skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cyber attacks nowadays demand their ransom payable in crypto.
Don't forget hardware switch for wireless networking. Laptops used to come with that...
you strain the grains and add them to fresh milk every day. you can get them to make less by dividing the grains and tossing or eating some. It will get pretty thick if your bacteria are chugging out acid. My kefir would always end up not sour after a week or so. I could revive it for a bit by adding some lifeway kefir, but the ambient temp favored the yeast. A less cold fridge might let the grains run and favor the bacteria to keep it sour. Also lifeway kefir makes a good yogurt starter.
Let me be specific: when you drew an equivalence of severity between the events of Jan. 6 and A) the CHAZ and B) protests for Kavanaugh's confirmation, you made it very hard for me to believe that you're operating in good faith.

You don't need to be in the streets protesting for shit, I don't need you calling your reps to ask them to support an independent commission. But I do need it to not be compared to situations that are not laughably benign by comparison.

> I am willing to take it in good faith that you honestly believe Jan 6 is basically the worst thing to happen since the civil war.

I didn't say that and I don't believe it. I reread my words, I don't feel I communicated such a sweeping conclusion / assessment.

> I am apparently... a government abolitionist who lacks integrity.

I attacked your argument, you've made it an attack on you. I don't know you, but that comparison was whack, be it bad faith, naivety, or ignorance. In my opinion, of course, however misguided, hyperbolic, or otherwise.
https://damobay.com/
Ah, a gigantic time series event firehose. (That was what I was curious about.)

I guess this cues the stereotypical "have you looked at kdb+" question, then, which you've probably already fielded :)

(https://kx.com)

IIUC, kdb+ does in fact have a real DB hiding in it, and it's not all just "weird programming language" - but it does seem to require/prefer a reasonable amount of buy-in to the way it does things to be valuable. I guess the lateral question is whether its performance obsession extends to smaller on-disk footprint, and whether the savings would be worth throwing out all the the existing Aurora integration work. (Answer: very probably not.)
Toothpaste's out of the tube. Banning the exchanges won't stop the ransomware.
Unification is important for developers to dog food. The average “consumer” (us versus them) will be integrated into this design system. They will expect UI behavior across the apple ecosystem to be homogeneous.

If we as developers do not take part in this and dog food the universal OS, we will be blind to all the problems users are facing, and be unable to innovate in this marketplace.

If you want to sell to users, use what they use.
Did you think it was an unintentional technical liability, or did you think it was intentional?
How a run-of-the-mill Cessna is not an air car? Just add some blinkers and a stop lights to make it street-legal.

It’s not like AirCar can takeoff from any highway when it feels like it, it still needs a FAA approved takeoff/landing spot and an air controller.
Two ways, I think they're easy to understand but I have no experience in teaching:

Technical debt is like not cleaning your house to save a bit of time everyday. When you actually have to clean it, it's going to take longer than the time you saved. And until it's not clean, everything you do will be a bit worse because the house isn't clean.

"Remember when you were a student and didn't do the dishes, and then when you finally did them everything was dry and sticky and stinky, and it took you a lot of time to wash everything and you felt terrible? That's dishes debt. Technical debt is the same. When you make a change, you produce dirt in the codebase, and if you don't or can't take the time to clean every time, dirt accumulates."
CoRecursive started because I did some episodes as a host on software engineering daily and it was lots of fun so I decided to start one of my own. The first 4 episodes were originally on software engineering daily.

Originally the idea was to give some platform to the areas of computing I was interested in, heavy use of types and functional programming but I think I really found my place as a podcast when I started to focus on peoples stories. So rather than tell me about SQLite, it is tell me about the story behind creating SQLite.
Walling-up an open garden
The whole saga with the outside oversight is also a complete red herring. USA would never sign a treaty that required them to show their own facilities.

Case in point: biological weapons convention. A few years back there was a very popular proposal to add “teeth”, i.e. random inspections and stuff. Guess who bailed out and passed a Hague invasion act instead?

EDIT: grammar
Only if the article merely reported the thing and had not descended into this narrative building..

They did not even offer a summary in the beginning.
Doesn’t cac increase as prices go up?
We need some FreeBSD ones too for fairness' sake. ;)
> I think there is a reasonable chance that they could have, had the been able to murder the "enemies" on that day.

If every member of Congress died, would the Republic cease to exist? Probably not. There's a contingency plan for that.

> What does that mean or look like? I don't know.

The claim can't be made if this can't be answered.
After the Equifax breach, everyone learned that until there are actual repercussions for cyber attacks (like fines and people going to jail for negligence), if you can weather the storm, over the course of a year or two, there is effectively zero impact to your bottom line.

You can also see this in the Solarwinds stock price. Year over year, they are down a hair under 4 percent... After being directly responsible for one of the most impactful cyber incidents yet. Hell, if you invested in January, after most of the stuff blew over, you would be up nearly 20% on your investment.

There is even a perverse incentive to not do things and just get cyber insurance to cover you. Since these underwriters generally have no fucking clue what they are doing, you can actually make money on a cyber intrusion if you play your cards right. Only now that insurance companies have paid out the nose with ransomware incidents have they started to wise up. Having worked in the space, its absolutely bonkers what we accept as normal business practices with regards to cybersecurity.
I’m always hesitant when new places in historical sites open to tourists. It is funny how the attention of the world has a tendency to destroy the things that it focuses on. On the one hand, how cool is it to see these amazing historical places. On the other, what beautiful things are ruined by being shared?
What software are you referring to? The article only mentions "VSA tool", and that does not ddg well.
Correct, this won't get better until these groups are physically disbanded.
Germany has certain very strict policies about whether you're allowed to discuss certain things, and they outrank the US by 30 positions on the World Press Freedom Index[1]. Sometimes you have to suppress bad actors who willfully push unverified or outright fallacious information in order to have actual freedom of information.

[1] https://rsf.org/en/ranking_table
I've been using the "Brief" addon for Firefox since the built in RSS reader was removed and it's worked very well for years:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/

Source: https://github.com/brief-rss/brief

Also, for those not aware, Youtube still supports RSS feeds (for those without Google accounts) in the format of:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={Channel Id}
> But we're discussing voluntary taxation here

Income taxes are no more voluntary than consumption taxes.

> corporations (already masters at tax avoidance under coercive taxation) would never opt in

130 countries have already backed a global corporation tax rate.

> nor would consumers volunteer to pay more for goods and services when they could simply pay less.

They already do. A gallon of gas is $1.8 in Malaysia, $3.5 in America, and over $8 in the Netherlands.

> And since neither involves paying directly for a government service, there's nothing the government could deny in the absence of payment.

The good/service one is purchasing is the incentive itself.
At some point, some nation-state will get annoyed enough to do something drastic. That's what ended state-sponsored terrorism.

Or even a company. Uber's security chief once became annoyed with an attack from Nigeria. They traced the attack to an Internet cafe and sent some "lawyers" to talk to the attacker.

Someone tried a ransomware attack on the Teamsters Union in 2019.[1] The FBI advised them to pay. The Teamsters didn't pay. There were no further attacks. The Teamsters declined to comment. (For those unfamiliar with American labor history, trying to push around the Teamsters Union usually ends badly for the pushers.)

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/558066-teamsters-re...
Schlepping.. embrace the suck for $$.

Really nasty, lots of headaches, complexity, risks, and/or people think it's magic.
The "Mr Google" connection is an amusing if eerie coincidence.
Apparently, USA military is withdrawing from Afghanistan!
What's selective or partisan about it? Did Assange have some damaging information about Trump that he refused to release?

Telling the truth doesn't become partisan simply because the truth hurts one party.
> The image on the left below is a uniform red square in the sRGB gamut. The image on the right is slightly different, as it actually uses two different shades of red: one that is within the sRGB gamut and another that is outside of it. On sRGB displays, both colors are painted the same and the result is a uniform red square, just like the first image. However, on a system that can display wide-gamut colors, both shades of red will be painted differently and you will be able to see a faint WebKit logo inside the square.

Ironic. Given the author's emphasis on Chromium, you would expect this example to work there. But, as far as I can tell, Chromium's "color management" currently converts all images to sRGB before rendering them in the system's color space, so the difference between the images is actually lost there. It works fine in Firefox (with color management enabled).

My understanding is that doing things correctly actually makes color management a lot more complicated for Firefox (because you can't just have the renderer do color management from a single source - sRGB - to a single target - the monitor's profile), but I think getting correct results for wide gamut images is worth it.

Note: my search powers are failing me at the moment, so I actually can't find where I first read about this problem, so I'm not sure whether it's the result of a bug or intended behavior, or even whether the problem extends beyond Linux + SDR screens.
Just because it's down doesn't mean that it's not still high enough for businesses to opt to not deal with it.
> the average consumer in many cases is going to weigh the intangible risk of security problems pretty small against the guaranteed loss of required features.

what are those lost features? do any of those lost features include the unintentional loss of data or the inability to access said data? if not, if the user can maintain access to the stuff on the NAS after a security update, they should update, because there is no NAS security update that takes away your ability to access your data.

I really do wonder what these missing features are because there is zero likelihood that the ability to access the storage device itself is one of the lost features.
Maybe it's trying to make a horrible shitty situation a little less bad.

There was zero right answer in this war. We don't have some corrupt cabal of leaders in our government and military. I can't recall a single American that didn't want to go into there after 911. Our soldiers have been stuck there putting their lives on the line to keep the house of cards from falling down. This power vacuum will disappear with another incredibly violent war after we leave. There will be zero way for the current government to maintain control. I don't see how it could possibly avoid becoming an isis like state that will lash out with more terrorism and I'm afraid this won't be the last time American boots will be in country.
These are all extremely cool approaches to the problem but unfortunately they are all high tech and most require a substantial amount of complex component fabrication to work.

I have been thinking about a passive, low cost system.
It would use series of rows of shell-like structures with fresnel attributes and coatings that simultaneously cause water to condense on heated surfaces and then drain into subsequent rows of shells, a process that passively cycles with the heat of the sun. A large fraction of each row's output collects in a tank that is periodically raised to backflush the row and reduce the saline buildup.
> Content of post is a link. No context, no summary, no single sentence...nothing.

Run it through an RSS full article extractor:

https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS#full-article-extra...

Many feeds are useless without one, but tremendously useful with one.

And if you don't like a website's RSS feed, make one yourself, formatted as you see fit:

https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS#webpagehtml
Neither we nor China are supposed to be doing bioweapons research in part because all examples thus far are impossible to target and destroy women, children, and civilians indescriminately far too slowly to prevent retaliation with swifter means of dealing death.

If anyone is researching this I support their change of address to prison.
On the other hand… Kaspersky software isn’t shit. And I expect they catch a few things other US based companies might be incentivized or politely asked to look the other way on.

I wouldn’t run K, but I know from experience it’s actually effective.
If the only possible opinions to have about hypothetical events are 'factually correct' and 'factually incorrect,' I don't think you will find many good opinions.

I haven't the book and it will take me several months to get to it, so I'd appreciate if you didn't pull random concrete ideas out of my intentionally vague and non-committal statement. Why is it that the people quickest to accuse others of bad faith are the ones that do this?
Thats for one user, and the product is kind of useless with only one user on the slack instance.
Attacks don't yield bug bounties, disclosures do. The only "bounty" is what the attacker exfils or ransoms.
Vaccination Search Insights: Visualization for Google Vaccination Search Data
This isn't really true. Stock price is not an indicator of a company's "bottom line".

As someone who helps respond to major breaches at big companies, these types of breaches often result in enormous expenditures on company-wide efforts to close security gaps or revamp processes. Either a regulatory agency, or more often the company's board of directors, will make a mandate to the C-suite that something must be done. Some of these expenditure campaigns are low-visibility, some even to the employees of the company, and they are usually not very sexy or noteworthy, so you won't read about them on the front page of CNN but they do happen and they are very costly to the company (in the ballparks of tens to hundreds of millions of dollars).

I do think there should be harsher punishments in the form of fines, etc. But to say that there is "zero impact" just isn't true.
Thank you! Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached at hn@kirubakaran.com

Here are some of the features: https://histre.com/features/

Here is a recent video that I made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQEs51fcbw0 (take one of the video; it needs to be seriously polished, but hopefully it shows a small part of how Histre is reimagining bookmarks to be your personal knowledge graph)
I live in Minneapolis. Back in 2007 the I-35W bridge collapsed, killing 13 people. Engineers had previously reported that the bridge had structural problems. And once the collapse became national headlines news, bridges nationwide were given special attention.

It shouldn't take horrific accidents for us to suddenly decide to care about structural safety.
Unintentional I think. If it was intentional I think things would have looked better on the surface.
If women were afraid of long, brutal hours then they wouldn’t make up 52% of all new doctors.
It's a long form piece - it's not news. And there is a summary:

"Locked up for their part in a drug ring, two inmates swapped manufacturing meth for manufacturing yoghurt.

Eva Corlett finds out how they turned their product into a prison trading commodity so popular that yoghurt culture was smuggled between prisons."

What else are you looking for exactly?
My Learnings from June 2021
I find this whole conversation to be slightly ironic given the first sentence of the article is

> As we have pointed out since Media Lens began in 2001, a fundamental feature of corporate media is propaganda by omission.
Bug on mobile: when your chat assistant pops up, it politely shrinks into the corner, but some invisible div must be overlapping the content as it breaks the scroll:

I can scroll by dragging the leftmost side of the screen, but dragging up and down in the middle has no effect. When I dismiss the chat pop up I’m able to scroll.

Maybe a “pointer-events: none” is in order.
A moving average is not complicated. A moving average is more accurate. So I don't believe it has been explained in this thread at all.
How to Go from the White House Mail Room to Changing the World at Facebook
> The free market can solve the NDA problem.

Under what mechanism? The free market didn’t share code with the world pre-GPL and other copyleft licenses. What reason would they have to continue to comply?

Large companies are not contributing to copyleft projects for fun, altruism, or profit. They’re doing it because the software is good and they legally must contribute in order to extract profit from it. If you take away that obligation, they’re not going to instruct their employees to waste company time making a pull request that is no longer legally required. They’ll have their 9-to-5 engineers push fixes to their own proprietary forks which you’ll have to pay for, and hobbyist forks will be stuck with whatever hobbyists fix in their spare time.
So - like billionaires are just really good citizens then who aren't freeloading at all when they lobby to have their taxes sent to zero?

k.
> Where is the war?

Central America, where the US has a history of funding politically aligned factions in conflict, contributing to today's instabilities which drive people to our border.

> Where is the excess death?

Mostly Central America, but keeping people in crowded stressful conditions during a pandemic can probably account for a few more.

> To put it succinctly, migrants who enter the country without filling out paperwork, and get caught, end up in one of these places for months-to-years while USG figures out what to do with them.

The US first funds wars in these people's home countries, then refuses to let them in when they want to live in a safer country, then rounds them up and puts them in camps because they came in anyway. That sounds like a concentration camp to me, even if the death rate is lower than other instances of the same thing.

Pedantic attacks on word usage is fun, though. Let me try it:

> ICE, of course, runs an actual concentration camp which has a slightly more troublesome history than the word master.

The history of the word "master" includes the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery in the US, a well known and extremely long running atrocity. That doesn't seem less troublesome than current ICE activity.

But if you consider what is being said, instead of seizing on exact wording, you can see the points that the action of running these camps is more important than the choice of word used to describe a code repo, and that as a form of concentration camp, the camps are bad - not that slavery wasn't a big deal (my facetious straw man), and not that the US are the British and the detainees are the Boers.

A few responses seem to focus on two of the words chosen in that post, and ignore this point about misplaced focus on choice of words.
"tech debt" is when you decide that you will cut a corner to build something.

If you did it when building a plane, and it killed people, you would go to prison, but in the technology industry, this is acceptable as "the cost of being first"
The TL;DR is two guys, in prison for making meth, learned how to make yogurt from prison-available ingredients, and it kept them going through the hard times in prison. Now they're out, they don't make yogurt but they are staying straight. It's a character story, not a business lesson with a three bullet-point redux.

And, in fact, paragraph two is the summary you were after:

> They don’t know it yet but that moment will change their lives. Not only will they go on to make yoghurt using heat from the radiator pipes running through their cells, they’ll turn yoghurt into a prison trading commodity so popular it will be smuggled between New Zealand jails. Wal and Dylan will become known as The Yoghurt Mafia, and their new obsession will give them a reason to carry on in a relentlessly bleak environment.

I'm not sure where your "if only" came from, but it's unjustified. Back in your can, Oscar!
You would think you could listen to an oral history right? Looks like it might be better titled "a written history".
Jason Kottke, OG blogger (2019)
Wow, that was an amazing read.

>But if there was irony, there was also a metaphor in their switch from meth to yoghurt. Like yoghurt, if the conditions are right, if there is patience and there is care, people can change and a new kind of culture can survive.
>without using debt

Yes, exactly. Living without debt is not a mainstream lifestyle for Americans, but these articles imply it is the only way, without quite saying why.
There are people who work on preserving and making sure it can become available one day.

They will also give you that answer, for various reasons.
Oh, wow. You and I left that feeling two completely different ways. I loved every aspect about that story and how it was written.
SQLite is one of the finest pieces of software ever made. It’s one of those quiet innovations in the world that has multiplied the advancement of society and the chattering classes have absolutely no idea. I hope this story gets told more often, to more people. Kudos to Dr. Hipp!
Stronger than "Prophet"?

I began writing this post because I was working on integrating Prophet into a Python package I call time machines, which is my attempt to remove some ceremony from the use of forecasting packages and compare them. These power some bots that the prediction network (explained at www.microprediction.com if you are interested). How could I not include the most popular time series package?

I hope you interpret this post as nothing more than an attempt to understand the quizzical performance results, without denying the possible utility of Prophet or its strengths (if nothing else it might be classified as a change-point detection package). I mean seriously, can Prophet really be all that bad? At minimum, all those who downloaded Prophet are casting a vote for interpretability, scalability and good documentation - but perhaps accuracy as well in a manner that is hard to grasp quantitatively.

(from the article)
It's contentious in the sense that there's a non-zero probability that the SEC could step in and ban that practice, which is something that Robinhood outlines in their S-1 filing under the risks section.

>Message board people believe a lot of weird things about how markets work.

Message board people also love reading comments and not looking at the articles they're typically commenting about.
And then there's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah_Prophet