that, as you said yourself.

The wikipedia link gives some of that context. I provided one example. Cropping out the nudity doesn't change the context.
They show almost everything.
Not warranted to make the point that it was indecent behavior.

Publishing a persons nude photos without permission is a hateful act.
re-inventing advertising in 2021 makes you a fucking moron
Yes that's a fair break down of the situation. We're mostly not aligned on how to properly empower individuals.
Why not just sign the assets with a private key and verify its authenticity with the public key? What is the purpose of bolting a blockchain onto this idea?
...when they're throwing people in prison for it.

I thought I smelled authoritarianism! Here we see the ultimate purpose of this entire desultory exercise. Having problems online? No backups? Don't fix your pathetic shit; just be the excuse for the USA military-enforcement-imprisonment-industrial complex to oppress everyone on earth. Good grief.
3D model of ground and clouds using cellphone on a flight
> What happens when a company is a victim of a ransomware attack and OFAC puts a wallet on an exclusion list?

That wallets gets tainted? Its coins become less valuable? Marked wallets have been an obvious thing coming down the pipes.
Exactly. There isn't enough artwork that has enough value. NFTs create "artwork" out of (almost) nowhere to satisfy the limited market of people with too much money to hide or wash.

I've always said the best money-laundering / money-stashing instrument are paintings in a rugged floating tube that can be stashed in a yacht equipped with salt plugs in-case it ever went down.
I think this dynamic will play out very differently with something the value of which is mostly determined by current and future-expected transaction velocity & volume (to the extent that it's not sheer speculation). Now, the cost for services involving Bitcoin, like converting it into dollars, would probably shoot way up.

Outlawing Bitcoin (or cryptocurrency generally) would cause a huge demand reduction. Some coins might adjust supply to compensate, but total crypto "market cap" would surely plummet.
Disclaimer: I've joined Spot as a strategic/product advisor and consultant, and I'm very excited about the space, product and roadmap.

Working from home since late 2008 myself, I've felt the drawbacks extensively. So when I discovered Spot for the first time, I felt that this truly addressed many of the challenges of working from home. Some of these are the dilution of corporate culture, the loss of rituals and ceremonies, and the loss of chance encounters and spontaneous conversations with coworkers. People working from home over long periods of time tend to feel increasingly more disconnected and unseen.

Location and presence can be powerful enablers and are great ways to communicate what's happening in a team, resulting in richer social interaction. I can imagine how nice it is for a team to see who's in the meeting room right now, or who is hanging out in the lounge area and likely up for some small talk. I can see how that would make me feel more connected than just staring at a bunch of channels or joining video calls.

I'm especially excited about the greater long-range potential of a powerful spatial interface to communication and collaboration. There are many things and nuances we are paying very close attention to in order to bridge the gaps and make it feel as natural as possible.

Another aspect I like a lot here is that the design of the space to which you invite people conveys something about who you are as a company and team. I remember getting invited to Dropbox HQ a few times and the space itself had a personality to it that I liked a lot. I can imagine inviting clients and letting them arrive in a virtual lobby with photos on the walls highlighting some really cool things about our product or so, and then picking them up to walk through our virtual space to the meeting room while telling them about the features our engineers are currently working on as we pass their desks.
I don’t agree there. Most of these extra classes are just type declarations with no methods at all.

While the total LoC written might be higher, the amount of written logic in which you can introduce bugs is less.
Would you mind sharing the abandoned libs/framework?

When you say you have too many "I'm clever" functions, do you mean within code your team wrote, or in the ecosystem at large?
I'm rusty, but did think about this a bit at one point. I recall you can't really do the usual constructions on hyperreals (problems with completeness?) but you can do something like approximate any real-valued measure closely.
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Unfortunately this isn't the complete story. Being able to use a DS4/DualSense with a PC or other device is a different beast from being able to emulate a DS4/DualSense for a PS4/5.

The console actually authenticates the controller using some secret [0]. I find it very doubtful that Sony has implemented this authentication in their Linux driver and released the necessary secrets.

Unless this procedure is a part of a standard that I'm unfamiliar with that it may still need to be reversed for PS5/DualSense. We also need the secrets or use the workaround with a legitimate controller I referenced in a different comment [1, 2].

[0] https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2018/ps4-ds4/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27378663

[2] https://www.cronusmax.com/manual/wired_controllers_connectin...
If I understood correctly he means that you can write a simple tool that reads input from the camera, capture the eyes and as soon as you turn away the pc will shutdown.
They do that already. They're not going to come to your company and configure things for you, but they'll report vulnerabilities (https://www.cnet.com/news/major-windows-10-security-flaw-rep...), give guidance on policies (https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/02/26/ns...), create security frameworks (https://web.archive.org/web/20201022103915/https://www.nsa.g...) and many other things.
They haven’t said ransomeware is terrorism, only that they’re going to prioritize it like terrorism. As in, it will follow a similar centralized reporting process. I don’t think the goal is to start sending hackers to Guantanamo or categorize ransomware as WDMs. Not yet, at least.
> Inversely I'm kinda confused how Porsche (owned by VW) seems to get very good reliability scores[1]. Down to 9/26 from last years 4/26. Compared to VW's 24/26 that's quite a large delta.

Reliability was always a selling point for Porsches relative to their competitor. You could buy a 308 and be constantly fixing it, or a 911 and (so long as you didn't put it in a ditch) you'd have an everyday driver.

The fact that it's dropping suggests that they're feeling the effects of VW's ownership, crapping their designs up.
No, I understood.

But the value of a piece of art that is pre-signed by the artist, versus a print that was signed after-the-fact, is not the same.

Some of the value comes from authentication. But if mass produced, this is not really more valuable than the author's printed name on a book.

Some of the value comes from the face-to-face interaction between the artist or famous individual and the signed item. This has no analog in the NFT.
Interesting, where did you see that?

Edit: It looks like they make the same claims about their sodium reactor as well
There's a difference between a proposition one can pull out of an orifice and a proposition one can defend in court.
Cryptocurrency Exchanges Manipulate the Market
But there is also significant benefits to these dams. Three gorges dam generates 95 TWh annually. My quick google search shows Finland consumes 82 TWH annually. This amount of energy is generated with no emission of co2. China has no oil and gas, hence if its not for these dams, most of this energy will be generated with coal. How much co2, so2, other particular matter will that generate? How much damage will that have on people's health? How many people will get health problems from that? I was in China in the 90s, I remember how scarce electricity was back then. ACs, heating, home appliances, industrial development, hospitals all require electricity. Without this power, people's lives and economy will not develop. How many people will die of poverty (poverty induces health problems from starvation and malnutrition, poverty causes crime, family and social issues). These dams are also crucial for irrigation. The mass famine in the 60s, one of the core issues is lack of agricultural development and irrigation is crucial for that. Another crucial aspect is flood control. These days significant lives and economic disruptions are avoided because of the extensive set of dams to control flood water. The Yangtze River flood of 1998 resulted total loss of 4150 people, and 180 million people were affected. Around 100,000 square kilometres (25,000,000 acres) were evacuated, and 13.3 million houses were damaged or destroyed. A similar size flood season occurred in 2020 and 2016, the damage resulted was much smaller. You cannot simply ignore all these benefits.

The Gezhouba Dam was constructed in 1988s, back then people's understanding of ecology and conservation was poor. And people were starving, economy was so poor that its hard to imagine what it was like back then. I think its not too crazy to think that people would prioritize certain things over others. Today, ecology considerations are very much part of the construction process.

As the article also suggested, overfishing is another huge contributor to ecosystem loss. In 60s, the Chinese paddlefish was being fished and sold like cabbages. By the 80s, fisherman would catch very little of the fish. The poor yield pushed some fisherman to use extreme tactics, like electric fishing and explosives, and that causes even more damages to the fish population. Last year, the yangtz protection law was passed. There is a host of actions there but one of it is complete ban of fishing on the yangtz for 10 years. And there are over 280,000 fisherman on the yangtz. There are also lots of government effort to support their livelihoods and transition them to other jobs.http://www.npc.gov.cn/englishnpc/c23934/202103/8cccd3c25caf4...
Google needs to market Lighthouse to only developers. No good comes from your customers running these tests.
Could help you add a little flavor to your Jethro Tull covers
Why aren't all gas station in the US buying at least a couple of timed/metered EV chargers? They are cheap in Aliexpress. Between 400 USD and 1000 USD per charger. I would assume that a gas station already has the electrical setup required to hook a handful of them since they have other equipment with high electricity consumption.

With a couple thousand you can create a small EV charging operation.
It baffles me when I see gas stations with a new car wash system that is probably expensive as fuck and not a single EV charging station in miles.

Is EV charging a regulated industry or something?
There is no such thing as positive discrimination.
I do have a problem with movie merchandise in general for being cheaply made plastic garbage, I just don't think there's anything more egregious about the Maui costume than anything else. And Christians already have the market cornered with tacky Body-of-Crist merch in the form of Mass play sets. If you ask me the Orthodox have the right idea, just give the kids the real Holy Communion from the moment they're baptised, bypassing the whole need for that garbage, but that's besides the point.

I think Moana was actually very good, and I was greatly and pleasantly surprised to see something of that quality come out of Disney. It's a captivating story that stands on its own legs without any pandering or preaching, and I see nothing wrong with how it represents Polynesian culture.
Before the yacht was launched, before it was first put in the water, there was a big problem with rats entering through the large holes in the bottom of the hull. To remedy the situation, the yacht builders began feeding a large number of cats around the base of the yacht while they finished the furnishings and painted the gold trims. The rat problem was solved and the happy day of launch is near.
I’m not in favor of them lying to their customers by saying that they are protecting them, but I’m in favor of them resolving the discrepancy by protecting their customers rather than by retracting their claim.