skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am on latest Emacs master with native-comp enabled on a i7 32GB machine. While generally it is fast, it is not fast enough for me for things like editing with LSP enabled. After like an hour of LSP mode on, it becomes jarring and I need to restart it.
> Sure, some of his videos had the odd questionable moment—a video lag here, some dark footage there—but for the most part these queries were far from conclusive proof that he had been cheating, and so nothing ever came of them.

This reminded me of the excellent documentary Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, in which at some point (SPOILER) one of the best (if not the best) arcade game players in the world submits a very suspicious VHS tape of a new record.

If you want to have a deep look into the world of competitive arcade gaming, I strongly recommend this movie. It starts out quite innocent, but gets darker and more insane with every minute.

The full movie is on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXLQqcHcJDQ
https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/43116/did-will...

https://economics.stackexchange.com/a/18992/1601
Those numbers are not random.
I had the same thought. Property inheritance could be a more specific description though?
Don't get me started on "crypto" and "cyber".
It doesn’t look “basically the same” to me.
You should absolutely have concerns with proprietary software from the US but unless you are in a country that is currently in a cold-war relationship with the US the concern is likely VERY different.
>It appears like they're just going through a "rebranding"

IIRC the new company name, Vilic(i)us, describes the position of a "slave overseer" of Roman times. Unfortunately, I cannot find the wikipedia entry for it anymore (possible clean-up job of the new company?).

Edit:

Found it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilicus
Every job I've had they are one and the same. You just have PTO.
Yes, and that is commonly used.

But Linux must continue to work even on VMs without that, and that is the hard part.
Some starting points to some previous messes (just what was quick to find, not the most balanced sources):

https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...

https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/image-board-adm...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/28/the-russian-metadata-i...
I don't see a privacy policy anywhere on the website. Please add one.
Computing becoming infrastructure does indeed changes things. Before the web your computer was just a side gig, a purely fun driven, consequence-less thing. It was mostly static, you bought the thing, the software (or hacked the shareware :) and that's it, nothing on your mind, you booted MSDOS without ever thinking about your password. Now it's part of the socio-economic ocean.. what you use changes due to market dynamics or policies.. obligations, privacy, security. It's obviously a different world.

Reminds me of articles on early amateur radio. It was free-spirited, until society decided it wasn't and now you need licences and it's a business first toy.
Ukraine hasn't acquired NSO Group's software (based on your article) and ultimately it's a seriously corrupt country -- the most corrupt in Europe -- and globally ranks below El Salvador, Brazil, Turkey and even Cuba. Just because it's currently facing an invasion doesn't mean the malware won't be used for nefarious purposes: i.e Ukrainian elites targeting other Ukrainians or the sitting Ukrainian government targeting opposition political parties. During conflicts we often see governments and elites from those countries trying to siphon as much as they can.

Just to drive the point: at the same time that they first requested the software (2014) the country was the biggest arms dealer for the Syrian civil war[0]. A large part of the arms they received after what happened in Crimea ended up making its way to countries like Syria[1] and it's likely a driving reason behind why the country was so ill-equipped with the current conflict. There is little doubt that the physical arms will eventually be sold off after this conflict is over, and with malware that can be copied quite easily it's likely it will be sold the moment it's acquired to any bidder that puts their hand up.

[0] https://qz.com/211603/how-ukrainian-arms-dealing-connects-to...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-arms-insig...
Ask HN: Android app for copying URL+Title to clipboard?
Sorry for asking such a noob question, but I'm completely stumped. I can't seem to find any Android app that does the simple function of copying a website's URL and Title to the clipboard.

There are several Chrome extensions that do this, but no Android equivalent?

All existing "solutions" are web clippers that are tied to specific software, rather than an agnostic and barebone approach that I'm talking about.
I've never referred to Linux as GNU/Linux simply because I dislike the activism behind the term. Also GNU is everywhere once I open my box. There is gnuplot, gawk, gnu-grep, literally every command that I read the man page has added gnu-ish features I'm deeply thankful for. I would have no problem calling it GNU/Linux if it weren't for the people (are there more than just RMS ?) whining about it.

If they really felt it was so important to have the GNU label on Linux they should have made the Hurd kernel as popular as Linux, or put effort into Hurd before focusing on the tools. Or they should have added a sentence in the GPL that enforces it. (wink wink nod nod there are thousands of packages released under GPL so why continue the whining?) Because they never stop whining (and because there is a "debate" in the first place) proves my point that it's perfectly fine (if not my duty) to continue referring to it as Linux.
One-click checkout startup Fast: 500 employees, $600k in revenue last year
I can make the point more articulated.

Quite simply everytime one of these stories comes up big corp breaks the law...is anyone going to do anything about it...The answer is pretty much always no not even fines...

Even something where a CEO admits intentionally breaking the law not much has happened. No talk of jail time? https://www.ft.com/content/3fbc5918-ad04-4003-8e09-3df12d7dc...

I think maybe I'm jaded with 'it's illegal'. If the law is not enforced it doesn't matter.
This is a bizarre result but so.. what's the conclusion? That only a few things like Apple's proprietary image lookup are able to tap into the ANE so far? Or that it's actually just a marketing gimmick?

Reading this makes me wonder if it's not just a placeholder for some kind of intrusive system that will neural-hash everything you own, but I'm sure I'm just being paranoid.
> And you don't need need just any parser, you need very robust ones that can deal with malformed files well.

But why? Shouldn’t the code you push into a repository be at least syntactically correct? And even if it is not, one can simply fallback to textual diff.

> Or, if you only pick a small set of supported languages, your diff tool will not work on most files or have to fall back to a structure-agnostic algorithm.

I don’t see how it is a blocker.
You can be more productive while also having more time for things that aren't work. The two are not mutually exclusive.
Sadly I dont think there are good short term incentives for most companies to go 100% remote yet. For example, most companies obtain tax benefits from buying office space which incentivates company owners to invest on real estate without spending their own money, then there are mid-managers who keep people accountable only through meetings. And from the political perspective, why would some local politicians be interested on incentaviting remote works? that would hit hard other businesses like restaurants at business areas and that would also decrease housing prices, rental prices and local population because people could decide to move to other more affordable areas.

Covid19 created a real short-term incentive for remote work, that generated some momentum around it, there are some companies which saw the real productive value behind remote work but most others didn't see it and they are taking these mid-road of "hybrid" work.
> functional programming in small steps, in Python

Care to elaborate? Python would not be the first language I'd choose for learning/teaching functional programming. (I'd choose Elm!)
They will continue under a new name and description.
The success to this day is not remarkable.
That software has not stopped criminals like Olaf Scholz and his buddies, nor has it protect a mayor of a city that was killed in his own house.
So, its useless and unethical to think to automate prosecution.
Too many false-positives and a bad success rate is not and can not be the goal to break basic rights.
The real criminals are not the weed dealers next door and not the dumb neo-fascists, they gather everyday in the parlaments with their shady double income, their wrongdoings and promises broken every day.
For what that software has brough revenue, the victims of the flood this summer, would enjoy golden handrails and faucets in their newly built homes.
It was impossible to ban people from Usenet, because it was a distributed system.

It was possible to ban people from moderated groups, or complain to their ISP and get their ISP to ban them (much harder), or it was possible to simply cancel their messages.

I believe at the peak 1/3 of all usenet traffic was spam and 1/3 was spam cancels.
Of late I have started carrying my phone with video recording already activated on my weekend walks due to the actions of a few motorists, especially down narrow roads where there is barely room for a car and pedestrian to pass safely.

Seeing a car approach at an unreasonable speed I hold up my phone and, miraculously, the car suddenly slows down and makes room for me to pass. Quite impressive really.
There is a big reason to Work from office, apart from the merits of the case like close collaboration, productivity et al. Most important of all is being able to see your manager on a day to day basis, a lot of people don't really understand how important seeing your bosses on a day to day basis can be to their careers.

Most people have a problem of neglecting what isn't front of them, it's not malice or anything its just how it is. We ourselves have forgotten people with whom we don't have in person check often. People change with time, and people tend to work more closely, and are more likely to give promotions, rewards or anything for that matter to people with whom they have a daily check-in.

I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years, compensation, benefits and overall career trajectories of people who work with top bosses at office is better than those working from remote.
> On a related note: I trust Google with my data more happily than I trust the German state, for only one of those two has a history of building concentration camps.

To be fair, the German state has existed quite a lot longer than Google, so they've also had more time to build them - I think it's too early to rule out Google in that race.
I pay with cash wherever possible and if somewhere refuses me, I tell them I'll pay this time by card but I'm not coming back.

The whole thing reminds me of the Google tracking article posted on here earlier.

I don't want you to know my name, and I don't want anyone other than us to know about this interaction.

Simply - no. No further reason required.
> I don't think you're allowed to use unproved allegations and the fear of a possible conviction as part of the calculation of a flight risk.

How would anyone be a flight risk if you exclude these factors.

Fear of a possible conviction is pretty much the only reason why anyone would give up their current life to flee.
> In the real world these documents are usually not authenticated [..]

So if a stranger in a suit were to turn up on your doorstep with a "search warrant" to search your house, issued by a court/judge/jurisdiction you'd never heard of, you'd not attempt to authenticate it?

> verifying legal requests

I'm not sure that these EDRs as described can be said to be "legal requests".

Aren't they just asking for disclosure of data without the usual legal checks and balances?
There was a similar controversy in Trackmania nations where the famous player "riolu" was busted for cheating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDUdGvgmKIw

https://donadigo.com/tmx1
I think that's a reference to the Greek notion of Arete.

To be a good person didn't mean moral good, or excellence in one
area like art - it meant being a great as an "all round person who
lived their life to the full and exercised all human powers". The art
of being a great _person_. You didn't have to be amazing at any one
thing but, for a Greek citizen one should able to:

Farm, hunt and cook a good meal

Master a sword or bow

Sail a boat and run a race

Tell a good story, write a poem

Make love well

Climb a mountain

Do math or argue philosophy

Care for the old and young

Tell a convincing lie

You get the idea. Today we are highly specialised creatures, pallid by
comparison. We get others (services) to do most of our real living for
us, so we can concentrate on specialised wage slavery and use the
money to buy back vicarious living under the heading of "leisure".

Notice my last example - which illustrates the this excellence is
separate from any moral conceit of the "good person".
>they gather everyday in the parlaments with their shady double income, their wrongdoings and promises broken every day

You can add Ursula v.d.L. to that list.

I lost faith in all EU governments to do anything for the people.
Finding Rat #42, alleged Harvard asshole
Calling for people to be fired because they wrote a blog post with ideas you don't like is monstrous. Whatever other 'criticisms' you might have, that is beyond the pale and shouldn't be acceptable commentary on this platform.
Being all powerful and destroying the universe sounds more terrifying.
the glovebox would be the dash-runk -> drunk

The center console storage would be center-runk -> crunk
I have to test this out.
Horrifying read, kudos to the author for getting it all down there.

I can't help but think that similar yet broader tactics are in play with the way we are governed.

* Our reality is mediated for us by screens and education. These determine what we can conceive of. For our parents and peers too. This is under control of government+corporations.

* We defer to experts, are not 'discouraged' from individual opinions or from exercising free speech. Dissenting from acceptable opinion will mean being downvoted, de-platformed, labelled anti-vax, pro-putin, etc.

* Collectivised behaviour is encouraged, individuality, independent thinking is discouraged except in narrow bands - eg developing some software solution for a corporation, or art to help sell a product.

* Money is God.

* Personal verification of knowledge is pfff, impossible! so individuals have to accept the provided belief system, with experts mediating everything health, diet, even morality (ethics committees). Unverified and unverifiable science is our religion.

* Its acceptable to have corporations and governments owning your private data.

* This all perfectly normal.

* Etc

Anyway, I'm pretty sure we are all living in a cult - what we experience is not naturally unfolding. I also think we all know this too, but are in various stages of denial about the scope - it is far more comforting not to engage. Don't look within, don't try to know for oneself, heaven forbid.
Most countries also stop criminal & civil proceedings if the human in question ceases to exist
> There's no way typing can replace speech in an actual meeting.

I think it can come close, provided everyone involved are experienced, fast typists, but it’s definitely a different dynamic if someone is slower. I’ve had incredibly fast chats in typing that were close to real time, face to face discussions. And when you reach a certain speed, the illusion of actual speech and listening is created, which is a fascinating phenomenon in and of itself. There’s a certain level where you reach peak verbal acuity and everything you type transcends the medium itself. At that point, you can seemingly intuit little tics, idiosyncrasies, sarcasm, humor, emotion—almost everything you get in a real time, face to face meeting.
I have been trying to do the same thing. You can see my try at https://hn.hsblhsn.me/
I've had that as the standard practice for meetings at a job so we accommodate remote/other employees but the employer had bought us good noise-canceling headsets so there was no issue when a person near to you will be speaking.
Debian-based distros make it easy to rebuild .deb's with extra patches. Source package management and build-time dependency tracking is integrated in the package manager, so it's just a matter of downloading the source, adding your own .patch file and rebuilding.
Ubuntu also has services like fwupd and unattended-upgrades that are configured by default to run periodically without asking the user. I do not know if there are any others.

Fortunately, as long as the user knows about them, they are fairly straightforward to mask with systemctl.

For people like me, who like having complete control and knowledge of everything their machine is doing, Arch GNU/Linux a good choice.
That sounds like a dream to be honest. I wish I could work without having meetings where nobody likes to say anything and it just drags on.

Wrt the SW job, it might be more difficult in the beginning as it takes some focus to understand the system and how your work fits into the bigger whole.
After a time it becomes easier to understand and to jump in, jump out.

Of course this completely depends on the company and job type. My job is very non-demanding and I can easily coast by on just 3-4 hours of work a day. Other people are in a different situation.
> If that leaves you with too little time to get things done, address it with your manager.

While there definitely are exceptions, addressing something like this with an average manager is useless to contra-productive.
> > The same query's behaviour can be utterly different depending on the distribution of the data it runs on, and the parameters, and the currency of the statistics, and maybe memory and cpu pressure, and more

> Yeah, but it is tough and time consuming to test all those parts.

GP was saying that because it is so tough and time consuming to test this, the best thing to do is just to look at the slowest queries and optimize them, instead of trying to identify problems by reasoning from first principles.
And then you run Firefox and it starts calling home all by itself. That one still bugs me.
should rename it basement-runk -> brunk
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European electronic signature software (DocuSign alternatives)
"Emergency" WFH at my workplace have been slashed, everyone back in full since the start of the month. No reason publically given, been privately told "not about people like you, but some others have taken a 2 year vacation so management is fed up". I have emails from the CEO personally thanking me for my commitment in going way over what was expected when basically saving the institution during lockdown, so now I also feel kind of personally insulted and victim of ham-handed collective punishment.

I hate being back: My gear at home is better, I have to work in uncomfortable clothes and at a room temperature that makes me sweat within minutes. I have to work in an N95 mask since we are packed in small 4 person cubicles and COVID numbers are still too high in my area. I'm spending more on gas and wasting time in traffic. I'm eating worse quality food. I keep getting interrupted by exactly those sames guys that took the 2 year vacation. I feel hard to concentrate and I'm angry all the time so my output has suffered.

I keep sending IMs to people I work with, we never need to actually meet.

Now you have to apply for a new more restrictive WFH scheme. Those wanting to sign up to it had a meeting with our direct manager where he tried to discourage us with thinly veiled threats about "special performance measuring procedures" and trite arguments about how it is unfair not being here for the people that want to come.

We applied the same, but now HR is telling us that they can't approve our WFH requests since they can't guarantee that our screen setup at home is safe and we haven't completed a "Data Display Device Setup and Handling" course in the last three years. They don't know when the course will be offered again. I've been programming for more than 35 years now, so again I kind of feel doubly insulted, both by the bare faced obstructionism and ridiculous particular hurdle.

I'd leave, I even feel I'm morally in the wrong for not leaving. But the thing is that the pay is good, that I'm of an age prone to experiencing ageism in the job market, and also this is a place where I have ample slack for tuning my output and inmerse myself in side projects or personal improvement, so their loss...
I now live on a different continent from my workplace. It's great :)
You can sponsor CoC.

https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
What killed legitimate research was the FUD-informed Schedule 1 classification (or similar, outside the US) of the most promising agents in this field.

Particularly LSD but also MDMA.
"Where Is the Evidence for “Evidence-Based” Therapy?" is a pretty interesting paper on "evidence based" therapy.
The alternator diodes are a component of the rectifier assembly, which transforms the alternator's alternating current output to direct current. The charging output of the alternator passes through six diodes in the rectifier assembly before reaching the battery and electrical system.
What is the go-to these days?
> Nobody should be running "jitter entropy daemons" in userland (userland RNGs are essentially the source of all practical CSPRNG vulnerabilities in the past 2 decades), but people do, and if those systems exceeded some threshold of security before Donenfeld's patches, you can't merge those patches if they push security below that threshold.

Why not break their code? Seems justified in this case.
You might be surprised. What you say was definitely true ten years ago, or maybe even five, but the adoption of containers has changed things a lot.

A container-oriented VM host can boot with a handful of binaries designed to receive scheduled workloads and nothing else. The root filesystem is read-only. Go is a popular implementation language for this stack (look at containerd or kubelet), so no libc. SSH is OpenSSH, shell and init and such are Busybox or similar.

The scheduled containers might contain GNU code if they're using a Debian chroot as a base filesystem, but even that's becoming less popular because it introduces questions of package updates and reproducibility. The container might itself contain just a statically linked binary (Go, Rust, or C/C++ with MUSL) plus its data files.

Right now this approach hasn't filtered down to the hobbyist area yet (except among current or former FAANG employees), but I think in 5 or 10 years it'll be the standard (unless a wildcard like Fuchsia or Oxide's Hubris takes over).
That’s one way to test that sensor.
> governments around the world almost exclusively use it for nefarious reasons

Oh sure, I agree. But that's bad governments not bad lines of code.
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