skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are suppose to be correctional reform programs.

It's not about the cheapest alternative.

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the 10% who have no chance of reform going to select private prisons.

The other 90% should be in public correctional facilities that are on par with community colleges.
A programming language for writing code in Cree
Update: As far as I can tell, this is the encryption encrypoint[1]. It does seem to be vulnerable to a padding oracle attack, unless the `$request->note` parameter is something much more complicated than it appears to be (i.e., it appears to be the plaintext).

It's always great to see people experiment with encryption (and burn-after-use schemes are very cool!) but, absent of further information, I think it's actively dangerous to encourage people to use this.

Edit: It might also be a stretch to call this a "burn-after-use" scheme: there's no affirmative proof of a note's destruction on the server side. It seems to just update the database to mark the note as empty and deleted[2].

[1]: https://github.com/GigaMick/burnernote/blob/6c01eddfc5195b15...

[2]: https://github.com/GigaMick/burnernote/blob/6c01eddfc5195b15...
This is great and all, but I just don't get the fascination with modular.

I keep trying to understand, but all the demos that I hear are either just random blips and bleeps, simple arpeggios, or boring minimal drones. Never anything particularly musical, and even when I have heard musical ones it's never anything I don't think could be more easily done with any basic VST or hardware synth. I had a play with Reaktor and it's ok but seems overly complex in the back for the sounds I'm hearing out of it.

I've generally heard more compelling sounds from "normal" synths (Serum/Pigments/Omnisphere/whatever hardware). Modular just seems to add complicated wires and extra complexity between the items for no real gain. Maybe it's just the kind of music I like is not suited to it, I love dancey electronic music, but not the more experimental stuff.

Some people seem irrationally obsessed with modular and I can't help but wonder if it's just like people collecting mechanical keyboards for the sake of getting a good feeling from buying stuff. I have mechanical keyboards, am very particular about the type I like, and swear by them myself. But they're a tool for me and I don't see the attraction in having 100 very similar ones save different color keycaps.

It just seems ridiculous to spend thousands of dollars, give up desk space and have a rats nest of messy wires for what ends up being a basic dual oscillator synth.

Having said that, I'd much rather use VCV rack than the mess, hassle and expense of hardware modular.

Not having a go at people, I like tinkering with stuff as much as anyone, but I just don't see what I have to gain from modular. Please educate me.
> the police do not actually fear violent repercussions after the fact because it pretty much never happens

On the rare occurrences when it happens it does change how the agency involved approaches things in the future. See Waco vs Bundy ranch.
The military also has much stricter ROE than the police do. The police are state-sanctioned violent gangs designed purely for oppression and fear, nothing else. How else can you justify blanket qualified immunity with no recourse, civil forfeiture, and the extreme militarization of their equipment and processes.
"At some point, America is going to have to admit to itself that the police has become the military. Police call non-law enforcement people "civilians", they're armed for tactical urban warfare and they have a kill or be killed mindset."

More than the actual army itself, the militarized police is the standing army that anti-federalists warned about.
That and I'm pretty sure 100Gbit is 12.5GB/s.
"Good for you, but there are millions of people who don't share this view, including the whole point of this discussion is for those people."

"Good for you," It seems like you were so mad you forgot how grammar works. Maybe take a few days off from your rage echo chamber. I'm pretty sure whatever you were trying to say was wrong, and you provide an example of why discussions about Twitter aren't relevant only to Twitter users. The majority of people, who are disgusted by Twitter, want it gone, because they don't like what it does to people like you. It turns them into these raging bot-like NPCs who can't even speak in intelligible sentences, which makes it easier for Big Brother to control everything, because instead of rightly hating Big Brother, it's brainwashed you into hating people who advocate for free speech and don't want everything in life controlled by whoever happened to inherit the most money.
If it could see through feces, that would be awesome. The worst part, by far, of a colonoscopy is the prep. And the prep is needed for a clean view. A smaller camera isn't going to help with cleaning things up. Improving the optical clarity of existing small-scope procedures (like cardioscope) would probably be the first application.
That doesn't really make things efficient because the different nature of the two industries will require some of the departments to stay different. Not to mention it removes a business that was previously providing marketing services from the market, and attaches it to a jet engine company.

I doubt that Giphy the Meta subsidiary uses the same IT department as Facebook.
Why though? What's the advantage of this over Wi-Fi?
“The obsession“ is over the still yet living patrons/associates/partakers of this particular “dead horrible person”.
And the intrigue that, perhaps finally, the wealthy elite may face actual consequences to the morally bankrupt behavior they exhibit.
>All of this makes Twitter seem so much more important even to people not constantly around tech, startup, or SV circles.

I hate saying this, but Twitter does have outsized importance even to people not in said circles. That's because there's a concentration of influence on Twitter. Politicians, celebrities and especially journalists are on twitter. That means that the Twitter bubble can both diverge from the general population, then have an disproportionate impact on them.
https://www.nlrb.gov/case/10-RC-269250

The specifics have been mentioned before, this article was light on them but they were already known.
> only viable podium in the public town square

the vast majority of the Public (let’s say 90%) never looks at twitter, let alone whatever corner some drama is happening in

as far as getting media coverage (nightly news has even fewer eyeballs) you can do just as well sending out a press release

the greatest trick jack dorsey ever pulled was convincing certain people his platform is somehow indispensable
There are material incentives to using them too which are baked into policy.The 1033 program requires that all equipment issued through it be used within one year of the date it is granted. In addition to being "fun toys" there are real structural incentives too.
Have to admit. I was impressed with the USGOVs ability to recover bitcoin ransoms paid for cyberattacks. I'm not sure if impressed is the right word.
> Guards smuggle in most of the contraband, like cell phones, so banning books is like trying to hold back a flood with a bucket.

No, it's increasing demand for the C.O.’s contraband racket. It is not trying to hold back the flood at all.

(Yeah, it also narrows competition for the approved sellers, too.)
FBI document showcases how secure messaging apps stack up
> A2 acting as standard input, and cell B2 acting as standard output.

This made me literally laugh out loud for way too long. This is the dumbest and most awesome thing I've seen in a while. I love it.

Also doesn't seem to have been modified for 5 years.
Julia v1.7.0 has been released and v1.6 is now LTS
The article asks:

> Imagine if a DNS cache your computer (the client) had been relying on to lookup bleepingcomputer.com's IP, returned to you an incorrect IP address instead of ours?

A "certificate not valid" error would let me know, or since they don't enable HSTS, in the HTTP downgrade case, my browser would at least show "not secure". Yeah there may be some UI issues but "vital to the security of the internet" this is not.
Looks like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/chip-red-pill/Sildes/maste... (PDF, 1.8MB) might be a more useful link for general information?
Of course. Bias and prejudice is always a real concern. In situations where the teacher gets it wrong and punishes the bullied kid, the kid learns an unfortunate but useful lesson; that some agents of the system cannot be relied on.

But the zero tolerance response to this circumstance ensures the bullied student is prejudiced against, judging him guilty before considering the facts of the individual circumstance. What does that teach the kid? That the system itself cannot be relied on.
Mental Models and What Might Work for You
Same thing can be said of freeing slaves. “Did anybody stop to think of how it would affect the customers?!”

The lower class is not a bunch of animals to be exploited as much as possible so middle class people can have cheaper shipping
Why would a climate scientist in the 1970s join the small minority in publishing a paper predicting cooling?

1. They focused narrowly on studying the natural drivers of climate change without accounting for the affect of human beings on greenhouse gas concentrations.

2. They focused narrowly on the effects of human emissions of aerosol pollution without accounting for the effects of humans on greenhouse gas levels.

3. Bad science maybe.

Regardless the majority of scientists who accurately predicted warming did not just wind up on the right side of a 50/50 bet. They didn't just predict that there would be warming. They predicted the amount of warming that could be expected depending on the emission scenario that played out.

The planet is now hotter than it has been in over 100,000 years and it's also precisely how warm scientists said it would be at this time with this co2 level. It's one of the greatest predictions in the history of earth sciences and you disregard this because a different smaller group of scientists made a wrong prediction that got too much press. Makes sense.
Larger point would be if it's obtained unlawfully it can't be used in a court of law against you.

Recent cases:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkppqk/court-throws-out-mess...

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252503524/Berlin-court-f...
That comparison is incredibly hard to make. The following article discusses it in depth, it actually specifically calls out a few reports about California.

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2016/oct/3/apples-fish-...
No, you're asking me to not communicate to other security resarchers about the problems with security systems (for example, publishing a PoC):

> 2. People who create and distribute these stickers knowing their purpose should go to prison.

... and you're asking the entire world to change to make your vehicle work:

> 4. Roads should be modified over time to make it more difficult to do this attack.

10 years ago when AI cars were getting memed into existence I would get dogpiled on for naysaying. Now you same people want laws to stop people from breaking what was already easily breakable and which you argued was unbreakable.

Also, your poison analogy is invalid. Poison is not uncommon because of law, it's uncommon because it's uncommon. In the future, crazy people will be poisoning random stuff in the grocer because they don't like the demographic that shops there.
Hey Verizon, you’ve got a problem in 92122
Since I can’t reach a technical support rep with enough knowledge, I wrote up the problem, the symptoms and what I tried before giving up and switching carriers. I think you’ve got signal strength problems, and customers are seeing dead batteries, dropped calls and 3G-class data throughput.
> On clicking the link and opening your note, it is deleted instantly and completely from our database. Gone forever.

I worry about using such services when it comes to sending the note links over email or chat platforms, where the messaging platform may crawl the link and have the content destroyed before the human user has had a chance to see it. Has anyone encountered this on other secret sharing platforms? Using a password that’s not part of the link would prevent from that happening, but I see that it’s optional in this solution.
Here's a Newport Beach (California) police recruiting video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_rKA6ROAVk

They were actively recruiting for the type of person who would enjoy being on a SWAT team like this.

https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/newport-beach...
I had the same thought! Now, can they create a mesh network and operate as a distributed processor?
China’s queer internet is being erased
These programs ran rampantly for years under Obama. He only put restrictions in place half-way through his second term because of public pressure after Ferguson.

It’s pretty disingenuous to try to pin this on Trump. (And I’m no fan of Trump.) Both parties are very complicit.
I can validate your statement that prison has some 'seriously bad dudes'.

I used to live in a city with a federal penitentiary, I made friends with several people that worked there. One friend worded it this way: There are a some people that are just there due to circumstances, or bad choices, or whatever. Then there are some people there that will hurt you or anyone else just for the fun of it. You definitely want to avoid the mean ones, because there is no rhyme or reason to why they want to hurt you.
Although the German constition ("Grundgesetz") states that the judges are independent and only subject to the law,[1] there is a mild pressure towards a consistent interpretation of the law, so that early decisions set the path for later ones. For judges who want to make a career, a certain conformity with the ruling of the appeal court might be useful. But if a judge does not care, there is nothing that can be done as long as he is not excessively deviating from the law ("Rechtsbeugung").

The most prominent example in more or less recent times is also from Hamburg: Ronald Schill, nicknamed "judge without mercy" for his harsh sentences, who was a judge at an Amtsgericht (the lowest level of ordinary jurisdiction) in Hamburg from 1993 to 2001. He then went into politics for a right-wing law-and-order party he founded, that prospered for a short period of time in Hamburg that even entered into a coalition government with the CDU and made him second mayor and senator of the interior of Hamburg.[2]

[1] Art. 97 GG.
[2] The Wikipedia article about him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Schill contains some hair-raising details about his views and actions.
https://archive.md/CmAyz
Most of the unions my friends have been a part of looked out for people and protected their jobs whenever there was a personality dispute
Thanks! I had been curious about that for quite some time now.
Qualified Immunity protects from sanity like that.
Capitilism and feudalism share little in common. One is a means of exchange allowing basically any government to implement it. the other is an entire philosophy and implementation of governance and interaction.
https://archive.md/Al6rk
Will you next explain that water is wet?

The point of the comment is to show that telemetry is used to conclude things that aren't true, and it absolutely is, and only says the subset of things that someone wants to hear, or that even occurs to them to ask.

It's not even really a seperate issue, because even if you think you are only concerned with say how long a certain operation takes or how frequently it fails & retries, the more important issue may be why or whether that operation was even used at all in the first place.

This aspect of telemetry is simply a fact to be aware of and stands on it's own, and does not necessarily mean to say "therefor telemetry is an invalid tool that should not exist and should never be used" It just means it's incomplete at best and very susceptible to both deception and self deception.
Unfortunately we're gonna take a lot of other species with us and leave a fouled nest when we go.
The consensus on climate change is not controversial. It's been studies many times in a multitude of different ways.

Peer reviewed scientific studies examining the level of consensus among climate scientists that Earth is warming and the primary cause is human activity:

Verheggen 2014 - 91% consensus
Powell, 2013 - 97% consensus
John Cook et al., 2013 - 97% consensus
Farnsworth and Lichter, 2011 - 84% consensus
Anderegg et al, 2010 - 97% consensus
Doran, 2009 - 97% consensus
Bray and von Storch, 2008 - 93.8% consensus
STATS, 2007 - 95% consensus
Oreskes, 2004 - 100% consensus

The Cook 2016 meta analysis of consensus studies finds the rate of consensus between 90 - 100% and that agreement with the consensus approaches 100% as expertise in climatology increases.

This list is probably outdated. I put it together 5 or 6 years ago.

Then theres that survey by Science where 60% of respondents said they expect us to hit 3C of warming because of intransigence by policy makers.
Starlink in its current form needs local base stations to operate efficiently. So as a practical matter they need local licenses.
That may be a moral ideal, but the practical ideal is to make some entity liable that actually has the capability to cough up the dough.

(The moral ideal may be practical if it is entirely successful as a deterrent.)
Yep, except at best we'll probably ever get is local government to pay, which means the community pays for the destruction and the cost of cleaning up after.
> It is in fact about rehabilitation which is why the criminal justice system and prisons have rehabilitation and education programs.

Just because some US prisons have rehabilitation and education programs does not mean that's the focus of the system as a whole.

What that actually looks like can be observed in many other places, places with much lower recidivism rates, much lower incarceration rates, much higher qualification and training demands for the guards, and most important of all; No profit expectations.

> I was referring to your Reuters article.

And that Reuters article is still about domestic prisons, please read it more carefully.

> To expect to roam around freely as you wish within a prison seems like a ridiculous proposition and inherently presents a security risk to the institution.

His main demand was unsupervised interviews with prisoners, which is a very legitimate demand if he wants to get even remotely anything useful out of that visit.

Or do you really expect potential torture victims to openly speak out, when they know their torturer is standing right behind them, ready to punish them the moment the UN envoy leaves?

Would you accept such conditions if the country in question here was Russia or China? Then why should anybody accept such conditions from the US? Why even set such conditions in the very first place?
“To ensure accuracy, do not disturb the spreadsheet before it is finished recalculating.”

Sage advice indeed.
Trump tried to veto the last defense appropriations bill that had a rider limiting 1033 because he didn’t like the bill not cracking down on Big Tech but his veto got overridden on 1/1. Five days later we had other things on our minds.
> completely ridiculous and unreasonable

Maybe, but it's also legal in Wisconsin.
This is a really nice write up, hope we get one of these at least once every few releases.

The multi-; syntax is something that both looks weird at first glance but is also really convenient and satisfying in its consistency. The weirdness factor will likely go down as we get used to seeing this new construct, while the convenience/ease-of-use goes up - so overall a solid positive to the language.
As someone who has been fighting a Sisyphean battle to minimize the Internet footprint/exposure of his photo and other bits of private life, this is a welcome change. So far, in order to keep your face off the internet, you need to 1. Not take pictures of yourself and post them, and 2. Make sure each and every one of your friends know you don't want your photo posted and that they respect your wishes. #2 was a lot easier when everyone in the world didn't have a camera in their pocket at all hours of the day. And, yes, I deliberately ask friends and family to just not post my picture to Social Media, and they constantly forget. With the ubiquity of traffic cameras, business surveillance, Ring door cameras, and so on, it's getting to the point where if you want to keep private, you need to never leave the house, which, sorry, I think is an unreasonable request.

It would be wonderful if I could just generate some perceptual hash of my face, upload that hash to social media sites, and be able to demand they delete (or black out) any instance of my face they find. Yes, this could be abused, but the status quo (no privacy for anyone without exceedingly great OpSec) is worse.
The probablity that a planet has life on it is not constant. There isn't a uniform distribution.
LSD gets to kids in e.g. cake sprinkles. There was an incident with students hallucinating at my junior high (a long time ago), and I overheard some of the responsible kids talking about it later on.
Hmmm... The fact you present would not surprise me if the complaint about private prisons was that they allocate inhumanely small amounts of resources to prisoner care while extracting the most value possible out of the prisoners and their families as is possible in the pursuit of maximizing profit.

But the primary complaint is actually taxpayer expense, so what you say makes sense.
> You just don't find many of those people on HN.

I see plenty of them here in this discussion.
I'm guessing this is about "people who hunt aliens"?
What would you vote if your employer was surveillance you as you voted and was famous for mistreating people or callously firing people and spend weeks or months warning you not to vote against them? Jesus, what do you expect? Elections in the Soviet Union used similar conditions: do you really think those Soviet leaders always had 90%+ support? Maybe a bit of pressure was involved?

Especially when everyone knows Amazon can access the ballot box, so why risk it if you think it’s fixed?
Perhaps, but Merriam-Webster defines the idiom as meaning "should not be found objectionable", which squares with how I interpreted it. You're right that it's possible it wasn't meant that way though.
> If you study corrections at all

Hey friend, some people learn about corrections the hard way, so it's not assumptions and appeals to authority, it's a lived experience.

The approval processes of any vendors come with product restrictions, which function as bans.
>This a) is not new

This specific announcement is new, because this specific announcement is about Outposts in a new, smaller form factor that just went GA today.

>One use case is wanting to run the same cloud stack globally, but having a market where there is no local region and local law requires that data stay in country.

The use case mentioned in the announcement is more about running EC2 instances in small branch offices or retail stores where you 1) still want to run AWS, 2) need the servers to be in very close proximity, and 3) don't have the room or infrastructure for a full rack.
Do you work in security? Are you familiar with "responsible disclosure"?

Poison is not uncommon. Without 10 feet I have enough poison to kill dozens of people. Most people do.
Lienzo de Quauhquechollan
Kindles?
Is Twitter's ad targeting bad, or are you an outlier case. If I'd use myself as an example, with a company with generally considered "good" ad-targeting (GOOG), I get really odd ads like those for spinal implants. It could be that you've fallen into one of those minima.
Cops used to be held in check by the mob. Can you imagine them pulling any of this in an old Italian or Irish neighborhood? Nope. We ended up with just one gang and they walk around with badges.