skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter themselves have said that they have millions of fake accounts in bot networks[1].

What evidence do you have that Twitter is lying about this? Why would they harm their brand by saying that they're infested with bot networks when they actually aren't?

1. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/exclusive-twitter-pul...
Then we should really be focusing on getting IPv6 everywhere so that the firewall can be a single click "expose website from this computer".
The company that usually wins the number of patents per year?

Maybe you should delve into how much FOSS love there is on IBM when it doesn't fit business targets.

Wishful thinking.
Programmers aren't the only ones doing intellectual work or that requires some kind of talent or knowledge, making them feel smart. Thus they are not the only ones with big egos (I could think of doctors, artists, musicians, physicists, university lecturers, politicians, celebrities, etc.)

Unless thinking only programmers have a big ego is a result of this big ego :-)
If you also like 3D modeling you could try applying for ATD roles at VFX companies. The job involves writing many, often single use scripts.
Blender Guru (Andrew Price) has a newsletter I enjoy for all things Blender https://www.blenderguru.com/newsletter

Dave Verwer has IOS dev Weekly that always has something interesting https://iosdevweekly.com

Edit: and Animation Obsessive for a bit of weekly animation history https://animationobsessive.substack.com
What I think is kinda weird is that both the iPhone 13 and the 14" M1 MacBook Pro has kind of the same sound signature -- full range but kind of "hollow" or "wooden" or "nutty" sound IDK how to explain it without sounding completely like an audiophile (which I'm not)

Like the thock when you type on the MPB or tap the glass on the iPhone, that sort of color
Seems like a bit of an overreaction. My kids are just a few years younger than OP's, but I'm not going to cut them off.

I will teach them the dangers of being online and will force the phones to use a VPN through our house with PiHole installed. I may or may not go as far as putting a custom cert on the phone so I can monitor all the traffic -- that will depend on if I catch them violating my trust. My default stance will be no custom cert.

But if I do add a custom cert it won't be a secret -- they will know that I'm monitoring them until they earn the trust back and we will review the logs together.
Perhaps you could try reading the timeline's account of U.S. v. Microsoft, the three parts of which are present on the first and second pages of the link.
> but for most services out there, having missing/invalid anti-spoofing measures will result in your mail ending up in spam or not delivered at all.

You would think so.. but its remarkable how easy it still is to forge email.

My mum was recently the target of such a campaign. She's in the executive team at an international NGO. An attacker found her email address and a bunch of her contacts via the NGO's webpage. Then they forged emails from her email address, with a gmail address set up in the reply-to field. The emails all said it was an emergency, and asked for her colleages to transfer money.

As far as we can tell, most of the emails were delivered and lots of people were fooled - at least for awhile.

Her email address has DKIM and SPF set up, but (like most email providers) it has a lax DMARC policy. It turns out thats all it takes to be vulnerable to this sort of attack.
Well, you could have just talked on the line that modem was using. That's not really the kind of limit I'm worried about.
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> requiring a government issued credential to verify your account isn't even farfetched anymore

Facebook already does this with driver's licenses in the US in some cases.
> I get that this was just an example, but a boolean 5 would actually be language-level UB that could have very real correctness implications!

Yes, that's why I used it as the example.

And you don't need anything that complicated, either. A simple if or switch statement might be optimized by the compiler for 0 and 1 and jump into random code for 5.
I like to explain that AI > ML > NN.

Now, NNs are the ones getting results at computer vision and natural language, and more. I think most people would say that other ML approaches are computational statistics. The goalpost for AI keeps moving.

If you are truly interested in the math of AI I think PAC Bayes learning is more appropriate and your book is Understanding Machine Learning [1] (not an easy read). A more gentle intro would be Learning From Data [2]. If someone recommends a book/paper it would be awesome, I'm always on the look.

[1] https://www.cs.huji.ac.il/w~shais/UnderstandingMachineLearni...
[2] https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse
Profit is not the only way to measure success.
I didn't say Apple has gone to extreme lengths. That would cost them a ton for little benefit. They got a 3rd party (Broadcom) to build the webcam and keep the spec a secret. Neither Broadcom nor Apple provide anything that would make it usable in another OS. I know they don't "have to", but I believe that buying a machine makes it mine, and I should be allowed to use it however I want. How many other manufacturers keep basic info a secret, and provide zero support in any alternative OS?
> I think it's just you, the advice in 2016 was "just throw it up on something using docker compose", "you can later expand it with Swarm".

> NodeJS was a common choice too.

I agree it was common and perhaps fashionable, and perhaps it made life easier, but it also added so many level of complexity and technical debt, that now are a burden. That why I say simplicity is hard, but then it pays of (perhaps).
I don’t know what your service is but that’s enough traffic that you likely find a willing buyer?

I recently discovered that there is a pretty active market in people buying/selling smaller businesses and websites like this.

Whether you like what the buyer does with it is a different issue…
You can label anything "a mere change in market equilibrium", apparently even someone inheriting more money than the GDP of an average sized country ...
you should put at least email in your profile here, if you want more gigs (and ratings)
He said he's a "free speech absolutist," which is an obvious lie. But if we take him at face value, then free speech must include people paid by foreign governments to post pre-written messages.

That definition of free speech isn't even alien to the US. Corporations' freedom of speech in this country is protected even when it includes paying other people to speak.
Moveable capitol
A nuance is that mainland vaccination (incl. up to booster) with the new-technology vaccines hasn't been as robust as without the mainland. I don't know if the conventional technologies that China is using for its domestic vaccines are also worse at controlling COVID symptoms (alongside being far less effective), but if that's the case Omicron poses a very real threat to China that other countries don't face.
I'm going through a similar situation. I'm very reluctant to tell new people I meet that my job is internet-related. Many nontechnical friends have come to know the internet mainly as either a cesspool of disturbed people, or a silly pastime for kids with an attention whore syndrome - and anyone who works in the field, even on unrelated projects, is basically fueling the fire.
Can't say I even blame them.
I believe that Redis supports CRDTs (https://redis.com/blog/diving-into-crdts/) for its active/active geo-replication, and they're supposed to be pretty fast.

...but it's important to note that CRDTs as used by Redis (and as defined by, for example, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.10254.pdf) really just means that you've defined a way to consistently resolve conflicts - it doesn't necessarily mean the all-singing-all-dancing collaborative text editing that a lot of people seem to be assuming. For example, as defined in the paper above, simple "last write wins" is a CRDT.
I worked as a Python developer in several companies and projects, in most of them I used Django, but if I would get a job in Python now, probably I would focus on AsyncIO. It's much closer to other stacks, such as NodeJS, and other languages support coroutines etc.
Being in cybersecurity, all of those: https://github.com/TalEliyahu/awesome-security-newsletters
why don't you create private Notion then
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in...

Afghanistan:

>In what was known as Operation Cyclone, the U.S. government provided weapons and funding for a collection of warlords and several factions of jihadi guerrillas known as the Afghan mujahideen fighting to overthrow the Afghan government.

Iraq:

>The CIA launched DBACHILLES, a coup d'état operation against the Iraqi government, recruiting Ayad Allawi, who headed the Iraqi National Accord, a network of Iraqis who opposed the Saddam Hussein government, as part of the operation. The network included Iraqi military and intelligence officers but was penetrated by people loyal to the Iraqi government.[349][350][351] Also using Ayad Allawi and his network, the CIA directed a government sabotage and bombing campaign in Baghdad between 1992 and 1995.

Libya:

>France, the United States and the United Kingdom launched the 2011 military intervention in Libya with Operation Odyssey Dawn, US and British naval forces firing over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles,[404] the French and British Air Forces[405] undertaking sorties across Libya and a naval blockade by Coalition forces.

Syria:

>Starting in 2013, the U.S. provided training, weapons and cash to Syrian vetted moderate rebels,[411][412] and in 2014, the Supreme Military Council.
> how do you expect new musicians to come into existence, new music to be made? Is it not a racket worth its trouble?

For me, the absence of stress caused by someone playing unwanted music into my apartment would absolutely be worth no new music being made. Lack of stress is just more basic and immediate need.
Using frameworks is a must. Writing maintainable code is a must.

DevOps - you'll quickly run into requirements to write parallel work. Not using something like fabric is a waste of your employer's money hiring you. You'll quickly run into requirements to use ansible/terraform/other. Same applies here; surrounding tools with subprocess and parsing stdout/stderr is a waste of your employer's money. Use appropriate packages, instead.

DataScience - all the cool toys, from simple stuff like pandas, or more focused ones like working with spark and the plethora of big data libraries require indepth knowledge of both the library and the underlying datastore. Combined, you make the most of your time and hardware. Not doing so, and only writing something that works on a small scale is a common costly mistake.

Security - python is just a helper tool. Your requirements, depending on position, will be focal knowledge about a domain and its set of tools. From highly skilled domains like research onward to threat hunting, PT and to the entry level stuff like NOC.

You're better off enjoying the little wins in life and dealing with the less pleasant moments. That'll give you a nice career in anything you choose.
You can research Python uses in DevOps, sysadmin and security testing. There is more potential there for writing a lot of small scripts.
He's not only divorced from reality, they haven't spoken in years and reality has a restraining order against him. cf: Full self-driving.
> Their x86 servers were never as good as HP/Compaq

Some of their x86 AMD server were pretty good.

> When servers got going again, price became absolutely key and Linux had become so good it made solaris seem like yesterdays news.

Technically this is very questionable. I would argue Solaris was way ahead at that point.

> I do like this alternative timeline, but if Apple went Solaris it wouldn't have surprised me if Microsoft did a linux distro in the early 2000s which would have really made for a strange future.

Not sure I understand that logic.
One of the aspects I found fascinating about this was Scott Galloway on the Pivot podcast explaining exactly how Musk blew through a load of SEC regulations, potentially costing sellers a significant price premium, when he did this. Also how clearly other people were looking at making this play but were slowed by those same regulations. At the moment this whole saga looks like Musk is playing very fast and loose with a publicly traded company.

The big question now is whether "distractions ahead" should be read in the boring way - "We know have this nutty shareholder who is going to publicly threaten to replace our office with a homeless shelter if our employees don't spend more time in the office" or in the more interesting way - "Elon Musk isn't on the board because that limits what he can do with the stock and he's planning to either increase his stake, sell it off to someone, or to perform other shenanigans to pressure twitter"
I had a near miss with illness six years ago, spent some fun time getting my affairs in order. At the same time, a close friend went from fine to a withered corpse in six weeks from aggressive cancer.

I decided to throw everything to the wind, bugger the consequences, as my worst and best realisation was that my own impending doom filled me with relief at the prospect of release from my grinding existence.

I still don’t quite know what was cause and effect, as my illness was spontaneous multiple organ failure for no good reason anyone could discern - but I resolved that if I lived, it would be to live, not to endure decades more of living death - and not long after that resolution, I improved, and found myself discharged, and incredibly grateful for the absolute basics of human existence - senses, mobility, possibility.

So yeah. I had rent due the next month, but I decided to go live in a cabin in the woods instead. It’s six years now. The sky didn’t fall - in fact, I have never been so content, or so healthy - and on a way, I did die in 2016 - at any rate, the person I had been for the preceding 32 years did.

Anyway. I ramble. My point was mainly that facing the mortality of someone close to you, or yourself, can have dramatic effects.
Stage 4 means cancer has spread to multiple organs.

But all cancers are not the same.

For example Lance Armstrong had stage 4 testicular cancer that spread to his brain in 1996.

Then won all those bicycle races.
Will we ever see an implementation that doesn't require a web browser?
It baffles me that cars with ultra-loud stereos that trigger car alarms are legal and people who drive them aren’t fined regularly.

The tradition of speaking in public using phone’s loudspeaker is the close second in terms of cultural inadequacy
At this point this should be implemented as a browser API so every cookies preferences dialogue would be the same across all sites. This would even enable browsers to present less intrusive dialogues UIs on mobile.
Having to decipher poor UI implementations of the same thing for each site is really annoying.
A lot of cloud providers say somewhere it's your responsibility to backup your cloud data.

I doubt very many people do.

I used to work for a business that was fairly strict about updatng everything in office 365, all mail, files etc.
However, the combination of "being in one of those majorities of companies that believes in agile" and "not being in these meetings" is not available.

I hear this from lots of developers. I also hear that none of them have ever raised the problem with their management, or attempted to suggest that they could submit notes instead when they have a lot of other work on, or anything that would reduce the number of meetings they need to attend. Practically all developers just coast along believing that because that's how things are it's impossible to change anything. This is despite the fact that agile includes a retro meeting specifically for raising these things. However, FWIW I wasn't actually suggesting missing all those meetings. Just some of them, when you have other priorities.

I've worked on teams where I've been invited to multiple daily standups and I'd have lost a couple of hours a day if I'd not been willing to push back. In every case I've been listened to and been able to communicate what I've been doing and whether I need any help in other ways instead (usually just by editing the standup notes myself).

Here's a suggestion. One of the key things about agile is that you have to 'process your processes'. If something isn't working for the team then you should iterate on it. At your next retrospective raise the problem - say "We should stop spending N hours a week on standups because it's stopping me finding clear blocks of time to focus on delivery. We should find a way to reduce the number of meetings I have. How about we have them on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and email our standup updates to the PM on Tuesday and Thursday." If the team agrees that would save you 40% of your standups..
I've made it very clear to extended family that I don't want photos of my kids on Meta platforms. I'm not sure what I'll do when they're old enough to have a smartphone.
I think the idea of monitoring the network traffic of your children is an overreaction itself. Sure, internet content is a bit more buzzing these days, but older generations who accessed unfiltered content survived as well.

Normalizing being under surveillance for them is a lesson hard to understand to be honest. I don't know your kids, but at some point their technical abilities to circumvent the paternalism is likely to make such mechanisms futile anyway and there just remains a breach of privacy.

I agree that keeping tech out of childrens hands is a bit futile, but the surveillance ambitions of some parents look more unhealthy than the harm any internet content could cause.
CRDTs don’t quite fit in this list, as these are all valid merge strategies that a CRDT can use. The fundamental idea of a CRDT is that all of these schemes have something in common: They’re based on iteratively merging a bunch of versions together with a merge operator that fulfills a few basic properties (where + means merge:

- Associativity: (A + B) + C == A + (B + C)

- Commutativity: A + B == B + A

- Idempotency: A + A = A

- Closure: Every merge result is a valid merge argument

- (perhaps a few others; it’s been a while since I read the original papers)

As long as your merge operator has all of these properties, you get the strong eventual consistency result that makes CRDTs a useful abstraction: Any two users that have received versions including the same updates will reconstruct the document in the same way, even if the actual set of versions seen differs.
No you don't. What you are describing is a functional cookie, which does not require permission.

If you want to share peoples high scores then just let them choose to share it or not when they get the high score.

Also your game is cool, but I thought that the winner got to keep a die? Having less information makes the game harder, not easier.
Ditto - I'm at the point where I either need to get my mind back into the space to (basically) rewrite an entire site (it seems), or let it die. I like it, but hosting it is doing nothing but cost me money right now.

Hard choices, but it was nice to do.
Is it worth using Open Source for political statements?
Sounds paranoid and detrimental to the kids’ social lives.
Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992)
I don't have kids yet but it is something that has been discussed about my nieces and nephews. As you say, you don't want your kids to become social pariahs but you also don't want to give them smart phones, in this day and age it looks like the two are intrinsically linked, which is disappointing.

I would like to say that we can teach kids to have a healthy relationship with the internet and social media but sites like TicTok are engineered to be as addictive as possible so that would be naïve of me to say.

In saying that, if you outright ban these sites in your house it just means that when it comes time for your kids to be more independent they could possibly have no knowledge of how to healthily use social media and then be worse off than if they had access early.

There is no easy answer here, at the end of the day it will be their decision, all you can do is teach them to navigate the digital world and then be there to help when they make mistakes.
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> On the other hand, if you have a relatively common name it avoids people giving your email address then behaving aggressively when you tell them to stop. I’ve had a few friends hit this issue.

I’m sorry, I can’t parse this. Can you try again?

I used <dentistbusinessname>@<mydomain>. My name was never involved in the address.
Happy user here. I am going to miss your service. It saved my day a couple of times and I loved the no nonsense site, service & notifications.

Thanks for all the fish and I wish you a great time developing your next service!
They should be at risk of losing their jobs for poor behaviour like this (and if they senior figures within the police forces don't deal with it, then they should be at risk of losing their jobs).
> "I see that point 3 on the agenda is relevant to me, can you bring me into the meeting at that point"?

This to me sounds like you are equally disrespectful of other people times as you complain that they are about yours.

What having them "bring you into the meeting at that point" means is that now everyone else has to wait the 5 minutes it takes the host to message you, wait for your arrival and then go over why they brought you in (for your benefit, and maybe everyone else's), instead of just going on with the point. I would be bothered if this would happen in one of my meetings. What you're basically saying is that your 30 minutes saved of the meeting are more important than the 5 minutes it loses for everyone else.
He's planning euthanasia, he just want to do it before cancer gets him, so yeah if doctors suddenly says "you have couple weeks left" then it's either now or cancer will get him first
It is, but the people realizing this are very small in number.

It's not just SSLPing, it's the entire industry.

SSLPing is aruably a lot simpler (comparitavely speaking) than many other products.
Hasan Abi, lol. Also that video doesn't show anything what you're claiming.

Thanks for polluting my watch history with that idiot.
Maybe somebody from soundcloud ? https://developers.soundcloud.com/blog/roshi-a-crdt-system-f...