skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Political issues can be resolved in one election cycle. People who cut off their own family have no idea of the misery they are causing that will last generations after them.
I've heard about a lot of accounts being deleted or suspended over the last two weeks. Twitter does selective enforcement periodically where they'll run a scan and suspend or delete thousands of accounts. I imagine its related to the new CEO.

Traditional blockchains don't let you store a lot of data and obviously writing to the block chain is expensive. But is there a blockchain or maybe something else (ipfs?) that allows you to store data cheaply? In that case someone could develop what people originally hoped twitter would be: an protocol for short micro-blogs. Imagine someone that breaks the terms of Twitter could migrate all their tweets easily to another provider, or another provider could just reference them. Twitter could still be a thing, essentially a curation service, feed algorithm, moderation service, etc. But your data wouldn't belong to them.
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Scheme handlers are like cruise-control for CVEs on every OS, you should avoid using them at all costs, and if you have to, be *extremely* strict on what you allow them to do. Minimizing attack surface is your #1 goal.

Likewise, every Electron app needs to scan its own command-line arguments and refuse to start if...basically anything... is set. It is Unfortunate that Electron in its default configuration allows so many plainly unsafe parameters (--proxy-server also an insanely dangerous one).
Been listening to Dan Carlin's podcast series on the Imperial Japanese military in WWII. (It's six parts, and about 20 hours long at this point.) Coincidentally, I just listened to the part about the attack on Pearl Harbor yesterday.

He didn't mention any of these failed wargames in the podcast. Reading about it now gives a lot more context on why the commander in chief of the US Navy at Pearl Harbor knew his head was going to roll following the Japanese attack.
https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/archive.is.html
Shit, i'd say - RUN AWAY SCREAMING if you ever find yourself in such a position.
To see how it works on your machine, simply paste
ms-officecmd:
into your browser and then see what happens.

In MS Edge you _might_ see a popup window
This site is trying to open LocalBridge.
A website wants to open this application. <open><cancel>

Other forms of URI in Windows 10 taken from
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/78214-settings-pages-lis...
So paste the below into your Browser
ms-settings:nightlight
In MS Edge you will see a popup saying
This site is trying to open Settings.
A Website wants to open this application. <Open><Cancel>

Not knocking the research effort was this found using some automation fuzzing? And are many people still using IE11/Edge Legacy ?
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The Back Story to the Last Ring-Bearer (2011)
I'm doing the exact same thing, although with my own genome. Things I have done

- Annotate the variants with its frequency. You can do that with Ensembl. There's an official Docker image on their website that I suggest you use. You will have to run "./INSTALL.pl" to download some files (they call them caches) and then "vep -i /genome.vcf --af --max_af --af_1kg --af_esp --af_gnomad -o genome_with_freqs.vcf --cache".

- If you know a specific region of the genome you want to look at, you can use tabix to extract all the variants in it. For example: "tabix genome.vcf.gz chr16:82,624,969-83,802,640 > cdh13_variants" will extract all the variants in that specific region.

- Use igv to browse the variants visually.

In general, the tools you will come across aren't very intuitive and its CLI interfaces aren't good. Prepare to spend a decent amount of time to make sense of everything. Honestly, if you know of a family member of her who happens to have similar symptoms, I would say the best thing you could do is to sequence that genome and see where they overlap. In any case, read some studies, find the loci where the variants cause problems, and then extract the variants.

EDIT: On this last point: the cool thing about igv is that you can open vcf files and see only the variants; you can search for variants ("rs123456" in the search field) and it will show the variant and its surroundings; you can search for "chr16:82,624,969-83,802,640" and it will limit what's visible to that region; you can search for a gene and the search field will show you the region of the genome that the gene spans, which you can use for tabix later. You will often see in studies something like "variants in loci p13.12 of chromosome 16 were shown to have an effect in...". Right below the search bar you can see all those locis (p13.3, p13.2, etc.). Good luck! If you add your email in your profile, I will contact you.
Ask HN: Ask HN: Can someone tell me why this post got flagged?
Hi everyone.

A friend's post was "flagged".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29471922

I am not sure what that means but it is not a good thing, right?

Why did this happen?

I remember that GitHub links are allowed in a ShowHN post.
There are audits that most projects do with crypto auditing software firms. These are usually announced publicly. That gives you some credibility in the space.

IMO security just comes from time spent operating vs amount of hacks. If you've been operating for a couple of years with no known hacks then I trust the team behind the project.
Looks like the account has just been unsuspended. That or it's a caching issue.
"Microsoft Bug Bounty Program's (MSRC) response was poor: Initially, they misjudged and dismissed the issue entirely."

I recently ran into a similar issue with MSRC. I reported two exactly similar(near perfect) heap overflows exploitable from a local perspective with some time in between. The first report was awarded the maximum payout, and patched as 'Important'.

Meanwhile, MSRC changed its rules related local exploitation. Now, to obtain that, one needs to show the exploit working in the most hardened sandbox processes on the system. From my perspective this is quite unfair, both bugs are reported with the same severity to Microsoft's own customers. Both breach about 3 defined security boundaries (process, session and user). So, my communication stayed the same (all technical details), Microsoft's communication with _their_ customers stayed the same (important severity issue, 7.8 cvss), the only thing changed was my reward...(reason: ohh, it's not a sandboxed process, to we don't care.).

The only way to obtain the maximum payout is this even more stringent, and new, requirement of 'sandboxed process' -> 'other user' boundary. As if there are not a hundred thousand organizations sharing machines between users using Citrix and terminal and other similar technologies...

In any case, given that it takes close to a year, with hundreds of hours invested to uncover such a bug... I'm going to take my submissions elsewhere...
Redirects to https://archive.md for me, but there's also https://archive.today which redirects to https://archive.ph

All four domains redirect/load okay.
> The state isn't gonna take him to court...

It's quite clear that's not the case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws#Constitutional_c...
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the most interesting news to come out of crypto in the last decade is the fact that we now have the means to stand up a globally accessible digital clock that pays people to keep it ticking

3 of 8 references in the Bitcoin whitepaper are about decentralized time keeping

incentives around consensus (agreement about history, tick by tick by tick) can get a little confusing but basically all ticks hold some data (merkle proofs of a tree of transactions) and Proof of Work leaks some money per tick while Proof of Stake pays people interest on their "at risk" investment to keep ticking

Ethereum adds a Turing complete virtual machine onto the clock, tracking function arguments, return values and code deployed to the virtual machine as data in each tick of the clock

there are a bunch of modern implementations of the Ethereum model in NEAR, Solana, Polkadot, Avalanche and others who have found a viable way to parallelize the single threaded virtual machine of Ethereum -- driving to make everything faster and cheaper so this idea can operate at scale and www shopping cart speeds

if you can get past the emotionally charged hype and news cycles vying for our attention, you will notice, with few exceptions, that the coins of 2017 and NFTs of 2021 are very early and relatable applications about things we care about and understand: money and shiny things. DeFi (decentralized finance) is about porting the financial system to this new new forever-clock

but the brand new primitives of (a) identity, enabled by public/private key cryptography (b) money, enabled by irrefutable record of time-bound value (c) ownership, identity + money and (d) provenance, identity + money + time ... are all just starting to build up

we're only just now learning to use this digital clock so we're thinking of it, naturally, as a permutation of what we already know, not something completely new. see tech adoption cycle, etc

your best bet in this environment, imho, is to focus on the actual tech -- it's no more complicated than a slow, expensive database that can't tell a lie (as long as it's economically viable to keep the clock ticking, and who knows how long that will be). at least that's good enough for the first year or so until you get used to it.

disclosure:

I'm learning how to teach people about this stuff at https://near.university and we're hiring 1000 teachers

come help us, please

(edit: formatting)
Dupe/See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29472175
Please correct the link as it points to torproject.org's Gitlab sign-in page.

Here's some technical info on what's is going on:
https://ntc.party/t/ooni-reports-of-tor-blocking-in-certain-...
General reminder: the Alcubierre warp drive does not allow you to accelerate to from sub-c speeds to above-c speeds. This back-reaction post discusses the topic, linking to a paper on a better design for an Alcubierre warp drive: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/11/warp-drive-news-ser...
If anyone is interested I updated my example Docker Django app to use Django 4.0 at: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-django-example

It pulls together Django, Docker Compose, Postgres, Redis, Celery, Webpack and TailwindCSS. It's all set up for both development and production. It's also been updated to use Django 4's new built in Redis cache back-end instead of the django-redis package.
Frank Herbert by Timothy O’Reilly (1981)
Sounds like a rookie mistake, but haven't there been cases of banks sending people money they shouldn't have?

This sounds like a bug, not an exploit.
One has to wonder whether the Japanese would have thought up this strategy (or considered it feasible) had the Americans not practiced it and proved it for them.

It seems worryingly common for this kind of simulation to ironically lead to disaster. Chernobyl would be another example (the explosion happened during a safety test). And it's possible that the coronavirus pandemic is another (the virus may have accidentally leaked from "gain of function" experiments designed to give us insight into how to respond should such a virus evolve naturally).
Kinda. Content marketing has a pretty broad definition. But a book author’s core business tends to be books, and a painter’s work tends to be paintings. But Spotify’s core business isn’t infographics about how much music I listened to. That’s about the line for me.

> if that's what their goal was from the very first one it was very incompetently done

Not surprising. Most people aren’t great at most things, particularly the first time they try them.

> You really can't imagine some of their designers and engineers just wanted something cool at the end of the year they could do with all their data

Of course I can imagine this! But that doesn’t change what it fundamentally is once it’s available to the public. You can make something and not understand what it is — determining whether it’s through accidental or willful ignorance is an exercise for the reader.
Because having dozens of accounts sign up to make unsubstantial comments and upvote is spam, and not welcome here.
C++ on bare metal microcontrollers works quite well. I've done that. You have pretty much the same restrictions as C or rust in that space, even though they look a bit different due how C++ works. But then again, you also need learn which parts of C or rust you can use in that environment.
Interesting that despite never considering it to be ableist you knew exactly which word I was referring to.

> I interpret it to be a stronger form of "stupid" or "moronic"

And why do you suppose that is?
> Sorry, I meant "to run 50% of the nodes"

Ok, but if we're stopping the NSA by forcing them to put down 0.5% of the world's economy to control half of the Tor network... then presumably the rest of the Tor network needs to put down more than 0.5% of the world's economy to hold majority?

And if we're shrinking the fractions, don't we just come back to the same point again: making the ownership of the network a "resource democracy" means that whoever has the most resources will own the network: and that will be nation states.

> the NSA is the least of Tor's worries currently

What are you basing this on exactly? And even if we assume it's true, why aren't nation state surveillance operations the biggest worry? Namedropping NSA is for the most part just a placeholder for $state_surveillance.

> it is way too cool to be knee-jerk anti-crypto at this point

I don't think it's "knee-jerk anti-crypto" to question the sanity of introducing a crypto economy into the Tor network.

I am personally skeptical of essentially any crypto currency in existence today, but I am not by default skeptical against the technology itself. I still think there's a tendency, as there is with any new technology and not just crypto, to shoe-horn it into use cases where it may not be sane to use it.

All I'm saying is that from what I've understood so far, introducing a crypto-economy into Tor doesn't sound like anything else than basically giving access to whoever pays the most money -- and sure, you could say that's true today! Buying nodes gives access, that's what the entire article is about, but in that case maybe we should rather be looking at solutions where that is never the case, rather than just making the price higher.
Not at all. There seems to be many products in the market for heating up stuff using miners. I just didn't want to advertise.
Not sure what are you referring by "Orthodox Church in Soviet (Russia)". The state's stance towards it was a mish-mash of violent and liberal times. But church and, more importantly, practicing religion was oppressed at almost all times. I'm from another, smaller, communist country and the attitude towards religion changed hyper-locally. My mom and dad are from different parts of the country, yet almost neighbouring, but my mom's family could practice religion freely, while my dad's were being jailed for it.
> Everyone with a finance background hates crypto. Just like every doctor believes in vaccination. And every scientist believes in climate change. Just because you made money doesn't invalidate their premises.

You have a severe case of 'groupthink'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink
>Everyone with a finance background hates crypto. Just like every doctor believes in vaccination. And every scientist believes in climate change. Just because you made money doesn't invalidate their premises.

Nope. but nice try associating us with anti-vaxxers and climate change deniers so that you can ignore it and make us seem evil and corrupt. gg.

>Name literally one concrete example of a concrete and specific problem better solved by crypto than a classical solution. Just one. I know you can't because if you could you'd be richer than Bezos and Musk combined.

first off is a shared ledger, imo thats enough right away.

a film about Stuart Brand gated by an NFT https://weareasgods.structurefilms.com/
i can watch it, then share/sell/rent my access token to others. These tokens also used for gating discord groups/chatrooms/physical access to buildings e.g. Mila kunis and Ashton kutchers new animation stonercats.com

sybil resistance + ubi: proofofhumanity.id brightid.org joincircles.net

borrowing and lending assets: aave.com

savings accounts: yearn.finance

self repaying loans: alchemix.fi

community groups / clubs / memberships: web3baddies.com fwb.help songaday.world creators.mirror.xyz dune.foundation daohaus.club citydao.io

publishing/crowdfunding: mirror.xyz

voting: snapshot.org

auction houses: docs.zora.co

proofs+attestations for privacy layer: sismo.io

games: zkga.me

public goods + foss funding: clr.fund gitcoin.co

.... just a small sample of the thousands of things being built, accessed with the same api, and you dont have to give over email addresses and passwords. people experimenting with ideas for money and government and ip and coordination/communication systems. pretty neat.

also the inevitable response is to pick one of these things out and say "you can do this with firebase", yes. but we are doing ALL of this on e.g. ethereum. all open and composable. one person builds a lending platform, someone else builds a management contract on top of it, another builds loans ontop of that, etc
Are American agencies even allowed to recognize Taiwan after 1971, and UN General Assembly Resolution No. 2758?
You are still deliberately conflating race and state.

We both know that calling a boycott of "nearly every American" company an "attack on the white race" would be a racist wolf whistle, and not a particularly subtle one.

Yours is no different.
Might be a better candidate for a mute than a block!
Easier said than done in many corporate environments unfortunately.
This is exactly why public schools have accessibility requirements for any of their communications. Take it to the school board, and if they do not help, take it to a lawyer.

The only way corporations will take control of our society is if we let them. I am continually amazed by how much people let corporations and attorneys bully them. There is this pervasive attitude that they control everything and it is dangerous to fight back. If that attitude continues to prevail, then yes - that is when we will have serious problems.
Obviously because you sent all your friends (Twitter followers, whatever) here.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
"Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions."
Right now, I see there a 2 approaches.
1. crypto/blockchain - redo everything literally
2. federated services - such as mastodon, discord?... for the most part you have some identity within larger ecosystem, but you can easily run your private community

Question is if road further is a small shift in how services get constructed or complete rewrite in new ecosystem. People betting on web3 are doing wild bets. At the same time people betting on federated are doing very conservative bet on mental shift that is wild(since getting traction on federated is difficult - 98% of people have no real benefit).
I've used https://www.huetten.com/ successfully a few years ago. It has a decent selection of huts in Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. Mostly Austria I think.
I think it ultimately comes down to the situation and how well you know your application. Sometimes restarting it will fuck up the data even more. It almost certainly indicates an engineering flaw, but that doesn't mean it won't happen.
Foone is mostly known in the retro community for archiving efforts. If you know who Jason Scott (of textfiles.com and Internet Archive team fame) is, you are likely to know about Foone. So this isn't just some random account.
Erm, if anything they show that both utilizing it and stopping to take it has all kind of unfortunate side effects.
Arab-Israelis are second class citizens of Israel. Israel, with or without the West Bank, is absolutely an apartheid state. https://www.waronwant.org/news-analysis/israeli-apartheid-fa...
Nope, I derived my opinions from first principles. This is a non-sequitur.
Sorry but I think you’ve lost the plot. This has nothing to do with anti-vaxxing.
I took "mobile processors" to mean "mobile phone CPU". (and even if it's not the main CPU, I believe most of the chips in a modern mobile phone tend to be arm based).
Sorry my bad, on booking.com I only have around 50 (private), the rest are company booking systems. (felt much more!)

Currently I only have the android app (well, traveling again) and I am mostly satisfied with it.

However the web version I always found a disaster. Especially since I had a linked business account too, and the SSO just craps itself into a redirect loop when I try to logout from it.

Everything else seems to be very user-oriented and I am satisfied in general.

(ha, I also happen to know the storage system behind the backend ;-) )
Every single one of these is better solved with an extant solution. Sorry :(
but we wonder if voice pickup would have been better with the microphones pointed out of the bottom of the stems.

Wonder no more, it would not. This arrangement (aka beamforming array) is common for improved noise reduction.

The downward-facing microphone has made its return [...] could the downward-facing mic deliver better audio quality?

The 3rd gen AirPods have no active noise canceling, hence one mic arrangement. So, nope.
What It Was Like Being Investigated on the Internet
Tech Companies Manipulate the Media [video]
AMD Preps New 4800S Desktop Kit with More Salvaged Console Chips
Perhaps related, see the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_t...
Negative energy is “theoretically possible” in the same way that you can take the formula for compound interest and substitute it an imaginary or complex interest rate: it will generate results, but the whole premise is profoundly suspect and would never occur in reality.
wife had rented via airbnb in london a few years back. Booked for... 10 days. It was close to $2000. Got there - TV broken. No curtains on window in main room, which faced an office block close enough where people could see you and you could see them. You had to walk between bedroom and bathroom through the main room. Leftover food in the fridge ("you can eat that if you want, previous people didn't finish it"). 2 hangars in a closet. Shower head didn't work - sprayed water out of the top, but not down. After 3 days of 'complaints' (messaged on airbnb and directly), my wife got an extra 6 hangars and the shower 'fixed', sort of. They claimed she must have broken the TV - no one previously had complained.

My wife provided video and picture evidence of this to airbnb - no support. Hosts threatened to provide negative feedback to her and essentially blackball her with other hosts in London. We provided THAT messaging to airbnb - still nothing.

airbnb's position was "well, if it was bad, you should have left and we might have refunded some of your money". Leave $2k with them, go spend another... $2000 on hotel someplace else (assuming you can even get anything short notice), then hope/pray you get some refund? I think we have waived some chargeback ability because of T&C we'd agreed to (I might be misremembering this). We should have pressed chargeback with cc company. It was horrible experience, and we've not used them since.
"zone files ending in .db, from the Berkeley Internet Name Daemon," I should have said.
In all fairness, Booking.com is screwing everyone over, so it seems to balance things out.
Rippling raised $250M with a Loom video
Thanks! I've written the whole book - now I'm going through and editing and typesetting each chapter and trying to publish one a month.
LangSec Workshop (2020)
Can someone explain? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_method
> tokenize a few thousand future cases of their weakest plonk, and see what happens.

What's the wine equivalent of apes and punks? :)