skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a Kiwi Farms user database and IP address dump floating around if you search for certain words.

The dump dates to late 2019.

byuu/near's thread is as old as 2018.

Many of the users use local ISPs, and many of the current users that are commenting in said thread are in that dump.

They should be fearing the same things that they inflicted upon the people they targeted, but worse. You kick a hive, be prepared to be stung.
Guilty by association?
>By simply claiming they do. Is that not the criterion you're using for gender?

And you still fail to see the difference between gender and sex and how that is different from culture and skin color. Congratulations.

>Is that sarcasm? Do you know what chromosomes are?

I didn't skip Biology 101.
Strange not to have heard of this before, but it seems like it could be a really helpful metric.

It's unfortunate that the data doesn't go back terribly far though. It's nice to be able to look at a trend on one time scale, but without longer periods mapped for additional context it's difficult to know if the current trend is a local maximum on a wider scale. Correct me if I'm thinking about this wrong...
The British weren't attacked here. They went into waters they don't control.

If a British boat goes into Crimean territorial waters and refuses to leave and gets sunk, the only result with be a sunk British boat, pretty much. What is Britain going to do, increase sanctions?

Wether that had a "right" to be there doesn't care. It doesn't matter if I had the right or way when I get run over by tank, I get run over anyways.
That references some decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada. There's an analysis of those here.[1] The Court, in a 4-3 decision, did find that some pamphlets (this was 1990, when people still printed pamphlets) were "hate speech". The court didn't come up with a definition of hate speech. They merely outlined roughly how far the legislature could go in that direction.

So passing the buck to the Court here is evading the issue.

This is a criminal statute. In common-law countries (UK, Canada, US, but not France) there's a general rule of construction that "Criminal law must be clear and unambiguous, so as to give ‘fair warning’." The legislature owes its citizens a clear definition of each crime. They're evading that duty.

[1] http://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?a...
People seem to forget or not know that Canada is already in a grey middle ground where free-speech is limited, and hate speech is considered a crime. And so far, the fact that Canada doesn't take a free-speech-absolutist position on the matter doesn't seem to have led to the unavoidable-slippery-slope that free-speech-absolutists profess it should lead to.

I'm of the opinion that free speech is important but I think absolutism is a red flag, and here is a case where a pragmatic middle ground has proven to work out just fine.
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With some effort, I can sort of understand how one might have that reaction. But the tl;dr is that there's history here that makes it all tragically plausible. More specifically:

1) The persona "Near" was relatively new, following a partial "infosuicide" with respect to their previous pseudonym (which involved a degree of detachment from singular achievements in SNES emulation and preservation benefiting projects ranging from Snes9x to MiSTer to Analogue Super NT), which ties into the fact that

2) invective against Near has been an ongoing phenomenon for literally decades. Many people in the broader SNES emulation scene considered Near's pursuit of console-compatibility (for hacks/translations) and console-accuracy (for emulators) to be a kind of counterproductive pedantry rather than a contribution to the field. From there, it spiraled into a vicious cycle of Near being exploited as a "lolcow", a tradition with a long and ugly history of disproportionately preying on the insecurities of people who hold on to earnest desires to contribute to society despite being marginalized for being neurodivergent and/or gender-nonconforming.

3) marcan is, in the grand scheme of things, uncommonly credible. He's well-known as part of multiple ambitious reverse engineering efforts (e.g. Team Twiizers/fail0verflow, OpenKinect) and is known for his no-bullshit approach to a wide variety of infosec and opsec issues. His word carries well-earned weight to people who follow those scenes.

(NB: I'm not here to debate any of these points with you. I'm simply injecting some background. Please don't confuse yourself as to what's happening here.)
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I've contracted on two different IoT products for Global Fortune 100 companies whose field systems were just raspberry pis.

They can take you really far.
"Boeing has yet to satisfy the FAA that it has fully understood and corrected what went wrong that day."

This appears to be the heart of the problem, how come it's the FAA holding you up on this and not your own engineering department?

A solid foundation in design and engineering would require that if an event like this happened you'd rip down the whole structure until you got to the problem, from where you could confidently move forward knowing you know your systems.
What would be necessary to bring a lawsuit against KW? Who would do it, and what would the charges be?
In just saying it’s not a good editorial decision to include excess data in an mainstream news article.

If a more specialized publication wants to offer a more explanatory story, fine.

But I don’t think that’s what people are looking for from a regular newspapers.

Knowing a vaccine is considered by experts to be effective is sufficient. The exact rates of reinfection aren’t important and can be confusing.
As others stated the new neovim is crazy cool (Lua scripting etc.).

Was also playing with amp (nice defaults) and helix (my favourite of the week) https://helix-editor.com/

Looking for a modern editor written in go or rust :)
If you have to try to convince people, you're doing sales wrong.

If your goal is to make money from sales, find out what people want and give it to them. They will be coming to you with money ready to pay, if you are offering what they already want. So to sell, find out what people want and then offer it up for a price.
can someone explain to me what the minimap is? other than a very big scrollbar? Every damn editor since sublime has this useless "feature", annoying.
The state of maths on the web, as someone who uses a lot of maths on their website[1] is to recognise that loading times on the web shouldn't exist, and you should just turn your formulae into images that you load using `loading="lazy"`. And of course, to make sure they fit any resolution: generate SVG images.

And no, MathML is irrelevant: you don't care about MathML, and your users don't care about MathML: all you care about is that users can read your formulae, and all your users care about is that they see decent-looking maths. As much as I like the idea of MathML, there is simply no reason to ever use it. Nothing is mining the web for maths, and semantic markup for maths buys you nothing.

You have a build system (because your content is generated from markdown or the like. No one who wants to deploy a real site writes pure HTML in 2021), make that generate SVG images by literally just running LaTeX during your build, to replace all your maths with SVG <img> code instead. Because why would you even bother with MathJax or KaTeX, they put the burden on your users, which is ridiculous: you're building your content already, just build static content for your formulae)

And sure, does your site have maybe 10 formulae? By all means, use MathJax or KaTeX. But if it relies on maths, generate your graphics offline using actual LaTeX (and this is trivial using github actions[3]) and use <img> elements that point to those SVG images.

(I run my maths through xelatex, then losslessly convert the resulting PDF to SVG by first cropping the PDF, then running pdf2svg[2]. Is that a lot of work? No, it is not. It's a one-time setup and it simply runs whenever content gets updated. It's about as no-effort as it gets)

[1] https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo

[2] https://github.com/Pomax/BezierInfo-2/blob/master/src/build/...

[3] https://github.com/Pomax/BezierInfo-2/blob/master/.github/wo...
What does that mean?

Light the cover page on fire before reading the document? Light the document on first instead of reading it? Try and read it while it is burning? Pack it in a pile of pages, light them on fire, and read it after it burns (surprisingly, that actually sort of works)?
A lot of peoples reaction to getting sent 3 follow up emails is to mark them as spam.
I recommend the book: The Challenger Sale. ...Know your domain really well, and know how your customer could fail in coming years. With their best interests prioritized, be comfortable challenging them to boldly step up their game. (This approach only works out financially if you're selling an awesome product / service!)
I’m curious if you live in the US, and if this is why you feel this way?

I think it’s fairly normal that countries place a restriction on what is acceptable free speech and what goes beyond your right of expression because it infringes on others.
State monopolies don’t necessarily pay their profits back to the treasury. I can’t think of any that do. Which state monopoly are you thinking of that does that?
That's probably related to the risk of accidentally facilitating money laundering? The exchanges are all forced to implement various "know your customer" processes
> My point is that _if_ the engineer believed the building was at risk of catastrophic failure they would have stated as much.

It seems like maybe the report author(s) did state as much when they said “major structural damage”. I don’t know anything about architecture but, for example, when an accounting firm issues an adverse audit opinion they don’t say “this company is totally screwed!” they say “these financial statements contain material and pervasive misstatements.” It sounds boring and benign to most people but it’s the CPA equivalent of a red alert.
Would you feel better if they were AWS IPs?
You’re misunderstanding what “client-side rendering” means. It’s not about rendering to images, it’s about rendering to HTML/CSS/SVG/whatever.

“Client-side rendering” means that what is served contains something not in the eventual form you desire to present it, and that it depends on some client-side scripting to convert it into the desired form. When the page loads, it will first show perhaps nothing or perhaps something like $e^{-\frac{x}{2}}$, and then the scripting will kick in and replace that with the proper HTML/CSS/SVG/whatever markup for the equation that the browser knows how to display.

“Server-side rendering” means that you do this translation from $e^{-\frac{x}{2}}$ to the desired HTML/CSS/SVG/whatever that the browser knows how to display, on the server, so that the browser can immediately display what it receives. Ideally this translation is also only done once, rather than on every request.
Insurance payout is one, albeit unusual, way of selling.
If you bought it for 200k, it's valued 2M but you don't sell, are you a millionaire?
For what it's worth, I went into this article thinking it would be about web browsing, as in surfing the web in the 90s when everything wasn't so streamlined and so feed-driven. But the point is the same: Browsing is exploratory. It's sometimes disappointing, sometimes surprising. Sometimes boring, sometimes interesting.
> ...and I just don’t see anything that can hold a candle to modern construction in DACH.

You say "Money was not the problem". I take that to mean your friend was reasonably not willing to pay as much as an order of magnitude more in the US than average (say a range of $300-1K psf for just the improvement and not including the dirt). Generally, if he went to high-end commercial builders, opened a checkbook, and said, "use these materials and parts, build to these specs and tolerances", he'll get whatever he wants in the US.

Compare average US tract residential SFH construction build quality to what you find in private venture companies that builds and operate their own MFH's. While the interiors are similar, the private venture companies are staffed by people who know what will and will not work in the bones of the structure over the investment payoff timeline. They won't care about insulation for the tenants' benefit, but they will make very certain for example that the walls, roof and foundation stand for as long as they project to hold the investment.

The US aggressively min-maxes for the wealthy capital-holding class. It is no accident that if you want something done right and will last, you will avail yourself of the same kinds of resources that class will use themselves.
Which groups in Canada are known for challenging laws this way?
Trump was never the "establishment". Cable news, major newspapers, public universities & academia, intelligence agencies, NGOs, social media companies - THESE are the establishment, or the Cathedral.
Look into the formal definition of a field in physics, and particle / wave duality, to gain clarity on electrons vs electromagnetic waves.. the math of wave mechanics is generally common across waves propagating in different types of fields, although I’m not sure if that’s what you’re getting at.
The point is that the TPM is an essential element of a set of standards called trusted computing that includes secure boot and more.

It's not that secure boot nor the TPM in any fashion keeps Linux from inherently working. It's that it enables the OEM to decide what software is allowed to boot on the computer and enforce this.

Microsoft typically gives OEMs a substantial break and the OEMs in turn sell most SKUs to 99% windows users and make only a small margin on those devices. A small discount on the cost of windows could make devices disproportionately more profitable and MS might be apt to see a percentage in offering such a discount to help lock out the competition.

They have in fact over the years engaged in far more unethical behavior including investing tens of millions in a "partner's" fraudulent lawsuit/pump and dump scheme against various Linux vendors bankrolling an entire list of felonies.
I don't believe that's the case, but I might be missing something. UMIP makes a system more secure, but it isn't a hard requirement for any feature-wise assurance? For example, TPM+UEFI+Secure Boot is required if Microsoft wants everyone to have full disk encryption by default, which makes sense. UMIP, not so much.
How can a merchant or even a crypto exchange know that the Bitcoins they receive weren't stolen in a hack before being laundered through a number of wallets ?

I assume the US government will ask Coinbase to freeze these assets. But that is not DeFi.
Good for you !

Now, a lot of people would be sleeping at the wheel with no radio.

No AC during winter would mean driving with heavy coats on, so I’m not sure it would be safer. During summer it means no driving at all (which could be great in itself, but it’s a harder sale than you make it look)

My point is, someone’s distraction is likely someone else’s saving feature.
Historically, research spending has been mostly done by the government, although in the US the proportion of research funded by the government has fallen in recent years [1].

[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-govern...
Living next to the freeway isn't that bad. You get used to the noise after a week, even at night.
have you lived in Cuba to say otherwise? Do you have family in the island without access to US dollars?

This is the problem when people live a life devoid of real hardship. They get enamored with intellectually sounding bites and abstract papers. They lack common sense.

Why do you see Cubans risk their lives on a raft for over 90 miles to migrate to the USA? If the country had such great means of production and wealth why is there a mass exodus?

Cuba, as a dictatorship, is in the business of pushing propaganda, that's it! Everything they do is to secure an appealing international image (sending doctor's overseas while their own people die giving birth because of contaminations in the operating room, promoting ideals of fairness, etc). It's all bs.
Yes, when you consider how little relative time has to be put in to earn that.
The article is just a bunch of fluff, this is the extent of its answer:

> We often crave self-definition and are attracted to group memberships that balance a sense of differentiation from the many with a sense of connection to people just like us.

My answer:

Most people don't have the wherewithall to give their own lives meaning. They need someone else to give them purpose. Being given a label and expectations, fills that hole in their psyche that they can't fill themselves.
For another pillar of this scary new age, look at the absolute willingness of big tech to censor anything that goes against the message of those in power.
All things considered, holding himself accountable is an honourable thing to do. I don't know if I could trust him to lead a health department again, but I'd surmise he's on the road of redemption in his family and community's eyes.
Compounding these issues was the Texas Ice Storm in February, which knocked out roughly 80% of US polymer production. Because the storm occurred with very little warning, many factories weren’t able to shut down properly, resulting in polymers congealing and solidifying in the equipment.

I'm surprised it's not cost effective to have backup generators to power critical equipment long enough for a graceful shutdown if an ungraceful shutdown can keep a plant offline for a month or longer.
I would like to know this as well.

I'm not a Civ E, but I have worked in aerospace and software and seen reports in both fields that contain warnings of potentially catastrophic problems use similar language as the report:

The joint sealant was observed to be beyond its useful life and are in need of complete replacement. However, the waterproofing below the Pool Deck & Entrance Drive as well as all of the planter waterproofing is beyond its useful life and therefore must all be completely removed and replaced. The failed waterproofing is causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas. Failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially.

If I get an audit of my production system and it says on page 7 "There are no database backups. Failure to take regular database backups will lead to permanent data loss in event of hard drive failure." and then two years later, the hard drive finally fails and I lose data, that's my fuckup, not the auditor's. And as others in this thread have mentioned, I don't even need to be licensed to do my job.

It takes an astounding lack of responsibility to say "well they never said the major structural deficiencies were going to cause an imminent collapse! And why was it buried on page 7, and not in bold font?"
How has an entirely new law proven to work out just fine?
There is also another side to this story. In my experience, KiwiFarms is a low-brow website but at the end of the day all they are really guilty of is gossiping about people. I would caution against validating somebody's attempt to use suicide as a way of shutting down their critics.
I'm sure it's not arbitrary, but they haven't provided an explanation either. That makes it practically arbitrary, and creates rightful frustration.

I think 64-bit requirement already lets them to strip down a lot of legacy stuff. Perhaps they just want to compile Windows with certain optimizations on, but I don't know that either.
Gen Z-er here. I really appreciate that the EFF is writing a guide aimed at students. I was in high school only a few years ago, we were provided MacBook Pros (13-inch, mid-2012), which for me also served as my personal laptop (my own MBP had a failing hard drive). After a few weeks of using it in classes, I realized that none of the class activities required exotic software I couldn't figure out how to obtain, so I formatted the disk and reinstalled macOS (even though we had admin, I booted into recovery instead). For my younger sibling, who was in middle school at the time, they did not have admin access and there was a surveillance software that allowed the teacher to view their screen (and god knows what else), I decided to protect their privacy as well and reinstall the OS. This got me into a bit of trouble (for modifying "someone else's computer"), but to no long-term harm, and when they reinstalled the OS with the software I removed it again anyway.

EDIT: I also randomized my MAC address while using the school network using a script I wrote during a free period[0]

The worrying bit is that most gen-Zers have a radically different and weakened view of digital privacy. They are more than happy to use services with bad privacy track records just because "their friends are on it", network effects trump everything else. They self-censor constantly and mistakenly think that perceived impermanence (e.g. Snapchats, or Instagram stories) means things would be deleted forever. They happily share passwords with romantic partners, even viewing grades (!) (despite constant stories of blackmailing after breaking up), constantly reuse passwords, don't have TFA, the list goes on. Out of convenience, secondary schools use services like GSuite, but in doing so they condition the next generation of people to increasingly give up their privacy.

At one point I tried to deactivate my Facebook account, but the day after, ran into problems because my clubs were using it as a proto-Slack platform, so I bit the bullet and continued using it.

Now that many of us are in university, the surveillance gets more ridiculous, especially in a pandemic. Most notably, I've heard friends complain of software that tracks your eye and body movement, audio, video and screen while taking a test. Fortunately for me the most I've had to do is join a Zoom call while the (human) professor proctors.

More hacker culture-minded types take more precautions, but it is sadly an extremely minority opinion, IME.

[0] https://gist.github.com/siraben/c3133b39e470d1aed16fd71f42b8...
There is a fine line between doing this to protect IP and actual privacy abuse - and as we're treading it's important to remember how important context is.

This is absolutely a best practice in some corporate environments for DLP. There's no better way to ensure sensitive data isn't being exported via TLS connections.

There is no reason, however, to do this to a child's device. Their teacher and their parents should have a grasp on this, not a school IT department, third-party contractor, government or worse.
Didn't you read the fine print? They said Windows 10 would be the last Windows ever with a version number less than or equal to 10. :P
I consider that covered under 'and such' but, it's not so simple.

There's about four layers between the chainsaw and the consumer. So HD, Lowes, etc all exist at layer 4, sometimes 3 and 4. None of them are going to price cut below what they paid. Call it a gentleman's agreement, or common sense.

What you'll most likely see is buying from layer 3 at say, 50, and selling both 100 and 50 dollar wood together at 75.
I wanted to build such a thing and ended up just putting a nest camera in the garage to see how things look: open, closed, lights left on, etc
How can we get a one time license? I tried it when it was still the oni repo 2 years ago and would be keen to try again. And is there a summary of how it was different from oni (1?)
AI still writes lousy poetry
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Great framework. Clearly practice and such over time, but this is a great way to start with some core principles.