skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Russian hacking gangs are putting silicon valley entrepeneurs to shame. They've made every element of ransomware something that can be specialized in and outsourced. Initial access? Ransomware? C2 infrastructure? Negotiation? Customer service? It can all be outsourced to a Russian company that specializes in their niche.

Everyone is scrambling to build a cyber army. Looks like Putin is letting the invisible hand build it for him.
Isn't a big part of the current problem that transport/delivery/shipping vessels and/or their portable containers have been forced to become part of the storage capacity?

Does it really require much more than that to break the whole system down? You could have what was once a highly parallel system with tons of transport bandwidth brought to its knees and effectively serialized if not completely deadlocked by just overflowing your storage capacity enough to fill all the transport stuck in queues and other forms of holding patterns.

Thought exercise:

You have two warehouses surrounded with tons of loading/unloading docks, plenty of bandwidth capacity, but they're both full inside. You have 20 trucks available, and they too are all full of goods, 10 parked at the docks of one warehouse, the other 10 parked at the other warehouse. But nothing is happening, because all the trucks are full and waiting to unload, and all the warehouses are full.

So you introduce a 21st truck that's empty, and it shows up at one warehouse, loads up, and moves the stuff to the other where it needs to go. What happens? Did you fix the problem? Barely; you've opened up 1 truck worth of transport capacity. Despite having all this potential parallelism and idling trucks at concurrent docks, you will still be stuck with just a single truck moving around making glacial progress at any given moment. At least until enough goods exit this closed system where only the warehouses are storing and the trucks are all transporting again, which requires preserving sufficient headroom at the warehouses to ensure any docked, fully loaded truck can unload immediately.

It's a vastly simplified example, but I wouldn't be surprised if something along those lines has occurred where the transport has become storage because there's been too much stuff pumped into the system for the available holding capacity.

It's like trying to rearrange your overfull apartment when there's zero floor space available, you can't move the bed because it's wedged between the couch and the table. You need to take stuff out of the space so you can actually move things around.
Both countries were successfully invaded, but they were not successfully (defined in the way a Victorian English gentleman would define success) occupied.
Nobody thinks inflation is a good thing ceteris paribus. The main questions are whether it’s better than the alternative, and whether it will be transient or not. “Any inflation at all is bad” is not a view held by any serious economist these days, especially not after the Fed has been below target for so long.

I described Sahm and Krugman as dovish and I think that’s more than fair to people who disagree about what inflation means right now. I don’t like pieces like this one that speak authoritatively on so little evidence.
https://i.imgur.com/Awp7KhM.png

IE
I am so impressed by those photos. Those are stunning and so perfectly relevant.
And if you want to launder crypto, just sell a few NFTs.
Medians aren't crooked.
I have been having a bug of having been shown a couple of past messages on the bottom. It always gets below new messages. They cannot be deleted. I had it on both Linux and Android. Now I seem to be having this only on Android.
>If crypto eats the lunch of these traditional institutions because it doesn't have to follow the rules they do, things are going to come to a head sooner or later.

Yeah people have been saying this about bittorrent for about 15 years too: since it's illegal it'll have to a stop because the government will end it. And yet take a guess how I just watched HBO's Succession?

I could believe that having someone else hold your bitcoins and allow an easy webpage interface to break the law will end.
> Our economy ... is doing a bad job of adapting to new behaviors [because] just-in-time

I have been astonished at how well the world has responded to the shock. Our first world economies seem to be amazingly resilient (although perhaps I am biased by being in New Zealand so I am unaware of what is going on elsewhere).

It seems to me that just-in-time is helping us, and capitalist price signals are working.

So far I personally haven't lacked anything important (albeit, I live in a rich county. I did have to wait a month for an iPad).

Sure there is plenty of fail, but I'm not sure the obvious "better" answers would actually improve anything.

It is easy to criticise given perfect hindsight, and easy to see from my armchair what should have been done.
Great. Now you've hired someone who already knows everything about all the languages / tools / platforms you're using, and won't "need" to learn anything new. How long do you think it'll be before they get bored and leave?
Valve supporting the Steam Deck with BattlEye anti-cheat is as easy as an email
Initially, people do not fall in love. Rather, they fall in lust. This is typically short term. Love emerges when there is deep, long term compatibility and commitment. Humor helps as well. This is an anecdotal observation from someone who has been "in love" for over four decades...
So what exactly happens in between the fed purchasing mortgage bonds and allegedly consumer driven supply runs on everything from toilet paper to golf clubs?
> why England is a republic since the Magna Carta

You'd have a much better case if you went with "since the Civil War" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War) or "since the Glorious Revolution" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution)...
This reminds me of something I did a few years ago. I had an old printer for which the drivers did not work properly on Windows. Connected the printer to a Zero W and it became accessible to every device on my network through CUPS. I even made it print PDF attachments from emails (https://github.com/AbhyudayaSharma/MailPrinter)
In reality the best solution is to mix all available tools in a way where individual interactions always have a specific place to be addressed effectively. For example, I encourage people to introduce issues in the discord. If it is fixable with the given context and I am available, I will fix it there and then + publish a new version of the package/patches within minutes. This way others don't even have the time to experience the problem in the first place.

If the problem seems more complex, I direct them to fill in an extensive issue template.

On boot of the library, I also log a link to an issue template with most of the context filled in.

If the issue has a few bits of information missing & there seems to be miscommunication, I direct them to message me on the discord.

Most projects are maintained by a single person, so the communication landscape of the project should be optimised for that person and how they deem effective to communicate. It's not for users/passers-by/etc.
What happens if you never fall in lust with a partner but then fall in love just because of compatibility reasons? Is it really still as satisfying?
> But the logical reason to stay married to my partner is that it makes me happy to do so.

Ostensibly, you actually love your partner and are not in a stable long-run relationship that was initiated by a mutual limerence-like state induced using behavioral, psychological and/or pharmaceutical techniques.
PCAPdroid: “tcpdump” for non-rooted Android
does he even need more money at this point?
The signalling tech is old as mammoth's turd, "boomgates down/trains crawling" is a normal occurrence on quite a few lines.
The hand signal just needs to be silent, so it can be flashed secretly at strangers. In this case, it worked. The teenager was able to flash the signal at a driver without alerting her captor
Geniocracy
That's not exactly under 1k though
The cheapest one is only a dollar under 1k.
Over the entire 10 years it's always felt like we have been too slow to hire and needed a person in a role 3-6 months earlier.

We were a team of 5 when we hired our first full-time customer service agent. Until that hire, we would each take a day of customer support which eventually meant that our iOS engineer was answering user emails for ~6 hours a week.
In Praise of Inefficient Teams
For every person buying crypto there is someone selling.
How does this disprove what I said? I said it WAS closed source. It's also not complete anymore, so I think it's still safe to call it closed source.

If there's a single piece of closed source code running on the servers, it ceases to be open source.
> This appears to be quite an old document (2012 judging by some of the dates in the screenshots, and the network map) but fascinating nonetheless, thanks for posting!

Yeah, is this factoid - central Melbourne train signals being controlled by an emulated PDP-11 - still true in 2021? I don’t know. Definitely this is known to have been true some years ago but can anyone confirm if it remains true today? The construction of the Melbourne Metro requires new signals, which I assume would be controlled by a brand new control system not the old PDP-11-based system. But if you are going to introduce a new system for one line, wouldn’t it make sense to try to migrate the existing lines to it as well?
Do you want to recommend the best places near you?
This is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29148685 but written by Niall Ferguson rather than Pano Kanelos.
Tinder is crap, but others are better. I've had quite a few high-quality dates from Hinge recently.
Why I’m co-founding a new university dedicated to freedom of thought and study
These stories are interesting but it's worth noting that people have always lived in groups because we are social animals. Even in this story he had help from others nearby when he was airlifted to a nearby hospital to recover from a stroke. The completely independent and sovereign individual is mostly a fantasy.
In the US, the letter of the law is that cyclists must make a full stop, yes. But cycling activists often argue that this is a law that needs changing, and would help get more casual riders on bikes. Additionally, most bike riders in cities are on the lower income side; this would reduce how much they're cited for what is fairly accepted behavior.
> we got flat roofs from bauhaus philosophy.

Not really. Frank Lloyd Wright was building with flat roofs a decade before the Bauhaus school even opened. But it was certainly an artistic endeavour and he’s a great example of somebody who had an adversarial relationship with pretty much everybody.
I remember Vanilla Forums! I loved the old look so much. Is it possible to still have that old look (the pink and blue one). It was really minimal!
Organic demand growth is what we want, not this Frankenstein economy that's been created since at least 2008 if not earlier. Demand doesn't boost GDP, producing real goods and services boosts GDP. You can't spend your way to prosperity despite what any of the insane MMT economists might say.

I agree that wage growth is good but not in the manner it's happening right now, through insanely easy money policies creating massive inflation that's easily outpacing any of those wage gains. Again, you can't print and spend your way to prosperity. Maybe some of these tools would work if they'd ever let off the gas and removed them but that's not what's happening.
There is no increase in productivity.

Inflation can be very costly, especially for the most disadvantaged who do not have investments to hedge against the rise in prices. It may have a positive first order effect in the short run, but it is an elusive one.

Inflation, if out of control, has the potential to bring the interest rate to levels that would turn borrowing extremely costly --therefore making acquisition of capital more expensive, affecting productivity.

Another side effect is that the government debt could become extremely burdensome, which would force the government to essentially print money to pay its debts. That is effectively a tax (called _seignorage_) on the population. In order to pay its debts, the government prints money, which in turn makes goods and services more expensive --i.e. _seignorage_. High inflation can affect consumer behavior and depress economic activity, which would lead to unemployment, it happened many times, and it is called stagflation. A slower economic activity coupled with increase in prices could then make production more costly, which would push inflation even higher but also increase unemployment.

The key here is whether inflation would get out of control. The Fed seems to banking on the idea that this high inflation is transitory, which means that despite its current high levels, there will be some accommodation in the medium run and things would go back to a stable and acceptable target level. Some, like the article above, does not think so. If that's the case, then the Fed will need to act soon.
As the old saying goes "don't fix it if it ain't broke"... but I wonder how long this new system will last. The PDP-11 ran for a few decades, but will the replacement outlast it?
It's a (better) terminal, for Windows.

Mac and Linux have got nothing to do with it.
Is the role of the president really that disproportionate compared to other countries? The USA, for example? Recent presidencies, with their loads of executive orders etc really make me feel differently.
I'd love to build something like this for VPNs. Raspberry Pi connects to the VPN via wifi and allows network printing from devices on the same VPN.
Built a House from Scratch, Insane Value Was the Experience in Front of Our Kids
Yeah it's not even remotely the right thing though.
This is old Internet meme lore:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hunter2
On the other hand, a fluoroquinolone like Cipro might be the only way to treat an MDR bacteria such as P. aeruginosa.

All the black box warnings in the world don't matter if Cipro is the only available drug. Use it or (probably) die. We really need a lot more research into new antibiotics.
Never crashed once in the past year I've used it daily for work. N=1
I had this for a while a year or so ago.
It was nice but it had few cons that made it less ideal than I’ve wanted.

* CUPS AirPrint is generic and provides features that might be unsupported by your printer requires extra settings when printing.

* the shared printer wasn’t detected easily by some machines or there was some driver incompatibility.

I hoped CUPS could provide some “bridged” printer so you won’t be required to have hard to find drivers but sadly for non AirPrint this solution was worse at least in my case.
Well, gitlab is way better. Github is the Facebook of developers.
Melbourne's new Metro tunnel (and Cranbourne, Pakenham and Sunbury lines) will use high capacity moving block signalling, with a minimum headway of 120 seconds!! [1]

I assume this will be similar to the European Train Control System Level 3 [2] (which does not exist in a cross-vendor spec yet afaik) - it's being built by Rail Systems Alliance, a consortium made up of CPB Contractors, Alstom and Metro Trains Melbourne.

[1]: https://bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/metro-tunnel/about/tech...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Train_Control_System
More like "who wants to change this code and cause a train crash?".

Not I.
IIRC high speed signalling is coming with the Melbourne Metro trains (and the existing lines those trains will run through).

Replacing train management systems like this with new ones seems to be all but impossible, my brother in law worked on one in the UK that was designed, built and implemented and the controllers basically said "no thanks". It only got implemented when they rebuilt the UI and control panels to look like the old one.
Athletes allege body shaming within Oregon’s data-driven track and field program
Oh right, I totally forgot about it! Good one. :)
R. Evil, seriously? Feels like watching a poorly written Austin Powers sequel.
Discord CEO hints at integrations with MetaMask and WalletConnect
What evidence do you need? It's been already spelled out. High demand coupled with lagging supply, which does not have the capacity to adjust to new behaviors in the short and medium run. Especially if you consider the regulatory barriers, such as ramping up energy production. What little evidence do you speak of?
Abilities distract your soul sometimes.
> This recurring discussion is very "This is the year for Linux on the desktop"

The only people I see unironically talking about "the year of the Linux desktop" are people that talk about _other people_ supposedly proclaiming the year of the Linux desktop. "This recurring discussion reminds me of a decades-old strawman/dead meme" is not a good way to introduce any straight-faced argument.

> Nobody wants to register on some random weird site, and figure that sites navigation, let alone their privacy/data policies. Discord/Reddit/Slack/etc... are easy to use.

Why do you speak of Discord and Slack as if they were eternal, and that we were all taught to use them as surely as we learned our ABCs and cut up our food? At one time Discord and Slack were that "random weird site", and I'll note that for vast numbers of people outside of nerd and tech communities they still are. As for me, given a choice (and outside of work I do have one), I'd touch neither because I find them both to be terrible software.
Krugman thinks it is a combination of supply chain issues, shift in demand and out of control energy prices:

https://archive.md/fjwyl
Clarification: they designed a house and then hired people to build it from scratch.

Having done all the interior work along with my family on my childhood home, I have to imagine that their experience was subtly different.
You mean they redirect through various different domains not affiliated with Twitter before reaching the end? Who creates these links? Is it people creating short links before posting to twitter? What's the purpose? Just tracking?
I don't think it's that Jerome Powell doesn't understand. Rather the central bank only has a few tools (interest rates/QE) to nudge the economy in the right direction. It takes real policy (Congress and the White House) to direct the investment to the more sustainable long-term investments
See also Diotima’s ladder: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diotima's_Ladder_of_Love
Almost all npm packages are open and the code available in Github - so if npm package maintainers are not being policed then it's the community's fault for leeching and not looking into the code.

I run an install script for my package [0], this install script forces 2 lines in users' .gitignore files to prevent EXTREMELY sensitive data being committed into a public repo - despite me telling everyone in the community to not commit these files on god-knows how many occasions. I do this because I care about my users and I know if I tried some funny business then they would rightly call me out for it - NOT "because I'm allowed to".

[0] - https://github.com/open-wa/wa-automate-nodejs/blob/0ba7d6850...
The wikipedia article on wim hof where they quoted the study seems a lot more believable:

" . . . forceful respiration results in increased sympathetic innervation and glucose consumption in intercostal muscle, generating heat that dissipates to lung tissue and warms circulating blood in the pulmonary capillaries. Our results provide compelling evidence for the primacy of the brain (CNS) rather than the body (peripheral mechanisms) in mediating the Iceman's [Wim Hof's] responses to cold exposure.[28]"

By hyperventillating you are just flexing your intercostal muscle and that's warming your body. If you sat there flexing your quads or your core over and over you would probably get a similar sensation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Hof
Simula One – office-focused, standalone VR headset based on the Linux Desktop
Seems a bit overkill to me
Remember when I a certain notorious government from the 20th century made being born a Jew illegal? I remember that.

Governments do stupid things all the time, and Crypto currencies is a great technology to keep governments honest. Even if most activity remained illegal (It won't) it would STILL be a beneficent technology. This illegal business is done with or without crypto, regardless.
The difference between Vanguard and, say, BattlEye or EAC is that it runs at all times.

I don’t know enough about Valorant to say whether it’s effective. I will say that pre-loading your hacks prior to starting the game has been a common practice for some time. That way, unlike anti-virus, the games anti-cheat doesn’t see the bootstrapping process.
Due to the core software limitation (no source code available)

Oh. So that's the real problem. They lost the source.
According to this web page - https://vicsig.net/infrastructure/signalbox/Metrol - it seems yes, it has been replaced.

> Train Describer replaced with TCMS in 2014-2016.
Oh wow. It almost feels like the structure is missing a house underneath it.
> Is the role of the president really that disproportionate compared to other countries?

Yes.

> The USA, for example?

The US has, among modern democracies, pretty much the strongest Presidential system. So, no, not compared to the US, in the same way that <extremely hot city> is probably not hot compared to Death Valley.
If this is true (and I'm not saying it's not), then that means public vaccine mandates should never be made at all, because if they're obviously justified, they're not necessary, and if they're not obviously justified, they're not justified at all (since, as I've argued upthread, the "really obvious" standard is the only justifiable one for mandates in the first place).
Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29148685, which is this article but written by Pano Kanelos and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29157445, this article written by Niall Ferguson.
Car-oriented infra structure was responsible for a sizable portion of the economical development for quite a while.
it also helps not having a VK account tied to your "business" e-mail
Isn't that why the US government has longstanding agricultural subsidies, guarantees on prices, etc.? Do we really have a shortage of food?
I just noticed this today and was actually a bit confused.

What's annoying though is that Google doesn't show you the image sizes anymore. That's also relatively recent.
Cryptocurrencies are not anonymous, and fiat currency is no shining star.

HSBC and other major banks launder money for the drug cartels at billion dollar scale. Rather than white collar crime like ransomware, drug cartels actually kill and mutilate people.

Nobody has gone to jail at those banks for enabling it, even when they violate laws in the process of facilitating those transactions.
"Silicon valley entrepreneurs" are doing business in a war zone.

The general security situation is fraught because multiple nation states are at least sheltering and sometimes sponsoring attackers who damage the economy of the opponent.
I was unaware of the advanced menu, thanks for the heads up. Could have used this last week with my new Pi Zero 2 W
It depends on the people in question and how open minded they are. If either one wants good sexual compatibility but the partner isn’t able to provide it, that’s a recipe for disaster. If you both don’t have much of a sex drive then it’s probably fine.
I don’t know where you are but in Seattle almost every new house has some sort of boxy flat-roofed design
I wish to add that PvP can be fun, if both sides are playing for fun and good humour. Then, even losing can be fun.

But all too often is not the case.

I also wonder why games are so focused on PvP while watching a huge WoW playerbase pay subscription fees to Blizzard for years on end.

Warframe has been having a good stab at public coop FPS. They even have some PvP in there. Not sure whether hacking/elitism is much of an issue though as I played coop with friends the whole time...