skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like a journalistic nightmare.

The original article[0] seems perfectly fine. But, if "Adam" (original informant) and Sharp are the same person[1] and Sharp is in fact the person who perform the breach such that this is an inside job instead of an external hack.

IANAL and while I'm not sure of the merit to this lawsuit itself, there's still a lot of problems if your informant is the person performing the illegal activity.

[0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-b...

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/12/ubiquiti-developer-charg...
The crypto part adds nothing to this process. There are already very efficient systems for exchanging one fiat currency for another without going through crypto.
I agree, but the tenant seems to believe the landlord will retaliate instead of being thankful. In my contracts I make it crystal clear the tenants have a responsibility to inform me ASAP about any water issues. However, I also try to be a very understanding landlord.
Someone's pocket is going to get fat, but I highly doubt that any real competitiveness can come out of it.

As any government subsidy, it usually not only does not bring the desired result, but whatever it does bring costs much more than any free market participant would be willing to pay for it. Unless that is subsidised as well.

China very successfully was able to reduce whole industries to nothing by subsidising those industries in China and subsidising the price of their output. One example is Rare Earth, there used to be some production of those things outside of China, there are none today. Want a magnet for your motor? China!
It’s disappointing to hear that Ubiquity is engaging in this behavior. I’ve enjoyed and recommend their Amplifi products in the past, but it will be much more difficult for me to consider supporting them in the future. I wonder how their PR team determined this would help their image and reputation.
So if some outsider leaked a confidential document from your employer and you posted it on Twitter you'd be fine because "it's not related to your work"?

I somehow doubt it.
Did the Board of Directors approve all of that?
> Why is a NON-MILITARY BODY the target here? Yes, Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine and shelling, shooting, and (maybe) kidnapping Ukrainian citizens BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN that you stoop to their level and also target Russian civilians via these types of attacks

That ship has long sailed. By design, many of the sanctions imposed on Russia are intended to hurt the average Russian citizen. The point is to affect Russia's economy to the point that they are no longer able to wage an effective war.

> What does a random Russian citizen who needs to fly between A and B have to do with Putin's war in Ukraine?

They pay taxes and contribute to the Russian economy. However indirectly, they are funding the war effort against Ukraine.

> It's not like they have a choice; so why attack people trapped by the circumstances of the country they were born in?

No, they still have a choice, just not a good one. But ultimately, the Russian people are responsible for their government. If not them, then who?

> We saw this retaliatory revenge-driven behavior after Germany invaded Russia in WW2. Germany committed unspeakable acts against the Russian population on their march to Moscow and when the tide turned and Russia reached German territory the Russians did the same thing. Both were disgusting and the result of both was the bloodiest theatre of the war for both the military AND civilians: German and Russian both. Civilians being arbitrarily killed, women raped, and overall people massacred.

Equating economic sanctions against Russia to the mass rape and pillaging that occurred during WW2 is a little bit disingenuous isn't it? Plus, consider the actions that the Russian armed forces are carrying out against Ukrainian civilian population.

Ultimately, it doesn't much matter why Russia's population supports the war -- be it thru fear, or through faith in their cause. Until the war ends, Russia will be a target, and the Russian people along with it because they are Russia.

> This is disgusting

I think invading another country and killing thousands of their citizens is disgusting. Where is your outrage over that?
Yeah. I see (1) and (2) as instances of the same basic problem, and (3) as mostly a non-problem (like, you do the best you can to get compromise recovery from a CSPRNG, you don't do nothing, but you don't hold up progress on it).

But from my read of the backstory here, the problem is userland regressions on (1) and (2), and I buy that you simply can't have those.
When did Binance start to accept the Syrian Pound? This is just the usual hand-waving that ignores all the inconvenient details.
Could you point to something specifically that comes off as:

* meaningless corporate jargon
* silly and insecure
* corporate kool-aid

I will gladly revise so I don't come off that way.

For the "work-a-loholics" comment, I certainly am a workaholic and you can easily find that online. I don't apologize for it, and I don't mind if others aren't but it will be a problem if that fact makes you salty. I'm doing a lot of shit, and I'm not sorry if that makes you insecure in yourself, although I do hope you work through that for your own benefit.

> have bullet points of your biggest weaknesses or eccentricities and other actionable info

The point of this document is to respond to someone who already wants to work with me and get signal through our hiring process to know if I should refer them in (ideally quickly). Highlighting my biggest weaknesses (something you can Google for - I'm very open about myself) feels off topic and doesn't seem to actually solve anyone's pain points (mine or the candidate's).

That said, I have been told that I can be long-winded in my writing, so it's valuable to get that feedback. I will take a stab at cutting as much fluff as possible - thank you!
Facebook pretty much gutted their API after privacy issues surfaced, predictable that people would stop building apps on their "platform"
> Businesses can, and do, regularly hire employees that bring in zero or negative value. Often, these people will make up more than 50% of the company by headcount, and the only reason the company still turns a profit is because their existence is subsidised by a small minority of hyper-productive people.

I think at this point it's unfair if we were to say the specific people are the issue. A big business has a lot of required components in order to keep running, and some of them are not directly revenue generating, but you still need most of them. That's a value of small companies, being so lean you can be hyper-focused and efficient. Bigger companies can perform at scales smaller ones can't, but that comes at the cost of inefficiencies of orchestrating the bigger operation. Just getting all the people aligned to do the things the business needs them to do is a huge and messy cost that smaller companies don't have, but it's required else your conglomerate would fall apart.
You must be against end-to-end encryption for chat messages too. Think about how the terrorists and pedophiles can take advantage of that!
I think having other commitments is the only real way to work less. Make evening plans and weekend plans with other people for example.
ubiquiti also has a very poor recent track record of EOLing products and making it near impossible to use - earlier generation security cameras and unifi wireless APs, for instance, which still work perfectly fine. But now it's an incredible hassle to find the linux packages to install on your own hardware to host the controller for them.

they also had (maybe still have) such poor internal controls that they got spearphished to the tune of $46 million in wire transfer: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ubiquit...

you know that something has gone wrong with a tech company when the founder's ego has inflated to the size that they think the best thing in life to do is buy a professional basketball team.
Crypto is not untraceable.

Crypto is useless unless converted into cash which requires identifying yourself.

Said WSBer could just take your tips and keep all the money.
I found this youtube channel to be quite nice: https://www.youtube.com/c/CJAvilla
Sorry OOT, would you mind commenting this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30797582, thanks
I'm sure you also boycott people who promote war-criminals and genocidaires like Churchill and the many other criminals of the Anglo-American Empire right ?

Thought not.
yeah, I think know what you mean. you see the errors in the details and can't appreciate the vibe
Note to self: don't buy Ubiquity gear, they must be incompetent, going after the messenger of their own incompetence.
Can you recommend a good alternative for their APs in a home office environment?
> At least now I can comfortably work on Apple Silicon without losing my VMware library.

Adding an intel NUC to a MacBook Air probably increases the weight – and reduces the time you can run your VMs on battery.
While there have been remote exploits against exposed management ports, the vast majority of compromised Mikrotik devices are caused by insecure configurations by users. Mikrotik is huge in the smaller ISP world and especially in developing countries due to the low cost, but those users are not always the most security conscious.
If I block a person how does that affect your ability to see that person's dissenting opinions?
> Is Kaspersky a dirtbag or not? I suspect not, but it is an unfortunate accident he was born in and runs his company from Russia, the government of which is a dirtbag, so, correct me if I am wrong, Kaspersky must be a dirtbag by association [...].

Even if he is not a dirtbag, being in Russia means Putin has power to use Kaspersky technology in war.
Fooling? Well, it forces people to drive slower or pay out of pocket for the privilege. Those who can't afford it will have to slow it down naturally. So, it doesn't fix the real problem of making roads safer for higher speed driving but the symptom of roads being unsafe at higher speeds. From a city/state/etc level this pays for itself and probably then some where as the alternative of better roads is pure cost with the benefits not being an item on the yearly audit.
The current address holding the funds: https://etherscan.io/address/0x098b716b8aaf21512996dc57eb061...
Upsetting since I just bought into the Ubiquiti system...What competitor is the best alternative?
> Welp @briankrebs
is getting pride of place in my RSS reader for the next decade based upon this.
It was going well until the last step so that's clearly a bug! From looking quickly, it should have said "go radar chat", and I'll fix that up.

"go radar chat" does the right thing and navigates directly. Sorry it stuffed up the prompt to use and will fix that up.

Also, it looks like it's not picking up your site image. The results look really great with a card image. If you've got any sort of image definition in meta data it should really do that. Should there be o:g tags there? Possibly the live content retrieval is getting blocked (cloudflare blocks us sometimes).

Thanks sincerely for trying out Andi and letting us know about the mistake!
Yes, I think that ultimately the solution is to remove entropy counting entirely.
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Their devices have some cool features that make them useful to bad guys. But to be vulnerable you have to:

open the management ports up to the internet (not the default)
and
be running a firmware prior to April 2018 (or be using a default password)
You're cherry picking the easy cases.

Of course, most people can muster the strength to choose to pass on the desert or the tryst. I think the parent is referring to the hard cases, where, only in retrospect, you have the clarity to see that you made the wrong choice and wish you'd done otherwise.

But of course you can't. And if you rewound the universe to the exact same starting conditions you still couldn't.
Good thing I am in planning phase. I will go see elsewhere.
The bar for defamation in US courts is incredibly high. But it seems like they have a proof that Kerbs knew very much it was not a coverup.
No worries and thanks, I'll check it out!
mikrotik has some pretty good 802.11ac standalone APs, such as this: https://mikrotik.com/product/cap_ac

for home use at this point I would also recommend mikrotik routers over anything ubiquiti edgeOS based, since they seem to have abandoned development on their fork of vyatta... the $50 edgerouter-x (ER-X) as a standalone wired gigabit router was a good choice in 2017 but not so much anymore.
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It’s a database that stores tensors and their extrapolations.

> For instance, the system could enable a nonexpert to predict future stock prices with high accuracy in just a few minutes, even if the time-series dataset contains missing values.

I think this says about as much about the article as needed to draw a conclusion about its usefulness.
For better or worse, the relevant authorities in the US already have very well-established processes for figuring out what kinds of institutions (and even what specific graduate programs) "count" for different kinds of student visas, and so I would imagine that for this new visa category they would build on that existing foundation. Your fake-PhD business would need to deal with accreditation etc., and then compliance and overhead issues thereof- and that is A Whole Thing (ask me how I know).
> Nothing is going to come out of this.

How much would it cost to make it go away? If it's going to cost millions of dollars, the defendant is toast regardless.
Posting undoctored pictures of Hunter Biden smoking crack got me insta suspended.

Posting undoctored pictures of Biden being creepy with kids got me insta suspended too, for "depictions of child sexual abuse" lmao.

I wonder how deeply they check. In China you can't post pictures of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Photos will get instantly deleted (with eventual bans), even if you flip them or insufficiently add artifacts. Blurring/darkening corners seemed to do the trick.
They can’t with fiat currency either, if they could crime would be almost impossible.
> You don't need the whole world, just the exchanges.

But there are a whole world of exchanges. Anyone can make an exchange. Any one can also trade in person.
Docket for the case: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63193711/federal-trade-...

Dang - it might be nice to include this in the "Related" comment pinned to the top, it's just the "level up in the filesystem" above the courtlistener link you already have in it.
I never understand people who make this argument. Everyone has choice, go buy an Android phone and install/customize whatever you want. Apple has chosen what parts of their OS and user experience they control versus what part they let the user control. Personally I'm very happy with it because it gives me higher quality apps and some reasonable protection versus the alternative. If your issue is that you don't like where that line is split, fine, then choose a different platform like Android. Now if Android didn't exist, then your argument would hold more water for me.
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I'd be curious to hear from anyone with legal knowledge about the potential consequences (if any) of not swiftly complying with an EDR. I could imagine a scenario where the law was at fault, designed for a world before the internet in which police departments only ever need to subpoena local businesses.

Although, this:

> I bet you if a police department would request some business sensitive information they would not hand it over without going over the subpoena with a fine toothed comb.

is a very salient point.
I love Synology. They have a great mesh offering that can be had cheaply second-hand. Even supports WPA3.
While I understand the intent behind your comment, the only thing that would achieve is to allow people to reverse engineer and discover more vulnerabilities
Which crypto meet all those criteria?
> I think that's a disingenuous reading of Ariel Dorfman's assertion

It wasn't meant as any kind of comment on Dorfman's assertion at all, and even less as a claim that all censorship is equal. Just a factual correction of that assertion, and of the article's title.
so ... Zee Emulates Emacs?
That's what's called "argument by taking the absurd extreme".

Of course there will be a degree of necessary censorship. For example, yes, it is practical to censor the spambots.
It is not true, as both societies with no food have kids and societes with plenty of food don't have kids.

They have only a tenuous correlation at best.
True! But in STEM fields the money to pay for PhD students (tuition, stipends, fees, insurance, etc.) almost always ultimately comes from the Federal government in one form or another. Typically, it'll be paid for out of one of their advisor's grants (which usually are from a Federal source), or sometimes from a training grant of some kind (e.g. an NIH T32 or some such, which is also from a Federal source).
Every couple of years I'm reminded of the scale of the universe and I'm just as shocked every time.
Didn't ruby actually do exactly this though? And it broke a million websites and they changed it back in the next version and have made it explicit ever since? To me that is much stronger evidence than what we think would happen if php did it.
There's never been such a severe shortage of homes in the U.S.
I think this is a common feeling among adolescents and young adults across generations.

My grandparents spent their childhood with bombs falling around them. My parents spent their childhood doing duck-and-cover drills in school.

Betting on future disaster is a losing proposition, though. You could be right or wrong, and you'll lose either way.
What you do is produce an AST where some nodes indicate syntax errors. This works best in languages where it is easy to resynchronize after an error, of course.
I think you need to look at the cost trajectory. ATGMs get cheaper over time as cost of electronics comes down. Tanks get more expensive as they update to more exotic composite armor, active protection systems, fancy sensors etc. Estimates vary, but a new NATO ATGM is probably around ~5% the cost of a new Russian Tank.

A missle can sit on a shelf for years, pop in fresh batteries and it is good to go.

A tank requires frequent maintenance and lots of expensive crew training to be effective.
BLM/antifa protestors burned hundreds of buildings, murdered at least 26 people, including children, harassed people in the middle of the night, tried to declare their own autonomous zone where they robbed business owners. And many people call them peaceful protesters.

Canadian protesters limited their noise to 10pm, didn't burn anything, didn kill anyone. Noise is what I saw from hours of footage. I didn't see harassment, maybe it happened, but it must have been an exceptionally rare thing.

How do you reconcile this?
You are not being censored by society, you are being chucked off someone's platform. You are perfectly free to put up your own website, to disseminate flyers, and to stand in public and yell.

You are not entitled to use other people's platforms. Sorry.

If you feel that they are so central that it's effectively silencing you, it may be that you should put down social media and step outside for a bit. It's not the world. It's not all that important.
> all the special exemptions and trash that just creates loopholes

Big companies pay lobbyists to add these in. It is no accident that these end up in the tax code.
And I assume you are the one who gets to decide what is "necessary" and "unnecessary" censorship?
On the other hand, 55% do.

But with savings accounts yielding sub-1%, I understand the hesitation.
It does seem to be fairly voluntary.

https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/pdf/requests-2020-H...

> An emergency request must relate to circumstances involving imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to any person. If Apple believes in good faith that it is a valid emergency, we may voluntarily provide information to law enforcement on an emergency basis.

I imagine this is a middle ground between 'governments always have instant access to customer info' and 'i don't care, get your warrant', because in the latter scenario real harm can be done in the hour/hours it can take to process even a FISA warrant. With this, Apple can deny requests if there is not obvious imminent harm, while probably pretty good at identifying legitimate requests and delivering helpful information within a few hours to keep lawmakers from creating more types of warrants to force Apple's hand. (apple ~= all the other data providers with an emergency request system)
Look, I understand what you're saying. But I don't mean "learning math", I was referring to a fundamental aspect of someone's personality. If a person is impulsive, then it is hard to become "not impulsive".

If a person has angry tendencies, then it is a struggle to handle that anger. Often people need help (ie. a therapist) to deal with these.

It is my experience that you can't tell someone to "turn your empathy into a superpower" the same way you can't tell them to "turn your anger into a superpower" - it just isn't that easy, takes time and effort.

Yes, it can be done, but success looks more like "I managed my anger so I can live a happier life" instead of "I channeled my anger and became a boxing champion". Think "I managed my empathy and set healthy boundaries". What would 'success' even look like in this context?
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David Graeber and Wengrow cover this extensively in the fascinating book "The Dawn of Everything" where they discuss evidence for huge trade/exchange networks existing across North and Central America. There was an ancient city in Poverty Point, Louisiana, constructed using what can only be fairly sophisticated mathematical knowledge, the same which is known to have been used in other sites in Central America. And collections of materials and objects have been found that must have been brought over distances of thousands of kilometres. All this while there being no evidence for anything that looks like modern "civilisation" or hierarchical social structure.
As somebody who hadn't heard of this before now, the Streisand effect is real.
Thank you, it was! The accompany article is really good, but it is also really depressing to read too :(
love to tell someone who literally wrote a masters thesis on a topic what we need to "simply do" to solve it lol. I almost want to admire the confidence but
Well, Intuit lobbying/bribery has a lot to do with it in the last couple decades.
The president used to have the power to line-item veto but I think it was taken away during or soon after the Clinton era.
Not really. Django already has routing and (obviously) back button functionality. By introducing react you first break it, then you add another library to fix it again. The point is HTMX doesn't break it in the first place.

Not that I'm saying HTMX is better (or worse) than react, but that's what is being discussed here.
I'm halfway through outfitting my parents place with ubiquiti gear (following a successful half year of using in my own home). Now I need to decide whether to ditch what we've already bought, keep using half the gear, and use other companies for the other half, or eat the cost, and get rid of it.

Not a cool move from them.
I'm not particularly anti-crypto but this is probably the worst example ever.

By using crypto the person now has written a public record of that payment. An attacker now can use correlation attacks to try to identify the user.

It's worse in almost every way for that user.
I like this argument more knowing it circles back to the "guess what the IRS knows" game earlier. :)
It's extremely poor on Windows too: I've never seen an app pin all my cores and hit the power limits causing a tailspin to 400 MHz on a modern machine before.