skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you've fallen into the trap of being scared by the news. Normal hard drive failures don't make it to HN because they're so boring and common. You even had one yourself. That's how unreliable maintaining your own backup device is.

This very story is just that - people had their own hard drive and it wasn't maintained for security so it got erased. At least this article needs to be added to your mental list of failures of local storage to balance your news-driven bias.
This sounds like a perverse incentive [0]. If you reward impoverished people for having children, it is not unlikely that the net result will simply be more children birthed into poverty.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
> The title of the article is literally "Why Gen Z is ditching traditional investments".

And? Why do you have a problem with this? You're not the one taking the risk with caution are you?

The full title is:

Why Gen Z is ditching traditional investments — but with caution

You deliberately missed that.

> I was having a look yesterday and one of the biggest gainers with a market cap of ~$700,000,000 was BakeryCoin... yeah ummmm okay... that makes sense.

I was having a look today and one of the biggest gainers YTD with a market cap of ~$15.25B was GameStop... yeah ummmm okay... that makes sense.

Same thing can be applied to stocks, but yes, crypto is bad because....

> Sure. In the meantime give me some MSFT and AMZN thanks. You know... companies that actually do things... and that you probably use every day.

Cryptocurrencies are also used everyday no? And since it's not going away any time soon, seems as though these young people are smart taking advantage of this crypto market early, before regulations kick in.
As a taxpayer, aren't I entitled to a restore? :-)
This article is about Roth IRAs and I don't know if Roth IRAs are "stacked against working people". That is because anyone who is working can open up and fund a Roth. I think Peter Thiel's returns are just highly unusual.

Actually, it's probably the opposite, a Roth is probably a very useful tool for working people as far as savings. For someone starting a Roth at 23 with $6000 and contributing $6000 every year, 10% market average compounded growth, it might be worth around $3M 40 years later. It's not hard to see how Buffett was able to grow his into the tens of millions. I think the Roth IRA is pretty reasonable for wage workers and definitely gives them an edge.
Thank you for the very useful information! Is there a place to track innovations here?
This was my attempt at writing a simple polymorphic engine to generate obfuscated shellcode. It is very simple, doesn't actually do any true evasion by current AV standards.

Blog post: https://pop.rdi.sh/writing-a-simple-polymorphic-engine/
Are you implying that the Canadian news industry only covered this story, or even manufactured it, in order to extract rage-clicks from their viewers... as opposed to covering it because it happened and was newsworthy?

Or that public outrage is merely the result of people being confused and punch-drunk from the psychological toll of the constant media news cycle... as opposed to an understandable reaction to the discovery of mass indigenous child graves at a residential school?

I can understand cynicism when it comes to the media but writing this off as outrage culture and essentially "fake news" seems like a bridge too far. I'm sure it's good for karma though.
It could be the hacker news front page traffic slowing the server?
Image similarity.
If you are not the administrator of the system in question, that isn't quite the right description.
This sounds strange, but I assume you must have extremely flexible work hours.

So just share the calendar and isolate the rest? No need to throw the baby out with the bath water, do what works for you
By my reading of the article, making up chassis and building out servers was outsourced already and was a pita because it wasn’t a core competency.
At least that was my take.
That’s a bit of a mitigation but I feel like someone will figure out how to extract the apk and throw it up on a web page somewhere.
> Big cities require some attentiveness.

The size of the city isn't the issue here. There is definately a correlation between size and crime, but that's not the real issue - what it is I don't know though.

I live in a mid-sized European capital (bigger than Lisbon), and it's one of the safest places I've ever lived. I could probably leave my car running, with an expensive camera on the dash, while going to get a coffee, and everything would still be there when I get back.

Compare this to some Italian cities I've been to - which are smaller - where I feel lucky all four wheels are still there when getting back (locking wheel nuts are easy to break btw). I lived in Rome for a while and if you left something that even looked like it could contain valuables on show, you'd come back to a broken window.
This seems to be an example of the opposite of this. From a quick search, Thiel is from a first gen immigrant family of no extraordinary wealth. Yet, your comment is implying that prior wealth is responsible for his current wealth, which gave him an unfair advantage over the rest of us. I think that is absurd, this guy's talents+luck are clearly responsible for his success.
Running Manjaro on my desktop and laptop at the moment.
Yes, they did!

My grandparents talked about the Depression a lot while growing up.

Books like this were also incredibly useful for when you did travel, though. Before the Internet, the way you learned about a place was through books.

If you were headed to Wisconsin, there was no "Ok CIA, what's the best cheeseburger on this freeway?". You either stumbled across something while you were driving, or found it in a book.

While there are great things about the information age, one downside is that hidden gems tend to be un-hidden at speed, and rapidly loose their lustre as they attempt to expand to absorb the demand.
> Maybe you don’t need Rust and WASM to speed up your JS

Perhaps, but you do need it in order to have an excuse to use Rust and WASM. True story, this is what I did last weekend.
> I'll say again: backup drives must have a physical write enable switch on them. To all the people who argue against this - just you wait till it happens to you!

Reminds me of the little sliders on memory cards. Though I think those were software driven. It didn’t actually lock it out from writing.

Are there any portable USB style disks that have a hardware enforced read only switch?
I like this model. It's something I wanted to do a few years ago but of course didn't. I think this works best for complex and expensive computational APIs. For instance, "do an FFT on these 2^N-1 data points" or "factor this 20-digit number". Things that are fairly easy to state in words, but tricky to implement correctly. Maybe you can't find a good implementation in your language.

Also, this is probably most useful for prototyping scenarios. In production, you want something faster and cheaper.
Cant give unRaid enough props if you want to replace your WD - changed my life for storage, media, networking, amongst lots of other things.
Most of the internet is technically non nonessential.
I had totally forgotten about those, and the corollary “I’ve already been taxed on them so pirate away!” argument.
I just bought a large external hard drive for exactly this reason in case things fail. I did not use this live feature but I feel much better with an offline copy of my data safe. This lesson has been played time and time again when will people learn? You need to be in physical possession of your data and if it is truly critical you better have a second copy kept in another location in case of theft or fire.
Yeah that's messed up. Any time you're buying anything, but especially a business, you need to do your due diligence.

Perhaps I'm naive, but I think your risk in buying a business goes down if the current owner under-appreciates what they have, and you have the skills to do it better than them.
True, all good points. I just wish software companies were more motivated by craftsmanship and love for users.

I remember in college they would always emphasize user obsession at the recruiting events. Apparently I drank more of that koolaid than the people they ended up hiring.
That's reasonable—glad to know you considered it. Two alternatives to the free tier for single or small-batch uses so that you don't need to deal with payment information and reduce sign-up friction:

User completes a human-level task (for another API even) somewhere between CAPTCHA and MTurk to earn a few API calls.

Do something with ads near or even on the result to earn a few API calls. (Prototyping dev eyeballs are valuable.)
1. Are you Carnak the Magnificent? Mind-reading much? What number am I thinking of?

2. You can't cure agendas, ignorance, or hate with a politically-correct dictionary.

3. You have no sense of humor. :)
> "Ok CIA, what's the best cheeseburger on this freeway?"

Haha good one
With all the attacks going on I am going to tell spammers I’m sending the delta force after them.
no, just a standard grift.
Replace public education with this.
What really sucks is I never got the opportunity to invest in PYPL at $0.001 per share. That’s the part that actually confused me. Sure its pre-IPO, but I’ve never seen any that are pricing their shares that low in the beginning, did I miss something?
Still? It got exponentially worse last few years. I deliberately turn off unplanned auto-updates by any means because windows 10 reboot/shutdown (when I really need one – drivers, etc) takes minutes because of mandatory updates. When I still had windows laptop and had to bring it somewhere I hibernated it instead of turning off, because turn off would mean “please wait for 20 minutes of battery stress test” or few hours if it’s that lucky day of not-a-service-pack-4.
Two years ago I was working for a corporation that asked us to install Teams on our phones (so they could bother us even on the weekend). In order to install Teams you have to install a Microsoft app that lets the account holder be the owner of the device (as the disclaimer of the app says). When I asked about this, HR told me that this if for the case my phone got stolen they could erase it remotely. Not a day goes by without me thanking God I left that place.
But here is the catch: for long term expected profits to affect short term value, the market has to be convinced of it.

Actual long term performance requires more than PR, pitching, and posturing. It requires actually following through and reaching the expected profits.
Definitively a solution for a real pain point! All the best!

Does the system allow for specific regulatory/quality assurance requirements - e.g. a filter feature so a medical device manufacturer can limit their search to ISO13485 approved suppliers, or to specify bio-compatibility testing requirements for the parts/material they look for (e.g. ISO10993) ?

Happy to elaborate in PM :)
That is exactly my concern. But that’s not what but my comment was about the false statement from Sweeney’s paper talking about zip, dob and no one considers that deidentified.
Pretending you have virtue is not being virtuous. It is the opposite of virtuous. The "ancient view of virtue" was concerned with the internal, not external. Whether you say something is true, whether you say are virtuous has no bearing on reality. The ancients did not know about performativity.

And the suspicion here is well earned. Being purpose and mission driven is usually just code for: the CEO likes to take big piles of your money, set it on fire, and then hop on CNBC and tell people how setting fire to your money makes them virtuous. Anyone who feels they need to signal their virtue, to me and use that as a pretext for getting my money, is likely someone who I should not trust with my money (so far, as someone who saw this over and over working in the investment business, this suspicion has never been unfounded). It is far easier to work with someone who says they will act in their own self-interest than someone who claims they have no interests at all (and btw, this is where things mostly go wrong: managers who say and believe there are disinterested whilst only following their own self-interest...something like LTSE sounds very much another mechanism for managers to shed accountability).
I haven't yet implemented it but perhaps a reciprocal syncthing arrangement with an IT knowledgeable friend?
Sometimes, how this trait manifests itself, is in a difficulty in seeing that a sentence could have multiple meanings; the mind focuses on one particular meaning and struggles to perceive the other possibilities. Usually there are several different ways to read something in an overly literal/precise manner; the fact that one of them is true doesn't do much good if one's mind has decided to fixate on one of the others that isn't.
Shelter is identical but FOSS/without analytics: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

>Q: Why not use Island by OasisFeng, the creator of Greenify?

>A: Simply because it is not an FOSS app and it bundles with non-free SDKs. Note that this doesn’t necessarily mean that Island has anti-features like tracking (and I don’t think it has either), it’s just that I wrote Shelter as an FOSS replacement of it. There is no other reason why one would prefer Shelter over Island except for this one.
And yet you seem to suggest a particular conclusion and even claim that armchair judgement can lead you to something worse than 50/50 odds.
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> Anyone know if NAT configs are required to use the feature that let's you access files from anywhere?

I doubt it. The specs list UPnP support. DLNA on some versions too. No consumer device is going to expect the average punter to mess with NAT.
I'm happy to see this is not just me with this perspective. Especially with WFH, I routinely work out, do groceries, go for a walk, or just read during work time (I'm self employed but the pattern has not changed at all since I left my salaried job). I make up for it by working at other times that work for me, and if e.g. I'm reading a book, I'll keep Slack on the phone so I can be available for a discussion. Most of my team at my last job was similar, usually with some set of disconnected times, e.g. for family stuff. Some would sleep in and work late, some would have supper early and put kids to bed, then work some more... I like this approach so much better than being stuck somewhere for 8 hours forced to try to be productive.
We'd need more numbers to figure this out, but the article discloses that within the same month "the company sold a slice of itself to investors for $500,000." That should clearly establish the value of the company at the time. If that slice grew by a factor of 295, that is, the 500k divided by the 1.7k he invested, then he fairly valued the amount of stock he purchased. If not, the information presented suggests to me that he committed tax fraud.

I don't know where to find the documents on Paypal's valuation and early ownership transactions to be able to dig further into this. One would imagine Propublica would have done so if it were feasible, and reported on it.
PayPal later disclosed details about the early history of the company in an SEC filing before its initial public offering. The filing reveals that Thiel’s founders’ shares were among those the company sold to employees at “below fair value.”

If the shares were really purchased below fair value, there's not much in the way of a defense of the activity.
IANAL, but as far as I read into the situation, employee monitoring is a very dangerous field. There are exceptions, however, such as company-provided http(s) proxies and more concrete monitoring or investigation when suspicion arises (I know of two cases where employees were suspected of consuming child porn and they were both monitored as well as having their hardware seized).

Lastly, the companies or specific malicious admins might simply not care about the legality and still monitor you - either for company reasons or simply to stir through your data. If they have admin access to your computer, it's simply not your computer.
My guess is someone figured out how to bounce commands off WD command server (customer reps helping people reset their devices) and they are spamming customer ids.
Either that or these devices have unique ports on the WAN with a 0-day but that would take a lot more effort to exploit.
There's all the evidence it's exactly what Roth IRA is for in its very design. If whoever designed it meant it to have caps - they would make it have caps. They know how to do caps - they did caps on contribution, they did caps on income for being allowed to contribute (which btw is super low). They didn't put caps on the account size because they didn't intend to have them, not because everybody who designed it suddenly had a stroke and forgot caps are possible.
well, this is just the _no u_ of when tucker carlsons lawyers had to file in court that blantant lies and propaganda are ok because no one would take tucker seriously.
I've read that SSDs are also generally more susceptible to data degradation earlier than spinning rust, although I'm not sure how true that is. Wikipedia[0] says:

- Solid-state media...store data using electrical charges, which can slowly leak away due to imperfect insulation.

- Magnetic media...may experience data decay as bits lose their magnetic orientation. Periodic refreshing by rewriting the data can alleviate this problem. In warm/humid conditions these media, especially those poorly protected against ambient air, are prone to the physical decomposition of the storage medium.

In either case, only ZFS/Btrfs/ReFS seem to implement strategies to deal with data corruption. Kinda sad that Apple recently released a new FS and didn't bother to address this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation
> your risk in buying a business goes down if the current owner under-appreciates what they have

This is completely true, my sentiment is more for the idea of a "turn-key business" acting like an annuity. I don't think every business for sale is going down but I think there's a large enough risk case that I'd rather avoid it.
I suppose Silurians of some sort, hidden deep underground or under the oceans, might not exactly count as "aliens". So maybe that?
Apps are becoming bigger and bigger. Some will do loads of processing that only could be done on desktop before

The main reason to want these apps on windows are mechanical keyboards, mice, and file processing (think loading files from your pc). In my experience, 5% of all users want this (relevant) and quite badly, in fact
Using a neural network to complete lost parts of a canonical masterpiece reminds me of nothing as much as using some kind of necromancer to ask the spirit of the artists to complete the picture. And of course depending on the quality of the scholar of the dark arts, we expect a similar quality of the result.

So the thing is, the completion is a modern artifact, and fundamentally in both cases it captures the expertise of the reconstructor, and not some kind of essence of the painting.
"Western Digital has determined that some My Book Live devices are being compromised by malicious software. In some cases, this compromise has led to a factory reset that appears to erase all data on the device. The My Book Live device received its final firmware update in 2015. We understand that our customers’ data is very important. At this time, we recommend you disconnect your My Book Live from the Internet to protect your data on the device. We are actively investigating and we will provide updates to this thread when they are available."

I'm using a WD My Cloud for non-essential data. I was wondering if my unit would be affected as well. As far as I can tell, the latest firmware update completed January 01, 2020. I'm safe for now but I better build something more robust.
As mentioned 95, 98, 98se...
before that was win 3.1 and of course windows for workgroups was fun....

Microsoft has a long history of screwing things up before they get better...
I certainly agree none of this is news per se. I disagree that most people know about it.

I think most people were aware on some level of what residential schools were and had an opinion that bad stuff happened there. I do not think most people knew there was high levels of death. Even though that was quite clear from the report.

The other key thing is social media was not big in the era of the truth and reconciliation report. You could easily tune out the details or take it in passively. But finding the graves now, in 2021, allows for virality.
> complained

This is disingenuous. ProPublica pointed out that, regardless of the individual transaction, he amassed so much wealth that the .5B in taxes were a drop in the bucket.

PP isn't accusing Musk of cheating the system. They're pointing out that the system is broken.
>Very interested to see what the root cause ends up being

The article says:

>Multiple users reported that the data loss coincided with a factory reset that was performed on their devices. One person posted a log that showed unexplained behavior occurring on Wednesday:

I'm leaning more towards 0day than "software bug", mainly because I can't really think of a reason why a bug would cause the factory reset to get triggered, but I can think of plenty of ways an internet connected NAS can be exploited.
Help All data in WD mybook live gone and owner password unknown
Mutual UFO Network
Why are you coming at me like I invented cancer?
Australian retirement investment account (called superannuation or super) worked similarly where you could accumulate as much money as you want in a low tax environment. In this phase all income and capital gains received from assets within superannuation are taxed at a maximum of 15%. Then once you turn 65 and convert to a pension there is no tax on the pension (drawdown from the accumulated money).

The govt. changed rules couple of years back this so that the max you can now convert to pension phase is AUD $1.6m indexed every few years. The rest of the money stays back in accumulation phase where tax has to be paid.

This closed the loophole where really wealthy people were having $1m tax free pension earnings.
The article says that Paypal filings with the SEC stated that the purchase was below fair value.

The fun thing about your second paragraph is that courts don't care whether it is true.
This is basically Don Fisher’s (gap founder) advice for planning a business. Assume you’ll go out of business in five years.
I laughed reading this article. It draws a very broad conclusion of "No personal use" based on a straw man story of a cleared person (wait for it) viewing "high risk porn sites" on his work laptop. Yes, there's an argument for not engaging in NSFW activities on employer assets or being extra cautious when you hold a security clearance. There's also a big difference between that and, say, posting on HN which I'm doing right now. It's shades of gray based on individual circumstances.
I meant visitors would be deterred by the sudden infestation of ads, not that page ranking would decrease. if anything it would probably increase

also, how would a search engine visit make money?
Well, they were intentional with their use of the word "equity", not "equality".

Looking it up in my favorite search engine I think they are implying they will be giving shorter servers a higher percentage of the collected fees.

As a short person this makes me happy.

But it's a "short"-term win for us shorties, cause as all the tall people are slowly forced out of their service-level jobs they'll be that much more motivated to find better opportunities elsewhere.

Then as more short people wait tables we will be taking less and less of the overall "equity" fee. In the same spot as before, but at an even greater disadvantage. It's a ruse.

There is no shortcut to equality --just start and end there.