skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have long come to terms with this, and the general opinion seems to be that there should be limits to public nudity and sex. These are not culturally invariant, but the internet happens to be a thing that is accessed from all over the world, so there's a kind of lowest common denominator where money is concerned. A bit hypocritical at times, but quite understandable, really. I don't know why you think that's insane.
> No - he did it because he has FY money and FY reputation.

Why is he selling music in the first place then, why not make it free for anyone who wants to listen to it?
I’ve found N95 masks to be far more breathable than the normal paper masks, and definitely more breathable than cloth masks.
It's a chicken-and-egg-thing though, with the viewers and the uploaders...

I think the most realistic path to something better is that content-makers who realize the value in alternatives to the YT model and Google or would like to minimize being dependent on their goodwill, will start to double-post their content to a less controlled alternative (today that would be Peertube and/or LBRY). It will probably not happen over night, but at some point I think that's the best shot at reaching critical mass where it's enough market share to be profitable and all the rest will follow. Even if exposure is initially negligible, keep at it, Rome was not built overnight.

Same thing for Twitter... Why not start having a presence on the Fediverse? :)

I absolutely get where you're coming from, but now that you're personally experiencing some of the downside of the centralized US/China-centric status quo, rather than only trying to have the dictators be more benevolent, start taking steps to be part of something better?

HMU if you're up for it and need help with hosting or whatnot.

BTW, really appreciate you doing what you do and coming in and engaging in the comments. I'm sure you're a source of inspiration for many.
It's not "unneeded bits". In fact, chatters aren't freed from convention, but rather have established a new convention where adding a period at the end of chat messages can now be viewed as "aggressive".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/crosswords/texting-punctu...
It's like telling the government to put certain companies out of business because the owner has a worldview that I don't like.
The linked site has easy to follow decision trees in text file format: https://sonorouschocolate.com/notes/index.php?title=The_best...

If you want something much less elaborate (i.e. something you can memorize), you will find plenty of heuristics (e.g. "what are the optimal two starting words based on letter distributions") in the earlier discussions. The optimality of a heuristic for your strategy necessarily depends on your strategy though, and unless you actually memorized the list of solution/trial words, such a strategy will remain impossible to formalize.
Note that "dangerous misinformation" changes entirely based on what the orthodoxy is currently promoting.

Particularly, CNN/MSNBC/NBC/AP all promoted the "masks don't work" lie promoted by the CDC at the start of the pandemic, which likely directly led to deaths.

But if CNN slaughters some grandparents with CDC-backed lies it's water under the bridge compared to Joe Rogan, right?
Ask HN: Remote videocall/kanban – what does everyone say when entering?
We do remote kanbans for a while now.

But the start still feels weird sometimes. Everyone repeating 'hi'/'hello'.

Do any of you guys do something different ? ( and i'm not talking about removing video kanbans fyi )

Edit:
This is a really similar 'feeling': https://youtu.be/YspAGRCeXc4?t=45
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She also claimed she entered area 51. Likely she was playing with the interviewer to see how much bullshit she would believe.
What I find rampant these days is the rather extreme way of thinking “If you are not with me, you are against me.” And I think social media amplifies this, not only by algorithms, but also because text doesn’t provide good context (intonation, stance, emotional transference) , I mean we literally read other people’s thought in our own head, also those whose thoughts we are not congruent with.

HNs rules are great in this sense, to continuously seek out curious conversations instead of the rather solipsist tendency to soapbox.

Now with politics and politicians this a much harder pill to swallow, because their literal job these days is to stand on a soapbox, and we as the public have gotten rather used to it, and voting in those who do the soapbox act the best. This is also because in general it’s hard to choose politicians beyond the local who we can relate to, and be invested in beyond retoric.
It is not atomic and irreducible, even in the United States. How could it be atomic and irreducible if there were exceptions to it? What justifies the exceptions? [1] Please don't be afraid to dig just a little bit deeper. I promise you that your respect for free speech will not be diminished: you'll just be a little bit less wrong in your logic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_exce...
Do you have any documents on how I can use them in such case?
Ikea 'Snoorsdrup' flatpack Venusian floating city

Contents: Balsa wood, rubber, screws, Alan key, instruction manual

(Assemble on a carpet to avoid damaging wood)
You're doing good work. Don't stop. We in America need more people to understand why Shenzhen works. We used to have cities like that in the US.

(An automatic tool setter for the SYIL mill will make it more useful. Having to manually set each tool discourages you from using more than one tool per job. Automatic tool setters are cheap, while automatic tool changers are expensive. I've used a Tormach without a tool setter, which means you spend too much time setting up.)
Would it not be possible to detect these kind of errors using machine learning now? To go through the code base and find unsafe operations?

There must be enough security bug fixes out there on GitHub that certain classes of security error become easily detectable.
I haven't looked at the game implementation in detail yet, but in order to verify "This person has found the treasure" is signed with the key for coordinates (X,Y), we need to know the cooresponding public key for coordinates (X,Y), which means that youre revealing the coordinates themselves in your message.

The idea in ZKP is to prove you know a value without revealing the value itself.
> As for the woman on the other end of the line, she seems concerned with statutes of limitation. She’s married now and lives a quiet life in a large Midwestern city, collecting coins.

Guessing there's a chance this might be her?
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/susan-headley-768108
This is the big one imo. Youtube's monopoly status is making creators sign unfair contracts, after which stealing from them becomes legal.
Most parts are trivial to make, and the tools required are in a million or so garages and amateur woodworking and mechanics "shops" across of the US. People make their own replacement hot rod and car parts for Pete's sake, now typewriter parts?

It's not like a classic (non electric) typewriter is some wonder of engineering. You don't even need a circuit printed, or anything that has to be made in a factory.

You can buy a dirt cheap 3D printer for some kind of replacement parts, bend, twist, or manually make a mold and poor metal into it for others, soldier or power glue for others yet, and so on...

(And in regular life, you also have the option to salvage a similar model or even a different one with compatible parts and McGyever a solution trivially).
While true the tweet where she mentions this also shows that sexual content is permitted, and advertisers can opt in for monetization.
I'm partial to the Athenian version of free speech. Every citizen was invited - nay, encouraged - to speak their mind and offer political advice in the assembly. But if your policy turned out to be disastrous to the city you'd be banished, your property confiscated, or worse.
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Right. The pentester gets the money up front.
> Anyone can send an email with a link, chuck some USBs in a parking lot or pretend they're an employee at a company. All you need is one curious or lazy employee.

Yet when you receive a phishing email, you can usually find clues it's not legit (such as typos). It takes craft to make a convincing one. Pretending to work somewhere sounds even more hacky: i for one would certainly not be able to do that, and i'm sure many fellow hackers (in the broad sense of the word) are in the same basket.

Understanding human systems to infiltrate an organization is pretty much like reverse-engineering. As someone who's not practicing either, i would say social engineering looks even more complicated for one reason: when you're reverse-engineering a program/API, you usually take some steps to protect yourself. Either you run the program on an isolated network, or you borrow someone else's network (VPN/Tor/etc) to attack an API.

When you're attacking a corporation via social engineering, you're on the front line smiling to the people at the front desk asking why your work badge isn't working anymore or pretending to be the toilet repair crew. Every probing step you take can unmask you, and the consequences of that can be much more quick/severe than if you leaked a random IP address trying some weird request.
Regarding the image:

I believe those are IBM 386 computers on the right based on the front of the machine, the megahertz display and the turbo button. The ones on the left are most likely 8086 machines. IBM brand I believe based on the front and the case design.

Several PC based BBS machines supported multiline operation without the need for mulitasking, though as modems got faster, supporting 16 modems on a single machine became impossible, and it was often cheaper to buy a new commodity desktop PC rather than a much more expensive machine with a 16-port serial card capable of handling the IO.

The machines might have been running a "DOS" flavour, but for the most part, the BBS software was the entire machine. Boot from DOS, but then what we consider DOS is effectively removed from RAM and the BBS software takes over.

The 386's might have been using DESQView or equivalent, and running a single line BBS as two separate instances on the same machine.

The machine would not boot either from network or harddrive. Network boot was mostly unreliable and a bad node on a token ring network would easily disable your entire ring. Internal harddrives would have been costly, power hungry and unreliable. I can almost certainly guarantee they booted entirely from floppy disks. There was no doubt a token ring network that kept them all communicating. A token ring could be wired to tolerate failure, but it drove the cost up.

Those are Miracom Courier modems on top on some machines, a mixture of 9600 and 14.4, and Hayes Smartmodems, on others, 2400 on the black & silver, 9600 on the all blacks. Almost certainly there are no 56k modems in that picture. And they would have almost certainly be plugged in to a dual port serial card that supports dual 16550 UARTs because the 16550 could handle up to 119kbps (118,500) IIRC (typing from memory, feel free to google it), and they had a 16-byte FIFO buffer so the CPU didn't need to poll or IRQ for data quite so often. Therefore they could support 56Kbps on two lines, though at that point, it would have probably be pegging the CPU with two users transferring files using a non-compressing XModem or ZModem.

Also, all the drives have been upgraded from five-and-a-quarter to three-and-a-half.
tl;dr - Fox News targeted a very poor representation of the anti work movement and interviewed them live. The subreddit for the movement hated it, got shut down by its own mod team temporarily, and now a new subreddit is trying to replace it. The movement has been made to look bad, without any actual critical assessment of its aims, because a small group of people in a position of power underestimated a right-wing media outlet.

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r/AntiWork has been gaining traction in the media as it's grown in subscriber count a fair amount recently, and of course the topic it covers is also gaining its own traction.

As such, Fox News reached out to the moderation team for the subreddit to request a live interview. According to the moderation team they even went as far as to specifically request the person seen in the interview. The moderation team discussed the request and accepted as the moderator picked had done media before (apparently).

Cue a fairly gentle opening set of questions and good answers from the moderator (called Doreen). The only initial issue might be the low quality webcam being used. However, after gathering a bit of info the Fox News interviewer quickly turns the heat on and asks bad faith questions. Doreen is revealed to be a dog walker who does a 20-25 hour work week, and might maybe one day like to teach Philosophy. Not anything actually bad, but definitely playing into the stereotype of a lazy young person the network wants to use as a symbol of the movement.

By the end of the interview it's apparent Fox has what they wanted from it and that Doreen has not represented the movement well.

The subreddit is in uproar, mainly because they don't understand why a mod is representing them anyhow. They're function is to moderate, they're not the subreddit leaders in any way. The subreddit thinks that the content creators of the subreddit would have been a better choice. Or, better yet, the interview should have been flatly declined.

The uproar gets out of hand enough that the mods start deleting threads and comments and ultimately make the sub private to let things calm down.

A new subreddit is founded in response called r/WorkReform. A lot of people move across swiftly.

This is just about where we're up to now, so it's hard to comment on what's going on accurately. But, I will say that it's very interesting to see a movement evolve in the moments. Even the terms 'antiwork' and 'work reform' are significant linear developments on how to better present a concept. One is adversarial, the other more progressive.

Also - Doreen has apparently already been called out for, and admitted to, instances of sexual assault on someone they were close to. Call it character assassination, or poor background checks by the mod team, or an unfortunate coincidence, or whatever. Basically, everything that could go wrong for a movement trying to be taken seriously, did go wrong, very quickly.
Upcoming iOS Update Will Allow iPhones to Accept Credit Cards Directly Using NFC
At first, I thought this was going to be about Sven Yrvind, whose self built tiny boats are pretty incredible.

You can follow his latest build on
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCptM0nqGDJLz14oP6ROdKRw
Plays ok for me. Firefox 96.0.2 on Win10.
Can’t seem to find that Slug Cola entry on Wikipedia. Anyone else?
You left off the important one;

5G mind control and human tracking via MRNA vaccine. Robert W Malone, Bill Gates.
One thing is clear. Spotify should probably have stuck with music. The special relationship with JRE blurs the lines between publisher and platform and their fates might end up being inextricably tied together for better or worse.
So if I ask you "why do we have or need human rights", would you say "there is no reason, the analysis stops there"?
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She’s not forcing anybody to give their attention. Who’s fault is it to give that attention? (Hint: men). So she can’t get breast enhancement because it will risk other (men) possibly objectifying her? It’s the men doing the objectifying so defining what she can or can’t do with her body because of the effect it might have on others (mostly men) is the very definition of male entitlement.
"Aw, don't stick a bee in the mud," she said.
my experience with any intel mac is that they are louder than a jet engine and hotter than motorcycle exhaust pipes in texas

it's a very strange feeling, they actually burn so much that they itch
>It hard to see how YouTube can defend their actions

We shouldn't expect them to. There's always going to be blurry boundaries between sexual and non-sexual content, and we should accept this. What we should be critical of is the appearance of selective enforcement - ie. some people are banned and others are not for identical behavior.

I remember on Twitch there's a girl who kept getting banned for wearing the same skimpy clothes that many other female streamers wear, she just had larger breasts that were more attention-grabbing. So the bans seemed superficially unfair, but it was fairly obvious what principle was motivating them.
Part of the URI standard:

return a string consisting of the reference's path component
appended to all but the last segment of the base URI's path (i.e.,
excluding any characters after the right-most "/" in the base URI
path, or excluding the entire base URI path if it does not contain
any "/" characters

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-5.2.3
The PRs that get the most attention from me are the ones with the fewest total lines modified.

There is probably some important correlation between my engagememt at code review time and the quality of our software.
Let me rephrase: GPG is possible to get working, the resident keys are not, regardless of the amount of setup. Though the other comment seems to suggest it might not be the case, so maybe there is hope.
> With great power comes great responsibility.

Someone should tell JR(E) that, being the largest podcast on the planet.
Is there a similar app to Zim that is properly native macOS? I like the concept and the features of Zim, but it's a bit unwieldy on the Mac. The UI doesn't look native, the shortcuts are a bit strange and it's slow. When I click on maximize window (as an example) it took 3 seconds.
> its quite obvious that you are well endowed and using it to your advantage

And what exactly is the issue with that?

Every model in advertising & on Instagram, every actress, and many more do the same. And so far I haven't seen a reason why that's supposed to be bad, aside from religious fundamentalist nutcases.
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> Ah yes, Ben Shapiro will radicalize young men to... get married and start a family?

That's not the bit that people have a problem with, and it's completely disingenuous to frame it that way. They have a problem with his views on transgender people, his views on gay people, his views on same-sex parents, and the views of the people he supports and spreads the agenda of.
It's also a constraint setting problem. No one deploying software with log4j would've said "yeah, the logging system should be able to reach any IP address at all if asked to by external input.

But we lack a decent way to express that sort of data flow constraint when deploying software.
You are defining an unfair comparison.

[Good] social engineering
[Bad] hacking

The vast majority of hacking and social engineering are pedestrians.
There are libraries of works dedicated to this from the Enlightenment onwards. There are two tracks you can pursue here:

1. Practical examples of authoritarianism working. Does the suppression of dissent result in better life outcomes for citizens? It's a fair hypothesis, and is easy to test. Explore hundreds of civilizations over thousands of years and try to find examples of it working out well for citizens. IMHO, there aren't many.

2. Read the political, historical, and philosophical writings of the greats on this subject: John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jeremy Bentham, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, and Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson. They provide far better arguments against the suppression of dissent than I ever could. Their arguments are extremely well considered, extremely convincing, and backed by historical examples.

Personally, I try hard to base my position on tangible evidence. "Does this thing actually result in the outcome I desire?" Because I can't find any good examples of authoritarianism working, and many good examples of democracy working, I side firmly with the latter.

However, I must also admit that the internet is a major human evolution. It is unprecedented in its scale and reach. Social media is causing enormous harm, and we are operating under the de facto pretense that this harm is worth the benefits. It could be that social media is undermining how democracy works, and that we need to find a better way forward. I can admit that, but I am yet to see convincing arguments for a) the existential danger to democracy, and b) a better social structure than democracy.
And yet my CPU runs its own operating system (Minix) behind my back and reacts to undocumented secret commands i'm unaware of. Is the comparison that irrelevant?
Some other party then has the extra effort of security, privacy, etc. support for those using 80 with modern computers and browsers...
It would be interesting to see some actual calculations around this. It would have to take into account, for example, that we can do (some arbitrarily huge number) more calculations with N grams of rare materials than we could back in the day. If that trend continues for at least another while, investing in a 50-year computer is basically saying we have absolutely no need for that extra computing power.
That certainly happens but rewriting also happens because what is already available doesn't get the job done and can't be customised so it does.

One of the curses of modern software development is that so many of the resources we rely on are highly opinionated. We have frameworks and toolkits and scaffolding scripts and proprietary formats and convention-over-configuration to do things that could have been done with flexible, self-contained libraries and open standards.

These opinionated resources are often easier to create but they can cause great harm over time as a small application that got a boost from using them initially grows into a large application with changing requirements. Maybe those requirements can't easily be met if nothing composes and nothing can be adapted and each dependency becomes a fight between the direction its developers choose to take it that might not be right for the application and the need to keep updating because the developers don't want to support older releases of their code with essential bug fixes and security updates any more.

In this kind of environment, it is hardly surprising that some teams prefer to build things in-house even if they are reinventing a few wheels. It is sometimes the only way to retain control of your own code or to regain that control after the technical debt becomes overwhelming.
There are well moderated/curated PeerTube instances, just like there are well moderated Mastodon and Matrix instances. You just have to look for them, which is a big problem for a video site(no virality, smaller audience).
Uhmm I read through the README but most of the screenshots don't say anything to me, and I did my fair bit of reverse-engineering.

I see a screenshot of normal app startup, some random wireshark requests, some traces of what looks like a login/account system and some localization strings. The de-minified Javascript in the screenshot that author claims he could "clearly see the data was being exfiltrated" looks to me like a random Icon with some attrs. How is this relevant to exfiltration?

(Side-note his claim that he "performed a MITM attack to capture this iOS specific data" sounds more sensational than it actually is. He just put a transparent proxy in the middle, and didn't really attack anything)

The iFlytek stuff could be relevant and is interesting but there is so much noise, big headlines and "read my full report", that it feels to me the author tried very hard to find anything to post

Not saying the app is innocent. It's important to look more into what it's phoning home, but this is just the impression I got from reading through it. Maybe the full report will have some more solid findings in it. Still very cool that the entire decompiled source has been uploaded, that will get more curious eyes on it