skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not just Australia, it's world wide and likely led by the FBI (but possibly data being collected outside the US to avoid the need of having actual warrants)

The following thread looks at some of the opened court documents today:

https://twitter.com/ericgarland/status/1402100449013125123

(and points out that the Trump organisation might be in trouble ....)
tbh wouldn’t making FaceTime on web just essentially rebuilding a WebRTC system with the encryption layer and related metadata for formatting the stream?
New super-long endurance SSDs have caught my attention
Texture CDs were a really common thing back in the day (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCN0Yx2Vbs) so I don't think the developers were acting in malice when they allegedly stole these graphics.

I suppose it's well within the author's legal rights to sue but it does seem a bit scummy on the author's part to have that blurb but then pull a bait and switch.
I worked in ranking for two major search engines. They all measure this, this is a really low hanging fruit - how much time it took you to come up with this idea? Why do you think so lowly of people who put decades of life into their systems that they didn't think of it?

Technically just open google serp in developer tools, network tab, set preserve/persist logs option, and watch the requests flowing back - all your clicks and back navigations are reported back for analysis. Same on other search engines. Only DDG doesn't collect your clicks/dwell time - but that's a distinguishing feature of their brand, they stripped themselves of this valuable data on purpose.
That probably has more to do with the human bottleneck in games, than anything else.

Big open world is good, if you can manage to fill the big open world with stuff. But procedural generation is annoying and repetitive, but at the same time handcrafting a world is time and labor intensive. See: Cyberpunk 2077
Thanks! Link to "age", for those who are interested:

https://github.com/FiloSottile/age
Or you can treat your Intel processor as a fpga and write instructions that do what you want them to. Unlocking features locked down to higher end machines is also not off the table. So it may or not be a security issue but it makes the machine hackable in a way it hasn't been before.
Yeah but things like ECC are totally artificially segmented. It's an identical memory controller.
Ostensibly, some topics are off the table because it would upset vulnerable people and we cannot have that. The real reason is that authoritarianism is on the rise on both the left and the right, and shutting down humor is one method to assert control.
The goal for Bootstrappable Builds is to not rely on compiled binaries, except for a small easily auditable 512-byte binary seed, and from there, and source code without any generated files, build an entire Linux distro:

https://bootstrappable.org/
https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/
24,000-year-old 'zombies' revived and cloned from Arctic permafrost
My crows have done this sometimes when I'm on my bike! Although they'll usually only follow alongside me as far as their territory extends, about the length of a parking lot. Not quite a phalanx either, just a bird or two.
Replit claims to support open source and this is how they react to a previous intern's project. This reflects poorly on Amjad and his ability as a CEO. I guess I dodged a bullet as this is another company I will stay away from.
Some of the text extracted by tabula contains unexpected whitespace:

"Jan uary"

Is there any reliable way to deal with this?
I do a fair amount of typing every day, but I'm not constantly typing. Being slower at it still leaves me at 80% productivity or so.

I picked up a Moonlander (https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/) last year. Between the ortholinear positioning and the new layout, I dropped from ~130wpm to ~60wpm (a bit faster for just letters and numbers, a bit slower every time I had to remember where I put a symbol or modifier). The first week was slow, and in the process I quickly realized what keys I was dearly missing and a few I wasn't using, and I tweaked my layout a number of times in the first 2-3 weeks. That said, by the end of the first week I was no longer hunting for keys and becoming comfortable, and by the end of week 3 I was back above 90wpm comfortably. I haven't felt inhibited by the keyboard in a long time - it's been a while since I took a speed test, so no idea if I'm back at the full speed I was before - but I suspect I am.

The old muscle memory doesn't fade either. I was concerned that I would have issues going back to laptops or other machines with staggered QWERTY layouts, but in practice I'm just as fast typing on my laptop as I ever was.
I'm not just buying a six-piece, I'm getting six lottery tickets.
Circa 1999 I was running a webdesing studio. We added that link to all the websites we designed, then the next logical step was to make it link to a page with our entire portfolio which in turn linked to our website. That boosted the SEO of all our customers, and in turn boosted ours exponentially.
Check out the forums at Something Awful.
> similarly petty decision to spend hours documenting everything to post on HN and start throwing mud in public.

Hard disagree with this one. The other options are to either give in to an aggressive threat or take the risk to get sued into oblivion.

This is the only defense for someone in their position against an aggressor with millions and lawyers, the power differential is huge.
Though there’s always that thought that a situation like this undoubtedly makes for a fantastic viral marketing campaign…
The Right Foundation Will Ensure Citizen Data Scientist Success
Likewise, and I was quite perplexed as a kid why The Secret of Nimh had no mention of batteries.
Cybersecurity insurance will not protect us
I find it hard to reconcile these goals with the language you created: Monads, applicatives etc:

That is a steep hill to climb for beginners. Any ideas how to guide them along?

And it is also not clear how programming languages or computing are tied to corporations and not to individuals.
There's no contradiction here.

And you need corporations to build the device you are currently using to reply.
We do our jobs on the shoulder of giants. Thousands of corporations in a world-wide link that provide the necessary resources and know-how to build computers. Not sure how that rhymes with "computing should belong to individual users".
I'm pretty sure that you needed ideology to convince people to go to these incredibly long wars. It just gets washed away by other explanations given by the historians.

I mean, does Russia have memorials of their leaders? Germany also has a bunch of memorials even going back to Prussian days. Yet many of these individuals caused massive suffering.
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> Maybe their developers were actually more efficient being WFH

Definitely! You can't come up with something like that in the office, literally impossible.
Seems to be in the text if not the summary image:

> On the customer front, the PM needs to be able to creatively draw out real customer needs. This survey and interview technique is more of an art than a science, and comes with experience.
It’s not really a zero percent loan. To test that, tell the dealer you are paying cash, make your best deal, and then at the last minute say you changed your mind and want a zero percent loan for the same price. See how that goes.

The money that goes to purchase your car, is invested money that earns a non-zero return, whoever it comes from. If you have the cash, you be that investor, and you earn the return.

The manufacturer, and the dealer, have a bunch of dials they can twist to get the most money out of you while convincing you that you are getting a good deal. It’s win-win, except you don’t actually win. Paying cash takes the dials away.

They do this dozens of times a day, every day, and they don’t play to lose money. You’re not going to beat them.
I'm ready to consider a fulltime position, but I want to talk to the CEO instead of someone in HR.
There are some horrible scientific inaccuracies in here, but the broad point is a really good one and it's a fun read. I do wish we had the relationship with time described in here, or at least something closer to it.
Why? I could see wanting some macOS apps to work on iOS, that makes sense to me.

But with sidecar you can get a pretty good idea of macOS on iPad. And it’s not great. At least as-is it’s not great.
Piggybacking on this, here's a relevant video about the history of texture CDs and where a lot of old game textures come from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsCN0Yx2Vbs
5 day week as the return to normal? Perhaps for a measurable number but plenty of others don't agree.

I know many people who are already on 4 day weeks. Some are shifting to 6 just over half days. Some are wanting full remote. Others want partial remote so they can see their children grow up or operate homeschooling AND still want to go into an office. No pay cut for any of this either. They don't even consider it a perk.

A lot of these articles about resuming old hours of work are really just aspirations of governments, lobby groups and others with already vested interests, even property developers/large office building owners are chiming in.

Welcome to the Great Reset.
Why is war with China a forgone conclusion in every one of these reports? Australian television does it every evening as well. Nowhere does anybody even bother to explain why America and its client states have to spill blood over China in the first place.
"Whatever gets clicks" culture
I was never rich enough to own a laptop in that era, but I remember weight being the commonly espoused difference, or at least how it was marketed.
> pretty weird/low class move to build a free clone of the product you just worked on

It's extremely common to do that. Where do you think all this industrial open source software comes from? People work on a product, then they leave the company and want access to a similar tool. Happens all the time.
Interesting, but this does not seem to match empirical evidence by the likes of Ahrefs, which suggests that links are by far the most important ranking factor.
Great tip! I've been using DDG's official addon but this means one less addon. Thanks!
I believe in your apology, and thank you for trying to make things right. Everyone makes mistakes. What's done is done. We can only learn from it.

It's easy to become emotional and protective of a project you've poured blood and tears into, which probably kept you up at nights, amidst all the FUD.

At the end of the day, the world is better with Replit than without it. A world where any kid can learn to program with a dirt cheap device anywhere in the world without dealing with dependency hell is worth fighting for.

A lot of young kids and future builders and innovators look up to you! Please remember to be humble and kind as Replit, snd you, gather more influence.
From what I understood,you can't store a lot more energy without unwanted side effects using the current technology.
It's blatantly obvious that the US intelligence agencies obviously have backdoors (or known exploits if you want to give then the benefit of the doubt) into Intel ME, and its AMD counterpart.

The DoD is the only Intel client that is allowed to disable ME. They sell chips without ME. They just won't sell it to anyone but the DoD. Why is that?
I use 18650 cells over pocket cells in my hobby projects if possible: partly because I find it easier to get consistent quality 18650's in my local market (shipping lithium ion batteries is a hassle), partly because it allows me to use the same pool of batteries across many things (power banks, torches, different DIY-projects).
I use colloquial language to try and target actual human reviews on forums. "Are audio-technica any good?"

Mostly works, but Google drops keywords pretty quickly now so you still get lots of spam or shopping sites.
Chromium supports :has() pseudo class matching (partially)
Have you seen https://calendso.com/? It's free and open source. They are calendly alternative as well.
It would be nice if there was a reasonable baseline of key format/management that all these new tools shared though. And I don't mean pgp/gpg keyrings, to be clear, which are cumbersome and error prone and over-complicated for a lot of these needs (I'm still annoyed that `pass` is reliant on gpg for forcing me to deal with a keyring).

I see that `age`, which I hadn't actually heard of before, supports ssh keys and identities which always seemed like a fairly natural baseline to me. Would be nice if more of the command line variety did as well (even if only rsa and/or ed25519 keys).
The fact that they do collect data does not mean that they use that data in any meaningful way or at all.

They ought to see humongous bounce rates with those fake SEOd pages. Normally, that would suggest shit tier quality and black-hat SEO, which is in theory punishable. Yet, they throw that data away and still rank those sites higher up.

You mean to say that no one at Google has even heard of "external SEO", which is nothing more than fancy way of saying link farming? They do know, this is punishable according to their own rules, yet it works, because either they cannot fix it or do not care to.
Still stupid. As soon as some entity reveals they have the power to crack one of these algorithms, everyone scrambles to migrate to something orders of magnitude harder. It's a weapon you'd only be able to use for maybe a few weeks or months before all the worthwhile targets immunize themselves against you.

We already have quantum safe asymmetric cryptography, just no incentive to move fast to deploy it.
'Pictures of art' does not apply here. The marble texure is a natural, and unless special, brick walls or cracked glass are not artistic expressions. The mansion door could be art. However, at worst, the texture is a minimal part of an extremely artsy door and still fair use due to the transformative nature.

OTOH, every picture was made with the express intent to make artistic textures. Yes, it is copyrighted by the photographer and can be sold.
How Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld Became Yale Law Pariahs
Because muh libc and it's not using some obscure barely working DE.
I've been trying to unsubscribe from CR email spam for months now to no avail. Looking at the browser tools, it seems that their api can't handle the fact that I registered with a single letter first/last name so therefore my attempts to unsubscribe silently fail. There also appears to be no way to change my name since the api for that also fails on the single letter first/last name. I wish ungood things to happen to the people who 'designed' this Kafkaesque rubbish and in the meantime, thank GMail's mark-as-spam feature for throwing away their unrelenting pablum to the memory hole. This experience has led to me canceling my print subscription to CR plus my donations to their organization.
The lesson here is complete trust in modern computing platforms is misplaced and impossible. Your hardware has backdoors, so does your OS, and encryption clients. In addition, popular apps, especially in the US, can always be commandeered by 3-letter agencies.

You're only anonymous as long as you're not actively targetted, despite using "secure" apps and stuff like Tor, which media makes it seem are unbreakable.
> This is the current sentiment yes, but time will shed a bunch of facts.

Reveal these hidden facts! To which facts do you refer, exactly?
From what I understand they targeted a high ranking member of the gang and he promoted the app, which was developed by the police to others. Since a high level member endorsed it, it become widely used.
> I don’t think keeping that website up is worth throwing away a strong reference from the CEO of a highly funded company - do you?

Why does it have to be in this tone? It's honestly even worse because it would put himself on a pedestal.

If he was truly worried he could simply have a conversation about said worry. You are just reframing to a different threat.
24,000-year-old organisms found frozen in Siberia can still reproduce
Continuous electrical pumping membrane process for seawater lithium mining
Does anyone find it funny that each criminal group could have been better off relying on a "kid who knows computers" level of expertise and bog standard devices running open source software which at least wouldn't be trivially systematically turned against them all at once quite so easily.
Largest password compilation of all time leaked online with 8.4B entries
Funny how that form is essentially asking users to dox themselves. I wonder how many will take the bait.
SEO is so broken, it's not about website content or website quality. It's about how much money you pay to some punks - "SEO experts" who are hacking a system. I'm so sick of that.
I think PGP is fine for encrypting some files. But you should take into consideration that when you encrypt a file it's very likely that some (or all) of the plain text is left behind on the block device. Using full disk encryption (LUKS for example) will give additional protection (so one can't read plain text fragments from the device when it's not "open").
Well, there are many variety of commands/actions. For the compute intensive ones, brain-computer-interface wouldn't have any implication. However there are many-many mundane commands too, with near instantaneous processing, those are bottlenecked by Human's mechanical limitations. These are the ones which would improve tremendously.
So the big question is if would have been better to strike fast, silently gain more intel och strike in some kind of statistical analysis maner to not blow their cover á la Alan Turing and the enigma
Being outside the US doesn't avoid the need for actual warrants. That thread mentions several, both in the US and out of it.
It’s bizarre, because news reports state that the entire app and monitoring system was created by the FBI and Australian Federal Police.

If it’s their system, why would they need to seize its domain?
> Specially in the US, where justice is mostly a rich man's game

Same in Pakistan.
This also used to happen with iOS only a few years ago but they improved iOS since to allow all the calibration tools to run without your passcode.

Be good to know if they’ve since fixed Macs in the same way.
Legal and ethical issues aside, the bottom line I've learned from reading all quotes included in the blog post is that Amjad is an ass.
It is sad that, given that the company likely doesn't have a case unless some explicit IP was violated, that threats of court allow money to decide the outcome.

But more sad than that, to me, is that creative energy on both sides isn't doing something more novel. A company doing something an intern can clone. An intern facing a sea of unsolved problems that chooses a space that is covered, as he points out, many times over.

If copying is the highest form of flattery, why flatter your former boss so much?
Not quite. They were using an app developed by the police as a honeypot. Someone else had even discovered this and blogged about it[0]. If they had used email and PGP they likely wouldn't have been caught in this way. 3-letter agencies are not going to use their trump card of backdoored OS or hardware to catch drug runners.

[0]https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PwQXt6...
I used to keep my pr0n in a directory called "NUL" which I would temporarily rename to "XUL" with Norton Disk Editor. That was the only way to see or access the files, until my dad, wondering where the disk space had gone, ran a disk usage utility which read the disk directly instead of going through DOS.
> Also, I don't think it really matters whether personally one uses a key X or not. In my experience, you can never have enough keys! And you will find an application eventually – provided the key is in the right place ergonomically speaking, i.e. easy to reach.

I do own a ErgoDox and UHK and like them. I use them with my custom layout. However I also agree with you fully, that you cannot have enough keys and I miss all the keys a standard layout offers.

I think needing many keys, and changing a layout to not need to move your hands so much are two different problems.

What is better, having to move your hand to difficult to reach keys, for functions that you only need occasionally, or having to remember how to navigate to the right, rarely used layer? I think the former.

You can still change the layout to have the frequently used keys close to your finger, but if you don't need so many layers to allow the keyboard to work in all kinds of applications, that is a win for me.

I don't really like the highly application specific layouts you get with keyboards, that are missing keys compared to the standard layout.
I love viewing comment histories of people who write posts like the above. They're always fun.
> I never got people complaining about outdated look. When did computers become fashion items, with a new color every year? Last season we went for round corners, but these are clearly out. Today, flat is the new round. Why?

Funny thing is that like fashion it has a repetitive cycle too. Flat with basic colors back to colorful and shaded, back to flat, ... . Probably to look innovative by setting a new trend.
This is classic blockchain handwaving. If you’re an airplane manufacturer sourcing parts, you’re going to be placing a hell of a lot of trust in your partners. Jumping through all the hoops of blockchain gets you very little, if anything, net of cost.
Heh, I struggle figure out what is a real review and what is a paid for ad. It's sad to the point where I've pretty much given up because of the sheer amount of time it would take to do the research. Instead I opt to go for Amazon's competitors (e.g. Currys and Argos for us in the UK) and pick something there. They're a little more vetted, and less likely to be knock off or something.
"It's true that RFC3280 says that the GeneralizedTime format must be used only for dates beginning in 2050. This is to allow compatibility with existing implementations (like NSS) that do not yet support the format. However, there is no reason for an implementation that supports GeneralizedTime to reject a certificate (or other object) that contains dates before 2050 that are encoded using that format. Dates generated by NSS should use the RFC guideline to ensure interoperability with other RFC3280-conformant implementations." - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143334 (2002)

"In the past, Firefox was lenient, NSS still is lenient, but mozilla::pkix is strict. I found a comment in the mozilla::pkix which says the alternative encodings from asn.1 explicitly aren't allowed." - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1152515 (2015)

An interesting comment in there also mentions how QA testing just one function with different dates might require changing the system date, but that would test more than just the one function... I wonder how many pieces of software might miss bugs due to complex tests like this.