skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do top contributors get compensated financially ?
This is a question that is burning me out of curiosity...

Do not get me wrong, I understand the whole point of
giving back to a community, selfishly helping others
and all that. But lets get a simple example: For example
the famous Jon Skeet.
https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet

Based on the account statistics this user is a member
as of today, for 12 years and 8 months.
So a total of 152 months.
Again according to the site statistics, Jon Skeet
provided so far 35,254 answers.

Making some assumptions of continuous linear work, :-) this user in the last almost 13 years, provided an average of 232
answers PER MONTH,non-stop for the last 13 years.

That is an average of almost 8 answers PER DAY non stop,
13 years in row, while having a job at Google ( per the
site account details ...) maybe a family, side interests ? etc ...

Assuming the mythical Jon Skeet, is not a team of 200 engineers at Google :-) I want to understand how a
person who provides EIGHT well researched developer
related answers PER DAY, non stop, for 13 years,
feels about the site founders making 2 Billion while this user ( again...presumably...) gets a pat in the back and
"reputation " ?
In that case no because they didn't enter with the intent to commit a felony.
I think the problem with the deception test is that if the login screen for the DMV database access had a checkbox that said "I am only using the system in a way consistent with department policies" or something, then you could argue that checking that box was deceitful.

I think Congress' intent with CCFA was to criminalize hacking. There are already laws against fraud, so we don't need a deceitfulness test to catch, say, social engineering. The problem I think is that CCFA was written in 1986 and not enough people understood what hacking was well enough to write it down clearly in the law, so instead the "excess of authorized access" language is in the law, and has been used to criminalize lots of things that aren't really hacking and Congress didn't intend to criminalize with the CCFA.
Sorry all for the signup issues. A fix is going to be deployed in a few minutes. Sendgrid was giving us errors and we mistakenly had them in a codepath that was called synchronously.
> There are trade offs for both

Exactly.

Personally I like that bit of extra code because it gives every class one reason to exist. There are no conflicts so the type system can be used fully without ambiguity.

I’ve always disliked the way early rails promoted fat models that combined serialisation, deserialisation, validation, persistence, querying and business logic in the same class.
I immediately modelled the problem like you did, then I thought of this interesting variation:

"I have two children, Michael and Alex. Michael is a boy. What's the probability of both being boys?"

If you make a truth table with names as columns, you clearly have only two possibilities for Michael=1.

However if you pick older/younger again you're back to 3 possible states.

I think the answer is still 1/3, but it's a trickier one to reason about immediately.

It seems the question adds information by naming the children, but there's a hidden statement in the form "at least one of them is Michael", which invalidates a truth table with names as columns.

I can only conclude that birth order is an underlying property of the entity. A strict, real differentiator as much as sex is. Names aren't, so names don't add information in this case.

Is there a term for that? Or am I just wrong?
They absolutely should. We are in the midst of a cyberwar against criminal gangs sheltered by a kleptocracy that already attempted political sabotage against this country. All options must be on the table including physical retaliation - the threat isn’t going away.
Two days (both April 1st, but in different museums in different years)
Google can do all the data harvesting they want with the wrapped version and that's mostly what they care about. There are already a lot of benefits to iOS users that are heavily involved in Google's ecosystem to use Chrome but mostly they don't.
The majority of the uses of cash are legal. The majority of uses of Bitcoin are criminal. And bear in mind, Bitcoin hasn't just been a boon to ransomware, it's been a strategy to evade financial sanctions by countries like Iran: https://www.reuters.com/technology/iran-uses-crypto-mining-l...

So there's a lot of reasons the US government just may find themselves happier without it.
Check out https://topia.io/ycombinator
> What if you set your user agent to chrome instead of firefox and that grants you access to a website?

The website is at fault. This is no different than lying about your religion to bypass a discriminatory shop owner.
I read some details on that page. It says "Defective parts" are covered for 3 years, paintwork 2 years, perforation 12 years, electric/hybrid battery 8 years.
Quite a lot? The SEC and ITAR both come to mind.
There are individual passenger aircraft that flew more hours and cycles than the entire Concorde production run without incident. The accident where running over a piece of metal on a runway during takeoff resulted in a raging inferno and ultimately the deaths of everyone on board wasn't the first time Concorde's unusually-prone-to-failure tyres had punctured a fuel tank when they exploded, or something likely to happen if a different aircraft ran over the same piece of metal. Separately, it also had two spontaneous in-flight structural failures of the rudder. All this in a production run of 14 aircraft that spent most of their life on the ground.

Considering it was a complete novelty designed in the 1970s it did OK, but I don't think there are many airframes its safety record compares favourably with.
> It's really remarkable how vehicle reliability has improved.

When I was a child, run-in periods and 2 year warranties were the norm. It was a big deal when the Japanese manufacturers started doing standard 3 year warranties.

It really is quite astonishing. And, as cars are loaded up with more and more fragile electronics it will be even more important, I think: when your side mirrors are cameras and screens, for examples, it's pretty important that you don't have a failure taking down your car's usability. Similarly, will it apply to a bug in the ABS firmware?
Bruce Schneier, our country needs you! If you—or someone with your mindset—isn’t in authority and we get the technical equivalent of the TSA, we’re in for a world of hurt and trouble.
How about a crypto-wealth tax to pay for ransomware disruptions?
Changing oil annually is recommended for pretty much every ICE driven vehicle. Oil reacts with the metals in an engine and becomes acidic over time.
You'll know self driving is almost here when it works in simulation at non-interactive framerates.
I dismissed that quote because we're not arguing about whether Lena should be used or not. That was never the question in this entire chain of comments.
>> I find this a very curious definition

The word apartheid is an Afrikaans word (Afrikaans is a Germanic language spoken in South Africa) that was used as an election slogan by a South African political party that implemented complete segregation and racial classification in South Africa in the 1950s.

If you are not making a specific comparison to the former racial policies of South Africa, there are better words to use.

Although I know over time, meanings change, so that words like anti-Semitic, racist, fascist, etc. all just become synonyms for "bad" or "things I don't like".
TBH, Albuquerque is a hole in the ground adjacent to Atlantic City, Detroit, and east LA. I think anywhere else would be better.

If you're going to the dealer for anything other than warranty or free repairs, then you have too much money and need to be relieved of it.

- My late grandfather who was a master mechanic retired from a dealership who once sold horses and buggies in the SF Bay Area.
Most cars support this here in Europe at least. However true traffic jam assist seems reserved for cars with automatic gears.
That's all Autopilot is, adaptive cruise control and lane keeping. Autopilot doesn't react to stoplights, stop signs, or basically anything else. That is a separate feature set that they misleadingly call Full Self Driving.
Railways with benefits aren't good enough and would be an even worse business model.
> I read that something like 3-4% of the US might be immunocompromised, easily an order of magnitude higher than I would have initially guessed

Wow, agreed, I would not have guessed that high a percentage.

> It’s not just antivaxxers who are at risk from in-person meetings.

Right, and I explicitly said that I would hope people with medical conditions would decline these kinds of in-person meetings if they weren't comfortable with them just yet.
Exploring vulnerabilities in WebResourceResponse and an example in Amazon apps
There are so many things going on here it's easy to conflate them but here's how I read it:

The CFAA is a law about how access is attained not what is accessed. There may or may not be other laws that have penalties for what is accessed given the nature of what is accessed, but that is a separate issue from the CFAA.

For example, I am sure that there is some statue I would be in violation of for walking out of a CIA office with a binder of classified information. This should be illegal regardless of how it's accomplished.

By contrast I think it should probably be a crime to gain access to a system through either technical exploits or social engineering, even if all you do is access cat memes that were public anyway.

Layered on these issues is whether you think judges should stick to literal textual interpretations or rule based on the projected impacts of their decisions.

Personally, as many have laid out, a strict textual approach opens the door to let private companies write felony law for literally anything they want, which seems an unworkable way to run a society.

I think it's much more prudent to restrict this law to methods of access and allow other laws dictate what can and can't be accessed or used (copyright law, state secrets etc).

A final question is how to test for whether methods are authorized or not. Someone here suggested the test should be the inclusion of "material deception". This I think falls short because a lot of behavior that we would not want to criminalize would satisfy the test. Should it be illegal to use a VPN? Because I can see that being construed as material deception. Sacha Baron Cohen dressed up as Borat is unquestionable material deception but I don't think it should be illegal for him to use a computer when doing so.

Ultimately I don't know that there is a bright line definition, but that's okay because we use a "reasonable person" standard a lot in law, (and we should seek to seat judges that are the most reasonable of us).

- No reasonable person would impersonate another to customer service to steal their phone and thus password.
- A reasonable person might want to use a VPN to avoid being tracked by private corporations.
- No reasonable person would exploit a zero day bug on a major corporation.
- A reasonable person might change their user agent to see how a site looks on a phone.
- A reasonable person might look up and save articles from a database they have access to.
Working-as-intended certainly isn't an argument I was expecting to see in this thread.
Generally speaking, you'll find the federal government has a litany of agencies, on both the offensive and defensive side of... everything. There are absolutely government resources working on securing American infrastructure.

And shifting from one to the other appears to be happening, to some degree: https://breakingdefense.com/2021/06/dod-budget-appears-to-cu...
these cyberattacks are lies. i work for an essential utility and none of their control systems are on the internet.

we had water, power, etc before computers so the computer part is not essential to operation.
This is such a weird article. It's basically an ad for software that claims to "break" VeraCrypt by extracting encryption keys from a memory dump. And apparently it doesn't even work if you set VeraCrypt to encrypt keys in memory.
The discussion chain is everything that's wrong with modern engineering. A complex topic progressively simplified and abstracted to just "Run this container", ensuring no one in your org actually understands how it works, how to maintain it and how to debug it.
Time to bring back the chart that never dipped below yellow! [1]

[1] - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Hs...
Cash is a solution to the problem of portable assets. Bitcoin is a problem in search of a solution.
Well, of course. This is probably the first time the car has come across a truck carrying multiple street lights, without cover, stacked on the back of the truck, well above eye level. It's a rather unusual edge case.

It's only a matter of time before the software in these cars can handle the vast majority of edge cases as well as or better than human beings. Human vision isn't exactly reliable.[a]

In the meantime, someone should make a playable game in which trucks throw street lights at cars. Maybe someone at Tesla is willing to make this game in good jest?

[a] See, for example http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/index-e.html
This is great, but let's remember a bit of humbleness. It is an incredible luxury to have a full time adult at home like that. And it's no surprise that having a 2:1 child to adult ratio leads to good learning outcomes. I wish all kids could get the experience of small classes with a dedicated teacher. Public school systems are a symptom of chronic underfunding and mismanagement.
Just for clarification: Do you equate type ascriptions to "more code"?
When it comes to politicians suing newspapers, it is good for the system to generally be stacked in favor of the newspapers. Sometimes that results in shitty outcomes, but the potential ramifications of politicians being able to easily shut down critical newspapers seem much worse.
No. The basis for her claim was bad. This is one of those cases where even though The Daily Mail is largely, overall, an asshole, they weren't technically in the wrong here.

We want the press to be able to do things similar to this without repercussions.
Had it been a front/rear layout like the S2000 I would have thought it be a slam-dunk; as is, the front/front combo knocked it out as an MX-5 competitor.
Definitely. If you come from a C-family background it feels quite familiar.
Gitlab doesn't mandate anything. Also, even if your CI pipeline does use Docker, it doesn't matter if "you don't use Docker" _as a team_. Your pipeline may name an image, and that's it. That's way different than maintaining your own Dockerfiles and images.
“Am I diverse hire” == “do I check the ‘diversity’ box when these things are being counted”
Sure. But running an exchange where USD goes to terrorists - or, indeed, where you can’t show that USD does not go to terrorists - is highly illegal.

If ransomware gangs are directly or indirectly targeted by OFAC, that would have massive ramifications.
Yeah, illegal things definitely don't end being sold above market price.
Why not use real sticky notes?
I've been working remote since 2002. I've done both full time and contracting. I've been full time only since 2011 at two different employers.

There are _enough_ employers that will allow fully remote employees that it's not hard to find jobs, and it's only gotten easier in the time I've been doing it.
Yes, and at some point it's possible consumers simply won't pay for some new technology down the road. Say for example, a very expensive health/bio sensor. However, Apple might feel that 1) it's good for the world to be able to monitor/improve health, 2) will give safe access to this sensor to 3rd party developers, so it's good Apple can draw on this revenue source from platform fees to make it happen, by killing margins to ship this sensor. I am not saying this is happening today at all. I just think it's good for the platform to have diverse revenue sources. It's good for Apple, but it might also be good for developers too
I agree, but I also don't mind the idea of drone striking ransomware guys...
Imagine spending 4 years calling Donald Trump an illegitimate president then having a cry when they want to validate votes.

You want Trump Republicans to calm down? Prove Joe won, let them look at the ballots. Elections should be open and transparent, and trying to stonewall something like this that has no real next step beyond reform to stop any fraud in the future just undermines the confidence you could be building
The media has been using the term 'conspiracy theory' as a slur against the reasonable hypothesis of lab leak for the past year. People generally being sick of this shit could explain why so many people are speaking out against it. No conspiring necessary.
It would take as many years to confirm the claims, during which time it wouldn't matter if they are correct as long as it wasn't extremely wrong. Also during that time they rake in the investments via product buys or other funding, allowing (potentially) for further (or initial) innovation. It's a risky game but in a consumer world it's a good play.
Since I don't know who she is and don't want to click, I'm wondering how this compares to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollea_v._Gawker

Aside from her being a politician as other comments say.
I personally bounce back and forth about this. My experience is probably colored by the fact that I'm doing this in C++. Boilerplate gets annoying there (and attempts to cut it down tend to produce lots of incomprehensible function templates). I like the idea of using types to encode assertions at a fine granularity. I dislike the amount of tiny little functions this creates. I also dislike that the resulting code is only navigable with an IDE - otherwise you spend 50% of your time chasing definitions of these little types.
Shilling-bidding in a comparables marketplace. Gotcha.

I should bring crime and decay to the neighborhood, buy my neighbors' houses out, and then sell my own house to myself for $10 million. Who wants to invest? Now offering NFTs as stock. :B
You may not have caught the first-minute edit I made. Or I worded it badly.

Presume they had intent to water and steal at a felony level when they entered.
Something like SCION may be in the "Western" Internet's future, is my guess. I don't expect protection-at-edge or pervasive atop-the-current-Internet surveillance to be the solution for the OECD.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCION_(Internet_architecture)
Most 7-11s near where I live have very limited parking. And it's not a place where you spend much time shopping - you're usually in and out in 5 minutes or less. Having cars charging there for an hour or more will eat up that limited parking space. It's good to have more charging stations, but it would seem like it would make more sense to have them in front of stores where people tend to shop for a long time - just thinking out loud: maybe this could be a way to revive shopping malls? Offer cut rate charging stations, people walk around in the mall waiting for their car to charge and maybe end up buying stuff.
No, that's what "RAD" means. "Low Code" means systems like Excel where "formulas" aren't exactly seen as "code" and nearly everything can be wired up visually. Power Apps and Power BI are "Low Code". Access and Excel are "Low Code". VB was never "Low Code", it was "RAD".

(And yes, today's WinForms and XAML editors in Visual Studio are quite "RAD", and exactly as "RAD" as VB <= 6 was, if not more so. VB.NET was never less "RAD" than VB <= 6 from the standpoint of visual tools. It just shifted component/plugin ecosystems and left an impression that it was less "rapid" to develop with because of sharp new learning curve, but the "rapid" never meant "no learning curves", it meant WYSIWYG designers, which VB.NET still had in spades.)
I'd rather not see taxpayers have to foot the bill for the profit of megacorps neglecting proper cybersecurity while sitting on mountains of tax-evaded offshore cash, thank you. The industry should be magnitudes larger than it is currently, and we shouldn't encourage corporate recklessness by socializing the costs.
(crickets)

We don't use Jenkins for CI/CD. It's probably too overkill for those basic tasks.

But as the middle ground between crontabs and something like Airflow it fixed all our problems without creating new ones.

Are there really any alternatives out there? (And no, we don't need Kubernetes, thanks.)
I know it's probably just remembering things better than they were but UO was some kind of magic- it was one of the last times that mmos forced players with a wide variety of playstyles to interact with real consequences in the same world. Shortly thereafter things split into specialized PvP and PvE mmos and it was never the same.
Unfortunately that's not true.
I will be very dubious of this claim, or belief is really what it is. There is not even simplistic metrics to back it up
And presumably if nobody can easily convert large quantities of crypto to and from USD. Sure, you find an international exchange, willing to give you some other fiat, but American KYC laws are still going to be chasing you all over the globe.
The downward trend in bug bounty payouts and frustration from researchers might also sweeten that deal for more experienced persons.
Do you really think he was personally involved in understanding the details of land mapping and local laws here? Is it more likely that a Tesla employee(s) handled this and reported up the chain?
Samsung will shut down the v1 SmartThings hub this month
The sizeable majority of them. These projects entail lots of earth moving and pouring lots of concrete. These are exceptionally difficult things to do in areas without easy access via railways and roads. Which also happens to be the case in mountainous terrain where most potential hydroelectric sites are located.

Even the most successful pumped hydro storage facilities are quite expensive, too. The Bath County facility cost $4 billion for 24 GWh of storage capacity [1]. Fulfilling one day's worth of electricity storage for the United States would cost $2 trillion dollars. And that's assuming that all hydro storage facilities will be as cheap as this. In practice, once the optimal sites are developed we'll have to start building hydro storage in more difficult locations. And large areas of the country without mountainous terrain are still either left without storage, or we'll have to ship large amounts of electricity across the continent and spend yet more money on HVDC lines. And lastly, this is the cost of just storing the energy. We also need to build the actual generation capacity.

These kinds of broad, sweeping statements about how much storage potential exists is analogous to people saying we can just continue to use fossil fuels but plant trees to offset carbon emissions and pointing to a study showing that the US has sufficient landmass to do this. Yes, I'm sure the math behind that kind of very high level, coarse-grained calculation is correct. But actually irrigating that much land and relocating whatever it's currently used for is prohibitively diffuclt.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_County_Pumped_Storage_Sta...
Holy shit, it costs $6,000 to look up one license plate?

Hollywood has really made this seem like a not-that-bad or not-that-unusual activity. Good that they're cracking down on it, but my expectations and reality are way out of whack on this.
> running an exchange where USD goes to terrorists - or, indeed, where you can’t show that USD does not go to terrorists - is highly illegal

Doesn't existing anti-terrorist financing (ATF) law cover this?
The problem, to the extent there is one, is certainly with the visualisation; it’s not so clear if there’s any problem with the underlying vision system.