skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are walking down the street, and notice that there is a public noticeboard. It has a list of names, yours among them, associated with a number of steps each. It instructs you to walk a certain number of steps down the street, and then look up at the paper taped to the sidewalk that many steps down.

Or perhaps, "Here's a binder with numbered pages; turn to page 345 for your information." You wonder what's on page 346, so you turn the page, and lo and behold, someone else's information.
As a hobby, I have been writing little explainers for non-technical people on my blog. I wrote one for this particular incident:

https://www.robotsinplainenglish.com/e/2021-10-14-blame-sham...

I hope HN readers will (gently) correct any mistakes or provide clarifications to make it better. Thanks!
They also provide ID for free. A lot of these countries have some form of government-sponsored health care, for which people already have ID by default.
>So far, there doesn't seem to be much evidence that it does. So, what is the rationale for introducing additional ID requirements, beyond what already exists via voter registration, matching at the polls, etc.?

Right, as any good security engineer will tell you, the best time to fix a hole is after its already been exploited.
The analogies in this thread are mostly only furthering confirmation bias.

Because any physical analogy is such a poor representation of how a website actually works, everyone just cherry-picks the analogy that demonstrates the logic they believe should apply, and then tries to constrain the argument to that logic via analogy.
Because you have no way of knowing if they deleted the data or not from their system. It's a pointless exercise, unless you're just gonna take their word for it.
... because the figures were inaccurate due to known and/or suspected fraud.

Nothing to see here, folks.
For audiobooks, you can play them and use an external audio recorder.

If you are into VMs, you can probably get a near perfect recording.
Correct. Much better idea statistically to just throw it into a good index fund if your goal is returns.

Perhaps it could be useful if the goal is learning oriented.
Xkcd: Forget
The 50-Year Evolution of Walt Disney World in Maps
With “leaders” this goddamn stupid, it’s no wonder Russia pulls off so many hacks against us.
I'm interested in knowing:how is citizenship a legal fiction ?
> Sounds like you have a really hacked up system there

Some people would call this 'a system that's actually being used to do something'.

Don't blame users unless it's clear they are doing something egregious with the system. Installing a different Python version shouldn't break installers, but here we are.

Ubuntu should have taken a page from CoreOS, NixOS and even Arch. CoreOS with their immutable system partitions (and two of them so it can revert to a good one if the current can't boot). NixOS with the immutable packages (and the split between user and system packages). And even Arch with its release model.

Sometimes you have to 'hack your system' to add a new apt source to try to get your GPU working with OpenCL, or you have to modify some config file on /etc to get something else working. Or whatever the use-case might be. Should that break upgrades then? Ubuntu really doesn't provide any guidance or utilities to help with this.

At least figure out a way to install a known sane system configuration, even if it breaks the user's customization. Having a separate system partition by default would actually help a little.

Even Windows allow you to snapshot and rollback changes. Something that Ubuntu users have to – guess what – "hack the system" to get.
The data in this case clearly had value; OP admitted to continuing to change numbers in the URL to get more information about what plans other companies were signing up for, because that information was valuable to them.
Why is it said if someone does not need/take money? I tend to admire people that put their values above money.

Even if I cannot follow the reasoning completely, I think it is rather sad how his time at gitlab ended.
They tend to have sessions at WWDC about the underlying camera pipeline, for developers who care. Product launch keynotes are the wrong forum for deep technical talks.
What the hell, I've been looking for something like this for the past few months. Only ones I could find were Tannus (too soft) and Schwalbe (garbage).

Don't care about weight, noise, ride quality, just need unbreakable tires because riding through neighborhoods where people break glass bottles on the bike paths will make me smash someone's head with one someday.
This is what fixed the cursor for me (Linux Mint Cinnamon, HiDPI):

sudo flatpak override --env XCURSOR_THEME=DMZ-White
mkdir -p ~/.icons/default/cursors/
cp -R /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/. ~/.icons/default/cursors/
What outcome should I be looking out for?
The only person to be upset at is the one who didn't put access control on the site. That was a publically available endpoint. The better analogy is putting something private on a public bulletin board and being mad if someone read something you didn't want them to.
> Unless you live in Missouri, who cares what stupid things the Governor of Missouri says?

Because that person literally rules over millions of people, the overwhelming majority of which didn’t vote for him (1.7m votes out of the 6.1m population). Right now he is literally threatening state violence against a reporter for looking at a government website that accidentally leaked personal information.
It’s a lot more than complicated taxes and paperwork.

If you are a “US Person” you may find it impossible to invest, or deal with certain financial institutions and products at all.

I live in the Netherlands. I will face restrictions with my earned pension compared to non-US persons. I am forbidden to use stock trading services like DeGiro. I am not allowed to buy or sell Bitcoin. Just some examples…read the T&Cs of practically any financial-related service and there is a prohibition on US persons.

There’s nothing illegal, of course, it’s simply that the vast majority of these institutions can’t be bothered to deal with the nightmare of compliance that is serving “US Persons.” It’s easier just to ban them.

Fortunately, my bank is used to dealing with international clients and they still welcome me as a client. I see in other countries Americans have it much more difficult. I was even allowed to open an investment account! It’s far from ideal, and I had to commit to selling off everything should I leave the country, but it’s better than nothing..
It depends on the treaty, many are like you say, but not all include mutual collection/enforcement of tax debts.
Researchers Find Evidence of Link Between Herpes and Neurodegenerative Diseases
I don't see how this kind of argument generalizes. Short of armored truck deliveries, cryptographically signed digital transmissions are about the only form of information delivery where it's even possible to get this kind of assurance. Yet civilizations have operated for centuries if not millennia on the premise that we deliver things nonetheless. There is no guarantee at all that the government isn't rewriting the New York Times before it hits newsstands, intercepting and changing television signals, swapping out or reading your mail, injecting mind control serum into foods before they reach the grocery store, or that fluoride isn't used to subdue the population (other than science, but you don't know the government isn't intercepting and rewriting published research). The only assurance you get is all these things are illegal. Governments definitely don't universally follow their own laws, but at some point, the existence of some system of laws is either enough for you, or you go live in the woods with a bunker full of seeds and ammo, or start a revolution to replace the government with a new one.
For Docker base image I use:

- If I use Debian, security scan at Quay.io shows included packages have vulnerabilities

- If I use Ubuntu, security scan at Quay.io shows included packages do not have vulnerabilities
TIL, that's higher than I thought. My overall point still stands though, between 90% and 95% do not qualify..
Voter ID laws don't deter voters and vote suppression schemes can hurt the constituency of whoever is doing the suppressing. That makes me wonder what endgame current proponents of tightening laws and auditing results have in mind.
Yes, Nvidia is special (in a bad way).

They seem especially hell-bent on pushing new versions of CUDA on everyone way before any usable software supports it (i.e. try getting a usable tensorflow or mxnet when your machine auto-upgraded to 11.4.x one day after its release).
Of course, if you're serious about prepping isn't it generally a good idea not to tell people?

Good luck - hope you find a good community.
By and large, most open source attempts at programming languages are crap.

But a handful are very professional.

Other very successful similar initiatives are wikipedia and stackexchange.
Ask HN: Did somebody have success with the migration of Python 2.7 to Java/C#?
My team received application written in Python 2.7.
Old team members are retired and not available for any questions.

Following technologies are used in project:

* Django

* SQLAlchemy

* XML-RPC

* Jinja

* Springpython

* Pyro.

The application is using PostgreSQL as database and has about 150.000 lines of code. (mostly backend, UI is really simple)

We are tasked to modernize whole tech stack (migrate to Python 3) and fix couple bugs (rated from the previous team with both priority and severity low)

Most of the team members have zero experience with Python and have zero knowledge in business domain of this new application. We can not hire additional people. Considering how much will cost us in time/money to update this code base to Python3 I am somehow more on the line to migrate to the tech stack that we are already using for all other projects.

I found a lot writing on topic Python to GO, but on Python to Java/C# not so much. Are there any success stories with described best practices during rewrite?
But he’s not speaking in his capacity as the individual and citizen Michael Parson. He’s speaking in his capacity as Governor Michael Parson. We know this because he’s threatening to use his governing powers to employ government resources.

Whether state actors have a right to free speech is not, as I understand it, a settled matter of law.
yet another brain dead liberal argument.
But they are up for debate for all the caveats you’ve listed. I have yet to see any plan that resolves the issue of free as in beer and free as in: people can easily obtain said ID with little to no inconvenience.

All of the politicians pushing for ID laws brush away the whole obtaining an ID thing as an already solved problem… except it very much isn’t. Anyone that had to try to visit the DMV in a large city has likely discovered you’re lucky if it’s only a day-long affair.
That is a launcher + taskbar. Open an app, it will show that the app is open. Open a new app, it will show there. Similar to the OSX dock.
Most websites I visited then denied my visit; finally I settled by using an ad blocker to block their prompts.
If you preface each of your statements with "too much", then suddenly all 4 can make sense and be useful.
The vast majority of people don't commercially depreciate their vehicles, so while this does apply to some, it's a relatively small group.

In my huge group of friends, I know one person who does this with his truck, and he readily admits that it involves lying to the IRS and it fraud. Everyone else with a big SUV just prefers them to minivans.
JFC get your goddamn grubby hands off S230.

At some point someone is going to claim encryption algorithms are malicious since it can be used to encrypt child pornography and start suing anyone that hosts examples of encryption.
I expected this to be something incriminating, but instead it looks mundane. Tim Cook said the numbers look good so they should consider mentioning them on the earnings call. Matt Fischer said the data are suspect (due to "farmed and/or incentivized accounts in China") and so they shouldn't mention them until this can be addressed. Then he asked someone for an ETA on that. They appear to be acting properly, and exchanges like this must happen regularly at publicly traded companies.

edit: if the numbers were later published without addressing the fraud, that would add some color...
I'm really glad we have thoughtful people like you here. Gives me a little hope and motivation.

What's worse, MS and hw companies are joining efforts and may pressure Linux platforms as well (remember the story with the UEFI shim signature).
Sure, but I guarantee you that if the IRS screwed up and gave you the other doc, and you made use of that information (rather than immediately turning around and saying "um, IRS, I think you made a mistake; this doc doesn't belong to me"), you'd be in trouble as well.
Looks like there is just a little bit more to that story...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev
Yeah, gaming on Linux has seriously come a long way thanks to the efforts of Valve and the wider community. My main issue with gaming on linux is cloud saves; while it generally will work with Steam, other platforms like GoG have no such capacity, and it's a real drag compared to Windows.
So... Do it more. Places with good access to education and family planning /already have/ negative population growth rates. The problem is uneven access, and that's something that can be worked on.

Open borders to move people more quickly into more-developed countries, and increase funding and pressure for initiatives to raise standards in other countries.
You'll be surprised, but it's RedHat that made most of that happen. A lot of the important Linux projects are developed mostly by them - Gnome, Wayland, NetworkManager, Pipewire, flatpak, etc.

Ubuntu, on the other hand, seem to like to do many things their way. Like aggressive patching. I recall fontconfig being heavily patched from upstream. Then we have Mir (now almost abandoned), Unity (abandoned), snap (flatpak, done differently, not yet abandoned :).
Desktop Environments is what they meant (GNOME, Unity, other variants).

If your desktop look like similarly to the image you posted, the soft black vertical bar on the far left side of the screen is the taskbar. I think you are using Unity as your DE which is default DE for Ubuntu.

You can change to different DE if Unity is not your liking. There is a couple variants you can use, you can find them in the package manager and install it from there.
> Americans will almost always go for the Chinese merchandise, or shop at Walmart to save a few bucks.

For a majority of Americans, saving "a few bucks" makes a huge difference - that could be the difference between being able to buy $5 worth of gas they need to go to their next shift[1].

If you don't mind me asking - how much money (ballpark) can you spend on an impulse purchase? For some its single digit dollars, others tens, hundreds or thousands of dollars. When there's a difference of 3 magnitudes or order between people, the other's purchasing habits can seem alien (in both directions).

Unbridled capitalism doesn't inherently optimize for the long-term stability of the entire system - instead, it is mostly a bunch of local maximums.

1. I never pass up the opportunity to link to Scalzi's timeless essay on "Being Poor" https://whatever.scalzi.com/2005/09/03/being-poor/
Most countries have id requirements, and it's not viewed as a slippery slope towards voter suppression.

As an outsider, I find it really weird how instead of agreeing to id requirements, Sunday-voting, and automatic registration like most countries, Americans prefer to fight the other side's requirements with silly arguments like "We can't vote on a Sunday, that would offend The Lord!", and "We can't use ids to vote because black people don't know how to get them."
The deployment UI you see is actually just a react app. So it’s running both at the same time. So yeah, you can do both! But the template is mainly for prototyping contracts directly. Might make another full stack template tho.
Hmm, not the worst idea. But who makes wood tires for bikes nowadays? And oh God, the splinters :D
When someone is kind, helpful, and goes out of their way to help you, for free!!, you have no business demanding, insisting, or threatening a single thing.

Proper response would have been "Wow! Thanks!" and at worst "Please don't share what you saw, and thanks again."
Matter, Anti-Matter, and the Unified Theory of Garbage Collection
You could use the Nix package manager with Ubuntu. Not ideal, but maybe it helps your use-case.

https://ariya.io/2020/05/nix-package-manager-on-ubuntu-or-de...
None of this impacts a foreign employer’s employment of an American.
Yes. I have been using it for a few weeks now and it sucks.

Because it does not show the titles of all open windows.

And I cannot organize the entries as I wish.
Solar panels don't contain rare earth elements. Apply heightened scrutiny to any source that told you that they need rare earth elements.
> Idiomatic Rust tends to dislike heap allocation and virtual dispatch

Maybe Rust the way most people end up writing it, but Rust the language has no issue with these things. I think the idioms come more from the fact that Rust empowers you to avoid these things, not that it's poorly-suited to them.
Nope. Shit just got real. Welcome to the turd '20s.
I think the group of people who know about and use DSLRs is too small to be the target audience of any of Apple’s smartphones.

Other smartphone manufacturers might be willing to do a product for, at best, a few million users, but Apple thinks focusing on fewer products is the better choice (for them, and, possibly, for all users because Apple can spend more effort on each design)

I would guess Apple’s target audience is everybody who wants to make better photos, whether they know about DSLRs or not.

Yes, they have RAW support, but I think they find that a nice to have, not a must for their product.
In the 80s it was well known that an open source language project could never work.
When installing distro, I usually remove some included packages and install newest Firefox, LibreOffice, Gimp, Inkscape etc from Flatpak, because Flatpak has newest versions. Many packages do not update .deb anymore, they have moved to Flatpak.
There's a little bit to see though. In one of the emails, Matt Fischer mentions that he had already warned on 7/6 that the numbers weren't meaningful because of farmed and/or incentivized accounts. But by 7/19 Tim Cook had apparently forgotten this and was pleased to see the numbers, and had to be reminded again.
I wouldn't expect nothing less than being blamed by Ubuntu developers for a hacked up system, even though I barely described anything.

Thanks for giving me another reason to leave the Ubuntu ecosystem behind me. The condescending tone that your message has seems to be relatively popular in the Ubuntu/Canonical community as well, at least compared to NixOS.
The proper analogy is-- you visit a public clerk and make a formal request via a form, receive the requested document from the clerk.

Then, while you're at the clerk's counter you notice a menu up high above, like at a fast food restaurant, listing random commands with no explanation. Curiously, you call one out to the clerk and see what happens. The clerk returns with a crushed can. You call out another. The clerk dumps a roll of pennies on the counter.

That's not fraud, it's negligent supervision and stupid design.
Though it got much more dire under Trump..

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/27/senior-cia-off...
Intent matters. The service provider clearly did not intend that the files should be public. They screwed up, and they should take responsibility for that. But that doesn't make it ok to know about the security issue and download as many documents as you can in order to use them for your own purposes. Perhaps that wouldn't be "fraud" based on whatever definition you're using, but it's clearly unethical and immoral, and IMO hopefully illegal as well.
Does this actually work?

I've voted in a number of elections where my ID didn't match my address. In those situations, they didn't take my word for it, I had to provide an alternative means of proof I am the person I claim to be and that I live where I'm registered.

Also, what states have the individual find themselves on the voter roll? I've always had to provide the proof of my ID/address to a person at the polling station and they would find my ballot.
I thought the vertical left bar is a "dock".

It does not display the titles of the open windows and does not let me arrange the entries. That are the two problems I described.

It feels like this is meant to be used on a mobile device rather than on a desktop. On a desktop it makes me way less productive compared to a normal taskbar.
The content of the emails on its own seems uninteresting. Is there more context? I.e. did something notable happen before or after?
In my experience the managers don't have the information to make a sound decision. The fault is putting trust in the cat who impressed you 20 years ago when alls you needed was 1 sysadmin for your exchange server. He hasn't learned anything in 20 years and is above reproach because when I point out his failings him and the manager go off in a quiet room and he DESTROYS me with trash talk.
Michelin is by far the market leader in tires, especially compared to Bridgestone.
And suppressing opposition is the natural outcome of the government doing its job. The problem isn’t whether one group or another is “doing its natural job.” The problem is that what the reporter is doing is good, and what the government is doing is bad.
I moved from Debian teating to Ubuntu on the desktop in 206 as I felt the repos were more uptodate. The last couple of Ubuntu releases have announced me significantly though, netplan and subiquity especially
The last flat I had involved a 3" split in the tube - ain't no slime/foam/spray can that's gonna fix that.
I think they are referring to accredited investor laws.
> It's possible to exploit this: you can claim somebody else's name, and apparently get away with casting their vote.

This is made more likely by voter rolls being public. In NC, you can even see if a given person voted in a given election. Not their vote, but whether they voted or not. Which is information you could use to identify identities up for impersonating.
When did the rules change? You may have just been mistaken. I thought it was always possible to gain citizenship again, assuming you're eligible like anyone else and are willing to go through the normal citizenship process.
I'm trying to find humor at the irony of rich tech bros moving to where poor people live and driving the poor people further away.

Also; many have argued cities are more efficient than the alternative: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/environmental-advantages-citi...

Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but 8 billion people going back to a primitive way of life doesn't seem like a sustainable option either. Nice that you have the privilege to do it, though. Ironically, we are in need affordable housing where the city jobs are. That way we aren't forcing low paid workers to commute 1+ hours each way each day to put food on their families table. Here's the ironic part: depending on where you live, selling your city house in the current market only makes that problem worse!
Not all European states provide free IDs, and some US states which require IDs provide them for free.
Governor Parson, While in the Army, attended night classes at the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaii, without completion of a degree.

Its not hard to see how someone with only a rural sixties highschool education might conflate this particular revelation with treasonous intent.
This is amazing! Is there a comparable package maybe in Python?