skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn’t a dumb accident, and law enforcement isn’t to blame in this case.
The police response was deliberately incited by a group of malicious individuals.
How can minors, who typically are given lighter sentences, be discouraged from “swatting”?
In this case the person who called in the report was a minor from the UK. Back in April, someone from France swatted Ubisoft (https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/justice-et-faits-divers/2...).
To clarify, a decent number of Fig users (not employees) have been running into this issue.

We host our answers to common support requests on Github Discussions!
To be fair to hobbyists, they contribute significant discoveries even in modern times. Far from pretty pictures of the sky.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_astronomy#Discoveries_...

Also I'd expect having an amateur community will feed people into a stronger professional community. While not on the same scale, consider taking the same its just hobbyists approach to software dev vs just leave it to the big guys like FB/Google.

Edit: Spelling/clarity
i use it as a way to generate template folder structures that are to contain files to be populated throughout their work. this shares with my team how I do my work, and supports them following my formula should they want to follow it themselves, which in experience shortcuts their onboarding time. I mean, I just touch files with extensions into existence rather than use a menu, but it's basically the same idea.
I've been using Unix and Linux since 1992, and its only in the last 6 years or so that I've started to see an installer or any other program modify ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc.

(This is one instance in which I wish the installers, etc, would keep to the tradition.)

Linux distros usually have a mechanism that allows a package to modify a shell's environment without touching dot files that user is used to editing. On Fedora, /etc/profile sources all the .sh files in /etc/profile.d. So for example, installing the "snap" package write a file named /etc/profile.d/snap.sh, which contains this:

# Expand $PATH to include the directory where snappy applications go.
snap_bin_path="/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin"
if [ -n "${PATH##*${snap_bin_path}}" ] && [ -n "${PATH##*${snap_bin_path}:*}" ]; then
export PATH="$PATH:${snap_bin_path}"
fi
>Reading HBR doesn't make you a qualified for optimizing a restaurant business. Neither does having an MBA degree.

I think I understand the miscommunication now. Sorry for that!

I didn't mean to suggest that you need an MBA to run a small business, just that you need to be constantly optimising, innovating and focusing on raw numbers. I don't have an MBA, but from what I understand this is how MBAs are taught to think.

>I find your take slighly condescending but I want to give you a benefit of the doubt - what makes you think small businesses aren't focused on optmizing their margins?

Maybe it's the people we talk to? I definitely do know guys that are creative and sharp, but for every one of them there are 3 or 4 people who stubbornly refuse to adapt to changes in the market, fail to capture even low hanging fruit in terms of margin (big one is eCommerce businesses that make no effort to minimise postage costs), spend huge amounts of time on activities that bring in minimal value to the business and make no effort to expand into new product categories/markets or make use of new technology. It's just not how many people think.
Eminent domain should be used for non-zoned land. I'm fine with full market price compensation for zoned land. It's a long term planning failure if it ever comes to that.
I completely forgot about how immensely challenging it would be to keep the battery packs (and passengers) warm enough at the altitudes jetliners operate. Good point.
One point I have read repeatedly is that Julia is aimed at High Performance Computing (HPC).
Another argument I have read repeatedly is how object oriented programming (with its single dispatch) is bad for HPC because of pointer indirections leading to cache misses.
This leads me to conclude Julia will be much worse (than well written C/C++) due to its multiple dispatch.
I don't see non-zoned land the same way as other property. It's more like spectrum, a limited resource.
Not by sending a SWAT team....

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Belgium/Un...

Here you can see we have more crime per 1000 then America. But we have significant less gun crimes and/or violent crimes then US. Also violent crime with murder and murder crime. 1 more trivia item is that we actually have more police officers per capita then America.

Not sure what to conclude. Gun restrictions seem not to curb crime but seems to curb violent crimes and murders. Or maybe we are just less violent :) I'm not sure.

But what I can conclude is that our Police doesn't have to go many times to violent crime scenes and when they go the chance someone is armed with a gun even less likely....
> Don't know much about Android but every iPhone comes out of the box with it. And it shouldn't even be an option, but default. Like smartphone makers should enforce this. Probably require you to stream from both cameras.

It's just a terrible idea. I'm guessing it took less than a minute to come up with it, and you spent that time thinking of reasons to support it and almost no time thinking about the problems with it. It's just that bad.

Some obvious problems:

1. You didn't consider the most popular smartphone OS at all.

2. Not everyone has a smartphone.

3. Not everyone who has a smartphone knows how to use all the apps on it, or can figure a new one out in a stressful situation.

4. How exactly do you think someone who's actually being threatened would prove it to the police over a video call (reveal their hiding place to take video of the perp with the gun)?

5. Don't you think the SWATter (or whatever you call them) could fake a video call using some accepted service, like they already fake phone calls?

6. What if there's no data at their location, or the signal is too poor for video but good enough for voice (like my parents' basement)?

7. Etc. (I could go on, but I think I proved my point)
I am not agreeable to the claim that minors who called a SWAT raid internationally because of a Twitter account were really forseeing all the possible consequences and rationally deciding they were OK with them. I'm also not okay with you claiming a militarised police force SWAT raid was "unavoidable".
But why? Is it because you can't tell good studies from bad? If so, doesn't that mean that you shouldn't be using these studies in the first place?
This is good for clojure, I think. There was a time when lein seemed the preferred tool for clojure projects, but lein seemed to be doing too many different things, and more significantly was not packaged woth clojure. So during that time clojure felt batteries-not-included. With in built tooling, getting into and using clojure should be more easier.
Just last week someone got doxed and swatted by Twitter as well. People get cancelled on an hourly basis by Twitter's narcissistic collective of soulless wretches that they call a userbase.

Twitter should be globally nullrouted for the crimes its users commit on an hourly basis. Jack Dorsey is absolutely knowledgeable about this as well totally complicit in it happening.
I glossed over it the first time too, thinking an individual couldn't grab a .gov-like handle.
Huh? I replying to the OP comment:

"Those of us who understand these issues aren't going out of our way to provide an excuse for dissonance to the masses or worse, easily misrepresented ammunition for the talking heads."

They clearly stated they are involved in research and are actively not sharing information.
All of those except the first and last describe a situation in which "a guy is going around killing people" and would call for an active response from the police. The guy is just not doing it in the way separated out as "an active shooter".
You’re measuring the value, not setting it. Just like looking at a ball that was wrapped in a bag, seeing that it is red means your partner must therefore have picked the blue ball, but there’s no way you can control whether your partner had the red or blue ball, so the two of you can’t use that information to communicate FTL.
>You realize wages based on supply and demand are very accurate at measuring exactly how much value to “society” a job brings?

If that were true, then DMV employees would have to pay for the privilege of working there.

In all seriousness, though, there are huge swathes of people working in bullshit jobs, and many of them are well-compensated. There are power dynamics, misinformation and far too much complexity at play to simply say "society places more value on the work performed by people in higher paying jobs".
It's not like Rust were the only or even the best language in solving the problems you mentioned. It might be the best performance focused / low-level language though.
You know what else is "politically difficult"? Getting journalists and such killed because they're in a hostile nation, and your phone is vulnerable to remote zero-click exploits with full pwnage.

Give users the option. If you're not 100% confident in your parsing (and nobody should be), allow users the option to restrict parsing to something that's limited, tested, fuzzed, and generally trusted. People who care can turn it on. People who want touch memojis on their watch can leave it off.
China Conducted a Successful Suborbital Test of a Reusable Spaceplane
I was confused as to how the buyer would escape scrutiny as well.. So the answer is that if the buyer isn't vetted, then the seller could pretend to be multiple buyers and bid up the price to the desired amount.

The settlement would then be made (or at least documented as being made) in cash.
True... it was more Oedipean than anything.
In fact, restaurants are pretty much the pathological case of small businesses: they're a lot of work and a high percentage of them lose money. If your deli was already losing money, I can imagine a lot of owners deciding not to throw good money after bad.
Do you have evidence that a SWAT team was involved in this case? I don't see it anywhere. (https://www.wkrn.com/news/swatting-call-leads-to-death-of-tn...)
I guess free promotion for Monero[1]. It's a shame they don't support anonymous smart contracts and don't even plan to.

[1] https://github.com/monero-project/monero
Julia is basically a trojan horse for Lisp. Syntactically, it looks kind-of like Matlab. But semantically it is very much in the Lisp family. Since 1959, Lisp remains the best idea in computer programming. And Julia is bringing it to the masses.
Quantum teleportation does not allow for transmitting classical information faster than light. What it allows for is, using an entangled state, along with transmitting classical information, to send another quantum state across the distance, but it still needs the classical information to get there first.

This is how quantum teleportation works.

Alice and Bob have entangled qubits A and B, and also Alice has a qubit C with some state that she wants to send to Bob , and Bob has some other Qubit D.
To do this, Alice does some operations between qubits A and C, which includes a measurement. Alice then sends the classical information which is the result of the measurement to Bob. Bob then does some operations with the qubits B and D, where the operations he does are chosen based on the classical information signal he received from Alice. Iirc these observations include making a measurement. As a result, the qubit D is now in the state that the qubit C was in originally. (Alice no longer has access to the state that C was in.)
So, in a sense, the state teleported from C to D, using the combination of the entangled A and B, along with sending some classical information. (The classical information sent is random, and to anyone snooping on the message sent, gives them no useful information, because they don’t have Bob’s qubit B to use it with.)
> Are customers that aware of price increases?

Yes. This is exactly the question answered by the concept of supply and demand curves. Of course you can argue about the shape of those curves but their existence is not in doubt.
> Our brains are great at filling in information that we expect to be there, so even the parts that we directly perceive don't need to be simulated with complete fidelity.

Right, but the simulation is nonetheless bottlenecked by whichever system requires the greatest fidelity, and the more technology advances, the more of a problem that becomes. For instance, medieval times would likely be far easier to simulate than modern times, because the latter requires simulating our entire computer infrastructure.

And I think that infrastructure is harder to simulate than you'd think: I could use a solver on a big NP problem (we'll assume that P != NP), get a solution after an hour, and in theory, with some practice, I could probably check if the answer is correct in my head. So the simulator can't simply give me what I "expect". It has to actually compute the thing, and then it's clear that the faster our computers get, the slower the simulation has to run.

Alternatively, the simulation could mess with our minds so we never notice anything out of place, but at that point I'm not sure I understand the point of it. Might as well wonder if this is all a dream.
In practice, Julia's multiple dispatch is almost always devirtualized. That is, dispatch is resolved at compile time.

Generic code relies on specialization instead of dynamic dispatches to be generic with respect to input types.
That is, for each new input type, a new method gets compiled (allowing the dispatch to be resolved statically).
Definitely fishy to me. 1008 Alpha Black Lotuses printed and a perfect one sells for half a million. 12 million copies of Mario 64 and then this price for one with fucked up corners, no way.
US prices for fuel are lower, but so is the cost of electricity in the US. It’s about half the cost per mile to drive an EV vs a light combustion vehicle.
There are other systems to exchange fiat for crypto, including but not limited to in person transactions and peer to peer marketplaces.
I'm pretty sure its about time that Windows guessed what I am trying to do when I am looking around inside a folder. Right-click, offer me the shortcut to create a file similar to what is already here.

They already have the obvious yet brilliant use of recent items in Outlook : compose reply, click attach file -> top of the list is that file I just edited and saved over in Word a few seconds ago.
I'm surprised, in 2021, to find a robust app like Discourse that even works w/o JS. Cheers to that team.
"Vendor lock-in" implies that by choosing GitHub flavored markdown apps are somehow beholden to GitHub. Plenty of independent markdown parsers support GFM. Using GitHub flavored markdown is no more "locked in" than using the Airbnb style guide for JS is. It's just a convenient shorthand for "here are the conventions we use".
Yes, the point is pointing out that the Chinese stereotype is inaccurate.
The key thing that resolves this is that for type stable code, Julia doesn't do dispatch at runtime. For most real world problems, Julia will know all the methods at compile-time, and therefore doesn't chase pointers at all.
Zk-proofs
Repeated corroboration and validation is a critical part of science. They could have framed it differently such as "we reaffirm prev findings with our new method". This is good because it both validates previous findings and the new method. More precisely they are mutual consistent, which doesn't fully exclude the chance that all methods are biased in the same wrong way. However, the more independent validations there are, this alternative explanation is diminished in likelihood.
...in which the attackers have free access to copies of the bridge where they can silently test attack strategies millions of times per second for months or years on end.

The safety vs security distinction made above is fundamental. Developers are faced with solving an entire class of problems that is barely addressed by the rest of the engineering disciplines.
The fees are around 1-2 satoshi per byte for the last couple weeks so about $0.04-6 per transaction
Particles are anything with a discrete start and an end. The heat required per frequency of light emission has a discrete start and end, explained by statistical mechanics. That's a particle, even though it's very abstract and ephemeral. A material object emits light which will expand the size of the universe if unimpeded. With no discrete start and end, although very minor and subtle, it's not a particle despite the object's tangible concrete existence.

Nature's internals have no mind. They are overwhelmed by the mighty surroundings and always redlining, pushing themselves to the limit. Need an electron? Nature looks all around, not just the nearest bonded atom. That's magnetism.

Nature also takes the easiest path. Using it's own internals as a medium of interaction makes things easier. That's electromagnetic radiation.

We're dealing with a vast ocean of the medium of spacetime, not little building blocks of matter. In terms of (space + relative clocks) EM radiation travelling through empty space has internals of it's own. Electricity will repel or attract the entire thing. No further electromagnetism with that empty space itself. But magnetism, it gets to interact again, take an easier route using it's own internals as the medium of interaction. If you want to entangle an electron, make it so interacting with the internals of one interacts with another.

To exist, something has to give some resistance to surrounding interactions. If it happened immediately, it's just the surroundings. That's how we get the speed of light and the discrete nature of light frequencies. Besides electromagnetism, there's other interactions. Mass, as in nuclear decay, or triple pole "color" charge. Simulations and holograms mean that resistance to interaction will be much more simpler that the internals. Black holes do this. They're just one big 2D dot. Things that fall into them are crunched up on the surface.

Bell's Theorem is like measuring from the inside of a spinning coin that's growing, and stopping it. That's where Bell's Theorem, and the speed of light has more to gain. Why fight it? It's awesome. I think of plasma applications of the sun. That star orbits a black hole which can and does zap electrons into existence from empty space by crunching up a positron of a pair. What if we get good enough at that things stop looking like electrons but look like distant stars? Would that be a drive that warps the space time around our solar system, and suddenly the universe is much more smaller.
without wanting to start a flame war this is how I've often felt about the MS Office suite. Each product on it's own is Ok, but there was always at least one that I've needed and always ended up with the entire suite in the end.
"The family eventually learned, earlier that day, an anonymous caller demanded Mark hand over his Twitter handle worth thousands of dollars. Mark refused. Hours later, the unthinkable happened.

"Months later, the family learned about Shane Sonderman, who was a minor back in April 2020 when the crime was committed.

"Sonderman is currently behind bars awaiting trial. A Federal Grand Jury indictment claims he had six victims across the country. Herring was the only one who died."

https://www.wkrn.com/news/swatting-call-leads-to-death-of-tn...
Julia is fairly fast, since its type system _only_ does dynamic/runtime typing, the JIT is optimized towards that. You'll experience some minor startup lag, typically due to initial JIT'ing of any new used functions. However, this has largely be remedied with a compiler backend that completely precomputes this behavior. https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/
You can interact with the contract directly on the eth chain. Likewise you can create a new gui/domain to interface with the contract.
> How do you escape this bubble if making friends is

> really hard for you. am I just fucked?

try:

- Rejection Therapy : https://www.rejectiontherapy.com/

- Randomize your life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKkI6-HeWXo https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/08/53...

- Learn new languages

- Volunteering ( nonprofit, Pro bono )

- Gardening

- Read: Nassim Taleb
Basically with Type 2 diabetes it is runaway inflammation with a genetic makeup that causes the insulin receptors to get less efficient. Insulin is the key that allows the glucose to get transferred into a cell. Once the body is starving for carbohydrates it begins a process to break down fats and even protein into an energy source. This produces toxins, ketones.
That is a brief overview of the biggest factors. To prevent, or reverse this downward spiral, eating better will help and there is a simple life hack.
Melatonin upregulates insulin receptors, this works for everyone not just already diagnosed diabetics. With Type 1 autoimmune diabetes melatonin can reduce insulin requirements but won't eliminate the need for insulin. With Type 2 and with prediabetes melatonin along with minding your diet can have a dramatic effect.
Increasing the ratio of unsaturated fats (health plant oils not palm oil) like olive oil and increasing plant based protein sources like eating beans, peas or lentils for some of your meals will help reduce the risk of diabetic complications. Another hack if you go with any amount of a plant based diet is to eat raw miso from the tub or to carefully make it into broth with water under 130 fahrenheit. Miso is full of microbes that make plant protein more digestible and useable by the body than any other source.
So you are suggesting that we cancel Twitter for cancelling people?

Every time I see “cancel” used like this I feel compelled to remind that if this was a real issue preexisting terms indicative of bad behavior would be used…e.g., censorship…and they aren’t used because they don’t apply and cancel culture is made up to absolve people of consequences for their actions.
Approx. $300 USD in Bitcoin seems like a high cost for this expt.
Amazing!

I have been using Windows since version 3.1, and still did not know this trick. HN is truly an amazing place!
that's why I didn't read the story, because it is a well known fact, at least for me.
Maybe with consent I guess; IIRC fzf asks if you want to append a couple config lines to bash config which seems sensible
They don't get loaned $300,000 in the first year. It gets doled out over 6 years (a Master's program). That's $50,000 per year. At any point they can quit (and only be liable for the debt up to that point), transfer to another school, or change majors.

At what point do you consider the person a functional adult and assign some responsibility?

> It’s why we send 18 year olds to war.

18 year olds are most likely to survive the rigors of combat. Survival rates drop steadily from 18 on.

> No one else would take those odds.

Plenty do. The US, for example, has had an all-volunteer army since the 1970's. The Navy and Air Force have always been all-volunteer. My dad volunteered at 23. A lot of volunteers were rejected for being too old.
An industry exists when there's market, in other words when there's supply and demand. Difficult hacking increases demands and more players will join the game.

Until something changes how the Internet works, the very moment we sent something across the Internet through a service, we no longer have control over the data. Pegasus is just the tip of an iceberg and with technology become closer to us, i.e. homepods, smart electronic appliances, it is just time until all the big brands are hiring hackers to spy on their customers so that they can produce better product (make more money).

Going forward, privacy is not supposed to be a personal preference like how platforms nowadays makes us click through different settings to opt out, it is supposed to be something we all collective have out of the box and we need to work together towards that goal.