skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone remembers when Krebs doxxed the admin of cock.li because they disagreed with Krebs on spamhaus' black listing policy?

I don't shed a tear for that person though, as someone who has gotten about three dozens of murder threats that were sent through their service.

cock.li is an awful service that serves no legitimate purpose other than enabling people to cause harm. The admin should have been arrested at 36c3 by the police instead of simply been booted out for his neo-Nazi domain names, but unfortunately our police is incredibly incompetent.
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Erowid is an amazing force for good in the world. It is a reminder of what the internet is philosophically capable of.
The 15-minute city is a dead end – Cities must offer opportunity for everyone
Airbus Flies an A380 on 100% Used Cooking Oil
John, don't call other people's opinions dumb, just because you disagree. Encourage dialogue, not hostility.

While I'm against walled gardens, I can see why these companies want to keep them closed. And if I'd work for e.g. snap, I would probably have this opinion as well.

Sawing off the branch you are sitting on is usually not a good idea.
It's very recent, wich is the point of my post, we lost so much time with meaningless things
> If you have three local objects that are 8 bytes, 16 bytes, and 32 bytes… if you do a single 48 byte allocation on the TLAB, how can the GC possibly know that there are three distinct objects, when it comes time to collect the garbage?

Because the objects are self-describing - they have a class which tells you their size.

object_a = tlab
object_a.class = ClassA
object_b = tlab + 8
object_b.class = ClassB
object_c = tlab + 16
object_c.class = ClassC
tlab += 48
check tlab limit
PDFs can support tables of contents with labeled chapters and sections. Not sure if the feature is standardized, but it's there.
How Ukraine’s Internet still works despite Russian bombs, cyberattacks
Ah, the Streisand Effect[1]

Anyone else here who would have remained ignorant of this all absent this lawsuit?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Even before DingTalk became a popular app I found working in China that most work-related communication happened on WeChat, regardless of whether that was company policy or not. Because I chose not to join all the informal WeChat groups, I often ended up missing out on context during live incidents/escalations and being bypassed on technical decisions. One of the things I found most frustrating working there is that nobody ever wanted to summarize the situation in email or even on a wiki page. It felt to me like people were deliberately avoiding leaving a paper trail around why decisions were made or who held the responsibility.
What is a plumber paid for? You tell him you'd like a sink installed somewhere and he installs it. He isn't paid more if the sink is used to wash the hands of surgeons operating on orphans or never used it all. He is paid on the basis of, you want a sink and he knows how to install them.
Mostly yes. There are some races, particularly when services are deleted. A delete hint is actually authoritative.
> Democratic virtues like the supremacy of law, independent courts, and the protection of human rights are all important

cough, Canada, cough

The problem with your whole point of view is that there's quite a few so-called democracies that are not behaving like democracies anymore, making your whole point moot.
Interesting, I'm wondering why they didn't even mention this availability in their website, I would have turned on that setting just to farm more data for their app.
It's very similar to the relationship between Apple or Microsoft and developers for their platforms. In those cases if your product makes sense as a component of the OS, or is a table stakes application that the platform vendor can't leave to third parties, then you're in trouble. Outside that, they actually need you to enrich and expand their ecosystem.
Yeah, we should not strive for transparency everywhere, but for those in power. More power = more possibilities for corruption = should be more accountable. Ability to do SOME level of against-law things should be upheld, because law itself is not perfect and doesn't predict every situation.
Sure, if a PoC for a decent and transparent approach is released I will adapt this statement. Never did I claim that it can't be done. Until then, not so much.

I'm not a big fan of the common "it could work nicely if its just done well" in a world where nobody really does it well.
> But poor people are not a source of corruption, because they don't have resources to corrupt officials

Any policeman in a third-world country taking a random 10 dollars equivalent on the street from a random street vendor would disagree. Just because that kind of corruption hardly is world-changing does not mean it doesn't happen - I'd even wager that most global corruption is small-scale, low-amount by relatively poor people towards relatively low-ranking officials.
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I mean, no, defamation laws are a thing.
I comment occasionally on how much better people at my office sound when using their airpod pros rather than the headsets others use. I don’t hear the background noise and they just sound so much better.

Multiple times I have thought about pushing to get all of the Mac users a set as it is just so much of a night and day difference.
Yeah DingTalk is a weird one. Weird in a good way. It doesn't necessarily fit with western business bureaucracy but I found it giving me ideas for throwing together temporary groups of consultants that function for a 3-9 month period. Will be interested to see what they add for tax reporting functionality here in the west. If they make that as seamless it may be something that I pick up and use. An interesting idea.
Elevating the Helium Network with New Helium Inc Name and Series D
So it’s like AOL and AIM but with more features.
ADHD is quite badly named imo. It's not so much a deficit of attention but a disregulation. If you are interested in something then you can invoke an almost obsessive fixation on the task (hyperfocus I believe some people call it) which lends itself well to coding in certain conditions.
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In one hand, in a globalized market this is backwards. In the other hand, for less popular technologies this could be very interesting.
Not necessarily that it is more important, but it isn’t there at all.
If you could just go ahead and win this for us, Krebs. Yeah, that'd be great.

Ubiquiti must have solid ground to be dragging themselves into this mess? I mean, from one side - it looks like a lot of people are on Krebs side, awesome. But, from another - no one at Ubiquity expected some kind of a pushback?
When is C++ higher-performance than Rust?
Might I suggest that rigging an economy so that honest people cannot prosper from work does excuse corruption, but that the underlying policy is intended to make everyone complicit in massive corruption at the highest level?
I wouldn't call pairing up with a new hire "pair programming" in the strict sense of the term. That's just regular onboarding/mentorship.
> I'm shocked this manager didn't have you fired

I'm shocked this sir-yes-sir mentality still lingers around in 2022

doing what you're told is for robots, most of the managers I had should thank me that I did not do exactly what they asked and saved their stupid asses .

If I did what they wanted, they would be the ones to be fired for giving stupid directives that failed miserably.
I don't think they're saying they can learn them all. Just the next one, if it can be applied to an interesting problem.
"Slowly abandoning capabilities that your body used to have" is inevitable. Everyone will do this at a different rate and on a different time profile, but everyone will do it, and everyone will eventually reach capability = zero.
“The whole function of war is an abhorrent practice in human society. And technology is not going to sanitize that.”

Look at what happened with our computers. They are already doing that abhorrent war against their own users because of propriety nature of both of all the most popular pieces of software and all the most popular piece of hardware.
Tried to make it in academia, got nowhere (his field of study was theoretical and not trendy), ended up joining Google where he is now underemployed.
Agree - and from statistics we know the long-end of the distribution tail (i.e. smaller impacts) in aggregate can have power. To be clear I am not disputing wealthy people can be corrupt I'm saying that it's widespread amongst humanity and not one group of individuals.
Don’t bother. You may have dodged a bullet.
> like people were deliberately avoiding leaving a paper trail

I highly doubt that messages are actually being deleted from the system - that's rather an expensive affair and not fashionable from state security point of view. For example, if there has been an act of sabotage, having access to those ephemeral messages may be crucial to catch perpetrators.
I feel like "The findings add further weight to the idea of mix-and-match boosting" is a dangerous assumption by the reporter. What if boosting with the other vaccine leaves you with too little left of vaccine-A, and not enough of vaccine-B?
The one way you could win at this is if you have advocates at a higher level in the organization and even then you are going to do your best if you go at this with extreme tact… like getting a position somewhere else in the hierarchy.
If I understand correctly, there's a real edge case going on here: Everything Krebs reported was simply what he was told by a then high-ranking employee of the company. True, Krebs didn't know this at the time, but I would think it completely exonerates him (otherwise, it would be easy for corporations to destroy journalists they didn't like by having an executive give them false information which they then dutifully report).

Any legal eagles here who can clarify this aspect? Is "I was just repeating what your executive told me" a get-out-of-jail-free card?
My PC had been fine before the updates (hence not updating until I needed some other thing to work), and I'd never seen Search Indexer pop up in Task Manager in any notable way. something tells me that I might just have a broken version of it, and since Windows Update also looks to be a bit broken, I may just be SOL for the near future.

This set of problems may be obviated by actually getting Manjaro to cooperate. It's on the todo list.
It's "easy" when you have no choice, no freedom over how you want to live your life.
El Salvador courts crypto ‘whales’ as traditional investors shun Bitcoin bond
There are alternate sources of propellant in the solar system. Lifting it out of Earths gravity well is relatively expensive. But once you have enough of it, you could start transporting propellant from elsewhere in the solar system and start stockpiling it in strategic orbits around various objects in the solar system. Once you can do that, you'd minimize the launch weight from earth to be able to get to a LEO fueling point and use the weight savings for more interesting cargo.

One industry that could emerge quickly is that of asteroid mining. There are plenty of interesting asteroids with precious metals, water, and other resources. Right now the cost of getting to these asteroids, mining them, and transporting the mined goods back is so expensive in delta-v that it has not been done yet despite several companies having been active planning for this for quite some time.

So, SpaceX getting their star ship going might be a big deal.That enables us getting stuff into space and that enables us bootstrapping mining and construction activity in orbit. Plenty of science fiction books have been written on this. There's no shortage of ideas here.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh `g d` ;_;
For some reason, it's stuck in my head that CSVs can't be streamed, as they cannot be parsed until you have the whole thing, due to the nuance of quotes, excaping, and newlines.

IE

1,2,3

a,b,c

d,e",

"

g,h,i

Or is there a reliable way to know when you have a complete line chunk without the whole file?
There are situations where N disobeys N+1 but N+2 knows the value of N, which makes N+1 unable to fire N.
It would be acceptable if windows search worked well and was fast -- but it's not. I search for something and it still churns the file system looking for my search query. What is the point of all that indexing if it still seems to always traverse the fs for each search!? By comparison, a third party search application [1] gives me results as soon as my key lifts and doesn't excessively index (at least for me).
[1] https://www.voidtools.com/
I use Papermerge, which seems to be a very similar software. Does anyone have experience with both and prefer Paperless?
More on topic, I've experimented some with Glamorous Toolkit, and I really liked what I saw of it, but (somewhat ironically), I need to dive more into its own model and understand it before I can use it for anything real.

For example, I couldn't find docs on its display stack, so when I wanted to display a graph but with images instead of text for the nodes, I got stuck. Sure, I could dive into the code and eventually get something that worked, but I wouldn't be sure I was coding to the API or to the implementation. It crossed over to "playing around with this tool" to "have to do some real work to understand", so I ended up dropping it.
Well, I won't implement such feature since I don't want to be part of a legal dispute.

But I'm working on a feature where you can send content from client side. Meaning you can use any other extensions to modify that page's content[0]. KTool Extension will take that content as input, parse and then send to your Kindle.

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bypass-paywall/kko...
It is possible to be disagreeable in a constructive way, combined with a “disagree-and-commit” attitude where the team’s success is the priority.

However, I agree with you that it is also possible for a bunch of high performing individuals to have toxic personalities and to form a totally dysfunctional team.
Sorry, but just no. Just because someone abuses a service, it doesn't mean that it "serves no legitimate purpose".

You see, people are using Tor to buy drugs and to share child porn. Does that make tor a tool "that serves no legitimate purpose other than enabling people to cause harm"?

I am a happy user of cock.li, because it's one of the only few email providers, which don't require my phone number (unlike gmail, outlook etc). I don't mind that they also offer domains joke domains such as "hitler.rocks", since I know what a joke is.
Their stock tumbled like 20% when this happened, it was pretty well known at the time.
"rest/be assured but ensure" is how I would keep the semantics wordplay, but obviously there's always something lost in translation.
What makes you think that they don't index, track, process and do whatever with these conversations? Just because users don't see it, it does not mean it doesn't happen.
in the case of the parent comment I think he means, literally, having them scale up and down. I mostly have experience with zookeeper and I treat them very very carefully.
Vulnerability in the Combined Charging System for Electric Vehicles
Yes, you could configure your memory maps so they never overlap and then call it a single address space, but if passing pointers between realms doesn't work then why bother? You didn't get any real benefit. The point of using a unified GC is that you can actually do this: just call a method in another protection domain, pass a pointer to a huge object graph, and you're done. There's no need for concepts like SHM segments or IPC marshalling. Even if you segmented your address space and then used classical process-like context switching, you'd still need all those things.
Yes, these all seem like variations on adding different shadows to controls vs flat style. Neat, but not some design manifesto.
Can you point to a Rust alternative to https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtreeview.html ?
Why does Netflix cancel so many shows?
You want the sink because, presumably, not having a sink - or having a broken one, or an ugly one - is a problem for you.

Are we really discussing this?
No, I lost 2 words when rewriting the sentence. What I intended:

Users in Denmark do care: Apple does not support the by far most popular payment card that people use (like 99% of cc payments).
The original article is taking about using Amazon CDN not a VM. When you use this hosting type style you are paying someone else to manage the underlying servers. Same with the people who use S3 or Wordpress or whatever namecheap/godaddy provides for static sites. That’s one of the reasons a VM can be $5 vs a CDN at $50 a month.
It's not for everyone, and honestly that's fine. Not sure why people are ridiculing others for not liking it.
It's still available at this Adobe URL: https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/standards/p... "As distributed by Adobe after adoption as ISO 32000-1:2008, with permission of ISO." [0]

Not to mention ISO unsurprisingly host it, which I would also consider authoritative: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:32000:-1:ed-1:v1:en

[0] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002...
I have no doubt that the government is able to get logs of WeChat messages going back who knows how long, but I was speaking in the context of the workplace. When business decisions are made on WeChat, the longer in the past they are, the more difficult it is for other employees to scroll back and find out why they happened. This problem is exacerbated when there are dozens of informal WeChat groups that may or may not include certain people depending on the internal politics of the organization. It's a culture of ass-covering and secrecy that feels uncomfortable to me, although perhaps that's just part of living and working in an authoritarian country.
"10 cans of baked beans" vs "A gorilla"

A real stumper there, gotta check my math on baked bean can sizes!
That's useless advice. Even Webcams from laptops as older as 6 years may still not work under Linux. Anything which has an Intel webcam for example is almost guaranteed not to work, outside of perhaps a couple of popular models (like MS Surface devices, and then not precisely "out of the box").

The rule still is to get either a Linux-supported or at least a Linux-popular laptop, even if it's more expensive or doesn't match all your features/requirements. Then it doesn't matter whether it's 6 years old or brand new. It will work.

i.e. it's more important for it to be Lenovo and the correct line than the age. But not all Lenovo are equal. T/P stuff is likely supported out of the box even if brand new. X depends on popularity of the model. Tablets/IdeaPad stuff.... look elsewhere. (Lenovo is just an example, leaving other brands for the reader).
Bad take. Although there are decent wealthy people, the proportions are different. The correlation between material success and human decency is negative and this needs to be known; indeed, one of the most important cultural battles in this war with Capital is to correct the biases many people hold that enable them to believe their ruling class is somehow "different". It's not.

Saying that there are some non-wealthy people who are also horrible, something we already know, is classic what-aboutism.

People who thrive in managerial hierarchies (private sector bureaucracies) tend not to be the best among us. Rather, they tend to be the cancer cells of the human species. They are individually fit at the expense of the organism, and while we might hope for a future in which the matter is different, right now the best tools we have to deal with them (e.g., chemotherapy, radiation) are blunt, destructive, and unfortunately quite brutal.
Or they're just hoping to be acquired by SpaceX, like Swarm Technologies?
Quoting Tony Benn:

In the course of my life I have developed five little democratic questions. If one meets a powerful person--Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates--ask them five questions: “What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?” If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.
Ok, so it’s not as simple as bumping the TLAB pointer by 48. Which was my point. You see how that’s multiple times as expensive as stack allocating that many variables? Even something as simple as assigning the class to each object still costs something per object. The stack doesn’t need self describing values because the compiler knows ahead of time exactly what every chunk means. Then the garbage collector has to scan each object’s self description… which way more expensive than stack deallocation, by definition.

You’re extremely knowledgeable on all this, so I’m sure that nothing I’m saying is surprising to you. I don’t understand why you seem to be arguing that heap allocating everything is a good thing. It is certainly more expensive than stack allocation, even if it is impressively optimized. Heap allocating as little as necessary is still beneficial.
I believe their complaint is that Krebs has never issued a retraction or clarified that his original article is false and that his source was the hacker. Even in his update article he uses wording to make it sound like his source and the guy arrested were two different people.
The below comment seems like solid ground to me but I don't think it will stick

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30850416#30851334
I presume the $500 Million you are talking about are these? [1]

I don't see a connection to AP.

As far as I know, and I am willing to change my mind if you demonstrate it, the Associated Press is a non-profit news agency and the members are U.S. newspapers and broadcasters. It is generally respected, for example is the only organization that verifies election results in the United States.

I think your argument would be stronger if you would address
the facts in the article.

[1] "Congress Proposes $500 Million for Negative News Coverage of China"
https://prospect.org/politics/congress-proposes-500-million-...
Sorry I completely disagree with your view. It doesn't stack against how I've seen the world work.

I think you are talking in very broad brushes with terms like wealthy and poor people. I will say that across the distribution of wealth corruption happens at all levels. I am not disagreeing that some wealthy people are corrupt but your notion that they are the only corrupt people is ridiculous.
simple idea executed well, that's what makes the best games, maybe this will be the next wordle? :)
And those who don't usually get kicked out.

I used to know a couple former state senators who played key roles in getting a prominent state senator of the opposite party convicted for corruption. They immediately lost support of their own party and were voted out. One of them was badly frightened in the process and dropped out of the public eye entirely.

They had a lot to say about the workings of our legislature, including that the conflict between parties was largely a sham, and that if you wanted to stay in office, you participated in the quiet deals by which they all divided up the spoils.
Masks work. I haven't even had a head cold in 2 years, and I'm not alone in that. This feels like when Windows advocates say something about how Linux doesn't do X or is slow doing X, and it's just wrong. Personal experience says exactly the opposite.

Saying that masks did nothing real makes everything else you wrote suspect.
Choosing your own pay, how does this work?