skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So could an interpreter. Also, Afghanistan has mountains and binoculars, neither of which requires guessing Air Force usernames on Strava or whatever. Not that you don't do anything you can that works in asymmetrical warfare or whatever the inside-the-beltway crowd prefers to call it these days, but it's hardly as if there's much in the way of a unique threat model here.

In any case, Pokemon Go's been out since, what, 2016? No one on any side has taken the American war in Afghanistan seriously since well before then. When you're just waiting around for Americans to acknowledge the inevitable and leave, there's not all that much point in finding clever ways to blow up Americans - all that's liable to do is make Americans maybe decide to stick around longer. That doesn't necessarily make Americans playing Pokemon Go in Bagram a good idea, but it also doesn't make it a bad one, and I can think of a lot worse.
Does NASA have outside auditors with a highly adversarial relationship reviewing its launch procedures?

I don’t think it does.

I’m pretty sure NASA has an excellent internal team of quality control specialists. The specialists are a part of all aspects of deployment and launch.

They don’t just pop in and review work, they’re constantly there.

They’re also very much “part of the team.” They don’t strictly speaking “have teeth.” They’re focused on the same mission everyone else is, only with a special focus on making it happen safely.

Maybe you mean something like the relationship between the FAA and airline industry.

But that’s very different from how NASA operates.

So it’s clearly not the only model.
Wasn’t that the premise for Idiocracy?
His ivermectin stuff is pretty wild.

Also, he and his brother have (IMHO) quite obvious inferiority complexes about their academic careers. So much of what they both say boils down to how the academic system doesn't respect their intelligence, and implied is that they deserve it.

I mean, who doesn't feel that way about their field? But to speak at length on podcasts about it, which are only popular due to Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson, is pretty exhausting to me.
Samples at that link, for anyone curious.
I don’t mean to diminish marine workers specifically, but isn’t every job essential? I see this label used pretty much all the time now and my feeling is that in the end, it comes down to supply and demand. To their customer, any worker is essential to some extent, since they demand their labor to fulfill some need. But the worker is not infinitely essential since for high enough compensation, others would step in to do the job as well. So why have the label? It feels like it is used as a marketing device for change (like pushing for wage increases) more than anything.
You suspect two murders.

One by dnc and one by rnc. You have video of the dnc one and you don't show it because you lack the other video?

You hide the truth because it is not fair to the first murder that you don't have proof of the other?
This is something a lot of people don't understand. I enter into a relationship with the work of art, not the artist. I never met Allan Ginsberg and I'll never meet Woody Allen, but I've internalized their work, so it's part of me. I don't get these people that say "you shouldn't have that be part of yourself." What do they expect me to do? Denounce the artist every chance I get like they do in an attempt to exorcise their art out of me?
this would be cool if I was an edgy 4chan teen
That just redirects you to an unrelated highlights page.
"This video is not available in your location."
> but we did not intend to go viral either :)

This is hilarious and makes me wonder about the relationship of the value of going viral with the repercussions in going viral before you feel you are ready for it.

Great, lots more people know about the app.

Not so great, some people's first impressions are negative because of flaws that you are probably already working to fix.

Overall it is an impressive app with lots of potential to be even better.
> Yes it might mean their claims of being a new species could be invalidated

Well, if you think they are bad, why not think them as the worst.

Maybe the whole Dragon Man is a hoax... Right?

Intellectually, I never really understand the mind behind this type of comments... Such minds seem cannot reason long and far enough, but they are very good at distrusting anything...
Largest US Blind Advocacy Group Bans AccessiBe from Its National Convention
Hmm, in this case I might have a local script running on a cronjob or Scheduled Task to FTP(S) into the server and copy the files on the server locally. You can run this on a desktop or a raspi if one knows how to use it.

It sounds from the blog like they already had automated off-sites, which makes me feel like they do have (perhaps limited) SSH access? Maybe it's just a cPanel deal though.

No troubles, didn't take it personally and hope I didn't come off that way :)

I remember as a teenager subscribing to dirt cheap hosting that only allowed uploads via a portal (:S) and trying to upload phpbb file by file, so I get it ahaha... passion often outstrips means/ability :P
> sending always happens with the main address

Not true. You can set up Sending Identities to use another address for sending.
It’s almost the opposite in NYC. Huge buildings on solid foundations. Hard part is building. Everything you drop you need to build same day. Good luck organizing it!
> some Chinese anthropologists question the common human origin "Out of Africa" and instead suggest Chinese or East Asians had their own separate origin

Where are those claims? Do you have some examples of such claims.
Tell HN: FileStack (YC S12) is holding my data hostage
As a warning for anyone who's thinking about using Filestack.

I started using Filestack (then filepicker.io) in 2012 for my site https://fiction.live, basically as soon as it launched for file hosting. It was good for a while... then the price increases came in. The prices jacked up year over year while I was stuck in it. Then I finally had enough and left and am now using a MUCH cheaper CDN.

Now a couple of years later, I decide I want those files back. After all, they're my files and it'll be nice to have them for archival.

I email them to allow me to migrate the files away from their service and they refuse to allow me to download them unless I pay them $59.

Isn't that absolutely insane? They claim it's for "bandwidth" purposes, like 30GB of bandwidth costs $59 dollars?

It's a YC company holding my data hostage, preventing me from migrating off. Pretty sure that's extortion.

TLDR: All I want to do is to take my data and leave, but they demand payment.
It is the end of copyright then. NNs are great at memorizing text. So I just train a large NN to memorize a repository and the code it outputs during "inferencing" is fair use ?

You can get past GPL, LGPL and other licenses this way. Microsoft can finally copy the linux kernel and get around GPL :-).
That's fun:) The one thing that would have made me hesitate is getting the attacker to go after hand-rolled Python; I would personally not trust my python against an attacker. On the other hand, it wad isolated so probably not a big deal even if the attacker managed to exploit it; exploiting a dummy app on an isolated server isn't terrible:)
> It's generally acknowledged that IQ measured by well known IQ tests like the WAIS are fairly consistent over time.

This is partially because they're designed to behave that way. There is not a direct causation between your score on a test and your quality of life.

Also, how many people are actually taking IQ tests multiple times in their life? Who even takes them once unless they're being studied for a mental health issue?

> Health issues, mental problems, stress, tiredness, drugs or alcohol can all influence your score, mostly in a negative way.

… and this is a counterpoint to the one above, because removing negative contributions is the same thing as improving your test score.
a private company kicking someone off of their website is not and never has been "censorship"
Yes, mostly.

The 12 Russians, and the 3 Russian companies all hired attorneys to represent them and counter sue for defamation. When their attorney went in front of the judge, all charges were dropped by the Justice Dept, refusing document discovery "on issues of national security".

It's all political reality television, from both the right and the left. It's like a cable TV wrestling match.

I've had trouble finding English language sources giving the full story with a 2 min search. They all just cite the dropping of charges against the companies. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/justice-department-russia-com...

Here's an RT link with a little more info, for whatever that's worth: https://www.rt.com/usa/483279-concord-russiagate-charges-dro... . You might have better luck looking for a little longer.
Try Vancouver or Toronto where the average detached is 1.4 million. No one here is laughing
> The point is that journalists are not supposed to be "politically minded"

Where are you finding journalists that aren’t politically minded?
Well they don't want to fix it, and presumably the lack of repairs is dangerous. What is the government supposed to do? Do the repairs for them and send them a bill?
I can't figure out if you are arguing for- or against- Assange, but just in case people are interpreting it as the against-...

The email leak was exposing corruption in the DNC handling of Bernie Sanders' campaign. Particularly when the corruption being exposed was related to an ongoing election, it is easy to believe Wikileaks just released what they had ASAP without waiting for any particular time.

The emails didn't exist before the election and waiting until later is, from a neutral leakers point of view, kinda silly. It is not at all obvious Wikileaks acted partisanly.
Alternative to watercolour paper – making water absorbent wooden panels
Perhaps you can make use of the "save / restore / share" tabs feature of Histre: https://histre.com/features/save-restore-tabs/ (It is mine). You can also take notes on them, highlight snippets on the websites etc.

The biggest benefit for me is that it lets me put everything away without the anxiety of losing anything.
Yup that's massive. According to [1] the biggest fires in the US were the 2014 Northwest Territories fires which burned 8 million acres or ~12,500 square miles. 98,466 sq mi is more area than all of the wildfires in the United States going back to 2007 COMBINED.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wildfires
Steady income is definitely the way to play. You don’t want to make a demand so large that there’s cheaper alternatives of dealing with you.

Also you want the company to stay in business so it can continue generating revenue to extract future ransoms, and not have it lose a bunch of its customers from your repeated attacks.
just what i need for my climate catastrophe anxiety...

question: is it better for the oil to burn up? i'm sure not all of it makes it to the surface, but maybe better than dispersing in the water where we'd never get it out?
Didn't it only affect those who were unpatched hence the low percent? Current hack is 0-day.
> So I have mixed feeling about what the DNC did.

The DNC didn't really do anything. Staff talked outside of school about him but that's it. Bernie was never a player in the Democratic Party, as he just caucuses with them, wasn't a fundraiser, and didn't stump for many other politicians in the party. He ran for the D nomination and lost by millions of votes. He didn't appeal to as many people in the primaries as HRC and he lost.
Live in an area without noise and air pollution. Stay in shape. Don't eat lead paint chips. Have smarter children and train them to inherit your legacy[1].

Modafinil probably doesn't boost intelligence, but you'd have to define intelligence first. It increases "executive function" and decreases some other things like creativity and reaction times.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09249...

[1] This is a better strategy than relying on your own intelligence, because you're only ever one blow to the head away from losing it.
115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go
The stats seem to say shoplifting is not increasing in sf. Though that doesn't mean that any chain isn't experiencing something different.

Or that the sf crazies aren't being even crazier post lockdown and causing more of the mentioned security incidents.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Is-shoplifting-ris...
I've heard it used in place of internment camp. Though I honestly associate it with the Nazis too.
I think it's hard to tell whether Wikileaks was a convenient patsy in this process being played to the best advantage of one side (likely the Russians) over others, or whether they actively played along either because of partisan bias or because they hoped to get more dirt to publish.

The thing is we all used to love WL for their active transparency and independence, but when they started playing these games (or allowing themselves to be played) they lost that respect
The local government officials stopped because it's a california-wide law. You can like the law or dislike it, but don't blame the local officials.
Good strategy, I'll start using it too
I did not leverage any VBA or VB. I learned to code in VBA and written way too much code in that space and was well aware of the limitations.

I'm pretty sure the way it went was, on check-in of a new version, I had a Java program that read the spreadsheet validated that all the right sheets were there and that the columns on each sheet conformed with the spec and also validated rows of data. The sheets were translated on each front end node for easy access.

Regarding the expression engine, the the expressions themselves were then translated into TCL boolean expressions. The attributes for the related objects where already loaded into memory into dictionaries and then the expressions were just evaluated to get a boolean result.
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Our Infrastructure bill needs to finance inspections nationwide for buildings at this point.
Tinfoil hat, but that Solarwinds access was way more valuable than a ransomware payoff. Made sense to keep quiet with it.
We used to cross-cut shred, and then turn the shredded remains into recycled paper, at one of my old workplaces.
Honestly, I think this should be the death knell of these "remote monitoring and management" tools that have extreme low-level access to networks and systems, but just like the SolarWinds attack, it feels like these are run by companies with extremely poor security culture.

I mean, I'd be willing to trust security to Microsoft or Apple (I mean, at some level, you've got to trust the OS). But giving the keys to the castle to some mid-tier company is just a recipe for disaster, and the bad guys know how extremely lucrative these targets are.
No, that isn't what I meant.

Costa Rica does not run 100% on renewables. It's literally and simply a media half-baked feel good fiction.

They still have gas cars, diesel busses, diesel generators, &c.

They still emit tons and tons of carbon. They currently emit 1.64 metric tons per person, more than twice what their neighbors in Nicaragua do.

They're carbon neutral in the greasy, lawyer, "well technically we meant this" way that you should never, ever take seriously.

A Costa Rican has about 1/7 the emissions of an American.

I know it's lovely to pretend, but let's come back to the real world here. These things are easy to look up

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> I would love to see that figure (gross import %)

Then look it up
You’ve not dealt with South Florida HOAs. Literally the worst I’ve ever encountered. One that I dealt with tried to pass of hazard insurance as flood insurance. When confronted, rather than own up, they suggested they could “talk my lender into accepting it anyway. I almost sued them for fraud until realizing no point spending good money to chase nothing.

It’s like a different world with these HOAs. Lots of corruption and red tape and hiding behind procedures. I hope these situations call to light the severe issues in this area with HOA / property management companies. Gross negligence seems to be a lot more common than you’d ever guess. This is based on first hand conversations to supplement my own experience.
This article is bizarre. It considers the case where your CAC is $16, then considers whether you should charge $10/mo or $29/mo. And, uh, yeah, of course, if you can raise prices without increasing your CAC/churn, you should obviously do that, but, in the real world, it’s harder to get customers to pay more, and that has to be reflected as higher CAC.

Now, in fact, $10 is often too low, because the CAC of $29/mo isn’t usually that much higher than $10/mo, but it definitely is higher, and numbers like “$10/mo = $1,200/mo run rate, $29/mo = $1M/month run rate” should have forced the author to stop and reflect a little harder on whether these numbers make sense.

Maybe we should charge $99/mo and make a BILLION dollars in the first year, right? Or, why stop there? At a fixed $16 CAC, why not charge $1,000/mo, $10K/mo?

But that’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works!
> Links to sources would go a long way to helping your case.

Anyone who would actually listen looked it up when I said it, and learned something.

The redditors demanded a field guide, and got nothing.
There's evolutionary pressure to reduce brain size because big heads make childbirth more injurious/lethal to the mom. I find it quite plausible that it would happen everywhere along a similar timeline.
> The only way to change this is to recall crime-permissive people like SF DA Chesa Boudin and other politicians supporting these policies, and replacing them with a more-conservative hard on crime set of leaders.

Or, you know, simply replace people like Boudin with pretty much any of their opponents in the last election cycle, "tough on crime" or not. It's very difficult to express how radical Boudin is. It's difficult to say this without seeming hyperbolic, because the term has been abused to death a 1000x over by conservative outlets. But he's basically a Marxist, with both the intelligence and ambition to institute radical policies popular in the American Marxist community.[1] Here's Boudin in 2009 defending Chavez and his constitutional reform removing term limits: "Chavez for Life? There are at least three reasons why the world should congratulate Venezuela's Hugo Chávez on his recent success abolishing term limits", https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/chavez-life/

[1] With apologies to Marxists who also think Boudin's policies are too extreme and imprudent.
Active ransomware attack against Kaseya VSA remote management tool
I actually disagree with this because I think you should try to have the project even vaguely work at each commit, so "git bisect" will work. But maybe each commit could be a log of keystrokes instead of a text diff.
The first transpiler to mention here would be https://fennel-lang.org/ and
https://github.com/Olical/aniseed
Your comment simultaneously infuriated and gladdened me.

Infuriating that a physician was so behind the times as to actively try to brain damage you, ok, I exaggerate but not by too much. My physician tried to push statins on me when I went on Keto but I found a cardiologist who does keto himself and he gave me a clean bill of health. Not that I would have taken statins if he had not.

Glad that you took health into your own hands and did the necessary research. It is insane how much can be discovered in a few hours of research and studying on the Internet. There is no going back!
Well as one gets older you notoce a great amount of nonsense and get cynical. The cynical taking isn’t always correct, and a LOT of people take it too far but mild cynicism is a good bet
Literally everywhere. They're standard issue.

The Level3 building in San Diego had a two story iron flywheel that got loose and cut its way through the highway.

They are by far the most common kind of energy storage on Earth. Even in your car, which has both.

https://www.10news.com/news/11k-pound-flywheel-caused-poway-...
Well sure but:

(1) this pandemic has not been shown to be caused by gain-of-function research and probably wasn't.

(2) why do you think scientists do gain-of-function research? It's to try and prevent pandemics by finding viruses which might be dangerous.

So if there's a problem it's really (3): we haven't consistently funded pandemic preparedness, in particular there needs to be an established process to clinical trial and test new vaccines against identified "risky" viral strains in the wild, ideally with a platform perspective that we can have confidence can be rapidly modified to get a new vaccine out the door.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/2/16599036/d...

> Donna Brazile, a longtime Clinton ally who stepped in as DNC chair last year in the wake of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s resignation, published an excerpt of her upcoming book in Politico in which she disclosed the details of a fundraising agreement between the DNC and the Clinton campaign reached in August 2015.

> “The agreement — signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC, and [Clinton campaign manager] Robby Mook with a copy to [Clinton campaign counsel] Marc Elias— specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised,” Brazile wrote in the story under the headline “Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC.”

> Brazile added of the deal: “[Clinton’s] campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decisions on all the other staff. The DNC also was required to consult with the campaign about all other staffing, budgeting, data, analytics, and mailings.”

> During the 2016 election, Sanders allies alleged that the DNC did not act as a neutral arbiter of the Democratic primary, favoring Clinton in its selection of debate times and fundraising. Their suspicions were only heightened when leaked emails published by WikiLeaks, and now reported to have been hacked by the Russians, appeared to show DNC staffers deriding Sanders and plotting ways to help Clinton. The accusations grew so heated that Wasserman Schultz resigned, which is when Brazile took over.

> But now Brazile has provided explosive new evidence for the initial allegations. "The shocking news here is this idea they were exerting a level of control over DNC affairs that we didn't know about," said Kenneth Pennington, who served as digital director for the Sanders campaign. "If you had told me this during the primary — that they're using the joint fundraising committee to get veto power over DNC functions — I would have called you a conspiracy nut."

The rigging of the primaries was bad, but that's only half the story. The bigger reason for the resignations probably had a lot to do with what they said about their donors and the way that people pretty clearly were buying federal appointments.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/07/leaks-show-dnc-aske...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/24/he...
I thought it was a model only trained on GPL code, which would be interesting but I guess would cost a few million to make.
Carrier Access
It was the Adit 600
That's not what the parent comment asserted though.
Slack charges $6.67/Month, and is a real business. Pretty sure they would have never gotten big if they charged $20/Month.
I almost a fan of these attacks. At least someone is getting the bug bounty they deserve.
That's great. If you don't mind, I have two follow-up questions:

1. I believe kefir is usually the same consistency as buttermilk, not yogourt. How do you make them as thick as yogourt?

2. How do you keep your kefir grains alive? I don't use a huge amount of yogourt. Can you freeze grains between uses? How often do you need to make a new batch to keep the grains alive?