skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I was amazed to see how much coding time is wasted by people trying to do some data cleanup job when it can be done so much easier and safer with no coding by:
1) Exporting he data to a spreadsheet
2) Massaging the data in the spreadsheet
3) Use a general purpose program to convert the spreadsheet into scripts that can be run against the DB.

I actually wrote a VBA program that does this where you have a query with ~1, ~2, ~3 macros and you just paste in a table, click a button and it spits out scripts for you. I wrote it 20 years ago and still use it to this day.
I second your recommendation of Alina Chan, as she has the scientific credentials, is careful with the science, and as you say is balanced in that she doesn't dismiss the natural origins hypothesis either. If people want to be informed about multiple perspectives of this debate, she is a must-follow.

That said, let me temper that with some skepticism. First, having got a book deal[1] she is now in the position of directly financially benefiting from media promotion, which in my opinion puts her in a slightly different category than a purely objective scientist.

Second, while she is careful that her words are always defensible and rooted in science, my interpretation of her (prolific) memes is that hell yeah, she thinks it's a lab leak. I want to emphasize that this is my interpretation; at worst, she can be accused of communicating ambiguously enough to create this interpretation in a cross-section of her audience. And a large fraction of her replies are people who are, shall we say, less scientifically careful.

Third, she has truncated quotes from her detractors in a way that changes their meaning, and I find this not entirely good faith. Here's the thread[2] that has that quote and Dr. Rasmussen's response. Perhaps this is an honest difference in interpretation, and Dr. Rasmussen is being too thin-skinned about it.

In any case, my goal here is to present evidence which I think might be relevant, and encourage people to look at it and decide for themselves. As I say, while for the reasons I cited above, I certainly wouldn't consider everything Dr. Chan says to be gospel and accept it uncritically, I absolutely agree that hers is a voice that should be heard. Much to her credit, she has been consistently calling for a real investigation for a long time, well before it was newly fashionable.

[1]: https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1402374919481180167

[2]: https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1410653757617152005
on a napkin with crayons too.
No offence, but I'm afraid you didn't read my comment. So I'll repeat it again using different words.

Maybe climate change is real, maybe it is not. If it is real, it maybe nothing, maybe dangerous, maybe catastrophic.

I have some opinion about that (and I clearly stated it in another comments), but this is not the point here.

The point is: stop presenting examples as a proof of that we are all doomed. People who are doing that are not different from people who present individual cases as a proof that everything's fine.

Only data, statistics and large scale studies matter.
These digital networks and devices have become so complex we can’t reason about them, or in any case can’t easily reason about them given the resources available to most of the organizations running them.

However, from what I’ve seen, most of these attacks are successful because these organizations are simply neglecting best practices (e.g. patch management, whitelisting, security awareness training).
Interesting perspective. They were advertising WATSON everywhere and it did seem like they wanted it to be big. I worked for rational doing... less savoury stuff but it did pay the bills!
Surely you would have to sue the people using the tool to produce verbatim copies of code, not the creator of the tool?
That last line isn't news, but pure opinion. Stories about 'the media' tend to be propagandistic, in my experience.
Look up "Miyawaki Method"
Those charges were dropped by Barr who did his best to quash the entire Mueller investigation and largely succeeded.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/concord-case-...

"""
In January 2019, the federal government accused Concord of violating a protective court order designed to safeguard information shared among lawyers on the case. Prosecutors said a trove of nonclassified information they had turned over to Concord’s defense team had turned up on a website the previous October.

A message on a newly created Twitter account read: “We’ve got access to the Special Counsel Mueller’s probe database as we hacked Russian server with info from the Russian troll case Concord LLC v. Mueller. You can view all the files Mueller had about the IRA and Russian collusion. Enjoy the reading!”
"""

RT's claim that these groups are not responsible for these troll farms is not credible. The claim that these organizations were attempting to use the court case to get detailed information on how they were investigated however, is.
ooh histre looks pretty neat!
No, I meant what I said. The time for argument is over. Get those people out of that dangerous situation. Later we can investigate who should have paid what when.
Agreed. Companies that are great at selling to governments and massive enterprises tend to be great at security theatre and security certifications, but that’s not the same as being great at security. Their tech tends to be bloated spaghetti full of tech debt, with a huge surface area for attacks, and systems like that are nearly impossible to secure in a truly robust way.

Embedding this kind of software deep in your internal networks/systems, with access to basically everything, is a recipe for disaster. I expect these sorts of supply chain attacks to get more and more common, they’re excellent back doors into basically every government agency and megacorp.
That is, in fact, infringement, however trivial. It’s obviously not something worth pursuing in court.
Not OP, but I've found that using UHT (or semi-UHT as many refrigerated organic milks are in Australia) works just as well as a heat->cool of non-UHT (after all, UHT is just milk that has been heated then cooled). So it's less work/fussing around/friction, and I end up making yoghurt more often. I usually do a 12 hour cycle. The heating (either at home, or via UHT) is necessary to modify the proteins so it thickens.
Didn't realise this had already been shared, other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27718529
Microbes in cow stomachs can help recycle plastic
The one thing that I always wonder about things like this which is basically Figma or Miro is how you persist / store the coordinate of the nodes given the user might have different screen sizes or resize their window etc.
Is this everywhere in FL? Or just Miami?

I used to live in WPB about 4 years ago. It wasn't that bad to find a rental at the time
I don't think the bedrock is the problem, it's the layer of limestone above it - that's what everything in the state actually sits on.
China plans its first crewed mission to Mars in 2033
like everything else in america, #1 priority is fèeding ceo salary and shareholder value.

everything in corporate america is derived from the growing wealth inequality and these shake downs are precisely targetting the glut. soon enough, itll still be cheaper to have a bribe fund, just like tax evasion lawyers, lobbiests and the rest of the feeder classes than a holisitic defense.
'Time Cells' Identified in Our Brains Encode the Flow of Time, Scientists Say
If you value your files that much: Just pay the 'ransom'. Not my words, but the FBI's: [0]

“The easiest thing may be to just pay the ransom” - Joseph Bonavolonta, FBI

Vimeo upsold and locked in their users with the same idea and are holding some of their user's content for ransom as well. [1]

[0] https://securityledger.com/2015/10/fbis-advice-on-cryptolock...

[1] https://twitter.com/thedak/status/1395367583503851524
They will happily tune the plan for you. I made a point that we are only 2 in the family abd we need only half of the 90$ plan, they made a custom plan for 45$
There is no social reason. chaos and destruction is the human normal without civilization to stop them. Increasingly we have been happily destroying those things which make a civilization, such as the ability to enforce and make laws, our public art and symbols, our values, even our history. We have come to be a nation that loathes itself and we are reaping the consequences.
Importantly, we don't know about anything that can "boost" intelligence. We only know some things that can help not harm your intelligence. Eating a healthy diet is the biggest, others have named things like avoiding pollution.
I mostly read in English, unless I go to a website from my home country… Which will render in Spanish, ignoring my browser configuration :)
even better is the strawbrrry growers are still allowed to pump down the aquifer if it freezes encouraging salt watdr intrusion and dissolution. florida is really a bad place for republican deregulation.
I love Migadu, I have been customer for half a year.

My major problem is the lack of cross platform email clients with snooze capabilities.

This translated in me using gmail UI, which is what I wanted to avoid in the first place.

You can get to paid email clients, but they all include email hosting, defeating the purpose.
Not only that, but the originally deleted articles were about an intentionally created and released bioweapon, not an accidental lab leak.
> Great resources you've given, but those are only for the continental USA.

Add the word "world" to your search to get global maps.
Location: Brazil
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I have plenty of experience working with SAAS products (designing from scratch or building upon an existing one), managing teams and working remotely as a full stack developer.

I'm on the process of selecting a new gig and I lean strongly towards part time/flexible hours positions.

Contact: souljacker @ gmail
My Streamdeck is great for turning microphone off at a system level. Coupled with eg OBS Studio and using virtual camera as source, where you can have several scenes available for quick switching in a pinch, you get a much better control for meetings.

I highly recommend them for remote working software engineers; the macros are amazing (eg start camera, lights, open meeting software in one go - then another to shut it all down).

You will still need to double check that all the mappings haven't changed for whatever reason, from time to time. (I'm on Win20/WSL2).
Mastodon powers Gab. It is as popular a decentralized technology as it can get.
The conservatives are right though. normal liberals are so afraid of agreeing with a conservative that they happily will vote for the destruction of their own neighborhood.

Boudin is not a sudden deviation from the norm. SF and other progressive cities have been on the path of electing these kind of radicals for many years. Boudins election was ultimately the result of not heeding the warnings many pundits gave.
A building collapse in California would be a huge windfall for city revenue as the estates of the deceased would be commandeered by parking fines.
Putting aside the obvious debate about autonomy over one's body, need I remind you that men pay child support as well, so they can at least opine.
Mostly Miami, especially in the burbs and even hitting as South as Florida City.
The Machinery of Freedom's system doesn't rely on firms' and individuals' strong wish to avoid reputational harm? Because that exact mechanism is mentioned repeatedly as the enforcement mechanism of arbitration, absent government. It may not be the only factor cited, but it's a lot of it.
Would you mind briefly explaining the concept of "tech debt" to a layperson?
Yeah. If you take down 100 companies, it's crime. If you take down 100,000, it's an attack.
Kids are using soft drinks to fake positive Covid tests, and that's how it works
GitHub is owned by Microsoft, which has some relevant experience with publicly accessible AI (Tay): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(bot)
As others have pointed out here and in the comments on the blog post, it doesn't make sense to assume uptake will be the same at 3x the price. That's a demand-side issue.

There's also a supply-side issue: if you are just getting started and you charge $30/mo, you will attract more competitors than if you charge $10/mo. People will look at what you're selling and think "I could undercut him by 50% and still make money!". So keeping your price relatively low at the beginning can also help on the supply-side, by keeping competitors at bay until you have more of a moat or at least an established user base.
Using quantity like this to prop up your reasoning and discounting the contributions of someone outside of a field both weaken the strength of your conclusions, unfortunately.
Precisely. For anybody else who'd like to do something similar, I followed the guidance of this post: https://dzhavat.github.io/2020/01/19/adding-an-rss-feed-to-g...
Though it turns out a few of those config parameters were already in my config, so it's even less work than described here.

It is worth noting, for the pedantic among us, that this feed is technically Atom, not RSS. But as some other commenters have posted out in this very post, most clients seem to treat those interchangeably these days and honestly I don't really understand the difference myself.
This seems like the only kind of social network I'd be on board with at this point, thanks for sharing!
Microsoft – no plans to release WinUI 3 for UWP
In a post scarcity world, framing everything as a problem puts you in a needless optimization loop. Emotions tell you why, logic can only answer how, which won’t get you out of the loop.

I’m not making a point for or against employing emotions in problem solving, I’m advocating for an awareness that all “logical” thought fits into a larger emotional context- just the opposite of op who structures their process as a pure logical process. Ironically, I’d call the notion of a purely logical process devoid of emotions a fantasy.
1.) Develop a hobby/skill that is completely and totally separate from your work (common examples are learning piano or a 2nd language)

2.) Invest early. Even if you’re 20 and can only invest a few hundred dollars, do it. And keep adding to that account

3.) Look at the stars often. Always stay grounded and remember that at the end of the day, nobody knows why we’re here or what the universe actually is. Enjoy the ride, because as far as we know it’s the only one we got. When you stare into infinity you realize there are more important things than what people do all day (Calvin and Hobbes quote)
“Time” — this thread is about Rh, and it’s probably the quickest way. We are talking total time of a few hours. Arrange by price, buy, swipe. It’s about having systems in place that provide yield.
1) Life isn't fair. I know it's cliche, but these 4 simple words contain so much in them that rings true to so many places and situations you'll be in life. Accept it.

2) The contrast to that is that nobody has it all. Especially every person you perceive as having enjoyed the 'life isn't fair' side of the equation.

3) Most of what you are taught, told, believe, spew (by thought fashion) will more than likely not withstand the test of time. The best thing you can be is adaptable and open minded, tho age has a way of curtailing that.

4) Having a continuously curious (and open) mind and preferably a pair of hands to go along with it is the perfect antidote for a world that desperately wants to make you an automaton.

5) Lastly, don't believe everything you think. This is a quote that you'll find everywhere online so not original here, but I wish someone told me this with conviction when i was 20.
What I didn’t realise (and to be fair it didn’t exist as it does today) is how much developers don’t need business people to employ them.

If you don’t have many responsibilities (ie no kids, no sick/poor relatives, no serious illness) you are pretty free to spend 5-10 years on starting your own thing.

You might need to give up on luxuries you are used to: living in the city, living alone, take out, regular nights out but surely the freedom is worth it.

For $50k you could probably survive for 5-10 years in a low COL place it the world with a laptop and internet. Have another 50k for business costs to help you scale up.

Or you could plan another sprint, argue with the manager to work on tech debt instead of hack another feature in, and pretend to be “on the same hymn sheet” while angling to learn enough of the next JS framework to get a $20k rise so you can afford COL increases.
Oh really, I’ve been looking for that, but was never able to find it. I’ll take another look later today.
I am not sure where the evidence is that people "overwhelmingly reject" the term, or that anyone classifies it as a racial slur.

The Pew study that is commonly cited[0] makes it clear that 76% of Latino or Hispanic identifying people have not even heard of the term. Only 3% use it, increasing to 7% amongst younger people (18-29) and 14% among young women. The study also notes that most people of that background prefer to be called Hispanic, which makes sense because Hispanic is an older term in the first place, and it is also the term used in US government documents like the census. Of the 23% who have heard of the term, only 12% "disagree or dislike" it, with a far greater number understanding that it is useful as a gender-neutral or LGBTQ-inclusive term. This really is not the kind of big deal that some people are making it out to be.

This has all happened before, of course. For example, in the 70s some American women started to refer to themselves as "womyn". The term grew popular amongst some groups, and it's listed in the dictionary, but it never really caught on. Around the same time some American activists decided to take an actual slur - queer - and reclaim that as a term to describe everyone under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. Plenty of Ls and Gs and Bs and Ts were not happy about that, but eventually the term stuck, and now most people in that group would probably accept the fact that "queer" is a valid umbrella term, even if amongst themselves they still use a more specific or more old-fashioned terminology.

I see "Latinx" as just another one of these linguistic trends. Maybe it will catch on, maybe it won't. For now, it's pretty well-established in HR departments of big American tech companies, so if you work in tech and you're talking about HR... Then it makes sense to use the term. In other contexts, well that's up to you.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...
I specifically have experience with Kaseya. I kicked and screamed to get us off of it, the IT people insisted it was top notch.

So when I became CFO I fired them (outside company), not just for this, but it didn’t help.

It’s bad software. 24/7 full low level access is exactly what it is. We had an add on that stored admin credentials in a JSON… so looking back on that, it seems this should have happened sooner.
> Technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt, but can be also related to other technical endeavors) is a concept in software development that reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy (limited) solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
I'll never forget the time I was driving to pick up my first new car. I was 3 blocks from the dealer when my old car died. Nothing I did could get it started again. Finally a cop pulled up and asked if I was having trouble. I told him, then he asked if I had gas. Of course since I was anticipating a new car, I hadn't been paying attention to the gas level in the old one. Thankfully I was just across the street from a gas station.
No, the chief proposed enforcement mechanism for violating arbitration agreements is that if you do, no one is going to stop people from shooting you and taking your stuff. I.e. you become an outlaw.
Why? The entire article reads like that. What is one newsworthy thing you read in the article?
You know how you're working on a project, and everything mostly works but some stuff isn't quite up to spec, and you swear you'll fix it later because you have a lot of stuff to do? This is that, compounded over a few decades.
True, and interesting to hear about Vimeo. Just being one of their early adopters and then getting this poor treatment is causing me much resentment.
dont think he cares about the velocity argument. hes demonstrating how you need to facto in acceleration when considering your price point. getting your app selling is often a footgun, as you need to understand how maximizing cashflow relates to driving more users to purchase.

its definitely an inherent human bias to want to maximize the velocity of sales, and hes demonstrsting that you also need to consider how you accelerate sales.
Your understanding of the situation is pretty good. I actually believe that Robinhood had to halt trading due to margin requirements, however that's leaving out a lot of context.

Immediately after halting trading, Robinhood's initial public statement was "we have full liquidity for any event and that is not the problem." This is where it starts to become fraudulent, because that contradicts what they later said. Timelines matter, details matter, and you are correct that the court of law has its place for this sort of thing. I'm convinced they were willfully lying at this point, but it would take a long time to explain why in a convincing manner (so I don't blame you for not believing me here).

Now afterwards is when shit gets weirder, but the GME rabbit hole is really deep and the signal to noise ratio is atrocious. There is some good data from Robinhood's S1 filing though. For their transaction-based business, Citadel made up 27% of their revenue - which is significantly higher than anyone else. And last quarter 81% of Robinhood's revenue was for PFOF, payment for order flow.

I agree with you this should go to court and I look forward to it. I could provide you with plenty more data and evidence, but it's lots of little pieces and admittedly a lot of it is circumstantial. In other words, I'm doing a shitty job explaining my side and you don't have much reason to believe me.

I owe you and the person I originally responded to an apology.
It's not enough to just gain access - once you're in you need to compromise other defenses, you need to communicate your demand to the victim, you need to know how much to extort, you need to actually process the payment. Either you do this on a case by case basis or you take advantage of additional exploits that will only be viable for a subset of your potential targets, and this is all a race against time before someone notices your initial exploit. Either way, it's likely impractical for any non-nation state actor to simultaneously attack more than a few thousand targets in one go.

This is combined with a business model resembling patent trolls: you want to extort just a little less than is worth fighting for. If a company gets hit on its own, it's probably not in a position to really do anything about it, but if there is some major hack affecting tons of companies, the odds of an actor with significantly more tech capability like the US government getting involved go way up, and suddenly fighting seems like a good option.
The problem is that they're doing it by actually hurting people.
Probably should have noted that this article is dated 2013, almost a decade ago.
Because there are plenty of zero-days the NSA can deploy if you step out of your lane.

It’s as much a political game at this point as anything.

If anyone thinks they can hide behind cryptocurrency and hold truly strategic companies hostage they are deluding themselves.

They’ll either end up hacked beyond their wildest imagination or facing literal hellfires.

It’s brinkmanship. When the devs literally die, they think twice.