skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned:

"The investigation determined the reservists conducting the operation lacked formal training and policies governing the use of propaganda techniques were not well understood by the soldiers."

So that's a one-off versus some sort of ongoing plan and limited in any case due to it not even being an intentional release. This above attempt was from untrained reservists who weren't trained properly in the techniques and was accidental release in nature, not intended.

The following seems to imply more systematic, non-accidental information campaigns:

"Last year, the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviours of Canadians as well as to collect and analyze information from public social media accounts.

The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians. Included among those tactics was the use of friendly defence analysts and retired generals to push military PR messages and to criticize on social media those who raised questions about military spending and accountability."

It would be nice to have a few examples of this intentional use of propaganda techniques versus the one "accidental release" and innuendo so we can see what is being alleged here as intentional information warfare.
Does anyone know which linters exactly they were using?
Because they are diplomats in the UK.

The botnet was likely bought from blackmarket to promote their tweets.
A thousand years from now your last sentence will be a proverb if unknown origin.
Bolsonaro’s Ban on Removing Social Media Posts Is Overturned in Brazil
BS, for liq. hydrogen you need to perfectly isolate it and that's it, the Adrianne rocket could achieve that with a 1.3mm think tank.

And storing compressed hydrogen needs nothing more then a Gas tank like the one under your Grill.

You even use compressed hydrogen for welding.

Again, you know nothing and try to blind everyone with your highly secret knowledge.

https://energies.airliquide.com/resources-planet-hydrogen/ho...

>>For example, the tanks on the Ariane launcher, designed and manufactured by Air Liquide, contain the 28 tons of liquid hydrogen that will provide fuel to the central engine. These tanks are a genuine example of technological prowess: they weigh only 5.5 tons empty and their casing is not more than 1.3 mm thick.
Fast support.
Here's a pretty interesting article on that exact topic from a couple of years back [1]. The closing paragraph sums up the (South African) author's sentiment:

> But, if the tech cold war comes down to a choice between Chinese or American internets and technology, Africa’s choice has already been made. Its current internet and technology boom is in significant part because of the investment of Chinese tech companies and the sale of affordable, quality components.

[1] https://mg.co.za/article/2019-03-06-china-wins-the-tech-war-...
Eight Google Analytics Alternatives (Enterprise and Open Source)
HMM let's see

Wait till 2038 so you can say "aha! I told you so!"

or have peace of mind during the prime of my life for the next two decades
Azure AD password brute force
Thanks for info! What about binary large objects instead of bytea?

Size/speed of backups is a good point to consider.
In defense of the Remarkable its primary purpose is a very useful use-case. No iPad or Android tablet could get me to ditch paper and notebooks altogether. The Remarkable did it.

And since it is hackable the community made interesting strides in other use cases as well
During my PhD we had an off-site week, with science, drinking and sailing. At such a conference you think you will be in science for ever. You will travel, give talks, receive applause and solve the worlds problems together with you science buddies, who are all just a bit smarter than the rest of the world.

One afternoon we were with 100 PhD students in one room, a Prof. addressed us and told us: "You are here with 100 scientists, only 1 of you will make it to become a Professor. The rest will find jobs elsewhere or get stuck eternally as a postdoc."

It woke me up, I'm not a hard worker, I'm not that 1%. I started to think about alternatives soon afterwards. This was 20 years ago and I never regretted it. There is an elegance in science, traveling and trying to become a Rock Star of science [0]. But there is also "publish or perish", a high percentage of time spend traveling (away from family) and a work-long-hours honor system.

I'm in industry now, it can really be seen as selling out by some scientists, but it's much less stressful if you ask me. And I'm lucky I found a company where I am still quite free to do science (although I now develop software most of the time and haven't seen a biolab since covid...)

[0]: https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/rock-stars-of-...
I've been using a similar technique found here[1] in macOS and it's very effective! The only issue I've had is I always have to redo it after an update. Admittedly I never did much research into why or if that could be overcome... clearly a macOS thing.

Pretty cool.

[1]: https://www.perpetual-beta.org/weblog/blocking-facebook-on-o...
There was a Show HN project last year that did something similar. I'd be keen to try that out before this one. Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the link.
Oh boy, I was having a quick brunch at a software industry conference before Corona and I happened to sit next to this dude: he was getting into software testing after having worked his ass off a PhD and a
post-doc in physics. Not to berate software testing but… wow, I lost my appetite thinking how bad his hand had been.
Thanks for info!

So you've stored images in the db in production and had it work out fine?

I don't want to commit ten things a second. It would be a pretty read-heavy write-light load. Sounds like that would avoid one path of riskiness at least.
From the context of the comments it spins like the individual’s PI coerced or forced them to publish inaccurate or falsified data in order to have a paper accepted. That was about the best I could figure.
So? Why are my tax dollars being wasted on efforts to force Google to show random ads for poor quality services on YouTube? The people who care should waste their own money on this fools errand.

I don't particularly want to see any ads. If Google does their own thing that is cool.

> ...but unlike showing ads it's actually illegal...

The law is stupid and they should change it.
But with Fastmail you can already do it using $RANDOM_STRING@$LOCAL_PART.fastmail.com and whichever password manager you use (you just have to do it in a more manual way, which in the long run can be a PITA, I understand)
What is ‘using water’ in this context? Is it boiled off? Contaminated and needs to be cleaned?
offline monitoring is what caused tchernobyl, when will ppl learn ?
Most yellowed plastics are likely brittle too.
Careful. One of the valuable things a standup huddle enforces is that the team decides together what to do for the day, then heads off and spends the rest Of the day doing.

If you remove the time box and let decisionmaking drift into slack threads, you risk not making decisions and not doing.

Stand ups should be action oriented planning conversations, not passive status sharing. They need to end with decisions made.
why shouldn't I?
There was one that I remember that twitter had to be pushed to do anything about. Notably, the operator of the network wasn't banned.

How A Twitter Fight Over Bernie Sanders Revealed A Network Of Fake Accounts

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/democratic-bot-network-sally-...

Shareblue Astroturf Analysis

https://shareblueastroturf.netlify.app/

It's just sockpuppeting at scale, although I'm not sure of the real difference between paying 100 people to post similar stuff, and paying 1 person to run 100 accounts. Every large organization that wants to manipulate opinion does this, and the only distinction between the former and the latter is that paying 100 people requires a lot of money.
During my time in a computer science PhD program at an American university (2003-2010), my stipend maxed out at $23k a year. That was not competitive compared to having a normal job, nor would I have felt comfortable supporting anyone else.

Adjuncts professors teach at American universities on a course-by-course contract basis. These people usually have PhDs. Some would like tenure track positions. But it’s generally a career dead-end.

I suspect your experience is from Europe, and I don’t think it generalizes to the US.
Quick point about the formatting and not the content: I love this style of news and journalism. Quick bullet points with a bold title so one can choose to skim or read the whole of it. Love it
It seems to me you are taking the piece a bit too literal.
There are collections, and also collections.

The author isn't really talking about physical objects that accumulate around the house seemingly all by themselves. The author's talking about collections that are deliberately, lovingly curated as a labor of love.

The difference is critical. It's not entirely unlike how I knit and sew purely for pleasure, while my grandmother did so because her family couldn't afford off-the-rack items. The physical details of the two activities might be similar, but what was actually happening there was radically different.
Hi, one of the 1Password engineers who worked on this. Glad to hear that you like the idea!

One of the really nice parts of building this out with Fastmail is that you can create Masked Emails for your own domain. So, if you ever decide that Fastmail isn’t right for you, then you still receive all of those emails when you set up a wildcard alias with your new email provider.

Similarly, if you ever decide that 1Password isn’t right for you, that doesn’t stop you from receiving your emails. And the email addresses should still be part of your 1Password export.
For "hide my email"-like feature you can use a domain with a catch-all address and either use somehash@yourdomain.tld or just servicename@yourdomain.tld for every login.
As mentioned above, but which I think is a point worth being made several times, because I really think they've done a lot correctly here:

You can use your own domain.
At the cost of manual effort or setting up a script (for registrars/mail providers with decent APIs), you can just use normal email aliases at a domain you own. That's what I do, most sites I register at get some sort of "sitetld_account@mydomain.com" alias. That's pretty portable, lots and lots of email providers (including standard "included with registration" ones at registrars like gandi.net) support essentially unlimited aliases (not like even tens of thousands of them represent any significant resource usage, they all ultimately feed to a single email account with said account's limits on storage and sending). I own the domain so I can point it wherever, and I can just copy/paste the entire list of aliases around.

Again that is more manual effort, though I don't consider it much effort given that I'm only signing up for a limited number of sites per year. And I suppose a little extra friction in one respect isn't even that bad a thing, makes me think a bit about whether I do actually want to sign up there. Ideally I'd like to see more efforts about making such things standardized across providers so that even regular people can get the benefits from near any registrar or email provider at all with whatever tooling they like. I guess that's probably either infeasible, or if it happens it'll be out of a rise of competing centralized masking providers raising the issue high enough in the general consciousness that demand drives it. If there are any existing open efforts around that I'd be delighted to know about them though!
Does anyone know why it is so excruciatingly slow? I always just switch to Windows to use Inkscape but it would be good to know the reason.
One single factory using 0.55% of the entire state's water consumption is pretty massive.
Pretty much any facility capable of manufacturing semiconductor components has been very busy for the past few years -- Intel even had to resurrect 22nm chips at some time. Why do you assume that this will "go out of fashion in 5 years"? Historically this seems extremely unlikely. If anything, tens of millions of people going out of poverty every year are going to be consuming even more chips.
A 30 minute standup is really a status meeting. Don't call it a standup.
How do you solve it at the protocol level? Let's say I set a gas price of 0.00000004 eth. Is that too much or too little? If you try to enforce the price to be within some range of the average of past n transactions it could:

1. make transactions that were valid at the time of creation suddenly invalid if the average moves, which is frustrating to all parties

2. not able to respond to rapid changes in demand

3. overcomplicate validation/consensus
"Money-wasters" like FirefoxOS were a gamble to get onto the mobile phone bandwagon, to reduce Google's Android/Chrome moat. If they had worked, it'd have been a huge gain both for Firefox and for users.

> And then there's stuff like acquiring Pocket, something completely antithetical to Firefox's core values.

Pocket itself isn't antithetical to Firefox's values. It not being open source is, but from what I understand they're still working on making the server open source, though at disappointingly low priority.
On the other hand, there are very standard technologies for water recycling. UHF, RO, ZLD, MEE etc. Water is quite easy to recycle given intention to do it.
You can use Bulk URL opener to move tabs between browsers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bulkurlopener...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bulk-url-opener/kg...
The one good thing about music streaming is that all the competitors pretty much have the same catalog.

They have almost every music on earth, except the few remaining artists who decided not to publish to streaming platforms.

So if you're unhappy with Spotify, you can switch to Youtube Music, Amazon Music or Apple Music and still find all your songs.

I wish we could say the same of video (Netflix/Prime/Disney+/AppleTV/...)
Ah, sorry. I didn’t realize that.
Not really. You still have to do that last step, the one that gets you ahead, yourself. Thats the step we're talking about.

There is a very real issue here imho, for the Anglo-sphere (the EU seems much better at this, full disclosure, im a brit but i think the us and uk are the ssme in this). We don't invest and increasingly we're not competitive. Cisco dropped the ball, Huawei picked it up. Maybe every previous step was stolen, but that's the step that have given Huawei their success. They have an advantage because no one else is making a comparable product.

As long as we just complain and blindly insist the chinese are cheating, we won't address the actual issues that are really holding us back.

The chinese are investing in education? Maybe we should. The chinese force their companies to take a view past the next quarter profit report? Maybe we should. If whatever their advantage is, its not stealing (not anymore at least) and until we address it, we will be whining and they will be winning.
On Conway’s Law and the mirroring hypothesis
I second that. I love splunk as well.

Costs can also be reduced by spending some development-effort into abbreviating logs and being smart about deciding what to log and where.
Thanks for the vote of confidence! If you have a custom domain at fastmail you can avoid any lock-in by using it for your masked addresses. Settings -> Domains -> Team Settings -> Masked email domain.

With that it's entirely portable. You can point your mx records at any other provider.

Disclosure - I work at 1Password, though I had only tangential involvement in this effort.
Registrar for Everyone
Suffocation is bad for you. This is well established.
I've generated a few of these and they are pretty good. It's a one stop SaaS shop of functionality.
Sounds pretty normal. Most of these recruiters are not senior and have not learned how to communicate with prospective hires. The lack of professionalism can be a bit jarring, especially if you are applying for a senior-level position.

Edit: I wouldn’t worry. Engineering depts are usually well insulated from whatever nonsense is happening in the HR dept
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Cloudflare R2 storage: Rapid and reliable object storage, minus the egress fees
Still better than totalitarianism or fascism.
Has Intel mastered EVU lithography yet? They've been close for a long time now.
No. You're looking at things from superficial perspective.

The only single reason we're all in this rate race is gene competition. Remove gene competition, suddenly there is not more need for constant growth, for economic growth, for countries to overwhelm other countries. For groups to fight other groups.

The real reason why we haven't dialed back on 40 working hours per week is that the first country that does it will lose an edge against the others. In the long run it means that country loses power. Maybe the other countries will then "override" it or control it. The people of said powerless country will face the fear of being at the mercy of the ones that continued on a race to growth. Our whole society is nothing but at the mercy of our genes still competing with each other. That's all there is to what we're doing. All of this is still instinct-driven. And 99% of us are blind to that.
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Inkscape is slow as molasses on macOS for many people, and has been as long as I can remember. It's faster to run it remote on my Linux server (SSH tunnel + X11 forwarding) than native on macOS. It's a shame because it's very responsive on native Linux.
We built a custom Rust library for Capture
Hang on hot potatoes. I use 1Password. So are you saying I can generate a login that uses

myaccount+alias@mydomain.com

automatically?
Crypto Exchange Gets Refund on $24M in Fat-Finger Fees
Adobe is a W3C member and played a lead role in drafting the 1.0 spec, which was edited by Adobe’s Jon Ferrailo.

If you are going to even hint that an Adobe product produces non-compliant SVG, please detail your claim so others can assess it.

To not do so would be the first step towards a rumour, and might invite FUD that might devalue SVG’s status as an open standard supported enthusiastically in web and vector graphics ecosystems.

We don’t want that, do we?
worked in a place that did these... I think monthly. for "problems" it was a time to review/discuss some issues that came up recently but that may not have been important enough at the time to interrupt the other party (interrupting a big concerted 'push to live' effort was usually not a good idea). And, it gave you time to reflect on some of those issues, perhaps see patterns, and discuss those.

It was also an actual time that someone carved out specifically for the purposes of talking/listening, instead of things being interruptions. "My door is always open" is fine, except... they're still doing other stuff, and whenever you raise an issue to someone, it will almost certainly be interrupting something else.

Lastly, it was a time/place where you could explore some other ideas that weren't necessarily in any pipeline or backlog.

"you show that by actually being there for the team all the time when they need it". Someone can't simply always be there all the time whenever someone needs it. The urgency/importance level isn't always the same on both sides, and someone is being interrupted. I'm not meaning "save every single issue for a planned meeting 2 weeks from now" but ... scheduled time that is intended specifically for discussion purposes has utility on its own.

My first couple of jobs, the only time you'd ever talk to "a manager" of any sort was when you were in some sort of trouble. If/when you'd get asked to go speak to a manager... it was anxiety inducing, whether it was intended to be or not.
I wasn't talking about the ads, but lower level tracking.
> How can a wristwatch be a primary computing device?

Oh it's not. But you don't have a choice. Last I checked Apple Watch required being locked into the walled garden [0] via ownership of an iPhone. Apple Watch is a feature, not a standalone product as it stands today.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204505
Already in the past I've been (ab)using Fastmail's email alias feature for this kind of purpose. Though it was a bit inconvenient as the UI always said that it takes 15 minutes for the new alias to become fully active. Great to see they now have simplified this!
> So a new pack was installed and connected but not monitored? What is the rationale behind that?

Any time a house is built, there's some time between the ceiling going up and the fire alarm installation being completed.

Nothing wrong with that - if it's done properly and carefully.
I think a better analogy would be if the government prevented anyone else from having their own fire extinguisher or non government fire departments. If they prevent anyone else from protecting themselves or seeking alternative means of protection, yes they would be responsible if they do not prevent ALL fires.
Fully vaccinated Grand Rapids couple dies a minute apart from Covid-19
Fedora's Java Packages Have Fallen into Rough Shape
The default search engine can be changed in the browser so that it always invokes Google Search in Verbatim mode. However, there is a side effect that Wikipedia is replaced with strange mirrors in the search results. And some of the desirable fuzzy searching is also lost.
The majority of nodes/users (not miners) would need to switch to the miners' new fork. Otherwise if the miners mined a block that doesn't follow the current protocol, it would be an invalid block and rejected by the network.
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Need to try this, thanks.
Half of American kids have lead in their blood, doctors say
It’s like C++ vs Java. Both are good and popular. Which one to learn first does not really matter.

Don’t waste your time on questions like this. Start learning the concepts- they are the same regardless if framework.
Ill take the job.
GitOops Attacking and defending CI/CD pipelines
This is cool, but not super useful in 2021.

Google and Facebook have already moved their tracking technologies beyond frontend network calls due to a rise in browser-level blocking (browser security policies, international regulations, AdBlock, PiHole, etc). The next generation of tracking tech relies on the backend transfer of data between a website and the ad platform, which is invisible to your own network.

It also shifts the story from "Google and Facebook nonconsensually tracking your every digital move through websites and applications" as described in the article into "websites and applications actively transmitting customer data to Google and Facebook." The websites and applications are no longer passive partners, and they assume the responsibility of managing user consent.
This site is a brilliant joke because it plays to so many of the tropes that HN commenters claim to want: Paid service, no ads, cheap prices, CLI interface, Rust for safety, and a company attitude that clearly caters to the programmers who work on the site instead of the customer.

It’s like the culmination of everything HN commenters say they want out of a software company, but those who don’t get the joke absolutely hate it.

People are even complaining about the trivial $1/month or $5/year price point as being too expensive. That’s a great reminder that nearly every time someone claims “I would pay for an alternative service that isn’t ad-supported” is not actually true 95% of the time. People love free services too much.
Sounds good! I'll ask around.
Pam_shield works well for this, and doesn't have to troll logs to keep counts.