skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a citizen of the pitiful state, we tried to vote him out last election cycle. He wasn’t even elected before this, something along the lines of Nixon’s transfer of power to Ford is what happened in my state.

Yet he was re-elected.
It is so crazy to me that Americans seem like the most patriotic people on the planet (but I'm American, so maybe I am missing things) BUT...

... given the choice of buying something local or from Amazon (that comes from China) if it costs $1 less, Americans will almost always go for the Chinese merchandise, or shop at Walmart to save a few bucks.

.. given a choice between news that is written by locals, or a newspaper as described in the article, where they outsource the design work to the Phillipines, at least a large percentage of Americans will simply go with the better designed one, and never question the messenger.

Americans are a very confused tribe, in my opinion, and I say that as one of them.
Yes, verbatim from the paper: "Moreover, training with PET can be performed in several hours on a single GPU without
requiring expensive hyperparameter optimization."
First thing that popped into my too
Biden Aims to Rival China’s Belt and Road in Latin America
30 minutes removing a piece of output: $100

Knowing where sed output is generated: $49.9999M
Funny, I run Ubuntu on my laptop and tried just today to upgrade it (since I'm on 18.04 and have been for a while). But no matter how I try, `do-release-upgrade` won't do the upgrade, complaining about third party repositories (removed all of them as a result), mismatched python versions, and a load of other issues. When I fix one, another one appears. Tried for 5 hours today and eventually gave up.

On the other hand, my desktop machines run Arch and NixOS and I have never had any issues upgrading. Well, actually a few issues with NixOS upgrades, but it's so easy to rollback that I barely spend any time on it, and when I later try to upgrade again, everything just works.

I wonder why Ubuntu/Canonical can never get their upgrade game to work properly. I've had similar issues with Ubuntu upgrades since I started using Ubuntu (8.X) and seems it'll never be fixed. Maybe I'll just start using either Arch or NixOS on my laptop too.
Oh! Nice! The a much more accessible than I was expecting.
People have gone to jail for incrementing integers in URLs like that (most famously, weev).
You act like "no access" can't happen because other things break. If that was the only choice, I'd consider it, but I'm not going to give up everything in tiny incremental bits to maximize access in every edge case.

Also you could disable expiration as a much safer measure.
Playing with OpenBSD will be a learning experience. For me, that's usually enough to install something on a non-daily driver machine.

Are you a software engineer or CS student? If so, I'd say that OpenBSD really shines in code simplicity, clarity, and consistency. This is also a matter of taste. What drew me in initially was the quality and consistency of the kernel source code, consistent high standards in documentation, and the design of system interfaces and libraries.

I like being able to answer my own questions and I find that easier in OpenBSD than in Linux. Sometimes I sit for hours and simply flip back and forth between documentation and code exploring how things work. I feel that this level of consistency and availability of information within the system feed creative urges on my part.

I like to write code and I feel like I have an easier time doing that in OpenBSD than Linux (again, a matter of tastes.) This is in large part because my workflow tends to happen at the terminal.

I would be surprised to find that VSCode, Slack, Discord, and other electron-y applications can be made to work in OpenBSD at all... maybe they do, but I've never felt the need to try, so if they don't I'm fine with that.

I think OpenBSD is well adapted to a specific kind of user and a specific kind of problems. If you're paranoid, or a developer, or just like the terminal window, or prefer design consistency over broad compatibility and feature variety, you might find that you really enjoy using OpenBSD.

By all means, give it a spin if for no other reason than to learn about a thing that's out there that a bunch of people enjoy.

If OpenBSD is not for you, that's okay too. I don't think that the user base, developers, or community have ever been looking run campaigns aimed at growing the popularity of the system. For me that's a good thing, the developers seem less prone to chasing the next thing that will expand their share in a market, and are more focused on making a thing they want to use - which translates well for me. YMMV.
My point is disclosures are different in stocks vs crypto and we shouldn't just group them all into one category.

I'm just wondering, do you think that we should never refine our securities laws for new technology, ever?
Try flatseal and see if you can tweak the permissions.

Re: terrible look, I face the same thing with Telegram (the mouse reverts to whatever is the default in Qt and ignores the system settings). I haven't been able to fix that.
there is no meaning to life. the Universe doesn't give a shit. create your own meaning and enjoy that freedom.
The patrons are now:
-Nvidia
-Facebook
-AMD
-Amazon
-Epic
-Unity
-Apple

... with Google, Intel, Microsoft and Adobe among the other sponsors.

https://fund.blender.org/
The problem with biodiversity loss is that people don't care about it en masse. We just don't give a shit about nature collectively and biodiversity has complex relationship with profit to humans, because we can largely compensate loss of wildlife with more fertilizers and more sophisticated agriculture and farming. Which makes it even harder politically to act on it.

Now of course global ecosystem degradation will hit the poor in developing countries very hard. But it's not like anybody who can take meaningful action cares about them either. And as opposed to climate change, the rich are isolated of the effects, so they have no incentive to push here either.
Idk i mean simply knowing what the code for >> looks like doesn't mean you're used to thinking in that way.

There was a time years ago when someone was showing me the types of (>>) and (>>=) in Haskell and my question was "ok, but what does that have to do with IO?!?"
I don’t think ABN AMRO is completely fine with US customers today, given that they have an US persons disclaimer and have a phone number for questions regarding it (https://www.abnamro.nl/en/personal/specially-for/us-persons....)

Problem is that FATCA requires banks to actively send the US government personal information about its customers with US citizenship, while the GDPR forbids them from doing so without consent from their customers (https://americanexpatfinance.com/tax/item/632-eu-data-protec...)

But yes, accidental Americans definitely are a weird case. Some of them don’t even know they have US citizenship until the IRS sends them a message, or when, upon visiting the USA, border control requires them to show a US passport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_American#Awareness_...)
Nice. Still reading it.
>the question isn't really who is first, it's who is covering it at all

As you get to smaller cities and even towns, I'd argue that weekly is probably fine for frequency and allows for coverage of what is actually important. Of course, online extras could cover more urgent things.

The overall economics are still an issue of course, but do people really need most local news RIGHT NOW? Of course, there was a point in my life when most of the news I consumed came from reading Time Magazine every week.
The only crime here is that this uninformed governor is going to spend taxpayer dollars and time to chase ghosts. His staff are either terrible, or this is all political theatre. I don't expect everyone to understand the internet at a technical level but no one under this guy could explain that this is a Missouri problem not a hacker problem?
The US Government has a STIG (Security Technical Implementation Guide [1], a government-proprietary term for "IT policy") that requires that you disable Dev Tools in IE [2], Edge [3] and Chrome[4]. Their justification (from [1]):

> Information needed by an attacker to begin looking for possible vulnerabilities in a web browser includes any information about the web browser and plug-ins or modules being used. When debugging or trace information is enabled in a production web browser, information about the web browser, such as web browser type, version, patches installed, plug-ins and modules installed, type of code being used by the hosted application, and any back-ends being used for data storage may be displayed

I wish I were making this up.

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

[2] https://stigviewer.com/stig/microsoft_internet_explorer_11/2...

[3] https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/microsoft_edge/2021-02-16/fi...

[4] https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/google_chrome_current_window...
Yeah, this is the same conclusion that I have reached. There's nothing wrong with design patterns. There's nothing wrong with language features. But you want to use the correct tool for the job. And for some reason with design patterns, the framing of simplicity among the so-called experts about when to use that tool is missing, so they are used improperly.

What's the correct tool? The simplest tool that can get the job done, the Principle of Least Power[0]. We often hear "Favor Composition over Inheritence", but never "These are the instances where Composition does not work, and Inheritence needs to be used instead."[1] Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" shows many more examples, but this principle is very wide reaching. Prefer expressions over code blocks. Prefer for over while. Prefer map over for. Prefer data over functions. Prefer functions over macros. Prefer monoliths over micro-services. Prefer unikernels over containers. Prefer smaller teams over bigger teams.

For the monolith vs micro-service, it's better to have a separate micro-service than a spaghetti monolith, but if you can un-spaghetti your monolith it will be simpler. It might not be easier. It might not be possible for your team based on the difficulty of the task. Likewise for team size, smaller is better, but only if that team size has all of the required skills. If they do not, grow the team or train your team.

The left side is simpler, and therefore composes better. If you need more power, by all means use it. If you are designing a system, always make the left easy, and the right ever so slightly annoying. Nudge people into the Pit of Success[2].

[0]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/

[1]: I believe the answer is that composition always works if you have access to all of the code, and inheritance is a back-up if you are using a library you can't change. I might have a

[2]: https://blog.codinghorror.com/falling-into-the-pit-of-succes...
The problem is that the response, as it pertains to you, is going to be the same for incompetence or malfeasance in a large number of organizations. Consider what the average self-interested politician would do if you uncovered a corruption problem in their administration they did not know about. Are they going to fix the problem, reward you, and risk losing the next election beneath an avalanche of attack ads? Or are they going to bury it and crush you?

Large governments and corporations are not your friends. They will hurt you if it benefits them, often very short-sightedly and regardless of the root problem. There are far too many articles like this one to think "responsible disclosure" is a safe practice. I remember one case where the red team was hired by the agency involved explicitly to perform pentesting, and when they found a vulnerability the government pressed charges!
People, not facts, require compassion.
Once again, Gov Parsons makes me embarrassed to be a Missouri resident.
> it's just hard to sustain belief that this all leads anywhere

I'm with you 100%. I don't want to be there, but there I am. And sometimes it all feels utterly pointless – civilization, the human endeavour, everything. My particular slippery slope goes like this:

Humanity is going to waste the one-time gift of fossil fuel accreting the already-grotesque hoards of a few hundred individuals. Then these people will die, nothing will have been gained on the whole, and instead of infrastructure which we could have used to pivot to some recognizable future, our descendants will be left with nothing but unrest and some variety of ecological hot potato. And then we will all die out or revert to a pre-technological state, and either way all the gains of science and human ingenuity will be lost.

Is that how yours goes too?

I don't know what to do about all that, but usually I can convince myself that working on some tiny project to help things not go that way is a worthwhile effort. And of course it's pretty much all I can do.

Also here are a couple quotes that help me get out of such perspective ruts:

* "Even though I'm always in pain, it's worth sticking around to make my corner of the world a slightly better place." -Ricky Gervais' character from After Life

* "I cringe at my arrogance. Actually, cringing at my arrogance is just another, more rarified, level of arrogance." -Alison Bechdel

* "Goodness: You got to make it out of badness. Because there isn't anything else to make it out of." -Robert Penn Warren
i assume fixed at 24mm because at 90mm, stopping it down to f16 won't do you much good?
I imagine having an assertion that the person didn't keep any of the data might be important to legal. (Ianal)
> Democrats are as guilty as Republicans

No they aren't. Not even remotely close. I'm exhausted by "both sides". "Both sides" arguments cause apathy in people because what is even the point in voting if, "both sides".
I think you overestimate - wildly - how much people care about the environment. Further the idea that recycling as policy offsets pollution is a delusion. That issue needs to be solved by materials science before even the design phase, not after the fact do good mitigation. It's a type of indoctrination; that's the purpose of recycling laws. If you follow them you're affirming voluntary compliance with government policy and that precedent makes you more agreeable to their continuing agenda. Doesn't make a bit of difference to the environment. It's a mind game. I've seen cargo ships pour metric tons of waste into the ocean as routine waste from industrial zones. The sheer size of the waste is almost unbelievable. Don't worry about the aluminum in your laptop and soda cans.
We have done two major deployments of OtterTune in Europe. One of them we published a VLDB paper about (https://ottertune.com/blog/vldb-autonomous-database-tuning-i...). Their infosec people looked at the data OtterTune collects and determined that there are no GDPR issues.

We are incrementally expanding the AZs we support in the free tier in order to carefully scale our service. We plan to support EU zones by the end of the year.
So his issue was not that you discovered the bug. His issue was that after discovering it, you went on to view a bunch of other people's data.

What you did was walk down the block, pull on the doors of random houses, and if you found one unlocked, went in and took a look around. If you found my door unlocked and left me a note, I would be grateful. If you went in and took a look around, then did it to all of my neighbors, we would have you arrested.

The bug here is an unlocked door. It being unlocked is a security risk, and people are thankful if you let them know. If after identifying the security risk you proceed to commit a crime, you're surprised people aren't "grateful?"

>difficult to hold yourself accountable

isn't it though...

>are malicious actors

so you.
I think making your cheat kernel level is a relatively minor hurdle compared to the lengths that people have been going with ML + hardware based cheats at this point. Maybe we need to stop the kernel anti-cheat just from a pure privacy perspective at this point, or make it an OS service you can implement as a user level module only, much like endpoint management and macOS. I get a feeling there is more to being in the kernel although.
Save the Scribe: the women who worked with medieval manuscripts
As a long time reader of all three I don't disagree. I did think the NY Times and WaPo were pretty much equal in the kind of partisan baiting stuff (note I'm a dem donor but tired a bit of the sometimes comically bad "news" slants). Even though I'm left on the issues I've been enjoying WSJ though I skip opinion section / a bit less raw clickbait type writing. Still vote for the left - but I think it probably could use a somewhat mellower set of media bubbles - but maybe the market is just not there anymore.
bitcoin maximalists want exactly this to happen
> Then I'm even less clear on what her issues were

I think the issues are pretty simple; if you are a US citizen but living and working in another country permanently with no US local income, she found the impact of FACTA and tax reporting obligations to be too expensive and or pain-in-the-butt to make it worth keeping her US citizenship.

There are very real impacts and constraints on ex-pats in this situation; whether or not they are worth it to you is a personal evaluation I suppose.

This is nothing like the schoold debt issue you describe.
Vehemently agree. The response demonstrates, if nothing else, the lack of an appropriate Incident Response Plan. A competent legal team would not vet and approve such a response, instead redirecting it through the appropriate channels if they felt the need to respond directly.
The analogy is going up to a house and checking all the doors and windows to see if they are locked. That's rather like port scanning, a form of 'poking'. If you go to a state government web site and do that, even if you don't exfiltrate data or load it up with ransomware, it's definitely very shady behavior, although it seems there are no laws against it in the USA (some ISPs will ban users caught doing this however).

Obviously if you broke into someone's house and then asked them to pay you for your 'vuln discovery', err...

However, I think looking at HTML code on a public facing web page is not that. If you hang naked pictures of yourself on your front door, you don't get to complain when people take pictures of them.

1. https://www.calyptix.com/top-threats/port-scanning-legal-ans...
The intel investment is too little too late to have any impact on the current shortage.
I will sooner give up computers forever than be either locked into a linux VM on Windows, or locked into expensive hardware with the other one
Streisand effect, too. None of us would have heard about this otherwise.
Do you mean everyone has a small plot of land and grows food to feed their own families?
The Next Civil War- the NBA’s Vaccine Problem
It's like you picked up Occam's Razor & then threw it in the garbage bin.
If I witness a crime and tell police about it, am I an accomplice according to Mr Parson?
There were cia.gov email addresses in there too. When these guys don't get a joke and fixate on you, they really fixate on you. They are more clingy than that song.
CBDCs will be an absolute disaster for personal privacy, and personal liberty. Piss off the wrong person in the right position and suddenly there's a "mistake" where you can't function at all in society.

I highly recommend Brett Scott's writing on this subject: https://twitter.com/suitpossum?lang=en
EVs don't have space to store a donut so an airless system that can't deflate would be useful.
“The state is committed to bring to justice anyone who hacked our system and anyone who aided and abetted them to do so,” Parson said

I assume they'll start with the head of the Office of Administration Information Technology Services Division whose team allowed such a glaring vulnerability in the first place.

If IT management held some responsibility for breaches, then maybe it wouldn't be so hard to get funding for security measures.
I can think of at least one legitimate reason to block the dev console. There are these posts I've seen over the years that say to "press the hotkey to open the Javascript console, and paste this Javascript blob" (obviously in much more persuading terms) to get a discount on RayBands or something. Disabling it prevents a possible information leak vector.
The port is a government operation already, so that doesn't seem like much of an argument.

While I have no particular expertise as to where the bottlenecks lie, I don't think capitalism has any special solution to a limited pool of existing skilled labor, a large increase in demand, and a long lead time to train new skilled labor.

And at least some of the bottleneck occupations in question are regulated (and for good reason) about how long they can work, removing one of the most obvious ways to immediately get "new" labor - pay the existing labor whatever it takes to get them to agree to work more hours.
I remember being more free during the Cold War.

Many politicians are much older than me.

At their brains just hard-wired to see an enemy everywhere?
The fact that it happened here should calm your worries at least a little bit.
I don't notice a difference since upgrading from the deb to the snap.
If a CEO is in a position where they could hire Jony Ive but don't know Jony Ive, the CEO probably has someone working for them who knows who Jony Ive is and can pitch him internally.
I don't see anything being "regulated away". Just that an almost 90 year old law hasn't stopped applying. Coinbase could just stay in line with that law.

They don't want to, of course, because that would put them on the same footing as regular investments.

> blockchain technology has only increased in penetration into industries. It's not going away.

Financial security laws applying to investment in defi is the epitome of accepting that crypto isn't going away. Don't you think?
I edited my comment, since 70% tax rate is actually possible depending on the tax rate of the country you're living and whether they have a tax treaty with the US or not.
If makes sense if we relax an assumption that the IRS and the agents therein are interested in optimizing tax revenue.
I think if GitHub simply gave free private repos sooner, GitLab would’ve had a way harder time.
> Chernobyl and Fukushima were also both created by a culture of deference to higher-ups

Chernobyl suffered from compounding of reactor and test design flaws and human error. Fukushima suffered from (retrospectively) insufficient risk assessments, which resulted in a design meeting a rare event beyond it design limit sooner than expected.*

I'm unaware of a human society, in fact any animal society, where politeness does not involve some degree of deference. So saying these accidents were caused by a culture of deference is essentially meaningless without some more "who, what, why, how" and importantly 'how much' and 'compared to what'.

From the IAEA report: "This common mode failure
reached a scale considerably beyond that usually addressed in the assessment of BDBAs. [ed: beyond design basis accident]". https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/AdditionalVol...

https://www.coursera.org/lecture/intercultural-communication...
Jim Browning (the renowned anti-scammer) recently fell for one of his own, where someone tricked him into disabling his Youtube account.

So if the situation is right, almost anyone can fall for it (Gorilla on basketball court experiment)
Kind of a nitpick, but presidents don't outlaw things. Laws passed by Congress do that, and you're right, it was in 2004. Bush signed the law, but it passed by a huge majority.

https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/legis_bulletin_010705.html