skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And what were GCHQ, MI6 and NCSC doing to protect our prime-minister at this time?

Nobody is perfect - but there are people who blatantly ignore ITSEC best practices and are therefore almost unprotectable.
I noticed that if you try to download a previous year's W-2, TurboTax will make you select "Why" before allowing you. One of the options is "considering an alternative tax software". Such an obvious dark pattern for retention.

Just lie and select "I need to fill out the FAFSA"
I love the idea of Mastodon but none of the people I follow on social media are using it. I wonder if there's some kind of web service that re-toots tweets from twitter so I can ditch the crappy Twitter web app and slowly move towards the fediverse at the same time. So far I've only seen publisher-oriented services, but I what I actually want is a combined feed of tweets and toots.
Who cares? Complain to the Pope about immorality, and he'll make sure they go to Hell. While you work on that, hopefully someone is working on making tax filing simpler, and preventing lobbyists from blocking that effort.
Are you asking how to do this with a single machine, or how to do this assuming you have access to cloud resources?
This is somewhat notable because Florida is one of several state with laws that present roadblocks for municipal broadband efforts in the US.

From [1]:

> Florida state laws impose “ad valorem” taxes on municipal broadband networks, but does not impose such taxes on other public utilities or services sold to the public. The state laws generally subject municipalities to restrictions on capital-intensive initiatives that make broadband projects difficult to begin. The statutes require municipalities to hold at least two public hearings, during which local officials must offer a roadmap to profitability within four years — making nearly any citywide municipal broadband proposal unfeasible.

I'm wondering if the fact that they're leveraging the co-op's power grid to do the build-out helps them get around this.

[1]: https://broadbandnow.com/report/municipal-broadband-roadbloc...
Only if they're RSUs.
I've never used Slashdot, but I have just looked its homepage and its content is more like The Verge, Wired, or similar websites, i. e., generic tech articles, but more oriented to techie people.

HN is a lot more niche in different kind of matters, like finding obscure problems with a compiler, how a company is using some technology and why, or simply articles about work/life balance and what to do and what not to do to achieve a fulfilling life.
No (in the US).

You'd have your visa revoked and be deported in a heartbeat, but you would not be charged or disappeared.
I can't speak for the person you replied to, but my interpretation was "diversity of minds" (or "viewpoints", etc), not gender or race.

Perhaps you'd agree that the diversity of opinions and points of view on a team is crucial, even if they're all X race Y gender.
Does the ruling make it illegal to block scrapers?
>I would love to see NixOS-style declarative management brought to one (or more) of the BSDs.

In theory, an OpenBSD NSH configuration would have a large overlap of features and functionality with the Nix-based router configuration you've been working on. Btw, NSH allows one to configure OpenBSD in a similar CLI shell as that of a Cisco, ProCurve, or similar device. The shell commands make up a configuration file that can be exported / imported. NixOS & BSD is something I thought of but hadn't mentioned when someone recently submitted[0] a link to NSH. Coincidentally, another user brought up NixOS as a potential solution, only for the comment to trigger some friction[1].

I've been dreaming about more integration between Nix and BSD for a while now, but unfortunately, my skills and knowledge to actually implement something like this are nowhere close to where they need to be to actually create anything in this vein. That being said, there are others who have done more, and so Nix is available on FreeBSD[2]. Nix on FreeBSD has a long way to go before it's as useful as it is on Linux/macOS - the latest discussion on it is in the NixOS Discourse forum[3].

Appreciate you linking to the blog post and GitHub repo for nixos-router. FYI, one other option available for Linux is the Debian-based VyOS[4] which provides a familiar command-line interface like OpenBSD NSH.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30942489

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30966266

[2] https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/nix/

[3] https://discourse.nixos.org/t/status-of-freebsd/17786

[4] https://vyos.net/
Yep. The time of going to the post office is dwarfed by the headache of actually doing the taxes and checking that they seem correct. Disposing of them into the mail is downright cathartic.
Doh! Harry Stamper
> (both coexist sometimes)

Indeed. My in-laws' 300-year-old granite farmhouse has a mix of modern roller shutters, pvc panel shutters, and wooden panel shutters.
Sounds like this thing: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/07/cheat-maker-brags-of-...
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That’s still “static” in the sense that it is only dependent on compilation options and data types, not the actual value of those data types at runtime. There is nothing there which could not trivially be determined by executing a test program-which is what the comment to which I was originally replying was talking about.

Imagine if there was a ‘set_thread_signed_overflow_behavior()’ API which dynamically set signed overflow behaviour at runtime. That would be an example of undefined behaviour which could not be easily detected by executing a test. But, although such an API is permitted by the standard, I’ve never heard of one actually being implemented-well, it exists for floating point (fesetexceptflag FE_OVERFLOW), but (to my knowledge) no mainstream platform has an equivalent for integers. It can be a reasonable engineering decision to ignore those (exceedingly?) rare platforms on which such an API exists for integers, and save thinking about them for the unlikely event you are asked to port to one of them - which will probably never happen, especially not any time soon.
Well, because you'd be potentially looking at it and using it for hours almost every day for years as a professional?

For me something I spend my time that much should look nice. That combined with the parts inside is perfection, which is the M1 MBP for me.
Better to log out of all and log back in than to have a random one logged in that you don’t know about.
deported to guantanamo?
I noticed that the Java @tokens definition doesn’t seem to support Unicode Java identifiers and Unicode escapes. Since the latter can appear anywhere in Java source code [0], it’s likely impossible to have a fully compliant auto-generated Java lexer/parser from that tool.

[0] https://javajee.com/unicode-escapes-in-java
The scraper example in this case HiQ had a product that tracked employee profile changes to predict employee churn.

So they were specifically interested in you, personally not the aggregate
> I know how OpenBSD work

FYI typo. Should be “works”. Nice article!
It's already how phones work by default, more or less. One app is fullscreen, and the ability to split the screen up came later so you can have two side-by-side.
Related: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/47/
As soon as you have to import any investment data (who does not have at least $100 in S&P these days???) and you also have to file state taxes, then turbotax ends up begin expensive. I think I payed something like $300 or close to that. I used to pay my accountant $500. And he was taking care of everything. Now, I have to collect data, struggle with turbotax ugly interface. Next year, I am going back to my accountant. My time is worth more than $200 bucks.
A idea to ESOP and SAFE for GitHub repos
i've got a refurbed evoo with a Ryzen 5, it cost 225$ from walmart, it'll run anything, linux, win11 - you name it. I use every port on the laptop when i'm at my desk, its super lightweight and the battery life is admirable. my point here is that its all about the users preference, if you want something totally plug and play, you're going to have to pay for it and then you will still probably have issues. i've got an old gaming rig that i've transformed into a proxmox host, between the laptop and being able to connect to any of the VMs, I find that I have everything i need to stay productive, keep my data safe and not be limited by hardware or cloud costs.
i'm glad you're not a regulator.

I can get loans on my assets to participate in defi, arbitrage, & and literally cash out my money into a bank account if i so wished. Pretty useful.
Dell's Proprietary DDR5 Module Locks Out User Upgrades
Plenty of carriers subsidize Apple hardware. Apple also has https://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program
Grover Norquist is dead.
By whatever you want I meant is whatever you choose (like a cellular modem and touchscreen laptop) but I agree with you the look and feel is driven by Apple because they want to preserve margins by having a sense of taste that allows them to still have the Apple tax.
> Real modern propaganda works not even 2nd or 3rd order effects, but 4th order, with a bit of reverse psychology.

Would you care to give some examples of that (4th order propaganda) ? I am genuinely curious.
I would be shocked if people couldn't find an RCE in an early 2000s flip phone. I had a friend who had hers since 2010 and MMS crashed it all the time.
Is it just me…or does article seem a bit contrived? I was expecting to read this to learn about a really powerful hijacking technique when in reality it’s just a program that manipulates your input program.

This is something that could easily occur with scripting languages, backend systems, open source, closed source, etc.

Basically any black-box system that takes in some input could pre-manipulate the input yielding an unknown/unexpected output.
odds are UK and UAE mutually hacked each other.
While it's true that today we would pronounce de- and dae- each as /dee/ without differentiation, TFA points out an interesting notion:

> By the late 16th century, the general supernatural meaning was being distinguished with the spelling daemon, while the evil meaning remained with demon.

Given that both spellings were used simultaneously back then for the goal of differentiation that transcends mere archaic-vs-modern, I have to wonder if there was verbal differentiation accompanying it as well. I suppose this depends on a more precise estimate of æ's deprecation through the transition from Old to Middle to Early Modern to Modern English (specifically, whether its original /æ/ [0] sound persisted into Early Modern or was already /ee/ by then).

[0] Which, confusingly, has several possibilities [1]. Since we're talking about the 16th century though, we might go with the sound it also represents in IPA, as in ash, fan, happy, last, etc. although I can't say I've ever heard anyone utter /dam ən/...

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/70927/how-is-%C3...
I think they are suggesting going to school and/or specializing intensely.

Which seems weird, bc I think that OP is still in the explore portion of their career, as opposed to the exploit portion.
You can buy metal PCs. There's loads of them. Microsoft themselves even make them. Pretty sure every big OEM has at least one laptop with a solid metal chassis at this point.

I prefer the plastic of my Thinkpad, it doesn't feel creaky, there's no "sticky-feeling texture". It doesn't boil on my lap the way metal MacBooks and PowerBooks have. It feels solid while also not denting from knocking it into a doorway by accident or worse yet deforming itself from it's own heat.

You can buy quality PCs. You just gotta pay more.
I can't find it.. but i read an article last week that went through how these oppressive governments are using sports (and their money) to build up their image. Russia did it before their first invasion. China did it twice with the olympics.

the use of sports and FIFA is an example of this.

*qatar not uae, is the absolute worst place to hold a giant soccer tournament. They have to use special AC units inside giant stadiums (built on deaths of lots of migrant workers) because it's a hot desert. But they claim they are still 'green'

Saudi using art is an example too. They paid a ton of money to use the name Louvre even though their museum has nothing to do with the institution. ironically he refused to loan his $450 million 'da vinci' to the real museum. Evidently sitting on a yacht hidden because good chance it's not by da vinci's hand.

As a queer person who loves to travel (or did before covid) there are some countries i just refuse to visit, despite the awesome cultural heritage. I know that citizens don't always necessarily agree, but many do. And I just can't support the expansion of authoritarianism - and potentially risk my life.
Daemon is also how it's spelled in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. I always wondered if there was some connection to its use in computing. She uses that spelling of the word to imply that the "monster" is not evil. I can't find a good source, but there are plenty of things which have similar jists to this: "A daemon was originally a spirit somewhere between gods and men. Later, with the spelling ‘demon', it acquired the meaning of a devil or evil spirit."
With ARM adoption it might again be an option. I'm using Windows ARM in Parallels on M1 Mac and use Visual Studio perfectly.

Microsoft says "it might not work" yet it works flawlessly. YMMV though.
How Obsession with Work Killed Our Connection with Leisure
More fundamentally, why do people feel the need to Tweet or share content publicly on social media?
Not if an OS Prompt awaiting for your PIN code is blocking your ability to do this flick-up/long-press/flick-up-kill.

Hence, power down remains the only option left.
>It was the location of the movie "Sex and the City 2".

It wasn't filmed there. It was filmed in Morocco and they just said it took place in Abu Dhabi. The UAE government said they couldn't film there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_the_City_2#Filming

It might seem like a random topic for me to know, but I lived in UAE for a portion of my life and the government is pretty mindful of having their name associated with some of the themes you'd typically see with that particular TV series. So I was quite surprised when they claimed it was Abu Dhabi, and not surprised that they actually filmed it elsewhere.
This is not .mil specific: I've been told of a case where an airline first legally attacked a flight search engine (Skyscanner) for scraping, and then told them to continue when they realized that their own search engine couldn't handle all the traffic, and even if it could, it was more expensive per query than routing via Skyscanner.
This is equally an app that allows those countries to search people's social media presence to find reasons to arrest them! :P
> general purpose computing devices

not so general, you can pretty much only run programs allowed by the mothership, and if some neural net decides you can be locked out of your phone forever
As an aside, there was interesting piece with the Birds Aren't Real creator recently, where he steps out of character and talks about his accidental satire fits into the wider field of conspiracy theories: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/the-lunacy-i...
I'll be setting up this 2.5GbE fanless box [1] as a router soon and this looks cool, maybe I'll test it out. NixOS' killer feature for routers/firewalls is probably how easy it is to revert to the previous configuration if something breaks during an upgrade. Some people even run their firewall in a VM so they can try out different configurations without worrying about bricking their main one, but that whole concern is nixed (pun intended) with the way NixOS works.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09PHHVWZ8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
feed2toot can do some of it, but you'd need to build something to automate your feed/etc.

Its also probably against Twitter's TOS to tweet2toot so YMMV.
If you're technical enough to answer that, then you're technical enough to know that security by default is better.
bemenu works fairly well for me on Sway. Your limitations may be correct and my usage just differs. I do also use it in scripts and bind some of them to other keys, like for a clipboard manager or a menu to pick from other scripts, or a menu to pick from common programs to focus by class/appid via swaymsg command.

wofi looked slick but is really slow due to gtk limitations, and it might even be abandoned now.
You can use custom CSS I think in their settings
I was already terrified based on the number of stories regarding poppy seeds from bagels leading to imprisonment.
Two comments:

1. Do they? Just like brown eyed parents can have blue eyed children (if both carry the recessive gene), there may be genetic information passed through your ancestors that codes for baldness, but that is mostly unexpressed.

2. Genes are not the be-and-end-all: there is the timing of genetic expression, which is affected by a great many things (cf epigenetics, e.g.). For example, you might have been on your way to a lifetime of hair, but something your mother encountered at a critical phase of pregnancy or that you encountered at a critical phase of development might have caused the hairiness/baldness gene to misexpress themselves.

(Sorry it sucks. It can be harsh.)
If you’re debugging then it’s not surprising that you’re writing few lines of code, but that kind of work tends to have huge impact for users.
He stole all the Eth backing the reserve. eth's 24 hour volume is 19.3B. They could easily trade that in a day without a major correction.
>Bruce Schneier has also addressed it in his own way.

very interesting, can you link to it? tia!
Absolutely. And what you do in that case is to sell motors to people who want them. If they give you feedback on how to make better motors, take it and make better motors.

What you don't do is presume that you know everything about how people want to use motors, and offer a subscription to a design service that does all of their engineering design for them, as a way to sell your motors.
Weev was charged, and eventually convicted based merely on scraping from AT&T [0]. When the charge was vacated, it was only on venue/jurisdiction, not on the basis of the scraping being legal. Seems there's precedent merely scraping this information is felonious behavior.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/weevs-case-flawed-begi...
It is though? I mean chemically speaking, how are lithium ions not the main / active ingredient?
“near-slavery” is not slavery, neither is it worse than the places many of these workers come from.
Yeah, exactly! I think 8x is basically 10x (less than one magnitude difference). You got my math
How much are you actually looking at a laptop's aesthetics versus looking at the information displayed on a screen though?

Does it really matter to you to have something pretty sitting on your desk while you work? That seems really weird to me. Personally I couldn't care less. Especially in the context of a professional work laptop which is a machine that goes onto the corner of my desk and I plug a bunch of other things into and basically ignore forever past that point.
Introducing a16z START
As someone from the industry, all I really want, is a Netflix of datasets. Planet.com, Capella, Maxar, ICEYE, AIRBUS etc.. I hate the guts of their B2B business models. I want an aggregator, I want basemaps that are refreshed on a best-effort basis (not by me buying km^2 of observations), I want standardized formats and metadata across vendors.
Give me that, with some obscene, but transparent pricing structure, that lets me explore for discretionary funds and exploit for less money than triggering tenders and investment decisions. Then, then you have what will move the entire commercial earth observation industry out of the CAPEX-fryer it’s in today.
For anything less, there’s stiff competition from ESA’s free Sentinel satellites.
You may check X13 AMD Gen 2 which has 32GB soldered RAM option. Although I am not sure how much it differs from X1 Carbon. Anyway I prefer a bit more screen real estate so went with T14 which is still very portable too and gets up to 48GB RAM. What I miss is lack of TB4/USB4 support to plug in eGPU. Some rumors say AMD Ryzen 6000 line should have it.
No. France did nothing when thousands of people celebrated Notre Dame burning.
Throughout the Trump presidency making threats against the president was pretty much the bread and butter of Twitter.
Apple has the same problem. In college, we'd bring our own mice to the computer labs because it was better than the buttonless Apple mice they had there. Even today, the input devices have been IMO Apple's weak spot and the main reason I stayed away from MacBooks.

I had a MBP, 2019 I believe. It was riddled with problems. True Tone color was wrong. Flickering on the display. The weird internet connectivity which often required some hacky restart. The touch bar was a terrible idea; this was a time when other laptops had high quality touch screens that were actually useful. The touch bar was a half-hearted implementation with a fraction of the benefits of a touch screen, but taking up a whole row on the keyboard.

But then they make the best processors and have the most power in a compact space, so as OP said, there's really no other option. I gave it another chance and they've fixed all the problems from the 2019 model.
The key point is that if your system has an evil compiler, building your own compiler from known-good source code will just give you another evil compiler, no matter how many times you do it. It creates a bootstrapping problem for the victim that doesn't have easy solutions.
>An airplane would probably cope much better.

LOL. Yeah sure, so the plan is to have something traveling at 800kph somehow intercept a falling rocket stage, catching it in a web or whatever and start dragging it along and somehow land safely afterwards?

Thanks man, you made my day :D
This is amazing. 2Gbit service for 99 a month is a great deal in the US. If it's reliable and fast ... * I almost considered thinking twice about moving down to Florida...*
I was totally confused by the title thinking what does that mean or how can they say such a thing without proving a secure sandbox environment, which I didn't even know was possible. Then I realized it's for ProtonMail etc, not Proton from Valve.
Lithium is pretty useful in various fusion applications, which are likely to fuel the interplanetary economy.