skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you think caused the World Wars?

Or, to give a more recent example, consider the discrimination East Europeans faced after their countries joined the EU and many of them immigrated to the West.

Europe is not the US. People from other European countries (and from many traditional minorities in the same country) are obviously different as soon as they start speaking. Many Europeans live outside their home country and most visit other European countries once in a while. There is a huge number of encounters between Europeans from various cultural backgrounds every day, and sometimes your background marks you as a member of an outgroup. And nobody is really excluded from that.
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Specifically the amazon decryption ones are quite fussy - which to me seems quite critical
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I can understand the logic behind this, but the couple of grey squirrels I get in the garden won't be replaced by red squirrels. I would miss them.
I believe this is key. Reading texts about early industrial revolution there is this concept of alienation, and I think it can be applied to a lot of jobs pretty well.

Having a stake in the result and freedom to choose which exact job to perform at a time to accomplish the result, as opposed to a top-down approach seems to be more satisfying as an employee.

At the time of industrial revolution the comparison is often between farming (where the farmer works hard but has some autonomy) and the factory, with more specialized and repetitive tasks.
At a minimum, a good system would email both old and new email addresses saying, "someone has changed the email address, click here if that is wrong". This kind of slapdash approach to security needs to become criminal because companies are clearly not following best-practices and to be honest, as someone who has implemented these sorts of things on a number of legacy systems, it really isn't hard to do.
I wish most software would be like Calibre. Feature-packed yet discoverable with an almost no bullshit / no wasted space UI
For production I usually use the databases of my customers or employers. In my case that is most often a self-hosted on-premise server. More often MSSQL than Postgres, but the latter is getting more popular. For myself and development purposes I host it myself on a rented server.
What’s there to manage? They are files. Read a book, copy a new book over, delete old book. A file manager does all that, and is simpler and easier.
The issue would be to bring all that cult and culturally heavy discussion in the spotlight when there's still a chance it's completely irrelevant to the incident.

The same way we wouldn't be digging deep on where the guy ate at lunch if there wasn't enough link (I know some newspaper do, but imo they shouldn't)
This is a mod, a modification using Bethesda tools and assets, the purpose of those tools is not for someone to make money or increase a star counter on a specific website, putting restrictions on mods is IMO against the modding tools and ecosystems implied terms, IMO Bethesda need to update their ToS for next game to ensure sharing and remixing with credits is allowed. It would filter out some modders but would improve things for the players and the rest of the modders(less drama, less wasted time, no more attacking creators in real life because you think they used your asset/code)
> For the teachers, that seems like a win. Lower salary but lack of crippling debt.

What crippling debt? You can get a BA degree in Elementary Education that will be accepted by all 50 states in the US for under $20k [1]. (You can cut that almost in half if you can handle a heavy course load).

[1] https://www.wgu.edu/online-teaching-degrees/elementary-educa...
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> This is certainly against their own citizen

That is against /some/ of their own citizens - which since the rushed invention of politics (management of conflicting interests and ideals) is what is normal, so there is no news there.
The math is trickier than that:

- If 4% of parents have degrees, something like 7% of the next generation has at least one parent with a degree. Because children have two parents, and only one of those two parents needs to have a degree. So the correct number to compare 20% against is ~7%, not 4%.

- Suppose a child of a degree-holder is 3 times as likely to become an economics PhD as a child of no degree-holders. Then, if 7% of children have a degree-holding parent, you would expect (7 * 3) / (7 * 3 + 93) = 21 / 114 = ~18.4% of economics PhDs to have a degree-holding parent, not 21%. If 25% of children have a degree-holding parent, you'd expect (25 * 3) / (25 * 3 + 75) = 75 / 150 = 50% of economics PhDs to have a degree-holding parent, not 75%.

Eyeballing the last few numbers, it does look like the value of having a degree-holding parent may have increased significantly, from a ~3.3x multiplier to almost 6x. But the error bars on this back-of-the-napkin analysis are pretty wide.
Standard procedure if you run a criminal business maybe. And Uber knew they did in many countries. At none of the employers I have worked for anything like this existed. Our laptops have been and are fully disk-encrypted so when seized the police might have challenges to acess them. But I have never come even close to the situation that someone would have asked for the passphrase, don't know what would happen then.
The title mentions a kilo_bit_. Maybe it has changed since the posting.
The pandemic is no longer an excuse for poor customer service
That's a nice soundbite but it doesn't work like that irl.

If in some dystopian future, the C-levels could be given 2 years for what could amount to a basic human error in an otherwise well-run organisation, no-one would do the job and a whole sector of the economy would probably go bust.

Having worked in a handful of companies, at least some of them try to do the job properly but are restricted by employee turnover, lack of consistent skills across the software sector, negligence at any level, incompetence - even if not malicious, tired engineers, ancient software systems that would be impossible to replace in any reason time etc.
Hackers are spreading ransomware as a distraction – to hide their cyber spying
I think it is much more likely that China will succeed in its chip production self sufficiency efforts, generating oversupply, indirectly contributing to an economic crisis in Taiwan (whos economy is overdependent on semi), and changing the winds back towards peaceful reunification.
There's a whole genre of simple mathematical models that excuse centuries of well documented oppression.

Like the 'only a small amount of desire to live near similar people leads to self-segregation' thing.

You know what else leads to segregation? Actual laws that enforce it at the point of a gun with legal and extra-legal terrorism.

If only there was some way to tell which of these occurred in real history.
Also people who move based on only their own profit are neutral evil. In other words: just evil.
It would be fascinating to be part of that team at Costco or IKEA planning to open a new store in a new country. On top of the challenges you can think of, there must be aspects of running the business that you take for granted in your home country and don’t realize will be a challenge in the new country.
«According to multiple sources [17],[21],[22],[24],[25],[26],[27],[28],[29],[30],[31] [...]»

Now this is what "multiple sources" looks like.
Modernize the industry by exploiting drivers. No thanks.
It was ever thus. Look back on history - academia was always dominated or even the exclusive preserve of those from wealthy backgrounds. It is wrong, but it is in no way new.
If I knew how to do that on either the Kobo Libre or the Kindle 2012 model, I'd do it. As it is, Calibre is very easy to use anyway.
Uh, what? You're totally fine with companies like Uber being completely unaccountable to justice systems across the globe? I'm not surprised, but I genuinely think there's something wrong with you and others who think it's okay for these companies to destroy data to hide what they're doing.
It might be Stockholm syndrome but I find SQL to be one of the best DSLs I know. It's only good at querying relational data but it's good at that.

I might have spent too much time in SQL but it one of my favorites.
I object to the use of the word elite!

Someone with a degree is not elite! (Even if that term flatters my educational level.)

Elite is someone who's parents have ever increasing amounts of money through the holdings they already have, who do things like take degrees, etc as a lifestyle choice not because they need a job, and have aspirations over the job they get.

Typically elite families would be billionaires, political leaders, bankers, etc.
About 20 years ago I worked for a small storage company, the person that managed the returns of disks form customers was very strongly of the opinion that the odd firmware versions on Seagate drives were returned way more often than the even.
It's very hard to come back to high-tier academia from a PhD in industry. Let alone becoming a professor. And clumping STEM together is always a bit silly when we're discussing such topics, not all fields are the same. The opportunity cost and ROI of a PhD in CS is going to be vastly different than one in biochemistry, for instance.
This is mandated by OFGEM in the UK now. uSwitch will also give you the current "best deal".

I have done some work with the Octopus systems and they are very new an agile, but don't handle the complexity that the big 6 have put in place over several decades. The overall metering and settlements business in the UK is quite complex especially including legacy gas and elec accounts and meters.
I don't think that's true anymore.
I have an 128gb osz agility (or sth of that era) disk that is still in use in my mom's laptop :)
What should be illegal? Not having 2-factor auth? Allowing an account change?

SOftware is massively complex and not everything has been defined in a way that there is a "right" way and a "wrong" way to do things. What happens if they setup 2-factor and someone loses their phone? What happens if someone needs to change an email address and can't access their old account because an ISP has gone bust or is refusing to give you access?

I agree that things should be much better but until there is a book of "this is the right way to do signup/signin/account reset/ etc. " then most of us are trying to do things the best way we know how to and sometimes bad things happen.
Gone are the days when you could just oen software after paying a one time fee, read a purchase price. Or any content as far as that is concerned. No idea why a single player game would need a server to be playable in the first place so...
The key premise is that this is an important feature. I don't think it is that important to many users. Browsing poorly translated websites just isn't a thing. Especially not with Google translate, which in my experience almost but never quite makes sense with many languages.

About the only time it matters to me is when dealing with stuff I have to do (e.g. bureaucratic or legal things). In which case I prefer using deepl.com, which seems to do a better job of e.g. handling German legal texts.

I guess in a pinch it's handy to be able to translate a bit of text or a web page but that hardly is a regular thing. Browser extensions exist for that. Also for Firefox. I don't tend to use those though because I just don't really need or want that.
High time someone released a course on Transformers, given all the research papers getting pumped out on Transformers everywhere in AI and still lacking good materials on the web. CS231N was released for CNNs, so its nice they are filling the gap with Transformers too.
China’s Covid health apps govern life but are ripe for abuse
Aaron Swartz you mean.

though Jonathan Schwartz did get metoo'd (not prosecuted) and kicked off WNYC
This is an excellent explanation, but I have one small remark:

Diversity and equity is taught at elite cadre schools and used as a distinguishing marker from the proletariat. This gives elite children a wedge to get into Ive League institutions without high test scores.

Think of it as the new "extracurricular activity" on steroids. Diversity and equity have been co-opted by the elites and are a powerful tool (smoke screen).
> It’s how we can tell whether or not one is a witch, or rather a member of parliament.

You can tell by the nose.
> If your religion means something to you but no one can tell by any visible sign it is indistinguishable from having no faith.

By you, not by me

> If you every instant of your life is infused by your faith how does it show?

It shows somewhat because I take actions that are in accordance with my faith, but there's no big "tell", it's not particularly easy to distinguish from generally trying to be a good person.

Why does faith have to cause embarrassment or discomfort in front of others, or even be shown to others, in order to "matter"? That might apply to evangelist faith or faiths placing emphasis on proselytism, but does not apply to every faith.
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use firefox or any non Chromium based browser
Er, I don't think that's it. French is pretty far from being polysynthetic and is usually classified as analytic. Why do you say it's polysynthetic? Because of the few personal pronoun clitics it has?

I'd imagine the 14 grammatical cases of Estonian would be harder to handle than French grammar, and yet they have Estonian.
> That sounds quite good - it doubled its money! - except film budgets don't include marketing costs, which for a blockbuster can be as much as the budget itself.

I thought it was the opposite? Hollywood accounting, I thought, meant that if the movie even breaks even then it is financially good because they include all costs even the movie theater costs as expenses. What am I missing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
> Really, that «few saw» is farcical.

War is always unthinkable. Yes, there were warning signs that, in retrospect, were obvious, but Russia invading Ukraine was so profoundly dumb it was difficult to expect for Putin to really go through with it. He did, his country is suffering in result, and he wants to make it mutual, WWI style. You can't really blame Germany for doing their best on making a war unthinkable through economic interdependence.
Before the heavy online verification thing, I had a copy of a game which I bought (I think it was one of the Elder Scrolls games or perhaps a Prince of PErsia) which required the original DVD to start to the game even after I'd installed it.The DVD was not very high quality and shattered inside my drive (thereby destroying the drive too). I wanted to play the game but couldn't thanks to the verification thing. Finally, I downloaded a cracked version which didn't demand this of me and was able to play just fine.

It's tragic but it genuinely feels like that pirated games have better user experience than clean ones.
> A problem here is that without a civics/ethics foundation contemporary engineers may not understand the deeper nature of a protocol versus a black-box platform. IETF may be moving into a new educational role to explain why a protocol is more desirable.

There is the Evolvability, Deployability, & Maintainability [0] working group that has some good documents that relate to that.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/program/edm/about/
Here in UK the #1 reason to get them from Costco is that they give 5 years warranty on all electronics and home appliances, way beyond what the manufacturer offers. I'd happily buy a new TV or a fridge from them for that reason alone.
Doesn't seem to be paywalled (from where I am, in the UK), if this [1] is the article to which you are referring: William Gibson on Twitter, Antique Watches and Internet Obsessions, published Sept 14, 2012.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2012/09/william-gibson-part-2-twitter/
Even better: He could retweet that using all the bot accounts that "don't exist".
Assuming you have the budget for it a worst case scenario of "I made my son happy while achieving nothing -else-" doesn't strike me as terrible at all.
I think the point was we don't on HN
So we’re finally through the chip shortage?
> Are you sure about this? I mean, code absolutely should be versioned and if you can afford the storage, you should also version all of your assets, like models and audio.

Yes, and I never said you shouldn't use version control , simply that distributed version control isn't necessarily applicable (which is what the claim is).

> Even Git has specialized functionality for storing binary assets: https://git-lfs.github.com/

Let's be honest, LFS is duct tape on a pig. It doesn't support SSH, for one. Mirroring a repository is mired with landmines, and probably most importantly it breaks the decentralised model of git by centralising the storage of your binary data.

> Either way, not using version control for any collaborative project is just asking for issues.

Which is not what I said, at all. The article says _distributed_ version control.

> Not using distributed version control in particular might just make things more annoying, as anyone who has ever worked with SVN might attest to.

By distributed version control you mean git here, right? The advantage of git isn't it's technical merit, or the advantages of DVCS (particularly if you're using something like LFS which turns it into a centralized VCS). The advantage of git is that it's well supported in many tools (ci, merge bits, code review, deployment, package managers). Frankly, my experience is the complexity brought on by git (which is quite a few years using it along side perforce and more recently plastic) often outweighs the benefits over something like perforce, particularly on large repos.
Ah. I see my misunderstanding. This is my fault for trying to think at 4am.

That is a bit trickier. You will absolutely not be able to do that without computing stored procedure names using a version number, which seems awful and not worth the trouble.

That said, you can avoid application errors during rollout by keeping procedure signatures the same and not removing columns from returned result sets. The unfortunate side effect is that errors in your procedures can work with the new nodes and cause errors in the previously functional ones. Although, I guess you already had that potential exposure with any other database schema change that was made, right?
That would make for 106 years of power on time, so it's probably not right...
I see why you may think this but look at the timings. E.g. in the UK the restrictions were mostly removed in the middle of last year. Cases actually fell sharply once the remaining rules were removed.

The increase in cases this year is being driven by a mix of Omicron and vaccine imprinting. It's not related to restrictions. If it were the latter you'd see changes in policy and changes in cases line up very closely as the serial interval of SARS-CoV-2 is only a few days.

"Once this is all truly over hopefully some good meta- studies can be done that help us understand which policies are the most effective"

Oh it's been done many times already. You aren't aware of the studies and meta-studies because they don't get reported on. They don't get reported because what they show is that everything that's been tried has failed. The media, being highly complicit in pushing restrictions on people and heavily dependent upon public sector 'expertise' for giving their stories credibility, will not report on this failure.

If you want to get a flavour of it, reserve a block of a few hours and then go flick through the archives of some non mainstream anti-lockdown sites like dailysceptic.org, where they do report such things. You'll find a bunch of studies that amount to "we looked at all the data and found no correlations between stringency of policy and outcomes".

For example, excess mortality in Sweden in 2020 (which should have been very high according to the epidemiologists due to lack of restrictions) was zero for under 75s. And if you count from the start, excess death overall (all ages) is the same as for Denmark, which had much harsher restrictions. If you examine all the data simultaneously using statistical techniques you get the same null result.
Autonomy is an absolute value that does not need rediscovery in theoretics; diversification of source for securing supply is a topic forced by the paradigm of Ricardo, unless taken in a most mindless form. The issue is (and was) always "how", realistically, feasibly with regard to all practical and decision-making constraints.

What is new now is that the parties are forced to compromise given that the ideal scenario became dead past (and yet not fully).
> slapdash approach to security needs to become criminal

100% this. If there were serious consequences to not taking (customer) account security seriously, perhaps it wouldn't be such a common occurrence.
> They are white Christians

No, they are neighbors that speak a close language that share history and that are facing a common enemy. Nobody gives a flying shit about religion in that matter, what do you think, atheist Ukrainians are sent back to die from Russian artillery?
Interesting. Mac OS Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari all display マリウス.com.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) has a great cybersecurity program. Worth considering.

https://www.vusec.net/
"paid transport" here refers to carpooling for profit. Paying gas money and time for a one-time or occasional ride to the airport doesn't result in profit [1] nor make the driver a chauffeur.

[1] There's also maintenance, depreciation, insurance, registration/license fees, and likely more.
Ask HN: Weird SSH Probes from Cloudflare IPs
Hello,
I have a honeypot listening to the ether, and these last days i have been seeing SSH probes coming from Cloudflare assigned IPs :
`
{"time":"2022-07-11T06:17:29Z","source":"8.37.43.23:58024","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.17.38.1831312192.210.190.111"}}
{"time":"2022-07-11T06:25:22Z","source":"8.42.172.26:50945","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.47.29.8435351192.210.190.111"}}
{"time":"2022-07-11T06:25:45Z","source":"8.39.18.128:58679","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.32.82.2852512192.210.190.111"}}
{"time":"2022-07-11T06:41:58Z","source":"8.40.140.107:62073","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.63.46.5342522192.210.190.111"}}
{"time":"2022-07-11T07:02:18Z","source":"8.40.140.107:52379","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.54.95.6913424192.210.190.111"}}
{"time":"2022-07-11T07:02:30Z","source":"8.39.18.128:53547","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.39.94.9344142192.210.190.111"}}
{"time":"2022-07-11T07:44:32Z","source":"8.37.43.23:62487","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.73.77.3531321192.210.190.111"}}
{"time":"2022-07-11T07:52:05Z","source":"8.37.43.34:60661","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.86.72.1144123192.210.190.111"}}
{"time":"2022-07-11T08:26:13Z","source":"8.42.172.26:56143","event_type":"connection","event":{"client_version":"SSH-2.0-8.35 FlowSsh: FlowSshNet_SftpStress127.46.19.3324353192.210.190.111"}}
`

Is this normal behavior and Cloudflare is known to scan the IPv4 space ?

Thanks.
Unlikely; a clock running at 30 Hz overflows a 32 bit (unsigned) integer in 39,768 hours, while the HN disk failed after at least 39,984 hours [1], and the vendors wouldn't issues warnings about 40,000 hours if it actually fails about 230 hours before that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031428