skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person upthread claimed nothing was controversial/ unpopular 10 years ago, the internet was some sort of free speech utopia.

I'm not sure how bringing up anti LGBT crowds typing things like "it's Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve" 20 years ago shows there was no controversy on the internet 10 or 20 years ago.

If you are correct that typing things like that was not controversial, it sounds like identifying as gay or LGBT was indeed controversial, putting false the claim that the internet was a free speech utopia where you could type anything and nobody would care.
This really seems like a deliberate provocation testing the "16 sectors" considered off limits, delivered to Putin from the Biden Administration. And now waiting to see what the response is going to be, whether it was an indelible line or one drawn in sand.

I could be wrong, it could be coincidental, but the timing makes it pretty interesting for perhaps the largest single (in terms of affected companies) ransomware compromise to date.
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Anonymity is a double-edged sword.
> I can't recall a single American that didn't want to go into there after 911.

You must not have been paying attention. There were a hell of a lot of us, and we weren't quiet. Or wrong.

> I'm afraid this won't be the last time American boots will be in country.

Oh, of course not. We'll have left behind whole shipping containers full of the things.
I don't see your email in your bio. Send me an email. I suppose it's that easy.
3-2-1...

You also need the first two, really.
> I can't think of anyone I've met that's gone to anywhere based on positive Yelp reviews

Hello, my name is bradlys. You've now met at least one person who has gone somewhere based on positive Yelp reviews.
No, they typically sold stolen information on private/underground/invite forums or IRC.

Instead of crypto-randomware, it would be an all out worm or booter that would crush a service who would have to acquiesce to demands. Luckily, there weren't too many good services in existence, Cloudflare didnt exist, c10k was a mind blower, webdev was AJAX, XMLRPC, and CGI. The term TLS hadn't been coined, it was still called SSL, and nobody used it.

Instead of a money orders, they would trade trade calling cards, NEXON codes, gift cards, other stolen data like "fulls" or exploits or accounts for compromised infrastructure.

People would operate DDoS botnets for cash, spam you with V1@GRA ads from cracked boxes or hijacked relays, and the evergreen scam of fake RMAs. Let me know if "LOAD A PALLET OF CATALYST CHASSIS ONTO A BOAT OR ELSE ILL RELEASE YOUR SERIAL NUMBER DATABASE AND ALGORITHM ON MYSPACE" sounds scary or not.

The real difference is now we're 28 years into "Eternal September"[0], the whole planet is participating more or less. Cryptocurrency is possibly an enabler, but if it weren't that it would be Apple or Google Play codes. Just straight up exfil and sell.

In conclusion, these attacks didn't happen before Apple store or Google Play.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
The same reason Walgreens closed 17 stores in SF, as was recently discussed here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27216343
>>> I’m not sure that a few months is enough to understand the true pros and cons of a language.

No doubt. My problems were mainly with the ergonomics of the editing environment, not the language. And I had problems with other graphical software as well, including games.
Not justifying Amazon’s labor practices by any means, but Amazon delivery != UPS. It’s quite possible that Amazon only runs its own delivery in areas with a high enough order density that 400 packages/day is possible, and UPS doesn’t restrict itself in this way.
Copilot will most likely be useful as a Stackoverflow indexer or a better GitHub search. Developer speed can become faster because this eliminates some time spent on GitHub and SO. I don’t think it’s anymore useful than that.
Maybe you’re a state actor and a ransom demand, at least an overt one, is not your objective.
NP, FWIW I didn't make any edits that should change the tone (although I think I did make one trivial change in the first 60 seconds or so before any replies).
Really good thread here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/ocggbv/crticial_ransom...

When these things happen, I feel like there's a predictable response. A few smaller vendors (above, Huntress Labs) provide a great running commentary. Then two weeks later, the dust has settled, everyone's patched, and I'll start receiving sales calls from Enterprise Vendor X wanting to talk about how they were all over it.
This is the way you think the law ought to work not how it is in fact written.
If he were smart he would have just left the bitcoin in the wallet unspent and returned to Ukraine, but he stayed and got arrested and made 0$ (probably would have made 4x more given how much btc has appreciated since 2018). As the police can attest "thankfully most criminals are dumb..it makes our job much easier"
In some not-so-distant future dystopia, ransomware hackers will morph into a file encryption service w/ optional data exfiltration as a backup. Just don't stop paying the bill.

Or at least that's where we're headed if companies keep giving in to the ransom demands.
I know this is subjective, but it's so hard to find a good rss reader with a modern UI and isn't inexpensive/free
Tree-sitter based text-objects are one of my favourite parts of neovim 0.5 too. Now I can have class, function, parameter, and comment text-objects that can be manipulated as easily as words or paragraphs.

This plugin sets it all up and has some examples: https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter-textobjec...
More difficult, but feasible.

One way is to demand that a smaller amount of money be wired to 1,000 accounts throughout the world.

You — the bad guy - own merely one of them.

Difficult to trace them all before you empty your particular account.
> How a run-of-the-mill Cessna is not an air car?

Its three full lanes wide, for one thing. (Looking at a 172, for instance.)

> Just add some blinkers and a stop lights to make it street-legal.

That... wouldn't make it a legal passenger car. There's a lot required (and it varies across jurisdictions) to have a legal car, and most planes don't come close.
I got an abnormally high number of robocalls today - could this be related?
Can you expand on this, maybe show some examples?

I’m familiar with RxJS and have always thought it would be nice to have some syntax sugar for common operations. But I’m not sure how the concept would apply to monads in general.
I would actually be curious to hear more about that perspective on Rick Rubin. A very cursory Google doesn't come up with much, and I'll dig a bit harder soon, but if you want to elaborate or link to something about this, I'd very much appreciate it!
The line between the two are blurring further every day, though. Might not be that far off in the future when they're actually interchangeable.
You are so polite, I am impressed with your ability not to push back on the interviewees. In this episode I would have asked "would sqlite really be worse today if you hadn't done your own VCS.". But I think I wouldn't be half as successful as you, people don't wanna be implicitly criticised by their interviewer :P

You are doing so great, favorite podcast by far!
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Ah I understand that part but if it’s going to a big client who knows the emails are coming is it besides the point? I understand day to day
> YMMV, obviously your locale and my locale don't suffer the same issue with shared spaces.

Suffer what same issue? You said there is a void of "modern social spaces" around you. Is that the issue you're talking about? I'm saying opening up empty office space to the public carte blanche won't turn them into vibrant engaging places that the community will gravitate to.

> The point was that this is all where I live in terms of shared spaces and I seize those opportunities. The idea being, there is a need for shared spaces. For example, whenever a block party is organized here there's not really any public space to host it. Not enough greenery per district where daily activities of the locals can vary but special events, for said locals, are easy to put together. That's a void.

Isn't a block party specifically organized on the block for local people to turn up to without having to go far? Isn't the block exactly the desired public space for this? I don't see what the void is there, sidewalks and verges are public spaces.

If you think buildings anybody is free to go in and out of to have parties in would be a good idea, I'm not sure what to say.

People are perfectly free to open their houses and invite neighbors to have a party too (which occasionally happens on my street). Or you can book venues or organize to go to a partk (where do you live that has no parks in walking distance?). The point is this rarely happens because people don't really want to invest in this. A block party takes very little investment in time or money or location.

> As for the term, I understood the spirit of it to mean public spaces to socialize, where any variety of activities can be done alone or with others. Examples include parks with chess tables, public pools and nature reserves. You can easily go to these kinds of places, socialize with perfect strangers or go alone and still be surrounded by people in your community. Again YMMV and that's OK. I'm open to any ideas so long as those spaces exist.

I'm just saying they exist everywhere (including side walks and verges if you want a block party) and are under utilized. The demand is not there.

> I agree and think it'll always be hard to trust strangers. But the more opportunities communities have to socialize, the easier it is to build that trust -- but they have to exist. When there's a lack of spaces, that just compounds the trust issue.

Turning the public loose on vacant buildings I guarantee will not do anything to increase trust. The results will make people rightly very angry.
Someone else on here said it was a glorified tab complete that was really nice and that seems to be my impression too. It looks productive but it doesn't look like it totally changes the nature of programming to me.
The article links to https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2021/07/02/ka... , which says it was Kaseya VSA and links to their advisory.
The government should condemn the building until it is safe, of course.

Property owners will naturally balk at steep repair bills. Regulations exist to ensure that essential repairs happen in spite of that reluctance.
When I first started using a feed reader, I looked for patterns in articles I liked from posts on sites like HN. after a while I had enough to keep me busy.

I don’t think it’s an either or thing so much as a matter of intervals. Come back from time to time to top up with new sources you missed before.
That's true, but when have FAANG unicorns ever had the same "laws of physics" that other companies have?
The medium post author posts this to HN and doesn't participate in the thread, and the post itself is membership walled. Annoying. I'll look at the archive.is link I guess, but I feel spammed.
We weren't guessing usernames, lol — these assclowns had a public map — of every user's data!!
Give it time, these are start-ups bootstrapping themselves. They don't have the support infrastructure in place yet to scale to beyond a few hundred companies. As it is, there are going to be a lot of over-worked people at REvil doing crunch time, missing family dinners and their kids' recitals and soccer games managing the logistics of this hack.

No worries though, the ransom from this round should serve nicely as a Series B round of financing & enable rapid scaling of the post-hack ransom extraction process.
That depends on what you define as 'real work'.

I am retired from a day-to-day job. So the easy answer to your question is 'No'.

So I have a hobby or two to fill in my time. My main hobby is writing emulators for old 'retro' computers from the 1980s. A lot of times I use those emulators themselves for writing more software with WordStar under CP/M as my text-editor.
Write a time-series database engine from scratch
> The local government officials stopped because it's a california-wide law.

No, its not. Prop. 47 is a state law, but while it reduces the category of offense for some thefts, it doesn't require nonprosecution or no police response. That's a DA and/or police policy choice, and it’s not one every other place in the state does the way SF does.
Brave 1.26.71 on Android 10 here, looks fine to me other than having to pinch to zoom on the pictures
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I'm a Canadian too. Maybe I've just been lucky, but when I or anyone in my family has needed urgent care, I've never felt like I had to wait excessive amounts of time for it.

As far as whether facilities could be "nicer", I mean... maybe? I actually kind of prefer healthcare to be like schools in this way— if I don't think it's nice enough for me, then I need to lobby the province to collect more taxes and make it nicer for everyone rather than just taking my dollars elsewhere.

And that doesn't even address the whole billing-surprise angle. I would happily wait forever if the alternative was not knowing if I was going to randomly be stuck with a $10M bill.
And I think Cloud computing is covertly 'leaking' vital data and has its role in ransom-ware attacks https://archive.is/x1Hvh
Statistically EVERYONE has extremely poor security culture.

It's been wallpapered over as just cutting unnecessary expense for too long.
thats bad because kaseya protects other companies
I was wondering why the episodes on the corecursive feed start at number 5.

I'll check your hosted episodes on Software Engineering Daily now!
I quite disagree. It's boring when they just say their talking points. The guests are experts in their field, they can handle some pushback and it would be much more educational for the rest of us to hear the answers to the questions we're really wondering about.

It doesn't have to be "implicit criticism", but an open mind doesn't blindly accept stuff, ask for justification.
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Another way to look at it is that cryptocurrency has been around for what, ten years? And it seems in the past six months or so there’s been more ransomware attacks, certainly more high-profile ones, than there has been in the previous 9.5 years. So clearly there’s more to it than just the existence of cryptocurrency.
There is no mention of BSL-4 in the article, which really jumped out at me.

And their earlier research was done in BSL-2!
Perhaps, but of all the leading developed nations on Earth, the US has a particularly corrupt government that sells itself to the highest bidder thanks to Citizens United and armies of lobbyists.

Our healthcare, prison, and student loan systems, for example, prey on US citizens without repercussions at lengths that don’t fly in most developed countries.

I think it’s safe to say that corruption and greed are at the root of most problems in the US, and it’s important to call it like it is.
Share price doesn't regularly continue to go up while profits continue to contract.
Microsoft’s Blue Screen of Death is changing to black
Dude, if you look at Equifaxes and Solarwinds EBITDA/earnings statements following their respective breaches, you will clearly see that there has been no major impact to their bottom line. Sure, expenses rise a bit for a short period of time, but these are not catastrophic by any means.

I mean, I'm looking at Solarwinds last earnings statement and comparing quarters from last year to now, they are up about 3.5% in revenue (3/31/2020 vs 3/31/2021).
Probably not because there is no value in having employees write meaningless reports and pay them to do it. Seattle PD straight up won’t show up, no matter how much you try, feel free to submit the online I’ve been robbed form if you need it for insurance
No, it is not satire.

Apparently there were Pokemon Go gyms and Pokestops on overseas military bases.

The last US military Pokemon Go players put their Pokemon in gyms before they left.

Those Pokemon are still in those gyms when they would have normally been kicked out by other players.

This means those Pokemon will stay in those gyms until another Pokemon Go player comes along which might be a very long time.
A few that come to mind:

1. You don’t know everything. Even if you disagree listen to colleagues that have more experience and try to understand their perspective of why they think a certain way.

2. I wasn’t as mature as I thought I was. I was actually fairly selfish and it wasn’t until I had kids that I realised true selflessness and putting others first. Along the same lines: pre-kids you don’t realise how much spare time you actually have all to yourself.

3. The speed of life. I feel like each decade speeds up - make sure you check in with yourself every year or two on your life goals and happiness and make adjustments or you might just find many years go in the blink of an eye.
I'm not saying it doesn't, i'm saying it's cheaper. S3 or Google Cloud storage is going to be so much more expensive in this scenario. B2 is the same as Google One at $10/mo for 2TB, which doesn't include data re-downloading ($20 to redownload the full 2tb). The only benefit you get with B2 is that you only pay for what you use.

And I would only recommend consumer cloud storage in an encrypted fashion - cryptomator or rclone are great.
Sendgrid exposed private DKIM keys
Subscription based Ransom ware.
Similarly, it shouldn't take a security breach for companies to care about security. Poor budgets are what is eliminating the safety nets.
The early episodes in this collection are particularly interesting, those from 1900–1914 in particular. Author points out that we barely remember the music from that time, and what is remembered is always interpreted in some other movement, such as the birth of Jazz.
BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited
These HR/comp points are so true.
I understand that. It's totally dependent on your needs. If you need to run multiple docker containers or VMs, then you need that power and I get that, I'd need it too in that case.
This needs to happen. The medical billing industry is literal cancer.

They sent me a bill for $350 then I called up to complain and suddenly the bill goes away because it’s billed to my other insurance that I didn’t even think I had anymore.

If I sent a client a random bill for $$$ things would not go nearly as nicely, but they have so captured the regulators and politicians that this is the world we live in now.

I want nothing to do with many of the policies of the left, but this would make things so much easier for small businesses and people Changing jobs in the labor market.
The user that account replied to was having a conversation with Microsoft Support about Windows 11, and they replied to the wrong tweet thread with the wrong account.

https://twitter.com/lnplum/status/1410599036311130113?s=21
Totally. I like to use the phrase “pick your battles” - it’s just not worth pushing to prove the other person wrong sometimes.
Technically speaking you can assume that any business receives a mail unless specifically refuted by evidence, but lawyers like having the extra oomph that comes from demonstrating receipt.
But matching the schematic to the picture, the double wires are on the base. It makes me think it's a double-base transistor, but both bases tied together because they don't need two for this circuit.

If it was for reliability, I'd expect the emitter to also be doubled, but it has a single wire.

GE made the 3N36/37, but here's a datasheet for a similar part: http://bitsavers.org/components/ti/discrete/transistors/3N34...
That's an accurate interpretation of what I'm saying. I don't think it's particularly bold.

I don't have any hard evidence but I'm sure you could find some. I certainly don't remember ransomware attacks being very prevalent prior to last decade. They all seem to request cryptocurrencies (I can tell you're a coin head because you refer to them simply as crypto).

Without cryptocurrencies ransomeware would largely go away. Sure there'd still be cybercrime, hacking, data breeches etc...
This type of comment is what I come to HN for. Thank you.
Source? There is no 48 hour limit. Did you read the article? It's about US troop pokemon staying in gyms long after the personnel have left.

Googling gave me this answer for how they stay in gyms:
"Forever. Someone has to defeat it in battle to knock its motivation down to 0. Otherwise, it will never hit 0 through normal decay."

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/fjl4xz/how_long_...
Yeah trust your gut feeling most, good advice.
No, he is indicating that the unlicensed public performance of the work is deliberate.
"Left alone" as in publicly and geopolitically.

The FBI investigated the crime as they always do. It was treated as a standard international monetary theft.
This is certainly a valid take, as espoused by Hobbes. John Locke famously took the other side - humans are honorable and nobel creatures.

What is your life experience that makes you prefer one over the other? They both seem equally valid, depending on ones choice of available amplified evidence.
> The justification of 230's existence is that the host shouldn't be liable, because it's not their speech.

> That's no longer true if they're picking and choosing what gets heard, what gets buried, and what gets banned.

No, its not. That's approximately the traditional justification for distributors having more limited liability than publishers.

Section 230 was expressly adopted to allow platforms to act like publishers in a limited way without publisher liability, specifically to pick and choose what gets heard, what gets buried, and what gets banned.

The justification you invented is basically the opposite of the explicit purpose of 230.
It’s definitely at play here - the cops often don’t even show up, and the stores have stopped bothering to call.

If you don’t record it, it isn’t happening, as it were.