skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some context/background to the deal

the sale has been stalled for more than a year at that point , the league had decided arbitrarily to put a fitness check and delay(not reject) the deal. Roman, usmanov (minority holder ) and Abu Dhabi sovereign fund are current owners of major clubs before Saudi Arabia .

The stalling and later approval has nothing to do with concerns of sportswashing (PL has sold out any morality they had long before then). The block and later approval was mostly because Qatar was pissed .

Qatar owns PSG , hosting 2022 World Cup and most importantly owns lucrative PL broadcast rights in Middle East.

beIN with Saudi government informal support has been streaming matches illegally. Complicating this Qatar for last 4/5 years has been pretty much isolated in Middle East and kicked out of many forums in unrelated diplomatic fights.

In the end Saudi paid 1Billion pounds to Qatar to settle that dispute before Newcastle could be bought.

Sovereign/government influence peddling and involving in sports clubs is nothing new. Real Madrid has benefited a lot over the years , west ham got a brand new stadium for nothing , even in the U.S. favorable policies , tax breaks are used heavily to attract sports teams at city /state level all the time.

Democracy or dictators sports are cheap trick to improve ratings , it has been used at least since gladiators in Rome as a tool.

My intention is not defend Saudi actions just that it is not surprising governments were involved.

Disclaimer : I am a Newcastle fan
Yeah, maybe he's holding it wrong?
processes stuck in a D state on stale NFS mounts.
> Basically the general rule is if you desire above average money, you have to put in above average effort at some point in your career.

My (probably cynical) take is that most SV devs are also 1x. You make the big bucks not just by being a 10x dev, but by some combination of going to the right schools, making the right connections, learning how to negotiate and when to look for new jobs, learning to jump through the big tech interview hoops etc. So yeah, you have to put in above average effort, but maybe not directly into improving your craft.
"gave away" old tech that just confirmed what everyone assumed. Your article even states it's not our best and most of the security agencies cared more about the process of how he did it then the image itself.
Vent? I recently had an issue where my Internet connection went down, I was left with my phone and a tiny data cap.

The work I was doing required an Internet connection, but when I tethered my mac, it kept trying to download gigabytes of updates.

It ended in a stalemate with seeming no way to pause, cancel or cap the download.

Both windows and Linux will set you set download cap, flag connections as metered, pause downloads or kill update processes.

I find that a lot of other Apple stuff grating too, not limited to:

- iOS development hoops with certs, provisioning profiles, beta reviews. It doesn't help that AppStoreConnect is bad.

- Apple Developer account 2FA - which is either "trusted device" or SMS. SMS is unreliable and insecure, trusted device ties me to a laptop I don't want to always have with me.

- I had to sign into the AppStore on my mac to get XCode, and now it insists on me using iCloud and iMessage.
a bit of sentiment analysis and banned keywords.
There is rather a lack of regulations that would require banks to provide two-factor authentication in a platform-neutral or technology-neutral manner.

Instead of two-factor-only apps, we get "electronic ID" that are legally like a photo ID, and which are also used for making payments from the phone itself.

In fact, some of these rely on security of the OS it is running on, and not on the use of any trusted platform modules ("secure enclave", TrustZone, etc.) or on any mathematical proof.
Therefore, un-rooted recent versions of Android and iOS is compulsory in practice, because those are the only environments that are secure enough.

And BTW, the electronic ID are very convenient for the banks. If they get social-engineered and the banks' API abused, the banks can conveniently blame the victims — because it's a legal ID and not merely a login helper or debit card, and you're not supposed to be "careless" with an ID.
My coding question I give (in the occasion I am called upon to ask one to candidates) typically is not particularly unique, but practical - if someone wants to study for it, it doesn't really give them a notable edge given all the possible branching questions. The most notable tell if people did see the question prior though is if they jump right into talking about the problem without asking qualifying questions, implying that they are quite familiar with the problem & don't need me to qualify it & don't think to verify scenarios with me.

For my non-coding problems, I just create it from scratch depending on the position/needs & spend a bit of time navigating the scenario myself and store the question in my notes.

As to failing a question, failing a single question isn't necessarily a deal breaker in itself - it's showing a pattern of not meeting the bar that is. I may rate someone a 2 out of 4 if they didn't go into sufficient depth in a particular question I asked, but I probably won't stay in the way of hiring them if they did ok otherwise and that failure was just an aberration. Loss of integrity is perception that is likely to sour people on any upside of hiring though, and overcoming that bar is incredibly difficult - if someone is clearly rehearsed on a particular question and is dishonest about it, they're probably not getting a 3 or 4.
That is partially my argument, but not entirely. I'm rather arguing that even if you're using upstream services, you still want to have full and total control and ownership of the device you're using the upstream service from.

In fact, I find it a total jump in logic and a fallacy to conclude that I don't want or need freedom on my own device just because I'm a heavy user of upstream services. How does that even remotely follow?
Absolutely - Everything is legal until you're caught. How easy it is to catch you and how easy it is to prove in a court of law are what matters.

As today's Money Stuff[1] opines - This kind of transaction can be really easily made legal, while still giving investors the middle finger. If the company is worth X, you takeover the board and carry out a merger that cashes out minority stakeholders for $1, you're liable for X. If the company is worth X, you takeover the board, and carry out a merger that cashes out minority shareholders for X * .8, you've got a good chance of getting away with it - The standards is "business judgment" vs "fiduciary duty". Companies have fiduciary duty to all shareholders. Sometimes that means that the board gets to dissolve the company for a lot less than it's worth.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-18/twitte...
That’s interesting: here in the UK, there’s often major news stories about very punitive actions taken against tourists in Dubai for things like drinking in public or having sex on a beach. I’d guess a lot of people “know” that the system is strict but are naive enough to believe it won’t apply to them for whatever reason.
One company trying to address that is Up42, a subsidiary (hope that's the appropriate term) of Airbus, building some marketplace for SAT imaging analysis.

Interested to hear Mr. glen's opinion about that approach.
Lithium drilling advances at the Salton Sea
You can't claim anything is secure just because problems haven't been found.

It does build confidence in the security to perform security audits.
Many years ago I was at Dugway Proving Ground when NASA was supposed to catch the Genesis Space Probe under parachute with "hollywood stunt pilots" flying A-Star helicopters with long probes mounted on the front, to hook the parachute in mid-air.

It all would have worked out swimmingly if the parachute on the Genesis would have opened, but an installation error caused it not to and for the probe to smash into the ground, leaving some very confused and disappointed helicopter pilots, among others.

Space is hard.
You may be interested in:

Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission

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

https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421
Still, while this might be true, you are decribing only 28% of the world, and the opposite situation might be on control elsewhere. Not to mention gaming devices such as PS, Nintendo or Xbox, while it is a bit different thing.

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide
Same Day Skunk Works
This is a nice idea and it’s interesting to see it invented and applied in another technical field (I consider cooking for large numbers to be an engineering task!).

I’ve tried to apply something similar to feature development too: the idea of thin vertical slices, integrated end-to-end (a la agile).

The common thread with this and the cooking and blog examples from the article is that they’re low risk. That is, you can work on a build pipeline, feature, or chopping vegetables for as long as you like: getting things wrong or not “just so” is fixed with rework.

As a counter example, I don’t think you could as easily apply it to something like incident response. Here you’re trying to do the most high impact and high pressure thing first: stem the bleeding/errors/outage.

Perhaps this suggests categories of task where mise en place is appropriate and others where it’s not. Though it’s not immediately clear to me whether even ostensibly unsuitable tasks may have suitable sub tasks within them.
Wrong question. It's the market which requires this, not the regulation.
That addresses civilization but not prehistory as there is no known record of written language north of the desert barrier.
A non-trivial factor in this:

• Samsung: conglomerate Chaebol that includes of 50% revenue from shipping and ship-building, and then insurance, finance, travel, consume appliances, and finally smart phones and semiconductors which are minority revenue source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol

https://www.slashgear.com/831286/10-rare-samsung-products-yo...

• TSMC: single product company - foundry only

• Apple: "single product" company (compared to Samsung)

There is the Asian cultural side of it even for TSMC so it has many of the same top-down management issues. But the key difference is focus.

Taiwanese businesses are pretty much never Chaebol/Kieretsu-like - it's far more atomized, independent and interdependent, and focused on a narrow(er) market. There's also more "bottom-up" in terms of origins and this remains to some extent in many of them

(I work for a Taiwanese firm that bought my most recent company - and we work with direct competitors when it makes sense market-wise - that pretty much never happens with between Chaebols/Kieretsus. We also have a pretty selective market niche).

Compare this to Japanese kieretsu companies such as NEC - which is similarly broad but you also don't think of them anymore when it comes to semiconductor and especially DRAM.

Chaebols and Kieretsus are very similar in that they are conglomerates so they are broad with many unrelated businesses and not very agile especially since decision making is top-down. A key difference is Kieretsus are more likely to be top-down BEFORE and AFTER bottom-up consensus cycle - though that's a predilection based on organizational structure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiretsu

The example the article gives of Hynix proves that it's possible to be a Chaebol yet give enough free rein to business units to make good decisions. But it can work against as well.

Another factor with Samsung: their shipping business has taken major hits in the last 5-7 years. Which given that is 50% of their revenue, probably still diverts proper executive attentions away from semiconductor and cell phones resulting is fiat decisions not based on good data.

https://thediplomat.com/2016/06/south-koreas-shipbuilding-cr...
How exactly does this send packets to anything without being detected by tcpdump,ncat ect
I think the real question is whether the images will generally look distinctly different from existing space telescope images. In the example you provide, the JWST image is only remarkable because the sampled area is too small for Spitzer to accurately resolve. If you were not comparing area to area but instead just trying to find an image that looked almost identical to JWST's, it would be much harder to spot the improvement.

Think of looking at a mountain. It looks like a mountain. Then focus on a cliff of that mountain. It looks really quite similar to the mountain. Focus on a boulder on that cliff. Again, quite similar. A rock on that boulder. Similar. It's only when you reach the microscopic/atomic scale that the structure is revealed to be something totally different from what it was before and you learn it's not rocks all the way down. There's something different there, but it requires spanning a very large number of magnitudes to arrive at it.

Now, we've seen some different things from existing telescopes. Galaxies, nebulas, etc. look absolutely nothing like stars as seen by the eye (a bit like how you're sure to happen by plants and animals while zooming into that mountain). But as the resolution increases I am not sure that we've had that next leap. The Hubble deep field image for instance looks basically the same as the Hubble ultra deep field.

In short, will JWST reveal new structures so distinct from anything we've seen before that upon looking at an image it's immediately obvious that such an image could only have come from JWST, or will the images look like the plethora of existing telescope images, just at a different scale? I certainly hope for the former but my intuition is leaning more towards the latter. I'd absolutely love to be proven wrong here.
Did that happen?

I can’t imagine there is some troll guarding the Wikipedia tape list who doesn’t want an accurate list.
I'm pretty sure its just accepted it is government by WhatsApp groups.
Thanks! These were all processed with Reality Capture. For external data we are agnostic to sources as long as camera poses, geometry & photo inputs are made available. So something like Meshroom or Metashape are options.
> In addition to the NDAs, Apple tracks employee data very closely (e.g. iCloud) to mitigate leaks.

Intriguing! Could you elaborate more on this?
One should be able to want a James Bond-esque tracking of my stolen car.

So that one can order a pencil-sized AGM from some nation-state toward the vicinity of the carjacker or something.

To just outside the reticular.
If you're talking about flip phones and trying to protect against an eavesdropper of a phone call or SMS, then there's no point. The network that these phones used is full of holes already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7#Protoc...
What do you think the alternatives should be?
Should Indian and Pakistani companies pay more to Indian and Pakistani workers they bring to Dubai? Should they leave them in India and let them work in even worse conditions?
Who do you think should dictate how much more Indian companies should pay Indian laborers which btw already are getting way more than they can get at home?

Many people crying about "slavery in Dubai" don't fully understand what slavery is and how Dubai works. What I am suggesting here, is that, perhaps, this notion is just a second-hand opinion you should consider changing your mind about. If you are open to it, that is.
Elon Musk ‘top priority’ for Twitter includes cutting down on crypto scam tweets
so i dont have the right to not be scraped? thats like sending radiowaves and making me pay a license for a radio i dont use. same with spam. i should give you a token to send me emails i maybe want to look at your stuff.
Why do I get down voted for liking this sentence?
It's for searching inside of compressed files, and does this by decompressing to a temporary directory.
Twitter "has the potential to be a new protocol for the Internet — the notifications and identity protocol; unlike every other protocol, though, this one would be owned by a private company."

You could build the ultimate DeFi/Sci/Anything on this. If Twitter does it, there's no particular reason to go blockchain, but if they did it would solve the identity problem in a big way.
As appalling as this intrusion is, I can't help but feel there is some measure of propriety that it should be done to a nation taking advantage of its impressive technological legacy to eavesdrop on most transatlantic communications, and scheming and hacking to subvert the communication infrastructure of friendly countries.
Not that "what goes around comes around" is going to fix anything in this regard...
That is probably a bad example. That is a GNU extension, so if handling this via the preprocessor, the right guard should just be #ifdef __GLIBC__, I think. That should cover both glibc and glibc-compatible libcs such as uClibc. (Yes, uClibc does define __GLIBC__ as well.)
I've worked in a software validation lab for the past 5 years where we have 100s of laptops in use. My bench has 8-10 laptops sitting on it at any given time, all of them running 24/7, though none of them doing anything particularly demanding. So I have what I believe to be some unique experience in this.

All of these laptops are higher end business models from major OEMs (Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc...) I was an avid fan of Thinkpad T series laptops for quite a while, but in the last couple of years I've had a lot of problems with them and am no longer confident in that series. I've never been a fan of HP, and have had mixed results with their products. Their higher end business stuff is decent, but I've had issues here and there. Oddly, despite the many horror stories I've heard, the Dell Latitudes I've worked with have been the most rock-solid. No swollen batteries, no broken displays, no random bricking (happened to two different T460Ss I had), no BSODs.

I've personally not had great experiences with Macs in general, but have a lot less experience with them than PCs. I have not found Macs to be notably better than mid to high end PCs in terms of hardware quality.
An interesting departure, considering weev was convicted on merely scraping [0] AT&T. Although his charge was vacated, it was on the venue/jurisdiction, not that scraping was found to be legal.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/weevs-case-flawed-begi...
I'll admit to missing one line, I read their post an additional two times after being told that and I missed the line both times before finally catching it. I blame wordwrap and a lack of capitalization, but it was my mistake.

Doesn't change anything I said, it just means I guessed based on a German immigrating to land "never touched by slavery" unnecessarily.
Is it legal though to login to a website and then scrape data (that would not be accessible if I was just browsing as a guest)?
This is a bit of a tangent but I think reports like these strengthen the argument against electronic voting. There's basically no way of building a secure electronic voting system that can beat the security and auditability properties of old school pen and paper voting.
I’m honestly more interested in bot detection than anything else at this point.

It seems like it should be perfectly legal to detect and then hold the connection open for a long period of time without giving a useful response. Or even send highly compressed gzip responses designed to fill their drives.

Legal or not, I can’t see any good reason that we can’t make it painful.
When you say the dll is running in the admin context, do you mean 7zFM.exe is running as admin?
A key differentiator though is that when Apple gets something wrong it's usually a poor design decision, not careless craftsmanship. The Magic Mouse and the Apple TV remote from a couple years ago are two of the most beautifully-crafted examples of bad input devices that you can possibly find
From https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1295901/lebanese-doc...

> “The talk about this tweet is fake news,” a source close to the gynecologist and an MP of the Free Patriotic Movement, to which Kharrat is allegedly close, told L’Orient-Le Jour on condition of anonymity.

> He claimed that this tweet appeared after Kharrat’s arrest, saying that it was not published on the doctor’s personal account, but on that of an UAE national

It appears that the original tweet was faked.
This has always been my excuse for not trying FreeTaxUSA. I figured it was only for people who have extremely simple 1040 returns + a few stocks or interest. My federal return is 20 pages long, including schedules 2, 3, B, D, Form 8606's, 8889 and on and on and on. I've always been afraid I'll get 85% through and realize I need a more expensive tax prep software to file everything I need to file--and then have to go back to TaxAct and re-type everything anyway.
Not, because here lies the trap. This was a farce, not a real election.

It was practically guaranteed that the votes would be replaced later in the cardboard urns guarded exclusively by the separatists. The obvious plan was to drag as many millions of people as possible to vote and then use this number as new upper limit to made up a separatist support number (see? 80% of this new cipher voted separatist, we counted the votes ourselves, [invented a number], and this is two million more of supporters than before, so I'm right. Now lets negotiate how money you own me to not secede).

It must be noticed that they printed 10 millions of ballots, for a pool of voters much lower. Why they needed to have like two ballots for each possible vote?... well, fill the dots.

The only good move in that situation is avoid voting
Ah china, the picture of freedom
> Surface lineup has been making good strides

Making laptops and tablets was anecdotally a business MSFT didn't particularly want to be in but the OEM options for business workplace were that embarrassing the bar had to be raised by someone.
Based on this open issue on the repo [0], it only has federated timeline support. The lead developer of Mastodon had this to say with regards to not adding it to iOS[1]:

> The omission is intentional and I do not intend to add these types of timelines into the app. They might have made sense for early Mastodon in November 2016 when there were less than 20k people total and all from a homogenous demographic but nowadays the signal to noise ratio makes them a liability in almost every aspect.

> [...]

> The local and federated timelines are not going away from other apps or the web app, to be clear. I’m simply not adding them to this app, and if that bothers you, simply don’t install the app.

[0] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android/issues/8

[1] https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/221
Great observation. Check out Descartes Labs (all-purpose platform) or Picterra (closer to CountThings for sat imagery) as two examples of companies trying to make it easier to build personalized models.
From time to time I try Mastodon again and every time I ditch it.
I joined the main server mastodon.social and still as of today it's pretty much impossible for me to perform effective searches and find content. Maybe I'm just unable to use it, I don't know.
I confess to being a little confused by that. How can you “add a command to memcached” without altering memcached’s source code?
I’m sure a leaderboard would emerge in it. Have you left any laws un-broken? Am I looking at fewer lashes than any of my friends?
You are purposely taking the well known and understood term "general purpose computing device" out of context and using it as a polemical statement to push an agenda.