skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This series has some C++ examples alongside Haskell: https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p... and acquirable as a PDF at https://github.com/hmemcpy/milewski-ctfp-pdf
Indeed. As a C
Copyright laws are a favorite instrument of preventing stuff that you do not want to happen.

In one country, making reaction videos or analysing news with clips from proprietary news channel is very common.

Then came a guy, who used news clips to create Before/After clips of politicians of a certain party. In these clips, the same person would be saying completely opposite things- on camera, and publicly- some years apart. These videos went viral. The party was in power. They forced the news channels to claim copyright to YouTube, and as they were legitimate, YT did take down those videos.

So, yes, when they say that he was arrested for copyright claims- I don't trust that.
> Our initial findings led us to believe that these alerts were triggered in response to attempted “credential stuffing” activity

They originally said they “determined the activity is related to credential stuffing” [1], then edited the blog post and now they are saying it was just a bug. That sounds like their original story was simply a lie.

[1] The original version of their blog post is no longer available, but Bleeping Computer quotes their PR Director: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lastpass-user..., below the “LastPass says it's credential stuffing” heading.
Foxconn workers are free to go home also.

Those living conditions are pretty awful, but not unique. Regionally, it's just on the bad side of ordinary.

Obviously tainted food is always serious, and it sounds like the oversight there was abysmal. Remember that Apple shut the plant down until it's fixed.

1 million employees, not 1 million exploited suicidal wastrels.

San Francisco's solution to jumpers from the Golden Gate bridge was ... counseling services, cameras, and nets. Just like Foxconn! What would you suggest instead?
>The last time they were in the news that I recall it was because workers were killing themselves in such large numbers that they decided installing “suicide nets” was the solution.

My city has installed suicide netting on bridges, presumably because residents "were killing themselves in such large numbers". Should they be getting similar flak?
Look how shit this article is.

> "Firmware attack"

Is it an attack or a method of backdooring stuff you already have access to because you're already in the system? Attack usually means something like RCE. Hardware in general should be immutable, but once it has firmware, CPU in it etc, you should not expect the garbage they churn out at embedded dev companies to be resilient to arbitrary inputs. Reporting about a single instance of this is fine as long as you don't pretend this is surprising or an isolated incident.

> invisible to [...] security solutions and anti-virus tools.

Oh no, not the "security solutions"!

> threat actor

When did people start saying this shit? "Attacker" or "adversary" was fine and 10x less annoying.

Hallmark garbage internet media tripe. Please delete your website.
I use the Apple keychain and am perfectly happy with it. If you need team functionality you might want to look around for another solution. I ditched LastPass years ago because of crappy UX/UI.
Thom Hogan: https://bythom.com
Not everything can be chosen.
By temporarily defacing the Sega website and modifying files I think they have crossed the line. Enumerating what access they have, rooting through S3 and reporting it is OK, but by messing around like script kiddies they can no longer claim good faith. Publicising that you've illegally defaced the website is a little silly. Of course, Sega should not have got themselves so completely owned. Sega deserved to be punished, but these VPN twits have clearly committed a crime and Sega should maybe sue their company.
Would you like to tell me more about this society where having a roof over your head is not a right, but a privilege? More of a privilege than applying for a job?
Let me pull out my tiny violin for this Stanford Law student who absolutely doesn't sound like he's part of a privileged background, since the main thing on his mind is to "travel somewhere warm." I might suggest he forward this letter to his maid because I bet they'd really sympathize.

> For my part, I am now planning, if personal circumstances and University policy allow it, to avoid Stanford in January and live my life in ways that are more personally fulfilling to me than moping around in a dorm room.

(Emphasis mine)

So basically what he's saying is that he will do absolutely nothing outside of Stanford's rules and procedures, and that he's just writing a letter to complain. If the school tells him to show up he will show up, and this letter is all for show. Lord knows the parents aren't going to pay for Jacob's Cancun trip if he drops out!

Of course, that's all quite logical, since only a complete fool would throw away their acceptance to a competitive, prestigious private school like Stanford. You get into very cushy jobs that afford very not-miserable lives with that kind of name recognition.

If life is too short to be miserable, that might explain why so many people want get an education that removes them from doing the most miserable work for the rest of their lives.

As far as the school's response to Covid, perhaps a law student might understand why Stanford University doesn't want to throw money away battling lawsuits from parents and employees (and their unions).
A good read on the subject is "Dying for an iPhone" by Chan. The book documents the last 20 years or so of Apple's labor interactions with Foxconn and makes a fairly compelling argument that Apple, like most other companies, says one thing and then does enough to be seen "doing something about the problem" while not actually doing anything of substance (the problem with the suicides was that they were getting ripped apart in the press for it, so the solution was to make it harder to commit spectacular suicide).

It also documents the "creative abuses" that local governments and Foxconn seem to have with schools and such - "internships" that are not optional, are claimed to be CprE/EE/etc, and are really just bonus labor for the busy season. "Your degree is nice, now turn this screw."

It's hard to say where Apple's responsibility ends and Foxconn's begins - the two are woven so tightly anymore that the boundaries are blurred. Major chunks of Foxconn's operation are purely Apple assembly plants, and Apple, of course, literally wouldn't exist today without Foxconn.

I've decided that I'm done with Apple for now and have been seeking alternatives (Kobo Elipsa for PDF references, PineBook Pro for laptop, and a little flip phone for cell connectivity at the moment) - it was their labor practices, on top of their eagerness to do on-device content scanning, and a few other things that just pushed me over the edge.

Unfortunately, there's not really a good space in modern tech that remotely qualifies as "ethical to use," anymore. I've been trying to go down some weird roads of low power ARM systems, but a lot of those are still made in China. At least some of the Rpi boards are made in the UK, and Purism has the USA-made Librem 5 at some significant cost.

Unfortunately, the only sane answer I keep coming to is that the best solution is to abandon consumer tech entirely. It's the field in which I've made my living, and there's certainly some good to come out of it, but if you trace where the hardware comes from, and then look at how the software is designed (to capture all the behavioral surplus it can for the surveillance capitalism processing pipeline, Zuboff's book goes into great detail here)... it's slavery for the hardware and human-toxic psychological exploitation for the software.

The less I use the stuff, the less desire I have to use it.
Except security. Floppies can't do anything other than storage, but USB devices can be just about anything.
> Refreshingly well-researched and honest piece from the New Yorker.

My impression is quite the opposite. This piece by Larissa MacFarquhart was a contemptible whitewash of government bullies. "New Yorker" is squarely in the corner of intelligence agencies and law enforcement and against the people, and not just in this particular case.
I don't really have any evidence to make a counterargument, so you might be right.

I could present an alternative viewpoint though: Cable access has steadily been losing marketshare to streaming services for a while now, so they're aiming for as much mass appeal as possible. It might not be that there is a lower proportion of people looking for educational entertainment than there was before, but that declining viewership has made it unprofitable to produce content for that niche. I see a lot of documentaries on Netflix, for example, and then there's CuriosityStream which is a service just for that, right?

Also a lot of "edutainment" is and always has been sensationalism...I remember watching a documentary about how solar storms were gonna wipe out humanity any day now, and "top 100 things removed from the human body" on old-school TLC (spoiler: #1 was a petrified fetal twin!)
The anecdote about the pariahing of the doctor advocating chlorinated lime would be a clever retort from a qook to a lib about ivermectin.
Which database do you use to store your database of databases?
It’s hilarious to see people generating content like this to push their VPN affiliate marketing schemes.
Tesla recalls half a million vehicles over safety concerns
Possibly - pretty sure it wasn't the first time he'd done that. In the same practice area was a dirt runway in a farmers field that we'd use for rough field landing practice - usually meant cleaning the cow crap from the undersides of the wings. Worst that would have happened - rough field landing in stubble.
If I were looking for a poignant pause, I'd compare anything Christopher Hitchens wrote for the Guardian a decade ago to what we're commenting on now, and consider whether this article about the prophecy of Idiocracy might land a bit closer to the writer than to the mark.

The reason to be this pointed about it is the cognitive style of articles like these is to seduce readers with sympathy for their smallest and cruelist sentiments. It's as though media appointees imagine themselves as fomenting a better calibre of angry mob or inciting the right kind of superstitious villager. Appealing to Idiocracy as a parable of caution for our times seems a bit rich, especially when the very cause of the idiocy in the movie was that the society in the story had been completely coddled and unchallenged by the very people whose job it was to provoke some kind of thoughtfulness and reflection.
Cigarette butts are poisoning shoreline animals. This beach rover
Nah. It's a little conceit. It's a small dash of eccentricity to add spice to an unusual point. It invites one to ask the question, "why do you habitually use 5 digit years?"

You, on the other hand, are veering directly into ad-hom and that's not nice. We can talk about how we like to use language without calling out other peoples' language choices.
Since June, the German government allows even police to secretly spy on Germans "preventively", i. e. without suspicion or proof of crime or future crime and without decision by court of law, by installing trojans on their phones and PCs, i. e. through the app store.
"Your right to privacy is being respected in Germany!" - This is not true.
It means I have to listen to wildly absurd theories and hang out in Orange County, just because I didn't get the 3rd++ booster
I agree we can continue to pursue better, but I think it's only fair to note that crowding, sickness, and bad food is progress over suicidal tendencies .
My real skepticism, having been vaccinated and boosted, is that institutions like the CDC, FDA, and Pfizer are just being lazy foot-draggers about bringing out vaccines updated for specific variants.

And whatever happened to the project of vaccines that provide full, sterilizing immunity? Last publication I can find is for a study in freaking mice[1]. Is there no imperative to actually provide sterilizing immunity at "warp speed", because society can just shove non-sterilizing vaccines into people and save on ICU beds?

[1] -- https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(21)01005-1
Oh absolutely.
My point was strictly the assumption that many people can’t keep secrets.
Depending on ideology, reprisals, or personal ethics (good and bad), secrets can be kept by a startlingly large group of people.

I’ve seen estimates as high as 10% of the population of east Germany were spying on their neighbors.
I never had a floppy fake an HID.
Seems like the current trend in software. We used to have a perpetual licensing system as the dominant way of buying software, with some upgrades / unlimited upgrades, somewhat like a warranty system. Then lots of online services started on the subscription model, justifiably because they were providing online services. Everyone got jealous and greedy, and seeing that sweet sweet recurring revenue that others were making, switched to that model that actually doesn't make much sense, even for software that you're installing on your computer, adding marginal online services like storage you don't care about as a justification. Now that everything is subscription based and market is saturated, the only ways to increase revenue are either to upsell existing subscriptions, or add new revenue streams.

Ads seems like an obvious one. Future is grim.
Maybe it isn’t. My understanding of Hacker ethos has been that of a curiosity driven by truth seeking of any system (not just technological). Racism seems like lazy conventional thinking, so it seems prima facie to be incoherent with that culture.
The benefits are always balanced against the potential harm.

For young males, the risk of myocarditis from the vaccine may be comparable to that from the disease according to a UK study - until that’s clarified, booster mandates have no place in colleges.
PWLconf vidoes are up here: https://pwlconf.org/#videos
Some time ago I looked at the odds of dying from covid Delta, which was less virulent but more deadly than Omicron. Based on the Zoe study from the U.K. the odds of catching Delta where 17,000 to 1. https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/uk-rates-holding-steady-in-sp...

The odds of dying, I took from the CDC, because there are issues with counting deaths in U.K. For anyone up to 40 the odds of dying after catching covid are 1 in 5,000 for those with 2 or more co-morbid diseases, and 1 in 100,000 for those with fewer than 2 co-morbid diseases. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

That makes the chance of dying from covid for a 40 year old or younger = 1 in 83,333,333 for those with 2 co-morbid diseases and 1 in 1,700,000,000 for those with fewer than 2 co-morbid diseases.

Omicron may be different, but as it spreads faster and kills fewer, I doubt it will be any worse in the end.

Now you need to know the chance of dying from a vaccine adverse event but I don't have that to hand.
The cost is potential health risks associated with taking the vaccine/booster.
We don't know exactly why myocarditis rates are elevated and some people would rather wait for more information.
Most would decry visiting Krakow during the Nazi occupation. Somehow visiting North Korea gets a pass from such scrutiny. Usually people, when called out on visiting North Korea, try to defend themselves by saying something along the lines of “getting to know another culture”. It’s a lame defense and their need to say something indicates that deep down they know there is something wrong with what they did.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
Do you think bank ATM software/hardware, plus online banking and components should be open sourced?
They are not reliable at all.

And if you don't want to use USB... well good luck finding a modern motherboard with a floppy disk interface. These days you obviously have to use a USB floppy disk readers. The argument of not using USB doesn't make a lot of sense, USB is not dangerous, it's how the OS is configured. Also how do you plug in mouse and keyboard, with PS2? And by the way, if you don't want to use USB at all you can use an SD card (you can find readers that are PCI express and thus don't require USB), or a CD ROM with a SATA reader, or a SATA HDD with an hotswap caddie, etc.
I don’t know of your habits, so this advice may not apply to you. But we are living through a slow-motion crisis in language, in the English-speaking world. It is caused by mostly everyone reading, routinely, constantly, and nearly exclusively, garbage prose. This description applies to nearly all journalism, technical discussion, essays of opinion, and any writing related to politics, computers, society, or technology. And we imitate what we read, even if not consciously. Eventually, we lose the ability to express ourselves well.

Spend some time every day reading Shakespeare, Joyce, or Nabokov. Maybe some PG Wodehouse or Oscar Wilde. After a year or so, it will start to seep in. You will notice your own writing becoming more beautiful, and more precise (which is largely the same thing.) I can guarantee this, because you care, and that’s 90% of what’s required.
Or maybe you didn’t communicate your point effectively.

My point holds for non crypto decentralization as well. Consumers choose against, no matter how much tech people like us want it.
The legal parts of this case seem straightforward. The scary thing is a governor using his platform to bully legitimate news-makers who are clearly acting in good faith.

We should all hope the paper vigorously defends its first amendment rights.
I dig it!

I prefer defining tables like this:

CREATE TABLE category (
id int GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY,
name text
);

CREATE TABLE post (
id int GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY,
category_id int
REFERENCES category (id)
ON DELETE CASCADE
);

That is, category.id rather than category.category_id.
But the USING clause doesn't work with that style, as far as I understand.

This would make my queries nicer.
I used to do this white hat hacking back in the day: modify a page on the web server, send a link to the admin with the exploit walkthrough.

It's a dangerous game to play now, though. You're basically betting the company you tested your PoC on would rather avoid the negative PR of filing charges against you, vs. a bunch of non-technical suits who just want to see you do 150 years in Sing Sing.
You have not provided any evidence or examples, just a “trust me”, which is essentially worthless. Also, there is a difference between a secret and a conspiracy. Secrets can survive for a long time, whereas history suggests that conspiracies rarely, if ever, succeed long term.
Hum, there is very clearly a test taking skill that is independent of the tests contents.

As tests were less important a few generations ago, it's perfectly possible that people were unprepared for them.
Is there any code that still uses them? I've never seen trigraphs in the wild.
Not that I doubt you, but do you have a source?
most states absolutely do have document retention schedules for state/municipal agencies.
In 1997 or so, I was an intern in the remote connectivity group at Sun. My job was primarily to help maintain connectivity for the people at home rocking their 128k dual-channel ISDN lines. I helped maintain local modem banks and remotely manage end user hardware and software. I remember drooling at the prospect of such a fat internet pipe.
> Is there some internal performance reason for why ordinary functions couldn't be optimized to perform the same as "new"? (Seems like it would be easy to wire the prototype internally to the function, resulting in same semantics).

Not particularly -- JIT vms should inline `(() => new Thingy)()` as `new Thingy`. The temporal API provides a lot of nice factory functions that don't need any `new` keyword. Here are the first several examples of the Temporal API all concatenated together with comments removed:

Temporal.Now.instant().epochSeconds;
Temporal.Now.instant().epochMilliseconds;
Temporal.Now.zonedDateTimeISO();
Temporal.Now.timeZone();
Temporal.Now.zonedDateTimeISO('Europe/London');
Temporal.Instant.from('2022-03-04T05:56:78.999999999+02:00[Europe/Berlin]');
Temporal.Instant.from('2022-03-04T05:06+07:00');
Temporal.Instant.fromEpochSeconds(1.0e8);
Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from('2025-09-05T02:55:00+02:00[Africa/Cairo]');
Temporal.Instant('2022-08-05T20:06:13+05:45').toZonedDateTime('+05:45');
Temporal.ZonedDateTime.from({
timeZone: 'America/New_York'
year: 2025,
month: 2,
day: 28,
hour: 10,
minute: 15,
second: 0,
millisecond: 0,
microsecond: 0,
nanosecond: 0
});

It seems like the style is to provide these factory functions for almost every use-case except "build me a specific object with these exact values", which you need to use `new Constructor(...)` for. Where is the noise?

As a side note, there are concrete performance reasons to use class/prototypes over plain objects or closure-over-hidden state in your own code:

- Class and/or constructor functions helps ensure your long-lived objects instantiate their properties in a regular order. V8 has trouble unifying objects with the same properties but different property orders into the same hidden class. Each hidden class costs JIT time and memory space, so minimizing both is nice. You can fix this yourself by forcing instantiation of a value to go through a factory function to normalize property order, but at that point, why not use a class to take advantage of `instanceof`?

- Closures over hidden state, eg long-lived closures you would use to implement your own object system over enclosed local variables, cost more than plain objects or class instances. It's more straight-forward to define classes at the top level and wrap them in sugared factory functions than to code-review factories that manually build objects with function properties.
This is my "Thanks, I hate it" response.

Reason being if you use the example they gave:

SELECT f.title, f.did, d.name, f.date_prod, f.kind
FROM films f
JOIN FOREIGN f.films_did_fkey d

You need to implicitly know the table that films_did_fkey points to, because 'd' is just a table alias. I can't think of anywhere else in the SQL standard where you can introduce a table alias without explicitly referencing the table. In my opinion making code essentially unreadable unless you have other background information is an antipattern.
> my nation

our nation
> he was facing 13 felony charges and up to 50 years in prison[0]

Pretty hard slap, that.

[0]https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/why-did-...
Estimating a Good Sample Size for Your Study Using Power Analysis
An article on the subject without a paywall:

https://allianceforscience.cornell.edu/blog/2021/12/a-lab-st...
> oo many students/faculty are sick at any given time.

Whats the rate of hospitalization for COVID among students right now? If you dont have that kind of actual data in hand, you can't make a proper decision.

because of the demographics that number should be close to zero, except for students that have multiple comorbidities.
> Apple could build another factory.

If you are knowledgeable about precision manufacturing and supply lines, you'll know that it is not that simple.

Apple shut the plant down. They are making a difference. Do you know what it was like before Apple arrived with enormous manufacturing requirements, and had the power to influence things? Not better!

Apple does not profit from human rights abuses. Apple writes contracts to prevent them. Those contracts are not always followed, and Apple's audits sometimes fail to turn up problems in time. This can be tragic, but it's blatantly incorrect to assert that Apple doesn't take this extremely seriously.