skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Market capitalism is greedy and brutal, but the discussion here is about ransomware, which is one of the things the market should be well equipped to solve. Rather than throwing broad shade at the system in general, consider the opportunity here. Faced with a threat to the increasing automation they rely on for YoY growth, corporations could react by ensuring better job security and higher pay, better workplace conditions and better training, to create more resilience. The market could support those shifts if they see the danger of relying totally on non-human decision making at the local level. The Russians might even be doing us a favor if we're adaptable enough to take advantage of what we're learning from it.
I think the confusion arises from the css specs using absolute RGB values as opposed to values calculated within the sRGB color space designed by HP ETAL.

The css spec has a rgb(function) for using sRGB values directly.

Yes the function for handling srgb values is called "rgb()"...
>Largest anti war protests in history.

For the Iraq war. The Afghanistan war had very little resistance as things like the Congressional approval happened on September 14th giving the military a blank check to "capture the criminals."
> The source of these indicators are auto-emailed Kaseya VSA Security Notifications indicated the "KElevated######" (SQL User) account performed this action. We're hesitant to jump to any conclusions, but this could via suggest execution via SQL commands.

Some form of remote, unauthenticated SQL injection then?

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/ocggbv/comment/h3u5j2e
> The idea that Afghanistan was going to adopt democracy and western liberalism is so absurd on its face that I won't even discuss it.

Some people are just delusional thinking implementing a broken half baked American forced democracy would simply replace thausands of years of history that lead the the current country.
And when you dismiss it with accusations of bad faith and 'refute' the argument by primarily throwing derisive adjectives at it, that leads me to strongly believe you are operating in bad faith and making the accusation to pre-counter the obvious conclusions that can be drawn from the way you are conducting yourself.

You are primarily trying to refute the the argument by throwing as many derisive marks as possible at it, a joke, whack, naivety etc etc and demanding it not even be considered.

From intention there was plenty in the Chax situation that you really don't want to have your name associated with.

From results, same story.
Indeed, it seems to tick quite a lot of boxes.
I'm a bit confused on how to make it work with my old vimrc and plugins, and it doesn't seem to support julia's lsp yet, but I'll wait a few months, and hopefully this will be the solution I was looking for. Thanks!
It's the only general purpose OS that's both on several planets and usable on commodity computing hardware, as opposed to a real time OS or the custom operating systems that predated them. They have a much longer history in space: VxWorks has been on every Mars surface mission since the Pathfinder Lander in 1997 including Perseverance, New Horizons flew by Pluto in 2015 running Nucleus OS and RTEMS is on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
This brought back fond memories of spending much of my teens on what.cd, good times.
Incredible hackery.
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Don't you think they have smartphones too? Why would that be weird?
The police immediately release anyone who gets caught for streaking small value items. It seems security guards are there to prevent major security issues, not catch thieves.

> Also, this is about SF, not SEA.

Same problem in both states and cities - socialists driving everything into the ground.
> seizure is no longer a risk

Rather you mean, the ledger will be perfect evidence against all the users. Not sure why you need durability for “illegal” activity data?
Those were very likely for the Iraq war. The Afghanistan war happened too quickly to garner any major opposition, and though there was some opposition I'm not seeing four weeks of huge Austrian demonstrations listed on Wikipedia at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_war_in_Af...

And I feel like holding massive anti-US protests in the weeks after 9/11 would have been a huge talking point in the last twenty years.
I've visited the Flavian Amphitheatre with my kids a few years ago, and we walked over the Palatine Hill. It's an incredible site. It's also very well protected, they have spent many years preparing these areas for access to ensure they are preserved.

These are incredibly valuable cultural artefacts, but their value is in their ability to inspire and educate. That can only be done through access. Restricting that access, limiting who is allowed to be educated and inspired inevitably means limiting it's value to society. This is our heritage, not just that of a small privileged elite.
Pie-wedge-shaped things are not the only use for radians.

The phase [1] across a Josephson Junction is measured in radians, but there are no planes involved. The progress of a longitudinal wave [2] as seen passing a stationary observer is measured in radians per second, yet no plane is involved -- it works just fine in a one-dimensional universe.

Radians measure cycles. If you limit yourself to geometry then sure, radians seem like a thing for measuring circles. But that's just a side effect of the fact that the only cyclic symmetries of Euclidean space are rotations. So the only cycles you're going to find in high school geometry will be related to circles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephson_phase#The_Josephson_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal_wave
>the purpose of US intervention in the middle east is almost purely for reasons of power and resources

if this were the case, then the USA would have actually benefited from these wars. you ascribe far too much competence to our ruling class

The actual reason is more like an unholy mishmash of the sunk cost fallacy and the ever-present need to pad the pockets of Boeing and Raytheon
Well, "never" is a long time.

Copilot is definitely no replacement for anything except copying from Stack Overflow for juniors.

But in the long run, AI is us basically us creating our own replacement. As a species. We don't realize it yet. It'll be really funny in retrospective. Too bad I probably won't be alive to see it.
There's 3 people.

1. Knows the wider requirements but isn't involved in the implementation. They can't fully specify what's needed without doing the actual implementation; the map is not the territory.

2. Is told the broad requirements but probably can't grasp the things they aren't told in the imperfect spec. So under time pressure, in good faith, they do the simplest workaround possible.

3. Is given the next set of requirements. Instead of re-engineering the original design, under time pressure and in good faith, they add a workaround for the workaround.

Each new workaround is "tech debt".

When you add the next feature you now have to deal with multiple levels of complexity not in the original spec.

Understanding the actual implementation now takes more time than expected. The chances are that no one fully does, which leads to further mistakes and workarounds. So more tech debt.

Either you pay the debt down and re-engineer or you pay the compounding interest forever.

...and so on. Each new level of complexity gets harder and harder to understand and debug because no one really knows how the real design, held in the actual works.
I've made up my mind to discount the lab escape hypotesis as it's likely to generate more yellow journalism and controversy fueling the "news cycle", conspiracy theories and finger pointing. I guess we'll find the truth in another five or more years.
> I have yet to hear even rumors of any AI that could generate anything like a real program from a conversation. Not gonna happen.

Yet. The current state is admittedly primitive, but Copilot certainly feels like a step towards AI being able to reprogram itself. There's no doubt in my mind we'll eventually reach that state, which would propel us even quicker towards the singularity.
> I've had sketchy experiences getting a connection between two specific peers though. I presumed it was NAT traversal being finnicky.

And that is probably are IPv4's flaws, not BitTorrent. If everyone switched to IPv6 then they can connect to each other without using NAT, because IPv6 address space is so big everybody on earth can have their own unique IP address.
Some of those comments are straight up nightmare fuel for sysadmins

> We are severly fucked. Up to 2100 endpoints are infected right now, most are desktops but also servers.

> We have been hit as well 1000 endpoints. What is your plan of restoration?

Happy 4th of July weekend everyone.
To be honest, I never really bought into the lab escape theory. Still really don't, with all the investigations going on I am willing to consider it as an alternative. Thing is, I have yet to see a timeline, starting with the earliest cases elsewhere, and a summary of the genetic research into COVID-19. Without having the time, and knowledge, to deep dive into the studies I jave to rely on news reports. And those, IMHO, are more about creating clicks than really informing people.

Curious to see what comes of that so. Not that it would change a lot in term of fighting the pandemic, we have working vaccines by now. The narrative will change a lot, so. And with all the mask clusterfuck still going on, I don't think the narrative will be good.
Someone posted this cool little tool[1][2] on Reddit a while back (no affiliation). It colour grades an image you upload based on a scene you select from their gallery.

Not really what you asked for but it helped me understand how massive of an impact colour grading can have on how you perceive a scene.

1 https://match.color.io/

2 https://v.redd.it/113ksxlphgz61/DASH_720.mp4
> I suppose that most people don't ever erase anything from a Python dictionary?

It's the tombstoning mentioned in both my comment and the essay (tombstoning is basically the amortisation of deletion), however you need a lot of deletion to fuck up your branching as much as a middling-load-factor hashmap does.

> Erasing items would lower the effective load factor of the array (or be O(n) so you can do a big memcpy).

It will, however:

* maps which get items deleted from are a minority, more so for those which both get items deleted from and get iterated

* once enough items have been deleted, the buffer can be shrunk in order to remove the tombstones (converting it back to a very dense array).
Programming is already conversational. I'm telling a computer what I want, it does it, I see what it does, and elaborate or correct myself where necessary. Repeat endless times, until product exists.
There's a fundamental problem with comparing arena deaths to police killings which is that they aren't like kinds. In other words, it's not like the Romans only killed people in arenas and their law enforcement never killed anyone.

I highly doubt Roman methods of law enforcement killed fewer per capita people than modern methods. Not to mention things like crucifying slaves.
They’ve updated the source article on Android Authority with explanation from Google: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-assistant-secret-rec....
I enjoy articles that do the following. There are people in my team who specialize in this area and know so much more than me about it than I do. We are working on really exciting projects that I don't get the chance as a manger to understand fully under-the-hood, but casual weekend reading just got me closer! It always interests me how much top developers are not just coding experts but also domain experts.

Edit: ps. We are interested in meeting more of those colour domain experts...
Privacy friendly ledgers are old hat at this point, any hypothetical system for torrents would no doubt use one.
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> <note here there is no sense of this being an inferior or “sub” checkout>

There is not in worktrees either. You can use worktrees with a bare repository for instance. It's just that for backwards compatibility and the convenience of most users a non-bare clone creates a default worktree. That's exactly what you see if you `git clone` a repository then `git worktree list`, a worktree corresponding to the working copy.
Yes, it literally isn't a match. It's also not a match for a pepperoni pizza.
afaik if a doctor fucks up his rights to practice medicine are taken away by a board of (probably) doctors after a examination of the case.
Although this sounds all well and good, I've read countless accounts of this not happening as much as it should be happening, almost similar to the police not taking action on their own officials who go bad, corruption runs deep in our systems and imo our psyche

I think a top down approach to enforce anything at scale is never gonna work until people decide to respect their place in the world and do the due diligence from bottom up
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That could be the perfect solution for my Rails dev. Sprinkling views with Vue feels more natural and in line with Rails philosophy for me than the pseudo SPA approach of Stimulus. I hope it will gain traction in the community.
The Lives of Others's protagonist is a celebrated playwright, not a "common person"...
> The Roman empire didn't have television or powered transportation that allowed millions of people across the empire to visit the capitol for a weekend.

That's where you are wrong.

Roman empire was as globalized as ours today, if not more, given the means of transport of their times.

> This wasn't entertainment broadcast to the entire empire, it was a single arena with a little more than 50,000 seats

2 thousands year ago.

still there.

a building in Miami collapsed few days ago. Built in 20th century.

Maybe it isn't simply "an arena with little more than 50,000 seats" but a marvel of human history...

Anyway, shows went on for days, sometimes weeks, all day long, so that anyone could attend them.

So counting the seats in the Colosseum is not the right way to measure how popular the shows were.

> 400,000 deaths among a city of 1,000,000

in 4 hundred years (actually the games lasted for a thousands year, but the peak period is shorter).

mostly slaves brought back to Rome from countries defeated in war.

I've specifically talked about police killings because police is supposed to protect people, not kill them.

What will future historian think of that in your opinion?

If you wanna talk about fatalities in ancient history, you should also take into account the general mortality rate.

Of course in a battle arena people died, but it was probably much less dangerous to fight in the Colosseum than living in Caledonia, on the other side of the Hadrian's wall.

We shouldn't argue of what we don't know. It's an exercise in futility.

«the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history»

edit: to make it clearer why counting bodies is misleading: gladiators became freemen after 6 years on average, 15-20 fights in total. They earned a lot of money and were popular figures, some of them were immensely popular (think about Spartacus). As free men many of them had enough saved to become owners and trainers and earned a respected position in the society. It wasn't uncommon for a gladiator to stay on the job after becoming a free man because it was an highly rewarding activity. They knew their fate, but they decided to keep fighting anyway.

Now fast forward to 2021 and think about Mike Tyson going back on the ring at the age of 54, even though it could kill him. Would you consider the people watching the match savages because they are paying to watch 2 men punching each other in the face?
Extortion have been around for ages. There have been many payment methods used for it on the Internet. Prepaid credit cards, expensive phone numbers, gift cards, mobile refills, cash to private post boxes, bank accounts in sketchy countries and so on. But sure, cryptocurrencies makes it easier.
Did you miss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_(2003_film) ?
Why is Danish so hard?
It seems unlikely to me that a team going to the lab now would be able to tell us anything at all about how the lab was operated 18 months ago. The chances that it hasn't been completely gutted and re-worked from scratch by now seem to me to be precisely zero. The window of opportunity to get a team in there and actually find out what was going on closed probably in late January or early in February 2020.

Meanwhile we have someone here with direct experience of the lab as it was at the actual time in question. It seems to me that's absolutely the best we are ever likely to get.
That was more like a marketing speech.
Anti-Iraq was even bigger for sure. And I am not sure they happened directly after 9/11 or only months later. But the sentiment was obvious, many people do still not believe the official narrative and can't excuse starting a war for a wrong narrative. Pretty sure demos startet after the first related WikiLeaks leaks?

On a side note I would be surprised if Wikipedia had a line for a few hundred young lefties demonstrating in a basically forgotten country like austria. When I say huge, I mean relatively, Austria ain't big. But there should be Media and pics somewhere I guess.
> At a time when three of every five persons did not survive until their twentieth birthday, the odds of a professional gladiator being killed in any particular bout, at least during the first century AD, were perhaps one in ten. For a full year in Nero's wooden amphitheater in the Campus Martius, no-one died at all, not even criminals (Suetonius, Life of Nero, XII.1).
"Centralized hosting and management (SaaS, PaaS model) has the advantage of security at scale."

it follows that

"Centralized hosting and management (SaaS, PaaS model) has the advantage of insecurity at scale."
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The answer to the question “do crazy people know they are crazy” is a firm “absolutely not” and the comment you’re replying to proves that.

Don’t bother replying, it’s always the same. If they reply at all it will be with a mix of half-truth personal anecdotes, scientific-sounding nonsense, paranoid delusions and if you’re really unlucky outright antisemitism.

They are far gone and they don’t know it yet, there isn’t much you can do to stop that purely online.

Just feel sorry, move on, and petition your representatives to tackle the mental health crisis befalling many of us.
Slightly tangential but relevant to people who are interested in how some nations are now sponsoring cyber attacks

( Not saying this "colossal" one was state sponsored :-) )

"The Lazarus heist: How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack" [0]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169
I have never understood this; the whole Enterprise™ security business talks about all these things where half the time I literally don't even know what they're on about. They all seem to take it very serious; great! And at the same time they miss basic stuff like, I don't know, subscribing to Apache struct release mailing list. Or not keeping employee credentials around on public servers used to file credit disputes. Or in the case of Solarwinds not using "solarwinds123" as a password (probably not used in the hack, but still).

None of this is rocket science and these people probably aren't stupid, so somehow, somewhere, something is going horribly systemically wrong (incentives? Training? Organisation? I don't know).
All good mate. Enjoy your weekend.
Direct democracy consensus isn't a valid form of policy-making because most individuals are clueless, incompetent, unethical, and ignorant.
I'd buy their yogurt, if they turned it into a business
Looks like the video is locked behind a paywall.

Sounds interesting though, would be awesome if you could give us the gist of how he went about it!
Hmmm… between 20 & 30….

1. Being a rockstar dev means mgmt will cut you a lot of slack and overlook many sins. By the time you are 30 you will be “both too young and too old”

Too old to continue getting away with that jerk behaviour. Too young to know how to stop being that jerk.

I’ll admit I was a slow learner on that one

2. I had a major medical adventure my first year in uni.. I don’t finish with my bachelors degree until I was 22… the lesson is: progressing through life’s major transitions ( graduate uni, first job; first serious romantic relationship; kids etc..) happens at a different pace for many. It is not a competition to be married and kids on the way by age 28

Lessons learnt in my 50s: Recognise your younger Self in today’s crop of 20 somethings; enjoy their youthful exuberance and cut the jerks the same slack that the 50yo mgmt did to you
> Here’s warning to all your listeners whenever a politician comes to you and says, “Oh, we’re going to take care of this problem for you.” What they’re really saying is, we’re going to take away some of your freedoms. The exercise for you, here, is to figure out what freedoms they’re going to take away in order to solve this problem, and they’re often well-disguised, but yeah, if you want to be free, that means doing things yourself.

Easily the most important take away in this excellent interview, but unfortunately, also the most contentious.
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I'd encourage you to read what she says before you decide. Her background should make you take her more seriously that if she was, say, a software engineer, but less seriously than if she was a virologist. But for me, her background is only one factor in my decision of how seriously I take her. A bigger factor is how serious, informed and reasonable what she says is.
There was no "manipulation of patient data." The authors withdrew their raw data from a database, and then published the summary data (what most people will actually want to know) in a paper. The summary data matches the raw data (later recovered from the cloud).

> Could you link to this please?

It's in Table 1 of their June 2020 paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/smll.202002...

> If the patient data had links to unpublished bat sequences the lab was working on, it would certainly be motivation to get rid of both.

The patient data had nothing to do with bat sequences. The paper we're talking about was a methodology paper, in which the authors were trying to test a new sequencing technology using recent patient samples. They were not focusing on SARS-CoV-2 origins, and they certainly weren't working with bat coronavirus sequences. I don't even think there's any connection to the WIV here: the corresponding authors don't appear to be affiliated with the institute.
by? You mean for?
According to the article: Chances to get Myocarditis with mRNA: 20:1.000.000 of which 2/3 cleared in a week. This is the military so mostly younger male who seem to be most at risk for this side effect. To provide perspective: Chances to get heart injury from Covid infection 1:100 and 6:10 in severe hospitalized cases.
If you're trying to build one yourself, have a look at the open source Readability code[1]. It was originally developed by Arc90 and is now used by Apple and Mozilla in their browser reader views. The code has been ported to a number of different languages.

I work on a service called Full-Text RSS[2] that used a PHP port of Readability, coupled with site-specific extraction rules[3] to identify and extract article content from each feed item. It then produces a full-text version of the given feed. The idea is you subscribe to the full-text version in whichever feed reader you use and it will give you full-text articles where you had partial content before.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/readability

[2] https://www.fivefilters.org/full-text-rss/

[3] https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config
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