skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of the Wall Street execs paying themselves huge bonuses after the 2007/2008 bailouts. (And nobody went to jail) The mentality was “The government should have struck a tougher deal!”
Before networkmanager and systemd, pretty much every tool used gethostbyname, which used standard nsswitch which tended to be hosts, then resolv.conf

resolv.conf would use the first one, and then timeout and use the next one

Nice and simple.

The quote

"simply turn off systemd-resolved"

Is usually the answer, but it's a constant uphill battle to fix broken behaviour.

Of course Pottering doesn't care.
Covid is a BIOWEAPON that leaked from Wuhan lab during military ‘Frankenvirus’
I've also got serious problems (as in, the service we're paying real money for is totally broken) solved by contacting a friend who worked at $BIG_COMPANY and the friend escalating internally.

The point is that I shouldn't have to bypass the official channels that way. These organisations are operating at the level of ad-hoc individual heroics, which is the lowest tier in terms of organisational maturity. In a start-up where everyone has to do everything and no-one has worked anything out yet, that's completely understandable. In a many-billions-of-dollars business with enough influence that someone's quality of life or the viability of some other business could be profoundly affected if the giant screwed up, we should be demanding better by now.
I recently had to circumvent the systemd resolvd auto config for dns it would randomly fail.
The Origin of Watermelons
Why? I’m not saying you’re wrong per se but you offer a stern dismissal without any reason nor alternative.

For what it’s worth, I think the GP makes a pretty common opinion. For example people on lower incomes will do more household jobs themselves because it saves them money, whereas people on higher incomes will pay people to do things because it saves them time. The opinion might be dressed up differently when I state that but it’s still the simple act of a person putting a value on their free time. It’s why we have house cleaners, windows cleaners, gardeners, car washers, and so on and so forth. The only different is people don’t usually casually post precise numeric values against their time. But it’s still a sentiment shared by many.
I really don’t know. I did not embarrass him in the meeting but we had a smaller group talk later
The first thought when I heard tank man was the guy that built a tank out of a bulldozer.
Cicadas, Insecticides and Children
What a turn of events at the end.
Without this lady, even though Edward Jenner may have survived and even though this method was already a thing in other parts of the world, I think we can say it was a big influence in his career as doctor later on. Not only because he received the treatment as kid but for all the political nonsense around it.
A Crime a Day on Twitter is fun to casually scroll through.

https://twitter.com/CrimeADay
John Carmack on JPEG
Modern censorship relies on using online communities' reporting, flagging and moderating systems to the censor's advantage.
> Who are these "most people"?

Judging from 4chan, twitter, gab, I think currently its the "stolen election" Trump supporters. But it might be a growing coalition of those that oppose "communism" as they see it. Progressive policies, reparations, and so on. The disgruntled right. Which is actually a lot of red states...most of geographic land area of the US.
It wasn’t really that bad. It didn’t take much practice to get reasonably good results. Built-in camera metering worked well, and you got a feel for aperture vs. depth of field (sometimes that’s even marked on the lens). If you were trying for a special effect you might have to do an experimental roll, but ordinary circumstances typically “just worked”.

Punch cards, on the other hand, really were that bad. :)
They do. Cambridge, UK, has regular magnet fishers.
I wasn't trying to make a point other than sharing examples of companies, like Akamai, that store a lot of personal data on behalf of others. Storing data with Apple is storing it with Akamai, and all of the other third parties involved--where "third parties" becomes a blanket term in privacy policies and not an exhaustive list. The "chain of trust" in this regard has some missing links.

So far as their businesses are concerned, the data is safeguarded and I would never expect it to be sold--not by the top of the data food chain in any case.

But there's the issue of data being stored with US companies requiring being subject to US laws, such as the USA PATRIOT Act.
Covid-19 is part of the biowarfare program of the China
> I noticed that these days roughly 30-40% of the code I write deals with integrity checks, anomalies and anomaly handling.

Love to hear more about this.

My approach has been to convert errors into data and have behavior that deals with conveying these errors in different ways, but it's always felt too complex for the task. I've just got a lot of stuff dealing with handling errors in the different environments (jvm / browser / nodejs / rn) and across async and non-async code.
Well, this is genuinely irritating. I'm pretty sure I saved the post on reddit, saved a link, or saved some videos, but I cannot find anything. I must not have wanted to have a bunch of videos of people dying, so I think I might have just saved the post on reddit... Other reddit posts with a link to the archive had been deleted, so I should have taken more care.
I just want to be sure we're on the same page. Is the full version of that: "If we were to decide, as a country, that it was bad, we could assign new orders to our federal, state, and local law enforcements officers to target and violate the property rights of people who engage with cryptocurrencies"?

In order to solve the ransomware problem, we create a new problem in the use of violence or the threat of violence in order to stop anyone from using crypto at all.
the government could block the whole internet tomorrow if they wanted to.... because weapons.
I'm not against government regulations when it is a good fit, either, but as long as it's cheaper to pay the ransom, the companies have incentives not to do anything about the threats.

Industrial civilization has been dealing with these kinds of tradeoffs for what, a couple hundred years now? Regulations seem to be the best option out there.
All over this thread, for one thing. Nate Silver and a number of other "data driven centrist" type commentators acting like there has been a massive shift in the weight of evidence. Dozens of "We're not saying this is true, but the next 10 pages will act entirely based on that supposition..." articles.
Bryan, Adam, and Mike created DTrace.

Brendan was the most amazing and prolific user of DTrace, from very early on. Brendan did not create DTrace, but in a sense he "made DTrace" what it is. And not just DTrace, but eBPF.
Van Buren was also convicted of wire fraud for the same act, with a concurrent prison sentence with the CFAA count of the same length (18 months). So at least in this case he's getting the same punishment either way for his actions.

Reducing the scope of the CFAA in case law just means that we take the teeth out of a overused and honestly crappy law that's ruined lives without reason to.
How is it called?
If you search for "Unknown protester" you get a big fact box with Tank Man though.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=Unknown+Protester&search=&form...
US-linked Chinese military scientist filed patent for Covid vaccine just after
Keep censoring! The truth will pervail!
Your Move, Art Thieves
I'm looking forward for "old men" to retire.

Stuff like systemd (and systemd-resolved) are wonderful innovation and that m god they're the de-facto standard on most desktops.

And by the way, the joy of systemd-resolved is in complex stuff that become surprisingly easy.

Example: split-horizon DNS. You're connected to a VPN network but you're only routing some subnets through that, not everything. Thus, you have to have DNS that query some DNS server inside the VPN for a set of domains, but keep using the usual DNS servers for everything else.

It's surprisingly easy with systemd-resolved, but I'm not aware of any feasibility without a DNS server running on the local machine (albeit in resolver mode). Which usually would be dnsmasq, but at that point you might as well run systemd-resolved.
Nigerian Government Bans Twitter
If Putin wants to have better relations with the EU, he is very welcome. He just should stop with certain things which are kind of incompatible with that. Like odering murders on EU territory, and keep his fingers out of the Ukraine. Oh, yes, if he has any influence with Lukashenko, he might tell him about not threatening European airplanes.
As someone who's implemented a usage-based billing system for an enterprise SaaS company, I think this leaves out an important practical consideration - what's the cost of building and maintaining the systems you need to support usage-based billing?

We used Zuora for billing but had to build the whole usage-based system ourselves on top of it and integrate. It was definitely not trivial (maybe there's a startup in there somewhere), and I would just say it's worth factoring in that cost when making this decision.
Oh crap I’d forgotten about that. First experience with this was my mother calling out of the blue. “There’s this purple monkey on the screen and he’s telling me things”. For a few minutes I thought she’d OD’ed her meds.

Then there was removing that, some other more persistent malware from my father-in-law’s windows ME computer one fine Christmas Day.

Joy to family tech support.
Nope. False dichotomy.

Nothing was revived with any new information. The Venn diagram that includes the circle of people who were following and investigating this, and the circle of conspiracy theorist Trump supporters, did not ever overlap.

One of these circles was about some bill gates funded bioweapon to implant 5G or some nonsense which they suspected was being done in WIV.

The other was scientists who have known about the work at WIV for years, not based on suspicion, but based on the papers they kept releasing, media interviews, sequencing the genome, and doing science.

But you all TDS’d so hard that you wrote the latter off as the former, and the media went along with it.

It isn’t even a conspiracy theory. It had nothing to do with collusion by tech giants. Their hyper partisan employees just fell into the same TDS trap and decided “lab = conspiracy misinformation, no ifs ands or buts” and started purging people talking about it.

The Vanity Fair article is actually quite poorly researched and written, and misattributes much of the source and timeline, but at least people are snapping out of their partisan blindness on this issue now.
Uyghur Tribunal
Some frontend code monkey should make this a chrome extension that appears on every page.
But VPN usage can be detected and punished. China and Iran already do this. Bottom line is, if you've got the power and the will, you can definitely control the "how" and "what" of internet access in your jurisdiction.
yup that's him/it
That seems like an absurdly small number...
And straight away it's a downvote.

Pottering, in that thread, literally says

"I have the suspicion that this going to negatively affect about as many people as it positively affects..."

https://askubuntu.com/questions/907246/how-to-disable-system... is a "good" solution to the problem in ubuntu
We ended up 7th on Product Hunt. Do you celebrate or not? With stats
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Water on a cold surface must heat up to freeze
Two words: economic warfare.
I've suspected my tea pot for some time now.
China was preparing for Third World War biological weapons including coronavirus
Yes. From observation, there are a number of topics which inevitably draw the attention of a personal army that very much cares about that topic in a specific way, and to a much greater degree than a typical user.
I feel daft, but:

The vast majority of images are jpegs, which are internally 420 YUV, but they get converted to 32 bit RGB for use in apps. Using native YUV formats would save half the memory and rendering bandwidth, speed loading, and provide a tiny quality improvement.

What does he mean by using native YUV formats? Something (I wave my hand) in the rendering pipeline from the JPEG in memory to pixels on the screen?
Open source racing game developed by everyone willing
I don't think that's the same thing. If you are a youtube creator and you want your videos to be monetized, you need advertisers to want to advertise on your content. As amply demonstrated by many youtube creators, you are free to go out and land your own sponsorship deals, and then you don't need to worry about demonetization.
10 Sci-fi Novels About Artificial Intelligence and Robots for Curious Minds
I liked the pyKnit presentation it was a very relaxing experience, but mostly because even if I don't knit I've met very nice people who knit at conferences. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7LEN2oqpkM
You've got to be joking.

Blanking out image results for a specific search string is a technical issue? This goes a little bit beyond assuming incompetence.
Quite normal - https://askubuntu.com/questions/907246/how-to-disable-system... for example
IMO pattern matching often makes the code harder to read, especially with deep destructuring spanning multiple lines. Could be our codebase, but writing code prolog-style has always made it neigh-unreadable to me.
I still get nothing with safe search off
>Just because a technology is "old" doesn't mean it is useless, or needs to be replaced.

Sure. But if on top of old it is "a creaking wheezing ironmonger" that "had the gods of microprocessor architecture been more generous, would have been smote into oblivion long ago", then it does need to be replaced.

And both the article mentions reasons why (they don't stop at mere old) and Intel/AMD share them.
Even when that's true, they'll object to a new development without an HOA because they don't want the city on the hook for common infrastructure just for that new development.
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Throughout the whole thing the Chinese have been like no data for you which makes you wonder if they have something to hide.
Wow, that's fascinating. I've never heard of this—I assumed it was only because the water is dense enough that it absorbs the radio signals.
Dismissing a cheap and obvious solution that can work for a lot of cases because it's not perfect in every case is leaving a lot on the table!

Did you realize that we're in a pandemic that's killing millions of people? We need to get R0 down in any way that we can. Masks aren't perfect. Vaccines aren't perfect. We need to use everything we've got.
Makes me wonder how far are we from fully automating the agricultural cycle. Is there anything still missing ?
Good luck to them, they're still not "most people" and can (mostly) be safely ignored.
Almost all human traits do have a genetic component. Reasonable people can disagree about what to do with that insight, but it unsustainable to pretend that intelligence is not influenced by genetics.

'Today, we are seeing a surge of well-funded studies seeking to determine the genetic basis of traits with clear, well-studied environmental influences like height, intelligence, sexual behavior, and income. These analyses have received numerous technical critiques that call into question the validity of the scientific inferences, noting that “while the benefits are far from obvious, the risks of such results being misinterpreted and misused are quite clear.”'
Is coronavirus China's next-gen weapon?
I was thinking rather than mucking with instruction pointers you would just send a message back to the other CPU saying “pause & switch to context X”. Technically an interrupt but one that can be handled internally within the CPU.
And we're supposed to just shut down our infrastructure while that happens?

I don't think that's going to fix anything. I'm 100% sure companies will just pay quietly and not talk about it. Which makes this infinitely worse.

The government invests a crap ton in defense, this should be part of it.
Van Buren clearly committed a heinous act and should be punished.

The issue is that this is a hacking statue. He didn't hack into the system, he just used it in a bad way. The punishment should be the same if he got it from a filing cabinet he had the keys to.

The takeaway isn't "If you have access, everything you do is legal" -- not for computers, not for filing cabinets.
> Example: split-horizon DNS. You're connected to a VPN network but you're only routing some subnets through that, not everything. Thus, you have to have DNS that query some DNS server inside the VPN for a set of domains, but keep using the usual DNS servers for everything else.

Why. I want to route 10.0.0.0/8 via a VPN, I don't know if "flargle.bazonga.com" resolves to 10.0.0.1 or 99.99.99.99 until I do the lookup.
You don't need to ban crypto trading for that, you can just criminalize paying ransoms.
Why continue with x86? Given how popular ARM is, why not just join the trend?
What stuff blew you away?
Enduo Evolve: the first dual engagement sprocket
Oral arguments at https://www.oyez.org/cases/2020/19-783 if anyone wants to listen, along with other information.
Wait this wasn't malware?
A RPI bit banging directly to a cpu. That’s impressive.
The Future of EEVEE, Blender's Realtime Rendering Engine
Well, van Buren was convicted of a felony wire fraud charge as well with an equal length concurrently served sentence as the CFAA charge. So there was another crime we could charge him with, and we did successfully. The only difference is the lack of a CFAA charge on his record and some good case law about what the CFAA actually means so that hopefully it'll only be pushed against true computer crimes rather than crimes that happen to involve a computer.
Finally somebody noticed this. This is not a lab rat. Is a tropical rainforest species of pouched rat. Much bigger and totally different creatures in many aspects. Is like calling rabbit to a hare, or bison to a cow.

Walking around and exploring until finding food is not "forced labor", is what rodents do all the time in the wild. They are inquisitive mammals by nature. I'm 100% sure that the rat enjoy finding mines (= fruit) in the same way as we enjoy hitting bricks in supermario games. Not to mention being safe from predators at night, the veterinary healthcare services, being cleaned from nasty parasites, the food, water and the human company in an animal that is more or less social by nature. It seems a very good deal for the animal.

Trying to claim "animal cruelty!" here is a total nonsense.
Coronavirus released intentionally, China using misinformation to mislead world
I've tried that a few times to no avail. It does give slight pleasure to trick them into thinking I'm going to buy a warranty or something and waste 10 mins of their time.
"What I'm saying is that, with rare exceptions [1], what we find after countless hours of extensive investigation of the private data is...dirt, roots, and worms. It looks exactly like the public data."

Ah, but this is just proof, that the communist sleeper agents are entrenched even deeper among us, than we expected!
A Microsoft spokesperson told Motherboard in an email that "This is due to an accidental human error and we are actively working to resolve this."

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There is no way this is due to an accidental human error. The lying on this point is infuriating.
All this, and only 16MB of RAM and 11MB of disk space required! I'm sure today this would be an Electron app that used at least an order of magnitude more resources. We certainly live in interesting times.
You might be missing the unspoken alternative. You will be treated well, as long as you do my bidding. Otherwise all bets are off.
That would be horrible! You’d get shortcuts taken and perverse incentives
That isn't "hacking" as defined by the CFAA (according to this ruling). It's certainly not following your employer's policies, but your employer policies should not rise to the level of potential federal criminal prosecution.

Now, if your employer put software on your machine or on their network that prevents you from viewing Facebook, and you work around that restriction, it could be argued that you have now "hacked" their network and gained access you were not authorized to have.

The distinction is pretty clear in the ruling - if you have access, you can do X without it being considered a violation of the CFAA (doesn't mean you can't be fired, or prosecuted for other crimes leading from the actions, or other repercussions). If you don't have access, and you figure out a way to gain access, it is now a violation of the CFAA.
So, what about the Michael Thomas case? Does this verdict overturn his conviction?

http://www.epspros.com/news-resources/news/2018/it-worker-lo...

"Mr. Thomas challenged the verdict, arguing that his conduct was not illegal because his IT position provided him full access to the system and empowered him to 'damage' the system by deleting files or taking the system offline. Thus, any acts were not 'without authorization.' The Fifth Circuit rejected this argument, finding that the statute’s prohibition against exceeding authorized access applies to insiders who go beyond the permission granted them in order to cause damage."
Question about youtube:
Youtube video thumbnails abbreviates long video titles to "..."

For example: TALK / Mariatta Wijaya / Oops! I Became an Open..

Is there a way to fix this?
This is just a terrible argument. Often times, systems are compromised through social engineering so it's not even remotely possible to solve this issue by software engineering alone. But more importantly, think about the morality of what you are saying. It is absolutely not ethical to rob someone just because they are an easy target.

I despise this sort of "technological nihilism." Just because something can be done with technology doesn't mean that it should be done. The fact that bitcoin exists does not mean we should revert back to the stone age. Anarchy is obviously a very bad idea, but I guess some people are determined to learn this lesson the hard way.
Only if you live in that alternate reality where somehow conservatives are being singled out and censored purely for being conservative, which has always been an absurd bit of victomhood fanfiction.
The difference that ownership would give is consent. Western liberal democracies are based on the idea that you can do what you want as long as all parties agree to it.

I willingly give my personal information over to a variety of firms knowing what they do with it, because I value the services I receive more. It's not your place to say whether that's okay or not, because it doesn't affect you.

Human trafficking + consent = immigration. Organ trade + consent = organ donation. Prostitution between consenting adults arguably should be legal anyway, and already is in many places in Europe.

And yes, there should be a practical way to revoke access to data. There are ways to accomplish this technologically (eg. capability-based security keeps the data within your possession and you export the particular query that an outside firm would use; federated learning lets them train machine-learning models on the data without the data ever leaving your possession). We just don't use them yet, for the most part.
Several major countries have a history of not prosecuting computer crimes as long as those crimes don't affect local targets. In fact, the crime is the "day job" and training of people who participate in the whole "cyber war" thing during international shenanigans. (See South Korea, Georgia, Estonia, and the Ukraine.)