skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The malware could have been planted by a foreign spying agency which won’t be the first time such a thing has happened. The wording of the title makes you assume an adversary just because the title lists them first.
I am a few months in to a 15 year mortgage after recently refinanced at a 2.125%. Here's a rough breakdown of where each dollar of my last mortgage payment went:

Principal: 60%

Interest: 22%

Escrow(Taxes + Insurance): 18%

And of course the percentage going to interest only goes down with each passing month. The conventional wisdom that you are paying mostly interest in the beginning a) really only applies to 30 year mortgages, and b) was way more true when interest rates were higher. We're currently near some of the lowest interest rates in history, so interest eats a lot less than it used to.

I'll add that I pay a good bit less on my mortgage than it takes to rent an equivalent place in my area. But yes, paying 6% to realtors when you sell is huge, so you still need to own the house a few years for buying to make sense.
Not to say I don’t believe that China is actively attacking networks and services (if they don’t then they’re lagging behind and it’s embarassing), but I can understand the skepticism of grand claims when the latest was that tiktok was impacting national security.
That is an absolutist argument. Sure, some countries have used censorship in abusive ways, but I very specifically mentioned Germany. It was widely recognized after World War II that a resurgence of nazism would have been disastrous for Germany, and censorship was imposed to prevent the hundreds of thousands of committed nazi party members from trying to reestablish nazism. Censorship was absolutely necessary because propaganda had been so important in the rise of nazism in the first place, and because nazi ideas and the nazi world view did not simply die when Germany surrendered.

Despite very strict censorship laws related to nazi propaganda, nazi symbolism, and Holocaust denial, Germany ranks much higher than the United States in terms of press freedom and has ranked higher for many years. There is no serious argument that (modern, reunified) Germany is not a free society where people are free to criticize the government. Yes, there are limits to the ideas that are allowed to be publicly promoted or debated, because the same concerns about a resurgence of nazism remain relevant today (it has actually become worse in recent years).

The abuse of censorship laws on the part of dictatorships is not an argument against all censorship, any more than the abuse of the courts by dictatorships is an argument against the rule of law. Expansive censorship is a problem that works against the interests of a free society, but limited censorship is sometimes necessary to promote the interests of a free society.
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Starts with a misleading title, goes into content-free blogspam, and ends with a desperate salesman pitch for their services. To top it off, the article randomly throws in "I love and appreciate you [a random visitor to his website] for who you are :heart:"

Unseemly and oily.
Thread Pools on the JVM
> So should we considered the NSA a terrorism-aiding organization

This statement needs the "we" defined to be meaningful.

If it is the U.S., then obviously no, the NSA is an arm of the state. If "we"` is e.g. China, probably no, because words have meanings and the arms of recognized foreign states don't conduct terrorism, they do espionage and they do war. If "we" is a freshman dorm room, then, of course, the NSA is a terrorist organization alongside the student government.
I still play Warthunder sometimes and keep up with the community, and when news initially dropped a few days ago it was a big news within the community

Ironically, the game developers now cannot model the Challenger tank to its realistic specifications, out of fear of legal issues.
I would like to be financially independent (highly unlikely). This would give me the ability to get more exercise, enjoy hobbies, and take a lower stress part time or gig job. I dont think there's really anything to be had for help in this area.

To answer the question in the context that I think you have in mind... I would like to see a lower birth rate, less construction, less congestion, more green tech, and more sustainable practices.
There is a community on reddit called "self-aware wolves" that narrowly identifies a much broader phenomenon: there are many elements of modern society which are generally tolerated but not morally permissible. This is a representative instance.
All the reports about the "genocide" come from one person, Adrian Zenz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Zenz). It's about as credible as reports of Saddam's soldiers ripping babies from incubators. Zenz works for the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and enjoys nothing more than inventing new "victims" to add to the list.

It's pretty funny the lengths to which he and the western media that runs with whatever he says are willing to invent things out of whole cloth to support this. Uighurs openly celebrating Eid was used as evidence of attrocities since this couldn't possibly be their own free will, and it was done as propaganda by Beijing!
Unsafe Hell: Code review of “Rust for Linux” GitHub project [video]
My shield updated to this the other day. I'm pretty furious about it, it's not a cheap device, and it's certainly not Google's. To be adding these "features" without asking, irrespective of whatever agreement between me, Nvidia or Google exists, is ridiculous.

I know it's in whatever terms I, uh, "accepted", but there's just no escaping it in this day and age.

Fortunately, I know how to use ADB and just installed another launcher, but most other people just have to bend over and take it. No doubt ADB tricks won't be sufficient in future updates and I'll be playing more silly games with a device I own.

Apple is seems almost as bad too. There's recommendations that I don't want. It's certainly worse in that I would have even less control and be unable to remove them.

It's certainly a good thing that I don't live anywhere near a Google office, otherwise I'd be launching this POS through one of their windows if I did.
+1 I’m beyond furious about this and it’s a small drop in the bucket of Googles increased ability to shove ads down your throat everywhere. Something needs to change.
Also to be considered is that any substance can be harmful if abused in excess; even "harmless" substances or beneficial substances. Even drinking too much water can lead to "water poisoning" [1]. It's even led to a death in a radio contest [2]. There's also the fact that not every person responds to every substance in exactly the same way. Some may experience adverse effects after minor exposure, where others may abuse a thing in excess and never display any outward signs of a negative effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

[2] http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/hold-your-wee-w...
I'm guessing the Android Launcher is next to have banner ads.
If you have to lie in an interview to get a job, that's a pretty strong sign that the job is not worth having.
There's a character in "Soylent Green", an old fellow who claims that there used to be all sorts of wonderful nature back in the past, but no-one believes him. I feel like this stuff could facilitate a similar situation.
As long as it is end to end encrypted, the day they remove that feature is the day I would stop using the app.
For some reason it sometimes seems as if people would rather everybody is responsible for everybody else's bad decisions but never their own. It's crazy, I know.
For those who haven't heard of him before, Kapoor did the Bean in Chicago.
Blackest black explains!!!!
Wanted to ask if JuliaDB is something that might get more development attention? Or will that remain a community project? (I see it’s been in need of a release for awhile.)
Maybe "activists" who have very strong ideological beliefs but unknowingly present their preach as fact-based reports in a very tricky way that looks very objective. The public are misled to believe their distorted conclusions.

I've seen a lot of them. On some topics especially when audience don't have access to the ground truth, they(zesty activists disguised as objective journalists) are majority. This lead to a big gap between the perceptions on the same topic among different groups of audience and each group consider the other one are brainwashed.

The difference between activists and advertisers is: the later are knowingly try to sell something while the former thought they are telling truth which make the hidden activists more deceptive.
First, lumping engineers in with the bulk of academia is disingenuous to say the least.

Second, what does it say about the desirability of what’s being sold by the technocratic elite that half the country voted for a second term for the egomaniacal dotard (for he surely was that), and most of the other half of the country got behind Joe Biden, a man from a working class background, a graduate of a second tier university known for his popular appeal rather than his intelligence?
"Missed mobile" might be reference to creating a device-oriented FB moat, the infamous HTC Cha Cha from 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_ChaCha
‘Tortured phrases’: more problems at journal that just flagged 400 papers
Oh, great, I misinterpreted that! (I thought it was the return on investment in the house, not your non-house portfolio.) A slider would still be nice. I've attempted calculations like this in the past, and I was surprised how much the choice ended up depending on the difference between the assumed investment rate vs. house rate.
We’ll probably end up seeing new IP law to incentivize/protect the collection of training data. Creating training data is crazy expensive, but exploiting it without permission/attribution/compensation is currently legally protected as fair use.
US appliance prices are ridiculous. I paid 689€, taxes inclusive for a top of the range 24" Bosch induction top. You could add an integrated oven and still end up below ~1k€.
https://www.digitalviolence.org/

It kinda describes how NGO operated and it's great infographic!
A lot of ad conscious users have been glad to pay the premium price for the Shield because of the ad-free experience. I've had the device for years and this is the first time I've been subjected to ads that I can't remove.
My county has its own species apparently:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe_tampanensis
Agreed. The parent comment makes a ridiculous extrapolation.
They’ve been caught spying to further their own business interests.
If you don’t believe Tiktok is a national security threat you are hopelessly naive.

MyFitnessPal, Strava, etc are threats to national security and they’re US based, but you think that Tiktok isn’t because someone you don’t like said it is? That’s playground logic.
I guess... I mean, it is more mysterious than you suggest, given that this fellow had been foraging for 10 years apparently.

It's like a driver mixing up the gas and the brake pedal. I don't really have an explanation.
Democracy, human rights, and self-determination as a concept should be the hero.
The Tao of Go
Amazon refused to do anything about it.

Actually "refused" to do anything about it, or didn't respond to you?
What launcher did you switch to?
I think you're misunderstanding the axiom of choice, focusing too much on the literal word "choice". Sure, that ABC order is arbitrary, but so are most mathematical constructions! How did I "select" that encoding? By defining it! By your definition of the axiom of choice, literally defining any set at all (besides the null set and the set of natural numbers, which are defined in their own axioms) would require invoking the axiom of choice.

You only need the axiom of choice if you need to pick an element out of a set WITHOUT SPECIFYING which one you are picking. And sometimes not even then. For instance, if you want to prove all elements in a set have a certain property, often you will see proofs take the form "pick an element of that set, assume it doesn't have this property, then by X, Y, and Z we have a contradiction, thus all elements have that property". That doesn't involve the axiom of choice at all, even though a straight reading of that statement makes it sounds like we are making a choice. In truth that proof is saying we can do this with every single element of that set, so you aren't really making a "choice". You only need the axiom of choice when you are, say, stating the existence of a function without defining what that function is. For an example of an actual invocation of the axiom of choice, check out the proof sketch in the wikipedia article on Zorn's Lemma: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorn%27s_lemma .
> Something isn't adding up

It's bullshit at best.

If we assume they aren't lying, which is generous given their track record, it could be that they provide the tools and infrastructure to collect the data, but don't instruct the software to collect the data. Sort of like if I had a loaded gun and told you I would point and shoot it where you told me to, and then argued that I didn't technically make the decision. It's technically true and complete bullshit.
Are there any piratical purpose in doing it?
Cigarette butts are poisoning shoreline animals
The AWS forums are going to be the best way to start a discussion with people who can escalate.
Hopefully some will ask themselves why the "beacon of democracy" in the region is so ready and open to sell tools used almost solely to prevent the spread of true democracy to their neighbours? And then maybe we should all have a long hard think about how this translates to our own disgusting arms industries as a whole.
> in perpetuity

Hopefully it really is around a very long time, but the world is unpredictable and things change. It's great to enhance the Internet Archive, but you can bet I'm keeping my local copy too. Just in case.
Some additional quotes from the thread:

"To suggest that taking an extra 15 seconds to create an account is far too much of an inconvenience is out of balance with the millions of dollars and thousands of hours that have been spent for there to be anything to be able to download at all.

"Again, MuseScore is a community that is a balance of give and take and invest and share... not simply take."

The irony is strong.

"When it comes to copyrighted works, the way this is handled is not only not within our control, it also influences the licensing structures and mechanisms we are able to provide on the site as a whole. We understand very deeply the various forms of CC licensing beyond simply CC-0, but are unable to provide such variants on a site that also distributes copyrighted works. These conditions are dictated by rights holders of copyrighted works."

Translation: they cannot let you use CC licenses because the RIAA told them not to.
Never assume ignorance where greed would suffice.
A car has plowed into several people sitting on a terrace at a bar in Spain
Yes, but if you are that paranoid and worried about it, the fact remains you should not carry an electronic device.

This person is so paranoid, that they believe that a cyberweapon developed by a private company in Israel that uses previously-unknown bugs in the most sandboxed messaging system you can get on a phone are going to be deployed against them, so they should not use the calling, texting, or any other "phone-like" functionalities of a phone.

They then distrust that the End to End Encryption is in-fact End to End, and then think that using Signal or something is more secure, when if a bug in a system more sandboxed than Signal was found (iMessage, which has BlastDoor which Signal does not have), it is more than likely that Signal has it's own zero-days in it, so you shouldn't be using that either.

That's paranoid, and if you are that paranoid (which, maybe you have a reason to be), your solution isn't well thought-through. You shouldn't be using a phone if you can help it.
There's a Tom Scott video about another one of Stuart's products, and an explanation for the Anish Kapoor message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzVmtbPOrM
You don't have to bend over and take it, you can throw the device in the garbage.

This is what I did with my Alexa hardware the instant it suffixed a routine response to a unit conversion or the weather or something with an ad for some unrelated Amazon service.
I agree they're both subpar. But having gone from open coils to radiant, I'd rather go back. That's why I was surprised.

Gas is of course great, and I haven't really tried induction yet although doing so is on my todo list to get away from radiant.
I just wish I could find a good series of monitors with matching vertical size and dot pitch but different aspect ratios. My best use case would be a 27" 16:9 primary monitor directly in front of me with a 4:3 secondary on the right or left. It would be fantastic to put a 1920x1440 next to my 2560x1440 center display with them being the same physical size.
My hope is that Nvidia will just develop a launcher. I think a lot of people will jump ship to third party launchers because of this, though, and the damage will be done. Then we just wait for an HN post about thousands of Shield devices being hacked because users installed launchers from who knows where.
In this discussion context. NSO is a company which does not have a freedom of speech right. It has a business relationship with Amazon.
What do you think a perfect info article should be like?
I want to know the views of you guys about content writing. What do you think a perfect information article should be like?
https://archive.is/u8CkK
> Apple might take this more seriously instead of having some PR flack write marketing copy

What are they supposed to do?
It's a term I've seen elsewhere. I think the term mostly contrasts to "GitOps" (every action driven by hooking onto Git repositories). I don't think the terms are too self-congratulating.

I worked on a team which made use of a chatbot which more/less was a handier way of running Jenkins jobs for releasing. Release progress got updated as messages back to the chat. Was quite neat.
Good point that everyone else can do as they please.

Moreover, this can be a big problem for the corps, and it is up to the Corp to protect their trademark and prevent everyone from doing quite as much as they please.

If people start using a trademark as a generic term too much, the trademark can be lost. There are legions of examples, starting with aspirin, escalator, dumpster, etc. [1]. So, they try to insist that it be used only the (TM) or as "Acme Brand widgets". It would not surprise me to see Google end with the same fate.

[1] Lexology: Death of a Trademark: Genericide.
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=5027217f-1db2...
"There are mushrooms that taste very bad, and (in the worst case) will cause stomach upset (vomiting) but nothing that will kill you outright."

This is false and dangerous misinformation!

Mushrooms can certainly kill you, and people have died from eating poisonous mushrooms.

Just one example, from the Amanita[1] genus:

"Several members of the section Phalloidieae are notable for their toxicity, containing toxins known as amatoxins, which can cause liver failure and death. These include the death cap A. phalloides; species known as destroying angels,
including A. virosa, A. bisporigera and A. ocreata; and the fool's mushroom, A. verna."

"More recently, a series in the subgenus Lepidella has been found to cause acute kidney failure, including A. smithiana of northwestern North America, A. pseudoporphyria of Japan, and A. proxima of southern Europe."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita#Toxicity
This is absolutely true. I'm an amateur forager, but try to make it out with the mushroom club once per year to learn more. For me, it started with identifying one mushroom (morels) and the variants that make people sick.

Part of me doesn't mind that people stay afraid, it's less competition for a great time hunting. The other part rolls their eyes at those who don't do educated risk for the reward.
Frontline (PBS)in partnership with Forbidden Stories are doing a report [1] on NSO hacking the phone of Khashoggi’s fiancé and other journalist and activists around the world.
Looks like her phone was compromised by NSO based on the reporting on this video.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-nso-group-peg...
Personally, I don't write SCUBA or scuba, as it's just not part of my day to day conversation, but I would go with SCUBA. Also, it's never just laser or LASER, it's friggin LASER!!! Pew Pew!
To my knowledge this is the first attack of this sort (shadily) attributed to China, but they have been implicated in much more important attacks, such as OPM breach ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management... ).
It's really incredible how the average American home spends some $116/mo for television[1], and is still subjected to 16 minutes of advertisements per hour of entertainment.

[1] https://www.doxo.com/insights/united-states-of-bill-pay-doxo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopkeeper%27s_privilege
No, that's not what paranoid means. Your statement is simply incorrect and your use of the word is derogatory.
Yeah those little hot plates are nothing like the real thing.
It's hard to ignore the level of abuse it enables.
I remember as a kid having a shareware sampler that had some very nicely done videogame versions of Senet, Hnefatafl, the Royal Game of Ur, and some sort of a Pueblo board game . Peak late 90s skeumorphism, complete with little rendered win/loss cutscenes. Unless I can find that CD, it's probably gone forever though
I half suspect adb tricks will alway be available. If you allow a technically difficult escape valve for your most motivated users you can probably push the envelope a lot further for everybody else, as long as it's not easy enough for many people to do.
There's not a lot of context given about the behaviors exhibited in this interview, but as many others here have said, red flags abound in this anecdote.

> But the problem was, that this guys manager was sitting next to him. If he didn’t know, I would totally humiliate him in front of his boss. So either he would stick to his guns and refuse the correctness of my answer, to save face. Or he needed to agree that he was wrong, and lose face.

I would love to ask the author if their team lead ever confirmed these suspicions. I would doubt it, but happy to amend my position if wrong. Regardless, to me this sounds like the exact type of culture I wouldn't want a new hire bringing in. I don't need to be managed or protected, especially from my own manager. I need honest answers, not what I want to hear. I wasn't in the room, I can't read the vibes like the author did, but I'll consider the omissions here telling-- there's no description of an anxious or frazzled team lead, or an imperious manager peering down. It seems like the only thing the author saved the team lead from were problems in their own head.
I bought a PC from a local computer refurbishing shop, FreeGeek. It was $80 and has more than enough hardware to run Linux and a web browser. Works great!
Why Making (Software) Design Accessible to Everyone Is Even More Important Now
Same :) seems like you could get pretty decent results just selecting random nouns?