skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about this other than reading it here, but according to Wikipedia at least, the US claimed this was a mistake, apologized for it, and paid reparations.

Not that that makes this ok, but it does put it in the category of "error", not deliberate targeting of civilians (if you believe that narrative, of course).
Lisp does not equal lambda calculus
But that is irrational. Selling data is worst possible thing a company can do, because anyone can buy the data including Facebook.
My impression of him is that he's a decent guy who got targeted by scammers who knew he was rich. I've participated in the ground floor of plenty of opportunities. Some of them work out, some of them don't. But the ones that do more than make up for the ones that don't.
I suppose though once you have invested the money in doing all that (setting up storage, making training materials, code to do various things) it might be cheaper to keep doing it (in any particular financial year) then to do the work needed to dismantle all that.
I guess my point is why does a stretch on the health system warrant removal of personal freedoms. We don't do it for other conditions.
If you had said this 5 years ago I would have replied with “tin foil hat time!”

But after the last 5 years and the blatant lying by the media, the close relationship between the FBI/CIA and members of Congress and Dick Cheney getting an award from the Democrats makes me think you’re probably not too far off the mark.
Pat King is one of the coordinators of this GiveSendGo campaign, per Google Cache.

Pat King is on record saying there is a plot to depopulate white people because they have the "strongest bloodline".

https://twitter.com/VestsCanada/status/1159997274900041729

Folks can be pedantic about him not being an actual Nazi, what without the snazzy uniform and all, but he is a white supremacist.

Not everybody throwing money at this campaign will be of the same mentality, but enough of them will be to warrant further investigation, and while that investigation should be more formal than this hacktivism, I shed zero tears at the thought of every dollar stripped from whatever goal this white supremacist has in mind.
What to know about the stock market (2007)
All these arguments by presumably hardcore STEM people always forget the most important thing - when you share your knowledge on whatever platform, be it as ephemeral as it is, now that knowledge has spread and more people possess it, even if they retain a part of it. We don't need 99,999% uptime or 3-2-1 backups or perfect GUI to share knowledge. I get it, IT people would be lost when SO goes down so they always want to build most reliable thing ever, but it's always a moving goalpost.

Just contribute wherever you can.
As a European: I never had a Facebook account, yet they seem to have my data (ilegally). I can't find out without sending them more data. Why are these people still walking free?
Is there a current prevailing expert opinion?
>Evolve or die.

The value in one's application is the domain specific part (the product). By switching the tools, which almost always are created outside of one's organization, you don't enhance your product.

With each rewrite you risk the advantages of your existing product and you will still be a consumer of third party language/framework, just another one yet without experience.
CEO of Squarespace spent around $20k for an ad on a podcast in 2009
Yep. Could see a low cost FPGA with a being used for a new, more advanced ome with better linecoding, FEC and DSP on the receive side.
And all that cheaper than the original RONJA was back in the day.
No specific reason other than not having come across it. Will add it on my list.
Eh, kind of. It depends on the photon. A human is not transparent to visible light: if they were, we'd all be see-through. But we are substantially transparent to gamma rays. The same goes for baryons like protons: proton beam therapy can reach deep into humans, but alpha radiation (which is 2 protons and 2 neutrons, so not much "bigger") will be stopped by the first layer of skin.

From the an OMG particle's perspective, at that speed, due to Lorentz contraction factor of 300 billion, a human is only a few picometres across.
Protests happen when the majority starts to repress the minority.

Democracy isn’t dictatorship of the majority. It’s supposed to be about compromise and respecting individuals while the majority makes decisions.

The losers of every “election” or people who aren’t represented by the governing party have a right to protest to make their voices heard.

Perhaps undermining democracy is an overstatement, I meant undermining those in power for the minority.

What I’ve just written I think applies both to the goals and vision of BLM and anti vaccine mandate protestors, interestingly.
I remember when the Great Firewall was considered the manifestation of evil by old-time internet users.

It'll be hilarious if European nations decide pursuing GDPR cases is intractable when so many services Europeans use are fully outside the country (and beyond EU enforcement of jurisdiction) and they decide a firewall is necessary to protect their citizens from American surveillance. It would prove China was just ahead of the curve.
PERL (not Perl) has been almost completely displace in genomics by Python.

IMO, it is an inane language with amazing regular expressions.
Big Blue Rinse: IBM looked to reinvigorate its 'dated maternal workforce'
Ethereum is a technology platform with a rich ecosystem. Investing in ETH isn't a crap shoot.
It’s seriously “mind boggling” that those in support of this movement conveniently look past the extreme far right organizers and tolerated participants in for the ride.
Definitely not. Long-haul trucker, now there's a dream (if it was anywhere nearly as convenient and easy as $AREA truck simulator $NUMBER which it unfortunately is not).
Lots of players here apparently. Let me share a cool YouTube channel with oldschool Tibia videos for a trip down memory lane:

https://www.youtube.com/c/OldTibiaVideos/videos
Not criticising but what is behind the (feels like extreme) over-representation of aeroplane, aeronautic, airline industry in the HN topic rotation?
The BLM protests had stronger state resistance because they caused millions in property damage and at least a dozen deaths. So yeah it’s not the same at all.
Looks like you had a great trip to SZ. Did Seeed take care of the plastic parts too, or was that a separate cm?
What I really hope is that we torn down 230 protection with these decisions. You stop providing service based on choice. You are fully responsible for everything else.

Make it fair free market to play. No more discrimination on anything. Only court orders to take down stuff.
I feel silly because I don't understand the joke.
Really? String algorithms (in the stringology / compressed data structures sense) are the foundation of virtually every operation in genomics that interacts with raw data. Have you ever aligned a sequence?

Regexes are not important. But they are a tiny bit of string algorithms.
> They also took a dump of all donors info and are only offering it to journalists and researchers

It's crime in the name of politics. Note how most of the 'leaks' (hacks) on their main page are against a specific perceived political leaning [1]. This will not just affect the freedom convoy, but also the company, the other campaigns they host there, the livelihoods and safety of those who donated to the freedom convoy, and countless other casualties. Having a board of advisors that they selected, but do not have to listen to, does not mean they are acting ethically [2].

> I can't believe the number of people celebrating this, its absolutely crazy to me.

CNN analyst Juliette Kayyem [3] tweeted [4]:

"The convoy protest, applauded by right wing media as a "freedom protest," is an economic and security issue now. The Ambassador Bridge link constitutes 28% of annual trade movement between US and Canada. Slash the tires, empty gas tanks, arrest the drivers, and move the trucks"

The irony is, these people who are celebrating the hacks that target working class truckers, will also be the most affected in their isolated concrete fortresses, if they were to lose their jobs. The food won't deliver itself to the city. They clearly preferred the truckers when they were seen but not heard.

> So many people liberally throwing around the word "nazi" and calling this an insurrection, just completely boggles the mind.

Hopefully more people question "official media authorities", the framing bias on this story has simply been insane. The past 2/3 years has been a large social experiment in media-based manipulation. Name a single government that has not exerted pressure to affect the publication of materials related to COVID.

[1] https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Distributed_Denial_of_Secrets

[2] https://ddosecrets.com/wiki/Frequently_Asked_Questions

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliette_Kayyem

[4] https://twitter.com/juliettekayyem/status/149175716730890240...
Yes, why the derision? Why is there anything to deride about any of those things?
If you're trying to craft attacks you should execute them on a private network and not the public testnets, as people monitor the testnets and will copy your attacks if they see you exploiting the corresponding testnet contract of a mainnet dApp. I suppose that means the testnets are already a kind of adversarial environment.
*billions
Raspberry Pi HAT features high-frequency RFID reading at up to 200 tags/SEC
Problem of a coordination, google it
Treason?
> What that means is that it is now possible to run virtually any operating system including Windows 11, Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Arch Linux Arm on the Google Tensor-powered phone, and do so at near-native speed.

Native as in Windows on ARM native? I held Surface Pro X in a shop and man was it disappointing.
Nope, but I also don't collapse threads.
Maybe I'm just old-school, but I expect when I visit a site I'm leaking some PII (my IP address) to every router between my client and latimes.com to do with as they will.

I wouldn't necessarily expect the CCP to be involved unless Internet routing is having a very bad day, but I'd expect the American government to be involved when hitting an American server.
>Windows/386 was the first version to do that,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEMM was earlier
Nobody heckled me when I went out for runs…

Wow, what did you get called? Did you say, “We should talk about the trade-offs of the lockdown”?
Right, and the fact that there is a popular TV show depicting such a stereotype is some amount of evidence that the original claim that "tech bro" and "white man" are wrongly conflated is wrong.

Search "tech bro" -tv -hbo and you get similar results:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22tech+bro%22+-tv+-hbo&tbm=...

If anything, especially on the first page, the images get a little whiter when you add -tv -hbo to the search string.
The comment I was replying to was suggesting to trust a server in a federated architecture. I pointed out that it's not that easy for 99% users.

On the other hand, I don't need to trust Signal's servers, by design, thanks to E2EE.
IIRC they were worried that the private company would be able to patent the results and make the data proprietary.
I find it weird to say someone is "shoehorning a chat room" onto a protocol that was designed for one-to-many communication. If anything, we've shoehorned a notification system onto a chatroom.
This is actually amazing!
Tableau is great, but that initial fee, while being peanuts in terms of absolute IT spend, has been a blocker getting it rolled out in one large BI team I worked with.

The backstory was a large BI team having no proper tools for reporting, except maybe Looker for tabular KPI reports. So any addition of Tableau was an all our nothing buy, every single analyst or whoever on the BI team needed a seat, even though most of them wouldn't ever use it. For that matter 95 percent of the BI team would never move away from Excel. Anyway, the costs were huge for something that should have been a leap in capabilities.
> sauntering around like it owned the place

They do!
> If all you want is a roof over your head, why not rent? It's less risky.

Renting is far more risky. You never know when and how much it will increase every year.

If you buy something (condo, or house) you now know what your "rent" will be for the next 30 years, it's never going up.
Do we have a ruling that IP address alone isn't PII? I thought the opposite was true.

https://www.fieldfisher.com/en/services/privacy-security-and...
“ Windows XP moved to the NT kernel, whose primary difference was moving away from a monolithic kernel to a hybrid kernel. With MS-DOS, the kernel and operating system exists completely within the kernel space. Windows NT uses a safer structure, where the kernel is split between the kernel space and the user space.”

Yeah, that’s not what a hybrid kernel entails, and that is certainly not the primary difference between DOS and NT. I had to stop reading.
Near-Field Communication
Diagnostic logging is ok as long as you have a sane retention policy.
It can solve escrow, if you trust the blockchain will last long enough.
I've taken several over the years where nothing was needed except telling the doctor or psychiatrist that "yep things are still the same". Adderall, Ritalin, Lexapro, Trazadone, Xanax, Gabapentin, and more all fit in this category for me personally
> Home ownership is also throwing a lot of money away

It doesn't matter how much overhead it has in a vacuum. What matters is how much goes to overhead when compared to renting, which is the only other choice (other than being homeless).
You said "No." but went on to completely agree with his statement.
This is very much like me. Going through same process until it gets into the head. However, I feel like I need to remember some fundamentals every now and then. As time passes, our brain can barely hold enough information.

I do not want to lose what I know. So, I am stuck in this limbo of retaining what I learnt and using it. Because not everything I learnt gets used everytime at all!

It happens over different period of time. And when it happens, it just sucks not remembering these!

Most relevant: DSA and interviews.
The tide is noticeably turning in the last month or so though.
Yes, they are making such attempts, but not by enforcing some ratio and denying white-owned companies, but by reaching out and creating themed groups that try to cater to disadvantaged groups and help them where possible. They just provide a little more help/resources to them, which is how it should be done IMHO.
There are two sides to every story.

I'd prefer to reserve judgment on this until I can clearly see both sides.

I feel both sides could be as wrong as each other, both seem quite harsh, and uncalled for.

Also, the author describes themselves as an "activist", this sets off alarm bells.
Have you ever been through a contentious divorce?

Specifically one where the other party is laying claim to assets you earned?

In these type situations, an asset that:

1) no one knows you own

2) even if people know you own them, can't be seized short of torturing you to regurgitate the password

3) can be transferred to any person of your choosing and in any jurisdiction of your choosing in a matter of minutes.

seems pretty darn useful.
So yes then? You think, it’s fine to attack and celebrate someone’s website that you don’t like being breached because somehow they have attracted other people you don’t like?

Oh dear. Just as extreme as hacktivist groups like Anonymous then who everyone knows that they are on no-one’s side.
You could run linux before. With qemu. It was a crappy experience. Even writing on a touchscreen is bad and when the window is tiny and you barely see the letters is even worse. Of course you can hook a wireless keyboard and mouse but then better go to the PC which has even a bigger screen.

I really don't see what this brings. Is google so lost that the only "innovation" they can bring in android is descovering that the linux kernel has support for virtualization ?
The BLM riots were applauded and supported by huge portions of the American political and media class, including Kamala Harris who encouraged people to donate to the rioters' bail funds.

Multiple people were killed at CHAZ in Seattle and the organizer of that insurrection (which was as close to the dictionary definition of an insurrection as they come) suffered no legal consequences and is now selling T-shirts.

You call that "state resistance"?
The property damage was mostly malls and stores, which I’m sure you know, is what people were using to work and get paid.

And it’s not just “property damage” - they burnt those businesses to the fucking ground.
It's a fair criticism. But the reverse is also true, in that money is frictionless to raise and coordinate in cryptocurrencies, such as the $45M attempt at buying a copy of the Constitution (which failed, but people simply got a refund), or the $56M that was raised for Julian Assange's defense last week.

I'm able to work with total strangers, raise money, sell products, contribute to causes, commission art work etc, etc, hold those funds in a smart contract treasury and encode rules to govern the spending of those funds.

Safe guards do exist for the aforementioned issue. Number one is not holding significant sums of money in a single wallet, unless it's a multi-sig that requires multiple parties to agree to transactions (like Gnosis Safe wallets, which store $100B+ in assets and are battle tested at this point).
Right: even with current limits, I spend a completely unreasonable amount of time glancing at the speedo, worrying about if I'm going over the limit and trying to shepherd the speed within the limit, rather than paying more attention to the traffic conditions around me. This is actually much worse on 20 roads that are converted from 30s by just swapping the signs: they were specifically designed for higher speed, so it's a constant, conscious effort to keep the speedo in mind and sight and carefully not drive to the road.

I feel that this is something people didn't have to do so much: with an analogue speedo, you can't really see your speed to 2 sig figs while driving, with a digital one, you know if you're at 20 or 23 (after your car speedo error, obviously). The implication is that it previously wasn't so important to drivers.
Go to /r/ottawa. Read the megathreads on what's going on. Maybe you'll start to understand why many are celebrating this hack. Why so many Ottawans are very angry about what's going on.

There's been non-stop noise at all hours. Residents downtown who've faced constant harassment. Attempts made by the occupiers to lock residents in. Businesses forced to shut. Roadways and highways blocked for days. They're terrorizing the residents of downtown. And in the face of all of this, the police have essentially surrendered.

They're calling for Trudeau to be overthrown and arrested. They're not only occupying the center of the capital, they spent 6 days blocking the most important economic transport line in Canada. They've blockaded border points in the West too. Closing some essential crossings. If this was a poor, developing nation, you'd be labeling this as an insurrection. And you'd be correct.

And about the nazi thing, yeah, that's probably an accurate label. Many of the leadership are white supremacists. The connections to far right groups are clear. Hell, there's many of these idiots carrying Confederate flags in Canada of all places. If you're proudly waving the Confederate flag in 2022 in a place that's far far from the South, I think it's pretty clear what you support.

And on top of all that, there's clear evidence much of this was engineered by people in the United States. From the near constant Trump flags flown in the occupation, to the trail of money, to the organizational efforts spearheaded by Americans. Not to mention the organization done in FB groups led by hacked accounts.* There was some serious effort put into this. The fundraising hack will give a little sunlight into those efforts. Not enough sunlight, but it's a start.

Seriously, start reading about what the people of Ottawa have endured for the past 3 weeks. You apparently have no knowledge of this. Get back to me and tell me "who the bad guys really are here."

* - And do look into the weirdness of the FB organizing. Some Canadian journalists have dug into it. They wondered why the more popular Canadian trucker FB groups had a woman from Missouri as the only admin. And then they discovered the woman from Missouri hasn't been in control of her account for several months now.

https://www.grid.news/story/misinformation/2022/02/08/the-ha...
Early(ish) adopter here(circa 2013): initially it was a way for nerds who didn’t have street connections to buy drugs. Then it morphed into the biggest, most decentralized multi-level marketing speculative asset class in the history of the world.

The narrative behind crypto reminds me a lot of gold bugs who rave on and on and on about how defective the existing fiat monetary system is , in hopes to push up the fiat prices of their asset.

Every speculative asset needs to have a narrative tied to it to help newcomers rationalize buying in their fomo. (Look at GME, louisiana bonds etc etc etc).
That doesn’t mean that it’s not a good tool to make a quick buck if your timing is right.
> World War II didn’t have gas [...]

Ummm, what now? 6 million Jews and other groups would disagree with that.

Ok, I'm being a little quippy, obviously you weren't referring to the Holocaust, rather to the actual war. But I think there are actual reasons the world bans certain forms of warfare. They really are worse, in various ways. E.g. chemical weapons, as far as can tell, are worse to die from than a gunshot, leave more and worse long-term damage for people that didn't die, are worse to watch so leave worse psychological damage to survivors, etc. The world largely agrees that this is a more barbaric way to kill someone.

And you know what? The world coming together to decide that some things are too barbaric, so we won't use them, is a pretty good outcome. Less ways to kill each other is a good thing! I wish people extended this to more forms of warfare, not less.

(There are also game-theoretic reasons to police certain things more than others. You can't possibly ban every form of warfare, at least now - but if everyone agrees to be super-harsh against anyone using certain methods, we can at least stop those methods from being used. Just a diffuse "super harsh on anyone doing warfare" isn't feasible and won't have an affect, but a directed "super harsh on anyone using chemical weapons" actually might lower the body count, which again, is a good thing!)
If you think it's so easy, maybe you should do it to demonstrate.

If you mean that it'll become easy enough over time, that's an assumption I don't buy.
I wonder if it would be possible to hear ciliates buzzing around.
If it bothers you that thousands of people are not working or getting paid, wait till you learn what Western governments did in 2020.
I know there is no reason languages have to be standardized and anyway I am not a native English speaker but Google translate renders different pronunciations (at least in my ears) for Oryx and Aurochs.

Do English (and derivatives) natives agree that both words sound the same?
Or, it's entirely possible that the hippies had some good ideas, mixed in with some bad ideas, and overlaid by a generally hopeless lack of actionable strategy that prioritized individualistic self-actualization over collective action. Thus, the hippies were a red herring, a useless nostrum, another layer of control.

https://gravityglobal.com/news/the-death-of-subculture-part-...

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/adam-curtis-on-hyperno...

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/adam-curtis-bbc-cant-get-you...