skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As a side note the attack scenario you describe works without needing any rooting or anything it already exists and isn't detected by their security mechanism.

Android will block non-Play-Store app installations by default, and root is required for lower level access/capabilities that can bypass the normal sandbox.

I'm honestly not sure what you're saying about 2FA in the rest of your comment, it's kind of vague and there are some possible typos/grammar issues that confuse me. What exactly are you referring to when you say "pretending to have proper 2FA"?
> Anything in the constitution is not canonical forever.

It is, however, canonical until amended or SCOTUS interprets it away.

Constitutionally, it appears quite clear Arizona can't do this currently, and the law as a result would almost certainly be immediately stayed and struck down if passed.
The roads are better maintained in New York to the north. Same weather conditions. Pennsylvania has a special sort of infrastructure neglect.
The article talks about riots across history, not the American experience. I doubt it means looting to the exclusion of civil unrest, upheaval. Inter Arma Sine Legis, ergo looting is a probable side effect.
Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
I have a four letter dormant Twitter account.
I get about four mentions/replies per day that link to some nondescript crypto airdrop since several weeks. I manually mark each and every such tweet as spam and block the user, which needs 5 clicks or so. Nothing seems to help.
> "why is this user who logs in from Vermont, USA suddenly in Hungary?"

Maybe because the new login is from a hacker. Maybe because your geoip database provider is unreliable. Either one is likely. There's no sure way to go from an IP address to a location.
I was wondering where all that traffic suddenly came from. As for those neighborhoods that were raided: the 'new' City Hall of Amsterdam is built right on top of one of the largest of them. Not a house left standing of those blocks.
Robots could be used to support soldiers in combat
My god, I cannot second this enough.

We talk craptons about "innovation" and torrents of words on "cybersecurity" yet underpin daily life on recursive kludges on 1980s operating system and software technology. It's quite Kafkaesque!

This isn't just a matter of "spending more on IT" - they likely already spend too much. It's just spending on the wrong things.

No amount of layering crap on top will overcome the rotten, slapdash foundations of systems like windows, nor the diverging motivations between MS and and their customers. Especially customers like the U.S. Government. The amount of vendor lock-in to the shitty MS ecosystem, begetting atrocities like critical data living on godforsaken Sharepoint, is profoundly saddening. It's remarkable how everyone just uses hardware that's orders of magnitude faster than 1990s computers, yet interactions are far slower.

I once tried (reluctantly) connecting my USG-issued laptop onto my fairly locked-down home network. The amount of spew it continually issued onto the network was disgusting and I just disconnected it and drove in to complete whatever mandatory update they demanded.

Instead of creating yet another goddamn "cybersecurity czar", how about we try to take what we've learned in the past 40-50 years in computer science and try to properly engineer the software foundations for the next 30 years? This is absolutely something the USG could instigate and accomplish, if the initiative was run by the right people. I know some of them!
What makes you think that? From the outside the products of all these companies work roughly as well. Not terrible, not outstanding. If anything I probably have strong feeling about not wanting to work with AWS — but I don’t have experience with the other clouds.
Terrible new name though. Outcaste manages to both combine the negative associations of being a reject and the Indian caste system, and permanently remind users of the project's troubled history.
What is universally or objectively "offensive"? Is a young attractive woman who is only following me to try to get me to follow her OnlyFans, "offensive"? Is a die-hard materialist atheist, or a strident born-again Christian "protected by the vaccine of God", "offensive"? Is plain nudity "offensive"? Violent photos or movies? Vanilla sex? Hardcore sex? BDSM sex? Bad words? (Bad word filters are easily defeated with creative misspellings or Unicode.)

Is being mean "offensive"? How would you detect that well? The more intelligent the meanness, the harder it would probably be to detect...

Are certain thoughts or concepts offensive? Are they ALWAYS offensive (across both time and location on the Earth), or only for the time being, or only for a place?

Is the word "Jews" offensive? Always, or depending on context or who is saying it?

Is it possible to be satirically offensive in a way that an algorithm would have difficulty detecting? What if I quoted something offensive to argue against it? (I literally got a tempban for this once.)

Perhaps they are "incredibly bad" at it because it is an algorithmically impossible problem that is deeply tied into the subjective sensibilities and tastes of a perceiving consciousness at one point in time (or set of consciousnesses, all of which perhaps only accidentally happen to coincide)
Definitely a cool piece of software - there is a lot of unsurfaced potential in distributed graph databases - good luck I hope the future is bright.
> Perhaps my take is cynical, but I really do like the concepts of a social media service like Twitter. The execution of it, however?

Have you heard of Mastodon? https://joinmastodon.org. If so, how do you think it compares?
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems
> Recently ordered a book that cost 500 SEK on Adlibris or Bokus and 350 SEK on Amazon.

It’s entirely possible that you purchased a plagiarized (pirate) book. There was a thread here the other day about this problem. It’s been going on for years and Amazon has done nothing about it.
I've evolved over the years from "determinism implies no free will" to roughly being a compatibilist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism, see also Daniel Dennett). I don't particularly spend much time thinking that (for example) a nondeterministic universe is required for free will. I do think from an objective sense the universe is "meaningless", but that as humans with agency we can make our own meaning.

However, most importantly, we simply have no experimental data around any of this for me to decide. Instead I enjoy my subjective life with apparent free will, regardless of how the machinery of the actual implementation works.
Why should I understand Tumblr or any other product? I and others as well were happy with just reading the ramblings of other Internet users. As for the other side, publishing your texts or photos on the Internet for others to view, isn't enough?
This is literally the most stupid thing I've read this week. Not even believable a modern society allows something like this, and the even in recent history.

I hope every single person involved is deeply ashamed

> It is important that we learn from these mistakes and improve the process

What process? For dumping trash in the ocean?
https://www.nytimes.com/1863/06/06/archives/the-legal-tender...
I was really confused for a moment, I confused Oath Keepers for Promise Keepers...

> Oath Keepers is an American far-right[1] anti-government militia[1][2] whose members claim to be defending the Constitution of the United States.[3] It encourages its members to disobey orders which they believe would violate the U.S. Constitution. Research on their membership determined that two thirds of the Oath Keepers are former military or law enforcement, and one tenth are active duty military or law enforcement. Most research determined the Oath Keeper membership to be approximately 5,000 members, while leaked data showed Oath Keeper rosters claiming membership of 38,000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers

> Promise Keepers is an Evangelical Christian parachurch organization for men. It originated in the United States, but independent branches have also been established in Canada and New Zealand.

> Promise Keepers describes its goal as "to bring about revival through a global movement that calls men back to courageous, bold, leadership. We will be the spark that calls men back to God’s Word, sharing their faith and caring for the poor and oppressed throughout the world."[2] Promise Keepers is a non-profit organization, not affiliated with any Christian church or denomination. It opposes same-sex marriage, and champions chastity and marital fidelity and the man as being head of the household. Its most widely-publicized events tend to be mass rallies held at football stadiums and similar venues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_Keepers

(funny enough wikipedia has a warning, "not to be confused with Oath Keepers", might be time for a rebranding)
Isn't this addressed pretty early on in this essay?

"But here too, we have to be careful in defining what that governance meant, because the Roman Empire of August, 378 AD was not the Roman Empire of August, 14 AD."

"are we comparing [the decline of the fifth and sixth centuries] to the empire of Hadrian (r. 117-138) or the empire of Valentinian (r. 364-375)? Because most students are generally more familiar with the former (because it is was tends to be get focused on in teaching), there is a tendency to compare 476 directly with Rome under the Nervan-Antonines (96-192) without taking into account the events of the third and early fourth century."
It does have stats for Developers' Primary Operating System[0]:

Windows 49.9%

MacOS 26.7%

Linux-based 23.2%

BSD/Unix 0.2%

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/#technology-_...
The problem I always have is that when a problem is pointy enough, I figure out how to solve it once and for all. Then I don’t have to think about if for three years.

What happens is that I spend almost all of my time and energy on third tier priorities and problems because I’m a coder, and if things have clear cause and effect I’m going to automate that shit the first time it pisses me off or embarrasses me or a peer.

The longer I’m on a project the more bimodal is my set of focuses. Really big picture, and niggling little minutiae. God knows what it’s like for someone interviewing me and asking about my last gig.
Security should be practiced in depth. Having only one program that hackers / crackers can write uber-specialized scripts to target seems like an awful idea.

I mean, what if they just bought their people budget laptops with 8-12GB RAM and an SSD, lol. Will be much cheaper over a course of 3-5 years.

Or have good network ops and not allow viruses inside in the first place. A lot of corps have super paranoid (and actually good) teams doing that.
Equally the earths core and mantel being closer to it's formation, would of been hotter. So heat levels would of been offset perhaps by that aspect. Then the atmosphere would of been different.

Those are two area's that I'd like to see data upon.

After all, the Earth was a molten ball that slowly cools and you can't overlook that nuance over time. Which may of well balanced out the suns output levels for surface temperatures. Certainly volcanic activities and techonomic plate activities were far more active in the early days of Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_crustal_evolution seems a good read in conjunction with this article.
Author goes on to talk about how difficult it was to raise capital, and the company being constantly undervalued. Doubtful they're only referring to this singular event.
I think you might have missed the part of my post about eventually arriving at a well factored codebase
> macOS is mainly targeted at secretaries, managers and artists. Tech work isn't designed to be compatible with a mac.

I don't think this is true at all. Despite not developing Mac applications, we've (Twilio) been a Mac shop since day one, 14 years ago. This was driven by our three founders, who, at the time, were all engineers. These days our IT department offers Windows machines for employees who need it for some reason, but uptake is likely in the single-digit percentages.

And I know a lot of people who do technical work at various companies whose primary work machine is a MacBook Pro.

This might be a Silicon Valley startup thing. I would expect the Stack Overflow survey is skewed pretty hard toward Windows due to big corporate enterprises that aren't tech companies. It seems to me that most "tech companies" prefer Macs.

> Take for example using netcat. The version available to Mac is 17 years old and lacking some useful flags

I run Linux, so I don't have firsthand experience with much of this, but everyone I know who uses macOS for development has something like Homebrew installed, so they can get up-to-date versions of the various tools that are outdated in the default macOS install.
Is that true? I was under the impression that this changed years ago since virtually every app requested it anyway.

Apps could always send content over the internet by sending an intent to a browser with relevant GET parameters to whatever server is consuming the data.
Those refer to a different Constitutional issue (Federal, not state, and one's over the Fifth Amendment).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Tender_Cases
> Ok so now what? We lock down society for a relatively benign virus

Awwww, you made that little straw man just for me?! You're too kind...

(Your first mistake is acting like there's only two sides to this, and because I advocate taking more care, then you think I unflinchingly parrot the CDC and other hysterical bullshit. Not so :)!)

> still got covid 2x

Were there things you could have done differently not to catch it? Probably! In the spirit of "let everyone do what they want" then it follows directly that you agentively chose to put yourself in a position to catch and spread COVID. This is the main issue with libertarian-style arguments -- you accept full culpability if everything else is framed through the lens of agency.

> https://clinicalinfo.hiv.gov/en/glossary/endemic

Endemicity as you correctly point out is with relation to a particular population or region. That means more care needs to be put in to assigning particular viruses that status. HIV is not endemic to the US (it is in West Africa), neither is malaria (ditto but wider range) nor apparently COVID (of course, not yet, but the outcome is inevitable only if you act like it is).

> Why is this cause special

Because there's a lot of built-up infrastructure and society-wide attention on the problem, given the last couple years, which gives us a lot more leverage for having a strong effect on the outcome compared to something like a particular flu or rhinovirus. It's special because we're talking about this disease right now and not a different one. Seems obvious to me, but if ignoring reality makes you more comfortable then by all means. Just don't make your mistakes other peoples' problems.
>> My mother told the investigators how glad she was to get the glasses back, considering that they cost $8. The sourpuss did a slow burn, then said “Lady, this case has cost the government thousands of dollars. It has been the top priority in our office for the last eight weeks. We traced the glasses to your son from the prescription by examining the files of all optometrists in the San Diego area.” He went on to say that they had been interviewing our friends and neighbors for several weeks.

Mom: "And how is that foolishness my problem?"
30 minutes? Like. What? THIRTY MINUTES for a shower?

Sorry. What?
I'm 10 years removed from life science research at this point... but aren't these vitamin studies a dime a dozen at this point? I don't think I see a comparison of outcomes between groups that were vitamin D deficient/insufficient vs vitamin D sufficient, which I think could be a bit more useful?
Yeah, but >99% code is about using relational DBs and concurrency primitives not developing them. There are somethings that would depend on solid theoretical understanding but most of the software today is much more amenable to trying out things first and reworking failed parts.
Yeah, I still use TeamViewer portable to help friends and family. For my own work purposes, I've switched to NoMachine.
Mastodon's wonderful and Twitter (or anyone, really) should acquihire Eugen Rochko.

If you're going to do the Steve Jobs thing and skate where the puck is going, you should be skating in the direction of ActivityPub. Definitely not in the direction of web3.
"without the fear of hospitalization and death."

Except for the 2,000 Americans dying from COVID each and every day, and the various hospitals that are at capacity.
If a person’s risk tolerance on something is out of whack of what almost everyone else is comfortable with then there is a problem with that position. At least as it pertains to public policy. I’ll rephrase and say that I hope OP is not in a position to have his/her views in this area become policy.
There's a difference between classified information and scientific research. Yes, some scientific research could be classified, but unless the government can show "national security implications" (a pretty low bar, IMHO), they should not be restricting the flow of speech or ideas.

A general officer in the military is not only covered by the Constitution, but by the UCMJ[0].

As such, your comparison is flawed.

We're (or at least TFA and me) aren't talking about folks subject to NDAs or restrictions based on "national security."

Private companies and private citizens can (at least in the US), limit and censor speech and information as much as they want -- and for the most part be supported by the courts (vis a vis NDAs and the like).

The government on the other hand is explicitly barred from banning most speech (there are exceptions of course, including libel/slander and/or disclosing classified information to unauthorized folks -- note that publishing such information has been held to be "free speech" -- it's the folks who disclosed such information that could be civilly (in the case of an NDA) or criminally (in the case of classified information) liable.

However, the government is barred from restricting speech except in those narrow circumstances.

Please explain how such narrow circumstances apply in this case? Or, absent those circumstances, under what legal framework would government restrictions on speech apply even to government-funded research? Please do explain. I'd be fascinated to hear it.

I'll repeat, and I'll use the words of those who wrote the law of the land. Hopefully, you'll understand the second time around:

Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom
of speech, or of the press; or the right of the
people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances.

About which part of the above do you disagree?

If you feel the above is in error, I suggest taking the steps defined here[1]. Good luck with that.

[0] https://www.military.com/join-armed-forces/the-uniform-code-...

[1] https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution
They need a feature ASAP where if you ask someone to DM you in a thread it only shows it with a warning that you should make sure this is not a fake lookalike account. Huge and growing problem.
Every Elon Musk tweet is (or was a while back) filled with spam replies, but I don't recall seeing much outside of that.
We can’t even elect a president on a popular vote. It’s immutable enough.
The “Legal Tender” Decision (1863)
Their CSS is completely broken and nearly unusable on mobile.

They're clearly "improving" it.
Crossplane – Beyond the Basics – Nested XRs and Composition Selectors
>Your point being: since the US provides aid to countries whose human rights records are controversial China should be free to steal and misuse US intellectual property.

That's not my point at all. My point is that it's hypocritical to worry about China using stolen US tech to augment and cement it's oppressive regime when there are countries whose entire dark existence is carved out of US tech and support.

Quantitatively speaking, the marginal utility that China gets from each stolen piece of US tech is probably lower than what they get from each million dollar the US government borrows from them, or each 100000 teenager who downloads tiktok, or from each 100 customer who buy their phones. What I'm trying to say here is that China is not dependent on stolen R&D to opress and brutalize people, they can opress and brutalize people perfectly fine without it, it's just an added bonus on what they already can do.

On the other hand US support for the 2 countries that I mentioned is literally keeping them together against astounding resistence, I would gladly bet my life they would fall apart in <= 10 years if the US was taken out of all geopolitical equations in front of everybody's eyes. If you knew the sheer amount of tyranny and evil the US is single-handedly pumping into the Middle East through those 2 countries alone, you wouldn't be able to sleep at night or day.

So to sum up : I don't think your offense at China's use of US tech is proportional to the amount of damage that tech actually ends up doing. There are other countries where US tech and arms are at least 2 orders of magnitude more destructive and suffering-inducing.

>human rights records are controversial

What a creative way to understate the fact that one of the countries mentioned cut a journalist in half with a chainsaw, while the other bombs civilians on a yearly basis and kills literal babies. "Controversial" is how you describe an things where there are credible differences of opinion on; not raw, pure evil.
I don't know, abstraction is the name of the game and it makes my job 1000x easier. I have multiple servers running in my house that host everything from Plex to small little apps I've written, it all runs in containers and I couldn't be happier. Is being able to setup a Wordpress site with a script really something we should strive for?

I've always been a fan on "standing on the shoulders of giants" and it's served me very well to have this mindset. I'm fine to dive deep when I have to but diving deep just to dive deep.... not so much.

Semi-recently I had need of a simple blog for a friends/family thing, I spun up a wordpress and mysql container and was done. Over a decade ago I used to setup and manage wordpress installs but it's not a skill I need.

I find this article a little odd since they talk about server admin but then also scripting setup script for your server which is more in the "cattle" category for me and less in the "pet" that I would consider "server administration".
Also, this is the real "multi-cloud" people tend to ignore. All the clouds can run all the popular Linux distros, so if your target is one of those, you can run your app anywhere without a lot of hassle.
Isn’t this bridge four lanes?
Possibly, that and rotation speed, size of the sun! Many factors just not touched upon. Indeed, way more asteroid impacts as well and with that, energy put into the Earth.
other interesting Mainframe tools:

- http://www.hercules-390.org/ "The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator" ( 3.0 )

- https://hercules-390.github.io/html/ Hercules 4.0

- https://hub.docker.com/r/rattydave/docker-ubuntu-hercules-mv... ( docker image )
oooh, I always wanted that. Sad it doesn't look like it's advanced much.
Even the idea of having to "actively drink" is not something we think about on the East Coast. We just don't wear masks inside bars and restaurants.
> make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts

Well, they've already violated this by accepting USD, but that doesn't necessarily mean they can just do BTC too. To strike this down the courts would need a lawsuit, though, and I'm not sure who could claim damages.

> coin money

I take this to mean issuing a currency, which they are not doing here since they don't control BTC.