skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Asking for ransom and getting the payment are, yes, 100%, absolutely, no ifs, no buts, no exceptions: risk-free. Zero risk.

So it will happen with increasing frequency, thanks to cryptocurrency.

What you're talking about, actually laundering the coin so it's usable, is a problem. But it's a problem that comes AFTER. And you probably realize criminals don't just sit idle, until they can plan out their crime 50 years ahead to perfect detail.

Also you can do all the forensics you want, if that coin ends up scattered around the world in tiny bits, what are you going to do, jail everyone?

What if I hate person X, and send him some of my publicly dirty Bitcoin, $1 million worth? I can put him in jail then.

What if person Y wants to put person X in jail? So person Y buys my painting for $1M cash. And I send $1M dirty Bitcoin to the target and put him in jail. I just laundered $1M in a completely untraceable way. "Fuck your blockchain forensics" is what criminals have to say about all this.

You have no idea how infinite the ways to use and launder that money is, ONCE you have it. And to have it, again... is RISK-FREE.
WFH and working onsite are two polar opposites, and I personally think that hybrid models are bound to lead to either model being used 100% fairly quickly. Either work and communication is structured in a way that it can be done fully remotely, or it’s not. If it is, then what‘s the point of onsite? If it’s not, well then everybody needs to be onsite.

„Your team needs you“ is a far too unspecific constraint to implement btw. That’s an invitation for extrovert team leads to pull in the whole team for minor issues.
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But the genie is out of the bottle now. It's not going back in.
For me there were three phases:

- pre-web: experts concentrated on Usenet

- early-web: Usenet decline and counter-productive decentralization

- SO (and others): recentralization

I think the SO guys just had a good-enough formula at exactly the right time and everybody jumped on fast enough
Recently? This article is over 2.5 years old...
The point was that cannabis used to be the "youth rebel" drug of choice making teenagers feel they crossed the boundaries of society and were therefore cool. Now you legalize it, what are teens going to do? Krokodil to see how their hands fall off alive and they can pose as real zombies? /s
World's Oldest joke traced back to 1900 BC (2008)
Random nix usage question... occasionally I run into something like this, where the "install" directions are to clone a git repo and then install in an imperative way. What's the correct way to do this declaritively, e.g. in a home-manager or NixOS config? And why are directions like this in the imperative form? I'd think that people working this closely to core Nix would be pushing declarative setup so there must be something I'm missing.

Another example is nixops 2.0.
You are right about the reason invokedynamic was added, but as far as I know the JVM always supported dynamic class loading (and thus class creation as well), so while not necessarily in a too performant manner, it could always be used as a runtime for even very dynamic languages. (And I think I left out Groovy which is a quite old dynamic language on the JVM).
anecdotal, of a number of people I know who run the SMTP (and IMAP, etc) infrastructure for some mid to large sized ISPs, none of them are protonmail customers. email was never meant to be secure in the way that they market it as.
I think that now, more then ever, any programmer that has started in the last 6-8 years will have the experience that Joel states.

Though for those of us who has been doing this for 15 years, that is not the case.
This is the right take. Can't ban math. Facial rec is here. If you don't like it, win a public policy debate about making it evidentially weak in front of a judge. Banning facial rec is like saying "you can have security cameras and iPhones, but only human eyeballs can look through them, not computers!" Arbitrary, and doomed to fail.
I don't know why you are downvoted, this is hilarious :)
To give them the benefit of the doubt, they said "a hacking group believed to have links to the Chinese government", which makes me think they probably used tools and techniques associated with a known group.
> Unfortunately, much of this knowledge was lost, as the polynesians did not have a written system of language.

Having a writing system might have been sufficient to prevent the loss, but not necessary. I'd argue the immediate cause was the disappearance of folk songs and similar rituals that encoded this knowledge in the culture.

> In Oceania’s oral culture, narrative was the primary tool to memorize and transmit complex accounts of interconnected voyaging routes through the sea of islands. These accounts would have been replete with their respective star (and sun) courses, with bearings, instructions for seasons for travel, the expected quality of swell, winds, sea marks and other indispensable information for reckoning and island finding. In other words, Oceanic geography was, like Oceanic history, genealogy and all other matters of education, a narrative art, taught and memorized at specialized marae primarily through the recitation of chants.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00223344.2018.1... (Lars Eckstein and Anja Schwarz, The Making of Tupaia’s Map: A Story of the Extent and Mastery of Polynesian Navigation, Competing Systems of Wayfinding on James Cook’s Endeavour, and the Invention of an Ingenious Cartographic System)

Unfortunately it seems that these particular oral traditions lost their fidelity before the age of audio recording. The introduction of writing systems has preserved much knowledge, but it has also destroyed much knowledge by supplanting other modes of preservation. I'm not even sure which is greater. Most of the utility in the adoption of writing systems is prospective, I think.

Interestingly, modernity may be its own worst enemy in this regard. A friend recently pointed me to this experiment that pitted Memory Palaces against an Australian Aboriginal memorization technique[1] by assigning incoming medical students to three different groups: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... The authors' conclusion was that the aboriginal technique offered substantially superior recall, but they refrained from detailing the technique out of fear of cultural insensitivity! sigh Maybe it would have been insensitive, and maybe they did the right thing, but the irony is astounding.

[1] Apropos the navigation theme, the technique seems to be one way Aborigines teach their star charts. In fact, the technique itself seems to encode some cultural knowledge, which is presumably why even providing the details might seem culturally invasive--because such knowledge isn't intended for outsiders, except unless taught by a member.
Both these groups have “facts” that they can point to support their claims. Facts aren’t some divine truth. They can and are used to support the narratives people tell in their stories. Sometimes the same facts are used to support different sides.

And yes, we tell stories because that’s a very basic way we communicate with each other. Just spouting facts at people in a narrative (how is this different than a story?) isn’t really received by most people.

edit: I see you’re saying that facts should just tromp “narratives”, but I stand by the rest of what I said.
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The article and discussion is not about privacy. The people against facial recognition are against it, at least in this case, because it is racist - or at least, it produces racist outcomes.

Removing bias from facial recognition is the problem you would have to solve to appease the concerns right now, not privacy.

When innocent minorities are getting locked up because the software running it was trained with poor data, the outcomes of using the software is a racism-entrenched legal and justice system.

Which is why people are fighting against it.
What is the sound of one bubble popping? :)
the problem with the nazis needing their serfs to support themselves is there's an absurd amount of pipelines which are now directly production line to garbage dump in a year or less. it's cool and all that to give people homegrown alternatives to support themselves that rely less on corporations or subjecting a large portion of the population to unethical and often illegal working conditions. we're running into global issues where we really need to slow down production and relax necessity for work. there's already enough resources to do it, but there's some pretty clear and loud obstacles there
Yep, uncertainty intervals are definitely easier to get with gp regression.
Mathematics makes beauty and logic equivalent fields of study that belong in the same category? How?
Critical race theory is literally a cancer to society. I hope one day we realize that.
Begging cash for os exploits is trashy and rude, the author should have just submit a pr with the fix.
Target crapy closed projects where real money is next time and ask for more, peasant.
There were plenty of VMs since the late 50's, even C and C++ have a couple for them (not talking about anything LLVM related).
> And in a comment on a message board where someone might not interact with you again, its guaranteed to fail.

So true! Though like advertising, the more you see it the more it sticks?
Most of these companies are obviously a scam in one way or another. It just depends on your definition of what a scam is. Is it a scam to insert a middle-man to profit off a transaction that already occurs, or is it a brilliant hack? Is it a scam to use huge amounts of veture funding to undercut prices in an existing market to grab market share and claim "disruption?" These are called business models, but some of us call them scams. They seem particularly scammy when they never ultimately turn a profit and begin to look suspiciously pyramid shaped.
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LifeLock is, of course, known best for:

1. Having their CEO be the target of multiple effective identity thefts, despite claiming to be protected by their signature product[1].

2. Their previous CEO being an identity thief himself[2].

3. Being fined by the FTC for outright lying about the efficacy of their product, and then being fined again for operating in contempt of the original FTC agreement[3].

Given their shady history, this foray into cryptocurrency is no particular surprise.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/

[2]: https://www.wired.com/2007/06/lifelock-founde/

[3]: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/12/lifel...
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We have survived as a society for long time without the need for this.

You could say the same thing about the 1st, 4th, and 5th amendments. "what about the children"
Sure. But neither does inciting murder. Some problems can't be solved just by being angry enough to kill people you hate. The oil industry will continue no matter who you kill or how dangerous it becomes because everyone and their dog will be throwing money at whoever can supply oil.
The concept of deciding something that's rare is valuable will never go away. It's just revision #987192 of the "tulip craze" phenomenon.

But this will keep getting worse and worse until cryptocurrencies are outlawed. And this will not stop their use completely, but their value hinges on their trade value, which in large part depends on their legality. So the value will collapse to nothing. So now blockchains have no incentive to exist either. Poof.
Yeah, by those that forgot to read their history books.
"..our findings ... underscore the role of blood type in COVID-19 infections, specifically that blood type O might be protective against the virus."

-- the article

"Blood type did not play a significant role in anyone's risk of contracting COVID, the researchers reported April 5 in JAMA Network Open."

-- https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210405/blood-type-doesnt-a...

Science is hard.
... you probably should read the submission again.
Chicago strongman would be that by a load of measures, we're all better off in an absolute sense. Fewer kids dying, easier to treat disease, everyone is consuming more stuff. All due to various liberalizations ranging from tax cuts to less regulation (City / Big Bang) and generally less of the state. There's lots of opportunity to do stuff, generated by this fantastic economy. I think I lean more to the right than most people, and that's more or less the summary on that side.

My take is that absolute wealth hardly matters to most people. It's always been a question why Bob gets more than Alice, regardless of whether they lived in the stone age or the information age. People care about relative status a heck of a lot, and they will keep doing so. If absolute wealth were all that mattered, nobody would complain anymore because we all have much more than people of not long ago, and insanely much more than stone age people.

Look at various struggles between people of different status throughout history. The Barons and the Magna Carta (John), the French Revolution, the general strikes of the 20th century. All of them are somehow about what relative status people have, yet it makes no sense from an absolute point of view. The 20th century miners for instance had free healthcare and running water toilets, which the Barons and French aristocrats didn't have. Only the lens of relative disparity, aka common sense, explains it.

So if I now look at some factory worker in China, who is doing better than all her ancestors, do I take the view that she's simply spoiled and complaining too much? Not really.

The 99% strongman is, well, look at it: you can't even run for office in America without being really, really rich. Lobbying is a legit career. The wealthy are approaching gilded ages levels of relative wealth, and that buys power. There's no formal slavery, but loads of people are on a precarious treadmill, forcing them into negotiations that are only slightly better than slavery. You don't get whipped, and you're allowed to vote, but only for whichever rich guys are on the ballot. You'll never really be allowed to work your way up, because you need capital to grow capital, and you're not gonna get any.

What's wrong with this argument? Well there is a bit of choice at various levels in the tree. If you're on minimum wage, there's more than one thing you can do for that wage. A bit higher up the chain, a software dev has a bit of choice over who employs him, and can often take a break from the career. With a little luck you might also be able to get funded for your own shot at being wealthy.
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Anticipate a problem with your IT staff leaving the write-enable switch on? Have the drive maker add a (again, physical) clock circuit (could just be an RC delay) to turn it off again automatically.

(Even if you don't anticipate a problem with your IT staff, it's just good engineering to automatically turn off the write-enable. Nobody's perfect. I've gone to the airport without my passport once. It really sux when you do that.)
IOT isn't datacenter server technology. IOT is basically in the state of software security from 20 years ago. Often running crappy proprietary stuff. Your average server running a recent Linux kernel is Fort Knox comparatively. There have been massive strides in many places in software security but IOT and embedded security in general is very lacking unless your talking things going into space or military.
People believe it is private and uncompromisable because of their use of client side encryption and claims of server side encryption and that their Switzerland location means they exist in a land where intelligence agencies won't coerce them or find a way to leak data.

The reality is that they are forcing users to use client side javascript which can have anything in it. And Swiss privacy laws do not do what users claim. There is no way to verify the claims of privacy.
I'm interested in this; though i struggle to understand how you could turn something like this into a product.

There's a lot of logistics in selling this type of thing. Also the BSD license isn't exactly easy to sell something alongside of.

Have you considered open-sourcing and doing the ol' "if you like my work, buy me a coffee"

I know it's extremely communist of me, but I just can't imagine you not stepping on a lot of toes (both legally and otherwise) because of the spirit that OpenBSD was written in.
> all your examples are not civilisation ending scenarios.

Neither is climate change, is it? Unless there's some research I haven't heard about, I think you're doing science denial misinformation spouting.
- Basic security practices to keep malware from working: applying the latest security updates, giving users the least amount of access and privileges they need to do their work, firewalls to contain the spread of malware within your network, anti-virus software, strong passwords, etc.

- Educate employees not to fall for phishing e-mails.

- Having up-to-date off-site backups so that if your systems do get compromised, you can restore your systems and get your data back without having to pay ransom.
Right, but forbidding advertising them is very different to forbidding them. The idea is to allow people to make a freer choice about what they truly want rather than being influenced into doing them.
So I haven't used mach-nix, but from what I see it provides its own way of specifying dependencies. While in case of poetry2nix you are using poetry for dependency management and poetry2nix just translates it to Nix.

The biggest benefit for using poetry is the dependency resolver which is much smarter than in pip and actually finds packages that match the version requirements (although looks like mach-nix also has a smart resolver.

Other benefits are:

* nice CLI

* ability to package application and upload to PyPI

* poetry can still be used by people who don't use Nix

Regarding non-python dependencies, this is solved by overrides file[1]. That way most of the time you don't have to think about it. You can also override the override in your project as well.

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix/blob/master/over...
The plan has obstacles.

Finance is highly conditional on the sale of the power, but the power can't be sold until the project is complete for the long-haul subsea HVDC cable. So the capital works have to be done to completion before any income (not entirely unusual, but it stands out there is little phased income in this project as-is)

It has to compete with other plans to use PV to run H2 production and sell the gas to other markets displacing gas and oil. Possibly this could be a revenue stream while the cable is being built, but it begs a question of "why build the cable" -And its other capital funding this alternate build. It might "cruel" the market for this project

The cable has to go past several economies which would want a tap but who also extract ground-rent for subsea work. Indonesia is notoriously difficult about cable maintenance. So, there is potential for revenue to ID markets for electricity and at a significant discount of cable cost because it's so much closer: begs another question: why send the power to SG, when you can sell it to ID?
I suspect this solution makes sense in the short run. In the long-run it makes it so any organizational incompetence can be covered up with "it's classified". Over 80+ years the organization starts to struggle with basic reality.

I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA is filled with Byzantine Bureaucracy, fiefdoms, and departments that don't even know what they are supposed to do. In a kafka-esque twist I'd bet there are individuals who aren't even allowed to know their own job description due to some papered over incompetence.
You know this sort of thing is going to become more common, right? I guess we just have to accept it and obey. Anything else might make life less comfortable.
Right, this is like banning knife because it can be used to kill people. I much prefer they try to fix whatever it is that cause misery with the use of facial recognition, instead of banning it altogether.
Yes. It's also the same technique as Greek/Armenian/Turkish/Arabic coffee.
I think there are very good reasons to keep the government out of the FR business, at least for now.

Facial recognition is the enabling technology for automated real-world repression. Maybe it is true that we can find a way to tame it to gain efficiency gains without destroying open society. But right now it looks like a dangerous one-way ratchet.
For what it's worth, even i.reddit.com aka reddit.com/.compact is still working.
> “lifestyle business” or “not likely to achieve a high ROI” to create what is now a billion-dollar exit.

Why would you believe this? Fad businesses chasing the tweens and 20-somethings is ABSOLUTELY the kind of business that VCs salivate over.

And fashion rises and falls in cycles. Have we forgotten fashion darlings like ModCloth?

The key to the fashion business is knowing when to cash out.
Market share, that is how.
Oh, the trick of placing the table of contents on the outtermost place of the written area, instead of the beginning of the CD.

I think you were supposed to write a pointer at the original place, so the driver would know to look again, but outside in. Video CD players often didn't support that pointer.

But actually, Windows was quite a latecomer on that feature. It's just that its UX was horrible so people would never know what option they choose, on other OSes (and other Windows software) people had to actually decide to use it.