skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I said if I Google "F-Droid" I should get to a webpage that contains an app that works properly and that comes with good repos preloaded. Similar to how Steam is installed on PCs.

Instead I get a crappy app with very outdated repos. That's not good enough.
Transparent by whose definition? Any investigation can be weaponised very easily. I remember seeing a tweet from one of the western scientists in China claiming the NYT misquoted them regarding the transparency & data they'd been shown.
See also:

* LiquidPrompt [0] (I'm a former maintainer)

* angel-PS1 [1]: my pet project. Shell prompt code is generated at startup time from Perl code, and uses a Perl angel (not daemon) to get system information.

[0] https://github.com/nojhan/liquidprompt

[1] https://github.com/dolmen/angel-PS1
Reminds me of https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks
John McAfee Dead at 75
You're making a mockery of the talking points about defunding the police, then asking people to actually spend time debating you. Please, reconsider the way you argue about things.
Am I misunderstanding or do people launch their Mongo container without even MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_{USERNAME,PASSWORD}? It's clearly mentioned in the image README. Takes 15 seconds to set. I'd be incredibly concerned if anybody with more than a day of infrastructure experience did this, even worse on a production database.
Sounds like a very interesting setup! Is there a blog post or something similar with more details?
Plan to raze 4 dams on California-Oregon line clears hurdle
No it's not.
Quality education has always been for the rich and continues to be.
Not to be dramatic but meritocracy feels like a lie at this point.
I got accepted to a T30 uni, but surprise surprise, there's no way I can attend it, cuz they don't give scholarships based on financial need, and the ones which do, would have me graduating into 6fig debt... Not in this economy I'm not gonna do that...
Amazing feeling to have your dreams crushed and hard work rendered useless just due to green paper
Frankly the headline is pretentious af for even asking this question
> but what we're talking about is allowing every VSCode extension and Docker image someone installs to read your GMail.

I don't understand, this is already the status quo today. Any vscode extension can access your filesystem and connect to a socket, so it can just pipe your ~/.cache/mozilla to some server in russia, and even read the memory of any of your processes through /proc/$PID/maps. Ditto for any shell script you run, any build script for any software you clone from github before building it, unless you are running Qubes OS.
> almost white, in fact. It fell out in the week after.

Had a co-worker whose partner died in her late 20s. He told me the grief / stress / depression caused the same thing (edit: not his beard, but the top of his head).

He even showed me photos himself having gone gray and having lost chunks of hair. It was stunning. And it all came back over the course of 10 years (he looked like a thick-maned William H Macy).
There is a material difference to users between a single attacker having (and possibly ignoring) a data dump, and that attacker publishing that dump publically, or selling it to someone who plans to exploit its contents.

The attacker has offered to not publish if they are paid. Their word probably isn't worth much, but $1,000 seems like an affordable sum for a business to gamble on them being honest about it. And if Newsblur doesn't fix their security problems they'll be targeted again either way.

As someone who has a decade of data in Newsblur, if there's any chance that an affordable ransom will keep my data from spreading further I want Samuel to take it.
Are the Rich Gaslighting Us When They Donate Billions to Charity?
Maybe retailer requirements. Walgreens (for example) might require clamshell-type packaging for store displays.

I always wonder why it's used on things that don't need the benefits that plastic provides. For example, I just replaced my keyboard and the new one came in a box but the box was taped shut (single-use plastic) and the keyboard was in a bag (another single-use plastic).
Those RM machines were terrible.

My secondary school was entirely Acorn and we'd had Amigas, Acorns and then Macs at home. I'd never really encountered Wintel until Sixth Form, where the college was full of Windows 3.1-era RMs.

Couldn't believe how primitive they were - compared to Workbench and RiscOS it was like stepping back into some terrible technological past. Don't think I used them willingly once in the whole time I was there. Still never used Windows much.
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Discernment that aligns with their values and is scalable enough to be cheap.

Google promised to not be “evil”, which is only as reliable a promise to the degree that “evil” is well-defined.
Japan passes resources law to enable space mining
Based on my personal standards?
Libreboot replaces proprietary BIOS firmware on some modern computers
Mind Mapping is a no brainer for such situations.

1) I use XMind, which has floating topics. I quickly draft mentioned requirements as a floating topics and then break them down into sub-topics

2) After the requirement is clarified then it's a time for prioritisation and I use priority matrix for that.

3) Then you just unify everything under a central mind map topic and "connect the dots".
If you like framework and plugins, try my own angel-PS1.

https://github.com/dolmen/angel-PS1
If I complain about mobile responsiveness I’m missing the point right?
Serverless apps on AWS using F# and fable
The article makes a lot of sense to me. My main gripe is with the choice of Django (which is a given, I understand that).

Anno 2021 I'd never choose a lang+FW that does not bring strong types, and type safety over several system barriers.

Like using Kotlin+jOOQ for the backend. Or use no backend at all and use Hasura with a generated client lib in Elm. Or Rust with Yew.

I know these are not as much used as Django/Rails/Express/Spring+Hibernate, but I'm just not ready to walk into the no-type-safety swamp again out of my free will.
afaik these are testimonials for people who are disappeared now, so they are already in the hands of the chinese regime
Aspire to a low-stress life. Yep!

Also stressing for the right reasons is good (like going out of your comfort zone).
> But how can anyone _possibly_ deny the first part?

Some people claim to be cats. The argument is fairly leaking too. You might argue it is different for gender and to a degree that is true. Doesn't But this argument is pretty leaking too.
Yes, this is what it was made for. I got mine up to $150,000 based on the annual increment and a few smart buy/sell.
I wish I had bought $50,000 Apple at $2, it would have turned into $25 million. A few like Thiel do better.
Want to hurt Thiel? Hurt us all is your only way.
Block options etc, so only trading shares can go in. No 'popcorn' shares that expand by 100 to one or more after they vest etc.
That's not true for criminal offenses at least. You have to pay them or you go to jail. If you're on welfare and have 400€ to live on they generally expect you to pay 100€ a month. From what remains you have to pay everything but rent, so energy, Internet, and other fixed costs you might have as well as food. I wouldn't be surprised if this actuajly forced a lot of people into crime just to not go hungry.
> Does your body ever rid itself of this infection on its own?

Sometimes, no. And then you'll take sulfadiazine and pyrimetamine and have the worst headache you can imagine.

> Are there any treatments for this disease?

For each manifestation of it, yes. To get rid of it, no. You'll have it forever inside your body. And in those times that you immunity is low it can manifest itself again.[1]

And then "Decreased visual acuity may occur as a result of macular involvement or severe vitreous inflammation" [0].

[0] https://www.reviewofophthalmology.com/article/how-to-diagnos...

[1] "However, the parasite remains in the person’s body in an inactive state. It can become reactivated if the person becomes immunosuppressed." https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/disease.html

(edited: add more reference)
The only standard mentioned in this thread was "beyond a reasonable doubt", to which someone replied that it should absolutely be the standard.
But the real question should be: why doesn't de-identification work and how to make it work.

How much health data is required to distinguish a specific individual even without any "identifying" information? Surely there must be many people with unique combinations of conditions and treatments. If that is so then a data set that includes those people could only ever be pseudonymous, not truly anonymous.

What other data sets might then be combined with the health data to match a pseudonymous record with an identifiable person? Payment records? Travel records? Time off work? Insurance claims?

I don't know much about how the US healthcare system works, but maybe before asking how to make de-identification of health data work we should be asking whether it could ever work effectively at all.
I agreed. Then did a project[1] with Hasura and a generated client lib in Elm and I'm no longer looking back. If I can get away with "no backend code" I'll do it again in a heart beat.

[1] https://github.com/cies/elm-hasura-dockered
Not what gaslighting means.
Thanks for clarifying. My thinking above was speculative and it appears even my steel man point was pretty weak.
Architecure Revival
The videographer who shot my online course had patch of white hair. I asked him what it is, he said it turned up in the 2 unbelievable stressful weeks after he started his company.
"Gaslighting" certainly has lost all meaning and become a generic thing to accuse people of whenever you don't like them.
Great trick.
The rampant abuse of the word gaslighting is out of control.
Naps!

Seriously, listen to your mind and your body. If it needs sleep, give it some. It it requires painting or dancing, do it!
FBI tears innocent New Yorker’s life into shreds after Jan. 6
I use Elm on the frontend with a fully type safe generated client lib (based on the GraphQL schema Hasura provides). Fully type safety over the API barrier and in the frontend.

https://github.com/cies/elm-hasura-dockered
The id cards are shown to help prevent China from disappearing these people. So YT taking the videos down is the opposite of what YT claims to want.
There's something about this threat that really is awful. The legal extortion angle. We'll turn you over to the regulator if you don't give us money. Aside the fact they can take the money and package you to the regulator anyway, with complete impunity, it seems like the regulation needs to be revised in some way to take this very serious threat out of the hands of people who will abuse it.
I'll probably get downvoted for this but:

https://dilbert.com/strip/2006-01-29
Argh. This will teach me not to write comments on my phone. "Chicken me in" is of course meant to be "chime in".
How does it matter? I don't care what other people do with their money. How is that any of my business or concern? This whole article is ludicrous.

I donate (microscopic amounts, comparatively) to causes I care about.

Donate, or don't.
Although sounds like a great idea, actually installing it can be a stressful experience (https://hackaday.com/2016/12/16/installing-libreboot/)
Again, there quite clearly is a debate going on in society and I think the salient point you’re missing is that trans folks aren’t just deciding for themselves among themselves; there’s obvious negative externalities for women involved (such as in sport). Literally, world records have been broken, women lose spots in the Olympics, and there are even potentially severe physical consequences for fighting trans women who have massive strength differentials. So I think just to say “shut up and listen!” snd “don’t deny my existence!” aren’t really arguments here. So let me ask you: why do you think only trans voices are allowed in the debate? Why do their feelings superseed everyone else's?

I have actually read White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and for the most part vehemently disagree but to be honest I don’t want to comment so much on it right now as I’m afraid my account will be rate limited again...

But listen, as I said before, I understand being trans must be hard. But that’s simply not good enough. You don’t get everything you want just because it’s hard for you. You don’t (necessarily) decide if you can compete with biological women on a level playing field. That’s really the realm of science, not feelings. Also, is it really that traumatic if trans women have to compete with men as opposed to women if they want to compete in certain sports? Not to sound callus, but given there’s biological reasons for it, I honestly don’t think it’s that offensive? It's reality. And, again, it’s not denying their existence and bigotry and hatred, etc. It’s just a question of science and what’s fair: There’s a reason we separate men and women in certain sports.

Let’s even stick to combat sports as my original, extreme example, to find some common ground. Do you agree trans women shouldn’t be the only ones deciding if they’re allowed to fight biological women? Do you at least think women, and scientists, and combat experts should get a say in that debate? Do you agree they shouldn’t fight them at all? Or do you think us even talking about it is too traumatic (or at least inappropriate) for trans people to listen to? Honestly, if it's the latter, I don't see us finding any common ground at all, and that's what my OP and The Economist article was talking about.
> You're saying the military is unable to distinguish lense glare from an actual object.

I'm not saying that. I know they can, and I claim they're withholding the relevant data and their real conclusions on purpose, because they want this to be a story.

My current belief is that those three videos are primarily technology demonstrators, released purposefully by the US military, in order to show off in front of foreign powers. For example, the GOFAST video is the one where data overlaid on the image + basic geometry tells you they're tracking a bird, but the subtext of that video is that US fighter planes can track a bird-sized object, from 6 kilometers away, while flying half the speed of sound. This is what Russian and Chinese militaries see when watching that video.

I haven't followed all the official comments on this thoroughly, but IIRC, what we have is, confirmation these videos are real, information that the military wants pilots to be more eager to come forward when they see something unusual, and that some information has been given to some people in the Congress. You mention "Multiple systems, radar", but I've only heard it being said they "saw something" - no actual details have been released, as far as I know.

So there's that, plus a bunch of people recounting their experiences and thoughts in front of cameras; the snippets I've seen look like the usual bullshit that is aired on US cable - I don't trust that at all, because since when anything trustworthy was first revealed in one of those places? Other than that, there's a few people making lots of money playing this up as bona fide alien encounter - they are the ones that drive publicity for this topic.

(And to answer the possible questions about why the US would want to show off superior capabilities - ever since nuclear-tipped ICBMs became a thing, it's in the interest of all nuclear powers to stay in lockstep wrt. their military capabilities, lest one of the party decides they're so far behind their only chance for survival is a preemptive nuclear strike.)
Yeah - the shell / heat shield would be discarded but I wonder if having the VIN on the actual converter somewhere would deter theft.
Obviously Karens are not subjected to oppression, woman may be oppressed, but Karens are not all woman and are not oppressed as a social class.

Though I supose from their point of view, asking for basic decency is akin to oppression. Fitting, considering the original topic.
I would say more like the zero to one scientist exists.
The rich have better things to do. Like charity work. Envy really is the mother of all sins.
I wonder if rabbit repellent also deters cats.
The rich are gaslighting us by commissioning articles that misuse the word gaslighting so that we don't understand what it means and how they are actually gaslighting us.

Diabolical.
I hate the use of the phrase "The Rich" as if it's some kind of secret society of people who all think and act the same.
If gender dysphoria is as quickly diagnosed as "transphobia", there is probably little to it.

Sorry to say it that harshly, but this is basically shutting down any discussion.
It’s been almost 20 years since Bill Gates committed to giving away his money, and somehow he is worth more now than when he made that public commitment.

The man deserves recognition for the scale of his lie, and he is hoisted up as some reliable resource on vaccination and global pandemics. Serious topics deserve credible spokespeople.
So the article suggests we either do one thing, or more than one thing.

That's very valuable advice, thanks.
If you want to defund the police, how can you possibly prioritize catalytic converter theft, a non-violent crime? Aren’t non-violent crimes what are being de-prioritized?
> censorship

> private company something something

> society, ethical standards something something

> whose standards

summary every single thread on topics like this
The FUD is about not being able to reflash and update the blobs just because they're not stored in the rootfs. It won't get done as part of regular system updates because they're non-free, but you're able to do it on your own pretty easily.
Groan. Because your average Joe is any of the people that you listed.
That's not what I'm talking about. You can't prove an arbitrary negative. Or even more rigorously, just because you can't prove a negative doesn't make the positive true.

You could have programmed a script to make this comment. The elephant might be invisible. That might be your wife's identical twin sister. You can always come up with a more elaborate explanation. You haven't proved your negatives, you've just made it harder to prove the inverse. And while specific examples might be easy, in general this is hard if not impossible to do.

It would be absurd to assume your wife is cheating at every moment where you can't see with your own eyes that she isn't - no the default assumption must be that the claim is false and evidence must be presented to the contrary.
I've made something similar to this too, I wanted to be able to change the colours and preview so it ended up being a bit of a rabbit hole, but was fun!

https://dom111.github.io/bash-ps1/
Why would you need to be able to connect to your database from anywhere?
Why is this a surprise that telecoms without regulations will resort to milking their customers?
It would be good journalistic practice if they would not jump to conclusions too quickly, try to influence the public opinion with (their) assumptions or just try to heat the debate by taking a side too early ("suicide"). We are on Hacker News: The upvoted article usually has a high quality/standard, which is a quite positive thing.
What Is RegTech? The Importance of Regulations and How to Handle Them
agreed. I think it's something that all people should be aware of as it's a huge red flag for abusers, but people have overused it so much it basically just means "being an asshole" or "lying"
Yeah, downplaying the guy who hacked you doesn't make it any better.

Actually it makes it worse, since your security is so bad that any "script kiddie" can hack into your system.
> For instance: Is a thin and light plastic used once and incinerated in a state of the art facility (that might produce heat/electricity in the process) necessarily worse than re-useable glass that is much heavier, may require more energy to produce, and require energy and resources (including water) to re-use?

I would also like to know the answer to this. In Germany certain glass and plastic bottles that work with the deposit system (Pfandsystem) are washed and refilled directly (up to 50 times for glass I think) rather than going through a more complicated recycling process. I would have to imagine this is better than manufacturing a plastic bottle and burning it? When I try to find comparisons for this online it's often comparing a recycling process in which the glass is broken down and remade. If anyone knows I'd love to learn more.
...and that one thing should be ignoring everyone around you.
In addition to the comments I see here, one more note: seems like a lot of change at one time.

* Ansible

* Docker

* Big redesign

* New database cluster

* New firewall config

I have found great benefit to breaking problems down into smaller parts even though some times it causes some extra work.
A little off topic but after enjoying the piece (nice tufte style layout, kudos) I was digging around the other posts. Disappointed that I couldn't add an RSS feed for the future!
Redcar and Cleveland reduces cyber-attack cost estimate
The irony in your comment is you seem to only be able to recognize a problem when it impacts people you deem to be victims and.or agree with politically, but when it impacts people you disagree with it is "we can disagree on those premises"

Censorship by these platforms is real, ever present and has been highlighted for many years by many groups only to be meet with "mah private platform".

People like me has been warning that censorship is never the solution, but as usual as long as the people being censored where deemed "wrong thinkers" it is perfectly fine
This isn't restricted to the US and indicative of how weak western governments currently are.
This is a website which serves the sole purpose of encouraging people to copy snippets of text and paste them into their terminal, and there are plenty of techniques that ensure what you see on the page isn't what gets into your clipboard.
You drink six cups of coffee in something like a three hour period? Seems like some kind of addiction.

What do you gain from that?
> Atajurt has collected thousands of video testimonies from family members of Turkic Muslims who have disappeared in Xinjiang. Witnesses show their identification to prove they are real people.

Given that these people are giving their testimony to Atajurt (and not the Chinese government), these are people trying to share their story so the rest of the world knows how bad things are. As the article says, this knowledge is either shared directly (the videos themselves are shared), or indirectly ("the information in the videos is then used by other organizations..., which documents [sic] where detentions are occurring, which communities are most affected, and who has disappeared."). YouTube is therefore preventing one of the most oppressed groups in the world from explaining how they are oppressed.

That sounds pretty bad to me.
What's is considered a permanent part of a vehicle?
It seems like there are some people etching the VIN on the heat shield but I don't see any evidence of that deterring thefts.
Gaslighting has been collectively redefined to “when someone says or does something which evokes emotions inside me in the case where I generally dislike that person”