skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"stick together long enough....", I don't think that's going to happen. There's no way this government will last 2 years, I doubt it will even last 3 months.
My only phone is a Pinephone. I don't "daily" drive it because I'm not really much of a phone user but it's still loads better than the experience I had with Android/iOS.

I feel like the phone respects me. It's a computer and when I decide that I want to do [X thing a computer can do] it lets me do that. It feels much better to struggle against real problems I can solve than it does to struggle against fake problems inflicted upon me by other people in order to extract value from me.

I would seriously much rather deal with "Which file do I pipe `1` into using a shell on a phone screen in order to turn on the flashlight LED?" than having to deny Google location tracking privileges for the millionth time because they will just keep asking me until I accidentally hit yes instead of no one day.
The gist of the article is easy to see, but one has yet to address my original questions. To clarify: 1) Why the urgent drumbeat of "vaccine, vaccine, vaccine" when most of the population, especially younger, faces a higher risk of serious side effects from the vaccines? and 2) Why the Pavlovian gnashing of teeth when anyone ask why this tune is the only one getting playtime?
If you're getting "gamed" by your staff, the issue might not be with the developers' working habits...
Building my own content management system
That's a compelling theory (and I loved the "and a seafood entree" line), though I'd hope it's not the current situation.

In any case, I'm assuming Freenode is over, and that the only way it might be reborn is by abdicating the throne, and turning it over to something like a representative democracy (with a sufficiently reassuring foundation than the new spinoff).

(Incidentally, there was rare occasional young royalty or child actor on early IRC. I suppose because they had the money and time for Internet access, and the social isolation/barriers that made IRC relatively welcoming, so they could be just people. I never heard of any expecting special status on the Internet, in that time before Social Media Influencers.)
New APIs introduced in betas often don’t have documentation until later. When working with beta APIs, read the header.
That's a conceptual question but doesn't call into question the practical reality: People clearly have some identity as a group, and act against other perceived groups. In the last few years it's gone from subtle to brazenly, proudly advocated, as evidenced by ethnic nationalism. Arguably, much of the worst in human history was born from discrimination against a group: Armenians, Tutsis, Jews, African-Americans, Muslims in Bosnia, etc. etc. etc.

But to the concept, which we can learn something from: How do you reconcile what you say with the fact that people do have group identities - not as their complete identity, but part of it - and act as a group and treat others as members of groups? They clearly and explicitly do: People will openly discriminate against people based on skin color, sexual orientation, etc. As I said, ethnic nationalism has exploded, worldwide.
Well, yes; the head of the organisation gave away the domains in exchange for a job. Everyone gets into a tight spot sometime; Freenode wasn't structured to deal with that challenge.
Care to explain how a private employer collecting telemetry data on their own computer system whom the employees are paid to work on would be violating human rights and why would I feel pain or humiliation? We log everything in many situations. We also have full keylogging and all command logging via auditd. There is a lot of idealistic and childish responses to my approach, including yours. I’m not snooping anything by monitoring our computer systems in the way I do.
Debating myself a bit: the reason startups tend to attract fewer scams is that only accredited investors can invest in them. There is definitely something to be said for that!
I don't need much performance-- my present phone is a 2-year-old $220 Umidigi F1, and it's entirely performant for my needs-- but the problem is the likelihood of showstopper app needs.

I don't want to carry two devices, or have to reboot twice daily, so that I can still the weird 2FA app my employer uses. I wonder if the ideal endgame is a VM style model-- you have an Android VM that you give 2% of CPU to, just enough to keep that app alive, but normally spend your day in LumeOS or whatever your flavour is.
Sandstorm.io is a sandboxing/app-deployment system that runs on Linux servers, which uses capability-based security and fine-grained permissions. (As a note, it sandboxes individual "grains", which are single-documents/instances, not entire apps.

Of course, Sandstorm is built to present a cloud-like web app interface, not local desktop or mobile apps.

I still think personal servers are the eventual way to go, such that people's mobile devices they carry with them aren't the definitive location of lots of their valuable data.
As a security practitioner I am skeptical about certs value ( CISSP, Sec+, CCNA Security, CEH) in infosec except for the offensive certs from Offensive Security. This because I know too many folks that have certs yet never mastered security basics, cannot code, cannot administer, cannot innovate/automate, cannot lockdown, cannot audit, cannot circumvent, and are generally dangerous around any type of IT. Fundamental ability to manage, develop code, or administer, are foundational in infosec, which is why most of our good talent comes from IT support, Networking, System Administration or Development.

I think product certs are valueable though for reflecting experience in a specific field (e.g. CCIE/MSCE/AWS ), and process certs (ITIL/etc) for understanding how it fits together in a service mgmt context.

Apart from certs though, an active Top Secret SCI with a full scope polygraph is worth its weight in gold for govt work.
On the one hand this is great:

> Employees were allowed to work from home if they felt anxious about coming to data centers, Walsh said. If people didn’t want to take the bus, the company provided transportation to and from data centers and even allowed people to stay in hotels, she said.

On the other hand:

> “We had to in some cases go to shift work, day and night, to get the work done within the same schedule,” Walsh said.

If there was ever a time to readjust expectations…
That's what makes it good :)

I had no idea why it took my brain so long to wrap my head around it. Maybe it was blissful ignorance, never sitting down and making a mental model of it. Always looking for a tldr version of doing things. I don't know exactly at which point things clicked but it went from bewildering to just makes sense
Do you need an income? If you do then you should probably think about what you can do that would generate an income rather than going for programming.

While programmers can earn good money it isn't necessarily that easy. Another comment recommended Lua, I would say that the language you should learn is the one that fits the problems you want to solve. In other words, the language is a tool, programming itself is a tool, Lua is one specific type of tool and it might or might not be the tool for the job.

My advice, assuming that you insist on learning to program, is to first find a problem that you would like to solve that might be amenable to a programming solution; then pick the language that everyone else thinks is appropriate for that field.
Yeah, we all know how every project has unit tests, follows TDD best practices, is part of a CI/CD pipeline and has exemplary documentation.

Unsafe blocks are better than not having them, provided there is such human.
Marble.js – functional reactive Node.js framework based on TypeScript and RxJs
I don't think your quote really changes the facts that we aren't seeing more extreme heat events. Read chapter 6 in Steve Koonin's new book "Unsettled". He does a great job of going through all the real data on heat over the last century.
Since Israel has to spend the money on US hardware, that money actually goes to maintain Jobs in the US military industry.
We have no idea how many drugs would work in humans but are not being considered because they don't work in animals. If we assume it's about the same as the number that work in animals but don't work in humans, we're missing out on a huge number of therapies.
Every thousand spent abroad in an unstable country is ten thousand saved ten years later when a military operation is needed or humanitarian aid is sent.
Not that it presumably applies here, but IIUC they're also enforceable if you're basically paying the former employee (most of?) their salary for the duration of the agreement.
Agree, you won't ever need them, and if you do those aren't the type of interesting jobs you'll want to gain access to.

Infosec is very much "learn by do", because technology and this corner of it specifically moves too fast for certificate processes
You're making my point for me. You're suggesting I spend additional time cobbling together extensions (which presumably can end up unmaintained and/or break?) and swap out some applications.

This feels like ordering paella at a restaurant when I don't like seafood. Sure, I can eat around all the sea bits. But there's lots of other options at this restaurant, so why the f* would I order paella, knowing it has seafood I don't like?

I'm not gonna tell you not to order the paella, or that the paella is bad, or that the restaurant is bad, or whatever. But don't push the paella on me either please ;)
I wish there were country flags next to HN handles.

Why are so many people all over the world interested in the politics of our "microstate"?

It's a rhetorical question. I know why ... ;(
Can you run off a bad mood? New facial scanner tool measures impact of exercise
Are there usage statistics that support or invalidate the theory that a majority of active users have migrated from Freenode to Libera?
I think one major contributing reason is that the amount of programmers is still rising so fast, with each new generation being larger than the previous. Then every generation see the tail end of the previous generation and will then rebel against it to solve the issues. That they will have moderated after a couple oscillations doesn't matter as there is so few of them in most work places.
As for the new narrative being heavily pushed these days that the caste system is a remnant of British colonial times, a few words from an Untouchable girl can correct it - written in the year 1855. From the essay:

Earlier, Gokhale, Apate, Trimkaji, Andhala, Pansara, Kale, Behre, etc [all Brahman surnames], who showed their bravery by killing rats in their homes, persecuted us, not sparing even pregnant women, without any rhyme or reason. This has stopped now. Harassment and torture of Mahars and Mangs, common during the rule of Peshwas in Pune, have stopped. Now, human sacrifice for the foundation of forts and mansions has stopped – now, nobody buries us alive. Now, our population is growing in numbers. Earlier, if any Mahar or Mang wore fine clothes, they would say that only Brahmans should wear such clothes. Seen in fine clothes, we were earlier accused of stealing such clothes. Their religion was in danger of being polluted when Untouchables put clothes around their bodies; they would tie them to a tree and punish them. But, under British rule, anybody with money can buy and wear clothes. Earlier, punishment for any wrongdoing against the upper castes was to behead the guilty Untouchable— now, it has stopped. Excessive and exploitative tax has stopped. The practice of untouchability has stopped in some places. Killing has stopped on the playground. Now, we can even visit the marketplace.

Source: https://www.forwardpress.in/2020/02/165-years-ago-first-fema...
I believe it is possible to write in provisions for some actor or set of actors to seize assets in a smart contract. This doesn't seem common either because of immaturity or just culture, but I don't think it is impossible.
FOSS and OSH will always sit a few years behind companies which are investing billions of dollars in R&D. But we can try to lift what we can and catch up sooner or later.
Israel's new prime minister is sworn in, ending Netanyahu's 12-yr grip on power
> It's a rhetorical question. I know why ... ;(

Why?
You don't need to have an understanding of 3d space, positioning, range to target, trajectories etc to create an intercept course.

The underlying principle of proportional navigation, which is what the first few generations of IR missiles use to navigate, is constant bearing decreasing range. If a missile maintains absolute bearing to a target, it will collide with that target. The first generation AIM-9, which was the first useful IR missile, didn't aim "slightly ahead" of its target, it pointed itself at the exact point where it would collide with its target, assuming the target was moving at constant speed in a straight line.

The spinning sensor that you mention was on a gimbal, it wasn't pointing along the boresight. The spinning caused it to act as a gyroscope, so it would maintain its orientation in absolute space. The gimbal would track the sensor so that it was pointing at the target, and the same inputs were fed into both the gimbal and the missile's control surfaces. Therefore, if the bearing was changing, that would cause the missile to maneuver in such a way that the bearing would stop changing. If the bearing wasn't changing, the missile would not maneuver. This is all you need to do to point the missile at the exact point where it will intercept a non-maneuvering target.

As a first order approximation, the assumption of a constant speed straight line target is a useful one, given the technological limitations of the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_navigation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant_bearing,_decreasing_r...

https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-a0e376f321a658b5d99e25...
I would not recommend OSWE to learn appsec since it is teaching "Advanced Web Attacks" and assume that you know the basics.

Something that is really interesting I think is the whitebox approach that some people in infosec might be missing if they don't come from a developer background and never botherered looking at the code introducing the vulnerabilities.

If you want to learn appsec I recommend Web Security Academy: https://portswigger.net/web-security
Exactly. Why employ people you don’t trust? It sounds very tiring. I certainly don’t have time for it running a successful, fast-growing company.

I’ve employed people before who eroded my trust in them. I either fired them or nudged them to find a new job, depending on the severity of the thing they did to make me not trust them.
> This is also why I'm convinced that the trend toward bigger trucks and SUVs is 95% complying with EPA and safety standards, and maybe 5% market driven.

The trend is profit driven which then becomes marketing (not market) driven..

An SUV is basically a gussied-up pickup truck. Take what ye-basic-white-pickup truck would cost a business fleet and the differential cost of an SUV on top of that is pure profit.

So, when the automakers can bank a profit per SUV that exceeds the entire price of a small car, what do you think they're going to do? Naturally, they're going to push the hell out of those SUVs.
I have my doubts about that one, but that could be because my own filter bubble includes general awareness of it.

I usually skip the stages of grief and go straight to acceptance, and looking at how to make it more tenable.
My experience with this "high quality help" was usually bunch of less experienced people telling me how I'm doing things wrong and how Rust cannot possible lack a feature or need improvement. And that was after making triple sure that my conversation would not be combative or try to sound entitled.

Sadly there is some cult around the whole community... although I find the core developers to be pretty great.
I think this is actually a large reason that the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon exists.

In this framing of Baader-Meinhof, it is something that appears constantly, but as it is to weird you ignore it. Then as you discover more things related to it, eventually it's close enough to your Overton window for you to be able to be ready for it.

Then once you learn it you see it everywhere.

It's interesting that you tie this with advertising, one of the things I learned watching The Social Dilemma was that the way that platforms like YouTube work is that they will attempt to funnel you into the most profitable content types.

For instance if you are watching Gaming content on YouTube, it will recommend PewDiePie, a Gaming YouTuber well known to every once in a while say racist things. Then if you watch enough PewDiePie, you'll start seeing more racist channels. At some point you'll get Jordan Peterson(whom himself is mostly harmless...). If you watch one Peterson video your recommendations will flip from whatever you were doing previously to 80% his content, and if you continue down the rabbit hole it will get as bad as you can imagine. YouTube does this because the people susceptible to watch these videos are also susceptible to buy things from advertisements, so they are their most profitable customers.

YouTube has unknowingly created a funnel that can move the Overton Window to turn people into extremists all so that they can make money from selling healing crystals to them.
Good thing I switched over to the Slack and Matrix servers for my most used channels.
There's a difference between delivering value (a user searches for or accesses a resource and fairly expects a resource to deliver a value) and extracting value (a predator inserts itself into the user->searching->accessing->resource chain and opportunistically seizes value from stages in that process).
Are you afraid your employees would leave you if they found out? Good. You should be. And I’ll be here to treat them with respect and scoop up your talent.
Do you have plans for this evening?
"giving people illegal consciousness altering drugs seems so much worse"

It would be interesting to learn why you think it would be so bad.
What good are nuclear weapons? I'd rather have Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Holyrood Palace, Balmoral Castle, and a bunch of other properties, a giant vault full of treasure stolen from all over the world, plus titles I can dole out as political favors. $90b can't buy that.
Isn’t that part of the problem. It’s become a political class rather than pulling the best representatives of all facets of society.
I remember buying mine, then them saying they would'nt support apps on it anymore, then a month later the netflix app stopped working, was great timing i ended up getting a pirate box instead. Never again sony, never again.
I know that rule of thumb, but it's only a rule of thumb. I haven't yet seen a way to suggest seeing a doctor via the written part of the web that won't immediately get interpreted as name calling by many people.
That's a function of the state of the SoC options currently. There are very few options for an open source phone design to choose from that have sufficient public documentation. The ones that do tend to be several generations behind on process nodes and have more modest capabilities generally as they are often targeting the low end of the market.
https://thenewstack.io/git-transitioning-away-from-the-aging...
Does listening to white noise increase the fractal dimension the same way as drugs?
No, it's not the definition of inflation. If Monet becomes very fashionable and his paintings double in value, that's not 'inflation' it's just something increasing in value.

When the government prints trillions of dollars to bail out corrupt wallstreet firms and hedge funds so that the super rich can avoid the consequences of their high risk investment strategies, and this causes the purchasing power of money to decrease, that is inflation, and that is what is happening. Wood just has a low ability to flex up production quickly compared to many other goods.

The price of a Big Mac has gone up 12% in the last year and a half. I encourage you to pick something and price compare it from pre to post covid and see if inflation might not be higher than the official number.
Because you're doing genocide?
It almost seems like their goal is to tank Freenode as fast as possible.
That's fine though, another far right extremist PM gets outed faster and Lapid gets in sooner. They just need to make it so Netanyahu - a very familiar face in Israel - doesn't get back in, and that a future PM doesn't get in the same endless hold over the public and all resources.
There was no good solution because there was no need for it. People weren't downloading, creating, or storing large amounts of data. Most of the stuff would fit on a floppy and you'd still have 90% of it empty. Any games would be on floppies you wouldn't dream of filling 10% your 420MB hard drive with 10 floppies at 1.44MB each.

Most people didn't even have a computer and those that did were not on the Internet. Even images were rare in the early days of the Web. Music was not a thing yet or at least not the ability to download it.

In 1996 I think the most files I had were either email or Corel Draw files (of nothing really just fun).
PortSwigger is great. Certifications, on the other hand, are not a good way to learn appsec.
That this manager chooses to “humiliate” certain employees is also indicative of the root cause of the issue.
As an example: https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1399079468132622339

It’s a wild interview.
A common definition (he says, being married to an artist) is that you intend what you do to be taken as art. If the artist says it’s art, then it’s art.
I think all that is needed is an aha moment
1. Is this discussion about the Saudi Arabian government or the Israeli government? I also have stuff to say about Saudis too but that's not the topic right now.

2. "Oh but, what about <X>"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

And by the way I am not anti-semitic, if that is what you were trying to imply with "absurdly selective".

Israel has many high value products to export besides weapons. Israel can enjoy prosperity without having to resort to trading weapons with such regimes.
I dont understand the need to NiH things, why not clickhouse with weekly, monthly, etc aggregation. It comes with built in sharding, can store time series data somewhat efficiently and doesn't have some hack h/a setup (in general not thanos).
OK, somewhat stale already... But WTH, there are still "Reply" links, so AFAICS replying is acceptable. And the "reverse-perspective" rebuttal I'm about to propose hasn't been proposed so far.

> OK, but I'm saying the burden of proof is on who think that simulation is possible. It's not at all obvious that it is.

You seem to be arguing about whether it's possible to simulate this reality, the one we're in, within itself. That's like saying Sim City is impossible, because you can't build the computer Sim City is running on in Sim City; you can't have your Sims build a PC and then run that same copy of the Sim City game on that simulated PC.

If we and the universe we live in are all part of a simulation, that simulation can be running on something that cannot be built in our universe -- within that simulation itself -- without, AFAICS, that constituting any logical contradiction.

Or, IOW: Ants can build anthills, but we can build ant farms. If an ant claims "I can't be living in an ant farm; there can be no such thing, because we ants don't know how to make one!"... Then it is wrong.

In the simulation hypothesis, it is not necessary for humans to know how to build the simulation environment, because in that hypothesis we aren't the simulation builders. We're just the Sims (or ants).