skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn’t so much proposing hiring five professional actors; rather, doing what police forces themselves do to set up a sting — finding five FBI officers that all happen to look similar, cleaning them up to look even more similar to one-another, training them in espionage / counter-counter-intelligence techniques, and then phrasing the BOLO in such a way that it avoids mentioning their differences.

> potentially expose them to bodily harm, the legal consequences if something go wrong

Presume that the FBI is staking out the police building and has (compelled) the cooperation of the local sheriff, in exactly the same way white-hat social-engineering pen-testers work in cooperation with the management of the organizations they attempt to penetrate. Presume also that, unknown to the police, no real suspects are being simultaneously processed (all have been redirected to other neighbouring precincts) and so all police suppression equipment has been swapped out for non-working versions. (If you try to taze or shoot the suspect, you lose.)

To be clear, this is a setup that already happens when there is an officer under FBI suspicion of being complicit/involved in criminal activity. The FBI comes in and works with the precinct to set up an internal sting. The only difference, here, is that this involves all the officers of the precinct, rather than just one.
Guys want something other than rations. I have a hard time blaming them. Though the adrenaline in that deer is gonna make it bitter eating.
Your question reminds me of Rome Sweet Rome: https://www.reddit.com/r/RomeSweetRome/

It started out as someone on AskReddit asking how modern military would fare against ancient Roman military. The full story is on the right side of that sub-reddit under the section FAQ as a PDF, or here's the first section: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/k067x/could_i_de...

A lot of people are still (after 9 years) waiting for the studio who acquired the rights to actually make a movie or a series based on the story (which Prufrock451 sold, good for him/her!). I for one hope Netflix/HBO/Amazon picks it up and makes a series out of it someday.
To the contrary, many Silicon Valley elites trend far more libertarian than the average population, so it's actually the opposite (depending on which elites you're talking about, they're not monolithic).

And it absolutely is widely accepted if you look at democratically produced law across the world. Restrictions on harmful speech exist literally everywhere in democracies. It's what people vote for. It's absolutely widely accepted.
It doesn't matter because you can have something else that does listen on the network and even if that doesn't have administrative privileges you can use its user privileges to access the spooler that way, and there you go, instant SYSTEM access.
As it turns out; he lacked imagination. They can digitally create new moves that are even physically impossible; for say - superhero movies, and utterly surpass anything from traditional martial arts, even in the mythology.
Something that is good for me at the expense of everyone else probably shouldn't be happening.
That's not the point.
It never was the point, it's never been the point of ANY law about ANY duration of the work week.
It defines the LEGAL duration of a week's work because that's going to be used for calculating the PAY.

Wehn we went from 39h -> 35h for instance with the same pay, we're just compensating for the massive increases in productivity that occured while salaries stayed flat for 30 years.

And civil servants basically work the same hours per year as workers in the private sector, in France.
Always have since 1945.
In 2019 it was 1640h vs 1703h effective hours per years, a 3.8% difference.
If you have a server that is an AD DC, you must at least run one with the print spooler if there is printing anywhere within AD, because that is the only way for AD to prune the spooler.

So you might not need to print on your DC, but your DC needs the spooler so that you can keep your printing system, healthy everywhere else... it's pretty much an indirect requirement.
TPM,Secure boot,Pluton,memory encryption... These are all the puzzle pieces of a locked down system more akin to an xbox than a PC. One by one they are harmless but together they can completely take away control from the user. These technologies could be good for everyone but right now they are good for whoever hold the encryption keys built into them (not you). With the user override feature detailed in the eff link we could have the best of both worlds (superb security, personal freedom to run anything). Too bad we are heading in the exact opposite direction...

I invite you to read this

https://www.eff.org/wp/trusted-computing-promise-and-risk

or this

http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A2065...
I spent the first ten years of my programming career without a degree, like you. I got a SoftEng MSc at 30. It was worth it. Sometimes we just don't know what we don't know.
This is why I work multiple remote development jobs. If one traditional job is good, > 1 is better. It would take a quite a successful SaaS to pull down what I do annually.
Yeah all I’m saying is a basically DIY industry at scale has figured out how to keep money safe without a bank; i.e. bank is not the “only” safe method of money storage. Never claimed it to be convenient nor economical.
I'm a life long learner myself. I have to agree that the traditional education system is lacking and is very poorly set up at catering for people like us. If you want to take classes as a working adult, you're pretty much limited to night school. Which, for reasons I will never understand, seems to be mostly limited to languages (and oddly specific things like TIG welding). Although some universities seem to be offering philosophy courses on an evening schedule as well.

I get that you need a big enough audience in order to set up any class, and supply/demand is definitely an issue. But I think the demand is much higher than what the supply side seems to cater for.

Things like Khan Academy are great, but they've begun to scale down their offering in favour of university prep. The Open University has some truly great content, but it's prohibitively expensive. MOOCs seem very hit or miss, and often lack a good mechanism for feedback. And quite frankly, I enjoy being in a classroom full of motivated people.
People with that much money are no longer subject to the influences of capitalism. Their own irrational behavior will eventually bring them down but that's, in most cases, going to take longer than they're going to be alive for.
The day will come where movie actors and celebs become CGI intellectual property, without unions, dressing rooms, personal problems off-set, etc. He's right to have this concern, it's happening now.
My understanding is that its it's about the code path for installation of drivers that is being exploited. In order for people to print to printers not seen before, Windows downloads and installs the driver automatically from a remote printer when a low privilege user wants to print. I guess that's why it runs as high privilege.

Not defending anything just hoping to provide useful insights.
> The first amendment is, well, first,

Well, no, the first article of amendment (usually abbreviated “first amendment”) is the eighth article of the Constitution, following the seven original articles. “Amendment” is revision/change.
> There was at least a shade of un-democracy in those impeachments. The Democrats weren't implementing the will of the people there, it is pretty clear they were trying to implement the will of Democratic people and override the results that the system had come up with.

That's a bad read of the situation. While the impeachments did have a partisan aspect, they were also totally warranted from a non-partisan perspective, given Trump's actual behavior.

Honestly, the more shamelessly partisan thing was how Republicans didn't go along with the impeachment, but rather gave Trump a full throated defense, just because he had an R next to his name (at the time).
You better have a good liability insurance if someone hosts this for you.
For me it was things that aided user(dev) experience, and that was primarily things like iterators, enums, and functional patterns like maps (in the robust stdlib), good crate ecosystem. That made a huge DX improvement for me because it was just so applicable in so many scenarios. And to top it all off, i got the DX of things like Iterators with usually zero usability hit - Iterators themselves are fairly complex, at least in the generic param context, but Rust encapsulates that complexity so well that you rarely see it. You just Iterate and gloss over the fact that it's actually really complex.
nice, the id in url is incremental integers, makes easy for those who want to script and get all materials!
If you don't think the goal was violent insurrection then what, specifically, do you think the people were doing there?

They were protesting just fine outside of Congress, why did they go into congress? Why were they trying to find Nancy Pelosi? Why did the Capitol police think they needed to use deadly force?
Learn Something Old Every Day, Part II
Ergo – Erlang-Flavored Go
Why not?

Series of complicated bio-electrical interactions?
Vast numbers of connections, neurons firing together?

Even our limited attempts at neural networks are not very well understood, and that is just code running on well understood computer. A brain is way more connected and complicated than something like deep mind, even if you think of that stuff like a first order approximation. So if we cant easily do that, seems an actual brain with way more recurrence and structure is much harder.

I think there are experimental results though, we can look at an brain scan and nearly deduce what people are looking at, although don't quote me I would have to find the paper. Seems pretty physical.
This statement is so odd. So we should hire to bring on people who want to work in PHP, and then force them to use Rust?

We have a large codebase in Rust. We're hiring devs who want to use Rust. Why is that "doing something wrong"?

edit: Maybe you think we require full Rust mastery on hiring. We don't. Though we make it clear that work on a Rust codebase is ~~expected~~ required, and familiarity with generalized concepts like static/dynamic dispatch are important. We hire young Rust devs all the time.
> So then what's your problem with adding a small Democratic-leaning state?

Are you even reading what I'm writing? You seem to be trying to have a different argument that's perhaps more familiar to you.

My point is that there's a multitude of options to solve the DC representation problem, and the reason to choose statehood is that you want more D's in the federal government. Pretty much every argument in favor DC statehood specifically is just rhetorical window-dressing for that.

> It seems like you're fine with small Republican states that give your preferred party an outsized power over larger states, but don't want the other side to benefit from that same dynamic.

How exactly is the party I didn't vote for my preferred party? Just to be clear: I voted for Democrats.

> There's nothing logical about giving a population larger than that of two existing states and with it's own distinct history to Maryland. When pieces of DC were given back to Virginia, it didn't come with a population larger than Vermont.

Just cut the crap and admit DC should become a (city-)state because the Democrats could use two more senators.
When I used to ride my bike to work, I literally turned a 45-minute drive into a 10-minute ride. Unfortunately, the weather in Illinois sucks so I couldn't do it year-round.
I looked into a dedicated managed server and it did not give me the flexibility I wanted. Fewer resource limits, but the lack of admin rights is about as bad as shared hosting… Can you imagine having to contact support when you want to upgrade an extension or something? Maybe if you have no sysadmin skills that would be a good choice. I can easily run a server myself and I don’t want support staff at some random host administrating my server for me at all. I think I tried a managed dedicated server for about two weeks before switching to unmanaged.

I did what I’m describing very successfully 10 years ago and I had a very good reasons to make these decisions at the time.

I mentioned python because I ended up re-writing everything in python two or three years later. You’re right that it’s not related to this, other than that trying to run a python app under shared hosting was really difficult.

I moved to a unmanaged VM (this was 2008, first Slicehost and then Linode) since I’d been using Linux as my main home OS for 10 years anyway.
If you go down the rabbit hole and read about the trusted computing push by MS of the first half of the 00's you will see that the people generated so much negative press even before launch that MS stopped development.

I don't see this same scenario unfolding now... The articles about Pluton are basically the same copy pasted drivel... All of them fail to mention the extreme danger this poses to freedom of expression in the online world. Something changed in the last ~15 years.
I went through an exercise like this on paper, but it stalled out because the provider had a clause that only "one device" is allowed per 1U. This kind of density violates that clause.

I've also been disappointed in the stability of pi4s under load. Mostly I/O issues. I would only try again with PCIe I/O. No more USB for me.
We shouldn't have the hubris to think the "vast majority of the rest of humanity" agrees with us at all.
Hitler relied on risk, rhetoric, and gambling to achieve his modest conquests. Recall, he didn't actually conquer Austria and he used rhetoric to gain Czech lands, which would've offered great resistance in heavily fortified mountain forts. He gambled multiple times and got lucky. If the other Germans, French, Austrians, or Czechs had actually stopped him boldly, he would've received much more bad press long before Poland. This could've given Poland and France time to prepare for the Blitzkrieg, which they sorely were not.

Hitler was increasingly poor as a leader over time. Megalomania, hubris, over confidence, narcissism, he definitively lost the war by invading USSR, a very stupid decision. Stalin's reaction wasn't even rapid, Hitler's enemies dithered and paused, it took Churchill and a delayed awakening by Stalin and that was enough to stop "mighty" Germany. It didn't hurt that the USA provided the material and the bulk of the final push, that was key.
Thank you. There are also 1-para summaries here that provide not just the answer, and some insight into the whys of it, but also reasons for when to follow up by watching the whole video. That you did not.
The rocket engine that could transform space travel
Tramp offers different "connection methods" with different characteristics. For example, the scp connection method uses scp to copy files to/from the remote machine, and this implies a new ssh connection each time.

But the ssh connection method transfers the files inline, using base64 or uu encoding, and then you do not need a new connection each time the file is read or written.
Can't be that hard or expensive, let's make it happen
I don't see how that is a problem. If a computer can do an equal or better job then it makes little sense to keep such a heap of actors around. "real" actors in movies should then just become a curiosity just like still see horse carriages around as curiosity.
"For what it's worth, this is not as implausible a co-incidence as might be claimed, since it is not uncommon for a virology lab to study viruses endemic to the region it is located in. "

The bat virus that seems to be the progenitor of SARS-Cov-2 was isolated in caves in a different part of China, quite far from Wuhan. Plus, bats hibernate during the time that the spread began.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-chinas-bat-wo...
Ask HN: Which companies prefer hiring ex-founders?
This is a throwaway-account because the business I run still has customers and clients.

I started a company about ten years ago focusing on a fairly niche wireless product. The business never took off; revenue has always been between between $100k and $900k per year. At this point, it's basically a hobby that throws off some cash.

I've been applying to various business development and product manager positions for over a year, but have had zero replies. I've raised a couple million dollars, navigated arcane regulations, hired/managed/laid off staff, and built/shipped a dozen different physical products (about 20,000 units in total). I'm assuming that the lack of interest from recruiters is due to me working for myself for too long. Of course, I could be wrong and my resume might just suck.

I guess it makes sense that hiring managers don't want to deal with someone who has not been managed for a long time, but those types are also self-starters who produce results with very little oversight.

In any case, are there any companies (large or small) that explicitly favor hiring/contracting former founders? I assume my opportunities are limited, because most of my expertise is in wireless product development, though business development is fairly agnostic.
That's how most of the world does it and it works fine. And for businesses it can be just as is.

Its the insane burden and waste of time for the average person that is the problem.

Imagine how much more productive the entirety of the US would be if tax filing would be simple. The amount of time saved would be enormous, there are approx 140 million tax payers and if everyone would spend just an hour (in reality its probably multiple days) per year doing tax related work you get an idea how much time is wasted.
There are no explicit negative feedback yet. When a item is seen by a user, the read event is recorded. If this user likes this item, the positive feedback is recorded. It seems a natural way to track user's preference. I will try to add explicit negative feedback if someone really need it.
Nice bribe.
Obligatory "Practical Engineering" video:

https://youtu.be/VnvGwFegbC8
“I’m hungry. It’s time to Wrangler me up some deer for dinner!”

What did they do? Run them over with 4x4s? How do you sneak up on a deer with a Jeep?
GM has signed an agreement to extract lithium from beneath the Salton Sea
Not just Americans - clickbait title
AI that finds disease targets and predicts a drug’s chances of FDA approval
GSA blocks senator from reviewing documents used to approve Zoom
>If you have to show proof to register then why do you need to show proof to vote?

Isn’t the argument that you need to prove the person voting is the same person who registered? Where I live, you only need to give a name and address verbally to vote and that can be gathered online fairly easily.

(Just to be clear, I’m not saying voting fraud is rampant but can understand the risk)
I asked friends and got recommendations from solid people I trust, like I do most things.
Looks like the Special Service division was quite busy, more guides (including Iran, Syria and Great Britain) here https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname...
Why we crave internet justice
Go look up humanitarian giving. These are quantifiable numbers. We do more than the next 10 countries rolled up.

We AGREE about the negative bullshit the US has done. We're actively trying to work on that shit, none of us like it. We've actually done a stellar job looking at our history and current practices and saying "That was fucked up" and "We should fix this going forward."

But we still do WAY more good than, like I said, the next 10 countries combined.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/275597/largers-donor-cou...

So it's not all roses, but... Yeah, I wouldn't dismiss us as a net benefit.
We're a >200 people company that's been using bors-ng for more than 4 years now for a monorepo. It's been a joy to use Bors! I'd thought I'd just chime in a little here:

> 1. We focus on being "no-maintenance", since our primary value prop to customers is "you won't have to spend eng resources on merge problems any more". This means: a one-click "set and forget" install, no additional config files to maintain or DSL to learn, unlike bors.

Bors was a breeze to set up and has been super stable and easy to upgrade. We used their Docker container and you need a PostgreSQL database.

> 2. We have all the security and access-control features you'd want (we're Soc2 compliant, offer on-prem etc). This is important since the product interacts with our customers' source code.

For a monorepo you can get really far using Github's CODEOWNERS file and requiring an approval in bors.toml.

> 3. We offer various customizations on merge workflows to help our customers optimize the exact parameters they care about (eg: developer wait time vs CI costs vs time to identity bad PRs in a batch, optimistic merge heuristics etc)

Nice! One issue we've seen is that a large backlog of PRs that needs to be merged, combined with a failing PR, is that bifurcations can easily build up a large backlog. We've looked at various different strategies to cope with that[1].

[1] https://forum.bors.tech/t/draft-rfc-support-building-batches...

Above said, I really think the _real_ solution to handling large backlogs really lies in speeding up the CI build, not adding even more complexity to handle a backlog. This includes adding caching à-la Earthly[2] et al., but also moving away from heavy integration/system tests etc.

[2] https://earthly.dev
> American success or failure in Iraq may well depend on whether the Iraqis like American soldiers or not. It may not be quite that simple. But then again it could be.

Wise words, not heeded.
I graduated from a no-name state school in the early 90s into a down job market. I was at the top of my class and did well on the GREs and was offered a fellowship to a PhD program at a private engineering school (RPI). I enrolled in the PhD program, and I used the time saved by the fellowship to take an overload of classes. Between the overload, and transferring in credits from graduate level classes I had taken as an undergrad, I bailed out with an almost free MS after one calendar year. The cost to me was the full price I paid for the credits to do the MS project.

IMHO, I learned exactly nothing from my MS. My undergrad classes at a no-name state school were more challenging, and I felt like the grad level classes were a poor copy. The MS project was useless drudgery that I was not interested in at all.

The entire thing was a waste of time, except for the piece of paper that I got at the end. I firmly believe that piece of paper opened several doors that might otherwise have been closed, and has resulted in better jobs and better pay throughout my career.
I met IT worker with security clearance that worked someplace that you needed security clearance.

They were unable to discuss salary (or any personal financial matter) because of that security. The reasoning being it potentially opened them up to being "turned" by foreign state actors either via financial bribes or financial blackmail.
> It’s like a rich person that grew up poor, they are constantly saving money. Of course they don’t really have to at this point, but that was their experience.

Is the implication that people don't learn new things from new situations/environments and are forever stuck modeling the world the way they did when they were young teenagers/adults?
> You aren't going to Iraq to change the Iraqis. Just the opposite. we are fighting this war to preserve the principle of "live and let live."

Can we bring this America back?
And we knew the whole time, just as we knew kids' grandparents were not safe.
Ok but there is still a difference between someone who works as a plumber and someone who starts their own plumbing business.

Absolutely, making more money is a big motivator for entrepreneurs across the board, including plumbing entrepreneurs.